Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-26

reward of 5000 offered for the arrest and
conviction of the Sexton gang of robbers, of
which Sherman was one. Mr.. Durham has
similar claim for the 5000 offered by the
city, which is still pending.
Furgus Falls Journal, July 80: One
hundred and fifty men employed on the
railroad grade this side of Lawrence creek
last Friday morning made strike for an IN
crease in their wages. After being idle two
days about one-third of the number returned
to their work at the old wages, and the 9th
ers went harvesting, haying and elsewhere.
On late morning, while James Schwei-
yer, of Belle Creek, Goodhue county, was
examining his hives, thinking the grubs
were at work, the bees became enraged, and
stung him repeatedly abont the head and
face. He was taken to the house and help
summoned, but it was some hours before he
fully recovered consciousness. 1t was mar
row escape from being stung to death.
Worthington (Nobles county, Aduance,
July %: Mrs. Henry La Rue, of Saltwater,
died suddenly on Friday last at the residence
of John Disch in Murray county. Mrs. La
Rue had land in the vicinity and was here
attending to it. She rose early on Friday
morning but returned to her bed and when
Mrs. Disch went to call her to breakfast she
found her dead. It is supposed that she
died of heart disease.
Rochester Record and Union G. w.
Woodwork, of this city, has nearly 700
acres of wheat in this and three other ad-
joining counties. He says it is nearly ruin
ed by the ravages of the inscts, aud he would
lie glad to get back the seed sown in the
spring. The grain on his farm near Utica is
not worth cutting, and he estimates that the
chinch bugs will average 500 in number to
the square inch over the entire field. Other
crops are looking well.
The LIE Sueur Sentinel of July %, gives an
account of an affray of in Montgomery, LIE
Sueur county, in which John Peshek shot
and dangerously wounded Thomas Martin.
The Sentinel learns that Mrs. Peshek first
struck Martin with a mallet, that Jacob
Wandra took the malle5 from her and
knocked Martin down, and that Mrs Peshek
chopped Martin in the face with Ratchet
while he was down. Afterwerd Peshek shot
Martin, as above stated. Peshek is in jail.
Ohaska Herald: We learn that the family
of Gustave Krause, of Chanhassen, Carver
county, has been sorely afflicted of late.
That dread disease, diphtheria, made it's ap-
pearance in his family little ever two weeks
ago, and the family have since that time
buried two bright little children, aged re-
spectively two and four years of age, and
another is on the point of death, and the
fourth and only one left, Is slowly recover
ing from severe attack of the same dread
disease.
st. Cloud Times: A party of wandering
gypsles camped on the east side yesterday,
and number of the women came over to
do some shopping. They were a hardy
bronzed, wheathsr-beaten lot, and spoke in
strange unknown tongue when conEersine
among themselves. They came here from
Kansas and are on their way up north.
few of them came originally from ENGLAND
and remained in Ohio for several years. They
have good horses, fine light spring wagons
covered and filled up for sleeping purposes
and complete supply of camp equipage
Their camp appeared to swarm with youne
children.
Browns Valley Reporter: The post mis-
tress Of Stephny, Big Stone county, had 9
little experience with couple of tramps one
! day last week, in which she showed remarka.
| Bile bravery as we'll as good sense 1t ap
pears that the tramps came to her place 6
little after noon, when she was alone, ano
asked for some dinner which she prepared
and placed before them, but they were moi
satisfied with what she gave them, and
thinking to brighten her, loudly demanded
something better. Without stopping to
parley with them, or even give them time &c
eat what she had already given them, she
drew revolver and told them to leave in
stanter. which they proceeded to do as fast
as their legs would carry them.