The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-14
MINNESOTA NEWS.

A SALE of state lands will take place at
Fergus Falls OH May Is.
NELs LARSON, of Litchfeld, Meeker
county, the other day, sold an OK that
weighed just an even ton.
A WILD cat was shot Mt GAINESVILLE,
Waseca county, last week that measured
five feet and six inches i'll length.
PETER Il. LARSON, of Litchfield,
Meeker county, has Norman colt three
years old thatw weighs nearly ], 400 pounds.
THREE hundred cords of wood and
large quantity of railroad ties were
burned Mt Quinn's crossing, little be-
low Montrose, Wright county, recently.
LAST Friday Mrs. Eliza Sarsland, wife
of Ole Sarsland, of the town of Solum,
Douglas county, committed suicide by
hanging herself III the stable, while de-
ranged.
Ex-PosTMAsTER PATRICK MCCORMICK,
Of Green Isle, Sibley county, while split
ting kindling the other day, had the mis-
fortune b. have silver strike one of his
eyes, in such n manner as to entirely
destroy the sight,
FISH are being caught by the cart,
wagon or some other kind of u load. daily,
at this place. To pick up sturgeon
scared ashore by the river drivers is of
common occurrence hereabOut.-Iay-
tors Euits JOuyWat.
THE Tyler Lincoln Co.. Tribune in
sists that Weeks and Pagenkopf, farmers
i'll Ash Lake township, were poisoned by
a third party with arsenic or strychnine.
1t does not appear that anybody in par
ticular is under suspicion.
JOHN MCCARTHY, Of Antrim, Waton-
wan county, has recently set out Il, 900
soft maple trees, covering eight acres.
They were raised from the seed which he
gathered and sowed some two years ago.
He will soon have n fine grove, and ulti-
mately valuable timber.
RUsHFoRD star: Squire Tillotson's
lemon tree is fairly astonishing every
body. -Four large and ten small lemons
are now on the tree. Yesterday he
showed us lemon just plucked, which
measures and one-half by nine and one
quarter inches around. 1t WAS n beauty.
Miss LILLIAN WELLINGTON called Mon
day at the auditors Office and received
$3 as bounty for killing wolf in Sum-
NIT Lake township. She was followed
on the prairie by the wolf, large one,
and, together with the house dog, made
q fight and took the VOLTS scalp. Five
lads caught eleven young wolves and
drew $33 from the state fund.- Vorth-
ingtOn AdUance.
On the 4th inst, at Orrock, Sherbume
county, the hottest day of the season, a
sweeping prairie fire came down upon
! the village in Il gale of wind, which car
ried the fire fifty feet Mt jump. c..
Farley's stables and outhouses, together
with great deal of his fencing, were de-
stroyed. The house was no fire some
twenty times, but was saved. The fire
then destroyed the entire property of T..
latham, consisting of house, stables,
granary and nearly all of his fencing.
H. L. Craig lost heavily of fencing, hav-
ing about four miles of it burned or
damaged. L. Nowack lost three or four
stables, corn crib and fencing.
CENTER CITY, Chisago county, was
thrown into fever of excitement last
week by the elimination of an old feud
which has existed number of years be-
tween l.. p. Faust, well known farmer
near there, and his neighbor John Law
renee. Last Saturday they met by nc
cident near the village, and words ensued,
which were speedily followed by blows,
and Faust, getting the advantage, got
Lawrence down his back on q rock, and
beat him terribly upon the breast and
head. Sometime after he was taken
home. but medical skill could not save
him. He died from the effects of inter-
nal injuries received.
The body of an unknown man was
found in marsh on the 2d inst, near
the farm of Mr.. A. Plummer, about four
miles from Jordan. The coroner's ver-
dict was that he was murdered, and that
he had lain several months in the mud
and water; that he was thirty or thirty
five years of age, five feet six inches in
height, weight from 140 to $50 pounds,
light brown hair, heavy moustache, APP
parently dyed, and a well developed
head; that in his pockets We're also found
a slip of paper upon which was written
the name "Kohlleppel," st. Louis
omnibus ticket, railroad stop-over
ticket, illegible, number of cards of St
Louis business houses, and four new
| linen collars