Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-14
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Frank b. Miles has been appointed pastmss-
ter at Prosper, Fillmore county.
A first class oat meal mill is being erected at
Lnnesboro, Fillmore county.
The flow Of emigration westward continues
without much abatement.
It is rumored that bank is to be started at
Browns Valley, Traverse county.
They are beginning to complain of too much
dry weather In Goodhue county.
Fl. NJ. Sherwin, of FIandreau, Fillmore
county, has received 800 back pension.
Negotiations are on foot for the erection of
large hotel at st. Vincent, Kittson county.
John L. Burley, of Madelia, was thrown
from mule the other day and had an arm
broken.
At Wadena the other morning. brakeman
was thrown from the top of a freight car. 1t
is believed his injuries will be fatal.
While excavsting for a new boiler house at
Moorhead, CLAY county, the other day, the re-
mains of four bodies, supposed to be Indians,
were discovered.
Bingham's hardware store. at Sleepy Eye, was
burglarized few nights since, and goods to
the amount of forty or fifty dollars taken.
Among the goods stolen were six revolvers. :.
The st. Vincent Herald says the Pembina
Mill company, in Dakota, hope to have their
mill in running order by the middle of winter
30 as to manufacture a. large amount of the
wheat harvest of the frontier.
It lis stated that thirty-eight acres have been
planted to forest trees this year in Waseca
81 ,554 acres have been planted in all to forest
trees. which trees are making due progress in
growth.
In June the village of Browns Valley, Ira
verse county numbered g. now the population
is $50. The population of the county is 1904.
newspaper is printed there, the Brown VAL
ley Republican. 1t is railroad town. and is
soon to have depot building erected 60xS0.
Morris Tribune. Aug. 5: Dennis, IO3year-
old son Of Thos. Murphy, had an arm broken
last Monday by being thrswn from horse.
The injury was quite serious, as the bone was
broken at the elbow and the joint dislocated.
Andrew Peter Swenson, a Swede, OF Carver,
was FRUSTRATED by the heat one day last week,
while engaged at work near Swenson's school
house. He lived but two hours. He had re-
Gently arrived from Sweden. He leaves wife
and six children, who were dependent on him
for support.
Henderson (sibley county, Independent, Aug.
s: While Patrick Kelley, of Jessenland, wss at
work cutting his grain on Thursday of last
week, one of the horses got his foot over the
tongue of the machine, Mr.. Kelley went in
front of the team to remove bolt in order to
lower the tongue. When the bolt came off he
was crushed to the ,arth and was so injured by
the tongue which rested across his stomach,
that he died in about twenty-fo hours. The
deceased leaves a widow and several children.
Red Wing Republican,: One Butler was sent
out from Cannon Falls Que day last week to
set up reaper, and being man of frequent
libations, he took his bottle with him, became
crazy drunk and in his fenzied hilarity, he
took after a little boy on horseback, pursuing
him in his rattle trap buggy, with the yells of
the damned, on narrow turnpike road, The
boy and his horse were frightened, and the
fence, fracturing his skull, cutting his body
and injuring him seriously in other respects.
The boys name was Peterson and at last ac-
counts he was under medical care with little
hopes of recovery.