The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-11-04

Blue Earth county, raised during
the last season, from thirty bushels Of
seed, 1925 bushels, being an average
Of q bushels to the acre.
The LIE Sueur folks thought the
Rev. n. P. Welton's three weeks of
revival effort worth $113 and paid it.
More than one hundred persons there
have commenced new lives.
Sunday, while w. E. Bunnell,
of Winona, was duck hunting, his
gun was accidentally discharged, the
contents lodging in his knee The
leg was amputated, but he died that
evening.
"A fire broke out in the second
story Of Castles furniture store, WI
mona, Friday night, but was got un-
der control by the fremen before it
spread to the lower floor. Loss, ST.
600; insured for $4,000.
"A man named Miller, of Castle
Rock, Friday, put more strychnine
into a glass of whisky than the manu-
facturers of the article usually put
in, drank it in the presence Of his
| wife and died in a few minutes AFTER
ward.
Charles Evers, of Roscoe, Good
hue county, failed to hold his horses
going down hill with load of lum-
Der on Friday last, and was thrown
from the load, on a bridge, breaking
his neck and fracturing his skull.
| Death ensued Immediately.
| "A boy was shooting at mark
in Owatonna, last Friday, when
bullet from his gun went through a
window, striking man named Byrne
on the hand, SCATTERING several bones.
A little child had just lett the window,
undoubtedly saving its life.
"A fellow was caught setting fire
to the grass in Mobiles county and
| plead guilty before a justice of the
peace, who fined him $50, which sum,
| with the costs, $50, he will have to
pay, or be imprisoned for ninety days
| in the Blue Earth county Jail.
Ole Hammer, deputy postmas-
ter at Albert Lea in Freeborn county,
on a charge Of embezzling and de-
stroying mail matter placed in the
Office for transmission through the
mails, was brought before Commits
sioner Cordozo, of St. Paul, Satur-
day, for preliminary examination and
held in the sum Of $1,000.
IS. Grochans, saloon-keeper of
LIE sueur, knocked his son down two
or three times Monday and drawing a
/ revolver threatened to shoot him.
At Constable Wheeler, who under
took to persuade him to give up the
revolver, he fired, the ball passing
close by the officers body. For the
evenings amusement he got off with
| a $40 fine.
| John Barker, of Rochester, pound
| ed Sam Irish's head and then thought
to play sharp by going before a JUS
! tice of the Peace and complaining on
himself: The justice fined him SIS
and costs. About the time this was
finished, Barker was arrested on COM
plant Of the assaulted party and TAX
en- before another justice, who fined
him $40 and costs, Notwithstanding
his showing the certificate of his for
mer conviction as bar to further
proceedings.
-Ryland is the name Of family
living in the town of Minneola, Good
hue county. One day last week the
| father and mother went to work in
| the field, locking their three chill
dren, aged five, three and under, re-
spectively, in the house. While they
| were gone the dress of the three-year
old girl took fire during her attempt
to put wood in the stove, and the 9th
ers unable to escape to give the alarm,
she was burned to death before the
very eyes Of her sisters.