Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-09
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Hail insurance companies have q good
many losses to adjust this season.
The pontoon bridge at New Ulm is COM
pleted and open for travel, and teams are
crossing and recrossing.
Charles Pomeroy, of Lac qui Parle, had a
no. Sc fall into shallow we'll the other day,
causing the death of The animal.
Over 200 panes of glass were broken out
of Thompson, Smith & Co.'s Cannon Falls
mill by the hail storm of last week.
A drive of logs, the last of the season, has
just reached Sank Rapids, containing TO-
100000 feet. Forty men are employed
upon it.
The Wabashaw Manufacturing company
are turning out platform cars and hand cars
in considerable numbers, and with great
rapidity.
1t seems that harvesting machines could
not be manufactured in sufficient numbers
to meet the demands of the increased grain
acreage in the West.
The county commissioners of Wabashaw
county have decided to build new county
intirmary building of brick, the present
building being wholly inadequate for the
comfort and health of the inmates
There is a difference of opinion among the
farmers of the State as to the ssLost Nation''
wheat, some regarding it good and valuable
for seed, others condemning it entirely. The
last named seem to be in the majority.
The local papers are already chronicling
a great slaughter of prairie chickens. The
humane, law abiding sportsman" can't wait
for August 10 before commencing the work
of death and destruction among the innocent
feathered tribe.
In the town of Nininger, Dakota county,
the team of Henry Troag became frightened,
as he stood unhitching it from a harvester
He was knocked down and the machine
passed over him, luckily and singularly with
no other damage than a cut in one arm and
leg and the amputation of a toe-A narrow
escape from fatal injury.
Joseph Knowles, a young man aged 10
years, residing in Pennington, Dakota
county, few evenings since attempted to
commit suicide by taking laudanum. He was
discovered in a deep sleep, but by the aid of
a physician, was saved. The cause of this
assinine folly is not known.
Pennington Press: A specimen tramp
came here the other day. and begged for
food and money. Mr.. Dewitt offered him
$4 day to work on Sunday in saving grain.
The tramp would "be id if he would work
for less than So" After kicking by the
constable the tramp left town.
Mrs. NJ. G. Russell, wife of the editor of
the Lake City Leader, is dead. She leaves a
family of six children, several of them of
tender age. She was most excellent and
honorable woman, and the deeply afflicted
and bereaved family have the enderest
sympathy of the entire community.
William Hope, aged 60 years. died Aug. 1,
of Bright's disease of the kidneys, at his
residence in Trout Brook Valley, Wabashaw
county. He had resided in that region thirty
years, and was one of the Oldest and most
| respected of its citizens, ever maintained a
high character for probity, and endeared
himself to all who knew him.
There was a narrowly escaped collision the
other day on the NJ. & st. p. r. R., between
passenger and wood train. Several
jumped from each train. Martin Hall, in
jumping from the wood train. fell with his
| right leg aero the rail. and his leg was
crushed above the ankle. His leg was am
putated half way between the knee and
| ankle.
Sank Rapids Sentinel: We are informed
that prairie chickens are abundant in this
county this year, and it is intimated that the
game law in regard to the killing of the
same is being violated. This law is violated
more or less every year, and it should either
be modified so that it can be enforced. or if
this can not be done, let it be wiped from
the statute book. A law that can not be en-
forced is worse than no law at all.