Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-23
MINNESOTA NEWS.


At the town election in Pine Island, IL
cense was defeated by % for, and &C
against.
San honest lawyer is the noblest work
of God" enthusiastically exclaims the
Austin Transcript, and claims to have
found one.
The financial condition of Nicollet
county is very satisfactory. 1t has in its
treasury ST. ,584.47, over and above all in
debtedness and outstanding bonds.
The Sentinel says ga corporation has
been formed for the purpose of construct
ing street railway lines and operating the
same within the limits of the village of
Sank Rapids"
The Mankato RerieiU learns that the Mil
waukee & st. Paul road has already col
tracted to carry $50 car loads of immi-
grants goods to Aberdeen, Dakota, whether
immigration is now tending.
Burglars effected an entrance into. the
postoffice and Sentinel printing Office in
Sank Rapids the other night They were
so dazed by the proverbial wealth of
printing Office, that they left as empty as
they came.
The other day, P. Fox, of Taylors Falls,
returned from the pineries with foot bad
ly>crushed by rolling log. This is the
first injury he has received in nearly thirty
years service in the pineries.
Lake City Sentinel: Friday mornings
train had fourteen passenger coaches, and
| every coach was perfectly jam med with
people coming to the great Northwest to
grow up with the country. This kind of
| trains show what we may expect as the
season advances.
Capt. Vitolis, of Franconia, says Taylors
| Falls Journal, has been measuring his cord
| wood along the river during the past week.
| He will have about five thousand cords for
shipment this spring, and the amount
! banked along the river is estimated at T.
| 900 or 5000 cords.
/ Miss Betsey Olson, a seventeen year-old
| daughter of Engbert Olson, residing near
jackson, fell into an abandoned well re-
| Gently, which was ninety-fve feet deep, the
water in which rose to about ten feet of
the surface. By criminal carelessness the
we'll was insuficiently covered, and being
covered with snow, the girl in walking fell
! through into the well. She was rescued
| by two men, who saw her disappear into
the we'll.
|
with immil rants and their effects were at
| Winona and St. Peter depot this morning
en- route to central Dakota. In a passen-
ger coach attached to the train were a
small village of women and children keep
| ing house in most comfortable manner,
while the men were busily engaged in
| looking after the horses, oxen, cows, pigs,
chickens, geese, family and farm utensils
4 i,,4 ba
part of the many trains now arriving in
| this city daily from all parts of the coun-
! try filed with the wonderful tide of hu-
manity now flowing towards the far
| famed "Jim' river country.
| We are afraid that rural journalism is
becoming demoralizing to the editorial
fraternity. First it was Deacon Nettleton,
of the Minneapolis Tribune, and now Dea-
con Underwood, of the Fergus Falls Jour
nal, has not only taken to running his job
Office on Sunday, but he appears to have
organized lottery last week and had a
sort of three-card monte drawing by
which he drew back the capital prize, much
to the disgust of the other ungodly ticket
holders. His church is considering the
question of applying little wholesome
discipline. This seems highly appropriate
as he presided at prayer-meeting the
evening before the three-card monte
drawing.
Detroit Record, March II: At the depot
last Tuesday morning, about o'clock, 6
party of White Earth teamsters were load
ing their sleighs, when an Indian boy
aged about fourteen years, a son of Mani
to-wab, was run over and killed. The
manner in which the accident happened
was as follows: A way freight was switch
ing in the yard and after finishing backed
down on to the north side track, coupling
to the rear of the train. 1t is supposed tn,
boy was passing under the cars or exam
lining the trucks, when the oupling wa
made and the cars moving only q few feet
one set of trucks passed over his body
almost cutting it in two at the abdomen
He was heard to cry out and in yer,
short time was taken out from under tn
cars, and expired. No one saw the acct
dent and the first intimation of it was hi
cries.
Sleepy Eye Herald: 4 man named
Larsen, employed by the railroad compan,
in walking the track for the purpose 0
watching for broken rails, etc., met with
sad fate near Tracy last Monday night
He was walking the track after dark dur
> ing the prevalence of very strong VIVID
and while crossing bridge, fell of, strik
ing head first on the ice some forty fee
below the top of the bridge. His necl
was broken by the fall, and when the sec
ton men came along the next morning
they found the body of the unfortunate
man with his head driven through the ice
The Sleepy Eye Herald gives an accoun
, of the burning of three children in the So
! reno house in that village. They were chill
dren of family of emigrants bound 70
Dakota. The house was oyer-crowded
and beds were arranged on the parlor foo
, for this family. The mother incautiousl.
, set a lamp near the children's bed, whic
was upset in the night, setting fire to tn
clothes, and three children were severel
burned-the youngest fatally.
, Democratic Nominations.
} ST.. LOUIS, March 22.-The Democrat
city convention has nominated the follow
ing candidates for seats in the upper hous
,, of the municipal assembly: W. F. Hams
!, A. j. O'Connor, A. w. Straub, E. D. Devvy
Joseph Temple and VIM. b. Stone. Tia
tickets of both parties are now in the fell