Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-24
NEIGHBORH d NEWS.
Qsshsrs1 ~ The Special Repestsss u u.
Doilv 6Iobt.
SALTWATER.

.q SALTWATER.
Rock. Bronson is home from college on
vacation.
First class meerschaum goodslfor Christ
mas at Conrad's.
F. Bulov, merchant tailor, Lower Main
street, is selling overcoats at cost prices dur
ing the holidays.
Oysters by the can or quart at tho Tivoi
restaurant. Best in the market.
Prof. Walter @. Lyman, elocutionist, will
give reading in Opera hall January 10th.
William O. Allen, of Kenosha, Wis, is in
the city visiting Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Sey-
mour.
The Knights Templar are making prepar-
atoms for grand ball to be given January
22nd. r.
Mr.. Bennett, of Gainesville, Ohio, brother
of our popular clerk of the court, Cliff. Ben
net, is in this city visiting Cliff.
Sheriff Clark Chambers, of Steele county,
turned over batch of eight prisoners to
Warden Reed Monday afternoon. Their
names and offenses were enumerated in Yes-
terday's GLOBE. ,2
The board of trustees of the First Presby-
terrain church, at q meeting held Monday
night, elected the following officers Presi-
dent, a. B. Prince; Secretary, James Sim
clair; Treasurer, J. @. Henning; and collect
or, D. L. Birmingham. .--..... .'~.r. III
As. j. F. Burke, proprietor of q clothing
establishment on Main street, was turning
down the lights in the back part of his store,
Monday night, preparatory to closing for
the night, man entered che front door,
seized Cardigan jacket and ran down Main
street at full speed. Mr.. Burke followed
the thief crying in stentorian tones Astop
thief, perlice, stop thief" but the thief did
not hear the request, turning up the alley at
Kern's store he kept on at an easy pace
| around Brownley's stable and up on Second
! street, followed by a man by the name of
Wolf. Officer Reardon and DR.. Caine, fired
| by the spirit of the affair, joined in the pur-
suit and caught the thief on Olive street, be-
tween Second and Third. He
was brought before the NUM-
cipal court, yesterday, and gave his
name as George Mckay. Instead Of receiv-
| ing, as he expected, a winters board in the
county Jail, he was bound over to await the
action of the grand jury in the sum of 5000,
on charge of larceny from a shop. Not
having the wherewithal he was sent to jail.
rHE.1<un1Na ERNEST, 1zz1r. ..
The inquest held on the body of Ernest
Heit commenced yesterday morning at 10
o'clock in DR.. Pratt's Office. Fayette
Marsh examined the witnesses. The follow
ing jurors were in attendance: -.....
E. r. Folsom, A. r. Young, William F.
Gorrie, SW. II. Sawyer, F. E.. Joyce, William
McP herson, Sam Ootter. ..- -.
The man who accompanied Mr.. Heit at
the time of the accident was sworn and tes-
titled that he did not hear the whistle until
the engine was four or five rods from the
crossing. ...... x a: t.r~s '.-. ~.
Mr.. Lowers testimony was the same as
published in the G1oBK at the time of the
occurrence. .s'.-- r. b.. ~ 1913.
Chris Schroeder being sworn testified
that he was about four hundred PAGES ahead
of deceased. He did not hear the whistle,
but saw the cars coming. 5".5. -
John McCourt, sworn: Was behind de-
ceased with team st the time the team was
was struck by the engine, and first saw the,
train when it was 300 or 400 feet from the
crossing. The deceased was about on the
track when first saw the train. The men
in the sleigh saw the train when they got
on the track. One of them jumped out.
They both seemed excited. He did not hear
the whistle till the train was right on the
| men, and did not hear the bell ring. The
whistle was short and sharp one. You can
see the track for half mile but you must
turn around to do 80. The train was run:
| ming very fast and consisted of an engine
and one car. 2E/-. @.s
VIM. Whalen, sworn: I saw the whole &C.
cident. When saw the train it was about
one-quarter of a mile from the crossing, and
| running very fast. I went around the cor
| ner of the house and saw tho team close to
the track. The engine whistled three times;
tie first when seven or eight rods from the
| crossing The team was not rod from the
| track at the time. Then followed two short
whistles, and tho engine struck the team.
| One man jumped out before the team was
struck. When I got to the place the mules
were all mangled, and the train had backed
up. The train was running fifty miles an
| hour. I heard no bell ring. - -. ..z.=,E
MIR. Whalen's attention was called to the
| train by the unusual rate of speed, and he
testified to having known the train to go by
the crossing without whistling, and no later
than Monday night train went by without
whistling or ringing bell. ..--..,-
Jerry Whalen was sworn, and testified to
having known trains to pass without whist
| ling. The track is about five feet above the
highway, and the approaches to the track
| have been made by fill which is only half
as wide as the road, and team cannot turn
around there. This makes it dangerous
crossing. ss}<--sL ..
John Hobletson, sworn: Mr.. Hobletson
had just crossed the track ahead of deceased,
and saw the cars, but crossed ahead of them;
| he then turned round to stop the other team,
and called to the man to stop the team.
| The train 'whistled when about two
rods from the crossing, and only once, but
the deceased did not appear to hear, but
kept coming until the team was struck by
the engine. One man jumped out. The
train was running very fast.
! David Cover, county commissioner, testi-
fed that he had notified the railroad com
pany to fix the crossing. They agreed to do
go, but did not complete it. The people in
that vicinity make great many complaints
that the crossing was dangerous.
}. N. Colgrave, conductor; Gus Larson,
| engineer, and Doyle, fireman, were sworn
for the railroad company, and testified sub
stantially that the train was running at from
twenty to twenty-five miles an hour, and
that the whistle was blown and the bell runR.
Doyle testified that Heite pulled up the
mules and then started on again.
AT the conclusion of the evidence, of
which the above is but synopsis, the jury
rendered the following verdict:
That deceased came to his death upon the
22d day OF December, 1879, as the result of
being struck by the engine attached to the
train of the Hudson & River Falls road, on
the 10th day of December, 1879, while the
train was en- route from River Falls
to Saltwater, at place in the town of Lake
land called Feathers Crossing. The jury
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