Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-24
He payed up and was discharged, having
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He paved up and was discharged, having
plead guilty.
st. Peter Tribune: Can any one tell
us why the citizens of st. Peter do not
attend funerals? We could mention one
or two funerals that have taken place in
the last year and there were but three or
four persons in attendar ce outside Of the
family of the deceased.
The Waseca Herald of October 81, says
parties from st. Paul have been buying
cattle in that vicinity the past week, and
on Wednesday carload was shipped to
that city The prospective scarcity of
feed is causing people to sell off stock
The other night the house of S. B.
Owens IA new one) in Eden Township,
Brown county, in the absence of the own
er, was attacked by roughs, and badly
damaged, windows, sash in glass doors
and plastering being broken. Whisky is
supposed to have caused the criminal act.
The officers of the law are after the row.
dies.
One night last week drunken row took
place in front of saloon in Sank Rapids.
Sheriff Scott, who interfered to stop the
fracas, was stabbed in the leg. One Of
the drunken rowdies was stabbed twice,
and two of them were badly punished
about the head and face. The whole
affair was disgracelul, but no arrests were
made.
Henderson Independent, October 81:
Dumont Segers, who runs the large farm
Of Mr.. Thomas Welch in the town of
Sibley, while hunting in company with
Peter Oleson, was accidentally shot in
the right side of the head meek and lung,
by the latter, on Saturday last. Fifty
shot took effect, but fortunately without
fatal results.
Duluth Tribune, October 81: Steamboat
men are beginning to talk about the
closing of navigation, and the sailing
vessels now in port and those due will
probably only make one more trip this
fall, but the steamers will undoubtedly
be able to make two or three trips more
before the closing of Mud lake and other
narrow passages by the forming of ice.
The other day, George Crosby, of Hec-
and fatally shot by Jacob Long, while
hunting ducks. The shot took effect in
the leg below the knee, breaking all the
bones and decorating the flesh in terrible
manner. His leg was anputated but he
died soon after over loss of blood, in
having been two hours before the sur
geon reached him.
Luverne Herald: We are informed by
farmer who keeps an accurate account
of his business that from the milk of four
cows last year he supplied his family of
eight persons with butter, cream and
milk for household purposes and sold but
ter to the amo int of $l04 80, receiving an
average price of fifteen cents per pound,
and that during the current year he has
MIXED seven cows with equally good re-
suits.
The Zumbro river, says the Wabashaw
Herald, of Oct. 10Th, got on ram
page last Thursday and overhowed the
bottoms between Midland junction and
Kellogg. The current was so strong that
about $50 feet of the embankment of the
G. NJ s. St. P. road just below the cross
ng, was washed out and as consequence
the water rushed across the farm Of Sen
ator Lawrence's in old-fashioned style.
The damage was, fortunately, small.
Last week German farmer, wife and
only son, 12years old, drove from Frank
ford, Wright county, to Elk river, a team
of mules. Arriving at the depot, the
father left the wagon, and the mother and
son stood at the heads of the mules.
They became frightened by tornado
and darted forward, throwing mother
and son down The child was instantly
killed, his neck being broken. The
mother was seriously, but not fatally,
bruised and injured.
Plainview Ne,os: A sad accident oc-
CURED about eight miles north of Roch-
ester on Sunday, whereby Mrs. Wallace
Pike, of Haverhill, was drowned. Mr..
Pike owns piece of land in Oronoco,
across the river, and has several men
there grubbing, and Saturdays he sends a
team to bring the men home. Last Sat
urday, he being very i'll, his wife started
to bring the men home, and while cross
ing the Zumbro river at Franks ford, she
and the team we're drowned. The team
was found short distance below where
they were drowned, but Mrs. Pike was
not found until Sunday morning. She
leaves little daughter two years old.