The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-11-21
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Coal IL reported TO have been found
In the immediate neighborhood of Moor
head.
TIE Jotirnal says nearly q thousand
live porkefs we're shipped from Lanesboro
last week.
MRS. ALEx. IRvrsE, daughter oil
Rev. Horace Hills, Of Wabasha, died
last week.
p. w. OPPLIGER, formerly of Winona,
dropped suddenly dead at Owatonna one
day last week.
TIE Anoka Union says girl was mar.
ried in Anoka last week who was only
twelve years old.
A FUEL famine In Morris, Stevens
county, Is producing q good deal of In.
convenience and excitement.
WIN. WEST. of Caledonia, Houston
county, lost 5000 by the burning of
his blacksmith shop on Thursday.
The military company in Wabsshsw
having disbanded, the cannon in their
possession has been reclaimed by the
state.
SALATHIEL ELLIS, an artist, formerly
residing in Mantorville, died at San
Jose, Cal, on the 2Sth ult., at the age
of rs years.
A SON Of Paul Nelson, of Danielson,
Meeker county, shot himself through
the heart with q rife which had been
carelessly left loaded in his way.
WALLACE CLARK, of Oak Ridge, Nor.
rison county, fell out Of wagon recent
ly, and one of the wheels passed over his
head, inAicting dangerous injuries.
Mr.. ANTHONY SMITH, living in Big
Stone county, had his stable and Ave
horses burned the other morning. The
fire was communicated from lantern.
RECENTLY one.hundred and forty
dollars were stolen from the money
drawer in Youmans Bros. & Hodgin's
lumber Office in Marshal, Lyon county.
LAST week Douglas E. Drew, aged 81,
son of Oliver Drew, of Mason, Murray
county, was drowned in Lake Shetek,
by breaking Through the ice while out to
spear fnuskrats.
Mr.. CARL G. TRoT2, the oldest resi-
dent of Waseca county, died at his home
in Wilton, Oct. 3lst, aged 107 years.
He was born in Germany on the 18th
day of June, l772.
TIE other day, Henry Dow, of Little
Falls, Morrison county, while chopping
wood, found the bowl of q large table
spoon in a stick of wood, nearly four
inches from the outside bark.
THE proposition to divide Lac qui
Psrle county, for the purpose of aiding
in the formation of a new county, with
Candy as the county seat, was voted
down in that county by nearly 500 ma
jority.
Two horses attached to q wagon, one
night recently, backed of from the bridge
over Ashley Greek, in the town of Ash.
ley, Stearns county, and fell distance
fifteen feet into the creek. Both horses
were drowned.
The father of Mr.. Theodore White, at
Concord, Dodge county, was missing
recently when the family gathered
around the supper table. Search was
made, and he was found lying on the
ground, entirely dead.
THE commissioners of Blue Earth
county have issued $4,000 of bonds
voted by the people of the county in aid
of the Minnesota iron bridge, the bonds
to be $500 each, running five years al Z
per cent, payable semi.snnually.
The Lamberton Commercid! says J. A.
Simmons, Mennonite farmer, aged 6S
years, living south of that town, hiss l05
living descendants, including a large
family of Sons and daughters, grand
children and great grand children.
DR.. HILL, of Pine Island, received
word recently that about fifty acres OF
wheat in the stack upon his western farm
had been destroyed by prairie fire. The
man in whose charge it was left neglected
to plow around the stacks, and prairie
FIRE cleaned it all of for him.
The New Ulm Rewew understands
that two men, Max Schiele and Peter
Chopper, who formerly claimed citizen.
ship in New Ulm, haye recently been
detected in an endeavor to rob bank
somewhere in Iowa, and that they both
have been sent up for ten or fifteen years.
Ar Fairfield, Swift county, last week,
the rtable belonging to Jim Havener,
together with nine head of horses, three
head Of cattle and a new wagon were
consumed. Four of the horses, the cattle
aud wagon belonged to Havener, three to
Thomas Boyle, and two to man named
Kestner.
STEPHEN WILLIAMSON, of Liverpool,
England, has purchased 1000 acres of
land in Polk county, near Euclid station,
for q colony of Scotch and English
settlers who are to come next spring.
About 5000 acres more near Louise,
Marshall county, are held for the same
people.
TIE Adparc: says Mrs. 8. Chandler, of
Red Wing, had diseased leg amputsted
the other day. The amputation was
necessary to save life. The operation
was successfully performed, and though
very weak from her long illness and
great suffering, her condition IL regarded
as hopeful.
J. E. GETMAN, sheriff of Dodge
county, offers a reward of 5000 for the
conviction of three men, or 500 for any
one Of the three, who entered the house
of John McCarty in Ellenton, Dodge
county, on the 10th, and took from him
$40 in money, a span OF rises and 6
lumber wagon.
The Preston Republican says that Mr.
T. G. Hall, of Lenora, Fillmore county
q few months ago went to Colorado al
most entirely without resources, but
with his we'll known pluck went to work
to accumulate something. The result
was that about two weeks ago he sold
half interest in q silver mine for $780,.
600.
In Adrian, Watonwan county, a Dane
named Christian Anderson, on the 24th
of last October lost child by diphtheria
The british father put the corpse in an
old box, which he took into the yard and
covered 1t over with old boards and left
It, and it remained there till November
8, when the town authorities caused II
to be buried. When asked why he die
not bury the child, the inhuman brutt
replied that he had no time.
CHARLES BooTHRoYD, eldest son o.
William Boothroyd, a young man abou
20 years of age, was instantly killer
Monday near Eggleston station, Goodhu'
county. He was going to the station
with load of wheat, and it Is not known
certainly just how the accident occurred
whether the team ran away or he wa
thrown frem the load while going dowr
steep hill, where the body was founc
with the neck broken.
The Sank Centre Herald chronicles 9
remarkable exploit by woman. She
was in the house alone, and hearing 1
noise in the barn, she took a pistol snt
, went out to investigate. She found ,
man leading a horse from the stable
She marched up TO him, snd mildly in
timated that IL Re did not return tn,
animal to the barn she would forthwith