The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-11-28

THE N. Z. Church auditorium at
Albert Lea 10 seated with chairs instead
Of pewh
THE new court house ct Henderson
will be ready for occupation about New
Years day, 1880.
The building improvements In Albert
Lea, this year, will foot up In the nsigh'
borhood Of 10000.
TINE Anoka UaioH IL authority for the
statement that Q girl twelve ysaFs old
was married In Anoks last week.
soME scoundrei shot and killed colt
the other day, belonging 10 ID. b. Robin
son, Of 81. Mary, Douglas county.
TsE people Of Benton county have
voted In favor OF rebuilding the Missis-
sippi river bridge ut Faux Rapids,
JOHk GARSER, of New Avon, Red.
wood county, lost all his hay and poultry,
except one turkey, By . prairie are las.
week. I'D
WILIIAM EoHwis, Of Ohanhasssn,
carver county, had . leg badly broken
the other day By jumping from ~ EN-
bankment.
MIsEEsorA ranks all the other states
10 the matter OF Touring mills. There
are now Ia the state ITO miles, with 669
run OF stone.
The other day little child Of Amund
Larson, OF Bergen, fell into . tub OF hot
water and was 10 severely scaldsd ~ 70
cause Ia death.
AN Indian was run over and killed at
Kimberly, Grow Wing county, last week
by the night train. He was drunk, and
ying on the track.
MORRISON county proposes TO vote
about the middle of December on the
question Of Issuing tS6, 900 bonds 70 aid
the Little Falls and Dakota railroad.
The largest portion OF the aour made
at the lie sueur mill the past few months
has been shipped 70 Liverpool, England,
and an order was recently received for
0, 900 barrels
MARaARET SHkDRICK, whose resi-
dence 10 In Worthington, Mobiles County,
IL very anxious 70 know the whereabouts
Of her daughter, Della Hosford, who
was married 70 VIM. Knott some twenty
years ago.
Mr.. BENsoN, OF Wsbasha, shot witha
rife at three hundred yards range, from
the deck Of the propeller Pepin, 9 huge
swan which weighed twenty. one pounds,
and measured from tip 70 tip OF wings,
Just ak feet.
THIS IL the season when hunters mis-.
take their comrades for deer and plug
them with bulleta Near Fort Ripley,
the other day, Mr.. Wilson Fenney was
shot through the arm BY Mr.. ID. Crosby,
who mistook him for deer.
THR two youngest children Of Mr.. and
Mrs.. N. JOrgenson, of Wilmar,--Oscar,
aged four, and Martin, aged ak years
died with diphtheria, after o very brief
illness. At supper time the evening be-
fore they appeared as well % usual
REV. HEsRY LOOMS, pastor OF the
Congregational church In Wsbashsw In
1859. wss taken suddenly insane at his
home in Poughkeepsie, New York, on
the 18th OF October, and had to be taken
to the asylum in Middleton, In that
state.
AT the late term of the district court
at Sank Rapids, Charles Primer was sen.
fenced to one year and eleven months ct
hard labor In the state prison for obtain.
ing goods under false pretenses, and
three months in the county jail for
stealing gun.
BISHOP WHIPPLE offers reward of
800 for the conviction of some dog
prisoners in Fairibault. Four valuable
pets of his grand children have been
poisoned, and many other blooded dogs
have been destroyed in the same way
during the past two yetrs.
The county board of Murray county
accepted an offer to take the l60 acre
of an aged couple which farm Is to be
decided to the county, and the county 10
to support the pair hereafter. The Cur.
RE Pioneer thinks that Murray county
can soon own all the land around there
on the same term.
WILLIAM YEAS, of Brown county,
loaded his Springfield rife with goose
shot, and then with hammer commenc.
ed battering the muzzle, he says TO pre-
vent its shooting; the gun was dis
charged, the contents lodged In his face
and head, decorating him terribly. Hopes
are entertained Of his recovery.
TIE LIE Sueur Ne,cs says: "Some OF
the friends of Mrs. Stahl, q widow,
inaugurated q bee" at her house enc
evening last week and sawed nice pile
of wood for her" 1t Ii q pleafure TO
record such acts, and they are not
unfrequently mentioned in the state
papers. Everybody thinks well OF local
tiles where they occur.
TIE Window Reporter gives an &C.
count Of the accidental and fatal shoot
ing of Ed. Muxon. He was standing
behind q wagon in which was loaded
shot gun, throwing ears Of corn into the
box, when the gun was discharged, the
contents passing through the end.board
entered the bowels Of the unfortunate
young man, killing him almost instantly
HENRY SEIBERT, q German living
near Lake Jefferson, in lie Sueur county
died at his residence last week, from thu
kick of his horse. He had, by homes
, industry, paid for eighty acres Of land
besides paying friend for his psssag,
, over. He had built Q new house and
, was Just beginning to enjoy the fruit
of bis labor, when he was suddenly call
ed from his family and friends.
IT has become public that the st
Louisisn who recently gave such
valuable library to Carleton college, q
Mortified, il E. w. Bryant, Esq. vel
known in life insurance circles, and nov
residing at Dslsvan, Wis. He has jus
forwarded to the college large and ex
pensive book cases, and proposes 4
: increase his donation of books. Hi
.. father has been for several years either
nf Norfhfield