Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-25
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Bishop Whipple baptized eight children in
Glencoe last week.
Reports from Scott county state that wheat
in that vicinity is stooling out largely.
The house of Arnold Wolds, of Winsted, Mo
Leod county, was struck by lightning last
week.
In Big Stone county the other day, claim
Jumper had coat of tar and feathers put on
him and he gave up the claim.
There will be largely increased amount of
amber cane seed planted In Rice county this
year, as compared with last year.
a. J. Snyder, of Glencoe, has given to the
Episcopal society of that place lot upon
which to erect a church building
1t is reported that not grasshopper, or the
sign thereof has as yet this present season been
discovered in any part of the State.
A six-year-old son of Frank Blair of Caledo.
MIA, had his right leg broken below the knee
last week by the kick of a COW. The fracture
was bad one.
Work on the court house in Shakopee is pro-
crossing rapidly. The additions, improvement
of the court room, etc., will be completed by
the next term of court.
An inhuman brute in Caledonia is in Jail for
whipping his mother, woman aged % years.
He knocked her out-of- doors, and then seized
club and pounded her till she was insensible.
Cattle are being bought in various localities
in Minnesota in unusually large numbers, to
be driven out of the State. Cattle are also
being transported in large numbers by the
cars.
The other day Stiles nj. West, of Warsaw,
Goodhue county, aged IA years, had nail
which he was attempting to drive into post,
fly and strike one of his eyes. The sight is de-
stroyed entirely.
A dwelling house was burned in Faribault
last week. It was beyond the reach of the
Fire company's hose. The fire was caused by
defective hue, the woman of the house hav-
ing vesy hot ironing fire in the stove.
During late storm lightning struck the
house Of w. FL. Hammond, three or four
miles south Of Fergus Falls, Otter Tail county,
instantly killing his daughter Mary aged 10
years, and seriously injuring boy year or
two younger.
The other day, as John Dean, young man
aged Is years, was saving logs in mill in
Anoka, the belt clogged in the saw, and, as he
lifted it up, it few back striking him in the
groin, inflicting serious though it is thought
not fatal injuries.
Madelia Times: number of drovers have
been in town this week gathering up cattle to
be driven out upon the Missouri on a govern
ment contract for the Indians. When their
whole drove is gotten together they expect to
have about four thousand head
The tree from which the big cottonwood in
Redwood county derives its name, is said to be
"a feet in circumference Its lowest branch is
so feet from the ground. 1t is located some
five miles northwest of Lamberton, it is de-
scribed as towering above the bluffs in that VIZ
cinity.
Some farmers state that the chinch bugs are
doing damage to wheat in certain localities.
1t is said there is period between the first
appearance of the old bugs in the spring and
the Matching out of the new ones, when they
work in the wheat That period is confined to
about ten days. After they have propagated
their species they perish.
Window Reporter: The farmers of south
western Minnesota have cause to rejoice thus
far this season in the prospect of crop.
Wheat, oats, fax and barley look splendidly.
Copious showers and cool weather have had a
great deal to do with the present happy pros
poet, and let us all hope that the favorable
symptoms for crop will continue.
Scott County AdUocGte, May 90 On Monday
morning Edgar A. Blackman, an employee at
the Jordan City mills, was caught in the bolt
gearing and SO terribly mangled that death en-
sued in few hours. A spout had become clog
ged, and while reaching into it with his right
ARM his clothing was caught in the meshes of
the cog wheels, and ere he could free himself
they were fastened upon his body. With a
maddened effort Blackman braced himself and
tore away from the engine of death. Though
terribly torn and mangled, he walked some DIS
lance to stairway, down this fight and partly
down another, when his strength left him and
he fell. The deceased was "a years of age, and
leaves wife and child.
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