Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-02
MINNESOTA NEWS.

dOrs0 tnleVeS are making cOnSIQeraDl6
trouble in Wright county.
The whooping cough is prevailing among
the children at Cannon Falls.
The Hilton postofice, Renville county, has
been made money order office.
A $4,000 hotel, very fine structure, has
just been completed in Big Stone City.
A new school house is being built in the
King district, north of Byron, Waseca county
A six-year old daughter of S. W. Peter
son, of Cannon Falls, died of diphtheria
last week.
A six-year old daughter of John Clements,
of Tumuli, Otter Tail county, died of measles
last week.
Tramps are reported to be very numerous
in various places, and are as impudent as
| they are numerous.
A school house is being built in Haverhiil,
Olmsted county, in place of the one destroyed
by storm in June last
The flock of Gypsies have left st. Cloud.
The female portion of the gang did thriving
business telling fortunes.
F. G. Fifeld, of Oronoco, Olmsted county,
| threshed 10 acres of barley last week which
yielded 40 bushels to the acre.
Harvest hands have recently thrown them
selves plentiful on the market. Red Wing
wages are $3.50 and $500 per day.
A postofice has been established in Els
borough township, Murray county, and R.
E, McAllister appointed postmaster.
Last week son of Rev. @. A. Conant, of
Cannon Falls, carelessly handling re-
volver, had bullet put through one of his
hands.
Saturday, July "a, a disastrous hail storm
visited Red Lake Falls, Rock county, and
the wheat crops on several farms were nearly
destroyed.
On late afternoon lightning struck the
barn of John Wood in Anoka, near Trott
Brook, killing two valuable horses. Five
horses standing beside these were not in
jured.
Anoka Union: G. G. Richardson, of Ram
sey, was kicked by four-year old colt last
week, and badly hurt. The animal kicked
with such force as to send Richardson
through the side of barn.
Horace Hutchins, ten year old son of
Moses Hutchins, of Anoka, had foot crush
ed the other day, while attempting to jump
| on to moving railway train. Amputation
of the leg above the ankle was necessary.
A boy some fifteen years old, son of Tor
| fell backwards from a load of hay the
other day, and SO terribly shattered one of
his elbows as to make amputation necessary.
1t is reported that two more newspapers
| are to be started at Mankato. One by Geo.
w. Netf, to be conducted as Duunell organ;
the other, the Wells Faribault county, Id
0ocate, published by Woodland & Foss, to be
| removed to Mankato, also Republican
Dunnell paper.
Recently William Roy, of Pipestone coun-
| ty. very inconsiderately built smudge fire
| in his barn and went away and left it. The
barn, three horses, harness and other things
| were destroyed. He returned in the height
Of the fire and was terribly burned in vain
attempt to save his horses.
The tramp nuisance is increasing. Tramps
| are swarming like hornets all over Mime
sofa, and are exhibiting unusual propensities
for committing bold acts of criminality.
Stringent anti tramp laws in other States
| are driving them into Minnesota, whose
last legislature failed to enact proper anti
tramp law.
Frank Bancroft, of Spring Valley, Fill
more county, recently attempted to board a
moving railroad train, when he fell under
the train aud had his left leg crushed, and
his right foot shattered. Amputation of
the left leg took place., and splintered
bones were removed from his right foot.
Recovery doubtful.
A lady in Waterford, Dakota county, few
days ago in searching through her house for
carpet rags, came upon an old vest which sue
appropriated, and in dissecting it, she struck
suspicious piece of paper which proved to
be wheat check issued at Castle Rock,
| Dakota county, in 1878, for about ffty-two
| bushels of wheat. The First national bank
redeemed the check with $40.SS.
Little Falls Transcript, July 80: On
| Monday last, Henry Karving, of Rich
| Prairie, who lives near Reinhart Stumpf's
place, accidently stepped on the snath of a
scythe that he had laid in the grass, and the
point of the scythe few up and cut his abdo-
men open, SO that his bowels protruded. 1t
was believed at first that the wound would
prove fatal, but we hear later that there is a
fair prospect of his recovery.
Little Falls TRANSCRIPT, July 80: On
Friday last a little son of John Stiltzman, in
the northern part of Buchanan township,
aged years, fell into tie we'll on his fathers
place, and was drowned. His mother dis
covered him before life was extinct, but
could render no immediate aid, as there was
ten feet of water in the we'll. She fastened
with all possible speed to procure the as
sistance of some of the neighbors, but when
help arrived the child was dead, and could
not be resuscitated.
| Wells Faribault county Adgocdte, July
20: The people of Minnesota Lake were
startled the first of this week at the shooting,
either accidentally or otherwise, of two
young ladies by a hired man working for
Albert Sonnax. The young ladies were AL
bert Sonnax's and Mr.. Seeger's, and were at
the barn of the former when the hired help
came in and going under the stairs to the
barn took up gun that lay there and accost-
ed the girls with, "look out, I am going to
shoot, the girls looked at the gun and said,
''that gun is loaded, They had scarcely
spoke the words before the gun was discharg-
ed, the contents entering the shoulder of the
Sonnax girl and the face of the Seeger girl.
Medical assistance was Immediately called
and the wounds dressed. But little hopes
are entertained of the Sonnax girls recov-
cry. The young man plead innocence on
the ground of accidental discharge.
| 4 PiraticaI Newspaper Cornered.
| Northwestern Chronicle.
| Mr.. J. A. Wheelock, the able editor of the
| Pioneer Press, is we are panied to learn, seri-