Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-18
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Jerome Daniels, of Moorhead, lost 600
bushels of wheat by prairie fire Oct. Is.
Business in Glencoe, Mcleod county, is
reported to be unusually active this season.
Wood thieves. stealing from wood piles,
are producing some little sensation in
Benson.
gymnasium building of the Shattock school
in Faribault.
A large quantity Of hay was destroyed by
fire in the vicinity of Verndale, Wadena
county, last week.
MIR. Kisster, living east of Cannon lake, in
Rice county, lost his barn and all its con-
tents by fire last week.
Rev. M. !. McNiff, late pastor of the M.
E. Church i'll Eyota, has been assigned to st.
Cloud and Sank Rapids.
Oscar Slocum, of Alexandria, brakeman,
had foot smashed by railroad train, MAX
ing amputation necessary.
Phe presbytery was in session in Mankato,
Oct. IA, and quite number of Presbyterian
clergymen were in attendance.
Cars are running as far as Hill City, on
the Moorhead & Grand Forks railroad. Hill
City is new town fast building up.
Coggrove, of Benson, Swift county, sued
fourteen men and toreclosed ten chattel
mortgages. MIR. O., it seems, means bust
ness.
On Tuesday, Oct. II, in Owatonna, Hans
Erickson was killed by the falling of der
rick. He survived his injuries about three
hours.
Farmers everywhere these days are doing
threshing, hauling wheat, blowing and burn
ing straw, the latter being a rather hazard
GUS operation.
james McGilvroy, who owns farm near
LIE Roy, Mower county, has threshed his
wheat and found the yield to be eighteen
bushels to the acre.
A party of young fellows in Menkato
quarreled the other night, when one of the
young hoodluns drew a revolver, but was
persuaded not to shoot.
-Four prisoners in Duluth broke Jail the
other night and escaped. Three other prison
ers were in the Jail at the time and could
have escaped but declined.
A crowd of Indians and half-breeds visit
ed Cambridge, Isanti county, the other day,
and got gloriously drunk. The sheriff ar
ested one of them and the others fed.
| It is alleged that Benson elevators have
| lately adopted new method for deducting
| wheat on account of dirt which seems to
please all farmers who have witnessed it.
Diphtheria is prevailing extensively in
BluehlIl and Orrock, Sherburne county.
More than dozen deaths have already oc-
CURED, seven out of two families in Blue
hill.
Papers in the contested Lieutenant Gov
ernorship Of e. P. Barnum against @. A.
| Gilman, were served upon the latter in st.
| Cloud, Oct 18th. The case is set for hear
ing Oct. 28th.
| There is family in the town OF Maine
Prairie, Stevens county, consisting of a man
aged AZ, and his wife, aged so, who have
twelve living children, among them two
pairs or twins.
liver Thompson, living in the vicinity of
Kenyon, Goodhue county, the other day had
| his left arm shockingly crushed and mangled
in th1eshing machine, rendering amputa-
ton necessary.
Thomas Thornton, of Spring Lake, Scott
county, on the night of Oct. 18th, had four
stacks of wheat, two stacks of hay, a stable
and COW sheds destroyed by fire, the work OF
an incendiary.
Rev. W. M. Spoor, for two years pastor
of the M. E. church at Fergus Falls, has
been assigned to Giyndon and Moorhead
MIR. Spoor leaves numerous friends and we'll
wishers at Fergus Falls.
The Jordan Adg0cdte says, owing to the
windy weather. numerous fires in wheat
stacks are reported in that vicinity. The last
burning occurred at Mat Nachbor's. About
$50 bushels of wheat were destroyed.
| On the 9th of October Felix Meyers died
at the residence of j. II. Baker, in Anoka
Steele county, aged SO years. He was I'M
ion soldier and lost an arm in the war of the
rebellion. He vas highly respected citi-
zen.
At Delano, Wright county, fire broke
out in the rear of ". johns building on
River street, caused by carelsssness in hang
ing clothes too near the stove to dry
Prompt assistance by firemen and others
prevented destructive fire.
Red Wing Republican, Oct. 9: Frank A.
T. Richards, s Red Wing boy, not quite
twenty years old, son of Mr.. Geo. j. Rich
ards, WAS brought home from Dakota Terri
tory last Satur lay, smitten unto death with
typhoid fever. He died at his fathers on
Tuesday.
| The Elk River (Sherburne county, Star
says: civilian Marsh, of Bluehill, has lest
two more children by diptheria, making four
that he has lost within seven days. At last
accounts the disease was spreading in that
vicinity and considerable alarm was felt. j.
N. Crothers has four cases of scarlet fsver in
his family
A. E. Randall, of Ortonville, set sback
fire. the other day to protect his house from
prairie fires, but he chose the time injudi-
ciously, when the wind was high, and the
fire got beyond his control, and he came
near losing house and barn also. Timely as
sistancs saved his property fEona destruc-
| ton.
| Fairmont Sentinel. There are no new cases
of diphtheria in town, and the dread disease
has, without doubt, finished its work in our
midst. Mr.. Bonney's little child is the only
death we have to report, and there are only
three or four children afflicted. All of those
are doing well, and seem to be beyond
danger.
Marshall Nyon county, Messenger: A
building owned by Fremont Laythe in the
| town of Grandview, which contained sorg-
hum mill, was burned this week. It is; sup
posed to have caught fire from the arch
which was used to boil the syrup while the
men were at dinner. The mill was saved,
bat was considerably damaged.
The Brown Valley Reporter says the 9TH
er night thieves broke into the store of MIR.