Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-19
MINNESOTA NE WIS.


Morris.
The fuel famine in Window is reported to be
easing up.
Fergus Falls is to have new opera house
next season.
A new steamboat for Big Stone lake is to
ready in April.
farmer in Eyota, Dodge county, raised
1O9 bushels of corn from ono acre.
S. o. Morse has been appointed postmaster
in the new town of Slayton, Nicollet county.
In few days after the smallpox had broken
out in Granite Falls, one doctor uaccinated
638 persons.
DR.. Murphy of st. Paul has investigated the
smallpox scare at Breckenridge and finds it
was nothing but a scare.
The Albert Lea city treasury is bankrupt
and $4,000 in unpaid orders outstanding, with
$500 more to be issued before January I.
A man in Hartford, Todd county, got so
mad at one of his horses the other day that he
SHOT him. Such "inspIraton' is Improbable.
The house of s. T. Elford, of Kalmar, was
burned the other night with all contents The
family were absent. Loss 81 200. Insur-
ance 1925.
The Princeton Union says that from present
indications there will be at least g. 900 900 feet
of logs hauled on Rum river and it's tributaries
this season.
The Waseca Radical, of December IA, says
boy named Broadburt, of Longs Mill, was
drowned in Lake Francis on Tuesday, by
breaking through the ice.
The Motley Citizen reports that the
measles have broken out in Howe's logging
camp. Eight or ten men are down with the
disease and one not expected to live.
An olive branch from the garden of Gethse-
manei, also number of stereOscOpic views of
the Holy Land, were received from Syria by
Mrs. F. King, of Austin, last week.
They were sent by her brother, DR., Eddy,
professor of the Beirut college in Syria.
The Rochester Record and Union complains
| that the streets of the city are deserted and a
large number of stores for rent. It claims
that Rochester has paid bonuses for branch
| railroads which, instead of benefiting it, has
carried trade away and built up competing
points in towns all around it.
Pine Island Netcs: An eight months child
OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Brandy, of Milton,
Dodge county, died very suddenly one day
last week while being brought to town. The
| first intimation it's parents had of it's death
was on unwrapping it in the store of /. F.
Clark 1t was supposed to have strangled.
Red Wing Argus, December Is: Julius
Gray, carpenter employed on the new ware
mouse of the La Grange mill, last Monday,
broke through the staging and fell to the
ground, distance or about twenty feet, break
ing three ribs. Another man at work on the
| same staging and who fell at the same time
was entirely uninjured.
Austin Transcript: G. Seebach, of Dexter,
will have large amount of grain this year.
His threshing is not all completed, but he es-
Inmates crop of nearly 5000 bushels of
grain, as follows: Wheat, mostly No. 2,
2,1OO; barley, 200; oats, 1900; rye, 200 and
/ IL Wh rio dod hale
| the acre, barley 40 and rye 26. A good
showing,
Winona Daily Tribune: Mr.. Julius Hans,
farmer residing IN the town of Norton, re-
| Gently lost by fire two stacks of grain. The
fire started from straw being wound around
| the tnmbling rod of the threshing machine,
causing friction that induced combustion
Three days later he lost four more stacks by
| the same element running rampant in prai-
RE fire.
Willmar Repubiean-G Gazette: Mr.. Peter
Peterson, OF Norway Lake, informs us that q
few days ago a man rode by his house on
horseback; That after going short distance
| he alIghted aud shot the horse, killing it al
most instantly, and then taking the saddle and
| br,ddle went his way. Mr.. Peterson did not
| know the man, and had no opportunity to
speak to him after the horse was shot as he
walked rapidly away.
Howard Lake (Wrlght county, Herutd, Dec.
Is: j. A. Johnson's Touring mill at DeGraff
burnt down last week, entailing total loss of
SIC, 00O only 81, 900 of which is covered by in
| surance. The building was good solid
| structure with excellent machinery, and at the
time OF the fire there was over 600 bushels of
wheat stored there, which Is a total loss. The
origin of the fire, which occurred at midnight,
| is unknown, but is supposed to have been
caused by a passing train.
Fergus Falls Independent; Mr.. Van Nor
man, young man who recently came to this
city, and is now clerking in the Boston One
Price store, bought two lots on East Lincoln
avenue for $500, as little speculation. This
week he was offered 81 400 for the same lots
He has only just come here from
the East, but he is cutting his western teeth
early. He said mo; guessed he'd keep them
till they were worth s., 0O0." He won't need
to keep them long.
About week ago SEerburne county crank
named James Mitchell, of Clear Lake, called
at the Bank of Anoka and pretended to reveal
a plot which he had heard the James Brothers
make at Aitken to raid this bank. He
wanted to be SUITABLY rewarded" After
ward drop letter was received by the bank,
signed "Jesse James, conveying the CON-
forting assurance that the intended robbery
had been indefinitely postponed. This letter
proved to be in Mitchell's hand writing, and
being confronted with it he admitted that he
had been trying to put ups iob--on the insti-
tuition.