Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-08
MINNESOTA NEWS.


Liquor licenses cost $500 at Fergus Falls; at
st. Cloud $50.
The daily paper at Crookston called the
Br0ad-Are has suspended.
Moorhead will soon have the largest Touring
mill in the Red River valley.
A new Catholic church is being built at
Belle River, Douglas county,
Cases of small pox continue to appear in the
eastern part of Stevens county.
A fine new depot building is projected to be
built at Crookston this spring.
1t is reported that coal in regular veins has
been discovered near Breckenridge.
Sea Island wheat is being introduced into
Dodge county for seeding purposes.
Lumbermen are reported to be worse of
now than before the late snow storms.
The barn in rear of Fred Strocke's hotel in
Carver was destroyed by fire recently.
Rev. 8. III. Bortean as resigned the pastor
ate of the Congregational church in Crolsta.
The death of several children in Marshall,
from scarlet fever, is noticed in the village
paper.
Up to this point of time business generally
is reported to be dull. Travelling statesmen re-
port business dull.
J. B. Chatfeld sold so acres of land in Lex
ngton, LIE Seuer county, last week to Solomon
Benedict for $4,000.
Daily parties are passing through Long
Prairie on the road to Clarissa and the Eagle
Valley to take up homes.
A brakeman at Winnebago City had a hand
badly crushed the other day while coupling
cars. He loses one finger.
I.W. Biggs, who has served his connection
with the Brainerd Dispatch has become con-
nected with the Daily Neavs.
Rev. II. B. futile has served his connec-
ton with the Congregational church at ST.
Charles on account OF Illness.
LIE Sueur is destitute of milk, the ''milk-
man" having sold his COWS and moved west
to grow up with the country.
The Albert Lea Standard says Jorgenson,
who was stabbed last week by John Lerson,
is recovering from his wounds
The Ortonville Herald says A. P. Jackson,
in the dairy business, from IL cows received
net returns of $3.50 in one year.
venturesome teamster had S40Steam
drowned the other day by breaking through
the ice while crossing Lake Pepin.
The ice Gin the bay at Duluth has be-
come unsafe. A team broke through the
other day and was rescued with difficulty.
An unoccupied house was destroyed by fire
in Faribault last week, the work OF an in
cendiary. Loss some $500. No insurance.
Two children of L. A. Johnson, of Utica,
Winona comfy, have recently died Of scarlet
fever, and third child is sick with the disease
The Daily Argus, issued at Long Prairie,
Todd county, is on the GLOBE table, and is
sprightly sheet, very creditab'e in makeup,
Howard Lake is engaged in raising Sc, 900 to
secure the removal of the Rockford wooden
mill to that place, and the amount will be
secured
1t is said Selah Chamberlain will apply to
the district court to vacate that portion of the
village of Bloomington Prairie which covers
his farm.
HJohn E. Graft, of Sleepy Eye, was found
dead in his bed on a recent morning. His pre-
vious health had not been good. He leaves
wife and four children.
The Winona Tribune says the Fountain City
packet made its initial trip for the year, and
the morning of March 1, accomplishing the
trip in the usual time.
V. Mill, Esq, was badly hurt at the fire
in Winnebago City last week. A pail was
carelessly thrown from the roof of a building
| and hit him on the head.
Mr.. KOracker, cashier of the First National
bank of Moorehead, has retired from that po-
sition and has left Moorhead for Attica, N.
Y, to take similar position.
The Evangelical Swedish Lutheran church,
an off shoot of the Lutheran church, held
revival in the Opera house at Red Wing last
week. The meetings were largely attended,
Vennor was not far out of the way when he
said there would be blow, snow or rain about
March 4th. March 4th, true to the prediction,
brought blow, thunder and lightning, hail
and rain.
The village sexton of Sank Centre had a
grave dug for the remains of Mr.. Burgess, but
the corpse did not appear. but Mr.. B. did. He
is ''not dead YETI or as Daniel Webster said,
he "still lives
Long Prairie Argus: We understand there
is some kicking Oh Round Prairie by farmers
at the recent located line OF the railroad. 1t
cuts their farms. If there must be railroads,
there must be farms cut up.
On the last Monday in bruary, destruct-
i've fire visited Winnebago City, Faribault
county. Five frame store buildings were
destroyed, and the business portion of the
| village narrowly escaped destruction.
Last week two sons of Mrs. Sarah Kuser, Of
Sank Center, respectively some and IS years
of age, where loading wood, when log fell
on the head of the younger, fracturing his
skull. The injury, it is feared, is fata,.
Todd County Argus, March 8: On Thursday
Of last week the saw in j. NJ. Harrington's
mill, in Hartford, burst while saving and
scattered pieces all over the mill, but fortu-
nately no one was hurt. No cause is assigned
fer the accident.
Messrs. White, Friant & Tarle, of Michi-
gan, recently purchased through the real es-
tate agency of A. l.. Soule, of Duluth, the
Powell tract of land on the Cloquet for
S36, 000-one of the largest sales of the winter,
says the Tribune.
There has been change in the proprietor
ship of the Brainerd Dispatch, now in the
eleventh week of its existence. A. P. Riggs
retres, the firm of Riggs e. Pennell is dis
banded and the firm of A. E. Pennell & Co..
assume control, A. E. Pencil editor.
Little George" petty chief of band of
Winnebago Indians, accompanied by some of
his tribe, went to Wnona the other day in
their canoes. He says there are four camps
of Indians over on the Trempealeau, ready for
a hunting campaign when the ice breaks up.
Hastings Gazette, March 4: The work of
laying the track on this end of the Hastings
& saltwater railroad was temporarily sus-
pended two miles beyond PIT. Douglas, having
caught up with the graders, and the force ex-
pected to commence on the other end of the
line yesterday.
The st. Paul & Duluth road has been dis
tributing steel rails on the line between Rush
City and Hinckley, the laying of which in the
track was POSTPONED by the late snowfall