Daily globe., 1881-08-31
MINNEsoTA NEWS.

Zumbrota has voted $4,000 for water
works.
Considerable damage was done in and
about Blue Earth City by the rains Of
| Aug. 2 and 8.
The Mormons are at work in st. Peter
endeavoring to get up colony of "Lat-
ter Day saints"
Charles Kettner, of the town of Pine
Island, had two grain stacks struck by
lightning last week and burned.
The Bird Island Blizzard says John A.
Johnson's shepherd dog, Custer, caught 9
| fox, jack rabbit and q cat, all in one
day last week.
Recently John Ballick, while assisting
to get a car on the track at Jack son, had
| two ribs broken and was otherwise in
jured.
The Argus says that the little baby boy
| of Glen Hundt, of Caledonia, was thrown
into convulsions by thunderbolt recent
ly, and soon after died
A man IN Mankato has succeeded in
raising an acre of sweet potatoes. Some
of them are large, weighing from one
pound to pound and half.
= The Tribune is informed ION good and
official authority" that the railroad shops
now in course of construction at Brain
erd, will next year be extended to five
hundred feet in length. a.
The Sleepy Eye Herald of Aug. .27 says:
Diphtheria is abating, and the physicians
report only three cases this week. Three
children have died from its effects since
the disease first made its appearance this
year.
A. Hesmoult, of st. Peter, a stair
builder, the other day fell from a scaf-
fold, distance of sixteen feet, breaking
his back and three ribs. His injuries are
fatal. His wife is dead and he leaves
four children in destitute circumstances.
The Grant County Herald says that
the body of Peter Jansen's little three
year-old boy, who was drowned last
spring in the Milestone, near Martins
crossing, has been discovered EMBEDDED in
the sand, in the vicinity of where the ac-
cident occurred.
Ortonville North Star: The average
yield of wheat in Big Stone county so far
as we have been able to ascertain, will
not be far from fourteen bushels per acre,
and while the yield per acre is not what
we might wish, we are satisfied that the
increase in quality will make up for the
deficiency in quantity.
Bird Island Blizsard: There are more
newspapers on the line of the II. & D.
than there are stations. The Aberdeen
Pioneer is the latest accession to the
newspaper ranks, and one of our western
exchanges chronicles the arrival last week
of fellow with part of print shop in
tow, who is on the lookout for location
Rochester Post: A 6-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr. Walter Dunn, of Elgin, had
her clothing caught and wound on the
tumbl;ng rod Of threshing machine on
Saturday last. Her clothing was badly
torn and she made several revolutions
upon the rod before she could be rescued.
Her injuries amounted to some severe
bruises, from which she will soon re-
cover. y
Austin Mercury, Aug. 26: Last Friday
evening the bell in the Catholic church
fell as 1t was ringing the hour g. MANY
noticed the stopping of the bell and
heard the crash that followed. In falling,
the bell struck on side of the opening
under the bell and turned on it's side,
thus preventing it from falling further.
When it was put in place, the standards
were not side braced and as the timbers
dried, the uprights sprang apart, and last
Friday the bell came down.