Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-18
MINNESOTA NEWS.

'Crops growing finely" says the Tyler Tri-
6une of June IL.
Charles Adams, a farmer of Nashville town
ship, Martin county, had fourteen sheep killed
by late hail storm.
The town of Lake Prairie, Nicollet county,
is largely overhowed by water. The census
tsker has been obliged to suspend his travels.
During the storm of Saturday, June 5, in the
township of Pleasant Mounds, Martin county,
nine school houses are reported to have been
blown down.
The Rochester Record and Union of June IL,
gives accounts of considerable damage by rain
and lightning strikes in Olmsted county dur
ing the three days heavy storms of last week.
A Waseca county paper of June 15, says;
''The recent cOpious rains have not injured the
growing wheat crop whatever, except possibly
on low, fat lands where the growth is heavy,
and even there not enough to damaged it mater
tally.
Farrell Fay, of Blue Earth City, received
letter the other day from his father in
Ireland stating that his family were in great
distress and want. The dutifnl son went to
work and gathered up $35 and renitted it to
his father.
The Currie Pioneer says last week V. H.
Maxwell was kicked by horse, breaking one
of his arms, and knocking him against the
side of the stable with such force as to break
two of his ribs.
A man with his family, wife and three chill
dren, attempted to ford William creek the
other day in the southwest part of Blue Earth
county. floating log struck the wagon and
carried it down stream. The youngest child,
three and a. half years old, was drowned.
The Chatield Democrat of June - gives
adetailed account of the cyclone of last week,
which struck the townships of Sumner, Jordon,
Orion, Elmira and Saratoga with damaging
force. Trees we're uprooted, houses wrecked,
barns and fences demolished, and animals
killed.
Alexandria Douglass County, NelcS, June
II: During the storm last Friday evening
lightning entered the house of Joseph Felin, of
Oscar Lake, and instantly killed his daughter
Christine, aged l9 years, and seriously injured
another daughter between 5 and years old.
The girls were sitting by the fireplace when
the fluid came down with the above result.
Breckenridge (Wilkin county, Free Press,
June IL: We had not time to collect thT par
ticulars last Friday morning with reference to
the misfortune from lightning sustained by
Mr. Elwell, of Red Wing, farming extensively
in Richland county. 1t seems that there were
eighteen head of horses and mules in the barn,
and twelve men sleeping overhead, when the
lightning struck the barn, killing a horse and
mule, igniting the hay in dozen places at the
same instant, the men all escaping injury, who
had not time to dress themselves and barely
time to get the animals out of the burning
barn. Loss 81, 200.
Last week 10 of the employees of the upper
insane hospital at st. Peter struck for higher
wages. Five of them returned to their work
and afterwards some of the others got sick of
this work and tried to get back, but their
places had been filled with other men, The
rules of the institution require employees to
give months notice before leaving. but when
did a striker ever have any honor? A general
strike would leave the institution with 500 or
600 patients uncared for. In this the strikers,
reckless of their obligations, hoped to bring
the authorities to their own terms. The large
number of applicants for the vacated positions
saved the institution from embarrassment, and
spoiled the little plan of the unscrupulous
strikers.