Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-30
MINNESOTA NEWS.


Mcleod county has organized teachers
association.
Over 700 ties day are shipped on the
d. d u. railway from Hastings.
Charles Otto, who was so severely injured
at Delano by wood train, is dead.
It is alleged that the Mississippi river is
lower then it has been for sixteen years.
The sheriff of Redwood county has cap
tured and lodged a thief in the Jail at New
Ulsn.
August Hinkle, of Bear Valley, had leg
broken in scuffie. The fracture was very
bad one.
By an accident near Forest City, Meeker
county, child of Mr.. Rogers had an arm
broken.
Waseca has voted $4,000 additional for
their new school house, with only seven
opposing votes.
Sheriff Newton, of Dakota county, was in
pursuit of fraudulent lightning rod peddlers
a few days since.
The barn and granary of John Irthum, of
Douglas, were totally destroyed by fire
night or two since.
A. p. Barclay has bought the mill and
grounds belonging to the Morristown Mill
company for $46,00O.
large number of people from st. Louis
are spending the summer in Faribault for
health and recreation.
| Senator Window delivers the address at
the Mississippi Industrial fair to be held at
Red Wing, Sept. 10, IL and II.
| A 3-year-old child was run over by a car
riage, in Faribault, but no bones we're brok-
! en-. The child is expected to recover.
81. II. French's house in Plainvew, Waba-
shaw county, was burglarized a few nights
ago, and the burglar got so for his booty.
| In field near Wabashaw rattlesnake
| was found coiled under bundle of wheat.
He was harvested ty a farmer and graded
| No. 1.
Fights aud petty thieving are getting to be
numerous in Mazeppa. and the authorities
| are kept busy in arresting, trying and fning
the scalawags.
Another national bank is to be established
| IN Mortified, Rice county, in place of the
Citizens bank which is to be closed up.
Capital $4,000.
] The father of E. B. Slocum, of Castle Rock.
was run over by team, two of the wheels
passing over his body, and was severely, it
is feared fatally injured.
| A farmer in Dakota county had his
reaper, left in the grain field, broken en-
tlrely to pieces by gang of that valuable
citizens known as tramps.
| Fish are said to be abundant in Roberds
lake, Rice county, especially black bass,
which is considered the best fish caught in
any of the Minnesota lakes.
| A railroad employe at Hastings, while
coupling cars had two of his fingers jam
med off. A short time since similar acct
dent happened to his other hand.
Miss Agnes Cardin, of Gilmore, .Faribault
county, was severely burned by the explosion
OF gasoline stove, which she had impru-
IDENTITY placed on a hot wood stove.
| Although the grain crop in Plainview is
poor one, the yield of poker players. tramps.
ETC., is reported to be immense and yet SO
worthless as to be of unquotable value.
A. A. Misener, of Faribault, came near los
ing his life by having bank of earth cave
and fall upon him. When rescued he was
insensible, but was soon restored to con-
| seriousness.
! In stating the sales of old wheat one of
our local exchanges owns to mistake of
81, 900 100000. 1t is hardly worth while,
though, to use up type metal in correcting
so light mistake.
The number of cases (most of them hard
cases. during one week, that stood for judg-
ment in the Hastings police court, reached
l9, and the aggregate fines and costs amount
ed to quite pretty sum.
| In some portions of the State, especially
on the borders of Wisconsin and over the
line, the squirrels are said to be unusually
numerous and very fat. The woods are full
l of ,I1,.
force.
| James Mead and John f. Larabee, two
young men of Blue Earth City, went to
lake to shoot wild geese. While in the boat
rowing, Larabee accidentally discharged the
contents of his own gun into his body, and
survived but few hours.
Hugh Shaw, of South Mazeppa, beat
Elisha Gray with whisky jug, inficting
dangerous injuries on his sead, and render
ing him insensible. The Infatuated rough
was placed under arrest. He contrived to
effect settlement with Gray by paying him
$3.50.
| 1t is stated that a railway twelve miles in
length is to be built this fall from Chatfeld
to Eyota, by the Northwestern railroad
company, for which service they demand a
bonus of $50,000-to which Chatfeld con-
l c1iOco 3oo,OOo, lLlIulId plU,UUU. ana JORDAN
$4,000.
scaffold used by three plasterers in the
new French Catholic church at Faribault.
gave way, precipltatlng them to the floor a
distance of sixteen feet. One had rib
broken and his spine injured, another was
bruised about his thighs and hips, and the
third escaped with slight injuries.
Westward no, seems to be the watchword
of the great squirrel host. 70 accomplish
this they swim rivers and lakes, and great
numbers yield up their lives to the treacher-
o, waters, their bodies being washed to the
shores. "Lo, the poor INDIAN predicts
from this strange emigration a hard winter.
| A brave, intelligent, enterprising wife is
of value inestimable. Such an one is the
wife of Major L. R. Toole, advertising agent
of Forepaugh's show. The ma ior being tenn
porarily confined by sickness, she took up
his work and passed through the towns as
the forerunner of the great show duly adj
vertising the advent of the same-and she
did the work well.
The dead body of man was found on the
roadside in clump of bushes, between Rose
mount and Mendoza. The body was much
decayed, but was supposed to be that of
John Shannon, who had been missing for
some time. He is supposed to have been
murdered, as he was known to have had $50
in money in his pockets. Two bullet holes
were found in his breast.
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