Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-17
MINNESOTA NEWS.

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The river at Taylors Falls rose flve feet
last week.
The rains of last week ruined immense
quantities of hay. H'isa Rllil ss3 4
Peter Person was accidentally drowned
in the river at Moorhead the other day.
September 5 the doctors of Minneapo-
lis reported $50 cases of typhoid fever.
The Taylors Falls Journal reports light
frosts last week, but doing but little dam
age.
There have been thirty-two travelling
circuses abroad in the land the present
year. ss.# }tR ~
Rev. W. w. Satterlee has retired from
the editorship of the Minneapolis Isn,-
perance Reoieo.
Thomas Hughes, of Lake Prairie, had
shoulder fractured the other day by the
kick of horse. M si4 ~
The Tribune says the new city hall in
st. Peter will be completed according to
contract by November 10. So d
James Fay, brakeman, was crushed
to death at Red Wing, Sept.1 IL, by his be-
ing run over by a railroad train. gs.f.
The rains of last week wsshed out the
track between Taylors Falls and Fran
coma, causing detention of trains.
During a recent storm, the barn of F.
Gicsche, near Swan Lake, was struck by
lightning and entirely consumed with all
its contents.
- The New Ulm Reeiew confirms the re-
port that Nicholas Gales, formerly Of
that place, was killed by Indians in Hills
boro, New Mexico.
A farmer with his farm wagon run over
little two-year-old girl in Red Wing
last week. The wheels went over her
hips. The child was not killed.
The Congregationalists of Crookston
have awarded the contract for the erec-
ton of their church edifce. The struc-
ture is to be of brick. u
The Moorhead Argonaut of Sept. s,
said ga flock of cranes was seen going
south on Monday, an infallible sign that
cold weather is in store for us. oi
The Ne W Ulm relief fund amounted
to about s4O,O 900; and yet it is said the
commissioners of the county (Brown)
refuse to donate cent. Whereforef ~
The Sank Rapids Sentinel says that by
the sudden rising of the water, yelling
ton & Co.'S boom at the island broke and
some 100, 900 railroad ties went down the
river.
The st. Peter Tribune of September IA
learns that diphtheria is raging in Lafay-
cite. Mr.. Glessman has five children
down with the disease, two of them not
expected to live.
The Messenger of Sept. 9, says: D. T..
W. Holbrook, Who is in charge of a party
who are locating a branch line of the
Northern Pacific from Benson to Wa
dena, reached Glenwood Sept. 10.
Mrs Bergermager, of CORTLAND, Mic
oliet county, during recent thunder
storm, was seriously injured by falling
hail stones, some of which are alleged to
have been fifteen inches in circumfer-
euce. ltg ira
Burglars the other night entered the
Willmar house in Willmar, Kandiyohi
county. By means of a ladder they en-
tered an upper room and robbed two
guests, one of $40, and the other of $46
in money.
Last August horse was stolen from
Anton Stutz, of Cleveland, LIE Sueur
county. Last week the thief, James
Evans, alias Lew Bentley, was arrested
near Sank Center, and the horse returned
The thief isin Jail. H!ls
st. Peter Tribune, Sept. IA: A lad
named Harry St. Martin, IL years DID,
son of Frank st. Martin, who lives near
the junction, was drowned in Straight
river, below the dam of the Kendall mills,
on Thursday afternoon last.
The report that the New Ulm relief
committee have received more money
than they know what to do with, is al
legged 10 be very positively false Double
the amount received could be judiciously
applied for the relief of actual suffering
Rochester Post, Sept 8: Last evening
stout and resolute looking man, who
gave his name as A. ]. Sargent, and who
claims to reside at Faribault, was brought
before the city justice on the charge of
stealing watch from the person of one
Paul Priebe, at the fair grounds.
Monday night, Sept. IL, in a row at
Kirn's saloon in Red Wing, Claus Tipke
was fatally stabbed, with . knife, BY
Henry Won Helen. On the verdict of the
coroner's jury, he was held for murder,
and his brother, Helm Won Helm, was
also held fer murder as accessory.
Faribault Republican,, Sept. ID: On
Wednesday night last dogs killed twenty
two sheep of flock owned by Mr. E. A.
Orne, on the farm recently purchased by
him of Mr.. Sherwood. Five more are
missing and are supposed to have been
killed. The sheep were valued at 800.
William Wheeler, of Walcott. with his
little boy, had narrow escape from
drowning the other day. in attempting
to cross Straight river, at Hoyt's ford,
two miles below Mariposa, Steele county.
The father caught the little boy as lie
came up, and fortunately all were saved.
Long Prairie argus, Sept 9: Last
Friday afternoon, Harriet, daughter Of
Joseph Gains, of Hudson, who. passed
her fourth birth day on the 9Th ult, fell
backwards into tub of boiling hot suds
that was standing on the floor. She was
taken out instantly, but not until fatally
burned.
st. Peter Tribune: Some malicious
person entered the residence of Mrs.
Howard, widow of the late Sergeant
Howard, of Fort Ridgeley, and broke up
about $3.50 worth of furniture. The
stove was all broken into little pieces,
bed clothing was torn into strips, etc.
Mary Eagan was arrested charged with
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