Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-28
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Woodcock are now lawful game.
A postal car now runs on the Midland rail
road.
Several cases of diohtheria are reported in
Worthington. q
John G. Master died of sunstroke at Zum.
brota last week.
Several houses were burglarized in Has
tings the other night.
The postoffice at Prairieville, Rice county
has been discontinued.
Three prisoners escaped from the jail in
Crookston the other night.
The river at Taylors Falls has fallen siz
inches day for the last week.
Horse thieves are committing numerous
depredations in Lac qui Parle county.
A number of bold burglaries were perpe-
trated in St. Charles few nights ago.
Grass on the prairies is reported to be as
green and succulent as in latter June.
About twenty-five colored men landed al
Hastings last week seeking harvest labor.
In Worthington the other day horse fell
into we'll and died of the injuries received.
Tramps are reported to be numerous and
troublesome in Rushford, Fillmore county.
A project is on foot for building a steam
Touring mill at Little Falls, Morrison coun-
ty.
A steam saw mill is being erected on Ser
pent Lake, at Wilmington, in Grow WING
county.
Grasshoppers were seen flying high over
Glencoe, in southeasterly direction, a few
days since.
The county of Swift contains seventeen
hotels, five preachers, fourteen lawyers and SIX
physicians.
Three new towns were located in Otter
Tail county last week, namely Leaf Lake,
Evarts and Dora.
The State bounty on wolves, forty. eight
in number, in Goodhue county, amounted to
~144 since last November.
Mrs. Wilson of Fillmore, had her right
leg broke above the ankle the other morn
ing, by the kick Of a COW.
Eighteen gypsy wagons, loaded with
various commodities peculiar to the gypsy
race, are in camp at Hastings.
Two pontoon bridges are about to be
placed across the Minnesota river between
Beaver and Redwood Falls.
The other night burglars robbed the store
VI a. ~. OutuuS ~ w., III hOCQ6SC6T, OF
goods to the amount of 1926.
Building improvements of very substan-
tial and extensive character are in progress
in Brainerd, Grow Wing county.
An attempt was made the other night to
burglarize a jewelry store in Crookston, but
the scamps got frightened away.
Cattle buyers, purporting to be from
Iowa, are buying cattle in Rice county, and
paying for them in forged checks.
Deer are reported to be unusually numer-
GUS in the woods in Otter Tail county, and
are being shot in violation of law.
The Lincoln county Tribune says 300 lee
landers will occupy farms in the northern
part of that county in short time.
Miss Viola, a little daughter of ALT. Mo-
zett's, of WinnebaRo City, was severely but
not fatally scalaed in hot water last week.
While bathing, the other night in the Mis-
sissippi river, near Itasca, Anoka county,
Lamont Hobbs, aged % years, was dAwned.
The wheat harvest is now in full blast,
All farm produce promises an abundant
yield.
1t is alleged that one agent has sold in
Glencoe this season 1000 worth of farm
machinery TO the farmers of Mcleod
county.
A runaway team recently, near Maize ppa,
Wabashaw county, threw five women to the
ground, injuring all of them severely, two
seriously.
A second telegraph wire is to be strung
along the entire line of the St. Paul & Sioux
City railroad. It is to be accomplished by
the first of September.
Bernhard Leivermann, of Chaska, had a
sunstroke while at work in his meadow re-
Gently, and was unconscious for several hours.
He is expected to recover.
The st. Peter Tribune says fifteen men
are engaged in driving piles for replacing
the railroad bridge across the Minnesota
river on the w. & st. p. railroad.
county, died July 22d, at st. Cloud, from the
ceived two days before, in that place.
A German at the Hastings depot, in at
tempting to pass between two freight cars
had one of his legs caught between the
bumpers, tearing it in serious manner.
Henry Everts, of Frontenac, Wabashaw
county, lost his granary by fire, containing
oats, wheat, harness, pillow and other farm
machinery. origin OF the nre unknown.
The Northwestern Telegraph company are
about putting no second wire from Owa-
tonna to Sleepy Eye, which will give double
wire between the last named place and Wi
mona.
A bear seized calf in the west part of
the village of Long Prairie, Todd county, the
other night The bellows of the calf aroused
parties who went in pursuit, but the beast
escaped.
The thief who stole twenty-five silver dol
lars out of Hoople's Office. at Sank Center.
has been fonnd. and owned mn. and ia now
looking throuoh the iron bars Of the iail at
St. Clond.
The Morris Stevens county, Tribune.