St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-08
STATE JOTTINGS.
Local and Personal, Gathered
From All Parts Of Minnesota.

Worthington Advance: Thursday evening
last, about 8 o'clock, a young German about
twenty-five years of age, named Shelter, was
running race at Round Lake station with
one of the Horton boys. AS they reached the
goal Shelter fell and struck against the cor
ner Of platform and Horton fell on him.
The fall caused an internal rupture, from
which the young man died next day. The
parties who came to town on Friday for the
coffin had mishap also. The team ran
away and smashed the coffin to pieces.
The Little Falls Democrat says dastardly
act OF vandalism was perpetrated by some
villains who entered the barn of Rev. Father
LeMay, at Belle Prairie, one night last.we
and cut a fine new harness into shreds, and
sheared the name and tail of his horse and
made an unsuccessful attempt TO poison the
animal.
Prairie fires did damage to a good deal of
property along the Milwaukee road in The
Graceville region last week The freight
road, and it is estimated that over $1,000
worth of wheat oats. hay, barns, houses,
horses, etc., was consumed.
Patrick O'Loughlin, partner of the young
Ryan who skipped out and left his numerous
creditors at Graceville sadder but wiser men,
undertook last week to follow his example,
but his victims had him arrested at Glencoe
by telegraph and will make an example Of
him.
Henry Kobler, of Elba, is seventy-nine
years VI aye. Ilt fUbtu lOI Dcu I1dIIlSOA III
1910, but will not vote for his grandson. He
is unusually strong and active for man OF
his age, and often walks from Elba to st.
Charles a distance of thirteen miles.
A destructive fire occurred at the Soule
farm at Mt Lake While threshing with a
steamer fire caught in the straw and con-
sumed the barns with all their contents, in
elud nearly all the crops raised this year on
the farm.
George w. Booth, marshal of Hinckley,
arrested runaway couple at that place and
escorted them back to White Bear. The wo-
man was the wife of the night policeman of
White Bear, who had become tired of her
spouse.
When Thomas Dunn returned to his home
at Wheaton after a short absence he found
his wife lying on the floor dead Whether
death was caused by fit or suicide is not de-
termined.
j. W. Wheeler, a farmer in Saltwater town,
is the fortunate pOssessOr of 1000 bushels
of wheat, which he has kept to look att for
two or three years. He thinks he will sell it
this year.
Ed Kimball killed moose above Pelican
lake that weighed nearly 700 pounds. 1t is
said that this species of the deer family is
quite plentiful in Northern Minnesota this
fall.
The cost of returning the shops of the
Manitoba road from GAINESVILLE to Fergus
Falls is figured at SIS, 900, and the people
offer to raise this amount to secure the shops.
The building improvements for Rochester
the past season are estimated to be about
100000. This is about 100000 less than
in 1887.
next year a prize for the best twins, the fat
test baby, and for the orneriest scrawniest
infant.
At sabin, during threshing on E. Weide-
mans farm, the engine exploded. killing
Rudolph Bose and fatally injuring p. I'll.
Collier.
The creamery at Redwood Falls burned
down last Wednesday. The fire is supposed
to have originated in defective chimney.
1t is stated that a young lady of Spring
Valley has sued young man of that place
for S., 900 for breach of promise.
was caught in shaft at the elevator, and SO
seriously injured that he died.
Ed Ward lost his life at the saw mill at
Motley, by being caught in the windlass used
to draw in the logs.
Dubuque claims a child born with the
features of an elephant. Must have gone to
the circus early.
A Newell preacher has a card in the local
paper assuring his creditors that he intends
to pay his debts
One man in Sac county has 2lO acres of
popcorn. Last year he had sixty acres and
cleared 50, 0O0
P C. W. Frederickson, of Litchfeld, died
last Sunday from the effects of cancer in the
stomach.
Sargent's coal dock at Duluth gave way,
letting fully 1,20O ions of coal slide into the
harbor.
A party at Northfeld shipped car load OF
potatoes to Kansas, paying % cents for
Them.
A Greene girl has swallowed a shawl-pin
two inches In length, and it il likely TO Kill
her.
A boy at Howard Lake had to have his leg
amputated above the knee for cancer.
A corn canning factory at Cedar Falls has
put up 600, 900 cans this season.
Wire fence swindlers have been working
the farmers in Boone county.
The editor of the Lake Crystal Union has a
potato that weighs six pounds.
Norman county has not a licensed saloon
within her boiders