Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-06
MINNESOTA NEWS.

on account of diphtheria.
Work has commenced on the new iron
trestle opposite Hastings.
Dayton Smith, tried at Litchfeld for horse
| stealing, was acquitted by the jury.
A servant girl at Faribault had a log
| broken the other day while washing.
The total valuation of real and personal
| property In Winona county is $10,O99,6 35.
Granite Falls is without church-going
BELL or any other bell larger than dinner
bell.
One work of civilization is wanting in
Yellow Medicine county--there is no Jail
| there. l .E
The scarlet fever prevails to considerable
extent in the neighborhood of Preston, Fill
more county.
The other night the safe of j. FL. Clark, of
| Window, was robbed of small amount of
silver coin.
Martin county has 45O, $50 acres of arabic
land, only 100000 of which are subject to
taxation.
A daughter of Mr.. Biersdorf, of the town
of Welles, fell the other day and had one OF
her legs broken.
Recently farm house belonging to Stem
Stenson, in Peterson, Fillmore county, was
destroyed by fire.
The Morristown, Rice county, people are
considering the matter of revoking their
village charter.
John Williams, of Faribault, froze his toes
the other night, making the amputation Of
one of them necessary.
Owatonna, with population 5000, has
four weekly newspapers, three English and
one German.
The union revival meetings are still in
progress in the NJ. E. church at Paramount,
and are largely attended.
!, George G. Baker, the magnificent bass
singer, of the Baker family singers, is dead.
, He died in Milwaukee.
store at Paynesville, Meeker county, was
burglarized few nights since, and goods to
the amount of 5000 stolen.
The st. Peter Times says that diphtheria
has broken out at Kasota, and has already
carried off a number of its victims.
The county officers of Nicollet report their
fees as follows: Clerk, 81 ,028.50; register
of deeds, $815.l4; sheriff, 81 ,02008.
"Did anybody" asks a Minnesota local
, paper, sever know winter like the present
. t } be followedby poor crop of wheat?'
. Lsmberton, Redwood county, is regarded
. as one of the very best points in the State
! for the establishment of a grist mill.
g In digging we'll in Jordon, it was ascer-
9 tanned that the frost line extended from the
surface to the depth of four feet eight inches
A. Lommor, of Wabashaw, lost his house
by fire last week. Most of the contents
were saved. He had an insurance of $400
/ One of the signs of mild weather is the
appearance of croquet players on the lawns
. on the sunshine sides of pleasant residences.
n Benjamin Slocum, of Castle Rock, Dakota
o county, has lost four children by diphtheria,
y aged 6, 8, II and II years, inside of two
. weeks.
r A new custom grist mill is to be built the
J, coming season in the town of Mainden,
: Benton county, getting its power from Elk
n river.
: Sneak thieves are plying their small trade
r in Faribault, stealing robes and whips from
r vehicles and committing other petty depre-
t dations.
:, A small boy, son of A. Erkens, of Jordan,
L Scott county, fell from hay-mow the other
. day, fracturing an arm and dislocating q
s shoulder.
Joseph Birge, of st. Charles, had leg
: broken a. few mornings since while as
= sisting in placing machinery in Miller &
: Ellsworth's elevator.
- The number of accidents chronicled
2 caused by runaway teams, in Minnesota,
: smashing up people, horses and vehicles, is
y really something marvellous.
IS While August Hagemann, of Sleepy Eye
IS was riding on horseback his horse slipped
l. and fell with him, breaking one of the legs
n of the rider above the ankle.
y During the mild weather of these magnif-
d cent winter days, ladies' and gentlemen are
1t seen enjoying themselves in horseback riding
IL on the bare and snowless streets.
70 Miss Mary Shepard, of Sank Rapids, who
1t was SO severely burned last week by an ex
y plosion of gunpowder, is gradually improv-
ing, and it Is now believed her eye-sight will
= be saved.
= Pete johnson, the thief who recently
= "went through" the milk factory at Has
:. tings and got badly frozen, has had about
~ half of one foot, and two toes on the other
amputated.
: A drunken tramp the other night staggered
,r into house In Litchfield and frightened the
" women and children, who were without any
- more protection. The police arrested him
n and locked him up.
n An unhitched team at Sleepy Eye ran away
at the other evening. They took to the railroad
A. track, which they followed till they struck a
IS small trestle, when one of the horses fell
and broke his neck.
/. H. Rose, who resides on Highland
Prairie, Fillmore county, weighs 242 pounds
his wife weighs PAP pounds, son 90 years
+; old weighs 211 pounds, and a daughter II
: years old weighs ISL pounds.
e. Recently, team WITH load of hay took
fright, on Main street, in Red Wing, and ran
= away, throwing the driver, j. p. CARLSON, Of
o Vasa, on the ground, breaking both bones OF
one of his legs above the ankle.
y Two wood choppers in Waseca county
y were chopping on the same stick, when the
- ak of one glanced and struck the other on
g the instep, nearly cutting the foot in two
IL There is but slender chance of saving the
IS foot.
L. A small boy, son of j. Murdoch, of Jor
5, dan, the other day, snapped cap on a gun
D. when piece of the cap flew into one of his
n eyes. 1t was feared the sight of the eye was
1T destroyed. He was taken to St. Paul fol-
.e treatment. g
e, The other day son of John Hennessey
of Money Greek, Fillmore county, was
le kicked in the face by a horse and severely
l. lnJured-one calk of the horseshoe cut
D through his nose, and the other entered his
lie cheek below the right eye.
Sank Rapids Sentinel: The granite which
o was quarried and cut last fall for the pro
re posed Minneapolis, st. Cloud & Sank Rapids
y railroad bridge piers. is soon to be taken NJ
% on the line of the Northern Pacific, where il
le will be used for building culverts, etc.
Il foxxy -.