Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-24
MINNESOTA NEWS.

sneak thieves have been making il
lively in a small way in Litchfield re-
Gently.
measures are In progress for the COM
pietlon OF the organization of Baptist
church IN Glencoe, Pope county.
The proposition to issue railroad bonds
in Redwood county, submitted to vote
Oh the people, has been badly defeated.
The total receipts of the state fair at
Rochester are reported at $4,000, an
amount that lacks only $500 of paying all
expenses and premiums.
A large Catholic church is in process
OF erection in Montgomery, LIE Sueur
county, and it is hoped it will be COM
pleted before the winter shuts down up
on it.
| Inc other day son of Mr. Child5, of
Blue Earth City, aged Is years, snapped
gun, and piece of the percussion cap
struck the center Of his right eye, entire
ly running the sight.
Last week, short distance from Hilo
station in Big Stone county, the boiler of
tnreshlng machine exploded, terribly
scalding three men, and burning up the
separator and four stacks of wheat.
DIR. Mcclure, of Blue Earth City, says
ne mas had seven gun shot accidents to
attend to this season. The careless and
unsklllful handling of fire arms is getting
day.
| The Rochester Post says private let
ter from j. A. Leonard announces his
safe arrival at Leith, Scotland. He has
assumed the duties of his office and ex-
presses himself as well pleased with his
surroundings.
The people of Big Stone City and Or
tonville have had some controversy about
the location of their depot on the Hast
lngs q Dakota railroad. The matter has
been settled by locating the depot be-
tween the two towns.
George Hampton and wife and Mrs.
William Cain, OF Hampton, Dakota
county, were thrown from buggy the
other day and all severely injured Mrs.
Gains injuries were at first thought to
be fatal, but she will recover.
Recently Ole Nelson, of CRANKY, Mic
ollet county, went to New Ulm, and on
| his way home he was seen hanging out
OF the wagon box, and in some way his
head got into the wheel and he was
| found dead. He was drunk when the ac-
| cident occurred.
Fergus Falls Independent, Sept. %: He
| didn't know it was loadedl Last night
young man in the Occidental hotel office
| was handling gun in rather careless
manner and, though cautioned to be care
tul, Kept on pointing it, when it sudden
ly discharged, the contents going through
the back Of chair and lodging in the
wainscoting. The fools are not all dead
yet.
Zumbrota Independent: Mrs. Catharine
Doxy, better known as Grandmother
Doxy, of this place, has just received
present of a brick block in Anderson,
Madison comfy, Ind, which cost $4,000.
Doxy, member of the Chicago board of
trade; The building rents for $50 per
month, and is very desirable piece of
property.
The Pennington Press says 13-year-
old boy of Mrs. G. B. Johnson, of Farm
ington, was fooling with shotgun the
other day, when it was discharged, being
loaded with shot. Mrs. johnson came
near losing her life. The pigeon shot
were scattered about, portion of them
striking her face. One went into her left
eye, probably destroying the sight. A
fatal result is not anticipated.
! st. Vincent (Kittson county, Herald,
Sept. II: A very serious distemper has
broken out among the horses in Pembina
1t is called epizoOtic aphtha, and is very
closely allied to CHAMBERS, being moreover
both contagious and infectious. The
| disease appears to be spreadlnr north
ward from Iowa and along the Red River
valley, but it is also said to be quite prev
alent in the Canadas. 1t attacks the eyes
at first, which become much inflamed and
exude freely, afterwards the limbs be-
come much swollen, and the disease then
becomes almost incureable.