Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-21
MINNESOTA NEWS.

(: OWatonna VIII give site for the new Stat
| prison, and $4,000 besides.
! The liquor war at Worthington, Noble
. county, continues at white heat.
The New Ulm Rericw records two NOR
deaths from diphtheria in that village.
! George Parker has been appointed deput
coal oil inspector for Kittson county.
The sheriff of Pope county meanders abou
2 on snowshoes to serve his legal papers.
The public schools of New UIm were CLOSED
last week on account of the drifted snow.
The Baptists in Grove City, Meeker county
are holding series of religious meetings.
1t is alleged that over 1000 deaths from
diphtheria occurred In Minnesota last year.
The Bulletin says the indications point Il
an active building season in Wabashaw during
1881.
new semi-weekly mail route has been es.
tablished between Sleepy Eye and Fort Ridgely
via Golden Gate.
A family In Wadena were poisoned the Other
day by eating canned beef By timely remedies
their lives were saved.
The house of s. s. Dickinson, of North
field, was destroyed by fire last week. LOSS,
81 200; insurance $3.50.
The temperance people of Winnebago City
are considering the matter of establishing a
temperance paper in that place.
Nota single member of either House of the
present legislature of Minnesota is native of
the State. Carpet baggers all.
The merchants of New Ulm have received
but little freight since Christmas, and are low,
or out Of many kinds of goods.
ALI the State papers are 'sstorm bound"
their columns heavily "blockaded'' with ''bliz-
zard" accounts and storm articles.
d. w. Compton, one of the Oldest settlers
OF Fremont, Winona county, is dead. He has
lived in that town twenty-one years.
Material for new Lutheran church edifce
Is being placed on the ground in Long Prairie,
preparatory to building in the spring.
The imports into Blue Earth City in 1880
amounted in pounds to 26, ,46S, ,202, and the ex-
ports amounted in pounds to II ,708,7 765.
| Recently P. G.. McGuire's office and ma
chinery warehouse in Crookston, were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss 81 800; uninsured.
| At Albert Lea it is said Bjornson struck a
church revival among his countrymen and
talked infidelity to them, and was not appre-
ciated.
| The other day Sheriff Hunter, of Lyon coun
| ty, was severely wounded by the discharge of
| a revolver which he was carrying in his panta-
| looms packet.
Farmers living four or five miles from Fair
mont, Martin county, went into that town the
other day for store supplies with hand sleds.
| teams being snow bound.
The Mapleton, Blue Earth county, Censor
has been Obliged to suspend its publication
Tor lack OF patronage. 1t has been published
between nine or ten months.
A wild cat weighing fourteen pounds was
caught in trap at Glenwood the other night.
Its appetite had demanded the slaughter of
twelve hens the night previous.
1t is alleged that long, hard, snow-bound
winters like this are uniformity followed by
immense crops of wheat. A compensation of
this kind is now confidently looked for.
The deep snow is making wolves hungry
and bold. Recently, at Sauk Center, they fol
lowed team from the woods, bowling and
making angry. demonstrations, till the team
| reached the village.
Recently the barn of H. Brady, on his farm
four miles from Benson, Swift county, took
| fire and was totally consumed with all its con-
tents, including three horses, two cows, q
number of calves and fowls.
The report of destitution among the farmers
| west of Sleepy Eye, in the finding of family
consisting of father, mother and three chill
dren, frozen to deeth in their shanty, is de-
nounced as a sheer fabrication.
One of the farmers of Freeborn county, for
the purpose Of exchanging wheat raising for
stock raising, bought seventy calves last sum-
mer. Forty five of them have died, it is
thought from improper feeding.
W. W. Williams, of the Albert Lea Standard,
| had hand dto-hand-scuffle with j. r. Ellerton,
recently, in a saloon, Ill which the former
came out second best. The difficulty grew
| out of an article in the Standard.
A good reason why there were no quarterly
meeting religious exercises held in Glenwood,
Pope county, the other day, was that there
was no presiding elder, no minister and no
congregation present. Snow bound.
A family in Zumbrota came near losing their
the night time. The cover of the stove had
been left off. A timely discovery only saved
their lives. They were seriously affected by
the gas
A 611 year old son of James Burke was
| drowned in the Mississippi river, opposite
Winona, the other day. He ventured too near
an nopening in the ice, the ice broke, he fell
into the water, and the current drew him un.
der the ice.
| William Guetting, OF New Ulm, was recently
operated upon with the surgeons knife for
| gerOus and difficult operation occupied some
twenty minutes, and the patient has fair pros
poets of recovery.
Some Of the older settlers think that the
winter of 1867 equalled this in the severity
of the cold and the great amount of snow,
while other old settlers declare that this win
ter, for cold and show, is without q parallel
since the settlement of the State.
st. Peter Tribune, Feb. 16: Five hundred
shovelers worked on the Winona & st. Peter
railroad on Friday shoveling snow, and the
wind on Friday night filled in twice as much
as the five hundred men took ont. 1t is very
discouraging work, this trying to open up
snow blockades.
John G. Carlson, a Norwegian living near
Dexter, Mower county, had a little one year.
old girl scalded to death. The careless mother
put teakettle of boiling water on the floor,
where the little one was creeping about. The
child pulled the kettle oyer onto itself, with
the result noticed.
A chopper was cutting down tree by the
roadside in Morristown, Waseca county, the
other day. Just as the tree was about to fall
Mr.. Hobln drove up with his team, and the
tree falling limb struck one of the horses,
killing 1t. The other horse was injured and
SO was Mr.. Hoblin, slightly.
The town of Mankato Is reported to be one
vast wood yard this winter. The vacant lots
around the railroad, mills and factories are
covered with immense piles of wood, while
thousands of cords are placed elsewhere fol-
next falls use. One firm are getting out H..
600 cords for shipment.
Last year the name of the village of Sleepy
Eye was changed to Lorenzo" The newspa-
pers and the villagers refused to accept the
change and stuck to Sleepy Eye right valiant
ly. Now bill has been introduced into the
legislature to change the name to ''Sleepy Eye
: Lake" and the villagers kick at that worse
than they did at 'Loreno." They refuse to
, take any "I.ake" In theirs. Sleepy Eye, pure
and simple, and nothing else will satisfy the
sleepy fellows.
Grove City, Meeker county, Times, Feb. IL:
On Thursday of last week fourteen or fifteen
, | wear old son of Henry Halyerson Thon, of the