Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-03
MINNESOTA NEWS.


stores, which carry general stock of mer
chandise.
Rents are reported to be high in Rochester
0lmsted county, and tenement houses are
in demand.
Typhoid fever which has been prevail
ing in LeSueur and vicinity. is reported to
be subsidiug.
Fred. Lsmke. of Pennington, Stearns
county, last week sold his farm of 200 acres
for 81, 100 cash.
Recently, the house of John Holllster, OF
KraiD, Stevens county, was destroyed by fire,
with all its contents.
/. G. Brewer, OF St. Charles, Winona
county, has manufactured $500 gallons of
amber cane syrup the present season.
L. Il. Sutton, of Alexandria, had valu-
able OK stole the other night. Doubtless
the thief made beef of the animal speedily.
Dickerson's wind mill at Shakopee, is run
ming night and day, and turns out 200 gal
Ions of sorghum moiasses every twenty four
hours.
Grey squirrels abound in the woods about
Shalsopee Several years ago not one of these
animals could be found IN the county
(Scott)
d. D.
and Red Wing mills, who was injured last
week while passing between freight trains,
is dead.
The ten year old son of c. L. Hemingway
of Sank Rapids, while playing with pistol
the other day, shot off the forefnger of his
left hand.
Two cattle thieves recently stole two yoke
of oxen near Darwin, Mesker county. They
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thieves escaped.
Six baars-two she bears and four cubs
were killed in Santiago, Stearns county, re-
Gently. Five more were seen, but they made
good their escape.
The Brainerd, Crow Wing county
Tribune says Judge W. J. Parsons, late of
ST. Paul, deceased, owned considerable prop
erty IN West Brainerd.
Joseph Howard, OF ST. Cloud, Stearns
county, has purchased of ex-Gov. Marshall,
of ST. Paul, so acres of land near the East
ST. Cloud depot for $500.
The Duluth Tribune appears in a new
dress and enlarged TO eight columns. 1t
adorns its new columns with Proctor Knott's
famous speech at.Duluth.
Last week, John Knous, of Wakefield,
Stevens county, had his oat stacks set on
fire by sparks from a steam thresher-50O
bushels of oats were consumed.
George G. Bateman, in Lexington, LIE
Sueur county, has made 1000 gallons of ex-
cellent amber cane syrup and has about 1 900
more to make the present season
4 German named Young fell dead, the
other day, while working around threshing
machine in the Twin Lake, Carlton county,
settlement. Supposed to be from heart dis
ease.
Some days since double barrelled shot
gun was found under a sidewalk in the south
part of Austin, supposed to be the gun that
was used in the attempted assassination of
Judge Page.
Mr.. Lindquist, of ST. James, who was
blown of The Winona & st. Peter bridge
something over week ago, is improving
from his injuries rapidly, and will soon be
around again.
At a wedding reception at the Continental
hotel in Wabashaw the other evening, Mrs !
Roddcrick Mckenzie, by mistep fell from
the top to the bottom of the stairs, breaking |
her left arm and badly spraining her wrist. |
Wabashaw Herald: Of the 90, 400 bushels |
of wheat raised by p. II. Rahilly on his Mt |
Pleasant farms this year, he has sold $4,000 |
bushels, all grading as No. 1. He also raised |
1000 bushels of barley and 5000 bushels of |
oats On the same farms.
Wheat stealing has been very prevalent in |
the State. E. J. Gregory, of Mound Prairie, |
had his granery broken open the other
night and wheat stolen. Three boys, aged
from II to 20 years, are suspected. They
stole fifty one bushels of wheat.
Recently, M. Hrs. Cowdy, of Leaf River
township, Wadena county, while attempting |
TO lead fractions COW by rope tied to its |
head, was hurled to the ground striking g |
low stump with her breast, rupturing blood !
vessel and dying almost instantly.
An alarm of fire in Red Wing the other |
day came from the Diamond mill, fire be- |
ing discovered on the roof of the cleaning
building adjoining the main building. The
fire was put out by a Babcock extinguisher |
before it had reached damaging Roadway. |
st. Cloua Times: A short time since, |
Mrs. Mary Stokes, of Clearwater, was the
fortunate recipient of legacy of several
thousand dollars. Last week sde bought
the residence of Mr.. B. Overlook and made
present of it to her daughter, Mrs. Isaac
Philo.
1t is reported, and may be an encourage
ment to Minnesota farmers, that the grass
hopper commissioners have found the valley
of Montana to be the breeding ground Of the
locust, and that the settlement of these val
leys will forever end the ravages of the in
sect.
Calvin Chambers was arrested for horse
stealing in Wabashaw the other day. He
made full confession. The horse in his
possession was the property of Sol Lloyd, |
living near Dover, Olmsted county. The |
prisoner was taken to Rochester and turned |
over to the sheriff of Olmsted county. the |
oAense having been committed within that |
county.
John NJ ooney was robbed at Granite Falls. |
Chippewa county, of 1896. John King and |
Thomas Cox were arrested as the robbers |
and on the person of Thomas Cox was
found $685.. The robbers were put in Jail.
One hundred and fifty dollars were offered |
for the capture of the thieves and Messrs. |
Smith and Rigby, the captors, secured the
reward.
Chaska Herald, Sept. 80: Last Saturday
Michael Ess, son off John Ess of Chanhsssen,
met with painful accident. He was cut !
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