Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-20
MlNNEsorA NEWS.
Duluth has fifty-nine saloons.
Mumps prevail in Montevideo.

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Mumps prevail in Montevideo.
Seeding commenced last week in Brown
county.
A creamery is being rapidly built in
St. Peter.
A birch beer fellow is in full blast at
Brainerd.
The Sleepy Eye creamery is to COM
mence operations May 10.
The river at Moorhead at thed of
April Is had fallen four feet.
Blackbirds are reported to belm ise-
ly numerous in Waterman county
A new Catholic church edifce O be
built at Horsford, Todd county,tl sea-
son.
The Sleepy Eye Herald of April IS, re-
ports the Minnesota river to be rising
rapidly.
The Ada, Norman county Alert, has
entered upon it's third volume. A bright,
newsy journal.
Between six and seven thousand dol
lars are paid out each month at Waseca
to railroad employees.
The Tribune says there are five whole
sale grocery stores in Duluth, four of
which do a retail business.
Pinkeye still prevails among the horses
in Sleepy Eye. Two horses, belonging
to emigrants, died last week.
The Duluth Tribune says Chippewa
sQuaw died at Park Point the other day
supposed to be III years old.
Mrs. Zirke, wife of a farmer residing in
New Hartford, Winona county, COM
mitted suicide by hanging few days
since.
The last "necktie dance'' in Madelia
for the season is soon to come off. Cult
eau's last necktie dance is to come off
June 80.
The Saltwater ,Sun of April 18th says:
Four children in the family of Thomas
Lelth, who lives near Lakeland, have
died of diphtheria within the last twelve
days.
The Rev. ]. W. Hargrave, late of
Brooklyn, Ohio, has been invited to take
the pastorate care of the Congregational
church in Duluth. A parsonage is soon
to be built.
Ada, the county-seat Of Norman cOun-
| ty, has 800 inhabitants, and the -Alert
predicts that before next November it
will have population of 1900, so great
is the influx of emigration.
Another fool that "didn't know it was
loaded" shot off gun near Walnut Grove,
Brown county, and lodged the contents
in the knee of G. S. Lounsberry, making
amputation of the leg necessary.
Moorhead Meas April Is: Nothing has
been heard so far of George Lair, whose
| mysterious disappearance was related in
the Meas of yesterday. His friends think
that there is very little doubt that he has
been foully dealt with.
The New Ulm ReoSew, ofHApril l6,
| says the Minnesota river is on a boom.
The low bottom lands are flooded and
the water is still rising. Communication
with Nicollet county is now only kept up
with skiffs. So far no damagei is reported.
Glyndon Neaos: Arthur Stroud, the
young man whose feet were frozen on
his walk from the Clearwater lumber
camp to Detroit three weeks ago, and who
received some surgical attention in this
place while en- route to Crookston, died
of blood poisoning there few days after
wards.
Crosby Meas: MIR. Wattner was pois-
oned last week in a novel way-simply
by putting one of the Eagle copying pen
many to dampen the point of lead pen
Gil before writing with it. He was in
great distress for about twenty-four
hours; but the emetio administered by
| the doctor soon restored him to astate Of
health. This should serve as warning
| to others Of like habit to desist.