Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-06
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Flax 10 now being out and stacked.
A twenty pound coon was killed 10 Granite
Falls the other day.
Drunken Indians nowadays are "a specta-
Gle to men and angels" in Duluth.
young daughter Of A. Frink, of Dundas,
had leg broken the other night.
It has been decided to hold tho county fair
Of Murray county 1t Avoca this year.
The Catholics of Waseca have bought eight
aores Of well located land for cemetery.
The new elevator at Alexandria. Douglas
county, ia completed and lie receiving grain.
Eight cases Of diphtheria are reported in the
family Of MIR. Hanson, near the village of Hast-
ings. .-~--
A citizen of Appleton the other day sh OF
forty ducks In the Minnesota river near the
bridge.
About seven bushels of wheat to the acre, it
IL said. may be put down for Houston
county.
Hay fever patients are fiockinQ to. and End
ing relief in Duluth, simply from atmospheric
influences.
Petty sneak thieves are causing some com.
motion ia Kasson, Dodge county, by invading
orchards and apiaries.
The postofice in Montevideo was robbed the
other night of some ten dollars in cash, and q
Tolof 81. Ottos, Of Willmar, hung himself
recently. He was q well-to-do farmer, and
no cauAe for the rash act ID known.
A fire was discovered in the harness shop of
Fairbanks in Austin, but was promptly ex-
tinguished without doing much damage.
The silver wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. d.
Abbott. OF Cannon Falls, was celebrated Aug.
81, with music, dancing and other festivities.
A party of Chicago hunters, occupying five
tents, in Iberia, Brown county, are enjoying
themselves immensely in fishing and hunting.
A son OF John P. Frink, of Kerkhoven, Swift
county, was instantly killed last week by be-
ing caught by the alokle of q reaper. His age
was years.
A great many wheat stacks in Wright county
are found to be wet clear through, when opened
for threshing. This is careless or unskilled
stacking.
The corn in Sherburne county is reported to
be very backward. but fair crop will yet be
realized if the frost holds of till the middle OF
September.
county, received kick from colt the other
day, inAicting severe scalp wound. No other
injury received.
A fire broke out in one of the sleeping rooms
of the Merchants hotel in New Ulm the other
night but was discovered in time TO prevent q
conaagration.
Laggard farmers have hundreds Of acres in
the shock exposed to the late rains. Such
will receive but little sympathy, whatever
their loss may be.
George Parsons, aged II years, adopted son
of N. 3. Reynolds, of Orookston. committed
suicide few days since; shot himaelf with q
shot gun. Hereditary insanity is given as the
cause.
A large wheat stack on the farm of James
Rogers in the town of Clifford, Wabashaw
county, was struck by lightning during heavy
thunder shower recently, and entirely CON-
sumed.
A hired man Of George Ulrich, Of Dakota
county, was thrown from horse the other day,
and his spine - injured that he has lost eli
power and feeling in his body from his waist
to his feet.
James Winchester, of Bed Wing, who has
not been able to speak above whisper for over
q year. by the application of galvanic batteries
has had his vocal organs Embossed, and is now
able to Rrticulate.
Reports begin to come that unthreshed wheat
remaining in the stack has been much damaged
by the late rains and is growing. Of course
the grade will be much reduced and the price
correspondinRly.
A careless hunter in Sleepy Eye fired his shot
charge took effect in the calf of the leg OF
John Fraz. Some of the shot were extracted,
others could not be found.
Montevideo. Chippewa county, has built a
new school house. q very fine structure. at an
expense of from $l1,G00 to $4,000. This is
highly creditable to the town and one of the
best possible Investments.
The new house ON William Evans farm near
Lake Benton, Lincoln county, was destroyed
by fire last week. A boy went from the field
to The house for gun and accidentally dis
charged it into bed. setting it on fire. Loss,
$700; NO insurance.
LIE Sueur Ssntinel: A so& Of W. @. Gault,
aged IL years, near Ottawa, LIE Sueur county,
while going for their COWS recently, had a dog
with him that was attacked by three Wildcats
The boy and the dog made heroic stand, and
killed all The wildcats.
Miss Alice TObey, of Sank Centre, was thrown
from q buggy the other day. and had both
Dor es of her left arm broke about the wrist,
ard shoulder and body bruised by wheel
passing over it. In this condition she had to
walk mile before she could get assistance.
A careless fool in New Sweden, Nicollet
county, was snaps Ing pistol, the other day,
thinkspg it was not loaded, but it was, and q
old boy of August Logerstrom's. The physi-
clan thinks it impossible for the boy to re-
cover.
Hastings Ne,c Era; The wheat acreage of
this county, Dakota, for 1880 is trihe over
30, 600 acres. At fifteen bushels an acre, which
is very reasonable estimate, the crop will
yield 100000 bushels. IF we estimate eighteen
bushels an acre the yield would DO 800, 900
bushels.
James Gallagher, of Adams, Mower county,
who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared
from Grand Meadow, in the same county, three
weeks previous to September l, had not been
sion that he had met with foul play, very gen.
orally prevails.
With customary carelessness son of George
Doty, of Mapleton, took hold of loaded shot
gun by the muzzle and drew it towards him.
1t was discharged, the shot lodged IN his side,
iDhicting very serious, but it is hoped not q
fatal wound, though his condition is not re-
garded critical.
Albert Lea Standard: While wheat raisers
have been fretting and Tuning over the wet
weather, 8. ]. johnson, of Manchester, Free
born county, has been sailing down $l,202 81,
obtained az follows: From the sale OF wool and
sheep, $780, from the sale of hogs. 1886. 90.
He has large flock of sheep left over, and .
number of head of cattle not yet disposed of.
Ourrie Murray county, Pioneer: The
damage done to crops, although serious, is
not 20 general as at first feared. Flax that was
cut and not stacked is materially damaged as
well rs other grains but those who shocked
their oats and wheat and capped them were
prepared for this wet spell Of weather, and
have saved their products thus far in good
shape.
Worthington Adrnnce: The rainy weather
of the past ten days caught the farmers with
their hsying and stacking not more than half
done. Much of the grain has been injured and
large part of the wheat will be reduced one
grade 81 least by this wettiDg. u has cost the
farmers thousands of dollars, but if it should
clear up now they will still have plenty of good
ain left.
OWatonna Repis,r, Sept. 4: jas. McNarms,
who was shot in the arm while hunting prairie
chickens week ago Sunday, died on Friday
evening. His arm seemed to be doing well all
along. Although from the first he seemed to
run down, yet even on the day Of his death no
fears were apprehended. The i'm mediate cause
of his death was the stoppage of blood between
the heart and lungs from clothed blood,