Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-08
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Tramps are numerous. but harvest han
ara scarce

are scarce.
Beecher's lecture at Mankato Melted the
association $35. His audience consisted of
at least 1000 persons.
Waseca is building $4,000 school house
for $4,000, says an exchange financial
feat of unusual dimensions.
These are lively if not hard times-bills
are being constantly and persistently pre-
scented for liquidation- mosquito bills.
Sextcl's hotel in Lake City, the other day,
came near being destroyed by fire by the
careless handling of lamp by hired girl.
The harvest is hurrying, harvest hands
are scarce, and the imploring cry of the farm
er is the Macedonian cry, "Come oyer and
help u.s.
Two drunken tramps were before the
justice in Lake City the other day. One
paid his fine and the other was sent up for |
five days.
Nothing short of ssblood'' will Salty the
demands of the festive mosquito, supple
menting the melodious communist, "bread |
or blood.''
A local paper says: s'They have come, the
advance guard of tramps looking for work,
but large number of them are very partic- |
ular not to find it.
Green apples in the market are hailed
with great satisfaction by the medical pro-
fession. So, at least, say the local papers.
The reason why is very obscure one.
tramp assailed boy in st. Peter the
other night, pounded him badly, and at
tempted to rob him, and he would have sue
| ceeded, but the boy did not happen to have
any money about his clothes.
John Michigan, of Guilford, Wabashaw
| county, the other day approached too near to
the business end of a mule when that inter
esting animal knocked him insensible, caus-
| ing bad fracture of the lower jaw.
| The Winnebago Press reports two felons
IN that city who are not running at large
though. One is on the finger of a lady, the
other on the finger of a gentleman. Never
theless they are troublesome criminals.
Thomas Doyle; the other day, while feed
ing steam thresher near Lake City, got his
right hand under the band cutters sickle
knife. The fingers were frightfully mangled.
The use of some of the fingers will be lost.
The valuable French 'scitizen" who was
| arrested in Lake City for an assault with
intent to commit a rape, and who dumped
his bail, has returned and given himself up
for trial. He will be ''dealt with according
to his proved deserts.
George Lambert, of Belvidere, Goodhue
county, concludes not to cut sixty acres of
his wheat, it having been rendered nearly
worthless by rain and blight. There are
/ several hundred acres in the same locality
that will be burned on the ground.
Madam DuPree, the noted pedestrenne,
is about to give an exhibition OF her locomo-
tive powers in Lake City, engaging to walk
200 miles in fifty consecutive hours. An
ambitious Lake City chap is to enter the
arena with her. A lively time and fun are
anticipated.
A noisy, disorderly tramp al the depot in
Lake City was knocked down two or three
times before he could be induced to be quiet.
He looked as if he had emerged from a
slaughter house when the down train came
along, and took an involuntary passage for
Reads Landing.
AS Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Robertson, of Win
nebago City, were riding out the other even
ing, their horse took to kicking, and finally
upset the buggy, throwing the occupants out
Mrs. Robertson escaped unframed. Mr..
Robertson received some ugly kicks. The
buggy was badly skatteed.
Litchfeld Indepeadent: August 10Th be-
: gins the war of determination against the
prairie hen. More than a few of those birds
have already been slaughtered. The chick.
. en- crop. like the wheat crop, ripened this
season earlier than usual, and this circum.
stance has been taken advantage of.
+ Aserious runaway and smash-up occurred
at Lanesboro, Fillmore county, the Other
day. The team of A. Shilling ran away
throwing his two SONS out of the buggy. The
elder was badly, if not fatally injured abou
the head; the younger escaped unframed
= h11Op VIC hon 1x1I a,
Lake City Sentinel, Aug. Z: A gang O
, tramps entered the city Saturday and during
! their stay made themselves conspicuous b,
t Insulting every person they met, yankins
0 plckets from the fences and committing 9th
: er outrages peculiar to their nature. No
until Officer Banks had Thoroughly clubbee
= one of their number would they quit thei
cussedness. tffa
Dam Kent, a dangerous rowing tramp
f was arrested in Lake City the other day an.
J, taken to Saltwater to answer to an indict
II ment pending against him there. The PEG
! of Lake City felt returning sense of relic
and security when he was gone "Shoo
= him on the spot will probably have to be
the law applicable to tramps, if no bette
can be found-and probably none as effect
i've can be.
> Princeton Union: eff some of you gen
tlemen who are slaughtering so many chick
ems don't send mess of your spoils to til
= American house there will be trouble i
8, camp. Paragraphs like the foregoing ar
y very common in the local papers, showin
a that they connive at and encourage an in
= fringement of the restriction law, befor
Aug. 10. Pdrticeps cr5Dainis. 'sThe pal
L taker is as bad as the thief
y The active detective of Lake City, til
L other day, gobbled some eighty geese foun
running at large, unpicked, in the pleasan
g and cleanly streets of Lake City, and pu
y them in the pound. when, 10, he made th
= discovery that he was the greatest goose i
. the flock, as there was no law to sustain hi
70 official action. The massive doors of th
Q pound were therefore unbarred, and "Quacl
>. quack," away went the imprisoned crowd, t
y look after due damages for false imprisor
y ment
A young man who had been residing
= St. Peter year and half, entered into
y matrimonial engagement with young lad
:, of that town. Suspicion that all was no
i right led to, an Investigation of his ante
a cedents, and the day before that set for th
a marriage the father of the young man al
!, rived, and took him away with sharp n
N buke to take care of his abandoned wife il
= stead. Thus a nice case of bigamy wa
y spoiled and a young woman saved fro1
- ruin. ..s
t. st. Peter Times: Last week a ghost p,
" in an appearance at the old house on tt
"a Baker farm on the road to Cleveland. Pete
T. Smith, Jr., owns and lives on the plac
re The news of ghost spread rapidly, and tt
h day after its discovery some thirty great bi
.e double-tisted cradle-swingers and axe-throy
re ers assembled and surrounded the old hous
and ghost. Mr.. Roberts fired at the gho!