Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-27
MINNESOTA NEWS.

wolves are attacking the occupants of
the pig pens in Melrose.
The city of Brainerd reioices in a new
skating rink, 5Ox1, 900 feet
| Texas beat Minnesota this year in hav
| ing the earliest snow storm.
Sneak thieves have heen robbing clothes
lines ''numerously" in Mankato lately.
Only four votes were cast in Sherburne
county for the prohibition candidate for
| congress.
| The premature gold excitement at Gran
lite Falls has faded out. There is no ''gold
nnine' there.
ST.. Hilaire, in Polk county, ''has four
teen houses and newspaper grand
| start for city.
| At the late election Congressman Strait
! got every vote IN ton of the townships of
| kandiyohi coun5y.
The Chaska Herald says diphtheria has
made its appearance i'll Chanhassan and
commenced its deadly work.
| The snow storm of Wednesday. the god
inst, was very general throughout the
| state, and snow fell also in several other
states.
| CnufCn
| IN Mankato, Melted $75 at a supper given
! the other night for the benefit of the
church.
W. c. Pillings, grocer OF Waterford
| Dakota county, was robbed on the streets
OF that town, on recent night, by footpads
OF 1872 and a gold watch.
The Cambridge Press says several new
cases of smallpox have occurred in
Stanchfield, Isanti county, and several
deaths have occurred there.
| The Spring Valley Mercury has dis
| carded patents and now its entire issue is
printed at home. It is large eight-col-
umn folio, and well conducted.
| The Sank Center Tribune has come out
| with brilliant double number showing
the advantages and prosperity of the city.
1t makes remarkably attractive showing.
Atwater (Kandiyohi county, Press:
Skating on the lakes and ponds around the
| village is now generally INDUCED in. The
mild weather makes the celebrating exer-
else the more enjoyable. The early skater
catches the cream of the sport.
| Sank Center Tribune: On Sunday last,
while young son of Mr.. Levi Smith of
Raymond was out hunting ,andswhile in the
act of discharging his gun it exploded,
| and either the lock or the breech pin en-
tered his head just above the left eye, tore
1t completely from the socket, and lodged
IN his head above the right eye. DIR. Can
field was summoned, but he could do moth
ing, and the young boy died the same
| day.
Mankato Free Press: The contract for
building the bridge across the LIE Sueur on
the town line of Mankato and Decoria
townships and OF what is known as the De-
coria and Napoleon road, was let to John
| sen, by the commissioners on Thursday, for
| 1854. The bridge is to be constructed of
| wood with stone abutments, and is required
to be completed on Or before the 1st of
July, 1883.
| Carver Free Press, Nov. %: A few days
ago several young mon and boys, of the
| town of Dahlgren. went on q coon hunt
and discovered tracks leading up big
tree. Two boys armed with axes assembled
the tree, and while chopping the coons out,
Alfred Munter made a misblow and cut
| three of his toes off. He managed to de-
scend, and was carried home by his COM
rades. Three full-grown coons were cap
| tured.
| Granite Falls Journal, Nov. %: An &C
cident happened at the bridge Tuesday
| that might have been much more serious
| in its nature. Two farmers. Ole
Besland and another man, were racing
| to see which would reach the bridge first,
| and thus. be first at the elevator. Ole came
| in behind, but had to turn out of the road
| to keep from having collision with the
other team, and in doing so ran over
stone and upset his wagon, Ole fell upon
rather hard rock and hurt his back some
what.
Winona Herald, Nov. "a: Augusta, wife
of Joaquin Hendricks, suicided at her home
in the Fourth ward Sunday night by swal-
lowing five cents worth of arsenic. The
poor lady suffered from fits of melancholy,
brought on it is supposed from the loss of
| children to whom she was devotedly at
tached. Sunday night she was restless,
and about l O'Clock her husband was
| aroused by her moaning. He asked what
was the matter, and if he should 90 and
get doctor. She said that nothing was
the matter and she didn't want any medi-
cine, for she wouldn't trouble him much
longer. She continued to grow worse so
rapidly that Mr.. Hendricks fastened to Dr.
Weders house and returned with him only
to find his wife cold and dead. A small
wine glass stained with arsenic stood on
the table in the bedroom.