Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-28
MINNESOTA NEWS.

M1NNESOTA NEWS
After the stormy equinox, spring promptly
resumed business.
A car load of iron has just been received at
the WinOna iron works.
Work on the Catholic church in Benson is
being pushed forward rapidly.
movement is being made 10 Winona for
the building of a $4,000 opera house.
Fred Thirzen, of Rcd Wing, gets Sf,2C0
back pension, and in future IS month.
Kasota, LIE Sueur county, by vote Of 100
majority, refuses to grant saloon licenses.
Rev. O. Gregg, son of Marshall, had an
arm broken the other day, by a log fallen on
it.
Sixteen pupils are preparing to graduate
from the High school in Winona in june
next.
Aman in st. Peter last week killed three
wild geese at one shot. The heaviest Of which
weighed sixteen pounds.
Foxes are said to be numerous in Waseca
county, but they are hard to capture and only
an occasional one is taken.
Lyons, Lyon county, voted by majority to
bond the town to the amount of 81, 400 in aid
of the NJ. & st. Louis railroad
The house of Charles Johnson, of Stanford
Isanti county, was destroyed by fire the other
night, with most Of the contents.
A thief recently stole 40 bushels of potatoes
from cellar in Clay county while its owner
was detained in Glyndon by sickness.
The postoffice IN Victor, Wright county, is
about to be vacated on account of the remoy-
al OF Mrs. Morrison, the postmistress.
Benson is greatly embarrassed by lack of
houses and rooms for rent-which is both
sign of prosper ty and an actual inconvenience.
Three children of Benjamin Coonradt, Of
Motley, Morrison county, have recently died
from diphthcria, and two more are sick with
the same disease, but there is hope of their
recovery.
In Salem, Olmsted county, last week, one
youug fool, aged 16, "didn't know it was
loaded" and shot young man aged Is, inthe
head 1t will be long time before the fools
are all dead.
Some Winnebago Indian ladies (they used TO
be called "squaWs') were over from the
islands visiting Winona the other day, exam
lining tie spring styles of calico, preparatory
| for the seasons outfit.
| One night last week lightning struck and
set On fire the barn of Walter r. johnson, Of
Balyrode, Nicollet county, which was entirely
consumed, with all in it, horses, cattle, hay,
grain, farming utensils, etc.
An attempt was made the other night to
bum the building on Cedar street in Owatonna
in which saloon is kept. The fire was started
in the hallway over the saloon. A timely dis
covery prevented a confagration.
Conductor Rakes, charged with the respon-
sibility of causing the disastrous collision of
two freight cars recently near Alexander, has
been arrested and held to bail in the sum of
$500 to appear at the next term of court.
! Richard Ayers of GAINESVILLE while return
ling with load of hay from the south part of
| the town to his house, was stricken with par
alysis, and on reaching home, was entirely
| helpless. He afterwards rallied somewhat.
The WinOna Republican says 100 car loads
of stone have been placed around the central
pier of the draw-bridge across the Mississippi
channel, by the Chicago 81 Northwestern
railroad company, and the work still goes Oh.
The Sleepy Eye Herald says: The rush of
1emigration west is unabated. Four to five
coaches are filed daily with the passengers
and the baggage car averages from one humid
red to one hundred and forty trunks every trip
The Fairmount Sentinel says, among the
many buildings to be built in that place this
season are the following. A Catholic church
to cost from 81 900 to 5000; Catholic par
sonage; new passenger depot, and numerous
imposing dwellings, and additions to dwell
lings.
The Rev. Mr.. Storjvhan, from Norway, has
been lecturing to his countrymen in Red
Wing. He is raising money to found SEM
and send out missionaries to the frontier in
this country, to Australia and other parts of
| the world.
Delano Eagle, March %: On Tuesday af-
! ternoon Mr.. Louis Book, in attempting to
cross the track before freight train had his
team struck by the locomotive and one horse
killed, the other suffering considerable dam
age. Had the team been few seconds quick
er we might have had to mourn the loss of
human lives.
Rush City (Chisago county, Post: A new
postofiice has been established at Ahlstrom g.
Peterson's grist mill, about four miles from
Grantsburg, to be called Wood River-August
T. Person, Postmaster. Mail will be carried
twice week from Grautsburg, Mondays and
Thursdays.
On Monday night, March 20, duriag the
snow storm, Mrs. Meyer, OF Hancock, Carver
county, started to go to a neighbor's, but got
lost on the prairie, and wandered about well
exhausted, when she sank upon the ground
and there she lay until "Wednesday morning,
when she was found. She was alive, but her
recovery is thought 10 be doubtful.
Fergus Falls Journal: Four prairie schoon-
ers, three of which were boarded up snugIy
and containing stoves and children, pas sed
through Fergus last week, loaded with immi-
grants from southern Kansas and bound fer
Polk county. They have been on the road
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good. spirits, though the teams were little
jaded.
Rochester Record and Union: Theodore
Ehrhart Of Pleasant Grove, fourteen years of
age, was recklessly pointing pistol at boys
and swapping the hammer. While pointing it
at his brother Albsrt, seven years old, the
cartridge exploded and the ball struck him
lust below and back of the hip and went down
the thigh about seven inches, making serious
but not fatal wound. The doctor failed to ex-
tract the ball.
| ST. Peter Tribune: We are glad to learn of
| the good fortune of our old fellow citizen
Henry G. Feldman, who now lives at Pembina.
He took homestead rear there which he sold
for $780,. He then bought farm near town
for 81, 800, and before the papers were execu-
ted he was offered 81, 600 advance for his bar.
gain, and soon after was offered $4 900 for the
farm. He says when he can get S., 900 he Will
sell. Everything seems TO be on the boom up