Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-19
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Ichabod West, of Vivian, Waseca county
aged eighty-three years, committed suicide
the other day by hanging.
The Lake City Reuiei0 says Hi Bonnell
threshed his wheat last week and it yielded
twenty-five bushels per acre.
The Hastings NeiU Era says several farmers
have threshed their new crop of wheat and the
results are highly gratifying.
A gang of forty-one young Englishmen,
just arrived, are being placed on farms in
Fillmore and Olmsted counties.
The wheat acreage in Blue Earth county is
much less than In former years. Most of the
small farmers have completed their harvest.
The lumber house of Frank Barnard, of LIE
Sueur, was destroyed the other day with all
its contents. Loss, $4,000; insurance, 81 200.
The New Ulm Reuiew, of August 16, says
if the favorable weather continues another
week the wheat in that vicinity will be cut
and in shocks.
It has been proposed to consolidate Hart
ford and Upshur postofices, Todd county, at
the new town at the mouth of the Eagle, and
it is understood that the residen tsof the Harts
mill neighborhood want new Office at that
point.
Winona Republican,: The building of the
Northwestern freight depot on Front street is
delayed by cloud on the title to one of the
lots whereon the new building is to be erected.
In case the title is not perfected soon the
property will be condemned and the work will
proceed.
Judge Severance in a speech at Mankato the
other day, said that IN aperlo6 of thirty years,
he had defended 100 men charged with murder,
and in every case save one, the murderers were
drunk when they committed the crime.
The excavation of the fifty feet diameter well
in the city of Winona for the water works is
completed, and the laying of the curb wall
from the present water line to the surface of
the ground is the finishing process now being
done. There Is fifteen and q half feet of water
now In the well, which would give eleven feet
three at low-water mark.
Monteviceo Leader: A four-year-old SON of
Mr.. Mikkle Mikkleson, of the town of Big
Bend, this county. while playing around the
kitchen Thursday morning slipped and fell
into vessel containing boiling water, which
was on the floor, and was so severely scalded
that death resulted after few hours.
Mankato Reuiew, Aug. Is: Slight traces
of frost were noticed on Thursday at points
in western Wisconsin and through northern
and western Minnesota. 1t was not enough
to do any damage-on]y to verify Vennpr's
prediction that there would be frost in Au-
gust, The clerk of weather leans kindly to
that man Vennor.
The store of L. A. Huntoon, of Lakeland,
Washington county, was burglarized one night
last week and the safe blown open, but no
money obtained. The burglars stole sl00
worth of postage stamps from the post Office.
which is keptin the same building.
Mankato Reuie,u; The statement that Young
Dancer, recently burned to death in LeRay
township, had made his escape but afterwards
returned to the burning building, seems TO
have been mistake. His father woke him,
and as he supposed fully made him aware of
the dangers, but 1t seems that he was not fully
aroused and before he realized his situation
was rendered insensible by the smoke. His
father receiyed his worst injuries in trying to
save him.