Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-05
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Prairie fires in Martin county are re-
ported.
The LIE Sueur Sentinel has entered upon
Its seventh volume.
The Kasson Republican SAYS robins and
oluebirds have come to stay.
Over sixty teachers were present at tbe
institute in Willmar last week.
Money to sufficient amount has been
pledged IN Hastings to build hotel and a
mill.
movement is being made to establish
a Grand Army Post at GAINESVILLE. Waseca
county.
The town of Roseville, Kandiyohi coun-
ty, will build two bridges across the Crow
river this summer.
The house of e. s. Pettiiohn; of ST. Pc
ter, county auditor, was destroyed by fire
last week with most of its contents.
Begging Indians frightened the women
folks in several houses in Caledonia
the other day. "Lo" ought to be put
to better uses.
Austin Transcript: About $4,000 in
bonuses still remain to be raised to secure
the building of the Austin, Mankato & st.
Cloud railroad.
contract has been made for building a
new court house at Morris, Stevens county.
1t is to be ready for occupancy by the first
of November next.
The Zumbrota Free Press aged six
months, gives notice of its decease. The
publisher shuts up shop and takes his way
to other pastures new in Dakota.
Complaints of the scarcity of houses for
rent are very general in the villages and
cities of the state. This is both a good
sign and great inconvenience.
The commissioners of Rice county have
increased the salary of the superintendent
of schools to S 200 per annun, and REIN
posed the duty of visiting the schools.
The ladies of the Episcopal church in
Willmar held a fair last week, which was a
gratifying success. The gross receipts
were $500, netting to the ladies $212.SS
The citizens of Detroit, Becker county,
offer bonus of $3,215, to any person who
will build hotel in that village, to cost
not less tbau $4,000. A large and COM
modious hotel is much needed.
The other day Fred Schultz's saloon, st.
Cloud, was burned. 1t was a two story
building. 1t was surrounded by other
buildings, and the escape from a great
conf1agratlon was narrow one.
Glencoe Register: st. Paul is these
days, about the happiest on earth, and the
man who owns lot on any of the bust
ness streets wouldn't exchange for a war
ranty deed to whole block in Paradise.
With the opening spring the newspapers
in most of the enterprising villages and
cities of the state are issuing boom edi-
tons of their journals, printing attrac-
tions very enticing to people seeking new
homes.
Albert Lea Standard: Last Monday a
man and wife with seven children
got on the train here to go west, and
The children were all SO small that they
went without paying fare. Few families
can do that.
subscription paper has been circulated
in Owatonna to raise funds to secure the
holding of the next state fair in that town
The proper amount does not seem to ma
terialize, and the prospect OF securing the
fair is not encouraging.
The Hastings Gazette says a mass of
wire nearly as large as a hens egg, was
lately brought into that city. 1t had been
taken from the stomach of a horse and
was the result of feeding straw which had
been bound with wire binder. Farmers
hould be careful in such matters.
FaribaUlt Democrat: The steam Touring
and saw mill belonging to Faber & Co., at
Cody's lake, in Wheatland, was destroyed
by fire Wednesday last, the loss being
abeut $4,000, with insurance of only
$4,000. in Barnum's agency, this city. The
cause of the fire has not been learned.
Waseca Radical: We have had, and
still have, yard full of Dakota emigrants.
The country up there is filling up so fast
there isn't room to unload cars. Side
tracks and depot houses all full and the
dust flying so outside the boom can't
catch on. It's a hard case, but will be
harder in year or two.
Duluth Times: At Taylor's camp haul
ing is going on at lively rate, the road
being in excellent condition. There is
enough snow there to admit of the entire
haul being made in the daytime, and it is
thought all the logs will be put in before
1t gives out. They will get out about p
100000 feet from this one camp.
Wells Advocate: yearling colt be-
longing to S. A. Halleck, wko lives about
four miles northeast of town, fell to the
bottom of a forty-foot well one day last
week. A man was lowered to the colt, a
rope put around its body, when by the
combined strength of four men he was
raised to the surface, a wiser but sadder
colt.
New Ulm RerieiU: Owing to the I'M
precedented travel on the Winona d St.
Peter road the passenger trains are unable
to make time. During the last ten days
the trains have arrived and departed at
this station at almost all hours Of the day.
Both the passenger and freight trains are
of such length that considerable difficulty
is experienced in getting by each other.
The Blne Earth City Post says the 'Top-
sey" of travelling Uncle Toms Cabin
company stole S25 worth of underclothing
from boarding house in that city. An
officer followed the company to Lake Crys-
tai, where the stolen articles were found in
her possession. She confessed her guilt
and was bounced by the managers of the
company.
Redwood Falls had sensation this week
in the way of an old fashioned elopement.
Two young and giddy things, both under
age. wanted to marry but had to run away
in order to accomplish it. The young
lady was taken down ladder from her
chamber in the small hours of the night,
and speeding away by team to Morton,
the ruDawavs took the train from tbara Tn