Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-24
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Horse thieves are plying their trade in
and about Waseca,
Pipestone City is soon to have erected
its feed Touring mill.
The establishment of lyceum is being
discussed in Willmar.
Measles prevail among the school chill
dren in Benson, Swift county.
A round house and railroad shops are
soon to be built in Moorehead.
D. D. Clony. of Sleepy Eye, lost two
children last week by diphtheria.
Potatoes are selling in Lanesboro, Fill
more county, for forty cents bushel.
The new M. E. church edihce at Glen
wood, Pope county, is nearly enclosed.
A series of religious meetings are being
held in the Swedish Baptist church in
Willmar.
1t showed slightly IN Glyndon, Clay
county, October Is, just one year from
the great snow storm of 1880.
The Lutherans in Glenwood, Pope
county, are getting material together for
the erection of church edifice.
The Loo qui Porle Independent under
stands that there is a United States detec-
tive under fever prey in that burg.
The Waseca Herald is informed that
Lake Elysian is higher than ever before
known since the country was settled.
A 14-year old boy in Blue Earth City
was put in Jail last week for stealing one
mule and cutting the throat of another.
The postoffice block is going up rapidly
in Austin, and when completed will be
the largest and finest block in the town.
A man by the name of Seger, the 9TH
fired into his face and neck by his hired
man.
The Fergus Falls Journal reports the
first furry of snow Saturday morning,
Oct. Is, but not enough to whiten the
ground.
Owing to the high price of wood a
large number of people at different
points are making arrangements to burn
soft coal.
| The Catholics in Morris, Stevens coun-
ty, have established parish school and
withdrawn their children from the pub
| lie schools.
The Minnesota river at New Ulm rose
so high last week that the pontoon bridge
became unserviceable, and so remained
for several days.
| 0. A. Bergh of Conestee, Dodge coun-
| ty, lost three children last week by diph-
liberia, aged respectively, nine, eleven
and thirteen years.
A house in Mankato shipped $4,000
pounds of butter last week, and have
1000 dozens Of eggs packed in barrels
ready for shipment.
On late evening in Rochester, in a
quarrel, Joseph 1. Mccormick stabbed a
man named Campion, In the face, in
f1icting painful wound.
The Ortonvlile Herald says John Desc
raised 1900 bushels of wheat on his farm
| near Odessa, and has sold already 1900
bushels at $1.23 bushel.
One night last week the hardware
store of Berg Bros, of Sank Rapids, was
entered by burglars, the safe broke open
and $500 in money taken.
A prisoner escaped from the jail in
Faribault the other night by digging a
hole through the wall. He was soon
found and returned to jail.
August Santo, fell distance of twelve
feet from stairway on the elevator in
.
Of his right leg below the knee.
The Crookston Chronicle, says the
other night the store of W. D. Bales at
German was burglarized, the safe broken
open and $297.5O in cash taken,
The Perham Journal says the loss by
| burning Clark 81 McClure's saw mill at
that place will reach $1,000, and fifty
men are thrown out of employment.
The state papers at various points are
chronicling the flight of wild geese, ducks
and other aquatic fowls southwark, a
sure indication of nearby cold weather.
The other day Avery Lovejoy, IL years
old, son of A. p. Loy ejoy, of Dover,
Olmstead county, received kick from a
horse which broke his neck, killing him
instantly.
The Presbyterian synod which was re-
Gently in session at Hastings, pledged
| $50 900 to Manchester college in Albert
Lea, and SIS, 900 to establish Albert Lea
Female college.
Recently stack of wheat was struck
by lightning at Minnesota Lake and about
half of it destroyed. This is the fourth
time lightning has struck on the same
| farm this season.
A county commissioner of Pipestone
county, who is also justice of the peace,
is charged with stealing grain from his
neighbors' fields, and it is alleged he has
been caught in the act.
A D. Keller, of Mankato, attempted
suicide the other day by taking morphine,
because certain young lady refused him
her hand for life's journey together. A
stomach pnmp saved him.
S. S. Callahan, Of the town of Ward,
Todd comfy, got lost recently while out
hunting. The people rallied to find him,
but In theHnight he stumbled on to a
house and came out all right.
Burglars made vigorous attempt to
get into the safe of the G. & N. W. rail
way company at Chatfield, the other
night, but failed. The safe contained
only thirty eight cents in cash.
The Lake City Reoieao Of Oct. 10, says,
ga little daughter of Patrick Scott, of
West Alben, died Monday, of diphtheria.
Three other members Of the same family
are sick with the same disease"
The Moorhead Argonaut enumerates
the number of new buildings erected in
that city since January l, and gives their
cost at $3.50, 600, among them the Grand
Pacific hotel, which cost $685. 900.
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