Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-08
MINNESOTA NEWS

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Four Winnnbago Indians are earning each
EGO in the harvest field at Lanesboro.
G. s. Barnes g. Co., grain buyers, are
about to erect an elevator at Sauk Rapids.
The Mankato Repaeso estimates the wheat
crop of Blue Earth county at 1,250,OOO
bushels.
Most of the small farmers are reported to
have finished their wheat harvesting, and
many have it stacked.
The scarlet fever has br oke out in Lanes
boro, and produces some anxiety and APP
prehenslon in that community.
s. Pfeffer has been appointed president
of the Faribault County Agricultural society
in place of John Franklin, deceased.
The Clay county ADVOCATE says the wheat
crop OF that county twill be the largest ever
harvested since the first sod was turned"
As the harvest ia nearly through, the
towns aud villages are being overrun with
lazy, thleving, begging, vagabond tramps.
Mrs. E. D. South, of Blue Earth City, was
peppered with shot the other day by
sportsmen who was shooting prairie chick
ems.
Eddy Reed, son of David Reed, of Fari-
bault, was badly b1rned the other day by
pouring powder from flask on coal Ut
fire.
Two burglars were discovered the other
night in the house of Geo. w. Batchelder, Of
Farbault, but being discovered, fled with
out plumber.
The other day Theodore Berg, of the firm
of Berg & Neils, of Sank Rapids, was thrown
from a load of hardware, and had his collar
bone broken.
Preston, Fillmore county, has called a spe-
cial election to vote on tho question OF
granting $3.50 to the projected narrow
gauge railroad.
In digging we'll in Sank Center, pieces
of trees and wood were found at depth OF
from 48 to 81 feet. It was solid clay almost
the whole distance.
The maple tree seeds planted in Marshall
last spring have mostly come up and meal
culable numbers Of young ma pies are con.-
ing among the woods.
The Dakota county commissioners have
made levy tor county expenses this year of
$22,O0O-a reduction of $11 900 from The
amount assessed last year.
farmer living in Farm Hill, near Roch-
ester, received q terrible blow in the face
from the kick OF horse the other day. HIS
AooO was O1OhOA buN AAS AoSo OdIaAy Cav uPs
A tramp darhey the other day, claiming to
be Methodist, sought the benetactions of
the church in Benson, but Chri stian charity
in that direction was not very conspicuous.
Mrs. Wamsley, of Reno, Pope county,
came near being killed by vicious COW the
other day. The COW kicked her in the face
and trampled upon her, injuriag her seri-
ously.
In the vicinity of Young America the other
day, three-year-old boy OF Peter Meyer fell
Into painful of hot starch and was so
severely scalded as to cause death in few
hours.
Recently man named Gray, working in
the quarry of Breen & Young, a. Sank
Rapids, had the index finger OF his right
hand so badly crushed az to render amputa-
ton necessary.
The twin girls of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
Ellis, of Eureka, aged about eight months,
died, one on Thursday and the other on Sat
| urday of last week, from dysentery, occa-
stoned probably by travel and change of diet
The towns of Canton and Harmony have
voted bonds in aid of the Caledonia 81
Mississippi railroad, which insures the mar
row gauge to Preston by the first of Novem-
Der If Preston votes in favor of $25, 900
bonds in aid of the enterprise.
One day last week son of Mat. Eigo, of
Bell Creek township, Goodhue county, aged
years, while leading horse to drink during
a thunder shower, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed. The only mark OF i'll
jury was slight dlscoloration of the tenn
pie.
Rochester Record and Union: E. D.
I'D no tborr ou b.A no rs,
self-blnder enter his lett hand ut the side,
and when it had Effected good hold. Mr. s.
pulled away, aud tore out bones, muscles and
every thing else. He will lose part of his
hand.
A. s. Taylor left Sank Rapids the other
day for business trip through Wisconsin
and Illinois, but returned in Two or three
days with broken leg, having been thrown
from his wagon by sudden l1rch of the
vehicle, caused by the giving away Of part
IF the harness on the horses.
Seth A. Faulkner, of Tenhassen, Martin
county, the other day borrowed his father
| team to 90 to an adjoining township, and
then put out with design to appropriate the
| team to his own use. The relentless father
pursued his fleeing son with sheriff, over
took and arrested hlm for horse stealing and
ne is now in jail.
Mo0rhead AdU0c0te: A train of five cars
| standing on the size track near tho depot,
| nad an escapade of their own early the other
| morning. By some means they received a
| momentum and started down the levee at
! the rate of twenty miles on hour, smashing
up things considerably. The cars contained
feed, lumber, etc.
BENNINGTON Dakota county, Press. Sher-
lit Chapel has sold over 1000 acres of wheat
on attachments during the last two weeks
mostly to recover payments due on macnin-
| cry. Twenty-three actual sales were made,
the crops being bid in by the plaintiffs, and
renewed notes secured for future safety. In
all he had over sixty levies, but most of the
suits were adjusted without sales.
Charles Stoddard, who was reported to be
quite sick at the hotel in Lac qul Parle last
week, was removed to Appleton in car
| risge, distance of sixteen miles. The
| jaunt was too much for his enfeebled frame
and he died in day or two after his arrival
in Appleton. He leaves wife and child,
who were with him when he died. His re-
mains were taken to Rosemount for inter
ment.
One of the tramps confined in the city
calaboose at Albert Lea, the other evening
set it on fire. The fire was discovered in
| time to extinguish it without its doing much
| damage. At this the tramp got lad and
tore his clothing into shreds, and the fellow
remained in confinement in the calaboose
for three or four days in perfectly nude
condition, when he requested one of the
policemen to bring him needle and some
thread to fix his clothing with.
Sleepy Eye Wide-Aacake: On Sunday
evening, August Sd, E. P. Lesueur, of Cam
BY, Lis wife and two children were struck BY
lightning. The womon and children were
killed outright and Mr.. Lesueur's life is des-
paired of. 1t will be remembered that Mr..
Lesueur and family removed to Candy over
one year ago and established the Lesueur
House. Mr.. Lesueur was considered to be
an excellent and accommodating landlord,
highly respected citizen and the loss will
be greatly felt by the people of Candy and
vicinity.
While examining the State salt lands in
Wllkin county, near Breckenridge, the COM
nlsslOnefS came upon large tract of onak