Daily globe., 1882-04-10
MINNESOTA NEWS.

bilities $25. .269.27.
Farmers were busy seeding in 6her-
burne county last week.
A liquor sellers license in Morris,
Stevens county, costs $400.
The assets of Mile Lac county are
al6,966; liabilities s1,e6s.62.
A late census of Moorhead, Clay coun-
| ty, gives the population at $500.
The Candy postoffice has been made
an international money order office.
Lumbermen are now attentively en-
ployed in getting ready for their drives
A car load of fat cattle was shipped
from st. Charles to st. Paul the other
day.
The petition in Austin for the pardon
of Sergeant Mason has received 700 sig
natures.
Seven handsome residences are now in
process of erection on one street (Wllson)
in st. Cloud.
April 3, H. G Silliman, of Grant, Wis,
started his seeder, the ground being IN
fine condition.
The Rev. Mr.. Allen remains perman-
emily at Browns Valley, as rector of the
Presbyterian church.
1t is reported that a larger acreage of
wheat will be sown this year in Sher-
burne county than ever before.
The matter of building new court
house, Jail. etc., at Bainerd, Crow Wing
county, is under consideration.
George Picwell, of Waseca, had
horse badly cut and seriously injured the
other day by barbed iron fence.
The Central school house in Owatonna
was destroyed by fire April 4. 1t was
erected at cost of $4,000. Insurance
light.
The Rev. S. L. McAfee of Iowa has
been invited to the pastorate of the Pres
byterian church in Winnebago City and
has accepted the call.
A. Sherburne, after whom Sherburne
county was named, died last week, aged
u years. He had been In county charge
for the last two years.
The safe in the store of johnson &
Child, in Wadena, was blown open with
powder, few nights since, by burglars,
and $42 in money taken.
A flower mission is being organized by
the ladies of Saltwater, to furnish its
hospital Jail and the State prison with
flowers during the summer.
In Linwood, Anoka county, recently,
Charles Green was crushed while assist
ing in moving building, and lived but
two hours. He was Is years old.
The Ortonville North Star, of April
4, says: A man whose name we are un-
able to learn, was drowned in Yellow
Bank river yesterday, with yoke of
oxen,
The Waseca Herald says between
$4,000 and 81, 900 are paid out to railroad
employees at Waseca each month by the
pay car of the Chicago s. Northwestern
railroad.
The Hon. S. S. Beeman has returned
to his home in st. Charles from two
months residence in Florida, where he
has been for his health, without any sub
stantial benefit
A 12-year old son of a Mr.. Grow, liv-
ing on the Yellow Medicine river, about
eleven miles from Marshall, accidentally
shot himself the other day while out
hunting. The shot was fatal.
Duluth Tribune, April 5: The lumber
men are beginning to come out of the
has broken up, many of his teams and
men arriving in town to-day. Over
5000, 900 feet were put in at this camp.
George Whetmore, of Montevideo, the
other day, very foolishly and recklessly
undertook to open keg of wet powder,
by chopping with a hatchet An explosion
followed and he and another man and a
boy were terribly burned, but will re-
cover.
The house of Frank Montgomery, of
Grange township, Pipestone county, was
destroyed, with all its contents, by fire
the other day The fire was caused by
the upsetting of lamp. The family had
barely time to escape. One child was
severely burned.
The proposition to bond Olmsted
county to the amount of $4,000 to pur-
chase permanent fair grounds failed, but
company has been formed with capital
stock fixed at 100000, and $15, 900 of the
stock is already subscribed. This is COM
mendable enterprise.
Mr.. T. w. Flint has sold his interest In
the Winona Daily Tribune to Messrs
Morrissey and Bum, by whom in the
future it will be conducted The politics
of the paper will henceforth be Demo
cratic. The Tribune has grown up to an
actual paying success. 1t is an able and
well conducted journal.
Melrose Record, April 7: All the saloons
in the village were kept open on election
day. For this violation of law the saloon
keepers were arrested Wednesday and
fined $50 and costs, each, except N.
KGnigs who was let off with $40. This
conviction works a forfeiture Of their
several bonds and annuls their license.
The Pipestone county Star, of April 6,
says: On last Sunday evening prairie
fires ragged fiercely in many parts of the
county, and in some places the people
had to fight to save valuable property.
The most serious damage we have heard
of, was the burning of new school
house near Woodstock, with all its fur
niture.
Fergus Falls journal, April 3: The
Wadena Lumber company, although
beginning work only last October, has
done. good business, having cut and
hauled to the track of the Northern
Pacific railroad up to March q, 1918, ,655
feet of lumber. Twenty-six teams were
last week hauling Oh the road with two
feet of snow and good Shedding.
Red Wing Republican: Goodhue county
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