Daily globe., 1880-11-08
MINNESOTA NEWS.

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| Very nearly all the threshing is done
| in many counties of the State.
The residence of William Lee, of Crook
ston, was destroyed by fire last week.
Mrs. Mully, of Lake Crystal, had fall
in her barn the other day, breaking several
of her ribs.
The excavation of the foundation of en-
Episcopal church in Morris, Stevens county,
has been finished.
The safe of Potter & Lund of Owatonna,
was blown open by burglars the other night,
but they got no booty.
81. f. Baker has retired from the Cam
bridge, Isanti county, Press, and is succeed
ed by the Maynes Bros.
On recent night thief robbed the trunk
of A. l.. Sealy, of Rushmore, Mobiles county,
of between five and six hundred dollars.
There is in Red Wing an association
| styled "The Owl Club" having for it's object
the maintenance of dances during the win
| ter.
Six children of John Radloff, of Vivian,
| Waseca county, were stricken with diphthe-
| ria. One has died and the others are very
sick.
Threshing has developed the fact that
late driving SHOWS. The damage, however,
| is not great.
The artesian well at the depot in Hastings
| is still being drilled, at the rate of 100 feet
day. The depth of 500 feet has already
| been reached.
| The other night burglars attempted to
rob jewelry store in Sank Center, bnt were
| frightened away after they had removed a
pane of glass.
At Brown Valley $50 reward is offered for
evidence that viii convict the persons, now
unknown, who furnish liquor to the Indians
| in that vicinity.
The Presbyterian church in Hastings is
nearly done, and will soon be occupied.
When finished it will be q credit to the soci-
ETY. in that place.
There was an old-fashioned husking party
| one evening last week in Burns, Anoka
county, at the residence of D. Shannon, con-
Guiding with dance.
| Within the last three weeks three yoke of
oxen have been stolen from farms in Lanes
burg township, LIE Sueur county. Only one
| yoke has been recovered.
In Carver, Carver county, two brick yards
have been run the past season, producing
100000 of brick each, and each employed
about twenty-five hands.
Joseph Meixwell, of Lake City, retired
soldier,h has recently been placed on the pen
sion roll, to draw $8 a month, with arrears
at that rate from July 1865.
A farmer in the western part of Sibley
county, who bought half section of rail-
road land, has made enough this year on his
wheat crop to pay for the land.
Hamilton II. Hall of Parker's Prairie, Ot
ter Tail county, discharged Union soldier,
has been put on the pension roll, and has
received $500, pension amount.
| One day last week Edward Bills, aged sixty
years, living near the village of Northfeid
on his way home from that town, fell dead
in the road. He leaves wife and two
children.
A Rice county paper reports the potato
crop short on account of the rot, and the
lste freeze before only portion OF the crol
was dug. They are retailed at fifty cents 8
bushel.
| A large two story frame building in Frid-
ley, Anoka county, formerly occupied as q
hotel, but latterly unoccupied, was destroyed
the other night by the torch of the in
cendiary.
The other day Joseph Thibodo set fire tc
| four stacks of wheat, containing 300 bush.
els, belonging to Lawrence Roerig, of De-
coria, Blue Earth county. The incendiary
owed MIR. Roerig spite. The scamp has
| been arrested.
| At Mantorville, Dodge county, on Tues
day, election day, William Gorver, of Dod ge
Center, was thrown from wagon and go
| severely hurt as to cause his death. He
leaves wife and two children.
Jordan (Scott county, Adoocate: Last
Friday afternoon the prolonged blasts from
| the whistle on Nicolin's mills called the at
tention of our citizens in that direction,
when it was ascertained that the barn on
the premises occupied by John Piemeisel
1 was on fire. The barn was soon consumed
and with it quantity of hay, corn and
poultry.
Wiilmar ReDublScdn-G Gazette: On Sat-
urday afternoon, October 80, ct two o'clock,
there were three hundred and sixty-one far
mers' teams, by actual count, about the
| streets of Willmar. AS teams were also
coming and going from town throughout
the day, it is safe to say that there were at
least four hundred and twenty-five teams in
town between morning and night.
Kasson dodge county, Republican,
November 4th: Last Tuesday three ladies
appeared at the Kasson polls and offered
their votes for county superintendent OF
schools, and also on the textbook acts, but
were refused the right of suffrage to that
extent, Notwithstanding the existing laws OF
this State allow women the ballot equal
with men On all subjects to be voted on per-
tanning to our common schools.
Morris Tribune; An average yield OF
twenty-five bushels per acre has been the re-
suit of Mr.. G, Sax's experiments with flax.
This is good paying crop, as the seed is
worth from one to one dollar and quarter
per bushel. There ie every prospect of
quite number planting some of this grain
next year, and we are informed that Messrs.
Leonard & Watson have made arrangements
to supply seed for next spring.
Zumbrota (Goodhue county, Independent,
November 4: A man by the name of AL.
Woodward, who lives in the vicinity of
Concord. Dodge county, accidentally shot
himself on Monday last. He in company
with his hired man started for the woods in
the morning, with team and lumber
wagon. The hired man carried the gun as
they went. Upon arriving at the stopping
place, the hired man set the gun down and
near the front of the wagon. Mr.. Wood
ward stepped in front of the wagon and be-
hind the horses, and reached tue gun tai ing