Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-18
MINNESOTA NEWS.


James Cullen, of Hokok, died last week OF
smallpox.
The starting of paper mill in Jackson
| is under consideration.
The price of wood is going down to its
proper level in Mankato.
Three thousands cords of wood are annual.
ly consumed at the st. Peter asylum.
| The building to accommodate the imbeclles
at Faribault will be finished ne Xt month.
Rev. NJ. Sherman, of Cannon Falls, mas de-
clined the call to become rector of All Saints
church in Mortified.
The people Brainerd, the ether cay, voted
| four to one in favor of city government.
City officers were installed in power.
| The Ne,cs says several Northtield people
are going to California to spend the winter.
| Health and recreation the object.
The Masons of New Ulm have furnished
their lodge room with new and elegant furni-
| ture from Columbus, Ohio, at a cost OF over
$500.
Il. D. Mckenzie, of Mortified, had his
spine seriously injured the other day, by STEP
ping into hole IN the sidewalk and falling
backwards.
The Republic says ten or fifteen wagons
leave Jackson daily loaded with soft coal. 1t
is purchased largely by farmers and Spirit
Lake parties.
The Glenco Enterprise reports that great
many farmers are now storing their wheat
and will wait for the usual rise that is always
expected in the spring.
A young man named Frank Reister, of Glas-
cow, Wabashaw county, accidentally shot
himself in the abdomen the other day, but not
fatally. He is recovering.
The Lamberton Commercial says that OBJ
&1x-;a mir hA
last few days, on the track of the Wlnona q
ST. Peter railroad, east of Springfield.
Blue Earth City Journal, Dec. -: The
threshing machines have been improving the
fine weather of the past two weeks, and are
getting the threshing work well done up in
this neighborhood. The yield is not generally
heavy but the quality is good.
d young lady, the assistant of a milliner in
Faribault, has been arrested for stealing goods
from her employer, some $500 worth. Some
of the goods were found in her possession. She
says she took the goods but calculated TO pay
for them. Her trial is set for an early day.
A Winona county farmer went into shoe
store the other day and said he wanted to fit
up his boys and girls with shoes. 10 satisfy
the family he bought twelve pairs to the i'm
mense delight of the shopkeeper. That farmer
is liberal contributor to the census as well
as to the shoemaker.
The Monticello Times mentions that one
La Plant, of that vicinity, made CPS gallons of
syrup, and threshed IS bushels of seed from
three acres of amber cane. At SO cents per
gallon for the syrup, and so cents per bushel
for the seed, the total realized from those
three acres is s336.50, or S112 per acre..
Mankato Review, Dec. IS: A card from
Dr. F. Welcome at Granite Falls, informs us
under date of tie Sth that there are in all at that
place and vicinity twenty-five cases OF small
pox and five of varioloid. Nine cases are in
the town and the balance in the country. DR..
Welcome thinks that the physicians in charge
have the disease checked.
At the recent election the county seat of
Lincoln county was voted from Mansfield to
Lake Benton by q majority of fifteen votes,
and it was confidently hoped by the Bentonites
that the contest was indefinitely settled. But
now comes Capt. Pumpelly, Of Tyler, and
charges illegal voting on the side of the vic
tors, and takes the matter into the courts.
A Congregational fellowship meeting was
held in Lake City last week on Tuesday even
ing, and Wednesday afternoon and evening,
planned by Revs Bradshaw, Fishe and Menley,
pastors at Rochester, Lake City and Winona,
respectively. The pastors and members of
the Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian
churches participated in the devotional ex-
ercises.
The old and constant story repeated. Mar
Gus Hawley, of Detroit, Becker county, the
other day attempted 10 board moving train,
fell under the cars and had one leg crushed
and the other broken, Amputation was per-
formed on the crushed leg, the other may be
saved and the mutllated man may live. Sim
liar accidents are of daily record, caused by
the foolhardy practice of endeavoring TO board
moving train.
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the pork crop of this county to its farmers is
especially manifest this season, at the good
prices paid. Duncan Hurst, OF the Eastern
side of Sharon township, on Tuesday, received
the respectable sum of SlS7 so for twelve hogs
of average size, and John Pope, of Lexington,
sold H. c. Smith three hogs that at 1928 per
hundred brought him the snug sum of $74.O0.
The weights of the three were 327, 352 and
495 pounds.
Granite Falls Journal Nels Peterson, for
some time a clerk or bar keeper at Anderson's
hotel, who left here some ten days ago, for his
home in Boscobel, Wis, died of smallpox two
days after reaching home. He was quite sick
when he left here, and the probabilities are
that several hundred persons were exposed TO
the smallpox by coming in contact with this
man, as it seems no one knew what allied him
antil after he was dead and buried, but 1t was
supposed he had the scarlet fever.
Center City Is The county seal OF CnloaSo
county, and has 5000 court house. Some
rival villages want the county seat removed to
their localities. Chlsago City wants the county
seat, and offers to donate sufficient tract of
land and erect thereon court house and jail,
to cost $4,000, and make present of the
whole to the county. Lindstrom wants the
county seat and will soon make an energetic
effort TO have the county seat removed to that
place. Prominent citizens of st. Paul and
Minneapolis are interested in building up the
new town of Lindstrom.
Presidential Misunderstanding.