The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-08-12
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Mr.. Charles scheFer had $780,


MINNEsOTANEws.
Mr.. Charles scheffer had $3O,-
900 insurance on his life. So
-Andreas, the atlas man. is SUI
ing farmers in Olmstead county.
Is &C. NJ. Pomeroy, while coupling
cars at Fargo, had four ribs broken.
Burglars entered two grocery
stoll( ain' Minneapolis, Thursday
night, and secured considerable plum
der. -
Tuesday Carl Wolfe, of Pleasant
Grove, Qlmsted county, committed
suicide b e;ng himself to the limb
Of a tree. t',s =. ISL ST. ..s,st1 t..
Wednesday, evening burglars got
800 from P. Deyitt's saloon and ST.
600 from r. c.. WINES jewelry store,
at Pennington, 4 Fl. 80.
by q hail storm in Lac qui Parle
county Tuesday, crops were in some
instances so severely injured as not to
be worth harvesting. ~:
R. D. johnson, Of Cottage Grove,
Dakota comfy, fell into we'll last
r : :!
week, and fractured his leg SO severe
ly that it will probably have to be
amputated.
New elvators of a capacity of
10000 bushels are being built by the
St. Paul & Sioux City railroad com
pany at seney, East Orange, Sheldon
and Sibley. 49,.
They must have some pretty
tough young men at Rochester. y, A
wagon loaded with 5000 brick. ran
over one the other day, only bruising
him slightly. s.,s..- ... -.
The father and a brother of
Charles Scheaer committed. suicide
from temporary insanity, brought on
by financial or other difficulties, and
sister is now in St. Peter a confirm
ed lunatic.
George A. Bracket, of Minneap-
oils, who for two years has been cult
waiting in his yard by summer, and
his cellar by winter, two fig trees,
Monday had the pleasure of picking
nearly a peck of ripe figs. =.
About three miles from Zumbro-
ia, on Saturday evening, Aug. 9TH, a
little girl three years old was run over
by a reaper in heavy piece of oats,
cutting off both feet just above the
ankles. She was still alive Sunday
afternoon. =
An unmarried woman Betsy Ro-
.iand' who lived in Butternut Valley,
committed suicide last Sunday night
by hanging herself: She had been
partially deranged at times previous,
but notso much so as to give her friends
any particular concern about her.
"A boy sixteen years of age, old
est son Of Peter Swanson, of Etter,
was drowned in the slough at that
place Tuesday morning. He had
swum the slough to the ferry boat
when he was taken with the cramp,
called for help and was drowned.
An old man, Norwegian, liv.
ing alone six miles below Fort Aber.
crombie, was found last Saturday
evening murdered in his cabin. His
head was split open with an ak, and
his own butcher knife was used to rim
open his stomach, and was left stick
ing in his breast. He had $500 in
money and it is supposed the brutal
butchery was to obtain this; as it can
not be found. He was last seen alive
Friday afternoon. No clue to the
murderer.
Friday afternoon strike occurr-
ed in Farnham & Lovejoy's saw mill
Minneapolis. Accordingly the pro-
prietors called in the employees from
the yards to assist in keeping the mill
in operation. Scarcely had these
new men begun work when Ole An
derson, who was standing near a cir
cular saw, was suddenly thrown by
the head block Of the returning log
carriage on the whirling saw, and in
a twinkling was sawed in two length
wise. The mill hands were horror
stricken at the sight and the mill
was shut down.
According to the Anoka Union
the St. Paul Lumber Company ofthat
place is or was a rotten concern. Last
winter, it says, when the .'big stock
holders" knew the company was in
solvent, they forced the merchants Of
Anoka to subscribe for stock under the
threat of not running the mills; that
this year they put uponthemerchants
1000 more in the shape Of orders,
besides go and 80 days. paper; and
that the lumber sawed was attached
and went into the hands of big stock.
holders as preferred creditors, who
are all we'll secured, the merchants
and other smaller fry being the los
ers. The liabilities of the concern
are $4,000. =, ~
Parker, the ex-T Treasurer of South
Carolina, who escaped from the jail
last week while awaiting trial for
plundering the State while, in Office,