Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-26
MINNESOTA NEWS.
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| Appleton Recorder, May 90: Our farmers
are all through seeding and planting.
T. Cascoll, drunkard of Owatonna, threat
ened his wife, and was arrested and held in
Sl0O to appear at court.
| new post Office is about to be established
in Charlestown, Redwood county, on the line of
the Winona st. Peter railroad.
| Bishop Irelands lecture in Hastings the
| other evening on emigration resulted in a COL
lection of 300 for the landed fund.
In Currie, Murray county, the Scrivens fam
| lily have buried four children within a month,
their deaths being caused by that fatal disease,
| diphtheria.
safe was blown open by burglars the 9TH
er night, in the Office of Lairds& Norton's lum-
Der yard, Owatonna, and about ten dollars in
change taken.
Moorhead Advocate, May 20: Last night
a large party of emigrants passed through
town. Their wagons were inscribed, From
London, Ontario"
county, lost his barn and span of horses by
fire, last week, and his house was seriously dam
| aged at the same time.
| Last week little child-of Charles Porter. of
Charlestown, Redwood county, while PLAYING
in boat with three other children, fell into
the water and was drowned.
N. L, Patterson, who has been a compositor
in the Monticello, Wright county, office for a
| number of years, has entered the ministry, and
taken charge of church at Melrose, Stearns
4 county.
| 4-year old son of Henry Sherks of Seymour
Steele county, fell the other day and struck
| the round of chair in such way as to severe
| ly injure and perhops lose the sight of one of
his eyes.
Henderson Independent, Msy 81: Sheriff
Bray. on Monday, conveyed little 11-year-o old
girl. by the name of Nellie Oleson, of the town
| of Severance, to the asylum at St. Peter, she
having been declared to be insane.
A man named Becker, of the town of Krain,
Stewart county, has been for a few days past
| running about in a nude state, showing unmis-
| taxable signs of an unbalanced mind. He was
married less than two years.
| Rochester Record and Union, May 81: A boy
| about years old fell into the mill race yester-
day, was carried under the engine house and
barn adjoining, and was picked out by Joe
Fankhauser as he was going down the last time.
| During a recent storm lightning struck the
house of A. Tanner in Little Falls, and seemed
| to break out all over the house. The building
was good deal damaged a child was stunned
| by the stroke, otherwise the family escaped un-
harmed.
Two sons of p. J. futile, of Minton, Steele
county, were struck by lightning one morning
| last week, while at work in the field planting
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| ly; the youngest, aged seven, was badly burned,
| but will recover.
| Decoration Day, May &c. this year falls on
Sunday. Consequently in some localities SOL
| dier's graves will be decorated May 90, and in
Others May 81, and in others, where 'sthe better
| the day the better the deed" is the creed,
| graves will be decorated Sunday.
st. Vincent Herald, May 81: A very inter-
esting letter written by Gen. r. W. johnson
on his return from here to st. Paul, appeared
in the columns of the Sunday GLOBE. The
General points out the great inducements held
out to young men wishing to start in business
| in the Northwest, and recommends them to st.
Vincent
Rochester Post, May 81: The double funeral
of Mrs Sullivan, mother of John W. Sullivan,
| and child of Mr.. Tim. Lawlor, from Haver-
| hill, took place on Monday morning from st.
Johns church. There were some seventy car
riages in the procession, and it is the first oc-
| casion of two hearses in one procession ever
seen in our city. -
One night last week the store of Bristle &
Bengtson was entered by burglars, and guam
| tity of goods taken, and the safe below blown
open and robbed of 1856. 65 in currency silver.
There were three of the burglars. One of them
| has been arrested and confessed. On him $172
was found in sums descriptive of the bills in
i the store. Detectives are in pursuit of the 9TH
er two.
Beaver Falls (Renville county,, Times, May
90: Harlow E. Curtis, aged 65 years, residing
near this place. ended his earthly troubles last
| Friday afternoon, by hanging himself In his
stable while his wife and children were tenn
porarily apsent from home. He left letter to
his wife, bidding her and the children last
| farwell closing with the statement that he
could no longer strug gle under the burdens of
life which oppressed him.
Fergus Falls Adyocdte, May 81 Thunder
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| week. On Wednesday morning last. May 18th,
at about six o'clock, John Rose, of New Mu-
| mich, Stearns county, was instantly killed by
| lightning about two miles from Pomme de
| rerre, Grant county. The unfortunate man
| was in company with Frank Borgeding in
charge of a drove of cattle which they were
| driving to Winnipeg, and they were just en-
gagged in gathering together the drove when the
catastrophe occurred. The deceased was about
| Is years of age.
Lake City Leader, May 81: Thomas HELM
| ger, well known farmer who lived in Glas-
gov for over twenty-five years, and on one
farm in Trout Brook valley for fifteen years,
met with frightful accident on last Friday
afternoon which cost him his life. He was
| driving from Wabashaw to his home. The team
was in front of Joseph POSSES place, when he
| fell out of the wagon, headlong, his head
catching between the iron brace and the wagon
bed, breaking his neck and killing him
INSTANTLY he iefG vile ana ten cnllofen In
| comfortable circumstances.
The other evening A. B. Davis of Winnie
bago City, Faribault county, was returning from
| Iowa, where he had sold drove of cattle for
| $4,000, he was stopped near the State line by
| three men who commanded him to throw up
his hands and surrender. Mr.. Davis, who is
an old ex-sherif, knew that meant business,
and with great presence of mind, threw up his
| hands, but in doing SO he cfutched his package
of money, and threw it over his head into the
grass, unnoticed by the robbers. The men then
| searched him and not finding any money as
they expected. they threated him terribly and
left him more dead than alive. He succeeded
in getting to house, and the next day search
| was made and the money found.