Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-12
MINNESOTA NEWS.


The Baptist church at GAINESVILLE is
without pastor.
The steeple of the Catholic church in
GAINESVILLE is being enclosed. aTt
Barley is said to be more of paying
crop this season than wheat.
Dakota county is credited with raising
l ,259 900 bushels of wheat this season.
The organization of Odd Fellows lodge
is about being perfected in Sleepy Eye.
The Sisters of Charity will open a
Catholic school in Winsted, Mcleod
county. ~
Scott county will hold its eighth annual
agricultural county Society's fair Septem-
Der 10Th and 30th.- ~
w. W. Beers, Of Rushford, killed two
rattlesnakes last week, one having eleven
the other ten rattles,
Big Stone lake is getting to be well
known as summer resort. No donbt
crowds will flock there next season.
| The Star says the high price paid for
wheat and other products has tendency
to increase business in all its branches in
Rushford. o9 ia1atu ~ Aae .nsrt
The Reose,o says all but four or five of
the persons wounded by the New Ulm
cyclone, are again able to follow their
usual occupations.
A new postoffice has been established
at CRYSTAL Lake in huntsville township,
called judd and Lewis Judd, of the
Lakeside house, is appointed postmaster.
The Sisters school, in connection with
the Catholic church in Glencoe, opened
last week in their building near the
church, with a good attendance of pu-
pills.
One night last week the house of Henry
Assenmacher, of Lake Benton, was
struck by lightning, and two of his three
girls were killed, and one Of his boys Sc
verely injured.
Renville Times, Sept. 1: The towns of
Redwood Falls, Sheridan and Sherman,
Redwood county, at the election all gave
majorities in favor of issuing bonds for
railroad purposes.
CALIFORNIAN Argus: Miss Nellie Trask
was made dangerously i'll last week by
drinking wine glass of violet ink from
bottle which had been presented to the
| family under the supposition that it held
blackberry cordial.
One day last week Albert Watson, of
Preston, attempted to climb on moving
freight wagon fell, and wheel run over
one of his legs, breaking both bones and
terribly decorating the calf of the leg. 1t
is believed the leg can be saved.
Atwater Press: During the past week
another child of F. Menard died of
diphtheria. This makes the fourth little
one that has been snatched from this
family circle, and it would seem that the
fates had dealt severely enough in this
instance.
Hastings Union: The reports from the
threshers vary largely In different local.
ties. Some of the large estimates here
tofere made have not been justified by
actual measurement on threshing. Wheat
yields all the way from five to eighteen
bushels per acre, but the general average
will probably not exceed eleven bushels
Bird Island Blizzard: Ex-Gov. VIM.
R. Marshall has had his coat off doing
gallant service with pitchfork ding
about weeks job of threshing on his
farm here We saw him the other even
ing sheveling coal at the depot, getting
ready fer the next days threshing. The
governor ought to succeed, and we hope
he will.
st. Vincent (Kittson county, Herald.
And still another railway project for the
Red River valley is flung before the peo-
pie. The faint murmurings of pro-
posed line from Moorhead to St. Vincent,
to run between the Manitoba road and
the Red River, is heard. 1t seems quite
certain that some Of these schemes will
mature and that another road will be
built through the valley.
Mortified Journal: This is the story
that Mr.. Van Amburg tells of his oat
crop just threshed. At this date he
stands at the head, and of course will
take the first premium, unless some one
comes to the front with better showing
Eighty bushels of oats at 80 cents per
bushel is S24 Ten bushels of wheat at
81. 10, S11; or raradventure the yield shall
be twenty bushels, at s1.1O, is S22. So
that the oats come out ahead, besides the
greater value of the oat straw.
There are fools, male and female, in
Lanesboro, as witness: Buffalo Bill,
(Wm. F. Cody, the great scout, astonished
the citizens of Lanesboro the other day
by performing some really wonderful
feats of marksma lship. A lady placed
potato on her head, which he severed in
twain at ten PAGES with his trusty rifle.
DR.. Powell held silver half dollar be-
tween his thumb and finger and permit
ted Cody to drive bullet through it at
the distance of ten PAGES. Mr.. Geo. E.
Powell allowed hm to shoot the ashes
from his cigar, while smoking it, at ten
PAGES.
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