Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-13
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Graceland cemetary.
MINNESOTA NEWS.
The measles have had an extensive run
in LIE Suer, but luckily have been of a
mild type.
The new Methodist church at Rockford,
Wright county is completed and ready for
dedication.
Every body in Rochester is said to be
getting ready for the 4th of July celebra-
ton in that city.
Quite number of farmers at different
points report their corn fields as about
ready to cultivate.
The sale of cattle and hogs in Dodge
county this year are largely in excess of
any previous year.
The question of building an elevator is
at present engaging the attention of the
citizens of st. Cloud.
There is a vaccination excitement in
Monticello, and the vaccine matter is being
vary generally applied.
dozen or more country burglaries of
recent occurrences are chronicled in as
many villages Of the state.
A few days ago Michael Carroll, of Jes-
a9nland, Sibley county, was drowned by
falling from q boat while fishing.
The little town Of Luverne, Rush county,
has raised $500 to pay the expenses of a
4th of July celebration. Patriotic.
The Moorhead EreHing NeUS DAILY has
been enlarged and has secured the As
ISOLATED Press Geographic dispatches.
The Blue Earth City Post, Faribault
county, has entered upon its 18th Volume.
1t is among the very best local papers.
A twelve year old son OF Capt. Ross Rul-
y accidently shot himself in the knee the
other day at the government works near
Nininger.
Cultivat1ng corn has commenced in
some localities. 1t is yet small, but doing
well, and the promise of a good crop is
more encouraging.
John Rommel, of Rochester, last week
shipped ten fat steers to st. Paul for which
he received $1,000. They averaged over
1000 pounds each.
Madame farley has penetrated Orion
vile, where she is exhibiting her world re-
nowned collection Of wax figures, as large
as life and twice as natural
o. P. Shaffer, of Stewartville, Olmsted
county, has sixty acres planted to corn,
WAiCl las COlH6 u All IlSit anu VIII soon
be ready for the cultivator.
The Kasson, Dodge county, Republican
has entered upon its XVII. volume, and it
is one of the largest, best printed, able and
useful local papers in the state.
In Manyaska township, Morton county
recently, Robert Brandt came to mis- death
by being thrown from corn planter, the
horses running away from fright.
The widow of John Huegi has just re-
ceived $1,000 from the German Catholic
Insurance Association of Minnesota. her
late husband having been a member.
The strawberry and ice-cream festival
on Wednesday afternoon of last week in
the Park at Owatonna, for the benefit of
the Academy piano fund Melted $12O.
At Long Prairie the old court house
building has been removed, and work has
commenced where it stood for the founda-
ton of the new court house structure.
Revival meetings are being held in the
Christian church at Redwood Falls, under
the lead of the evangelist, McRoynolds.
A number of conversions are reported.
The citizens of OrtonviIe are moving to
secure appropriate demonstrations on the
18th of July, and SO are other large, ener-
prising, wide awake and patriotic villages.
Mrs. Bridget Duneway, of Morris,
Stevens county, was foud dead in her chair
on a recept afternoon. She leaves four
children, partially grown to mourn her
loss.
The Marshall Messenger says four con-
ductors who have been running freight
trains that way have been discharged for
drunkenness by the Northwestern Railroad
Company.
The farmers in the timber section of
Rice county inform the Faribault Demo-
er0t that the prospects of the small grains
were never better at this season of the
year.
John w. Enge of Marion, Olmsted coun-
y has received 1913 back pension and is
to receive $40 month hereafter for disa-
bilities contracted in the horrible Ander-
derson rebel prison.
The creamery at Ortonville is nearly
ready to commence operations. The en-
CINE has been received, and is being put in
place, and all things are approaching COM
pleteness for business.
Mrs. Pike and Mrs. Barker, have been
appointed delegates to represent the Con-
gregational, church of Monticello, Wright
county, in the district congregational con-
ference in st. Cloud, June II.
Upon the 18th of May, there were seeded
on the stephen farm IN Marshall county
2,340 acres of wheat, 200 acres of oats and
forty-five acres of potatoes, and the work
was done by So men and 100 horses.
In recent light shower in Monticello,
before rain enough had fallen to wet the
ground, lightning, struck shed, and killed
{. COW that was standing there. The hair
was all burned off one side of the animal
A pretended deaf and dumb man made
his appearance in Sleepy Eye the other
day, begging. He got drunk and his whis-
key rotations opened his mouth La Baa-
lams ass, and he spake. remarkable
cure.
A span of horses belonging to Frank
Wood of Waseca, attached to a harrow ran
away the other day, and becoming en-
tangled, fell upon the teeth of the harrow
and received injuries which caused their
death.
Some people may remember that last
season was cold and backward and that
there was no real summer weather till into
June, the season being four weeks later
than usual. Tt is mistake to think or
say ''we never knew such a season as the
present"