Daily globe., 1882-09-26
MINNESOTA NEWS.

IHe ucW jail III MCLEOD county Is hI
lshed, and ready for use.
The postofice at Elwood, Faribaul
county, has been discontinued.
New No. was selling in st. Peter las
week for eighty ynine cents bushel.
The enterprising jail-birds in Hasting
came near etfecting their escape the othe
night.
Flowing is farther advanced at this dat,
Than 1t has been for years, so early il
autumn.
Lincoln Hunt. of Anoka. had his law
broken in two places last week by the kicl
of horse.
VIM. Macnab of Luverne sowed forty.
three acres to flax and last week thres he'd
sixteen bushels to the acre.
LIE Sueur Ne,0s: Corn is now matured
sufficiently to be out of the way of the
frosts, and there will be good yield.
The 10Th annual fair of the Goodhue
County Agricultural society will be held at
Zumbrota October Sd, 4th, 9th and 9th.
Vennor's predictions for Sept. 2Oth came
| exactly on time. Who will say Vennor is
not seer of the weather prognosticating
sort?
In the town of Moonshine, Big Stone
county, last week threshing machine and
tour stacks of grain were destroyed by
fire.
The handsome Catholic church at Litch-
field is finished and painted on the outside,
and the inside is rapidly approaching COM
pletion.
Tom Moonon's saloon. in GAINESVILLE.
was set on fire the other night by an in
cendiary. A timely discovery prevented
confagration.
A nine year old lad in st. Cloud fred a
shot at tramp, who entered the house last
Sunday to help himself to a meal, and
scared him off the premises.
Glencoe Enterprise: The hum of the
threshing machine is heard everywhere in
the county. The sound talks wealth at ev-
cry revolution of the cylinder.
The Hon. Alex. Faribault of Faribault
recently had paralytic shock, affecting
one entire side of his body. A partial
recovery only can be looked for.
Capt. G. c. Gomez, of Waseca, has been
placed on the national pension roll. with
back pay to the anionnt Of s3onn. Saonn and
henceforth to draw $40 month.
The Catholic church in Belgrade, Nicol
let county, is nearly completed, and
Father Meier expects to have the first
service the second Sunday in October.
Sportsmen allege that the recent hail
storm killed off the prairie chickens in
Fairbault county, and that they are now
very scarce. So states the Wells Adrocate.
Corn is being very generally cut The
average yield will be moderate, owing to
the cold, wet, and backward spring. There
will be good many small ears-.'nub- |
bins.'
Things are getting lively in Worthing-
ton. They have had jury trial five days
n succession in liquor cases and both |
saloons are closed and the proprietors |
under arrest. ...
Last week, while the workmen were
testing a new planer at the Wells machine |
shops,a wheel making 400 revolutions |
minute burst, severely wounding one of |
the workmen.
A runaway team in Fairbault, the other |
day, caused severe injuries to Widow |
Green and a leg of her son who was driv-
ing was broken, and the wagon made a /
wreck.
Waseca Radical: A resolution was pass
that all new teachers employed hereafter |
should receive but $50 for the first month.
If retained after a months trial wages |
to be increased to $40.
The first annual fair of the Yellow Med
dicine county agricultural society. will |
Sept. &c. The Granite Falls Jour |
nal will be issued every morning during
the continuance of the fair.
Granite Falls Journal: The amount of |
freight now being delivered at this station |
is simply enormous. 1t looks .asthough our |
merchants were getting in enough goods
to supply the entire country.
Faribault Republican,: The result of /
threshing confirms the report that the |
chinch bugs have caused considerable dam !
age On East Prairie. In Cannon City and |
according to reports, the wheat |
will not average over twelve bushels per |
acre.
Taylors Falls Journal: A ripple of ex-
citement was occasioned last Friday by |
the announcement that Mrs. Combs was |
poisoned by dose of laudanum. physi- |
clan was promptly summoned who admin |
istered antidotes, and there was a speedy |
recovery.
wv = N'SA L eOtftC' n SIA year O1u DOy. /
son of Henry Poehling of Courtland, was |
brought here yesterday for medical atten- |
ton. He was out where his older brother |
was moving and got too near the scythe |
and cut the cord back of his heel clear off. |
He will probably be cripple.
Benson Times: Peter Thompson. living
a mile or two south of town, lost his barn. |
granary and wheat stacks by fire Saturday. |
We do not know the origin of the fire: |
about forty tons of hay were also burned |
for him. Peter had about seventy-ive |
dollars of insurance only, and can i'll afford |
to lose the rest.
Winona Republican: Marshal Miller, |
who arrested the thief Walters, scored an
other good hit. While riding down Second |
street he observed a man snatch a watch |
from the pocket of j. II. Bean The Mar
shal jumped from his buggy, grabbed the |
man. took the watch from his pocket, and |
marched him to the lookup.
Jordan Adrocate: One day this week. |
Bernhardt Burstjahn, farmer living near |
st. Josephs church, met with an accident !
that resulted in his death. While driving |
along the road with load of brick his |
team took fright and ran away, throwing