Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-13
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Whooping cough Of very severe type
prevails at New Ulm.
Seven saloons in Sleepy Eye have taken
out licenses at 800 each.
The new Congregational church in
Sleepy Eye has been dedicated.
A large emigration is expected IN
Mobiles county the coming spring.
Rev. Mr.. Bradshaw, of Rochester, has
accepted call to preach at Glencoe.
The Carrollsville, Olmsted county,
school is closed ON account of the mumps.
A gravel train with so men is quarter
ed IN Faribaut for the remainder of the
winter.
The fire engine at Hastings the other
day drained the artesian well in about a
minute.
A movement has been started to build
a SIS 900 hotel in Waseca. Its success is
not yet assured.
The Pairmont Sentinel says prairie fires
have been raging during the past week.
No snow to prevent.
Since conference fifty-three persons
have united with the NJ. E. chhurch in
Rochester, mainly on probation.
Another death from diphtheria Is re-
ported in Sleepy Eye, the second death
from the disease in the same family
Magnus Palmyer of Chisago City,
while chopping in the woods last week
was instantly killed by falling tree.
A new German paper is soon to be is
sued at Mazeppa, Wabashaw county, to
be called the " Wa6as7aaw County Bote."
The Watonwan postoffice in Blue Earth
county has been discontinued for the want
of some one to discharge the duties of it..
Out of fifty nine deaths in Jackson in
1881, five were over 20 years old, four
80, and twenty one under one year of
age.
The fire department of st. Cloud, and
lots of citizens rushed out in hurry one
night last week to see chimney burn
out.
The Willmar Republican, Gazette says:
"Mr Geo. Muller went 6eloao on business,
on Monday Hadn't heard of his death
before.
A mob of drunken rowdies in Litch-
field, who kicked up row and a knock
down the other day, were arrested and
fined $5 each.
A robin is reported to have been seen
IN Caledonia last week as an advance
courier. This attests the unusual mild
ness of the season.
Preparations are being made, lumber
purchased, etc., for the erection of a
bridge across the Minnesota river south
Of tho vil1opo IF Ortonvi1Ia
Rev. Robert Smith, of st. Paul, has
been assisting in revival IN the NJ E.
church in Rochester. There have been
several additions to the church.
Farmers are discussing the question of
sowing oats and flax on ground that was
not plowed last fall, between what does
not do well on spring plowed land
C. K. Orion, of Ortonville, has donated
lots to the Lutheran society of that
village, who will erect thereon next sum-
mer church edifice and school house.
In 1881 the auditor of Olmsted county
paid bountles on elghty-thre wolves,
amounting to $415 Bounties on twelve
wolves scalps have been paid since Jan
uary l.
Young grasshoppers just Matched out
were found on an ant-hiil in a field in
Wabashaw last week This shows the
exceedingly mild temperature of the pres
ent winter.
The Congregational church at Duluth
has invited Rev. j. W. Hargrave, of
Ohio, to supply their pulpit for three
months, commencing March LIST, and he
has accepted the invitation.
The Sleepy Eye Herald is authority for
the statement that the hogs that caused
the trichin8 at Minneota, jackson coun-
ty, were fed upon rats, and the sickness
in all cases arose from eating the pork
raw.
The tide of emigration is already set
ting in. Last week, says the Crookston
Chronicle, on the north bound lines were
five passenger coaches and three baggage
cars loaded down with emigrants and
their luggage.
Austin offers the Milwaukee road $780,
600 to remove the Southern Minnesota
line from Ramsey to that city, and there
is some prospect that the change will be
made. tits proposed to leave the present
line near Brownsville and return to it
near Oakland.
The Brainerd Tribune reports that "a
citizen of Glenwood, Pope county, claims
to have third wife in the person of his
step-daughter, now the mother of his
Youngest daughter. 1t is now reported
she claims her mother exchanged her
own child for her in infancy, which
makes romance"
A state exchange is authority for the
g.
meyer died of the smallpox near Hckah,
Houston county, last week. His friends
went to a neighboring village and pro-
cured coffin. When they returned and
were in the act of placing the body in the
coffin, the supposed corpse came to life
and has afterward continued to improve
Professor hermann, the wonderful ma