Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-14
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Anoka was without mail for four days
during the 'blizzard."
The public library at Sank Center is sus
tanned by one-mill tax.
Jonn Currie, of Winona county, was kicked
to death by mule last week.
A home company will build new Touring
mill in st. Peter next season.
Diphtheria has subsidized in Rushford, and
the public school is again open.
An immense number of railroad ties will be
got in on Brown river this season.
A large number of cases of diphtheria are
reported in Adams, Stearns comfy.
A man in Anoka advertises to furnish ice at
fifteen cents a load. Cheap enough.
Shovel brigades have been very numerous
this winter, and as useful as numerous.
There have been thirty cases of diphtheria
in Wabashaw, seven of which were fatal.
Seventy five tons of mail matter were de-
tanned at Sleepy Eye by the snow blockade.
A hotel and large drug store are to be
built in Herman, Grant county, next spring.
The village of Benson, Swift county, has
$500 in its treasury, derived from saloon
licenses.
1t is estimated that not onc-half of the last
years crop in Swift county has yet found it's
way to market.
Arthur Brown, of Litchfeld, has received
back pension to the amount of 5000, and 81
month in the future.
Business dull" has been the general COM
plant in the villages since the late blizzard
and snow blockaded roads.
On the first Sabbath in February snow so
blockaded the churches in Glencoe that no ser.
vices were held in that village.
Agents of the United States fish commission
have recently deposited 100000 young salmon
in tributaries of the Mississippi.
The Owatonna ReUiew has been removed to
Minneapolis, where 1t will be published in the
future in the interest of temperance.
Franks Con, residing near Waseca, was
kicked in his head last week by horse, re-
celving injuries that caused his death.
A petition has been circulated in st Charles,
WinOna county, to prevent liquor being sold
within eighty rods of the school house.
The sixth annual reunion of the old settlers
took place at the Nicollet house in st. Peter
on Feb. 3. There were 200 persons present.
The old court house room in Austin is too
small and unsafe, and the commissioners have
rented Jones' hall in which to hold the courts.
A farmer of Forest Prairie, Meeker county,
recently had three steers buried in a straw
stack. They were found alive on the eighth
day.
Persons that have made the test, claim that
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good an article Of corn, as the States further
south.
The entire family of John Erwin, of Austin,
are reported to be sick with scarlet fever, two
of them dangerously so. The relief society
have to look after them.
The Lincoln Touring mills at Anoka were
compelled to shut down last week, owing to
lack of wheat, caused by the interruption of
transportation by the snow blockade.
The receipts of wheat in LIE Sueur since the
first of August of the crop of 1880, at the two
elevators on the river, foot up 1876, 796 bushels,
being 10000 bushels less than last year.
Rev. c. w. Merrill, of Waseca, has ten.
dered his resignation as pastor of the Congre-
gational church in that place, to accept call
to general supervisor of church work in Da-
kota.
The Little Falls Transcript says D. S.
Moors has 5000 railroad ties under three feet
of snow, and finds it impossible to get them
out at present. He has broke up his tie
camps on account of the great depth of snow.
Mayor Davis of Crookston lost several valu-
OF parties cutting ice on the river. His hired
man drove the cattle to water, and not seeing
an opening covered by the late storm, drove
them into it, and a number were drowned.
Mortified News, Feb. 5: Mrs. Adam Stra-
der died on Wednesday morning of diphtheria,
after short illness, following the death of her
two children from the same disease. This case
is peculiarly sad one All that is left of
once happy family, is the grief-stricken father
and one poor little orphan.
The idea of raising hemp along the railroads
is being discussed by those who are interest
ed. It is thought that the hemp will grow
tall enough and stand up sufficiently well to
afford protection against the roads being drift
ed with snow In the winter. Surely there |
would be no harm in trying the experiment.
Cannon Falls Beacon; Mr.. W. E. Poe has |
shown us the heart of maple tree upon which |
the marks of an ak are plainly visible. Around |
the cut there was growth of forty-five years,
and it is five years since Mr. Poe fell the tree;
who made the cut fifty years ago? Perhaps |
some little Indian did it with his little |
Ratchet.
A young lady at Dassel, Meeker county, re-
Gently took large dose of ocomite, an ac- |
tive poison by mistake. Soon her limbs be- |
came stiff and powerless. A physician was |
brandy and ammonia, which counteracted the |
poison and saved the life of the patient. Her
escape from death was narrow one.
st. Cloud Journal Press, February 10: |
Word was brought to town to-day of the sud-
den death yesterday afternoon of Mr.. D.
Galema, town clerk of st. Wendell He was
engaged with number of other persons in
breaking road, with their teams, TO st. 10.
Suddenly he turned pale, complained of
severe pain in his head, and inside of two hours
was lying dead in the sled box in which he had
been riding. He had been subject for twenty
years to a chronic pain in the head The de-
ceased was 81 years of age, and leaves wife
and six children.
Mill Strike.
FALL RIVER, Mass, Feb. 13.-At meeting
of the trades union to-day, including all