Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-09

driving span of colts in Lake Park they
took fright and ran away, upsetting the sleigh
and hurting Mr.. >Brunstadt severely. His
wife, who was with him, was not hurt.
s. 81. Daniels had stored 161 barrels of
-four in the depot warehouse at Rochester,
Olmsted county. When marking the bar
rels, preparatory to shipment, he found that
twenty-five barrels had been distracted.
township, Blue Earth county, was returning
away, breaking his right leg below the knee.
and his wife's left arm. Others in the We
hicle at the time were not INJURED.
The Duluth Tribune of Dec. 9th, says !:
!"People abroad who suppose that navigation
on Lake Superior is closed, are mistaken.
Perky johnson leaves early next week on the
Siskiwit, with cargo of beef, pork, poultry,
oysters, &c., for Prince Arthur's landing
A correspondent writing from Vicksburg,
Renville county, says that town has dimin-
ished 100 per cent during the past year.
'There used to be one store, now there is
none" The correspondent pluckily adds j.:
IF we don't live in a big town, we feel, as
big as anybody"
Crookston Journal: Mr.. R. Shaw, a
nephew of our townsman E. IL. Shaw, while
crossing the bridge on Snake river, last week,
missed his footing and fell through the
bridge to- the ice about twenty-five feet be-
low, breaking his arm and causing very So
rious internal descriptions which are reported
to be dangerous. q. =.
Rush City Post, Dec. 81: Tuesday even
ing word was received here, to Mr.. James
Doyle from his home in Wyoming, that his
little son, about years old, had been very
badly burned. He had some matches, play
ing with them, when he caught his clothes
afre, resulting as aforesaid. The accident
fortunately has not terminated fatally.
Mankato Reuieao: On Christmas pay
Louis Wolf, while repairing gun, took it
out to try, and in discharging it the breech
pin was blown out and struck him on the
eye, breaking the ball and filing the other
eye with powder. DR.. Bishop was called,
and removed the pm, and under his treat
ment the sight in one eye has been partly
restored.
On Christmas day man r. the name Of
Breton was getting out ties near Hinckley,
Chisago county, and while thus innocently
employed, thinking no danger near, was shot
by a keen-sighted, incautious huntsman
named Alexander Mckenzie, who mistook
Breton for deer! The ball struck the get
ter out of ties just above the elbow and shat
tered the bone, n...- .<,.. -. .;.r....
Taylors Falls Journal: Reports from
the pineries are encouraging. The svamps
are frozen over in good shape, and in some
localities there is snow enough for present
purposes. At some camps they have made
good roads for hauling by flooding them with
water and allowing it to freeze. There is no
doubt but that LOGS enough will be mt in to
supply the demand next summer. 80 ~
,Lanesboro ournal: The Carrolton mills
Of this place, belonging to White g. Beynon,
caught fire at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning,
and would have been totally destroyed had
not George Hyde made . timely discovery Of
the devouring element. The flame was
quenched just in the nick Of time BY the two
or three employees in the mill, and thu
Lanesboro escaped another disastrous con-
fagration.