Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-07
MINNESOTA NEWS.


ciety has been dedicated in Elk River.
The Post reports. that typhoid fever still
prevails in Alexandria, Douglas county.
The yield of amber cane at Carver this yeal
proves to be about 200 gallons to the acre.
Every village in Mower county is incorpo
rated, with the exception of Rose Creek.
Two cases of smallpox are reported in the
town of st. Cloud, three miles from the city
The elevator in Perham, Otter Tail county
is being rapidly finished, The iron roof is
all on. a
| A series of dances under the auspices of the
Masonic fraternity are to be given in Litch-
field the present winter.
During the month of October there arrived
at the port of Duluth ninety-two American
and twelve foreign vessels.
Recently Allen Day, son of Ditus Day, of
Castle Rock, Dakota county, was accidentally
killed by the discharge of a gun in his own
hands.
Todd, Hill 81 Co. have purchased the splen-
did water power at Fergus Falls, and the erec-
ton of an immense Touring mill will be the
result.
Charles Knox, of Amherst, Fillmore coun-
ty, sold 3-year-oId the other day for 5000.
The animal brought down the scales at ], 400
pounds.
The lawful season for killing deer opens No
vember l. They are reported to be very scarce
Their entire determination is apparently near
at hand.
The young man Freese, who was injured at
Elk River by the cap tube of his gun flying
out, is recovering but suffers loss of one of
his eyes.
The duties collected at the costom house in
Duluth during the month of November
amounted to $2,664 SO; other collections,
$9SS.25; total $3,653.0S.
T. 7. Smith, of Mendoza, Dakota county,
planted nineteen acres of land to potatoes this
season, and had an average yield of 200 BUSH
els to the acre.
The authorities of st. Cloud are adopting
sanitary and quarantine measures to guard
against the smallpox, which has got within
three miles of the city.
John Blake, of Sharon township, LIE Sueur
county, has made 2,34S gallons of amber cane
syrup faOm twelve acres of cane of his own
growing, and has made over 200 gallons for
his neighbors.
The Window Reporter of Nov. 3d. says
"Mr. Miller finished threshing last week and
had 400 bushels of wheat 700 bushels of oats;
400 bushels of barley, Some way Mr.. Miller
always does WELL"
Last week 1000 acres of school lands were
sold at the auditors Office in Meeker county,
All went at the state price of IS per acre, with
sold for Sc an acre.
Jacob Prucha, aged IA years, found gully of
the murder of Anna Martin, by shooting, in
the town of Wiscoy, Winona county, has
been committed to the reform school until he
is 81 years of age.
Mrs. Bowdett, of Elk River, has been
granted divorce from her husband, on the
ground of cruel and inhuman treatment, eX-
tending over number of years, during which
time he was preacher of the gospel.
Last week DR.. Dallemore, of Faribault, lost
his valuable Clydesdale stallion, Scottish
Champion. He was attacked with pinkeye,
followed by infamation of the bowels. he
was imported from Scotland and valued at
$4,000.
The Duluth Tribune, of November 4, says:
About eighty teams and over seventy men,
some of them with families, arrived at Duluth
from Fort Dodge, Iowa, aud went to Superior
to work on the Chicago, Portage 81 Superior
railroad.
Gov. Pillsbury has notified r. .O'Dowd, county
treasurer of Scott county, that if he does not
resign before many days that he will remove
him. This is the third county treasurer of
Scott county that has been removed within the
past year.
Dr. Graft, of Duluth, was recently called
to Moose Lake, Carlton county, where he
found six children in one family suffering
with diphtheria. One child in the family had
died before he arrived, and another was in
critical condition.
One of the ministers in Faribault says in
card published in local paper in that town,
that he has asked the chief of police for pro-
lection from drunken rOwdies on Sunday
nights, and that the said chief of police has
refused to grant it.
The Rochester Record and Union saws: a
portion of the thirty families, which are ex-
expected to emgrate to Olmsted county, from
Cleveland, Ohio, will arrive in few days.
Others will come in the spring They design
settling near Pleasant Grove.
The st. Peter Tribune says the chimney at
the asylum is so feet above the ground, and
when completed will be SS feet above the
ground or 100 feet from its foundation to the
top. The reservoir on the hill back of the
asylum, holding $4,000 gallons, is completed
The Chaska, Carver county Herald, of No.
vember 3, says: A new stable of Reinhold
Zeylin, of Helvetin, was destroyed by fire last
week, with some $500 worth of grain, hay
and farming utensils. Loss $1,000. No in
surance. Believed to be the work of an incen-
diary.
Faribault Republican, Nov. 2: Our ply
sicians report that there are more leases Of ty-
phOid fever in the city at present than they
have had at this season for several years. The
disease is not epidemic, however, and the most
of the cases are of mild rather than severe
character.
st. Peter Tribune, Nov. 2: Mr.. John Erick-
son, who lives two miles south of this city.
was in town last night trading, and was
apparently in good health. He went home
and took the lantern to go to the stable, and
not returning for some time his wife went out
to search for him, and found him dead.
The other day Allan Day of Lone Tree
township, Chippewa county, when going out
to plow took his gun along to shoot game,
He was subsequently, found dead near a hay
stack, with the upper part of his head blown
of. The suppostion is that the gun, in some
way not to be accounted for. was accidentally
discharged.
As Rev. c. N. Showers, of Fargo, was about
to remove to Farbault to assume the charge
of the M, E. Church in that city, his barn
was destroyed by fire and his son, young
man, was severely, and it was at first thought
fatally burned, but he is recovering. Three
horses were more or less injured, one is dead.
and another not expected to recover.
In Litchfield, Meeker county, the other day.
half demented German, chased Symon Wag
oner, on one of the principal streets, and fired
| both charges of a double barrel shot gun at
once at him, but none of the shot took effect