St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-20
STATE JOTTINGS.
Local and Personal, Gathered
From All Parts Of Minnesota,

Last Sunday number of boys ranging in
age from twelve years to twenty-five, were
seen coming home from Lake Charlotte
more or less i'll a state of intoXicatiOn. One
carried a faucet belonging to Il beer keg and
another had the mugs while still another had
to be assisted by his comrades to keep him in
a perpendicular position. We have heard
that such proceedings have been carried on
for some time. says the Long Prairie Argus
Reports of the condition of the spring
wheat harvest, which has been in progress
the past two weeks, grow worse rather than
better as the grain is cut. says the LIE Seuer
Sentinel. We doubt if the best yield in the
county will reach twelve bushels per acre.
and the average cannot be above about eight
bushels per acre. Much of the wheat is not
worth cutting except for the straw and feed
in it.
The idea that ch1nch bugs had been de-
stroyed by the long cold rains of carly spring
proves to have been mistake says the Fari-
bault Democrat. They are just as lively and
yoracious as ever, and having disposed of the
spring wheat are now af er the corn. 1t is
very evident that growing spring wheat must
be discontinued in this section for a few
years.
W. B. Ladd, the prohibition lecturer of st.
Paul, held a meeting in Montgomery under
peculiar circumstances. There was no pro
hibiuonist there, and most of the audience
went out frequently to drink. A tin pan
racket was kept up outside, and articles of
value were stolen from his buggy.
Is Mrs. d. B. Davis, at Dodge Center found a
large rattlesnake among the peanut shells
that the children had left in the grass in the
yard by the house only few minutes before
He was at once dispatched and found to have
five full-grown rattles with sixth started.
: Au effort is being made to secure the free
delivery of United States mails in Fairbault
which under the law is accorded only to
cities of 10000 population or whose post
offices do a business exceeding $4,000
annually.
: The Evangelical praying band from Min
neapolis, is composed of six members, three
ladies and three gentlemen. AT Alden and
Freeborn, where they have been working the
past few weeks, 120 souls have been con-
verted.
> E. g. Persons, of the town of St. Charles,
was seriously injured by an infuriated bull
a few days ago. He managed to crawl under
a barbed wire fence and get away from the
animal or he would have been killed out
right.
The Hokah Chief reports large serpent Or
fish in Lake Como, and says it is at least 100
Ieet long. and that for twenty feet back of its
head large scales cover the body, some Of
them as large as hay scales.
Arthur Howard, porter at the st. Louis
Hotel, at Crookstar, got tired OF living any
| more and attempted suicide by swallowing
the contents OF a bottle of laudanum. But
he did not quite succeed.
Two men who have been at Alexandria for
| the past six weeks were arrested Monday,
charged with running eff with mortgaged
property from st. Paul the latter part OF
June.
A convict named John B. Kirfie. under a
| two and one-half years sentence for larceny,
committed in Minneapolis little over year
ago, died at the prison on Saturday morning
| last.
AT the district fair at st. Cloud merchant
offers a set of fine knives and forks to the
| baby that cries the loudest, and set of glass
| dishes to the baby that laughs the most
The suggestion is made that as soon as the
| harvest is over and the grain Is secured the
| people of Rock county meet at Luyerne and
| have sort Of harvest festival.
Delton D. Whiting, the youngest son of
| Timothy Whiting, of Rochester, had the up