Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-25
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Gilbert Wall, of Lanesboro, has received
81, 800 back pension money.
Sunday, Oct II, it was too cold to snow in
Browns Valley. Traverse county.
Scarlet fever and whooping cough are pre-
vailing among the children in Austin.
| boy in Long Prairie. the other day killed
thirty-seven blackbirds at single shot.
The local papers report that village meI-
chants generally are having lively trade.
Late as the season is, prairie sohooners are
reported on their winding way for the West.
The Elk River Ne,rs says the Orono saw
mills shut down for want of water last week.
| L. Quackenbusb, of LIE Sueur, lately sold a
yearling Jersey heifer to 81. O. Smith, for 800.
| The late storm has started wild geeAe
ana ducks in great numbers on their Southern
flight.
There have been five frame and two brick
school houses built in Waseca county during
the past year.
Mary McCabe, of Greenvale, Dakota county,
has been adjudged insane and taken to the
asylum at st. Peter,
John June, of Moland, Clay county, aver
aged from his 200 acre farm twenty-one bush
els to the acre of No. wheat.
| Last week Matt Hail. of Belle PLANE, while
out duck hunting, accidentally shot himself in
one of his feet, inflicting severe wound.
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| horse in LIE Sueur. He was pursued captured,
and put in Jail; the horse. Also recovered.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Bean, of Jordan, cele-
brated their tin wedding, Oct. Is, and tin pres.
ents in goodly numbers flowed in upon them.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Burrell, of Maine, par
| ents of the postmaster at Elk River. are visit
ing their son. Mr.. Burrell is over 81 years Of
| age.
| couple Of wheat stacks caught fire last
! in ho Of
county, from steam thresher, and were de-
strOyed.
| There are many reports of the violation of
the game law by killing deer out of season.
| The Minnesota game laws are nearly or quite
dead letter.
Mrs. e. Holden took to the auditors Office
in St. Cloud the other day the scalp of a wolf
she had herself shot, and got the IS State
bounty for it.
The Elk River Ne,us says lumbermen are al
ready commencing to leave for the woods, and
preparations are being made for extensive log
ging operations.
j. r. Thomas, of Elk River, Sherbx rne couu-
| ty. who went to Virginia last summer for the
benefit of his wife's health, has returned, his
wife having died.
a man fighting fire in Hartford, Todd coun-
ty, had his vest burned in which was $40 bill
and that was also consumed, and a rifle near by
was also damaged.
Benson Swift county, Times: Business at
the United States land Office at this place is
very brisk just now. Every one seems to be in
a hurry to prove up at once.
man recently purchased of an Osakis mer-
| chant shot sack containing two or three
pounds OF shot, and when he got home and
poured out the shot, IS bill rolled out.
| 10-year-old son of Seth Phelps, living two
miles east OF Waseca, died Saturday night, Oct.
Is, and there were at the time six other persons
| IN his family sick with the same disease.
Mr.. Quirk, of New Richland, Waseca county,
| recently had six stacks of wheat, containing
800 bushels of wheat, destroyed by fire by the
carelessness of a neighbor burning straw.
The other night at Anoka, Mrs. John Oracle
| lost sixty dollars, together with some papers
| which were tied up in the package. She heing
| a poor widow, the loss is q serious one for her.
The Catholic society at Bella Pr airie, Morri-
son county, recently completed church edi-
fee costing $5, 900. It was dedicated on Sum-
day, October 10th, 700 people attic nding the
exercises.
'Uncle Ed Brown" of Henderson, who has
been acting strangely lately, threatening to
kill himself or somebody else, has been adj
| judged insane and taken to the insane asylum
IN st. Peter.
On Sunday morning, October II, Frank
Clark, of Faribault, had fit in the nature of
| epilepsy, and subsequently had two more, re-
sulting in his death next day. He leaves q
wife and child.
A long train of emigrant wagons recently
passed through Alexandria, Douglas county,
with large drove of cattle bound West. The
late severe storm must have given them some
inconvenience.
Oct. 90, MIR. Frederick Terry, brother of
Gen. Terry, was engaged with a party of men
is surveying the river, in taking the soundings
in front of St. Cloud, by order of the United
States government.
| 1t is reported that diphtheria, membranous
| Group and whooping cough are spreading rap
idly in Spring Valley, Fillmore county, and the
Vidette says fresh made graves are multiply
ing around us. with every indication that the
| end is not yet"
| A barn in the rear of the Scandinavian hotel
Austin, was destroyed by fire recently. Before
the barn was consumed an incendiary fred
Sargent's pump shop, which was also con-
sumed. Several dwelling houses were saved
with great difficulty.
| Der II, Chris. Moe, the matchmaker, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself through
1.-The bI ain with revolver. 1t has been known
for long time that he has been subject to
spells of temporary insanity, an insanity which
is hereditary in his family.
On Monday afternoon Thomas M. Jewett, of
Faribault, started from his residence to OBJ
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had gone but few steps when he dropped
senseless upon the sidewalk with loud cry
He was carried into his house and died in if
| teen minutes. He had been resident of Fari-
bault since 1858.
Wolves are committing serious depredations
on Maine and Kimball prairies, in Otter Tail
and jackson counties. John Dolan of Kimball
who had a flock of over hundred sheep lost
30 many by the Expectations of wolves that
he felt compelled to sell the rest. The wolves
would come mp boldly in daylight and attack
the flock.
One day last week wagon loaded with sup
plies, belonging to ]. e. Hayward of st Cloud,
bound for the lumber camps, was crossing
Platte river bridge, one span gave way and
the six oxen wagon and supplies went tumb-
ling fourteen feet into the river below. The
goods were all Loaf, but Meth er the driver nor
the oxen were seriously injured and the wsg-
on was got out in pretty good shape.
LIE 6ueur Ne,cs: A sad accident happened
in Derrynane one day last week which resulted
in the death of Theodore Starkey, an estimable
citizen Of that town. He was stacking hay or
straw, and after finishing the stack threw his
fork to the GROUND, and his son picked it up
and set it up against the aide of the stack
tines upward. MIR. s not knowing of this
slipped down the side of the stack, striking
against the tines of the fork, which we've thrust
into his ah ~, ga