St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-17
STATE JOTTINGS.
Local and Personal, Gathered
From All Parts of minnesota.

A ten-year-old hired girl was left in caleof
the house Of Joseph Vaith at Round Prairie,
i'll Steele county, in the absence of the fam
lily, and on their return found the windows
broken and an immense amount of destruc-
ton done. She stated that three tramps did
it. Stones were thrown at him while milk
ing He gathered his neighbors and spent
two days hunting in vain for any tramps,
when the girl confessed that she did the mis-
chief. She evidently had demoniacal pos
session.
LIE Sueur Sentinel:
Nearly all the corn in this section that will
make a crop is now practically safe from
frost. and much is being shocked and cut
this week. A big corn and big pork crop
will place most of the lie Sueur county farm
ers all right, Notwithstanding the very poor
wheat crop.
The death of Mrs. Baumgarten in Horton
township, Stevens county, was strange. She
had Staked the COW to grass. and, II Is sup
posed. the COW had in some way struck her
with its horns The woman was found lying
on her face i'll two or three inches or water,
lifeless. The COW had eaten off nearly every
yestige OF clothing.
was lodged in the Marshall county JAIL await
ing trial at the next term of court for the
murder of his uncle, was allowed by the
sheriff to go short distance from the Jail
for a pail of water, and forgot To return.
The sheriff has been unable to find him.
The Mantorville Express records the first
killing frost for the fall Of 1888 as having
come the night of Sept. ~. The thermome-
ter Thursday morning of last week indicated
10 deg below freezing point sufficient to kill
all tender vegetation. Corn was generally
fairly ripened, especially earlier fields.
Mrs. James Huron has sued her mother-in-
law, Bridget Huron. for SANDER, and places
her damage at $1,000, all at Wabasha. 1t
seems that Mrs. James was not conducting
herself in the most decorous way and that
her mother-in-law attempted to give her some
advice, hence the difficulty.
A little son of r. j. McBrady, in Swift
county, saw his father burn some straw, and
when the others were away he got some
matches and set some hay on fire, burning,
eighty tons, the house narrowly escaping.
He enjoyed it better than his father did.
The barn of A. E. Giles, in Grange. Pipe
stone county, caught fire in some mysterious
way while he was at work near it and burned
up with four horses and other property;
also ten stacks of grain near by burned,
comprising his entire crop.
The editors of the state papers that went
on the 500 excursion are giving glowing and,
generally, very interesting accounts OF the
tour. They are united in pronOuncing it the
most enjoyable and profitable the editorial
association has ever had.
T Sheriff Hopkins, of Big Stone county, had
the change racket tried on him by fakir on
an n. p. train west of Fergus Falls. His
revolver brought the fellow to time. He adj
mitted that he made business OF working
that game.
Lightning strucka barn on the White farm
in Sterling and shattered il quite badly.
George Keith was standing near and re-
ceved terrible shock. He was thought to
be dead for several hours, but was finally
brought TO.
separator of steam threshing machine
owned by T. A. Kvindlog, in Wilkin county,
was burned Tuesday night, together with
about 100 bushels of wheat in sacks and
two loads unthreshed that remained on The
wagons.