Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-31
MINNESOTA NEWS.

The pinkeye disease has appeared among
the horses in LIE Sueur.
Thomas Haas, auditor of Scott county, died
October %, of brain fever.
The Fergus Falls Journal reports that con-
siderable hay is being destroyed by the annual
fires.
The Albert Lea sugar cane syrup works
have produced this season 5000 gallons OF
syrup.
Of the judges of Minnesota, seven are ma
tives of Vermont, and six natives of New
York.
John Smith, of Athens, Traverse comfy,
had his stable and his hay burned up by
prairie fire.
one section, $40 acres, of his farm, near Bird
Island, for $1,000.
One night last week burglars entered the
house of Col. j. P. Owens, at Taylors Falls,
OF $500 in money.
Diphtheria is reported to prevail in very
malignant form among the Indians on the
White Earth Reservation.
Fifteen pastors are now wanted 20 supply
vacant Presbyterian pulpits within the bounds
OF the synod of Minnesota
The general impression among farmers seems
to be that wheat in the stack has not been
much damaged by the recent rains.
The Hastings Union says the house of
Thomas Spain, near Graceville, was burned last
week. Loss $1,000. No insurance.
The hotel keepers in st. Peter have advanced
the price of board from $3.50 to s., on ac-
count of the advance in the price of provisions
A successful journalist is the editor of the
Crookslon Journal. He raised this season
400 bushels of potatoes from one acre of
ground.
The Red Wing Republican says j. A. Porter
has manufactured 10000 pounds of sugar
cane syrup this season at the Trout Brook
sugar works.
The Polish Roman Catholic societies of Du-
luth are about to. build a church edifice on
their lots on the corner of Third street and
Fourth avenue.
Mr.. A. L. Teele, publisher of the Argomaut,
at Moorehead, proposes to publish daily
paper if 81 900 worth of advertising patronage
can be secured.
The other day o. s. Geer, of Burbank, Kan
diyohi county, had one of his arms badly
| crushed and mangled in the gearing of a
threshing machine.
The Olmsted County Democrat, six
column folio, has just made its appearance at
Rochester. AS its name imports, it is devoted
to the tenets of the Democracy.
The boiler of threshipg machine exploded,
low Odyo olIlCC3 III tuC tOWuoulR VI Luke
Andrew, Kandiyohi county, killing one man
| and seriously injuring three others,
The Verndale, Wadena county, Journal,
says ''the wheat yield, as proved by the returns
| OF the threshers, Is excellent throughout.
Wadena county has no cause to complain"
In grinding $50 bushels of wheat at the City
| Roller mill in Waseca the magnet -separator
| gathered one and quarter pounds of bits OF
| wire that had been used in binding the grain.
| During the late rains the basement of the
| Episcopal church in Wells became so flooded
with water as to put out the furnace fires, thus
| interfering with Sabbath school and church
| services.
The house of G. G. Kelly, of Verndale, was
destroyed by fire, with its contents, the other
night. Loss, $500, nearly all the property he
and quite destitute.
county, when feeding threshing machine
| with wheat bound with wire, had piece OF
wire fly into his eye, which SO irritated it as
to destroy the sight.
The Taylor's Falls Journal says it is con-
sidered settled fact that D. NJ. Sabin has
purchased from the heirs of Caleb Cushing
the st. Croix Falls property and now owns
| one of the best water powers in the west.
In Anoka, the other night, Henry McCauley
discovered two thieves in his cornield With
| teams stealing corn. He fired revolver at
them and one of the men cried out, "My God,
Pm shot," They made good their escape,
| however.
Five children, four daughters and one son,
of Robert Heal, of Glencoe, were all pros
| trated with typhoid fever at one time. The
Oldest girl, about 81 years old, the
| dependence of the family as housekeeper, died.
The others are improving.
Glenwood Press: An sapple tree, of the
crab variety, in the orchard of Jacob Harmon,
of Grove Lake, has produced a second crop of
of about two dozen apples, which reached
three inches in circumference. How is that
for Minnesota as a fruit growing country?
Winona Democrat, Oct. %: A former en-
ploye in the postoffice in this city, MIR. Emil
Schmidt, narrowly escaped the tomahawk a
few days ago. He had been with band of
surveyors on the frontier, but deserted them,
and the next day the whole band were massa-
cred. 1t was lucky escape.
The presbytery of st. Paul will hold it's next
springs session at Taylors Falls and st. Croix.
| This will be the first session of the presby-
terry in that locality. 1t is expected that
part of the meetings will be held on the lay
lors Falls side, and part on the Saint Croix
side in the new church.
Recently as Peter Nordeln was going in a
buggy from Brunswick to Cambridge, in
Insantl county, he was fired upon by some
one in the bush by the roadside four or five
| times. A ball grazed the back part of his
head He put his horse to full speed and es-
capped. He claims to know the would-be as
Sassin.
Fergus Falls Journal: Mr.. Fred Buse, who
has just laid by his threshing machine until
next year, reports that in the vicinity of Peli
can Rapids he found the best yields of wheat
in the brush lands, where in some instances
it reached forty bushels to the acre, and that
thelowest yield on the prairie was twenty
bushels.
Austin Transcript: Daniel D. O'Leary, the
father OF the little II year old girl who died
recently from swallowing marble, met
with an accident to one of his limbs in Iowa,
| where he was working on the railroad, from
the effects of which he died on the 18th inst
The death of the father leaves family of five
children orphans and penniless.
Glenwood Pope County, Press, Oct. 81:
Three hundred and three acres of school land
in section 36, town 125, range 80, at the foot
of Lake Whipple, large part of which was
considered worthless and SO markdd, sold to
L. B Hodges, at the land sale last Monday,
for So, 741.40. That will probably be the flu
ture town site at the foot of the lake on Hills
| railroad.
The Chatfeld Democrat of October 90, says
death has stricken down Judge Ripley, ex-
| chief justice of the supreme court of Mime
sofa. His death occurred at Concord, Massa-
chusetts October tx .Judpe Riney was ono