Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-04
NIINNESO "a NEWS

reported 10 DE SoOu one.
A creamery is about to be started at
Monticello, Wright county.
E. r. Moore, of st. Peter, has been
granted a patent for an electrical tramway.
w. W. Woodward retires from the Man
kato Free Press and l.. p. Hunt assumes
full control
Robbers went through nearly every house
in the village of Montgomery, LIE Sueur
county, last week, and gathered up much
plunder.
The house of Theo. Czeskleba, at Can
non Falls, Goodhue county, was entered by
burglars August 29th, who took So and a
gold ring, escaping without detection.
L. d. Farnham, one of the Oldest citizens
of Chatfeld, has mysteriously disappeared.
He is sixty years old. six feet high. with
grey beard and hair, light blue eyes and
sandy complexion.
Mankato Review: Mr.. Doty, living at
CORTLAND station, Nicollet county. last
week thrashed sixty acres of oats which
yielded 5000 bushels, an average of 100
bushels to the acre.
Several farmers in the vicinity Of Glen
coe were busily engaged in thrashing wheat
on late Sunday. The Enterprise, in a
vigorous paragraph, justifies and defends
this use of the Sabbath.
L. II. BENEFITS grocery in Fergus Falls
was recently destroyed by fire with all its
contents, including $500 in money. 1t was
the work of an incendiary. Insurance
$1,000. far below the loss.
The grist mill at Moscow, Freedom
county, was burned on the morning of the
Both inst. 1t had been running year. and
had an insurance of $4,000 upon it, which
only partly covers the loss.
A mysterious disease is prevailing
among chickens. carrying them off in large
numbers. A farmer in LIE Sueur lost sixty
five out of eighty, and others say their
chickens are dying daily.
The Winona Republican. of August 30th
says: Eleven coaches, nine of them filled
with passengers. comprised the morning
train going to st. Paul on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad.
Montevideo Leader: Mr.. Samuel Lucas,
whose farm is only a short distance below
this village, harvested and thrashed yester-
day. 104 bushels of clean No. 1 wheat,
which was grown on an even three acre
piece Of land.
The report that the chinch bug has done
material damage to the wheat in Farming
ton, Dakota county,is denied by the Press, of
that place. No crop has been destroyed
on any farm, and only trifing damage
done in spots.
Ole Wallstroem, Carver county farmer,
who about two weeks ago missed pair of
oxen from his pasture, few days ago re-
ceived word from st. Paul that his prop
erty was there at the cattle yards waiting
for him to claim it.
The other day a Hastings farmer took
two tramps out of the Jail, paid their fines,
took them home and fed them and set
them to work. In about half an hour they
''vamossed the ranch,'' and the BENEVOLENT
farmer was left without help.
The st. Peter campers to Lake Emily,
after twenty-five days sojourn at that
delightful lakeside. broke camp last week
and returned to their homes, just in time
to escape a soaking rain storm. They
look back with pleasure at the enjoyable
time spent at the lake.
Albert Wagner, a German, who lives nine
miles south of Mankato, had an arm cut
off by harvester the other day. By ig-
norant negligence, lack of care, and want
of promptitude in sending for doctor, he
bled to death. By proper attention ond
activity he might have been saved.
Renville Union: 1t was a sad sight to
see on the east bound train Monday, the
grief stricken wife of the engineer who
died last Saturday from injuries received
by falling between the cars and having
both arms cut off at Andover, last Wednes-
day. The remains were accompanied by
Conductor Dell Cook and others.
Plainview News: While the wife of
Philip Berg, of the town of Lake, was
driving team attached to binder
one day this week, she was suddenly seized
with the pains of parturition, and there
in the open harvest field, with only the
smiling heavens above her, she shortly
gave birth to a bouncing boy baby.
At st. Peter, last week, tramp called at
the residence of Mr.. j. Byrnes, in that city
and got breakfast. Afterwards he watched
the house till the lady went down town
leaving the key with lad nine years old
Then he tried to make the boy give up the
key, and knocked him down twice. The
little fellow ran to a neighbor's, who fired
several times at the tramp without effect
August &c, about fifty men from Elbow
Lake visited Herman and removed the
county safes to that place. Herman was
last fall declared the county seat by the
governor. There is a contest now pending
before the supreme court concerning the
location of the county seat. The county
officials protested against the removal, and
until decision is givhr by the supreme
court,will refuse to act at Elbow Lake.
August "a, two Swedish women, living al
Colefax, were invited by a neighbor tc
visit her and partake of a cup of coffee
While they were absent from their house, a
satchel, containing $611, was distracted by
some unknown party. Suspicion points to
the neighbor whom they were visiting. as
she went to their house during their visit
after some butter which she had been keep
ing in their cellar. The money has not as
yet been recovered.
Glencoe Enterprise: An almost fata
accident is reported from Lynn. A. j
Anderson, while harvesting, seized his shot
gun, which he carried along with him OF
his harvester, and fired at a prairie chick
en-. The discharge missed the chicken, but
took effect in the body of Mrs. Greasley
| who was driving harvester in an adjoin
ing field. Twelve shot were extracted an6
one is still in her arm. Fortunately she
was not seriously hurt.
| The other day Murdoch Campbelk muir