Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-01
MI 4SNESOTA NEWS.

OA.on' AIe puIulng Improvements this
year foot up 100000.
john Rickert has been re-appointed
postmaster at st. Charles.
The holiday trade and festivities in the
cities, villages and towns of Minnesota
were very lively and enjoyable.
Numerous instances OF slipping and
falling on the ice, and having arms, legs,
collar bones, ETC., broken, are being chron-
icled.
A. 8. Easton, who started the Saltwater
Gazette twelve and one-half years ago, has
sold his interest in the paper, and retires.
S. A. Clewell succeeds Mr.. Easton.
The jail in Faribault was without
prisoner Christmas morning, and the
doors and windows were opened for a
thorough ventilation Of the institution.
"a winters fog will freeze dog" is an
old saw. Some of the local papers chroni-
Gle a "fog," and OF course dog freeze is
to follow. Take in the CANNES over night.
Anoka Union, Dec. %: h. B. Taylor
caught an otter in a trap set on Coon
creek, three miles from the city. yesterday.
It's beauty, very dark, and measures five
feet in length. 1t is WORTH $40.
The other day Erick Erickson, of Cokato.
| lost his pocketbook in a saloon. containing
ST. 100 in money and valuable papers. 1t
is thought he dropped it on the floor, and
some one picked it up and appropri-
ated it.
Cambridge, Qsanti county, Press:
The unfrozen ground in the pineries badly
| impedes the lumb5fman in their business.
Many say that it would not surprise them
if the cut this winter did not exceed that
OF last Notwithstanding the early snow.
Last week Marshal Keller, of Little
Falls, arrested Amos Kingston for mis-
demeanor. The prisoner broke from the
marshal, who pursuing, fired five shots at
the fleeing scamp. The last shot hit an
innocent party coming down the street,
intiicting painful, but fortunately not q
fatal wound.
Chaska Herald, Dec. %: Saubrey's
team and one of Bierline's brick teams
collided rather suddenly last Wednesday
week, throwing Bruno Schubert and Henry
Saubrey out of Saubrey's sleigh into the
wheels and under the Bierline wagon, Mr..
Schubert sustaining a dislocation of the
left shoulder.
Alexandria Post, Dec. 90: At F. W.
Fredericks' at Maple lake, four genera
| tions of the family met in reunion and sat
down tojna s1mptuous Christmas dinner,
and enjoyed the festivities of the day and
oyster supper in the evening. Vocal and
instrumental music and distributing of
presents gave pleasure and zest to the fly-
ing hours.
Mankato Reriet0.: Frank Smith, the
thief who stole sum of money and some
clothing from boarders at Peter Larson's
boarding house, went to Wells from this
city, where he is reported as having stolen
a watch and other things, again Guiding
the officers. He reported himself as from
| Good Thunder. Officers were in this CITY
looking for him last week. He LETT a
bundle of clothing in pawn with hotel
keeper at Wells, which may be part of his
Mankato thefts.
Chaska Herald, Dec, %: In Benton on
Monday last while returning from the
| funeral of Miss Katie Sauter and when
near home, the horses attached to the
sleigh of Mr.. G. Oestereich and wife vio-
lently against stump, fractnring the leg
of Mr.. 0. at the thigh, and Mrs. o. below
the knee, besides Mrs. o. received other
serious injuries from which it is feared
she cannot recover. Both being at the
age of sixty years it is very likely that
the results will be grave in their nature.
st. Charles Union, Dec. 81: Geo. F.
Meyette, brakeman on freight No. II, met
with sad accident between y and l
o'clock on Sunday morning last, at the
switch at the top of the grade just east of
town. While uncoupling the engine from
car he slipped and fell, and before he
could get out of the way, his foot was
caught and smashed. It was found, on ex
animation, that the bones of the ankle
were also broken, and amputation of the
leg about four inches above the ankle joint
was deemed necessary. Drs. Clark and
Scott performed tbs operation. The man
was taken to Rochester, where be has
friends.
The Rush City, Chissgo county, Post
says: Smallp ox has broken out at Harris,
or about half a mile cut, in Swede fami-
ly. One death has occurred, and others
are now down with the disease. Dr.. I'm
land has charge OF The matter, and has
called upon the town board CT Fish Lake,
to which Harris yet belongs, to assist
him, but they have declined or refused to
act, on account of the expense partially,
and partially through ignorance. The
state board of health hiss taken hold of it
and in all probability the family now sick
and perhaps the whole village of Harris
viii be quarantined.
Red Wing Republican: That the Mime
sofa Central, when completed its entire
projected length, will in more ways than
one be of incalcuabIe benefit to this city
can not be questioned. We now understand
that the road does not intend to stop at
Mankato, bat viii be extended up the Min
nesota valley to Montevideo, and from
there on through Dakota to the Missouri
river, in order to form a competing line
with the Chicago & Northwestern. With
the coming of spring the road will be ex-
tended to Mankato, and even now negotla-
tion5 are pending to extend it to New Ulm.
With the completion of this road it is very
certain that the Chicago Ct Northwestern
will extend its Zumbrota branch through
to this city, making Red Wing tine term
nus.
The Guatemala aocsd.
san Francisco, Dec. 31.-Gen. Daniel
Butterield. of the Guatemala raj. DAD. re-