Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-03
MINNESOTA NEWS.

The hog cholera prevails at Mankato, Blue
Earth county. One farmer lost nine by the
disease last week.
| -Four steamers and twenty-five barges are
now busily employed on the river improve
ments just below Wabashaw.
Litchfeld I7adependent: The ST. Paul
GLOBE says Litchfeld is to have 81, OOO
school house. Put on another cypher, if
you please.
N. G. Taylor, of Ellsworth, Meeker county,
mad three stacks of wheat burned by prairie
fires. He estimates his loss at from 200 to
800 bushels.
The apparatus and machines belonging to
Charles Foster, of Appleton, Swift county,
ana used by him for making sorghum syrup,
has been totally destroyed by fire.
superintendent Gordon, of Litchfield. saws
that nearly every school district in Meeker
county will have a term of school this win
ter, and that the demand for male teachers
is very brisk.
| On the premises of G. Hartung, near EAGLE
Lake, Blue Earth county, some malicious
person placed iron bolts and spikes in
bundles of wheat causing, as was designed,
serious damage to the threshing machine.
An idea may be formed of the brisk times
around Clontarf, Swift county, says the Ben
son Times, when it is known that there are
$50 acres of backsetting to be done, at ST.
per acre, and no one with leisure enough to
do it.
Lac qui Parle County Press. There are
tWenty-one organized school districts in Lac
qul Parle county. Who will say that the
cause of education is not progressing in this
portion of what was once known as nthe
bowling wilderness without trees.''
Fl. w. DeGroot, of Mankato, was loading
some shells, when to fit cap he raped it
lightly with rnallet, causing it to explode,
scattering its contents in a fearful manner.
He wonderfully escaped with only slight,
though somewhat painful, injuries.
st Peter Times: Peter Wigdall, of the
town of Traverse, in Nicollet county, came
to horrible death few days ago, while
leading vicious bull to water. The animal
became unmanageable, and in his fury tore
the unfortunate man to pieces. When found
by his son, half an hour afterward, he was
dead.
Montevideo Chippewa county, Valley
| Ventaiator:: Little George Severens was
accidentally run over last week by wagon
loaded With wagon tongues, holsters, etc.,
weighing several hundred pounds, and at
first supposed to be fatally injured. The
hurt, however, did not prove to be SO serious
as 1T was feared, and the little fellow is about
at play again.
Lake City (Wabashaw county, Sentinel,
oct. 2; Last Sunday morning, Rev. Mr..
| Raymond, of West Albany, had a valuable
team of horses killed during the recent
thunder storm which prevailed in that vicin-
| 1ty on that day. He had harnessed the team
preparatory to going to church, and while
putting the buggy in readiness terrific
| bolt struck the barn with the above result.
| New Ulm Revleeo The farmers all over
the State are making an emphatic protest
against the present grading of wheat estab-
lished by the Milwaukee board of trade and
the Minneapolis Millers' association. They
claim that 1t is not just one for the grading
OF the peculiar crop now being marketed,
and committees have been appointed at
Wlllmar, Owatonna and other places with a
view to bring about less arbitrary grading.
The difference in prices between No. 9 and
No. is Is cents, between No. 2 and rejected
IS cents. This difference causes much of
the dissatisfaction, as wheat falling half 8
pound below required weight for No. 2 falls
Is cents in price.
New Ulm Reyieeo: Mr.. Cletus Epple, of
|
rious accident last Sunday It appears that
he was engaged in hauling sugar cane to the
press, and on the way met a lot of swine at
the sight of which his horses became FRIGHT
ened. He jumped from the wagon and ran
to the horses heads in order to better control
| them, but when the swine came nearer the
horses became unmanageable, threw him to
the ground and started on run, the wagon
passing over and breaking his right leg.
The horses we're finally captured, without
doing any further damage, by some Norwe-
glans, who conveyed Mr.. Epple to neigo-
boring house. Surgical aid was at once sum
moned from this city, and he is doing as
we'll as could be expected under the circum
stances.
The Wllkln county Gazette says: During
the late high wind some person set fire to
the prairie about two miles north of Wahpe-
ton, which swept along between the Red and
Wild Rlce rivers for forty miles, doing great
damage IN It's course to grain and hay stacks
and farming Implements, and in one case
caused the loss of life. When the fire
reached the farm of James Herman, four
miles west of Fort Abercrombie, Mr. Hern-
nan and boy who was stopping with him
went out to stop the fire from getting into
his hay stacks and stables. After working a
short time Herman was seen by the boy to
drop down, and when he went up to him was
heard to say, 81 am beat;'' the last words he
ever spoke. The boy dragged him back sew
eral rods from the fire, when it swept over
him. The fire soon reached the stables and
burned them to the ground in short time,
Help having arrived, they found the body,
which was lying face downward Mr.. Hern-
nan was single man, about IS years of age
and leaves considerable property.
Mankoto Reoaelo: Messrs. Zimmerman &
Compton are operating by steam at Eagle
Lake large plantation mill, and on FRIDAY
last they made 100 gallons of syrup of excel
lent quality. Nearly every farmer in Le
Ray, Lime and Mankato has his patch OF
sorghum or amber cane, and the crop OF
syrup will be large, for which there is live
~ demand. Chicago firms buy it, and after
putting it through a refining process send il
back to us in the form of golden drips anc
sugar. During the past week
there was marked decrease in the number
of deaths reported from diphtheria. While
there were number of new cases, we be
lleve they were generally slight, and the
worst less virulent than those previously oc
curing. * : The family of Mr.. Fox
living IN LIE Ray township. of this county, il
sadly afflicted with diphtheria, seven of BIZ
children being taken down with the diseas
about the same time. Two died in the earl,
part of the week, two more were buried OF
Saturday, and another has since died. Th
two remaining are recovering. The famil,
OF Mr.. Wersung, in the same vicinity, ha.
three cases, two of which proved fatal.
An aboriginal Abolit;onist on the Reaulz;
can Party.
William Llyod Garrison's Letter to the Bostol
: Traveller.
So timid, inconsistent and devious has th,
Republican party been in its action sine