Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-25
KELLY VS.. KELLY.
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Several burglaries were committed in Red
Wing last week.
The scarlet fever is subsiding in Window.
No new cases and the old ones all better.
Ducks are coming down from the North
in great numbers and distributing them
selves over the State.
The house of Mr.. Crowel, of Zumbrota,
was burglarized the other night and small
amount of money taken.
T. G. Lee, of Pine Island, had all the
fingers of his right hand smashed in sugar
cane crushing machine last week.
Two young men, on the way from Cannon
met by highwaymen, and robbed of $1a5O.
A Mrs. Krieser, of the town of Sibley,
Stearns county, while handling revolver
the other day accidentally discharged it.
The ball entered her body, inf1icting prob
ably fatal wound.
John Chandler, of Austin, had five stacks
of wheat, containing 300 bushels of grain,
destroyed by prairie fire, last week. The
stacks had been plowed around, but the
high wind caused the fire to jump the fur
rows.
Reports of prairie fires have already be-
gun TO come in, and wheat and hay stacks,
stables, fences, ETC., are being licked up by
| the fires, and soon dwelling houses, human
| lives and domestic animals will fall victims
| to the devouring element.
On the evening of Sept. 20 the fftieth
(golden) anniversary of the Rev. and Mrs.
Gowdy was celebrated at their residence in
Albert Lea. One hundred and ten guests
| off
gold coin to the amount of $1295O was left
with the worthy couple
Worthington Ad0ance: Mary Hyland
was arrested on Monday for selling quart
of beer. She gave bail for her appearance
and the case came up for trial yesterday. A
jury was impaneled and Mrs. 81. was ac-
quilted. The information was furnished by
boy named Frank E. Eggleston, who was
paid $5 for giving the information.
The Freeborn county bank, at Albert Lea,
had one of it's drafts raised from $4.15 to
$40.45. A strange lady called one evening
just about the close of bank hours and want
ed draft to the order CT Mrs. E. E. Parker.
| She was accommodated and departed. More
recently the bank was notified that payment
of the draft had been refused by it's CORES
pondent in New York, as the same had been
raised to $40.45.
About one year ago, Oscar Olson left
Highland Prairie, Fillmore county, for Da-
kota Territory. His family consisted of his
wife and eight children. He also had twenty
head of cattle, good team of horses, a
wagon and household furniture. Now the
report comes, that diphtheria has taken away
his entire family, wife and children, and
that chattel mortgages, SO as to raise money
to pay expenses of sickness, etc., have been
foreclosed, stripping him of all his worldly
goods.
The remains of Lieut.. Freeman, who was
killed by the Indians, and buried near Camp
Sibley, have been found by his son D. r..
Freeman, after long and tedious search,
and taken to st. Cloud for intermet. The
skull was easily recognized by the hole
made in it by tho towahawk of the Indian
OF the time he was killed. The bones were
not all found in the grave, wild animals of
the prairie had dug and gnawed their way
into the wagon box, in which the body was
buried, and removed nearly all the remains.
The skull and number of other bones we're
found lying on the surface of the ground.