Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-01
MINNESOTA NEWS.

They are to have a new depot and
transfer track at Kasota.
Many farmers who planted their corn
early have had to replant.
Red Rock camp meeting commences
June 10, and closes July 3.
Notwithstanding the cool weather, sheep
shearing is nearly finished.
Major Strait lectured on creameries in
Shakopee the other evening.
''No sickness in town. is the sanitary
report by the Taylors Falls Journal.
Wheat is said to be doing well in Mower
county. 1t is thick and the color good.
The meat dealers in Lake City call liver
''nigger heefsteGk." They think it smart!
Luverre has subscribed $500 towards
the expenses of Fourth of July ceIebra-
ton.
Ortonville is making due preparations
for the observance of "the day we cele
brate.''
The young ladies of the Baptist church
at Austin cleared $22 on their strawberry
festival.
Two drunken conductors on the Winona
& st. Peter railroad were properly bounced
the other day.
The New Ulm sugar works are about to
be turned into vinegar factory-oppo-
sites sharply defined.
The south wing of the main insane hos
pital at st. Peter is to be furnished with q
new heating apparatus.
Large quantities of bass are being tax
en- by anglers off the point at Lake City.
The fish are very fine at this season.
The present indications seem to be that
the next Fourth of July will be more gen
orally celebrated this year than usual.
A new and large hotel in Crookston is
one of the projected improvements of that
thriving town for the present season.
Some fend in st. Peter threw sulphuric
acid on an Indian pony the other day,
causing great suffering, lock-jaw and
death.
1t is estimated that the present season,
some $1,000 head of young cattle have been
purchased in Minnesota and shipped to
Montana.
The st. Peter Tribune says an otter was
killed at Swan lake the other day which
measured over five feet, the skin of which
is worth Sc.
A st. Peter paper judges from the
amount of evening swinging on gate posts
that marriage licenses will soon be in live
ly demand.
The Rev ". G. Gordon, the new rector of
the Episcopal church in Lake City, has ar
rived there with his family and settled
down to work.
The st. Charles Reuie,U gives full and
interesting account of the new creamery
just started in that place, and which is in
successful operation.
The dwelling house of Edward Asher, of
Union Grove, Meeker county, was recently
destroyed by fire. Most of the contents
were saved. Loss 5000.
When the Rev. c. W. Savidge left Man
kato, his friends made him present of a
very fine overcoat, and soon after some
unsanctifed scamp stole it.
Julius Buelow, aged sixty -four, respect
able citizen of Laketown, Craver county,
was instantly killed the other day by be-
ing thrown from his wagon.
An effort is being made in some of the
villages of the state to have stores close
at 8p. N. The measure is adopted in
some places and in others rejected.
The house and barn on the j. L. Post
place in Dundas, Rice co 1nty, were de-
stroyed by fire recently. It was an incen-
diary fire. Both buildings were insured.
The $4,000 bonds authorized by the
state legislature for funding the debt of
Big Stone county have been registered.
They run ten years at 6 per cent. interest.
The Faribault Sentinel says there is not a
soldiers grave in Martin county. A num-
Der of men were in the army from that
county, but all yet survive. How many are
on the pension roll?
During a violent thunder storm recently
in Kilkenny, LIE Sueur county, Edward
Byrne, aged IS years, while tielng horse
in the barn, was struck by lighting and he
and the horse were instantly killed.
Patrick Quinn, of Fort RidgeIy, IS in
Jail at st. Peter, for attempting to murder
his twenty -two-year old son. He made the
assault with knife, and the son, in de-
Tending himself, was badly cut on the
arm.
A ''deaf and dumb man, aged fifty
years, got drunk in New Ulm the other
| day and commenced to talk in five differ
ent languages all at once, ana was vulgar
and abusive. He was put in jail as first
| class fraud.
The Rev. Mr.. KilHam, pastor of the M.
E. church of Lake City, is succeeding ad-
mirably in getting the debt of $1,400, rest
ing upon the church paid off. Something
over 500 alone remains, and that will
soon be paid.
A few days since the body of John A.
Kennedy was found floating in Horseshoe
lake in Rice county. He was drowned in
October last. The lake has been repeated
ly dragged for the body but without sue
cess. His life was insured for $4,000.
Father Berghold, the Catholic priest of
New Ulm, has purchased the Baumgartner
property from Jacob Pf@nninger, and will
turn the same into hospital. This enter
prise is much applauded by the New Ulm-
ers, as it will supply long felt want in
that city.
The Monticello Times says the cases of
''black measles" at st. MichaeIs have turned
out to be regular small pox, and four
deaths have occurred. The place is quar-
antined. No mails are received for ST.
Michaels, and trains pass the station at un-
diminished speed.
The Rev. Alexander Berghold, of New
| Ulm, at the late Catholic picnic in that
town, announced that he had declined the
call to st. Paul, and would continue in New
| Ulm. The announcement was received
with enthusiasm. Father Berghold is very
popular both in and without his congrega