The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-12-19
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MlNNEbUIA NEWE.
SOME 60, 600, 900 feet of lumber were
sawed In Anoks last season.
AT Albert Lea twenty-five railroad
trains arrive and depart daily.
JEROME PATTEE, of Renville, has re.
Gently lost two children By diphtheria.
FLAEKRAU will be the terminus for
the winter of the railroad beyond Fulds.
DE-. I. II. EvERTs, of Rushford, has
removed from Rushford TO Boulder,
Col .a.
A GIRL In Liyonis, 6herburne county,
aged fourteen years, was married last
week.
TIE railroad track has been laid TO
Pipestone City, and regular trains have
been put on.
Last Saturday q Touring mill at New
Ulm shipped 0 car load of -four direct
to Glasgow, Scotland.
ERIoK OLSON LIED, o farmer of Stock.
holm, Wright county, Is under arrest,
charged with numbering his wife.
Mr.. A. p. JOHNSON, one Of the old
settlers of Vasa, Goodhue county, died
at his home In that town recently.
A BARN was burned in Marshall, Lyon
county, last week, In which six horses
and one COW perished In the burning
building.
NJ. Lynch, of Ortonville, was thrown
from horse the other day, and danger
ously injured. The chances of recovery
are against him.
WIENEBAGo CRY, Faribault county,
has established quarantine against Pres
colt and Lura, In the some county,
where diphtheria prevails.
DEvERIoH CHoERs, of Helena, Nc
Leod county, was caught In the ma
chiDery of q thresher the other day, and
50 injured that he died the next day.
The demand for houses to rent, be-
yond the supply, in all the villages and
cities of Minnesota, Is q sign OF great
and increasing growth and prosperity.
GLENCOE Register: Trade is booming,
new buildings are going up all around
rs, the population of the town lie contin.
ually increasing, and prosperity sits en-
throned on the stomach of hard times.
ISAAC HARTHoRE, of Ramsey, Anoka
county, the other day fell from load
of hay between the horses. The wheels
of the wagon passed diagonally over his
legs and body. The legs were badly
broken.
JOHN LLOYD, of Cottonwood, Brown
county, has had eight cases of diphtheria
in his family, and one death. Mr.. Ed
wards, neighbor of Mr.. Lloyd, had 1--WE
children attacked by the disease, three
of whom died.
THE postmaster-general has raised
the grade of the Alexandria postofice
above all the other Offices of north
western Minnesota except st. Cloud, and
6xet the salary of Postmaster Miller at
81 900 per yeaI.
LAWRENCE GRoUELAND, formally an
attorney at st. Peter, who, it will be
remembered, was convicted of forgery
and imprisoned at Mankato, is nov In
the Joliet state prison of Illinois for q
Like ofense.-Iribane.
GEORGE DREETLow, who lives about
five miles from Mortified, Rice county,
had some forty bushels of wheat stolen
from his granary the other night. The
robberies of granaries by thieves with
wagons il getting to be quite common.
The Worthington Advance says the
Okabena Touring mills In WOrthington
were the first to use hay for fuel It
has been successfully used for several
years, and has been q saving to the mill
and profit to the farmers amounting to
thousands of dollars.
Mr.. s. J. MOORE, of Willmar, Is au-
thoritY for the statement that five chill
dren were buried out of one family |
living near the West Lake postoffice, |
county, Dec. 9, their deaths |
having been caused by diphtheria, and |
another child of the same family was |
not expected to live.
Mr.. A. A. OvITT has sold his farm of |
$50 acres, in Lakeyille, near Farming |
ton, to Mr.. Frank d.. Shipley, of Min
neapolis, who will take possession on the |
frst of January. With 1t he disposed
of all the stock, farm implements, ETC.,
the sum paid for the whole being $9, 900.
AT Vermillion, Dakota county, one
afternoon last week, James Dunn, O
farm hand in the service of Bennett
Bros, in order to brighten one of the
hired girls, who was feeding calves near
the hay loft, wrapped q quilt around
him and slid of the hay. He landed
square on his feet, fell back insensible,
and never spoke afterwards. He YVES 81
years old.
IT is q rather sad circumstance to
record three funerals in town on Tues
day, viz; That of VIM. Fenkner, more
mentioned In another place,
and Mrs. Teisen, wife of Peter Tiesen
and daughter of John Kuchenmeister,
of this township, and q little con eight
months old, of John Stefes, of this vii
lage. The combined funeral of the
three taking place at the same time from
the Catholic church, was numerously
and one of the largest yet
witnessed in this town.-DeLanO Eagle,
Dec. IL.
HENRY SoHABER, who was killed by
the cars In 81. Paul, October 18th, was
of Harmonic lodge, Ancient
Order of United Workmen. Some time
previous to his death the pastor of the
church of which he was member de-
nandod that ne should abandon the
secret societies of which he was member
ON pain of dismissal from the church.
After careful consideration he declined,
and suffered himself to be turned out. The
newspaper organ of the Workman says:
The moral In the ease Is, the family Of
Brother 6haber received q, 900 from the
A. o. u. w., 81 800 from the Odd Eel
lows, and 81, 900 from the Arizona. The
question 10: How much would the fam,
ily of this brother have received from
this intolerant minister and his follow
ers2 Nothingi"