Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-14
MINNESOTA NEWS.

An elegant Cottage piano has been pre.en.
| ted to Rev. and Mrs. E. 8. Peohe, by friends
| in Detroit and Wadena, in acknowledgment
Mrs. Peohe's services in church music.
Farmers mortgage their farms in the sum
mer to buy farm machinery, and then leave the
said machinery out door all winter without
protection, to rust and rot. Is that thrift ?
Favorable reports are received from Spring
Hill, where the small pox has ragged 80 fear
fully. It is believed the worst is over. and
that the spreading of the disease il arrested.
Motley Citizen; d. B. Morrison has eleven
logging camps in operation, and employing
| 100 men in them. He will get out about
5000, 600 feet He will also have 100 cords
OF wood cut for his brick yard.
C.S. Curtis, Of Howard Lake, while hunting
| the other day, was severely wounded in the
face by the discharge Of his breech-loading
gun backward-teeth were broken out, jaw
bone broken, and the face fearfully lacera-
ated.
Rochester Record and Union, Dec. 9: Mr..
Gilbert Smith, an old and well known resident
Of this city, died very suddenly Monday noon.
He ate his dinner in perfect health, apparently,
and while sitting beside his invalid wife, fell
dead on the floor from apoplexy.
A man in Saltwater lost child, and being
poor man, his friends dug the grave: When
etery it was stopped by the sexton because he
had not dug the grave. The sexton had an
eye to business, without heart for humanity.
Faribault Republican, Dec. Z: Mr.. John B.
Plummer, whose injury from being run over
was recorded in our last, died OH Wednesday
afternoon last, having remained insensible
with the exception Of brief moment till the
lend. The deceased leaves wife and eleven
children to mourn his loss.
DR.. Keller, formerly of st. Peter, who at
tempted suicide by taking morphine at Man
again last week at Belle PLANE. The stomach
pump saved him. If the doctor expects to
make success, he must 60 to some country
town where they are short on stomach pumps.
The Willmar elevator burned on Friday. It
had a capacity for $4,000 bushels, and con-
tanned 1000 bushels of wheat " hen it burned.
Also 100 tons of salt. The Hiding and ma
chinery was worth $4,000. The store of
Jorgenson & Grangard was also burned. The
total loss was $28,500, all but g. 800 being
covered by insurance.
Waseca Herald, Dec. 9: a. young man
named Sampson Bland, residing not far from
of accidental poisoning. The young man had
the deadly drug in his pocket, with some
chewing tobacco, and the vial breaking, it is
supposed the poison got mixed up with the
tobacco, and upon using the latter he must
have swallowed some of the poi son. Deceased
had been married about one year.
RThe Faribault RepubI lean, Of Dec. z, says
as John Cruise, who lived in Ieerfeid, Steele
county, was returning home from Faribault
on Thanksgiving day, the ROADS being very
rough, he was jolted from his seat on lum-
Der wagon and fell out, his head striking upon
the frozen ground, he receiving such injuries
that he died from their effects the following
Wednesday. Mr.. Cruise had been to town to
procure coffin for his wife the day Oh which
the accident befell him.