Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-03
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MlNNESOIA NEWS
Preston is to have a creamery.
Somerset, Steels county, has been pc
culiarly affected with diphtheria.
The elevators at Pipestone have fallen
into the hands of the railroad company.
At the monthly fair in Carver last
week over 100 head of cattle changed
hands.
Mrs Roedel of Deerfield, Steele county,
hung herself last week. She was de-
ranged.
Scarlet fever is prevailing in Medford,
Steele county. Two deaths were report
ed last week.
The pinkeye among horses in Wlnona
and vicinity is reported to be quite prev.
alent, causing several deaths.
Miss Savina Peiffer, aged % years, a
resident of Litchfield, died in Minneapo-
lis few days since Of typhoid fever.
A son of j. j. Kornberg, of Austin,
aged years, was drowned in puddle of
water six inches deep few days since
w. e. Grain, of Granite Falls, was
thrown from his wagon by a runaway
team the other day and had leg broken.
During the late snew blockade the
railroad company paid So cord for
wood at Fergus Falls and $lS ton for
coal.
The measles of particularly severe
| type prevailed in portions of Houston
county. There have been several
deaths.
A new brick Jail, to cost 81, 900, is to be
built this season In Litchfeld, Mecker
county. Provision in it will be made for
sixteen prisoners.
Mr.. II. W. Hill, publisher of the St.
Charles (Winona county, Times offers his
printing establishment for sale, intend.
ing to engage in other business.
Owatonna Journal: Fourteen deaths
have occurred this winter in district No.
SO, Somerset; from dyphtheria and ty-
phoid fever. The school has been closed
for some time.
The Zumbrota Independent has recently
been enlarged to a SIX column quarto,
| and for clear print and faultlesS impress
sion on its home side is not exceeded by
any weekly journal, and equalled but by
| few that come to the GLOBE table. In all
respects very excellent paper.
Mrs. Thomas Simpson, of the Central
| Methodist church, in Winona, had very
pleasant surprise call recently, on her
birthday, by the young ladies of her
Bible class, who presented her with ali
elegantly framed picture. 1t was on
both sides very cordial aad agreeable
linterview.
A petition asks the president to pardon
Sergeant Mason lies on the counter at the
postoffice in Red Wing, and between one
and two hundred names are already re-
corded, and other names are being con-
stantly added. All who sign are given an
opportunity to deposit ten cents for the
benefit of Mason's family, "Bettie and the
baby"
The Owatonna Steele county, Journal
says. DR.. r. L. Hatch had seventy cases
of diphtheria in Somerset during the
| winter, but there are only few cases in
that town at present. He is at present
treating several cases of the disease in
Aurora and one in Havana. He says
scarlet rash accompanies this disease
which has led some persons to mistake
it for scarlet fever.
Brainerd Daily Neaes: The snow and
the weather have been so favorable for
Oul1uS oAC luOhtu INV
closing that the amount of logs banked
by the most of the lumbermen on the
upper Mississippi and its tributaries will
nearly or quite equal what was expected
last fall. 1t is now the general opinion
among lumbermen that the price of lum-
Der will be very little, if any, higher than
it was last season.
The Hastings Gazette has young lady
apprentice who lives in the town of
Ravenna, nine miles from Hastings. She
walks from her home to the printing
office every morning and back every
evening after working hours, eighteen
miles day. This is regarded as re-
markable, and it is. Yet many of the
ladies of England are accustomed to
walk more miles than that daily, and
are strong and robust. American
ladies, as rule, have great aversion
to walking.