Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-31
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
Several saloon keepers of Lake City have
taken out 5000 licences.
The prospect of immense quantities of
wild fruit this season is reported.
From three to five hundred pounds of
butter are shipped from Waseca daily.
One day last week Strait & Co.'S. mill at
Shakopee received 1000 bushels of wheat by
wagon.
Mary Bolton, of Deer Greek, Otter Tail
county, has been sent to the insane ASYLUM
at st. Peter.
A young man in Mapleton got his
nose broken the other day, while playing a
game of base ball.
In most sections of the State the reports
are that an increased acreage of corn has
been started this season.
| Mrs. Albert Schumacher, of Henderson,
was severely hurt the other day by beiug
thrown from wagon by runaway team.
The Jordan people are moving in the di-
rection of procuring a hand fire engine for
prevention against fires. tA
The birthday of Queen Victoria was cele-
brated at Moorhead, Clay county, by the
English residents of that place.
A boy named Charles Lightbourn killed
seven skunks on Monday, May Oath, on his
fathers farm in Rendsville, Stevens county.
Minnie Davenport, the girl who was SO
badly burned by her clothes taking fire, in
the town of Mount Pleasant, is dead. She
died in great agony.
While running horses the other evening in
Waseca. Burt Dorry was thrown from his
horse and had his nose broken. He was
otherwise badly hurt
A horse thief in jail az Preston, Fillmore
county, got behind the door, and when the
jailor opened it, locked that functionary in,
and skipped the town."
DR.. D. N. Hewitt, secretary of the State
board of health, left Red Wing recently to
investigate the diphtheria districts in the
southwestern portion of the State.
Atruant wife fed from Rushford, Fillmore
county, last week, with ga handsomer man, -
producing no little excitement in the COM
mnnity nor desolation in the deserted house
hold.
Numerous accidents and fatalities to
horses are recorded on account of wire
fences. A horse costing its owner 1920 was
fatally injured In Morrison county, the other
day, by wire fence.
An old building in Faribault fell with q
crash the other day and two persons narrow
ly escaped with their lives. The fall of the
building was caused by the rotting away of
the posts on which it stood.
One of the churches in st. Peter has ex-
PEELED every male member who belongs to d
secret society. But two male members re-
| in bo &I,o
pei themselves?
The AdD0cGte of May 81 says the wheat
receipts of the Jordan market for the past
week aggregate over $4,000 bushels, and the
prices have ranged from one to three cents
higher than those of the neighboring mar
kets.
The st. Peter Times says the excavating
for the new court house in that town has
been completed, and the structure is being
rushed forward with rapidity, and that when
completed Nicollet county will have the
finest building in central Minnesota.
Prairie schooners have adopted the short
!: cut photography of Medill of the Chicago
Tribune. They pass along the roads with
legends painted on their white sails of ''god
we Trust" "Decoty or Bust" "For Devils
Lake." ga be Line for Manetoby."
Litchfield Neaos-Ledger, May 81: wheel
barrow fell from the second story of the new
building now being erected by Ames, and
} struck James Foley on the head. He was
severely, though not dangerously injured
When picked up he was insensible. He
will be at his work in short time.
s. N. Wright of Union Grove, Meeke1
county, from couple of iwo-year- old
twin lambs has this season clipped twenty.
four pounds of wool, being less than one
years growth. Lon says he clipped from
the same lambs nineteen pounds of wool.
Last week George W. Donaldson brought
to the auditors Office in Rice county seven
wolves about quarter grown which were
dug ont on farm in Morristown. These
make seventeen wolves on which bounty
has been paid in Rice county during the
month of May.
The wife of one the citizens of Medford
Steele county, one day last week, wearied
with the burden of life, attempted suicide
by jumping into Straight river, but WAS res
cued by persons that happened to see her
yet she entreated them to let her alone, as
she did not wish to live longer.
Sunday, May %, Rev. j. N. Stariha, pas
tor of the Catholic church in Red Wing, re-
ceived $500, as gift, from the st. Joseph
society and friends generally, as a mark OF
the highest esteem in which he is held in the
church and community. Father Stariha
has left for Europe, intending to be absent
} all summer.
The Duluth Neoos of May 81 says: Last
Thursday was big day for freight receipts.
Seventy cars of grain, mostly corn, were un-
loaded into the elevator, and seventy cars of
-four into the warehouses. This is said to
have been about as large days work as
was ever done at Duluth. The boom has
only just commenced.
Princeton Union: From what we
have learned of the death of
Mrs. Jones, which was cnronicled in last
weeks Union, we are inclined to believe she
was victim of quackery. It is to be fer
vently hoped that the next legislature will
enact stringent law, prohibiting ignorant
fools from practicing medicine.
st. Cloud Times, May 26: On Wednesday
last, John Rooney, ST., of the town of Ray
mond, Stearns county, started for the mill
with load of wheat Several hours after
his departure, he was found a few miles
from home, lying dead under his load of
wheat. The wagon tipped over, burying him
under its freight, and causing his death.
A young daughter of Richard Russell, of
Lemond, Steele county, two months ago had
a finger shot off by careless handling of re-
volver. The other day her father was
driving post with heavy wooden mawl
when this same child placed hand Oh the top
of the post, just as the mawl was desedning,
and had another finger crushed, making
| amputation necessary.
Some merciless boy scamps, who surely
deserve drowning, of Preston, Film ore
county, the other day entioed little Frank
Ibach and Charley Sswell into Justice Lent s
boat and set them adrift by pushing itout
into the river. They foated down to the
| ruonIan fnntorr where tina boat came IN con-