Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1889 — MINNESOTA FIRES. [ARTICLE]

MINNESOTA FIRES.

Thousands of Acres of Woods and Marshes Being Burned Up. Faribault (Minn.) dispatch: Many fires in swamps and forests are doing much damage each day. A peculiar accident happened to a farmer between here and Owatonna. While he was driving along the road with a load of hay the ground gave way under him and let himself, team, wagon and hay down to a depth of ten or twelve feet. The soil below the road was a peaty one, and had been burning for some time. His hay and wagon was burned, but the man managed to escape with his horses. Great marshes around Rice, Mud aud Watkins are burned over with thousands of tons of hay. At Mud and Cedar Lakes the woods have been on fire, and over 1,000 cords of wood have been burned. About 100 tons of hay have also been burned in this vicinity. Violation of the Contract Labor 'Law. District Attorney Lyons, of the Western district of Pennsylvania, reports that upon investigation he finds that twenty-five glassblowers who landed at Boston and went to work at Jeannett, Pa., can not now be sent back to the countries they came from, but that the parties instrumental in bringing them to this country violated the anticontract labor law and can be prosecuted therefor.