Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-13
MINNESOTA NEWS.

The New Ulm public schools have AL pu-
pills in attendance.
Capt. w. w. Murphy, of Madelia, has re-
ceived $4,000 back pension.
The Episcopalians held their first service
in their own church in Albert Lea on Sun
day, Nov. Z.
During the five days proceeding the late
Presidential election ffty-two persons were
| naturalized in st. Peter.
Prairie schooners with stovepipes sticking
| through the canvas are now occasionally seen
vending their way westward.
The Albert Lea Standard says twenty
three Germans arrived from "Faderland''
last week consigned to PickereI Lake.
A raft of 100000 feet of lumber, and $685.
600 laths and shingles, reached Lake City,
| for one of the lumber yards, last week, from
Saltwater.
Last week, Col. Howard, of Litchfeld, had
| bee.tree cut down on his Lake Minnetonka
| farm, from which he obtained 128 pounds of
nice comb honey.
Edwin 81. Gillette, of Litchfeld, farm
| or, whose wife died of consumption last
| spring, eloped the other Gay with his niece,
girl about 20 years old. He is twice her
age, and the father of four living children
A gilt cross and ball has been put on the
steeple of the Catholic church in Blue Earth
City, Faribault county. 1t is 16 feet in
length and weighs 400 pounds. It's extreme
point is 150 feet above the base of the build
ing.
The other day, Harry Lindell was brought
into Brainerd, Grow Wing county, from the
Missouri division Of the Northern Pacific,
and placed in the care of a physician. He
fell under a car last week, and had an arm
severed above the elbow.
The Leader says the supply of wood in
Lake City is nearly exhausted and the prices
have been doubled within the past few
weeks. Last winter the price was lower
than ordinary, and as a consequence, very
little was brought across the lake. Unless
the lake freezes over soon there is likely to
be genuine wood famine here.
| Albert Lea Standard: Last week some
parties came up from GAINESVILLE, Iowa, and
claimed that a team which M. McCourt, of
Moscow, had bought short time before,
had been stolen from them. Mr.. McCourt
refused to produce the team without more
conclusive evidence than they offered, and
the parties claiming it have commenced a
suit to recover its value.
The Wabashaw Herald states that s. o.
Seymour, of Plainvisw, was robbed the 9TH
er night, at the Commercial hotel in Waba-
shaw, of 800, half cash and the balance in
notes. He imprudently counted over his
money in the sight of several persons before
going to his room. When he awoke in the
morning his pocket book and contents were
gone. He alleges that he had been drugged
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Shakopee Courier, Nov. II: On Monday
last, just after dinner, Mr.. Russell Pratt, a
millwright from Minneapolis at work in the
Shakopee -four mill, while leaning over the
gear saving off piece of wood, got his
pants or blouse caught in the set screw of
the collar, which pulled him downward, his
left arm being caught in the gear, he claims,
five times before he got free. The last time
it had reached up to his shoulder, when the
wheel broke and let him loose, else he would
have been crushed to death. AS it was his
arm was badly msngled from the wrist up,
while his leg and all along his left side was
bruised. The sufferer was at once conveyed
to his boarding house and his injuries exam
ined, resulting in amputation at the shoulder.