The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-23
MINNESOTA NEWS.


IT is reported that Cannon Falls is out
Of debt, and has balance of over 81, 900
in the treasury.
MRS. FREDERICK MoNNEA, one of the
first settlers of Helen, Mcleod county,
died on the 10th.
The other morning, N. w. Portech
found one of his valuable cows dead in
his barn. 1t had been poisoned by some
enemy.
Mr.. L. MILLER. of Hammondsford,
Wabasha county, was recently kicked in
the breast by horse and seriously in
jured.
Mr.. EUGENE r. ABBOTT, q musician
OF acknowledged ability, died on Sunday
at the home OF his sister, near Sank
Rapids.
NELs AGREN, q Swedish tailor of
Litchfeld, and his wife became insane a
short time ago and were taken to the in
sane hospital.
THIRTY families from Finland, bound
for Minnesota, arrived at Castle Garden
the other day. The women wore red
homespun and the men suits of skin.
Mrs. N. A. CLARK, of Morehead, has
purchased 81 900 worth of horses and
farm machinery. She will cultivate $50
acres this season and break 100 acres
more.
A LITTLE daughter of J. Sullivan, of
Lake City, playing with fire in the yard
near the house, had her clothes set on
fire and was severely burned, but will
recover.
II. P. SKoa, of Stockholm, Wright
county, was whiting, when the knife
slipped and struck the eye of his little
boy, penetrating the eye-ball and COM
pletely destroying the sight.
AARON KENDALL, for the past four
teen years resident adjoining
the village of Cordova, LIE Sueur county,
died last week of inflammation of the
bowels, at the age of sixty-eight years.
JENs PETERSON, bar tender in Mar
tin Hawley's saloon at Kasson, Dodge
county, was shot and instantly killed
last week, by the accidental discharge of
a pistol in the careless hands of Charles
II. Bradford.
The residence of Mr.. L. Dibble, of
Hazel Run township, Yellow Medicine
county, was totally destroyed by fire,
recently. He lost his grain, machinery,
a new buggy, and nearly everything he
had from the same cause last fall.
CAMBRIDGE Qsanti county, Press,
April g.: Geo. F. Pool, of Harris, while
hunting ducks last Sunday, had his right
arm shot off below the elbow. He was
padding the boat and some bushes
caught the hammer and fired the gun off.
IT is reported that at Lake Mira,
Watonwan county, buffalo fish have been
dying off in great numbers. The shores
are strewn with fine large fish, which
have died from some cause. The bull
heads have also died in great numbers.
DAVID NJ. TABER, aged 40, practicing
lawyer at Red Wing, went to Morris,
Stevens county, with view of locating
there. He was attacked with pleurisy,
in the latter place, and died after brief
illness, last week. His remains were
taken to Red Wing for interment.
MRS. DoRATHA GUNDERsoN, of Brush
Prairie, Mcleod county, lost a son
Knudt Cumbersome the army during
1862, and only recently learned that she
was entitled to pension, which she has
just received amounting to 81, ZOO. She
will have SO per month hereafter.
The Chaska Valley Herald reports
that the Sioux City railroad will, on and
after May LIST, run their express trains
via Merriam Junction, Chaska and Mime
apols to st. Paul, over the MINI eapolis
and st. Louis track, and will next year
build their own road bed via Chaska.
Mr.. WATKINS, of the Minnesota state
fish hatchery at Red Wing, has recently
put an invoice of trout and land locked
salmon into the streams of Brownsville
and Crooked Greek townships, Houston
county, under the auspices of Hon. ID.
Cameron, of the state fish commission.
A DRUNKEN tramp in the lookup at
Owatonna, the other night, set fire to
the floor, but not relishing being roasted
alive extinguished the fire before it got
dangerous Roadway. He then broke up
his bunk, and with the timber thus OBJ
tanned, broke a hole through the roof
and escaped.
Mr.. WI. Buchanan, of Appleton,
Swift county, Informs the Press Of that
place that he helped to unload from a
steamboat at st. Paul the first printing
press that was operated in the state of
Minnesota, and that that press was re-
Gently used in Benson, but does not know
where it is now.
WHILE q freight train on the Mime
apolIs Eastern railroad was rounding
curve within the city limits, at Minneap-
oils, on the 10th, three cars jumped the
track and were precipItatedi into the Mis-
sissippi. Harry Moak, yard master of
the road, was caught under the cars and
crushed so that he died soon after.
The Pioneer Press Madelia special
says that on the 18th, a buggy contain
ing Mrs. Sophia Kennedy, her daughter
and Bertha Bastran, while crossing n
mill dam were all thrown into the water,
Is feet deep. Mrs. Kennedy and daugh-
but Miss Bastran was drowned and her
body was not taken out till an hour after.
As an evidence that Princeton's citi-
zens are wide awake the Union says that
fifty feet of the West Branch bridge were
swept away on Friday afternoon; by noon
on Saturday foot bridge, four feet wide
with ratings on both sides, spanned the
gap; and by Tuesday noon substantial
wagon bridge was completed, which will
answer all purposes until the new struct-
ure is built.
A Mrs. B. F. ALMY, whose friends
live near Madelia, stopped at the Hurd
house, Wabasha, several weeks ago,
hailing from Dubuque. Her husband
was absent in Chicago, and a sum of
money was raised to send her to her
friends, when she suddenly disappeared,
and nothing has since been heard Of her.
1t is feared that she has committed
suicide by drowning.
ON the 10th inst. Semmen Filing, q
resident of Osal1is township, Douglas
county, was found dead in his house by
some neighbors. He lived on small
island by himself, and it was several days
before 1t was noticed that no smoke
came from his chimney. He was found
stretched out upon the floor, with gun
near by, and the entire back part of his
head blown of and scattered about the
room.
The st. Charles linton publishes the
following list of Methodist ministers who
have been stationed In st. Charles since
the organization of the church in 1856:
Michael Klepper, Dewitt Kidder, Benja-
min Crist, James Cowden, s. w. Phelps,
G. Norton, A. WEIGH, Charles Griswold,
Harry Webb, s. N. Phelps, n.
fainter, B. Blame, II. G. Hilhie, w. NJ.
Bowdish, ], s. Lisoomb and g. w. Bar
nett,
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