Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-22
MINNESOTA NEWS.

sweet potatoes are Delng successfully
raised in Mower county.
Myron Whitaker, of Northfield, has
sold his Almont colt for $225.
The CITY mill in Mankato is making
about 600 barrels of flour daily.
A cane mill Is being put in running
order in Jordan for fall business.
Several children have died of diph-
liberia near Howard Lake recently.
A gang Of gypsles have been squattcd
in Faribault for the last two OF three
weeks.
The cabbage worm is reported to be
making havoc of cabbage heads in vari-
Gus localities.
Recently F. Callender's house in Jor-
dan, Scott county, was robbed and $l25
in money obtained.
Wolves are numerous in Spring Lake
township, Scott county, and the killing
of many sheep is reported.
There is an active boom in Fergus
| Falls in real estate. Building lots are
selling in considerable numbers.
Hon. D. Burt, superintendent of pub
| lie instruction, is reported to be seriously
| ill at his residence in Mortified.
Austin Register: New wheat now being
| threshed spans out" better than was ex-
pected. 1t is bright and plump.
The son of Chippewa chief and other
Indians are industriOusly working in the
harvest fields of Otter Tail county.
Some s55, 900 have been contributed to
the relief fund of New Ulm, and other
storm devasted localities in the neighbor-
| hood.
Burglars went through the house of
IT. F. Hewett, of Faribault, the other
evening, while the family were absent al
a concert.
Ah-Bow, Chinaman, who runs a
laundry in Faribault, was assaulted and
robbed the other night of 1920 in money.
An arrest has been made.
The Register says Austin has the finest
public school building in the State. Ii
cost $4,000, is built of brick, is three
stories high, with basement.
A new postoffice has been established
in the township of Sergeant, Mower
county. Sergeant is the lame Of both
the postoffice and postmaster.
L. Hall. Esq, of the Glencoe Register,
has sold his drug and bookstore, and will
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paper-and he makes good one.
The Union says: The good people of
Bird Island have contributed quite lib
eral SUM toward the amount necessary
to build the Baptist church in Exeter.
A 13 year old daughter of Geo. Walter,
| living near St. Peter, was thrown from a
load of grain last week, and received in
juries from which she is not expected to
recover.
1t is asserted that Minnesota contains
no less than 10, 900 lakes, with an average
extent of 300 acres each. These lakes, it is
| said, cover one twentieth of the surface
of the State.
Gen. Patterson, who died at his resi-
dence in Philadelphia short time since,
at the age of SO years, owned consider
able real estate IN Blue Earth county on
the Winnebago reservation.
Much complaint of drouth has been
made in various parts of the State. The
copious rains of last week, which were
very general, put an end to whatever
drouth might have existed.
The Fergus Falls independent says ex-
Gov. Austin has decided to make his
home henceforth in that city and is nego-
tiating with A. j. Macarthur for his
property in the grove, beautiful loca-
| ton.
In the late "Dundas (Rice county, har-
vest home' picnic, ''the whisky devil''
bore prominent part towards the close
| of the "enjoyable season." and during
the rampage claret as well as whisky
flowed freely.
Winnebago City Neaos: Several farm
ers in this township have threshed out
the average yield is about eight bushels
per acre. The quality Of wheat is in
most cases good.
On recent morning young girl,
daughter of Mr.. Becher, a German farm
er in East Castle Rock, Dakota county,
| fell from load of wheat and instantly
expired. No marks or bruises were
found upon her person.
| Zumbrota Independent: We under
stand Messrs. Wells, Dickey and Holland
have threshed and sold $4,000 bushels of
wheat and barley, realizing SO, 900 for the
same. Who says farming don't pay
| here?
| Perham Journal: A car of cattle was
shipped this week for Bismarck from this
station, the third this month The ship
pers bought them around Perham and
say stock is in unusually fine condition
and very plentiful.
The owners of the First National bank
of Shakopee have, at a meeting called for
that purpose, given up its charter as
| national bank, and have organized under
State law the Bank of Shakopee, with the
l %>I< II 0f4S
The Chaska Herald says brakeman by
| the name of Sullivan, on the Hastings &
Dakota railroad, was caught between the
| bumpers, while coupling cars at Nor
wood, and had one of his hands so badly
crushed as to make it necessary to ampu-
tate two fingers and a thumb.
The Republican says the outlook for
Kasson, Douglas county, this year, seems
| to brighten. The wheat crop has proved
very satisfactory, and it has been secured
in the best condition, land prices rule high.
Almost every other article produced by
| the farmer is abundant this year:
The Window Reporter describes an i'm
mense swarm of dragon flies as passing
that place, from the northeast to the
southwest, on the evening of the 5th
They were fifteen minutes in passing and
covered territory several miles wide.
They flew in the face of a southeast wind
Mankato ReoSeD: Prairie chickens are
said to be very numerous, and sportsmen
as paying little attention t6 the game law
in frontier counties. Occasionally a
small consignment finds its way into lar
ger towns, but shipments are made with
almost the same secrecy as if they were
Internal machines.
Austin Register: Sergeant Springs, stu
tensive and finest in the West, and with
proper improvement and advertising,