Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-10
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
Prairie fires at swan River, destroyed over
. mile Of fence.
Wild geese are occasionally shot in the VIZ
entity Of Duudas, Rice county.
The woods are full of hunters, says the
Hokah Blade, and they all seem to come
home loaded with game.
The Presbyterian church ediice in LIE Roy,
Mower county, was struck by lightning q
few days since and considerably damaged.
The Blue Earth county fair is pronounced
to have been complete success financially
and in other respects. The attendance was
large.
: The weather was SO wet, rainy, and IN
propititious at Preston, Fillmore county, as
to entirely destroy the fair appointed for that
place. = s7-s
The other night two horses were stolen
from the barn of e. Scanned, two and half
miles east of Owatonna. A reward is Of
fered.
+. John Doyle, of Anoka, was hooked in the
right eye by a COW, and yet is likely not to
lose the sight of the eye. The injury was
very painful one. 1,3'I ! ~
The general complaint throughout por-
ton of the State that the ground was too
dry and hard to pillow, has been ended by the
late copious rains
Available OK weighing 1900, belonging
to Loom Berry, of Princeton, was shot and
killed in the pasture, by some miserable, re-
vengeful scoundrel.
The Waseca Leader still faunts its local
department under date of august 17th.''
Would it not be well to modernize a little to
get abreast of the times?
From q threshing machine accident few
miles south of Lanesborough, Fillmore
county, Owen Mcdonald had a leg broken in
several places, and received other injuries.
The summer kitchen of James Lees
house, at Owatonna, west of the river, was
destroyed by fire. The fire was extinguished
before any serious damage was done to the
main building.
Two boys in Crookston, Polk county,
were amusing themselves with a revolver,
with the usual result-an unexpected ex-
plosion. One of the boys carried home
bullet in his leg.
Beaver Falls (Renville county, Times:
Prairie fires begin to illuminate the horizon.
The grass is unusually rank this season, and
against disaster.
Mrs. Haley, of Princeton, Mile Laos
county, fell down stairs, "dislocating the
radius and fracturing the ulna about two
inches above the wrist joint" plainly and alb
solutely she broke her wrist.
A. A. Whitney, of Melrose, Stearns
county, was riding horse at break-neck
speed, when the horse stumbled and threw
his rider violently to the ground. He was
taken up insensible but will recover.
August Nelson, of Alexandria, Douglas
county, shot large grey eagle, IN the woods
skirting Lake Carlos. The eagle measured
six feet six and one-half inches from tip to
tip of the wings. Mr.. Nelson used rifle,
and the distance was about 200 yards.
A German woman of Mankato presented
at the bank in that place an advertisement of
Centaur IMMINENT in imitation of hundred
dollar greenback, which she wanted changed.
When told it was worthless she said her
husband had received it for his harstve
work.
Sank Rapids Herald: Charlie Weymouth,
in the town of Raymond, had eight stacks of
grain burned few days ago, supposed to
have been set on fire by some unprincipled
rascal. It is also reported that farmer at
English Grove lost twenty -four stacks by fire
on Monday.
Alexandria douglas county, Meas: Mr..
Kelly, of the Parkins & McCrory party, met
with a serious accident. He was herdine.
cattle on the prairie south of Mr.. Thomas
Parks, when his pony struck with his fore
feet in hole, throwing Kelly, fracturing his
collar bone.
The barn of Dec. Palmer, of Leroy,
Mower county, was struck by lightning in
late storm, and entirely consumed with its
contents, consisting of eight tons of hay,
top carriage, plows, cutters, sleighs, etc., etc.,
and, worst of all, three good horses and
COW persisted in the burning building.
Hokah Blade: Adam Shook started for
Houston Wednesday, and while crossing the
Crystal creek bridge it gave way and let the
man, wagon and horses into the water, and
the horses had narrow escape from drown
ing. The harness was quite badly used up
and some other damage was done.
A brave and competent woman is Mrs. 1.
F. Hollister, wife of the editor of the Waseca
Leader, who has been dangerously i'll. Mrs.
HOLSTER has done the editorial and
mechanical work on the paper, and done it
we'll during her husbands sickness, besides
spending much time in ministering at her
husbands sick bed.
Anoka county Sun and Republican.
Bears are again becoming very plenty in the
county. Bert Smith, of Oak Grove, brought
in one last Saturday that weighed 800 lbs,
which he sold to Fairbanks & Wander Felde.
Last Tuesday there were three brought in
from the same neighborhood. Anoka sports
men are preparing for an excursion in search
of the bruins.
Blue Earth City Post: Ed. W. Bird,
deputy sheriff of Martin county, was in town
on Wednesday, with q railroad man who had
been bound over till the next term of court,
for an assault with iutent to commit rape on
the person of Mrs. FORMER, wife of barber
living in Fairmount. The; prisoner was
lodged In our "frail tenement for safe keep
ing. :&tl2. =
Fast riding don't pay. A few days ago
two spirited young men who had been at
tending the fair at jackson, jackson county,
at evening started away on their horses at a
rapid rate, when one of the horses stumbled
and fell and instantly expired. Wiseacres
suggest that very common and convenient
cause, "heart disease" but broken neck was
clearly the cause of the horses death.
New Ulm Herdtd::. A young man working
for Frank Greene near Golden Gate, received
serious injury. He was endeavoring to tie
horse by running the halter strap through
hole IN board nailed up at the head of the
stall. The horse, which is rather a vicious
one, gave jerk, and the second and third
fingers on the left hand were drawn through
the hole with such force that one was torn
of at the third joint, and the other was lit
orally peeled from the same joint down.
LIE Sueur County Herald: On Sunday
afternoon, between the hours of IL and
O'Clock, the whole south wall of the unfn-
ished school building was blown down by a
whirlwind. We visited the spot few hours
after the occurrence and found the side of
the building q. complete wreck; bricks and
timbers we're scattered in all directions The
large cellar looked as if everything had fallen
into it. The wall was about sixty feet long
and about thirty or thirty five feet high.
st Peter Tribune: Peter Peterson Wig
dahl, an Old man 20 years. OF age, who lives
in Lake Prairie, led bull to water, and
upon returning to the stable the bull evil
IDENTIFY attacked him, as he was found dead
soon after by his son., The old mans
clothing was nearly torn off, but his body
was not much bruised. A slight bruise was
found on his temple, and it is supposed the