Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-18
MINNESOTA NEWS.

The building of an $1,000 motel is to be
commenced at once at Pipestone City.
The Presbytery of Winona consists OF
thirty churches.
The liquor license at Cannon Falls is
established at $500.
Mankato has fine high school library
valued at 81, 500.
The ladies of the Congregational church
| of Owatonna gave 'pink-tea" sociable
the other night. Next!
A sneak-thief has been stealing the con-
| tents of the contribution box from the
Presbyterian church at st. Cloud.
The able bodied blizzard of Tuesday.
April 10, is getting first rate newspaper
| notice from wide range of country.
The Austin Register says the Lansing
| Touring mill has been destroyed by fire.
Loss total 1t probably will not be rebuilt.
An incipient fire in Winnebago City
| the other day was discovered in time to
prevent disastrous confagration.
The dwelling house of Charley Gee OF
Rush City, was destroyed by fire last week
| with part of its contents.
Since Jan. 1, sixty-one wolf bounties
| have been issued from the auditors office
| in Hastings, Dakota county.
The inhabitants of West Mankato are
unanimously in favor of building a new
| school house in that locality.
The ladies of the Baptist church in Owa.
tonna gave a boiled egg festival lately.
| 'The attendance was large and all present
enjoyed themselves"
The Owatonna subscribers to the fund
for erecting buildings for the accommodate
ton of the sta g fair are moving in their
work.
The house of Mr.. Tyler, of Dover, Ohm
sted county, with all its contents, was de-
stroyed by fire in the night time. The
family had narrow escape.
Prof. ]. h. DeWolf of Owatonna, has
been summoned to Nova Scotia by the
dangerous illness of his wife. Physicians
pronounce her case hopeless.
Six stock trains, consisting of from
twenty to thirty cars each passed through
Hastings one day last week, bound for diff
ferent points on the Manitoba road.
Eight tramps unwittingly took lodgings
in the pest house at hastings the other
| night. When informed of the character of
their quarters they made hasty retreat.
The postoffice ct Stony RIM has boen
discontinued, and tns outfit of the Office
turned over to the postmaster at Granite
Falls, Chippewa county.
The Rochester Record and Union is au-
thority for the statement that the Southern
Minnesota State Fair association will hold
| a fair at Rochester in the second
or third week Of next September.
The other day at Marshall DR.. A. E.
ROlivpr cOrn mi Oh milf on tho
clerk, Q Z. Patterson, for which he was
fined S25 aud costs, the costs amounting
to IS.
The other night the house of Mr.. Rounds,
who is eighty years cid, living near Plain
view, WabashaT county, was entered by
robbers. The old man was seized and
bound and the house rifed of some $3.50
in money.
Last January, Mrs. Woods, wife of the
register of deeds of Olmsted county, fell
on the platform of the depot in Rochester,
and suffered dislocation of one of her
hips. She has been confined to her bed
ever since. She has just commenced an
action against the railroad company for
$4,000 damages.
L. D. Hows, Eagan, Dakota county, had
three buildings fired by lncendiaries and
destroyed together with 1900 bushels of
wheat, 40 head of fat cattle, 800 sheep, and
large quantity of hay, farming imple-
ments, etc. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000. A reward of 800 is offered for the
detection of the Infamous incendaries.
At New Ulm the other day crazy man
on railroad train stripped himself naked
and perambulates through several cars
filed with passengers, causing decided
sensation. Women screamed and men
cavorted and ordered others to do what
they ought to have done themselves. The
interesting passenger was fnallyrescueda and
reclothed.
Mr.. ]. B. Power, land commissioner Of
the Manitoba railway company recently
gave to Stevens county, for the nominal
sum of S25. the most desirable block of
land in the village of Morris, on which to
erect city buildings. And, in like manner,
for nominal sum he gave to the Congre-
gational church two lots on which to build
a parsonage.
The Pine Island Journal is authority for
this: A man just west of town has decided
that whisky does not make man work
He arranged for a ehopping bee, invited
his guests and sent two men to Zumbrota
for whisky. They came back drunk and
without whisky. Another messenger
was Immediately dispatched and jug full
was brought this time, but the messenger
was as drunk as lord, and gave the jug
to neighbor and found hiding place III
some back alley. The bee was postponed
for a while.