Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25
Minnesota News items.

Rochester lately, DuC without mucn success.
\ A man in Pleasant Valley, Olmsted coun-
IL, was killed last week by the caving in of a
we'll.
A. w. Snyder, of Waseca, while practicing
upon turning pole, fell and broke his left
arm.
The chimney of the Norton house, Roch-
ester, was struck by lightning on Sunday,
July 14th.
A few days ago @. @. Tanburn, a river dri-
yer at Little Falls, stole SIP from his COM
rades and fed.
A man in Pottsdam, Olmsted county, was
seriously injured in attempting to stop
runaway team.
Mr.. Crane, of Mantorville, says an inn
mense number of bees are gathering honey
from his onion field.
The Methodist camp meeting at Otsego,
Anoka county, Is closed. The meeting is
regarded as u success.
The Owatonna cheese factory was burglar
/ lied the other night, and box containing
valuable papers stole.
Paramount, Fillmore county, is under tele-
graphic as well as railroad communication
| with the rest of the world.
The assessment of personal property in
| Rochester, Olmsted county, is about $780,
OUU more ILLS year lnan lstSCs
/ Burglars brIke into the st. James saloon,
at Rea Wing, the other night, but were
frightened away without booly.
| A little child at Madelia, aged two years,
| drank some eye water tne other day. the base
of the preparation beng poisonous. BY the
administrator Of proper remedies. shs was
saved.
Ine Mankato Record of the Goth inst.
crucn aanf Inn, nh
this4city On Sunday, returning from cut
| West, where he has been breaking up bus
claim.
Faribault has good police and a well Or
ganized and well equipped militia company,
aud instead of feeding vagrant thieves and
| cramps, they propose 70 give them military
| saluLes.
Waseca Journal: Work on the extension,
| west Of Fairmont, is In progress, AID
jackson Will soon form link ln lAe SUutL-
/ ern Minnesota Chain ere tie expiration Of
| many weeks.
Some boys at Mankato, the other day,
we're playing with the holsting apparatus In
| che Farmers mill, wien oLe OF LLem 1e1
d distance of fourteen feet, receiving very
/ severe, but not fatal injuries.
Robert Cahoi, of Anoka, received severe
cut under the lett eye, from knot being
projected from an edger saw. 1t made an
lncision about two lncnes Ill length, but will
/ not result in any permanent Injury to the
eye. sa
Prof. D. W. Sprague has been appointed
principal of the pubic schools IN AnoKa. de
/ occupied similar position In st. Charles tC1
number of years. He Is tavorabiy spoken
of as a highly educated aud GENIAL gentle
| man.
The bigamist Scribnes, examined before
Justice Beddlsh, confronted by two wives,
| and several others to hear from, was bound
over to the next term OF the district court,
aud in default Of bail, was sent to the Man
| kato jail.
The other day a man discovered COW
/ two miles from Little Falls fastened between
| two trees. Procuring an axe one of the
| trees was cut down aud the COW liberated.
| The distance between the two trees was OILY
seventeen inches.
The Hastings Gazette says the second trial
| of James Mckay, for attempt to commit
/ rape in Empire, was concluded on tuesday,
| the jury rendering verdict of guilty. he
was sentenced yesterday to State PRISON for
| fourteen months.
Two tramps in Rochester threatened to
kill woman who refused them food, unless
she furnished it. They looked SO savage
and ugly that she, in her fright, gave them
food. If she could have administered BUCK
shot to them, it would have been for sure
deserved.
| Robert 81. Foster, of Pleasant Grove,
Olmsted county, attempted TO ford Root riv-
er with two horses ami q wagon. Ihe cur
rent was SO strong the horses and wagon
were swept down the stream. Mr.. Foster
narrowly escaped drowning. The horses
were drowned.
| Great excitement was produced in Anoka
l by the report that woman had committed
a murder, and was burying the body OF her
victim in the eastern part of the town. A
rush was made to the building indicated, and
crazy woman was found burylng her own
wearing apparel.
| Shelbyville township, Blue Earth county,
will vote in few days ON the proposition to
| issue bonds to the amount of @lU,OU0 III aid
of the north and south line IF rallr,ed
which the St. Paul d Sioux City company
/ have undertaken to construct from Blue
Earth City to point on their line.
Jonathan Howell, residing in the town Of
Blooming Grove, Wsseca county, was ar
rested by the sheriff last week, charged with
attempting to poison himself, his cousin and
| q young woman who had refused his suit.
The discovery of the poisoning in time, by
administering of antidotes saved the parties
from death.
Two drunken man in Anoka the other
lafternoon got into quarrel about the owner
ship Of pair of horses and wagon. One
owned the wagon aud the Other 1he horses,
and they swore ont warrant 4As<ss AsssiA-
other, and then got into the Wagon and
drove furiously out of town together to avoid
the officers of the law they had invoked
against each other.
4 The papers everywhere are full of accounts
iof the incursions of immense numbers of
Itramps all over the country. Altogether
There is q greataarm of them, and q note Of
i warning 10 being sounded all along the line
to be prepared to give them warm recep-
ton. No tampering with tramps-no tenn
lporizing-no blank cartridges-no child's
lplay.
i On the 7th inst, August Stefens, resi-.
dent of Red Wing, started to make visit to
Belgium, the country of his nativity. When
a few miles east of Pittsburgh, Pa. he fell
from the train, receiving severe injuries in
the head. He was taken 10 the West Penn
sylvania hospital in Pittsburgh, where he
died. His remains were sent to Red Wing
for interment.
II Chicago Produce Market
lGRA1N--wheat active: No. / Chicago csc; No q
Chicago go cash; 96x Gl97c July; S6A 1SSEc Ausn
gust; $3.50 September Corn duh and q shade