Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-11
MINNESOTA NEWS.

The Anoka Union has entered upon its six
teenth volume.
Farmers in Scott county, Sept. 9. had begun
to cut their corn.
Wolves and dogs are killing sheep in LIE
Sueur county.
The amber cane acreage Of Ls Saeur county
is larger than at any previous year.
Ira M. Carpenter has been appointed post
master at Little Sauk, Todd county.
The Lincoln Touring mill at Anoka has been
grinding new wheat for over two weeks.
John Daniels, of Norwood. Carver county,
lost an arm the other day bya thresher acci-
dent.
It is reported that wheat In stack was dam.
aged to considerable extent by the late rains
in LIE Sueur county.
CASHIER Dahlgren. Carver county, the other
day was badly and it is feared fatally injured
by being run over by his team.
Recently Matthias Hoen of Benton, Carver
county, fellfrom load of wheat, receiving
injuries which caused his death.
Local papers are warning the people against
strolling cloth peddlers, as nuisances and scoun
drels to be Stunned equally with lightning
rod peddlers.
Two new postofdces have been established In
Todd county, namely: Bertha. John q. Bis
dreth, postmaster.
lightning the other night caused the de-
struction of the barn and stables of MIR, Ran.
dali and son, OF Southbrook, Cottonwood
county. Five horses perished.
Charles Smith, of Maine township, Otter
Tail county, the other day got one of his legs
into the wheel of his wagon and suffered q com.
pound fracture just above the knee.
Peter BroberR, of Waoonia. Carver county,
the other day, sliding down from load OF
wheat was impaled on the handle of pitch-
fork-condition critical--recovery doubtful.
LIE sueur Sentinel: The corn crop of this section
now safe from frosts, is one of the best grown
here for years. The dry weather of the first
three.quarters of August matured the crop
finely.
Joseph Bowling, while sinking q large
boulder on the farm of Matt Dufiing in Hoop
ton, Dakota county, was 40 badly crushed
beneath the falling rock, that he died three
days after the accident.
The LIE Sueur Sentfps of September 8 says
threshing wheat from the shock was resum.
last weex, and although but little of the wheat
was sprouted. one grade has been lost by ex-
posure to the continuous rains.
The citizens of Albert Lea are anxious to See
cure the location of the projected Presbyterian
college In that town. The prospects seem
favorable, and liberal subscriptions on the
part Of the people seem only wanting to &C.
compflsh the object.
The other day two men In lumber wagon
undertook to cross the Southern Minnesots rail-
road near Dodd's crossing, ahead of an a..
preaching freight train. The engine struck
them, killing one horse, smashing the wagon to
splinters, and seriously injuring the men.
One day last week as Mike Cunniff, of Bose
mount, Dakota county. was moving In his
crannerry patch, bis scythe struck q mans
boot. investigation discovered q human skele.
ton. The booy was judged to have beea there
81. ce last winter. Identification was i'm
possible and the remains were buried without
an indnest.
Glencoe Register. Sept. o: On Monday last
Jessie H-rmun. q Dung man about 20 years of
age, slid from the top of wheat stack and
struck the handle of . hoe resting perpendicu-
Iary against the stack. The handle passed into
his bowels and mp his vitals, terribly lacerat-
ing his intestinal organs and lungs. He lived
until Wednenday morning, whom death ended
his agony.