Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-03
MINNESOTA NEWS.

One COW ditched eight cars at Detroit
Becker county.
The cranberry crop is reported to be very
large in Otter Tail county.
About 25 miles of iron has been laid on
the Redwood Falls & Sleepy Eye railroad.
liver johnson, of Waseca, while scutfiing,
got very bad dislocation of his left elbow.
The great storm of Sunday night, July
%, destroyed between 10000 and 10000 un-
burned brick in the Chaska brick yard.
The Austin Republican says young man
residing at Adams, while riding on horse
back in a recent thunder storm, was instant
ly killed by a stroke of lightning.
Mrs. j. w. Townsend, residing at Pelican
Lake, Otter Tail county, had q cancerous
arm amputated the other day. The patient
is doing well.
A two year old son of Andrew o. Hugen,
of Waseca, drank mixture III which was
Paris green. The prompt Offices of physi-
clan counteracted the effects of the poison
and the life of the child was saved.
AS the railway train was nearing Mt.
Lake, Carver county, the cow-catcher struck
boy 15 years old, who was asleep on the
track. His skull was crushed in and bis
brains laid bare.
A terribly destructive storm passed over
the eastern portion of Carver county on
Tuesday, the goth inst. For half an hour
wind, rain and hail reigned supreme. In the
path of the storm crops were beaten down
and greatly damaged.
In Chaska, the other day, a boy stepped
upon scythe, severing the fleshy part Of
IA (,a ban1 a,,+i, oil
being promptly called, stitched the severed
heel to the foot, and made good job of it
| The heel will heal.
The Sibley county independent reports
that some parties made a fire to drive away
mosquitoes, but by some negligence the fire
was communicated to a stable, burning il
and one of his horses A pretty severe mos
quitoto BILL that.
In spite of all the rains the rivers show
but little rise. The Zumbro looks ''riley,'
the Chippewa is up for the moment anc
then down, while the old Father of Water
has not managed to get high, but remains
staid and sober.
The last Subbath in July was very gener-
ally spent by the farmers throughout The
State in their harvest fields, in endeavorine
to secure their wheat crops from the rains
said Sunday being the ciearest, dryest, and
most sunshiny day for many days.
Mrs. John Sorfeld, of Dahlgreen, Carver
county, was very severely bitten in the hand
the other day by horse. She was in the
habit of feeding bread to the horses. anc
while doing this one of the horses seized her
hand, inficting painful wound.
Work on the Plainview and Eyota railroad
has been suspended until after harvest. A
small force of men were employed du,ino
the wet weather until last week, but harvest
wages proved too great a temptation and
one evening they all silently stole away to
new fields of labor.
At Blooming Prairie Saunders S. Slater
shot Helgo Alton producing probably IA
tai wound. There was bitter alteration
between the two. Atoms wife sought to
get between them to prevent fight, when
Slater pushed her away and shot her hus-
band.
At Waseca, the other day, lad aged 10
years, son of William Everett, fell from a
mill, a distance of some Is feet, on to rocks
and lumber below, cutting severe cash in
his forehead, breaking the bones of his left
arm, and dislocating the wrist And yet,
under skillful medical treatment, he will live.
The Glenwood Eagle says: silver Olson was
arrested because some one claimed that he
was insane. After being arrested he took a
stone from his pocket and struck the sheriff
on the back part of the head, cutting an
: ugly cash, when the sheriff pulled his little