Daily globe., 1878-09-03
MINNESOTA NEWS.

new NJ. E. church edifce is being erected
IN Owatonna, Steele county.
! There are several persons in Minnesota
i who are minding their own business En-
couraging.
| Wheat buyers from Iowa, Wisconsin, Hi
nols and other points are swarming along the
railroad lines of Minnesota.
| 1t is thought that railroad employees in
| Martin county, to the number of 500, will
vote at the next election.
| Mr.. Everett, of Waseca, had twenty-one
sacks of flour q ,O5O pounds) stolen from his
warehouse near the depot.
Us. Abel, of Waseca. was thrown from a
horse-rake and severely injured. His horse
was frightened and ran away.
John Whips, a brakeman on the railroad
division west of Waseca, fell into q culvert
and was badly bruised and cut.
A widow cutting, entirely of this years
growth, measuring over nine feet in length,
has been exhibited at Fairmont.
The local paper thinks the thinly -populat-
ed Gem etery of Fairmont, Martin county,
speaks volumes in favor of the healthfulness
of the climate.
The diptheria is reported to be still pre-
vailing at various points ID this State Is it
one of the permanent diseases of this
region of country
Charles Thompson, Of Kasson, Dodge
county, was severely injured on the head by
falling timber, while assisting in the erec-
ton of a wind mill.
An incendiary set fire to Kate Bailey's
house at Moorehead, Clay county, and it was
entirely destroyed. By the use of kerosene
the conhagration was made more rapid and
sure.
jackson Republic: The railroad surveyors
are still at work. They have this week sur
and out upon the prairie west towards Boot
Lake.
Intellectual attempts have been made to
sound Beaver Lake, in Berlin, Steele county.
But the enterprising people there are de-
termined to find the bottom, if it has one, if
it takes sounding cord as long as kite
string!
The prairie chickens are dying off in great
numbers of malady which it is thought
does not injuriously affect their flesh. AT
any rate dead chickens are being consumed
in unlimited quantities as an acceptable
gastronomic luxury.
The Sauk Center Herald says strike oc-
CURED among railroad construction labor
ers, and the grade hands stood idle. At
length the paymatser came along, paid off
all the strikers, some sixty in number and on
the same day put on a new gang of la
borers.
LIE Roy l1adependent: Two horses were
stolen about twelve miles southeast from LIE
Roy, Mower county, Mimi, by two tramps
The scoundrels had been at work harvesting
for farmer, and one night skipped out with
the horses No trace of them had been found
ut last accounts.
Waseca Herald: An adult daughter of
Frank Kruger, of Hartland, Freeborn
county, recently encountered a severe strug-
gle with vicious bull which tossed her in
the air with his horns until her clothing was
all torn from her person, but otherwise in
ficting no serious injury except the fracture
of her collar bone..
Dundas Nelos: few evenings since a
gentleman of Northfeld who had been in
Dundas during the afternoon, unhitched his
horse, got into his buggy and contentedly
logged towards home. After driving some
little distance, the impression seized him
t-lat he had forgot something. He thought
and thought, and finally remembered that
the missing package was his wife. He
drove back and found it.
The wife of John Choler, merchant of
Forest Lake station, eloped with her para
mour, taking as much Of her husbund's
money as she could conveniently get. For
some time Mr.. Choler was accustomed to
feel faintness or stomach-sickness after sup
per, producing vomiting. Since the flight of
the guilty woman, a vial containing fluid
poison has been found which was in her
possession. An analysis has been made and
the presence of arsenic has been detected in
the vial.