Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-15
MINNESOTA NEWS.

The Litchfeld school districs has 497
pupils Of sch DOL age.
The City council at Shakopee has just
purchased $1,000 fire engine.
Patatoe5 are being bought up by the
Car load at Albert Lea for % Cts bushel.
The Presbyters for that district held an
interesting session at Crookston last weeF.
Two prisoners in the Jail at Shakopee
for burglary, made their escape the other
night.
There we're nineteen marriages in the
county of Goodhue in the month of Sep
TENDER.
Sevenska Folkets Alleha,,da is the name
of new Swedish paper just issued at
Litchfeld.
F. Deliver, Of Rome, ssFaribault county,
had four stacks of grain destroyed the
other day by an incendiary fire,
There seems to be a great fatality
among young horses in Wright county. A
large number have died recently.
A gentleman living in Hilaire, Polk
county, took from his garden the other
day, beet that weighed fifteen pounds.
Kandiyehi county votes next month on a
special act to make it obligatory on each
town in the county to take care of its own
paupers.
e The other day Tony Newell, o. st. John,
Kandiyohi county, was instantly killed by
being thrown from his wagon by his team
running away.
The old soldiers of Mcleod county had
pfre at Brownton, on the shores of
Lake Addie, last week and ''fought their
battles DER again."
The street railway company of Waba-
shaw is fully organized, and work will be
commenced or the construction Of the
road Immediately.
The Sentinel says potatoes in LeSueur
have dropped to 20 cents a bushel, and yet
they come in wagon load after wagon load,
as fine as Was ever seen.
Burglars attempted unsuccessfully to
get in their work at Waseca the other night
at the Parker house, but at q private house
the rascals got pocket book containing
SOB.
Miss May Marshall, "the champion
walkist," has been exhibiting her powers
Of endurance lately in Zumbrota. 1t is
said she can walk fifteen miles in two and
half hours.
ST. Peter Tribune: A son of the widow
Bryne, living in Tyrone, LIE Sueur county,
was dangerously, if not fatally, injured
while at game of base ball at St.ThomaS,
on Sunday, being struck by broken bat.
Monticello Times: The reason for the
unusual abundance Of bears in this region
is said to be the lack of food for them fur
ther back in the woods, and that they come
out to the frontier where the crop of acorns
is plentiful.
The local papers of Sank Centre warmly
espouse the cause of the Rev. Mr.. Amber
and denounce his accuser. The general
sentiment at Sank Centre. where he has
resided and preached the last year, is in
favor of Mr.. Amber.
The new freight depot of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad company at Winona
is nearly com pleted. 1t is built Of brick,
and the Herald says ''is the finest freight
depot on the line of the road between
Chicago and Winona."
Wright county Times: The diphtheria at
Big Lake is now under control. Dr..
Noyes has been appointed by the state
board of health, and has SO managed it
that only one death has occurred, child
of Mr.. Wilson's. At Orrock two children
have died of the disease.
Morris Tribune: Joseph Moses barn,
five miles north of Herman, was strnck by
lightning Monday morning, and was, with
100 tons of hay, entirely destroyed by fire,
which Immediately followed. Two cows
one brooding mare, and lot of farming
im Elements were also burned.
Crookston Chronicle: young Swede
girl named Minnie Johnson, who had been
employed at the residence of Mr.. Fontaine
as domestic, died yesterday and was
buried the same day. She was entirely
destitute, and was put into the ground
without friend or relative to shed tear
over her grave.
Gaylord Register: Last Saturday mum
Der of the surveyors who have been WORK
ing on the north and south line, passed
through Gaylord on their way to Mankato'
They said the work was finished ior TINS
year, and they felt confident that the road
would be built next year. The main line