Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-27
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Polk county has decided to have an agricu
tural fair.

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tural fair.
st. James is to have new passenger depot
and eating house. ~
Corn cutting has already commenced in
some localities in the State.
The farmers have nearly all finished stack
ing, aud many have threshed their wheat.
A gun shop in Rochester was burgIarized
the other night and $25 worth of revOlvers
taken. s
The Neps Ledger says Litchfield has never
had SO large number on the sick list as at
present (August 49,
r, HI. Warren has been appointed postmaster
at Lower Sioux agency in place Of John F.
Deitzman, resigned.
The Faribault Democrat says: About all
the wheat SO far threshed in this section
grades No. and brings ST..
1t is estimated that 25, OoO head of cattle will
be shipped over the Northwestern road this
season to Chicago, via Pierre
The Lanesboro Journal says new wheat is
corning iuto market very satisfactorily, and
| the quality is very good indeed
Ginsing, says an exchange, is q better crop
| to harvest than wheat ut present. The green
| root is worth forty cents pound.
| T. Case, of Chat6eld, had his barn burned
| the other night by stroke of lightning 1t
contained about fifty tons of hay.
| The MinneSottGn says in about a month,
Currie, Murray county, will be connected by
rail with the Fort Dodge coal fields.
The reports from Hallock, Klttson county,
are that wheat ranges from twenty to forty
bushels to the acre, and mostly No. 1.
| Tramps broke into the house of II. Raffer-
! ty, of Mankato, a short time since, and stole
| his watch and chain and a quantity of cloth
| ing.
The Alexandria Post says the fine apple and
| plum crops are now ripeDing. Mr.. Childs, of
| East Prairie, expects about 200 bushels from
his orchard.
During the late storm one night last week
a stack of wheat in the field Just west of
Litchtield, belonging to G.. M. Gumelius, was
struck by lightning, set on fire and totally de-
stroyed.
A burglar cut away the screen of window
of the house of A. G. Smith, of Rochester, the
other night, and was about cutting the win
dow, when Mr.. Smith entered the room, and
the villain fled.
One afternoon last week while the family of
Knud Smith, of Osakis, were out in the har-
vest field their house took fire and was totally
consumed, with most of the contents. Loss
$500, insured for $475.
Isaiah Gervais, while attempting to adjust
some of the gearing of threshing machine
| while the same Was in motion, had his right
leg caught by cylinder tooth breaking the knee
cap and laceratlng the flesh.
The Owatonna Journal says the corn has
stood the drouth without injury, and has
passed the condition when rain is needed.
Grass land is suffering, and there will prob
ably be light fall pasturage.
Ortonyille Herald: The contract for the
Little Falls & Dakota railroad bridge across
the Mississippi river has been let aud work
| hos ,.np If tO he
bridge with heavy stone abutments on either
| side. e
The Alexandria, Douglas county, Post says
the fall rains insure aneavy crop of corn ane
cane and abundant fall pAsturage, and put the
ground in fine order for blowing. The after
harvest crop of wild hay will be unusually
heavy.
Bird Island Blizzard: A twenty acre field
belonging to W. A. Bump, of this township
has been taken by the army worm. One week
ago it presented the appearance OF yielding
| sixty bushels to the acre. 1t Is not WOrtl
cutting now.
One of the most curious circumstances con
nected with the New Ulm cyclone, as brough
!, out by Mr.. Merrill, was the fact that al
buildings with peaked roofs were uninjurel
or but little damaged, while adjoining build
ings were totally wrecked.
Sleepy Eye Herald: Now after the harves
is over, an indication of the yield of grail
may be noticed in the spectacle of hundred
of acres that have not been cut at all. Il
every section may be seen pieces of grain 81
e poor that the farmers have not touched them
: The village of Redwood Falls and the tow
t of Paxton voted last week on proposition t.
give bonus of $4,000 to the Minneapolis
. St. Louis Railroad company in consideration
: of the building of the southwest extension O
l that road through Redwood. The measur
5 was carried by large majority.
she Fergus Falls Journal says sswho vii
+ doubt that our Indians may be civilized
Young Hole-in-the-Day, son OF the old Chip
5 pewa chief of that name, has, with a numbe
of Indians from the White Earth reservation
been industriously at work among the farmer
' | in this vicinity during harvest"
Herman Grant county, Herald, August Is
Lightning struck the barn of 8. H. Wright
In Delaware, last Tuesday night, and kille
the best horse Mr.. Wright had upon his farm
Another horse in the barn suffered no appar
ent damage, and the barn itself, beyond fe,
!, splinters, showed no signs of the terribl
| visitation.
Alexandria Post, Aug. 10: During tn
: storm Tuesday night, the lightning strucl
twice near The residence of Thomas Parks i
r Hudson. One bolt killed valuable OK in a
ilnpounded herd belonging to Mr.. Spears
Another bolt struck and fired stack of oats
but on account of the greenness of the STRAY
and the heavy rain, the fire only smouldere
}, and in the morning was put out, with but
+, loss of five or six bushels of grain. The pla
= of the lightning was sublime and terrible.
e Faribault Democrat, Aug. 10: Thursda
last an accident occurred on the farm of A.
Malloy, town of Wells, that resulted in tn
L death of Francis Roblio, of Faribault. MIR
e Roblio was assisting Mr.. Malloy in stacking
his grain, when his team became unmanage
able, ran away and threw him under tn
wheels of the wagon, which passed over him
breaking several bones and causing interns
injuries from which he died the following
I morning.
/ Crookston has no cemetry. The Journo
saws: A little son of Mr. Louis Helms, age
, one year, died on Monday morning. After
considerable trouble in trying to find buria
place the body was finally inferred upon tn
: farm of Mr.. Barrette, near the city. The ne
t cessity for cemetery is becoming daily NOR
and more impressed upon the minds OF GU
r citizens, and the day is not far distant whel
, the council must attend to the matter or els
the people will.
Preston Republican: On the Sd of July
Mary ELY Gilligan, of Prairie Creek, Mimi.
stepped on a sewing needle, sticking it be
tween the big toe and the next one TO it, OF
the right foot. A piece of the needle three
y quarters of an inch long, entered her foot AM
y worked through, coming out on the top O
y her foot on Tuesday evening, the 10Th uli
making the journey through the foot in jus
sixteen days. The only inconvenience she xex
D perienced was a slight swelling of the foot an
D an occasional prckly sensation.
y Sleepy Eye Herald: The particulars of
serious injury to Mr.. John Schneider, of tn
town of Shutdown, Redwood county, hav
been received. Mr.. Schneider is the owner O
bull which was picketed on the prairie. o.
Mr. SIS return from Springfield one day las
week, he found that the animal had broker
} the picket rope and was running loose. Mr.
s. attempted to catch him, but the bull rushe
at him and knocked him down. He got vi