The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-12-12
MINNESOTA NEWS.

A SCHOOL building TO cost e16, 900 IL
10 be built In Albert Lea next year.
BsNJAMIN SYLVESTER, an old resident
Of St. Peter, died on Saturday last, at
the age of eighty years
A CONTRACTOR for sinking wells has
over S400 worth of wells TO bore In Kan
diyohi county during the winter.
o. p. ANDERSON and Mr.. Shoemaker,
of Melville, Wabashaw county, have sold
their 100 acre farm for a, 900 In cash.
Icy formed on Lake Pepin, November
%, which effectually closed navigation
for the season of 1879. The lake opened
April IA.
DEIDRICH CoHRs, q respected citizen
of Plato, near Glencoe, was killed last
week by being caught In threshing
machine.
Mr.. OH OLKsOE KIN, who lives about
six miles north of Waseca, In Blooming
Grove township, lost his barn BY fire
Sunday night. A..
3. Il. KINNEY, of Morristown, Rice
county, recently forwarded 10, 600 pounds
of amber cane seed TO the agricultural
Department, Washington, for which he
received 81 900.
A YOUNG man at Burns Station,
Brown county, named CLARK Cady, fatal,
~ shot himself on Monday evening, be-
cause eff q love affair in which other
parties interfered.
In most of the villages of the state
where newspapers are published, reports
are given of business improvement and
activity; of large marketing of wheat
and other farm produce.
A YOUNG man named Armstrong was
robbed of $S8 by another young man
named Wells, of Wasecs. Armstrong
finally recovered his money, and the
thief was not prosecuted.
CHARLES HESS, of Cardova, LIE Sueur
county recently received 500 back PEN
sion. He belonged to the frat regiment
and Is said to have been the first Mime
sofa soldier wounded in the late war.
CAPT. 3. O. AMBER, whom we re.
member as having worn the blue in the
Tenth Minnesota, Is now q davine and
has charge of the Methodist congregation
at Casselton, d. T.-CrOOktion Northern
IiSr.
MRS. JOHN SAMUELsoE, of Berna-
dotte, Nichollet county, the unfortunate
lady from whose thigh DR.. Marcellus re-
moved the tine of a pitchfork November
22d, died the day before Thanksgiving
from exhaustion and pyamia.
WABASH proposes to send q colony
to the Yellowstone country next summer.
The scheme Is to get party together,
charter q steamboat and start for the
mouth of the Muscleshell, upon whose
banks it is proposed to settle, some time
in April next.
LAST week Mr.. Ringgold, of Roscoe,
Goodhue county, while In his stable |
taking care of his mules, was kicked,
knocked down and trampled upon, break |
ing several ribs and bruising him terri |
bly,, but he was rescued before fatal
injuries were inflicted.
THE Redwood Gazette says wolves are
committing depredstions along the Min
nesota river, and are nightly carrying |
off poultry of all kinds, sheep, and in |
some instances, yearling calves. The
Gazette calls on the mighty hunters to
come TO the aid of the farmers and to |
exterminate the pesky vsrmints.
LAST week, on what is known as the |
Whitney farm, In the town of Rushford,
in the night season, the barn of John |
Bagley was struck by lightning and set
on fire. Nothing was saved out of the |
barn. The horses, mules and cattle were |
all killed by the stroke of lightning. |
The animals were all hitched with their
heads to the west, but were found pros
trated with their heads all pointing |
south.
A SAD and terrible case of drowning is
narrated by a correspondent of the Fer
gus Falls Advocate, from Pelican Rapids.
The two young men drowned were
Charles and James Alderman. The
eldest started for home, and in crossing
the lake on the ice, broke through, and
his call was q call for help, which his
brother mistook for help to kill deer
and as be came to the edge of the lake,
seeing his brother In danger, started to
cross on the ice to help him, and he, too,
broke through and was drowned.
MARTIN MosHER, q farmer residing
two and q half miles west of Elliota,
Fillmore county, was returning last week
from Preston, where he was marketing
away, and ran some six miles when they
were stopped by becoming entangled in
a wire fence. Mosher was found in the
bottom of his wagon terribly mutilated
and unconscious, and died in that con-
dition. The superstition Is that he was
assailed by highway robber, who dealt
In death-dealing blow with q club, and
that the horses took fright and ran away
before the robber could rife the pockets
of his victim.