Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-27
MINNESOTA NEWS.


tinue active.
The st. Paul s. Omaha car works have been
located at Shakopee.
The village OF LIE Sueur is to have an ex-
ceptionally fine Catholic school.
A. Doge, of Northfeld, was striker by par
alysis last week. it is feared fatally.
The entire family OF Thomas Watts, of
Brainerd, are down with dlphtheria.
The netproceeds of late Congregational
church entertainment in Winona was $55.
The river is again closed at Winona, and pc
destrians can cross the ice but not teams.
Battle Lake is thriving young Minnesota
town on the st. Paul s. Manitoba railroad.
Diphtheria has been prevailing for the past
ten days in asettlement east OF Long Prairie.
The small pox still fingers in Stevens county,
several new cases have aecently been reported.
Tramps are thawing out and are again be-
ginning their rounds of begging and thieving.
Some young men in Alexandria went out to
hunt deer, and in the dusk of the evening shot
a colt.
The new school house just erected at Mot.
ley, Morrison county, has just been opened
| for use.
On Saturday, Feb. 18th, there was thun-
der storm at Albert Lea, with copious fall
| fall of rain.
A team crossed the river at Winona on the
ice on the morning of Feb 2S. Venturesome
and hazardous.
Bohemian Immigrants in considerable num-
bers are buying up land and settling in Wheat
land, Rice county.
| The new residence of William Kulp, of L.
Sueur, was destroyed last week by fire with
most of the contents.
| A large magic lantern, with 100 pictures,
has been purchased for the use OF the insane
hospital at Rochester.
Instead OF decreasing, the small pox seems
to be increasing in many places in Minnesota
Hokah is again afflicted
| Theuother night the barn of John Murphy.
| of Coon Creek, AnOka county was destroyed
| by fire. The work of an incendiary.
| The Disciples in Marion, Olmstead county,
have just completed one of the most interest
| ing series of meetings ever held IN that place.
The building committee of st. Joseph's
church at Winona have awarded the construc-
| ton of the church to contractors for $l2, 800.
Vennor, the weather prophet, parts his hair
in the middle; nevertheless, he hits it right,
| and makes as many false guesses as anybody
else.
The lady members of the Sons of Temper
ance society in st. Peter, recently gave an
oyster supper, which was superbly enjoyable
affair.
Timber thieves are committing depredations
in the west part of Todd county. Railroad
companies refuse to buy ties made from stolen
timber.
The Brainerd dispatch says articles OF in
corporation have been drawn up, signed and
published for the ''Brainerd, st. Paul & Grand
Forks railroad"
J.C. Ogle has sold the Worthington Jour-
nal to a stock company, by whom it will in
the future be conducted, he retireing entirely
from the concern.
The Rochester Record and Union says P.
D. Brockway has invented an arrangement for
holding a sponge to horses foot while in the
stall. He has applied for patent.
Litchfeld Independent: Homer Daggett
has brood of spring chickens already. Every
one of the fifteen eggs which were set brought
forth chick. How is this for Minnesota?
Last week man named Herschbach was
taken down ateSt. Cloud with small pox, and
died. He took the disease at Spring Hill. No
other case has yet been reported at st. Cloud.
Martin Kirvian was arrested in Morris the
other day for stealing oats. Some six or seven
hundred bushels had been stolen from differ
emit granaries. The thief was held to bail in
$500.
The Roman Catholic congregations in Roll
ing Stone. Oak Ridge and Elba, in Winona
county, have ne " priest from the province
of Oberpfalz, Prussia He was late priest at
LIE Sueur.
The question will be presented this spring
to voters of Olmsted county, as to the voting
in favor of issuing bonds to the amount of
1000, to purchase fair grounds and the
erection of buildings thereon.
Mrs. Fletcher lectured the other night in
Mankato on the "Mistakes of IngersOll." She
is an able and eloquent speaker, and held the
attention of her audience for three hours, IN
refuting the assertions of the bold atheist.
The other day Dr. Cobb started from Crooks
ton for Maple Lake with load. He stopped
at some place for the night, between the two
places, and on going to the stable in the morn
ing found both of his horses dead. The cause
of their death was unknown.
Three lodges of secret organization styled
ssNational Tribunes," exist in this state. A
member of the lodge in Rochester was in
Winona last week to organize lodge there.
The organization is designed to operate among
the workingmen of the country.
Glencoe Enterprise: A new horse disease
has made its appearance in Dakota, and is rap
idly approaching here. Horses having been
dissected after death show the coating of the
stomach eaten full of little holes by worms
which are found in immense numbers.
Rev. Mr. Livermore, of st. Peter; while
holding services in the Church of the Holy
Communion on Sunday week ago, was taken
suddenly ill and had to be carried to his b ouse.
His friends were greatly alarmed at his condi-
ton, but at last reports he was improving.
st. Peter Tribune: Mr.. Long, the head
cook at the upper hospital, called at this office
last Monday to inform us that DR.. Bartlett
had discharged him for swearing. He plead
guilty to the charge, but says he always
thought that mule drivers and cooks had a
right to swear.
The New Ulm committee, who received the
donations for the cyclone sufferers of last
year, have made their report. Amount of do
nations received, $4S,317.9S; amount exoend.
ed, 81, 524.11. Balance on hand, $793. 81,
which will be reserved for cripples and desti-
tute who are yet unable to work:
Winona Republican: Mn. H. C. Googins,
who enlisted, with several other old Winona
boys, in Hatch's battalion, has just been
granted an honorable discharge, after waiting
several years for it. His application for a
pension, on the ground of permanent disa-
bility, contracted while in the army, will
probably be favorably considered, in which
case he will receive pension OF some S., 600
or $4,000.
Two bibulous young fellows hailing from
Faribault, recently appeared at Winona, and
represented themselves to be United States de-