Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-22
MINNESOTA NEWS.

support oil paupers.
In Winnebago City the vote stood; For
license, lSS; against, 81.
The license ticket prevailed in Wells by
thirty seven majority.
Measles are having an extensive run In Ma
zeppa, Wabashaw county.
The new bank at Little Falls is to be known
as the Morrison County Bank"
Last year Madelia voted in favor of license.
This year it voted against license.
Several deaths from diphthera have recently
been reported from Wabashaw county.
1t is reported that an immense lumber mill
is to be erected in Elk River this season.
The license TO sell liquor in Mortified is put
at $500. Druggists are required to pay $50.
More than double the ground cultivated last
yea will be seeded this year in Polk county.
Tie Verndale Journal says Joseph Rowe, of
YOUNGSTOWN, has just received $746.53, back
pension.
A building boom has set in in Glencoe,
carpenters, masons and painters are ready for
the fray.
Buffalo fish weighing twenty pounds were
selling on the streets in WInnebago City the
other day.
The Morris Tribune thinks, from appear
ances, seeding will not commence before the
LIST of May.
Walter Lewis, colored, last week married
Barbara Grenery, cOmely young white Ger
man girl, both of Dundas
The dwelling house of Edward Taylor, of
st. Charles, was considerably damaged by fire
last week. Fully insured. 'an'
The Enterprise, published in Glenwood,
has sold ont to the Press and will open a
printing office IN Stevens county.
SCARLET rash has prevailed to considerable
extent of late in Grove City. 1t is quite ST.
we're, but is not considered dangerous.
1t is reported that over sixty Irish families
for the Irish colony at Avoca, Mobiles cOun
ty, are now on their way to that locality.
No grand jury will be summoned for the
May term OF the court in Brown county, there
being no criminal business to look after.
Ten school districts and six towns wers or
ganiZed in Mower county by the county COM
miSsoners at recent session of that board.
Miss L. s. Cathcart, for many years a
teacher in the high school at Litchfield, goes
this spring rs missionary to the heather.
The Beaver Falls, Renville county Times
says, eX-Gov Marshall intends to pl,w this
spring 400 acres OF his farm near Bird Island.
NJ. o. Laughlin, of Lichfield, is putting ~
Il large addition to his hotel, the st. Cl,u
house, twenty eight feet front and two stories
high.
The village authorities of New Ulm have
raised the liquor license from S25 to $50 ami
voted to luiit the number of licenses for the
town to thirty.
The debt of the city of Dul nh is stated to
he SlI5,OUO, and the county of St LOUIS, in
which Duluth is situated, owes an additional
debt of $95, Goo
To
the ice Was going out, boarded one of the large
cakes between here and st Paul, and landed ut
the levee in perfect safety.
The Ada, Polk county, Alert, says sour
hotel keepers need more pegs to hang people
upon over night, that little matter of getting
Il bed is next to impossible"
The Little Falls Daily Transcript says the
discovery of CHAMBERS among the horses is now
attracting considerable attention through the
county (Morrison) and is quite rapidly increas-
ing.
w. L. Goodsell of Moorhead, while work
ing on new house the other day, by the Civ
ing way detective staging was precipitated
TO the ground, Il distance of eight feet, and had
an ankle broken.
George NJ. Andrews, master of the Masonic
lodge in Fai ibanlt, who is about TO remove to
mother location, received the other night,
chain with Masonic badge.
Ada Alert: Mir. Newcome lost valuable
horse last week. A post norton shove d
undoubtedly that he had been strangled to
death by piece of wire from binder which
had lodged in his wind pipe.
Albert Allen the other day was pulling load
out of shot gun, when it
was discharged and shattered one
Of hls wrists, and his arm had to BE-
amputated between The wrist and elbow,
Morris Tribune: A turkey that had been
buried III the snow for eleven days, On NJ.
,ialvin's farm, was, hen found and released
rom its snow prison, rs lively and frisky as
hough it had been we'll housed and fed during
hat time.
At Cambridge City, Isanti county, in sa-
Don on late nigh, Louis Anderson, while
hunk, owing to slight difference, took de-
'ihrrae aim with revolver and fired at E. P.
Bloomgren, who was only slightly wounded.
Anderson is in jail.
The trustees of the Insane asylum at st.
Peter have awarded the contract for rebuild
ing the north wing of the asylum, which was
burned last November, to George Adkins, of
Minneapolis, at $50, TBS, provided he furnishes
satisfactory bonds.
he Tribune says friend of c. L. Malcolm,
of St. Peter, recently wrote to him from Lon
don to secure, if possible, a refusal of a tract
of land of from 900 to 100000 acres in
Minnesota, for the purpose of locating an En-
glIsh colony upon it.
Many farmers are fearing that the enforced
late sowing of wheat this season will he ruin
Gus to this years crop. The St. Peter Trib-
une learns from an old settler that IN 1866 no
wheat was sown till the LIST of May, and that
there was good crop that year.
Ada Alert: The new arrivals this week have
been enormOus-whole car loads OF them.
Horses, cattle, furniture, lumber, etc etc.
The GepOt and yards looked like good sized
country fair. The immigrants represent all
nationaities-all trades, but mostly locate on
farm.
Sleepy Eye Herald: Nearly all Of the freight
destined for Marshall and intermediate points
and which has been tlockaded here during the
winter has been forwarded to its destination
by teams. The roads have been in excellent
condition this week, and some heavy loads
have been hauled.
docs any one know of house for rent?'
is the anxious inquiry in most of the cities
and towns of Minnesota this spring, and is
too often answered, from dire necessity, in the
negative. Lack of residence accommoda-
tons is driving many desirable family away
from Il choice location.
New Vim ReUleU: some IDEA OF the
strength of the snow blockade along the line
of the Sioux City & st. Paul road may be
gathered from the fact that one drift, between
Hospers and Sheldon, was eight miles long
and fifteen feet deep. The mass was so COM
pact that it had to be removed in large blocks
like ice.
Red Wing Republican, April II: Hon. j.
NJ. Waldron, OF Litchfeld, who returned We'd
nesday from an absence of some months,atold
us that the season in Minnesota is four weeks
more advanced than in any place between
Washington and Wnona. Snow lies in heaps
In the Chicogo streets and over the fields OF
Illinois, Indiana and so on.
A. A. Allard, civil engineer, was accident
ally shot, and instantly killed, recently, at
Miles City, Montana, He had been resident
of Anoka for five years, where he leaves wife
and child. Five weeks ago he left Anoka for
Montana. His remains are to be brought to
Minnesota for interment. His age was 25
years. He was young man, in all respects,