Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-16
MINNESOTA NEWS

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Scarlet fever is affecting some of the families
in st. Charles.
Last week wheat was selling in Granite
Falls for 30 cents bushel.
Diphtheria is affecting the people Of Blue
Earth City. There have been some deaths.
Three hundred men are at work in Preston,
grading the track fox the narrow gauge rail-
road.
John Asp, last week, while on the train be-
Tween Tween Ottawa and st. Peter. was robbed of
Leonora, nee sleepy-Eye has y new doctor, .
new orug store ana new dwelling house.
More of the latter are needed. 1@g 55s
!, Late rains have moistened the ground
tnat fall blowing is again progressing vigor-
ousiy IN various parts of the State.
Three bears were seen near Long Prairie,
Todd county, the other day.. They were fired
upon and one was wounded, but all escaped.
At Cleveland, LIE 6ueur county, the other
day Mrs. Henry Zimmerman was painfully
burned about the face, neck aud right arm by
her clothes taking fire. rfss.ass
Last spring farmer in Hartford, Todd ooun
ty, planted less than half bushel of snow flake
potatoes and this fall dug FROM that planting
THU ty-one bushels of fine potatoes. =4:a::3,
Mrs. Amy Davidson, of London, Eng, ar
rived in Caledonia, Houston county, last week,
to make it her home with her sister, Mrs. John
Eagle. These sisters have not met before in
twenty five years. s'st.sA1 si:.....'< & a.
The bridge across Beaver creek, on the road
between Redwood and Beaver Falls. which was
condemned some months ago, bnt which was
used by the public until very recently, is now
closed. 1t will not be rebuilt.
Chatfeld Democrat, Sept. IS: A stack of bar
icy containing about Two hundred bushels be-
/ longing TO- VIM. Gardiner, of Elmira, was
| burned last Wednesday. The fire caught from
| steam thresher, the separator of which was
also seriously damaged.
While Mrs. Odink and her daughter were
riding out. on a recent evening, in South
Wabashaw, a man who was sitting beside thu.
road sprang up and took hold of the horse, and
the ladies became frightened, turned the horse
| around short and upset the buggy. Neither
OF the ladies were seriously injured, but both
were badly frightened. ze.S
Dandas News. Sept. Is: Work has been com.
menced upon the foundation of the new engine
house for the Archibald mill It is to be 36x5O
| in size and twenty feet in height of solid
stone masonry. When completed, it will be
occupied by one ct the finest engines in the
| country, 166 horse power costing about 98. OOt,
| In connection there will be two and perhaps
three mammoth steel boilers. gs.a.GE ~
Rochester Record and Union: Mr.. Herbert
Flshbeck, while out riding with lady, on the
leasant Grove road two miles from the CITY,
| was accosted by two men, who demanded his
money, Que of them seizing his horse from the
right side, The other at the left. Drawing a
revolver. he ordered the would be robbers ia
leave. They obeyed, and he drove away with.
out killing the villains, as he could essily have
done. ..g.4.f - :
st. Peter Times, Sept. 10: On Saturday last
| as Mira. krueger was out riding, the team she
was driving took fright and ran away. throw
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Also on tho same day Mrs. Prentice and Mrs.
Phillip Townsville were thrown out Of the We.
hicle IN which they were riding, officiating
Mrs. Prentice's arm at the shoulder but not in.
| jaring Mrs. Townsville. Both injured ladies
are doing as we'll AZ could be expected under
| the circumstances. t:.sg---s..ss ays ~
Detroit (Becker county, Record: Mr.. T.
Chiffon informs that on his farm in the
town of Burlington, two miles east of Frazee
City, his wheat crop averaged a yield Of forty
bushels TO the acre on thirty acres. Also on
another piece of land near the Frazee mile in
the town OF Burlington. the yield averaged
twenty-eight bushels to the acre on sixty acres.
All mo. l. hard" In all his other crops,
vegetables, etc. the yield is equally abundant.
| From one bill of potatoes he dug forty.two
good sized potatoes.
Fergus Falls (Otter Tail county, Advocate
| Mr.. w. III. Fitch, St. Olaf. has threshed out 9
part of his wheat and estimates from the re.
turns that for tho whole field there will be a
good twenty bushels per acre. His oats went
an average Of forty-six bushels. Mr.. J. Ar,der.
son, of the same town. has threshed and gets
twenty bushels of wheat and sixty of oats t.
the acre. Mr.. Brow nell is threshing, and from
results SO far he feels confident Of twenty-siz
bushels per acre, and estimates his oats .,
about fifty bushels to the acre. ~ az .iLF
Sank Rapids Sentinel: Mrs. Elda Smith, Of
Sank Rapids, in company with her son aud q
neighbor, was riding in q wagon, when, the
clevis broke and the pole fell to- the ground,
stopping the wsg; n instantly. The horses were
travelling quite ra2idly at the time and the re-
suit was that the three occupants Of the wagon
were pitched forward several feet over the
dashboard. All were knocked senseless, but
young Smith and Casey were only very slightly
| bruised. Mrs. Smith. however, sustained in.
ternal injuries and fatal results are feared
Latest accounts are more favorable, and she i.
improving quite rapidly.