Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-01

The Lamberton, Redwood county, Com
mercial has been enlarged to six column
quarto.
The steamer R. G. Stewart made her first
round trip from Duluth to Superior,
April %.
A half million dozen of eggs were
shipped from Rochester, Olmsted county,
last year.
bid has been accepted for the erection
of a Congregational church edifice in
Crookston.
The creamery at Grand Meadow, Mower
county, is now making 400 pounds of but
ter day.
Tree planting is becoming very general,
and is being attended to very extensively
this spring.
Over million and half pounds of
butter were manufactured in Olmsted
county last year.
The town of Decoria, Blue Earth county
is entirely free from debt, and has $500
in the treasury.
Cattle buyers are picking up all the
young stock they lean in Brown, and sew
eral other countie'
In the storm of Sunday, April %, the
wind reached the velocity of some thirty
miles an hour.
By the death of Mrs. Reuben Revisch of
Irving, Kandiyohi county, nine children
are left motherless.
Bishop Ireland donated $3.50 worth of
trees to plant on one of the avenues in
Fulda, Murray county.
The organization of building associa-
ton is being favorably considered in
Glenwood, Polk county.
The Red Wing stone-ware company
lately declared dividend of ten per cent.
The stock sells at $1.4212.
A few farmers in the vicinity of James
vilel, Waseca county, have had good sea-
son for making maple syrup.
1.-The d" Excelaior Weekly" is seven COL
umn folio paper just issued to advertise the
interests of Lake Minnetonka.
A large number of improved farms are
offered for sale in Todd County, at rea-
sonable prices and on easy terms.
The seeding of wheat in Blue Earth
county is about finished. A small area of
low lands only remain to be seeded.
Several parties in big Woods" made
large quantities of maple sugar this
spring. One man made 600 pounds.
1t is anticipated by many that ought to
know that river navigation this year will
be greater than for several of the past
years.
TIE Rev. }. Hansen, lately from Sweden,
has boon call,d to the passionate of the
Swedish Lutheran Church, at Taylor's
Falls.
Ralph J. Wiger committed suicide at the
Eureka Hotel in Pipestone City the other
day by cutting his throat. He was de.
ranged.
Sixty cars of lumber are sent west
every day on the Winona and st. Peter
road, but even that does not supply the
demand.
On a recent night during high wind;
the house of II Bovee of Bigelow, Mobiles
county took fire, and was consumed with
most of its contents.
The large bounty on scalps stimulates
the wolf hunt, and large numbers are
being slaughtered. After May LIST the
bounty will be reduced.
Mrs. Bradshaw, wife of the Rev. J. Brad
shaw, pastor of the Congregational church
in Glencoe died last week. She was a
most estimable woman.
In Crookston $50 cords of wood imbedded
in the river ice, the other day went over
the dam and floated down the river, to-
tai loss to the owners.
Michael Wardlow, substantial citizen
of St. Martin, Stearns county, aged rs
years, died suddenly a few days since
leaves wife and six children.
Incoming emigrants in many places,
are carelessly or otherwise setting prairies
on fire, and thus destroy much property
A few arrests would be in order.
One day last week Is homesteaders left
Duluth bound for township Go, for the
purpose of organizing a township. The
location is near the Vermillion mines.
Wagon loads of fish are being caught dal-
ly in the lakes in Polk county. Farmers
from distance of Is miles around go for
them to salt in barrels for summer use.
From forty to fifty Chicago brick-layera
are employed on the new hotel at Austin.
Fargo has five daily newspapers. The
Sun is the last venture and rises in the
evening.
The water in the Minnesota river has so
far subsidized, that ferry boats can again
across at st. Peter, where the wind don't
blow. The approaches on the bridge are
still impossible.
The family of Tom Stahl of Fergus
Falls came near losing their lives by being
suffocated with coal gas. They were found
about noon in an unconscious state, but
in time to save their lives.
Mrs. Cora McCracken, of Mankato, died
few days since from an overdose of
morphine, taken to relieve pain and over
come sleeplessness. She had been married
six years and leaves three small children.
The other day a barn belonging to
Andrew R. johnson, of Eden, Brown
county, was struck by lightaing. Two
horses were killed and the barn with a
considerable quantity of grain was
burned.
Last week the agricultural machine de-
pot of Il. o. Haukners. and the machinery
depot of Ruber & Green, in Albert Lea
were destroyed by fire. Other parties
suffered to a less extent. Net loss over in
surance $13,5OO.
The Vasaly House, run by Balmar and
Fish, at Little Falls, was the scene of a
personal conflict between the partners the