Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-23
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Prairie chickens are said to be numerous
this season.
Duck shooting is reaching large proper
lions this spring.
1t is proposed to establish a telephone
exchange in Owatonna.
A movement. has. been started at Granite
| Falls for the establishment of cream
cry.
| Lumber for the new creamery in st.
Charles has been delivered upon the
ground.
Work on the creamery building at
GraceVille, Big Stone county, is progress
ing rapidly.
A movement is being made in Caledonia
Tor the establishment of telephone ex-
change there.
The foundation for the new court house
at Moorhead is completed, and is ready for
the superstructure
1t is reported that Messrs Rausch &
Lands are about to erect a 10000 bushel
elevator in Delane.
Nearly one hundred men are now en-
ployed in the valuable stone quarries at
Kasota, LIE Sueur county.
| The NJ. E. church, in Rochester, adver-
tises 'ssoap-bubble sociable," to be held
| to raise money for the church.
Real estate operations are lively in LIE
| Sueur. Houses are in great demand and
it seems to be so nearly everywhere.
The railroad depot at Avoca was struck
by lightning last Friday and burned to the
ground. 1t will be Immediately rebuilt.
The tide of emigration keeps in full vol
ume to central Dakota, taxing the railroads
| beyond their power to meet the demands
upon them.
The Benson, Swift county, Times has
| been enlarged and greatly improved. 1t
is now a seven-column quarto. indicating
the prosperity of very good paper.
The st. Charles Times says recently a
little son of John Beck, of Lewiston, fell
backward into boiler of boiling water
| and was SO severely scalded as to cause his
death.
Gus. Saengsr, an old state prison bird,
who committed burglary in Mankato a
few nights ago, was arrested in Henderson,
and the stolen property found in his pos
session.
A farmer brought into Rochester the 9th
or day the scalps of an old wolf and lit
ter of young ones, eight in number, for
| which he received, as q bounty from the
county, $50.
A four-year-old daughter of II. G. Nc
| Caleb, of Marion, Olmsted county, was
blown off a bridge the other day, and had
leg broken.
! The citizens of Owatonna are making
vigorous efforts to carry out their pledge
to the State Fair association to purchase
suitable buildings for the holding of the
next state fair.
The barn of Henry Richmond, near
Pipestone City, was destroyed by fire
last week, together with a span of horses,
| 200 bushels of seed corn, cutter and other
property.
In numerous localities preparatory ar
rangements are already being made for
the proper observance of Decoration Day
| The memory of the brave shall not perish
| from The earth.
| Gustave Goltez, saloon keeper in Wi
mona, committed suicide the other day by
shooting himself in the head. He leaves a
wife and three children No cause is as
| signed for the deed.
| A drunken man was put in the lookup
at Rochester the other night, and soon set
his quarters on fire. The fire was discov-
| cred in time to save the besotted wretch
from being roasted alive.
The Rochester, Olmsted county Post
records that ON Saturday, April IA, the
thermometer in that place indicated eighty
| degrees above zero in the shade, but fell to
| forty degrees the following night.
Last week the contract for building the
| bridge over the Zuubee river at Biunt's
Ford, was let to G. E. King, of Des Moines,
Iowa, for $3.50. The bridge is to be COM
| pleted by the first of August next.
w. L. Brackenridge,of Rochester, large
land owner in Sleepy Eye, has donated a
| site in that place for Touring mill, and a
mill there is now being constructed to have
capacity of ALSO barrels of -four a day.
Herman Michel and Ernest KoseI, citi-
zens of New Ulm, were drowned the other
day while fishing in the Cottonwood river.
The boat was capsized by the swift cur
rent. Both leave families in destitute
circumstances.
| Mr.. Frederick Zimmerman, living near
| st. Charles, was unloading lumber the
other day from his wagon, when his team
becoming frightened started. The wagon
passed over his body inficting injuries
from which he may not recover.
There is large demand for houses to
rent in LIE Sueur, and the lack of tenants
retards the growth of the town. And this
is true of many of the villages, large towns
and cities of the state. A very general
! complaint is, houses scarce, rents high.
A man named Mclaughlin, of New
Richmond, Waseca county, com N tied sui
eide the other day by blindfolding himself
and laying his head on the railroad track
before an approaching train. Death was
instantaneous. Jealousy and domestic
trouble was the cause
The Morris Tribune says: The Morris
creamery building is going up. The ice
house was comp leted some time ago. The
frame for the main building was put up
yesterday aud the work Will be crowded
forward as rapidly as possible. The build
ing will be ready for use by May 1.
An exchange says: "Tnere is law on
our statute books against shooting harm
less birds. The practice is not only vIo-
lation of law, but is cruel, and injurious
to the farmers and gardeners, as the birds
destroy thousands of pestiferous insects
and destructive worms" If there is such
law it ought to be enforced.
The other day gorge of ice broke loose,
says the Wabashaw Herald, from TIE lake