Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-07
MINNESOTA NEWS.

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and active.
The arrival of ducks in fair quantities is
announced.
The Catholic church edifce at Delano
IS to be enlarged.
There was $4,000 fire in LIE Sueur
April 4. Insurance $500.
A teachers'S Institute was held at Willmar,
Kandiyohi county, last week.
An extensive foundry has been estab-
hshed at Litchfeld, Meeker county.
There were sixteen weeks of ntinuo Us
sleighing during the late winter term.
The late fire in Henderson proves to
| have been the work of an incendiary.
Twenty acres of wheat have already
been sown five miles west of Sank Center.
The State Teachers institute for Mobiles
county was held in Worthington last week.
The Albert Lea creamery is said to have
| lost $1,000 last season through mismenage-
ment.
Many of the state papers are already be-
! ginning to talk about 4th of July celebra-
| tons.
The Elk River school house was burned
| last week. 1t cost $4,000 and was insured
for $4,000.
The building of a large hotel, in Alex
andria, Douglas county, has already been
commenced.
a. W. Sheets, editor of the Todd county
Argus, has been appointed postmaster at
Long Prairie.
With the advent OF the balmy air of
April robin red-breast is putting in his
cheerful song.
Mr.. GsorSe M. Lanpher has revived the
Moorhead Daily Ne1oS, and will issue it as
an evening paper.
Three COWS OF A. L. Burgess, of Sank
Center, got access to quantity of paris
green, ate and died.
A COW jumped from a stock car in mo-
ton the other day, near Faribault, and es-
capped without injury.
Nlcollet county has balance of S17,684
IN its treasury above all indebtedness.
''Out OF debt, out of danger"
Lanesboro, Fillmore county, is being
largely depleted by the leaving of parties
seeking new homes in Dakota.
A stone pier bridge 200 feet long is to
be erected across the Sank river, two miles
south Of Melrose, on the Munich road.
The house of Ole Hanson, of Hartland
township, Freeborn county, was destroyed
by fire, with most OF its contents, the other
day.
A day or two since Vincent Weber, of
Pleases Valley, Freedom county, commit
ted suicide by cutting his throat with a
razor.
Old Peterson, of Albert Lea, has been
allowed a pension of $3.50 month for
disabilities received in the war of the re-
bellion.
Geneva, Freeborn county, has voted to
give $4,000 additional to the $4,000
already voted to the Austin, Mankato &
st. Cloud railroad.
Fair day at Skakopee last week was well
attended. Cows brought good price, IN
some instances selling as high as S55 and
$50. Oxen sold for SAL to $40 per yoke.
A teamster of st. Martin, named Huntly.
was thrown by the breaking OF a wheel
from loaded wagon, and falling under
the wagon wheel passed over his head,
causing death.
1t is recommended to farmers to SOW
their wheat before the frost gets out of the
ground. The early sown wheat, it is al
legged, is in most cases the best as 10
quantity and quality.
A train load of emigrants the other day
from ST. Thomas, Ontario, passed through
Sleepy Eye, and the Herald says there
was hardly one of them who was not
worth from $4,000 to $4,000.
B. Thoras OF Faribault, had a finger
cut off mis- right hand the other day by
buzz saw. 1t YVES the last finger remaining
on The hand, as all the other fingers had
been previously amputated by the buzz
saw.
Major Strait, wife and son were thrown
from wagon the other day, by the break
ing of a reech. They ali escaped unhurt,
a handy bank of snow receiving them in
its soft embrace. Who will say ''the beau
tiful" is not useful?
Two boys in Worthington were playing
with toy pistols the oth5r day, when one
accidentally shot the other. The boy re-
ceiving the bullet is eight years old. The
ball entered the lower part of the abdo-
men, but the physician thinks he may re-
cover.
Col. BobIeter, Of the New Jim Recie,c,
says: John Howard Payne died in New
York only q few days ago" To what is ths
gallant colonePs obscurity in regard to tn. |
truth Of history owing? Can il be attrib-
uted to his membership n the late Ieyis- |
Iature?
Mr.. Darius White, of Northfela, died |
last week. His case was peculiar one. !
He had been an invalid for twenty-five |
years-hGd not walked a step for twenty |
years. The cause was paralytic stroke. |
He was native Of Vermont. He had re- |
sided IN Mortified since 1855. He was |
sixty-two years old. He is spoken of very |
highly as worthy and exem pIary citizen. |
The devotion of his noble and faithful wife |
during all his years of prostration and |
suffering. is spoken OF in the highest terms |
OF commentator.
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