The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-11-07

MlNNESUIA NEWS.
ST.. PAUL's tax levy for the year Il
only fifteen mills.
Mn. JoHs MURRAY, of Forest City,
has been sent TO the insane asylum.
Mr.. Tyson, Of Stanley, Lyon comfy,
lost one hundred sheep In prairie fire.
REv. GILBgRT SHAW, postmaster at
Wilton, died on the 18th, Of hemorrhage
Of the lungs.
GEORGE BIxBY, son OF John Blxby,
OF Aurora, Steel county, had one Of his
feet badly injured In 9 threshing machine
the other day.
Mr.. PUTHEY, of Antrim, Watonwan
county, has manufactured about one
thousand gallons Of amber syrup, with
his cooks evaporation, this season.
MABLE IL the name Of new town In
the township Of Newburg, Fillmore
county, on the narrow.gauge railroad,
about twenty-five miles from Preston.
A GENUINE salmon, weighing four
pounds, was caught In Lake Elmo-the
irst fruit OF the spawn placed there sew
eral years ago By the State Fish COM
missi0ners.
The church of the Guardian Angels
In Hastings Ii TO have q new bell, TO
weigh 1000 pounds and to cost 5000. It
Is expected 70 be put In use about the
first week In December.
The Alexandra Post says DR.. Vivian,
assisted by Dr. Dsnniston, performed:s
delicate operation the other day on O
young child by the ex cision from the
forehead of an unsightly birthmark.
w. w. HARTLEY, of Brainerd, sent
his resignation TO Judge Stesrns as clerk
of the district court, being informed by
instructions from the pOstoffice depart
ment that he could hold no other Office
with that of postmaster.
JUDGE NELSON has rendered his deci.
sion in the case Of the United States va.
3. V. r. Sherwood, the Brsinerd post
master, denying the motion for new
trial and sentencing the prisoner to pay
a fine of $l8l and imprisonment for six
months. ~. '.. ..-'
LAST week o. K. Chance was tried at
Buffalo, Wright county, for shooting
Miss Hitter at Monticello. He was
found guilty and sentenced TO pay fine
of $3.50, or be imprisoned In the county
jail one year. He paid the fine and was
discharged.
SEVERAL nights since, while returning
home from Hector, Matthias Johnson's
team ran away, throwing Mr.. ]. out into
q slough, where he remained all night.
The team ran into an open cellar, break.
ing the neck of one of the horses.-Rtn.
nile Times. ..
Dr.. G. NJ. ALLsTURFF, of lie Roy,
Mower &C unity, was thrown from wagon
the other day, by q runaway team, and
had two ribs and collar bone broken.
He was taken up for dead and lay in an
unconscious condition for two hours.
1t is now thought he will recover.
On the oath ult., at Hastings, Samuel
Greenslade, Jr., committed suicide by
shooting himself in the neck with
breech loading shotgun and death occur.
red instantly. He was young unmar'
ried man. This makes the sixth case of
suicide at Hastings within year.
The dry goods store of A. 81. Strouse
at st. Paul, was closed recently by at.
tachments procured by New YORK and
Philadelphia creditors amounting to
about $45, 900. The heaviest creditor IL
Bernard Strouss, of Philadelphia, The
assets were nearly sufficient to pay in
full.
NATHAN DIBBLE, of Cannon Falls,
while cleaning loaded revolver the
other day, accidentally discharged it.
The ball struck him in the leg Ave inches
above the knee, and following the bone
down and came out five inches oelow the
knee; painful but not dangerous
wound.
The Chat6eld Democrat says that J.
O. Easton, finding sheep raising very
profitable, will, next season, seed down
every foot of his land in that vicinity
and increase his flock to ten or fifteen
thousand head. He says that the sheep
for that section Is the medium grade,
half Cotswold and Merino.
AT Seward, Mobiles county, the other
day, Mr.. Stiles, while working beside
his wagon loaded with lumber, was
thrown down by his horses starting and
the wheels passed over his body, break.
ing two ribs, dislocsting his right shoul.
der and breaking an arm In two places.
The injured man will recover.
LAST week, as Sherman Martin, OF
Redwood Falls, was moving posts from
the ground, one of them was pulled out
with such sudden force that he was un.
able to set out of the way, and 1t struck
him on the side of the head, knocking
him insensible, causing severe injury but
not fatal. ....r.
JACOB MISNIcK, Of Cannon Falls,
while chopping the other day, caught
his az in q clothes line, causing 1t to
strike his left foot, cutting . fearful
cash In the instep. It cpt OF . part OF
the bone and severed an artery, causing
the loss of q great deal of blood. A
physician dressed the wound and he Is
doing we'll. q.
GEORGE WERDEN, of New Haven,
Olmsted county, was robbed last week
by highwaymen on his way home from
Rochester, where he had been to dispose
of a load of produce. Two strangers
asked to ride with him. he permitted
them to get into his wagon, and when
near Genoa they seized him and robbed
him of all his money, between thirty and
forty dollars, and fed.
Mr.. HENRy ScHABER, one Of the
oldest, best known and esteemed German
citizens of st. Paul, and proprietor OF
the st. Paul Mills on Phalen's creek, was
run over on the evening of the 2Sd by q
wild engine, which was backing up on
the st. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba
road, lust as he was crossing the track.
he was instantly killed. He leaves. q
wife and ten children. He was q mem.
Der of Germania Lodge Of United
Workmen.
Mullen Cures Consumption.
A correspondent of the Lexington
Frsss writes az follows about the flowers
nf a wall known nlant: 81 have dis.