Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-28
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movement is being made in Dundas,
Rice county, in the direction of forming
stock company-shares $15O each-for the
purpose OF rebuilding the Touring mill re-
Gently destroyed by fire.
Some wretch has scattered poison about
Mankato for the purpose of poisoning dogs
promlscuously. Thus dogs, valuable, fam
ly pets, and i'll no way harmful or annoying,
fall victims to this heartless act.
Lewis Blackmer, of Melrose, Stearns
county, being attracted to the woods by the
barking of his dog, discovered large black
bear under the upturned root of tree. He
shot the bear, whose skin measured six feet.
There were ,165 expended in Fillmore
county in 1878 in building school houses.
For this amount seven frame school build
ings were erected. One of the best signs of
the times is the erection of comfortable
school houses.
AS John McGovern, of Kalmar, was driv-
ing load of wood into Rochester the other
day, his sled tipped over, throwing him off
and large portion of the wood on to him.
lie had several ribs broken and was other
wise severely injured.
The average receipts of wheat in Le Sueur,
for the week ending Jan. 23a, was 1900
bushels per day. During the season the
total receipts OF the now crop at the eleva-
tor have been 10000, and the Touring mill
has taken in as much more.
The long vexed question of the organiza-
ton OF town lO3, range IS, in Brown county,
has at last been decided. The county COM
mlssloners have ordered it to be organized
under the name of STATELY" and an cleo
ton for town officers is soon to be held.
Mrs. John Johnson, Swedish woman liv-
ing in Cannon river settlement, Goodhue
county, was riding with some friends near
her house, when runaway team collided
with hers, and one of the horses struck Mrs.
johnson, in1icting injuries causing her death
in a few hours.
In large sections of the State mills are
standing still by reason OF low water in the
streams, and almost innumerable wells and
clsterns are dry. There has been no rain,
more than slight mist, since October, and
but very slight fall of snow, and that lies
mostly unmelted on the ground.
A serious stabbing ARRAY took place near
Mud Lake, in Johnstown, Carver county,
on Sunday, the 19th inst, between two
young men named John Colburt and Patrick
Fitzgerald, in which Colburt drew knife
and stabbed Fitzgerald about the head and
neck, cutting him in five places.
Mrs. McDonald-Foley, imprisoned in the
county jail at Benson, on charge of bigamy,
made her escape by forcing open door the
other night, and, with fatal shortsightedness
went directly to De Graft, her old home,
where the sheriff of Swift county found her,
and returned her to the Jail in Benson.
st. Cloud Times: On Saturday morning,
Jan. IL, Leo Mailman, of the town of Lux
emburg, dropped dead at his own breakfast
table. He had just finished hearty break
fast and was on the point of leaving the
table when he suddenly threw up his arms
and fell dead. He was about IS years old,
strong and robust, and to every appearance
in good health. Heart disease is supposed to
be the cause.
Mazeppa Tribune: Asa Spicer, who
lives about three miles south of Mazeppa,
mad his head pounded into jelly one day
this week by his amiable wife and one of
his sons. Medical aid was summoned, and
we learn the old man is not expected to sur
we. 1t appears that the old lady held him
Whlie the boy pounded him over the head
with a cord stick.
Considerable excitement has been pro-
duced in Mortified by the desertion of a
worthy wife by an immoral husband, who
bestowed rather too much attention to a
frall far one. The wicked ones were brought
into court, and Justice Lee sent them to
jail, for their trial n May next. Bail was
liked at s$4OO for the man and 300 for the
woman, which neither was able to procure.
Sank Rapids Sentinel, Jan. 21: On Friday
morning, Miss Mary Shepard, who is stop
ping with Mr.. and Mrs. G. d. Hill, was
sweeping the floor, and noticed some black
particles, which proved to be powder, which
had fallen from the shelf and scattered on
the floor, but which she supposed to be grass
seed. She accordingly swept it Oh to dust
threw the sweepings into the fire. An ex-
plosion took place, and she was burned in
terrible manner about the neck and face. It
is feared that the sight of one of her ewes
has been destroyed by the fire.
Northwood, Iowa, Eagle: Recently at the
State Line church Rev. Torgensen was about
to perform the ceremony for Johannes Schet-
letad and Miss Nelson, and in propounding
the usual question to the bride it was clio
tied that she could not lawfully contract a
matrimonial alliance because of pre- existing
circumstances of which the groom was una
ware, and instead of being marriage, in the
presence of all the presence of all the friends
1t was declared ':draw" until she should
produce papers showing the legal parentage
OF her child, about a year and-a-half old.
All parties returned home and INDUCED in
genuine old-fashioned spree on the liquor
they had got i'll Albert Lea to celebrate the
wedding with. They had the spree if not
the wedding.
Henderson (Sibley county, INDEPENDENT:
An unknown man was found in the town OF
Sibley about midnight on Sunday, the 10th
inst, near the house of Robert Boese. When
first seen the man was on his hands and
knees, but on being approached rose up but
refused to speak. Mr.. Boese threatened to
shoot If he did not tell who he was, whence
re came and what he wanted, but the only
remark he made was that he was rather
weak since last year. He was taken to the
house and put to bed, but was either un-
able or unwilling to speak or give any signs
as to who he was, and finally died about 8
O'Clock Tuesday morning. The man was of
a light complexion, and with reddish beard
and about 80 years old. On the inside of
his cap was the name W. Morris stitched on
to piece of ribbon or cloth. Who the man
was or the cause of his death no one knows.
THE COURTS.
District Court.
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