The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-12-26
MINNESOTA NEWS.

LADY OF Plainvie@, died Last week.
Mr.. HALsTEAD, of GAINESVILLE, lost q
daughter BY diphtberia last week.
FILLMORE county will be twenty-six
years old as county next March.
An elevator with capacity of q mil
lion bushels will be built At Duluth next
spring.
HENRY HALLEcK, formerly of Plain.
view, has been arrested at Troy, n. Y,
for forgery.
DE-. l. L. MAHAE, of Duluth, has sent
to the department at Washington his
resignation as Indian agent.
TIE Fsirmont Martin county, SEN
fineL cries aloud for q steam Touring
mill, as the one thing needed at that
point. =
TIE Mazeppa Tribune understands
that there viii be quite 40 emigration
from Mszepps to Fergus Falls in the
spring.
one fire insurance agent has paid ~
losses In Waseca county during the past
three years, and he is only ONE of many
agents.
WM. A. PEAsE, near Ohatfeld, IL said
to have one of the best arranged stock
barns In the country. Mr.. Pease has q
hundred head of cattle.
TEE Sentinel publishes q rumor that
the Sank Rapids water power IL about to
change hands, and thas improvements
on an extensive scale are contemplated.
TIE Anoka county agricultural 90.
ciety, have decided to purchase of Hath
away & Reynolds, ten acres of ground in
Cross addition to Anoks for the sum of
1926.
TIE postmaster of Blooming Grove,
Waseca county, has been deprived of
the Office In consequence of his carrying
the mail, as sub contractor, contrary to
the rules of the de partment.
]. B. SPENCER, of Faribault, sold the
other day eighty-seVen hogs sggregating
26, 900 pounds, live weight, for which he
received 81 per hundred weight. They
were mostly of the Berkshire breed.
AT the recent charity fair in New
York prizes were awarded for the best
dairy butter in Minnesota as follows;
First prize, Mrs. J. II. Wadsworth,
Waseca; second, Mrs. G.. II. Mcdonald;
third, a. A. Spen, Wadena.
A MAN giving his name as Charles
Foster was arrested at Q variety theater
in Minneapolis on Saturday night for
raising q Saltwater mans check from
$40 to S118. At first Foster claimed to
be innocent, but soon after pleaded
guilty.
RED WING Advance: Messrs. Hook
4 Hastings, of Boston, have taken the
contract to put Q pipe organ into the
Episcopal church of this city. The
organ will cost 81, 800, and the contract
provides that it will be ready on or
before Easter, 1880.
The Breckinridge Free Press says that
Mr.. 8. E. Davis, of Horizon, Wisconsin,
manufacturer of the famous Van Brunt
seeders, has purchased the whole of
section % on the Otter Tail river, and
is preparing to commence farming oper-
atoms on large scale.
SIX years ago Albert Sadeska, who
now lives in swan River, left Poland for
America, his wife remaining in Poland.
On Tuesday last Mrs. Sadeska arrived in
this country, and the husband and wife
met for the first time in six years. AL
most a. good as q wedding.-Litte Falls
Transcript.
A 81, 600 money package sent from the
Brown County bank of New Ulm, des-
tined for Brookings, d. T., on the
Tracy branch, was stolen from the
express Office ct Sleepy Eye, and q
Chicago detective is working up the
case with good prospects of ferreting out
the guilty party.
Mr.. AND MRS. SAMUEL WIGHTMAN,
of Otisco, Waseca county, preferred
charges against each other for ill-treat-
ment, beating, bruising, etc. The hus.
band was fined and the wife gave bonds.
In the meantime, the parents, cousins
and aunts got together and settled the
matter by dividing the property, each
taking their own and going their separate
ways.
A FEW days ago young man by the
name of Mcfarland, in Glasgow, Waba-
shaw county, was operated upon by Drs.
Lincoln and. Van Dyke for intertwisted
or knotted intestines. The delicate had
hazardous operation of cutting open the
bowels, taking out the intestines and I'm.
tying the knot was skillfully and success.
fully performed, and the patient will
live. Nothing but the surgeons knife
can save life in such cases.
Or the 18th inst. the State Board of
immigration met in st. Paul. From the
secretary's report it spesrs that 81, 1867
copies of the immigration pamphlet have
been circulated, of which 20,937 have
gone to Europe. The expenses for the
year has been 90, 4S4 50, and there is q
balance on hand of $3,775 A. 1t was
determined to issue new pamphlet, and
the secretary was instructed TO make the
necessary arrangements for such q work,
receiving bids and soliciting advertising.