Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-21
MINNESOTA NEWS,

Work has been commenced on the new hotel
in !Ortonvlle.
Several cases of typhoid fever are reported
There was one death from diphtheria in Mel
| rose last week.
A car load of fat cattle was shipped from lie
| Sueur last week.
| A bank is soon to be established in Rush
City, Chisago county.
| The editor of the Princeton Union has
| been eleted town clerk
The permanent public school fund of Min
| nesota is 81, AS, 1889.
A lake is being drained at Albert Lea, to
| make park of its bed.
A cattle buyer from Manitoba was buying
| up cattle in Melrose last week.
Samuel Lucas, of Montevideo, has recently
| lost six children by diphtheria,
There is great demand for dwelling houses
in Monticello, Wright county.
| The Herald says Charles Rich sold his team
of blacks the 8ther day for $500.
Louis Grieser, of Rushford, tripped and fell
| a few days since and broke an arm.
| The other day 10000 young. salmon were
planted in Prior lake, Scott county.
The new Ulm sugar mandatory was sold
at auction the other day for 81 500.
| Some new cases of diphtheria have occurred
| in Wabashsw within the week past.
A series of successful temperance meetings
have recently been held in Albert Lea.
Verndale, Wadenac ounty, voted at the late
spring election to license liquor selling,
The town of st. Mary, Waseca county, has
voted $500 for building new town house.
\ The editor of the Todd county Argus has
been appointed postmaster at Long Prairie.
l. There were 46,S00 cigars manufactured in
Red Wing, during the month of February.
| The house of Amund johnson, of R'celand,
Freeborn county, was lately burned Insured.
| At a recent election in Glenwood, Pope
county, 5000 were voted to finish the town
hall.
The town of Hutchinson, Mcleod county,
voted anti-lcense the other day, by four ma
jority.
The citizens of Anoka are discussing the
question of bridging the Mississippi at that
place.
1t is stated that firm in Mankato have sold
| in the last twelve months 679 sewing ma
| chimes.
The salary of the treasurer of Mile Laos
county is $3.50 year,as fixed by the last legis-
lature.
The town of Dryden, sibley county, recently
| NOCCO dSd IuSb loSuluS IdliIOdU COuu6-oO lOT,
10 against.
mitted at village election in GAINESVILLE, Was
eca county.
Mrs. S. P. Wangsness slipped and fell on
the sidewalk in Rushford recently and broke
her right leg.
A note from ex-Gov. Miller of Worthing-
ton says he is still suffering great deal, bnt
is much better.
1t is said the greater part of the wheat crop
in the region tributary to Sank Center is still
in the granaries
The German Catholic church in Melrose has
just received a chnrch bell weighing 925
pounds, which cost 1915.
In Redwood county, in the year 1850, there
were ZIG births and 118 deaths. Sixty of the
deaths were from diphtheria.
| 1t is reported that all but two or three
families in the Connemara colony are to be
sent to other parts of the State.
Patrick Gallagher, of Anoka, had cancerous
tumOr involving three-fourths of his under lip
successfully removed by surgeons.
Seven loads of maple wood were recently
hauled into Crow River, and donated to Elder
Brown, by the young men of the town.
Last week the roller mills at Fergus Falls
bought 1000 bushels of wheat from sleighs
The dwelling house of John Walch, near
st. Cloud, was burned last week. The furni-
ture was mostly saved. Insurance, 81 $780,
Edward Stevens, of Winnebago, has served
as town clerk for twenty consecutive years,
and has recently been elected for another year.
Ice in Lake Pepin seventy-five rods from the
shore is 34K inches thick: midway of the lake
| 3S3l inches thick, from actual measurement.
Many, indeed most, of the thriving villages
of the State are looking for unwonted activity
in building operations during the present sea-
son.
The dwelling house of Patrick Cow, of the
town of George, Benton county, was lately
destroyed by fire, with all its contents. No
| insurance.
The Republican says, Red Wing stands
third in the manufacture of fermented
liquors in the State, being led by st. Paul and
Minneapolis.
Mr.. Ireland, of Fergus Falls, who had his
| feet badly frozen some two weeks ago, has
just had one toe amputated---a lucky escape
from worse fate.
Many farmers in LIE Sueur are buying pota-
toes. What they have are buried and they
cannot get at them, and what they had in
| their cellars had frozen.
| Rush City Post: J. Ham Davidson, of St.
Paul, has bought out W. 81. Grants uncertain
interest in the planning, mill, store and board.
ing house at Pine City.
In New Auburn, Sibley county, the vote re-
Gently on no license was tie. The town last
year voted no license, and a tie vote operates
as no license, the same.
| A few days since Frank Schier was crushed
! in the gearing of Dickinson, Easton & Co.'S
| Touring mill, near Chatfield, and survived his
| injuries but a few hours.
The following figures show the nationality
of the qualified voters of Kasota, LIE Sueur
| county French, 5; Swedes, II; Germans, IS;
| Irish, "a; Americans, 1856.
The Little Falls Transcript says the land
| grant to the Little Falls & Dakota railroad is
worth at least $4,000 mile, and the early con-
struction of the road is assured.
1t is the opinion of old settlers that Lake
Pepin will not he open before the first of May,
| owing to the great thickness of ice and the
long continuance of cold weather.
The people of Chippewa county have voted
against the proposition to issue bonds to the
amount of $4,000 to build a court house and
Jail, by vote of yeas 2sS, nays 1856.
A Scandinavian residing in the town of Lake
Hanska, Brown county, recently had all the
fingers of his left hand Amputated His hand
had been badly frozen last December
Augustus Mast, of Winona, fell against a
revolving saw a few days since and received a
wound fourteen inches in length, cutting
through three ribs. Condition critical
Two in,