St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-05
MINNESOTA NEWS.

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last week of diphtheria.
| The school house in district No. Is, Todd
county was destroyed by fire the other day.
Henry Corcoran, of Long Prairie wa
caught under the top of tree he had beer
chopping down the other day, but he ESCAPED
with few bruises.
Thomas Similar, of Catalonia shot wild
cat last week, wounding him. The enraget
animal sprang at him, when Similar clubbing
his gun, dispatched him.
New Ulm has inaugurated an migration
movement, raised $500, and issued 5000
pamphlets in German setting forth the ad
vantages of Brown county.
The house of Charley Erckenbreck of Win
sor was destroyed by fire recently with mos
of its contents. The family had marrow
escape. Some of whom were badly burned
The Joannal-Pre says diphtheria is pre-
vailing to considerable extent in SOM
parts of Stearns county. Mr.. Gowen o
Farming lost five children inside of ten days
Faribault Democrat Vim. Ochs, one OF
the pupils of the Deaf and Dumb institute
while wrestling a short time since, broke
both bones Of one Of his legs above the ankle
Miss Fannie o. Anderson teacher in thu
public schools in Faribault, has resigned hel
position to accept a position in the public
schools of Pueblo, Colorado, at s75 month
Three wheat thieves, were tried before
Justice in Clear Lake, Sherburne county, TO
stealing $50 bushels of wheat One plead
guilty and restored one load which had no
been sold.
According to the Journal, Lanesboro pres
| ents very slow market for valentines, fol-
the reason that more of the people living
| there are either married or engaged. VIVA
a blissful abodel
The calico ball at the new opera house in
Mankato last week for the benefit of Tho
Ladies' Relief Society was well attended, ant
was success. The ladies acknowledge the
receipt of $120.25.
Mrs. Julia, wife of j. f. Townsend, editor
of the Belle PLANE Herald, aged 90 years dice
at their residence, Feb. Oath, after brie1
Illness. She leaves two children, the young
est but two weeks old.
Charles Type, Express agent at Pelican
Rapids has been arrested for the robbery Of
$500 last fall. One Agnew has turned
states evidence, for the reason that Type die
not pay him to his satisfaction for his part in
| the crime.
| Alonzo V. Gilmore was killed at Tidd &
Fales' camp on the William river above
Aitkin the other day by a log rolling on him
| His body was taken to Anoka where he has
resided for the last two years for burial. Hc
was "a years old.
Morris, Stevens County, Sun. Feb. %
The snow pillow on the Manitoba Road killed
one man and severely injured two others at
Norcross on Tuesday. The name of the man
killed was Hedge Helgeson, section foreman
who leaves a wife and one child.
Long Prairie Leader: The Ledoux post
office on the Little Falls road was recently re.
moved from Kay's store to farm house two
miles off the road. Since its removal there
is some talk of re-establishing the old Little
Texas office, about mile or two west of LIE
| douX.
On late evening, George Bacon of Can
non Falls, on his way home from his work
fell dead on the sidewalk, he had complain &c
for several days of slight illness produced
from cold and pain in his throat. Hc
had just left a doctors office, when he COM
planned of a sense of suffocation, and had 6
prescription in his pocket. He was 45 years
old and leaves wife and five children.
Princeton Union: While beastly drunk
on Monday, Peter Anderson, resident Of
Livonia, Sherburne county, stumbled off the
| sidewalk, Just south of Rines store, and
while trying to get onto it again his right
| foot caught under a stringer and he fell side
WAYS across the walk and broke his right LEG
/ above the ankle joint. He will have occa
sion to remember his Mondays drunk fol-
some time to come.
Fergus Falls Telegram: A painful acct
dent happened to Miss Margaret Angus, who
with her sister Jessie is visiting the family O
R. j. Angus. By a mistake she stepped int
cellar way instead a hall, as she supposed
and fell down the stairs, breaking her RICH
forearm and severely injuring her side. Tht
ladies arrived here on Monday from Stephen
and were on their way to Montreal to vis
friends and relatives.
H. S. Bassett, has sold the Preston, Fill
more county Republican to S. S. McKenny
late of the Chatfield Democrat and Mr.
McKenny, being Democrat, and proposing
'sto inculcate and support the principles O
the National Democratic party has changed
the name to "Preston DemOcrat.'' Now if the
publisher of the Chatfeld Democrat will
change the name OF his paper to ''Repatblican
he will cease to sail under false colors.
Long Prairie argus: One day last week
II. c. Maynard, of the town of Leslie, killed
a large lynx on his premises. He saw il
prowling around his house and kept watch OF
| it until it went into his hog pen. Taking
| his ak he mounted the side of the pig sty and
as his lynxship looked up to see what the
matter was, II. G. gave him blow between
the eyes which sent him to the happy hunting
ground where he will not want hog meat.
Long Prairie Argus: Last week we men.
| toned the death of an unknown woman
! H041a
ago and the dead body of an infant was
found in her trunk. Since that time it has
been tolerably well established that the WON
an was the wife of Myron Fuller, of Rey-
nolds. They separated some four years age
and the woman went to La Crosse, we be.
lieve, since which time she had not beer
heard from.
| An old farmer of Freeborn county writing
| to the Standard, says he has kept record OF
all his wheat sold since '65, and the average
| price is % cents more per bushel in the fall
The lowest average per bushel for the Is
| years is 81 cents and the highest average
| S1.05, which gives general average of 81
cents per bushel. This is not bad, taken a.
whole The lowest price received was in
1S7S-34 cents in the fall and Sc in the
| spring, and the highest price was in 1866
As in the fall and $1.75 in the spring
Saltwater San: A very serious charge
was made yesterday afternoon by Danisf
woman who claims that she was assaulted b,
one of the prominent attorneys of Saltwater
in the latter's Office, the lawyer first locking
the Office door, then offering the woman mon
ey, and finally resorting to violence.
The Prime minister of the Hawaiian King
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