Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-02-06
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Joseph Birge, of st. Charles, had leg
broken few mornings since while as
eisting in placing machinery in Miller Il
Ellsworth's elevator. H., III #z,
| The number of accidents chronicled,
caused by runaway teams, in Minnesota,
smashing up people, horses and vehicles, is
really something marvellous. ~ >>%-I
While August Hagemann, of Sleepy Eya,
was riding on horseback his horse slipped
and fell with him, breaking one of the legs
Of the rider above the ankle.
: During the mild weather of these magnif-
cent winter days, ladies and gentlemen are
seen enjoying themselves in horseback riding
on the bare and snowless streets.
Miss Mary Shepard, of Sank Rapids, who
was SO Severely burned last week by an ex-
plosion of gunpowder, is gradually improv-
ing, and it ia now believed her eye,sight will
be saved.
Pete johnson, the thief who recently
!tswent through, the milk factory at Hes-
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
into house in Litchfeld and frightened the
women and children, who were without any
more protection. The police arrested him,
and locked him up.
An unhitched team at Sleepy Eye ran away
the other evening. They took to the railroad
| track, which they followed till they struck q
small trestle, when one of the horses fell
and broke his neck.
I. H. Rose, who resides on Highland
Prairie, Fillmore county, weighs 242 pounds,
his wife weighs PAP pounds, son 20 years
old weighs I'll pounds, and q daughter II
years old weighs 181 pounds.
Recently, team with load of hay took
fright, on Main street, in Red Wing, and ran
away, throwing the driver, j. P. Carlson, of
Vasa, on the ground, breaking both bones of
one of his legs above the ankle.
Two wood choppers in Waseca county
were chopping on the same stick, when the
the instep, nearly cutting the foot in two.
There is but slender chance of saving the
| foot.
! A small boy, son of j. Murdoch, of Jor-
dan, the other day, snapped cap on gun,
when piece of the-cap flew into one of his
eyes. 1t was feared the sight of the eye was
he
treatment
The other day son of John Hennessey,
of Money Greek, Fillmore county, was
kicked in the face by horse and severely
injured one calk of the horseshoe cut
through his nose, and the other entered his
cheek below the right eye.
Sank Rapids Sentinel: The granite which
was quarried and cut last fall for the pro-
posed Minneapolis, St. Cloud & Sank Rapids
railroad bridge piers, is soon to be taken up
on the line of TIE Northern Pacific, where it
will be used for building culverts, etc.
A few evenings since "non- explosive
lamp in the house of A. j. Stevens, in
Rushfprd, exploded, scattering the oil about
the room, burning the carpet, running the
wall paper and damaging number of pieces
of furniture It was with the greatest exer-
1 ton the fire was put out.
James w. Phillips, an orphan pauper boy,
aged about seventeen years, living with man
named Hartzing, in the town of Brockwsy,
Stearns county, was found dead on the 18th
inst. coroner's jury, after holding an in
quest, found that deceased died from the re-
suit of exposure and ill treatment.
| Window Reporter: Mr.. E. G. Nason's
child swallowed asmall-sized safety pin about
the first of last October. The pin is about
an inch long and was open when the child
| swallowed it. We believe all of our doctors
were called, and at one time the child's life
was in imminent peril, but it rallied, and FOR
some time has been quite we'll. Last Friday
the pin passed off through the bowels. in a
corroded condition, and the child is prosper
ing finely.