Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-15
MINNESOTA NEWS.

A new railroad depot building il being
constructed at Lanesboro.
The town of 8 'eepy Eye Lake, Brown county,
has procured new fire engine.
"Cyclone Center" is the name proposed for
railroad station in Renville county.
The steam mill at Sank Center is turning out
225 barrels of -four every twenyfour hours.
Two deaths from diphtheria occurred last
week in family living three miles from Jack
son.
Over ID, 900 gallons of amber cane syrup has
been made In Morristown, Rice county, this
season.
Rev. M. Il. Pasco was recently installed
pastor of the Congregational church, at Glyn-
don, Clay county
It is reported that diphtheria prevails in
very malignant form among the Indians on
the White Earth reservation.
Capt. D. W. Johns, of Glencoe, was thrown
from his horse the other day and lad one OF
his wrists and shoulder blade fractured.
The Republic is informed that farm In
jackson county has raised corn crop which
yielded so bushels of shelled corn to the acre.
Many cattle, and even cows giving milk,
are killed for beef, at many points in the
state, owing TO the scarcity and high price of
feed.
A Catholic church is to be built In Benson,
Swift county, 36x00, % feet front, to cost
$4,000, The lumber has already been pur-
chased.
Owing to long continued muddy roads,
horses are now being afflicted with mud fever.
Thorough washing and cleansing Of the logs
is the remedy.
Nininger township, Dakota county, at pres
ent has no justice of the peace; one skipped
the country, and the other has gone into bus
mess in Hastings.
The Hastings Gazette reports that the
sorghum crop in that vicinity is failure this
season, the protracted rains having taken out
the sweetness, the plth turning red.
1t is alleged that muskrats, corn husks,
wild ducks and geese, and wild animals gen.
orally, all inicate by their movements COM
paratively mild, open winter. Make note
of it,
j. Nesbit, of Red Wing, who received
bullet in his leg from the accidental discharge
of pistol on the 31st of October last, is re-
ported to be ia very critical condition. The
ball has not been found.
On November 7 the golden wedding OF
Daniel Robbins and Mary, his wife, Of Anoka,
was celebrated. They were both natives OF
Winthrop, Maine. They moved to Minnesota
in 1855 and located in Anoka.
Four towns in Lyon county, namely, Lake
Marsnall, Lynn, CllltOu anu CaHVio~ nave
voted bonds in aid of the Minneapolis d st.
Louis railroad. There were only ten votes In
the four towns against the bonds.
A 3-year-old boy, son Of Mr.. Sorrains, OF
the Mantorville Express, by s1ll the ether
day had his left arm crushed az The elbow. 1t
was very bad fracture, and the best that can
be hoped for, probably, is stiff elbow.
Some forty natives Of Vermont, now resi-
dent in Waseca, held their first annual meet
ing last week. The organization Is for the
purpose of social enjoyment and to perpetuate
the memory of their nativity in the Green
MOuntisn state.
Octave Coron, of Whiteland, Rice county,
was struck on the head by plank falling
from a new building which he Is having
erected. He renamed unconscious for hours,
and had a very narrow escape from instant
death. He is recovering.
8. Hodgkns, of Freedom, Waseta county,
says he has threshed right along for the last
two weeks, and has found stacks in fa'r
condition. He found but little wet wheat in
the bottom of stacks, and generally the wheat
come out in good condition.
Glencoe Register, Nov. II: Mr.. George
Mcleod, brother OF Martin Mcleod, after
whom our county was named, died suddenly
from congestion of the lungs, at his home
in 81. Peter last Tuesday. He leaves wife
and daughter to mourn his loss.
Mapkato Free Press: Hon. Clark W.
Thompson, of Wells, says his stock farm of
6, 600 acres at Wells, with 100 head of horned
cattle, including $50 mich cows, 400 hogs, 10
horses and lot Of sheep is more trouble than
a railroad hut takes less money to run it.