Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-20

Burglars who recently broke into a house
IN Perham, were frightened away by the
cries of the women.
Workmen are busily engaged in pushing
forward the structure of the new court
house in Todd county.
flshlng parties from abroad line the
river banks in the region of Bird Island
township nowadays.
case of chicken pox in Redwood, was
mistaken for small pox, and caused the
widest commotion for time.
Farmers report their crops BOOMING
under the influence of recent showers and
the succeeding warm weather.
few nights ago a kerosene lamp ex-
ploded IN the ladies' waiting room of the
Milwaukee depot at FaribauIt.
Mr.. A. Fenner, of Owatonna, aged fftv-
six years fell down a stairway the other
night and received supposed fatal injuries.
The gay and festive youth of Long
Prairie had very lively and innocently
enjoyable neck-tie party the other evening
Wild fruit, such as plums, gooseberries.
choke cherries ETC., promise large Weld
The bloom is already cast, and the fruit is
set.
The Episcopal fair at Little Falls was a
success. During the day and evening the
receipts were in the neighborhood of
$175,OO.
A council of Congregational churches
Will convene at Willard, June 81. to perfect
the organization of new congregational
church in that place.
The Congregational Sunday school at
Faribault have decided upon a railroad ex-
cursion up the Cannon Valley to Water
vile, Friday June %.
The frost reported in Todd county on
the night of the 10Th inst, did no great
damage though garden yege tables were
cut down in some localities.
A vigorous movement is being made to
establish a creamery at Willard, Pope
county. The cream from the milk of 1000
COWS is expected to be secured.
For the school year just closed in Man
kato the number of pupils enrolled in the
public schools was Las. The average at
tendance was greater than in any other
previous year.
A boy sixteen years old in Howard Lake
township was recently arrested for using
| abusive language to his school teacher,
plead guilty before the justice, and was
fined $1O,and costs amounting to over SIS.
The other day workmen who were en-
ployed to remove the body of child in
Little Falls, that had died short time ago
found the coffin empty. Some ghoul of
the grave yard having stolen the body
| away.
| E. E. Luce President of the Bank of Per-
ham was arrested at Perham last week for
| embezzlement and taken to Breckenridge
| where his busted" bank was located. and
| where he is alleged to have swindled his
depositers.
A railroad engineer was in Long Prairie
last week for the purpose of locating a de-
pot building in that place. 1t is proposed
to locate the depot near the foot of Osakis
street If the town will vacate thirty feet
of the street running parallel with the rail
road
Ole Haakans, of Otter Tail county, being
in Fergus Falls the other day thought he
recognized horse that had been stolen
from him, and took it home. The owner
who says he has had the horse in his poses
sion ten years had Haakans arrested for
horse stealing.
If the vote in Morrison county, and Lit
tie Falls, is in favor of issuing bonds to
build bridge across the Mississippi river.
1t secures an appropriation of $500
granted by the last legislature to build the
bridge. If the vote is in the negative the
appropriation will be lost.
Long Prairie argus: Last week Mrs. E
B. Wood received her box of household
goods from Iowa which she shipped some
time IN March. They have lain at st. Paul
all this time and as many as two dozen
letters have been sent to the proper officials
before the goods were finally forwarded.
| This is rapid transit with vengeance
but is vexatiously stupid transit on the
part OF negligent and censureably indiffer-
ent railroad employees.
June % Morrison county Is to vote on
the proposition to issue bonds to the
amount of $4,000 to aid in the construc-
ton Of a free bridge across the Mississippi
at Little Falls, and on the same day the
voters OF the village of Little Falls will vote
upon issuing bonds to the amount of
| $4,000 for the same purpose. This same
proposition has already been voted down
twice, but this division of the measure be-
tween the county and the village, may in
| sure its success.
| The Mankato RerielC says that detect
i've sent to Henderson to work up the re-
cent incendiary fire in that place made
love to young lady named Jennie O'NeiI
who was suspected of being the incendiary
and promised to marry her, and after Jen-
ME got thoroughly in love with the fellow
he got her to confess setting fire to the
hotel which was recently destroyed by fire.
| He then instead of marrying her put her
in jail. Was not that detective "a gay de-
ceiver" and guilty of cruelty to ami.
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