Daily globe., 1879-05-12
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Plum trees are in full bloom. Apple tree
buds are just opening.
Wabashaw this spring furnishes considera-
BILE number of emgrants for the West.
Farmers in Freeborn county are going largely
into the cultivation of potatoes this season.
Andrew Brandrup, treasurer of Wilkin
county, has had his home destroyed by fire.
Vegetation is greatly advanced for this sea-
son IF the year. The weather is splendid for
wheat.
A Norwegian child was accidentally burned
to death last week in Riceland, Frecborn
county.
Mrs. Farmhouse, of Round Prairie, found a
silver ten cent piece in the gizzard of a chicken
which she was dressing the other day.
Miss Weatherblow, the school teacher at Zum-
bro Falls, was fined $40 and costs (amounting
to $48.1D for Furnishing Uriah Whaley, Jr.
I. Dutton, workman at a furniture manu-
factory in Faribault, had two fingers taken off
recently by circular saw while saving chair
legs. e
Swede farmer from Belle Plaine passed
through Glencoe the other day with $50 head
of horses cattle and sheep, bound for Yellow
Medicine county.
At Kasson, Dodge county, since the election,
| three saloons and two drug stores licences for
the sale of spirituous liquors have been taken
out, aggregating $3.50.
A French beggar about so years Of age, short
| in stature, showing a paper printed in several
languages, gathered in $6S in Winona. He is
a fraud-beware of him.
| The stables and grancry of J.. and E. w.
Collins Gather and sony, of L;tchfeld, Mcekcr
county, were destroyed by fire lately, supposed
to be the work of an incendiary.
At Brainerd last week, fire set to burn un-
derbrush and rubbish spread, and came near
destroying the residences of H. D. Follett and
NJ. y. Ford. The people turned out en- masse,
and by the most vigorous efforts stopped tho
progress of the flames.
st. Cloud Times: A deer walked leisurely up
to Hayward's Union mill the other day and
began eating oats out of measure which one
of the workmen held out to it. 1t was caught
and put in shed, but Mr.. Hayward, upon
learning this, ordered it released. and it scam
pered off to its native glen.
The postofflce department has established a
postoflicc at Belle Chester, ne1r the Bclvidere
Catholic church. Anthony Casper has been ap.
pointed postmaster. Belle Chester is located
in a thickly populated section. The main
street Of the place is the dividing line between
Goodhue and Wabastaw counties.
One day last week man in Winnebago City
Faribault county, in attempting to descend a
we'll fifty feet deep, swung off on an old rOpt
too weak to hold his weight The rope broke
and he went down, striking feet foremost in
about three feet of mud and water. Strange
to say, he was uninjurcd. He was drawn up
wettcr, muddier, and perhaps wiser man
too wise to venture out again on an old rotte1
rope.
Fergus Falls Journal: The first elopemen
the Journal has ever been called on to recort
in this region occurred on Monday, May 5th
, man. late of Northfeld, eloped with the wifi
Of a Mr.. Maxwell, alsoa new conner. The &C
qnaintance of this couple was quite limited
, and the husband, who was absent at the tim
of the flight, is entirely ignorant of where the
| arc gone.
1 Lie Sucur Sentinel: John Taylor d Co., VIII
recently filled contract for about 900 hea
D of young stock cattle, purchased in thi
y vicinity, on Thursday last secured anothe
contract of r. Bardep, in St Paul. for th
: purchase of 4,300 head of the same class Q
e cattle, which they expect to fill in about
week. The demand for cattle is supplying tn
J. | farmers with needed cash to tide over unit
Il another harvest.
The house of John Yoak, who lives in Scot
/, county, just outside the town line Of Whea
9 land was burned on Sunday the 9th nit, t.
c gether with his granary, which contained mos
of his wheat crop for three years past, amoun
d ing to over 1000 bushels. All his hogs wei
also burned. His store was burned two yea
ago, at which time he saved his books an
b notes, which were all destroyed in the preser
le fire. He had some gold in the house, whlC
was found in the ruins after the fire, fused i,
to a solid lump. 'i
e. Caledonia Courier: We are informed that
l. man was accidentally run over by the $.
g. train at Houston on Monday night May
* While the fireman engaged in putting woo
(. in the furnace, he saw hat in the air net
" the engine. The train was stopped, and {
10 going back the mangled body of m an WI
re found on the track and life quite extinct Co
to oner Gates of this village, was notified by te
n egraph and went to Houston on Thursday
ce ascertain the facts of the unfortunate affai
to The victim is said to be Swede living fe
miles from Houston on the south side of Ro'
It river
ne Delano, Wright county, Eagle: The raj
Id road wreck near Long Lake, last week, W
Of caused by the train running onto a couple
W cows, and shouldn't think so, but Il
he train was about as badly dcmoraiized as Il
At cows; engine, tender, broken up freight ca
a and their contents, were scattered around pr
ng miscuously, and the damage must be count'
en- by thousands of dollars. The engine run Gle
be off the track and lay on its side half buried
p mud {the place being swamp, the tend
1g was broken up and box cars stove to pieces
i'd though they were lot of paper boxes. Fo
er tunately no one was seriously hurt, though q
ed engineer and one or two other employees d
Il. not escape without fearful shaking up Al
at some painful bruiseA