Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-27
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Another wheat elevator is about to be erected
in Pennington, Dakota county.
| The rebuilding of the nj. E. church in Mon,
ticello, Wright county, is nearly completed.
It is rumored that the Knights of Pythias of
Faribault, are about to organize a new brass
band.
Joseph Sligel, of Sleepy Eye, had a shoulder
dislocated the other day by being thrown from
a horse.
W. 81. Richardson, of Winona, Minn., COM
mitted suicide at the Nicollet house in St.
Peter, Aug 81, by taking morphine.
The State militia company of Faribault, has
| been mustered out of service, having served
their three years term of enlistment.
George Freeman, of Hampton, Dakota coun-
| ty, fell from a load of wheat the other day and
had his left leg broken IN three places.
The number of deaths in Mankota last year
was 102, being about seventeen to every one
thousand inhabitants-not an unhealthy show
ing.
Moorhead, Clay county, has been adding to
| its police force protection from the depre-
datiors of tramps, of whom there is great in
flux.
Prof. Donovan, of st. Charles, 4 Winona
county, has accepted call to take charge of
the public schools in Worthington, Mobiles
county.
An onterprising gentleman i'll Northfeld
he's been walking and standing on his head on
tight rope. He got good many gasers, but
few shekels.
The sugar cane crop IN Waseca county is
reported to be promising we'll. There are / rs
acres planted to the crop, last year only
eighty-two.
John Bauer, Of Scotland, Dakota county, q
plasterer, fell from high scaffold the other
day and crushed his skull, death ensuing in
about an hour.
The other day @. A. johnson found on a
street in st. Peter $43 in cash. He hoaestly
looked for and found the owner, and received
SIS for his fidelity.
The Red Wing AdUance says the 7-year-oId
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. M L. Webb, who
had leg broken last July by falling from a
chamber window, is dead.
A cowardly sneak, for revenge, the other
night entered the enclosure of Joseph Van
Emon, of DelanO, Wright county, and shaved
the hair from the tail of his horse
deer attempted to swim the lake at Lex
ington, LIE Sueur county, the other day, but
some unfeeling boys pursued the poor animal
IN boat and killed it in the water.
There have been twelve deaths in Saratoga
| township, one in Elmira, and one in St.
Charles, Wlnona county, from diphtheria,
since the outbreak several weeks ago. New
cases continue to occur in Saratoga.
| Wa-ku-ta, the Sioux chief, died recently at
the Santee Agency, Nebraska. The home of
| Wa-ku-ta and his ancestors for generations
back, was at the head of Lake Pepin Mimi,
where the village of Wa-ku-ta now stands.
| Alexander Faribault, founder of the town of
Faribault, Rice county, being in straitened cir
| cumstances. proposes to put up his gold watch,
the only present property in his possession, to
| be rafhed for to aid him in his necessities,
| Pitiful.
Rev. G. Campbell who is about to embark
to the northwest coast of Africa as mission
ary, under the auspices of the Presbyterian
| church, was married last week in Monticello,
Wright county, to Miss Louisa Kries, of. that
| town.
Teton college, in Northfeld, fine bell from it's
Troy, N. Y, foundry, weighing over 1000
pounds, which is twice the weight of the one
destroyed by fire. 1t is already in the tower Of
the new Willis hall.
Mr.. Webster, living near Union Lake, in
| jured one of his legs few weeks ago but paid
no attention to it and continued to work in the
harvest field. Gangrene set in and the leg
had to be amputated. His physicians think
he cannot recover.
| John Cunningham was drowned in the south
branch of Vermillion river on Sunday, aged
%, while in the water bathing. He had
worked for Robert Duff, of Hampton, Dakota
county, and was stranger in the county. He
had relatives in Madison, Wisconsin.
| A new court house has been erected and fin
ished in Monticello, Wright county, and now
the matter is agitated Of preparing the base
ment of the edifice to be used for Jail purposes.
Wright county has no Jail, and its prisoners are
now lodged in the Jail in Hennepin county.
A lad and miss of Hastings, aged respective
ly II and 15, were married the other day.
They left for Prescott, where they were mar
ried secretly, on the steamer Annie Barnes
and returned the next morning. The officiat-
ing official may have rendered himself liable
to the penalty of the law for performing the
marriage ceremony for children.
Lake City Leader: A stack containing $50
unthreshed bushels of wheat was burned to the
ground on the farm Of E. Il. Kinney, in the
town of Lake, last week. The fire was started
| from some sparks blown from the steam
| threshing engine of Lee Sutton, which was
being used on the place. The separator was
alsu burned. 1t was with much difficulty that
the barns and outbuildings could be saved.
Montevideo Chippewa county, Leader: Tie
whereabouts of the missing farmer, Amos
Cushman, still remains a mystery. and no clue
has yet been discovered that throws any light
on the subject. This county is getting noto-
rious for mysterious disappearance as during
the past week another farmer, living near Buff
falo lake, by the name of Phillip Young, is re-
ported as missing, navlng lett his family and
crops to take care of themselves.
Wabashaw Herald, Aug 25 During a thun.
der storm Wednesday morning, lightning struck
a stack of wheat on the farm of MIR, DEWITT.
on Greenwood Prairie, burning that stack, and
| another one standing near by. Several stacks
| of wheat on the farm of MIR. MetcaIf near
Elgin, were also burned by lightning during
the same storm On Wednesday night light
ming struck three wheat stacks on the farm of
H. NJ. Richardson in Haverhiil. and they were
burned to the ground.
Lake City Leader: About o'clock on a late
| evening, Frank Favrow was driving in from
Frontenac alone: after passing Florence his
horse was stopped by foot pad who called
upon him to "fork over" Frank waited until
he left the horses bit to approach the seat,
when he gave the animal cut with the whip,
starting it off with jump and throwing the
would be robber head over heels into the ditch
By the time that he was on his feet again,
Frank was half way to town.
Melroae Record: Last week two stacks of
wheat belonging to Capt. Hogan, at Spring
Hill, in this county, were burned the fire be-
ing set by smoker while in the act of light
ing his pipe. Two other stacks were saved by
prompt, energetic efforts and the timely assist
ance of neighbors. Our informant, whose
business takes him about the country a good
deal, says it is quite common to see farmers
working about barns and grain stacks with
lighted pipes in full blast. The above noted
calamity should be warning to all such to de-
sist from the dangerous habit.