Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-20
MINNESOTA NEWS.

A Main street corner lot in Winona was sold
the other day for $4,000.
An opera house is one of the enterprises
contemplated in Crookston.
The Manitoba railroad is about to erect
large eating house at Osakis.
A farm of nearly 200 acres, near Alexandria,
has just been sold for $50 an acre.
The M. E. church, in Sank Center, has
full membership and is free from debt.
Mr.. Christianson has teen appointed post
master at Highland, Wabashaw county,
The question of removing the land office
from st. Cloud to Brainerd is being discussed.
There is quite stir in several of the towns
in Stevens county, over the temperance ques-
ton.
A new building to accommodate the Mer-
chants bank in Crookston is soon to be
erected.
Rev. 1. L. Cary has rendered his resignation
as pastor of the Congregational church in
Sank Center.
The shakopee Courier puts up the name Of
Gen. w. S. Rosecrans, at its masthead, as its
preference for president in 1884.
The Glencoe Register has entered upon its
Goth year. 1t Is among the foremost and best
of the country papers in the state.
and straw for fuel during the winter, wishes
to deny the report that he froze to death.
The LIE Sueur Neaos says James Mitchell, of
Lake Washington, while chopping down a
tree recently in the woods, was instantly killed
by falling limb. His neck was broken.
Eight men from Ohio lunched in saloon
in Winona the other night, bound for Dakota
to reside there. A large number of Ohio
men and families are moving in that direction.
A man went out on the ice at Duluth the
other morning and large area upon which he
was standing broke from the main body and
f1oated off into the lake. he was rescued in a
boat.
G. c. Wilson, of Rochester, sold few days
ago 500 bushels of Sea Island wheat for 81 200
cash, to 60 to Nebraska. He also sold 100
bushels to go west, end 200 bushels to man
in Michigan.
Five children out of six in the family of
Frank Schell, of the town of Sterling, Blue
Earth county have died of diphtheria within
the past three weeks. Four were buried on
the same day.
Sleepy Eye Herald: Mr.. CRAFTS family have
discovered the missing sum of $2l5, which
MIR. Graft was supposed to have in his pos
| session at the time of his death. It was con.
| cealed in the cellar.
The other day Knut Gedested, of Youcatan
Houston county, caught big eagle in a trap
set to catch wolves. The eagle measured six
feet four inches from tip to tip of wings, and
stood about four feet high.
The Crookston Chronicle says: Last week
| a young man named Ucontell, living near
GENTLY, committed suicide. He was the
offspring of mother who became insane, land
it is supposed he inherited insanity.
| Red Wing Advance: Several emigrant wag
Ons from Kansas to Dakota are said to have
borne the following inscriptions on their Gov
ers: GOOD bye, Kansas, we bid you adieu
We may emlgrate to hi, but never back to
you"
| W. II. Patterns new residence in LIE Sueur il
one of the notable buildings of the town. II
is finished, and the family have just com
menced its occupancy. 1t is built of brick
with heavy stone foundation. Cost abou
$4,000.
Duluth NewS, March 16: Ex-Gov. Marshall
special agent to investigate the land frauds il
this district, arrived here with three surveyor,
on Sunday morning, and left for the woods tn
next day. 1t begins to look as if there woult
be music in the air after while.
Carleton college, at Mortified, is said to be
in a tlourishing condition. The president re.
ports that $20,175 in state pledges and avail
able subscriptions hsve been received. It ha
been decided to complete the ladies' hall on
scale equal to the older eastern colleges.
A man was found on recent morning in
mangled and unconscious condition near TIT
track of the Winona & st. Peter railroad neal
Eagle Lake, Otter Tail county. He was un
known and how he was injured is unknown
1t was thought he could not survive his in
juries.
The bridge near Monderfield's, in New Ulm
had became weak, and farmers were warned
not to cross with teams. A certain farme
sent his wife across with the wagon to test it
strength, and seeing her safely across, he re
solved to follow. A wilful wife, brave an(
considerate husband.
| Wells Advocate, March II: A new ant
peculiar disease has put in an appearance,
among the horses, which farmers say is I'm
like anything ever seen by them before. Geo
ellison lost valuable horse from it las
week, and We hear that there have been othel
similar cases in this vicinity.
The Mankato Free Press says that recently
| Peter Anderson was found west of Eagle Lake
in a mutilated condition, A bloody club was
found near by. 1t is coDjectured that he was
| assaulted and robbed. 1t was known that hi
had some thirty or forty dollars on his person
| He was carried in an insensible condition to
nearby house and physician summoned.
| Sank Center Tribune: An old man named
| Andrew johnson, of Little Sank, Todd county
was caught by falling tree, and his leg
| broken. The tree pinned him to the ground
| where he lay for two hours calling for helI
| which at last came. His limb was set by i
| Sank Center doctor. He fell into a sleer
which lasted four days, ut the end of which
| time he died.
Sleepy Eye Herald: John Krueg, the young
man whose feet were amputated after being
frozen in one of the great storms last winter,
| returned few DAYS ago from Chicago, where
| he has been for the past seven months. He
has been furnished with pair of artificial
| limbs, and now travels around almost as
| lively as any person, with scarcely limp to
show that he is not walking on his own natu-
| raj pegs.
One of Burnham's actresses missed dia-
| mond earring in Joseph Thompson's candy
store in Faribault the other day. A diligent
search through the store failed to reveal it.
The next morning in removing ashes from
the stove the earring was folnd. 1t had been
gathered up witn,th sweepings on the floor,
and put into the stove. The gold setting was
badly dissolved by the heat of the fire, but the
brilliant diamond was unipjured.
A movement is on foot in Fergus Falls to
secure the location of the McAllister Presby-
terrain college in that place. The matter of
location, it is said, lies between Fargo, Grand
Forks and Fergus Falls. The Fergus Falls
chamber of commerce is moving to secure
the location at that place. bonus of S10,-
600 is suggested. The question of location is
to be decided by thr first of April.
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