Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-28
MINNESOTA NEWS.


The Olmsted County fair was attended by
about 5000 people.
o. r. Brand. of Faribault, was considera-
bly, injured by being thrown from buggy
in runaway smash-up.
I. A. Hum, of Mortified, Rice county, had
rib broken. and was otherwise severely in
jured by kick from horse.
burelarized the other night and nearly all
the apparel of the family taken.
It is ayerred that the great Glass; Cheny
and Dalrymple farm in this State has pro-
duced more wheat this season, than the en-
tire State of Massachusetts.
collection was taken up in the Jordon,
Scott county, M. E. church on a recent Sun
day, in behalf of the yellow fever sufferers,
and s75 were raised Well done.
The Southern Minnesota engines were
draped in mourning last week out of respect
for the memory of Thomas Comedy, fire
man, who was accidentally killed on the
| road.
1o-year old son of James Hunt, of
Mortified, fell from freight car, striking
on his face, breaking his nose, knocking out
three of his front teeth, and fracturing his
upper jaw Bfuising enough for one rail
road trip.
| Hastings Union One night last week
| the barn of Mr.. Dockstater, of Douglas,
was entered by thieves and several valuable
household articles belonging to his father that
were stored there carried off, including some
fancy silverware.
Sank Rapids Denton county, Sentinel .
Five or six families of Polanders arrived by
railroad at Sank Rapids and proceeded in
teams on their way to the town of Alberta,
where they intend to settle. About thirty
families of these people are yet to arrive here
this fall, and will all settle in Alberta.
Frank Martin, of Pierce county, was ar
rested by Deputy Sheriff Burt Chapel, on
the charge of stealing horse from M. D.
Green, of Castle Rock, a couple of weeks
ago. Martin waived an examination; and in
default of 5000 bail was committed to New
tons cooler to await the fall term of court.
There are many localities where there are
not mills enough to crush the sugar cane
raised this season. This will be better regu-
lated another year. The raising of sugar
cane and its manufacture into syrup and
sugar is destined to be among the foremost
and most valuable industries of the State.
Mortified (Rice county, Journal: Mrs.
Eliza White has received from the pension
bureau $l 300, for which she gives thanks
to the giver of all good and to the friends
who have assisted her. Her son was in the
Union army, and died in the service of his
country, and this pension, through the per
sistent energies and labors of Mrs. j. F..
Wilcox during the last three years, has been
secured.
The st. Peter Tribune says: Thos. c.
Wright went into the upper hospital stable
to get a horse, when patient who was
working there thought Mr.. W. intended to
steal horse, and attacked him with pitch
fork, plunging the tines into his thigh four
or five times, inflicting severe though not
dangerous wounds, and running tine
through his hand.
Mankato ReUie1D. ''We understand that
the d1phtheria, now prevalent through
this and other sections of the State, used to
be quite common among the Winnebago In
dams when they resided in Minnesota; and
we have the authority of Mr.. Marks, an old
trader, for saying that in 1856, good many
deaths occurred among them. Their favorite
remedy was to apply salt pork, saturated
with turpentine, to the throat az an outward
application, gargling with whisky, treat
ment, which was quite successful. Mr.
Isaac Terrill, who also lived among the Win
nebagoes, but now living in this city, had
several cases this season in his family, and
he followed this treatment in each case with
success.
| st. Peter Tribune. A man named G. p.
johnson, of New Sweden, died in singular
manner last week. He had been working
| in the harvest field with his brother, and
about O'Clock in the afternoon they went
to the house and ate some bread and milk,
and Immediately afterwards he said he was
sick, but his brother laughed at him for eat
ing so heartily and then complaining of be-
ing sick. He, however, went back to work,
and in about an hour Jumped about two or
three feet high and fell to the ground. His
brother went to his assistance, and although
ne was helpless he was sensible, but insisted
that he was going to die, and did die soon
soon after. He was a large, feshy man,
weighing about $50 pounds
STATE FARM AND CROP NOTES.
Delano Wright county, Eagle, Sept 90:
Farmers are complaining of unsatisfactory
and too strict grade of wheat allowed or
given them at the grain-house.
st. James (Watonwan county, Journal,
Sept. 2l: Very little threshing has been
done in our town yet. Wheat is turning out
better than anticipated; the range, as far as
known, is from twelve to twenty six bushels
per acre.
Jordan (Scott county, Adyocate, Sept. 26:
No new wheat coming in, to speak of. The
farmers neither like the grade nor the price
| paid upon their grain. and we don't blame
them, though of course there is no help for
the former. What little is brought in is
graded at Nos. and 4.
GAINESVILLE (Wsseca county, Argus, Sept.
"a: Mr.. A p. Wilson showed us a speci-
men of sorghum cane grown this year,
which averages thirteen feet in length. and
looks like fish poles. Mr.. Wilson has an
acre of this cane, the amber, which will
make 100 gallons of fine syrup.
Lac qui Parle County Press, Sept. 20:
Among the favored ones this season we are
| glad to class NJ P. Moe, the obliging black
smith of this village. He owns farm near
town from which he gets 1,O66 bushels of
wheat that will nearly all go No. 1. This
was raised on fifty acres, being an average of
a trife over twenty-one bushels to the acre.
Albert Lea Freeborn county, Standard,
Sept. 26: In the town of Alden the hum of
the threshing machine is heard, and the
farmers wear not an over joyful phiz as he
waches the wheat slowly from the ma
chine at the rate of about ten bushels per
acre-rejected. Nevertheless business is
picking up, and our business men all feel
happy.
A Beaver township, Winona county, cor
respondent writes Farmers are busy plow-
ing and threshing. Wheat Yields from
twelve to seventeen bushels per acre. and the
most of it, so far as 1 can learn, will grade