Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-09
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Anoka.
Mankato received 81, 900 for saloon licenses
last year.
A bank is to be established at Browns Valley
this spring.
A building association has been established
at Ortonville.
The streams in the vicinity of st. Cloud are
reported to be low.
Glenwood voted the other day in favor of
license by majority.
Ten emigrants direct from Germany have
located in Moorhead.
The postoffice at Lowell, in Big Stone county,
has been discontinued.
The starting of sugar refinery at Wabashaw
is under consideration.
A bridge is being built across the Minnesota
river at Browns Valley.
The complaint is that tramps are over nu-
merous in Scott county. F
Leonard Kraus, of Jordan, had an injured
arm amputated recently.
The river is reported to be very low for the
season at Taylors Falls.
An unusual quantity of cornis to be planted
in Freedom county this year.
Farm hands are in demand in Polk county;
wages from $50 to 500 a month.
Rev. j. ID. Potter, the evangelist, is holding
religious meetings at Sank Center.
The store of Fridley & Merritt, at Becker,
| was recently burned. Loss $4,000.
Brainerd needs about forty or fifty small
| dwelling houses, says the Tribune.
B. Strain has gone to Hancock, Carver
county, to establish newspaper.
The village council of Glenwood, Pope
county, have fixed the liquor license at $4OO.
Harry Miller, of Hastings, has returned
from his trip to the Hot Springs in Arkansas.
Diphtheria is still prevalent in Wabashaw
county, and several deaths have been recently
reported.
A number of the denizens of Hastings are
preparing to move on to the Northwest. 1t is
| IA good town to leave.
Sam. Peterson, of Hastings, was fined 800
| last week for an unprOvoked and aggravated
! assault upon his wife.
Rev. Mr. Kieville, pastor of the Baptist
church in GAINESVILLE, Warren county, has ten.
dered his resignation.
Over 90, 900 bushels of wheat were received
from farmers at LIE Sueur during the months
of February and March.
| Fred. Newbery, of Lake city, caught the
| other night with hook a rock sturgeon,
which weighed forty pounds.
Many farmers in Stearns county are begin
| ming to thresh out their grain that has stood
| in stack through the winter.
In the southern part of Otter Tail county, it
is reported that farmers are busy dragging the
ground preparatory to seeding.
The round house at Austin is to be enlarged
| to the capacity of holding ffty-eight en-
gines, making complete circle.
Mayor Chaplin, of Little Falls, sold lot one
| day for So, 1000 cash which he bought the day
before for $4,000, on time pay ments.
A donation visit the other night to Rev.
viz. Drew, of Preston, Fillmore county, en-
r;ched that gentleman to the amount of $50.
| Two men recently died at Detroit, Becker
| county, from the effects Of sleeping in car
| with twenty other men which was in filthy con-
dltlon.
A petition to the State auditor is being cir
| culated in Ortonville, Big Stone county, ask
| ing that the school houses be put into market
| at once.
The postoffice at Pleasant Hill Traverse
county, has been discontinued and the effects
If the off e turned over to the postmaster at
Browns Valley.
N. c. Lmmickler, of Anoka, with great
difficulty saved drunken man the other day
| from drowning who had fallen Into the Mis-
-issippi river.
The Anoka City Herald says Mrs. Trask, of
Champln, aged Sc years, was recently SO Sc
verely burned by her clothes taking fire as to
cause her DEATH
A boy in 81. Peter went into saloon and
| drank glass of beer and then had the saloon
| keeper arr ested and fined S25 for selling it to
| nm. Smart boy!
Says the Transcript: A. De Lacy Wood,
| formerly of Little Falls, is on the move again.
| He his moved his Caledonia Signal newspaper
to Hill ity, D. 7.
Herman Weddendorf and wife, of New Ulm,
| celebrated their silver wedding April I'd, and
| were heartily congratulated by company Of
warm-heared friends.
Aneka Union: Joseph Ramph, who was
| stabbed by David Stockton, has been taken to
The Surgical institute in Minneapolis, and is in
! 4 very precarlous condition.
The st. Peter Tribune says that If the col
| ectons were all made the entire Indebtedness
Of Nicollet county could be paid and leave
some $4,000 in the treasury.
A young son of j. w, Belden, of Zumbro
Fails, while attempting to climb on loaded
wagon IN motion, the other day, fell and was
| run over and seriously injured.
The residence of Patrick Collins, of Multi.
gan township, Brown county, was recently
destroyed by fire with most of its contents. A
| defective chimney was the cause.
Many persons in the region of Fair Haven
and Maine Prairie, Stearns county, are report
ed to be worrying and taking deer in violation
of the law for their preservation.
Hastings Ne,u Era, April 5: The fire en-
CINE was tested yesterday afternoon and
| worked like a charm. Chief Strong, of ST..
Paul, was present and pronounced it sue
| cess.
The four secret societies of Pine Island join
ed last week in union festival at the Masonic
dining hall. The proceeds were donated to
Rev. Noah Lathrop, pastor OF the NJ. E.
church.
Miss Bessie Chandler, postmistress at Belle
Creek, Goodhue county has resigned, and the
office has been discontinued. The compensa-
lion has been inadequate to pay for the
| trouble.
DR.. C. s. Weber, of st. Cloud died April 18th
| from an overdose of aconte taken by mistake.
He was German by birth and IS years of
age at the time of his death. He leaves wife
and four children.
A young daughter of Henry Williams, three
years old, at Long Prairie, Todd cou lty, was
burned to death last week by her clothes TAX
| ing fire. She was carelessly left alone playing
| with box of matches.
The New Ulm Rcuiew says the log chains
| with which the lower Cottonwood bridge was
| fastened to prevent its being washed away by
| the apprehended high water, have again been
stolen by some miscreant.
A new disease, similar to diphtheria, is re-
ported to have appeared among the cattle in
Boone township, Wright county. 1t battles
| all attempts at treatment. One farmer has
| lost thirteen head of cattle by the disease.
The court house at Preston came near being
destroyed by fire the other night, but timely
discovery saved the building. The fire was
started by the stump of lighted cigar, care
| essly thrown into lot of combustible rub
bsh.
| Mrs. C. Fl. Norton, of Zumbro, was thrown
| from cutter several weeks ago while on her
way to Wasioja with her husband, Rev. G. H..
Norton, having an arm broken and an elbow
sprained. She is still at Wasloja and not able
| to return home.