The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-09-24
MINNESOTA NEWS.

A THRKK-YHAR-oAD child Of Fred Busa
Of Glencoe was burned to death on We'd
nesday. IJGIaT
AT low estimate the Litchfeld Lnde.
pendent says: MeekSr county will export
700, 600 bushels of wheat this year.
THE town :Ofr7Rleasant View, Polk
county, has been organized. It's site Ii
town 145, range 49,
| CHARLES UNpEMARK, q patient from
Caledonia, Heyston, county, died at the
insane hospital, Rochester, on the 10th
inst. Of general paralysis.
| WOLVES on, largely on the increase in
the wooded districts of the state. The
bounty law does not materially interfere
with their MULTIPLICATION.
On SundsyNr. VIM. Sparrow shot
bear at Mayhem lake, Sherburne county
which weighed, when dressed, 800
pounds. 49,
ALL the school and agricultural col
lege lands that have been appraised and
are unsold in tWaseca county will be
offered at public sale on Saturday, Octo-
Der 80. - 20
The Plainview NeWs states that Mr..
William Searles, of Pennington, Ohm
sted county, has young trotting stallion
for which he has refused the snug little
sum Of 81, 0OO.s5 a,faz
Mr.. G. ID. CHAPMAN, of the town Of
Paxton, Redwood county, who served in
the First Wisconsin artillery during the
war, was made the happy recipient Of
81, 500 back pension last week.
A STRING Of black, bass was brought
into Red Wing by two fishermen on q
recent morning 80 heavy that one man
could not carry II. The largest fish
weighed seven and half pounds when
dressed. 80
The wife Of John Supple, of Spring
| Valley, was thrown from wagon the
other day by o frightened runaway team,
and had three ribs broken, and was
otherwise very badly injured. His ply
stefan reports her as very dangerously
hurt. $500. snsssu
WHEN Peter Moran, of Belle Greek,
near Red Wing, got home from the fair
on the 10th inst, he found that his four
teen-year-old son, who had been left at
home, had, in putting up a swing, gotten
the rope around his neck in some unex-
planned manner,y-and had fallen and
| chOked TO death.
The Litchfeld Lcdger tells of pre-
possessing man from New York, who was
hunting in that vicinity with his outfit of
dog flesh, and aftsr:a days hunt he called
upon the man of the house for a couple
| of towels 10 wipe the dogs feet, and
then wanted the dog to sleep in the honse
because he was afrnid the rats would bite
it in the barn. s3sn6s
ABOUT dayight syesterday morning
Mrs. A. A. Swan, Of Penn, shot herself
with revolver. DIR. Thurmond of
Brownton was called. The examination
showed that the ball entered Just below
the left breast, and had lodged some
| whore beyond theJeach of the probe.
The wound was pronounced fatal. The
lady was about sixty years OF age.-Gtcn-
coe Register.b Ilsflf
PAT FLYNN, living ut Good Thunder's
ford, was stricken with insanity few
days ago under peculiar circumstances.
He was assisting q neighbor in making
hay, when, withoHtia moments warming
he threw. away hisCclothiug, caught up
club and started, yelling toward the rail-
road track. People started in pur-
suit, and finally captured him, subse-
qucntly taking liiniSto st. Peter.
On the 10th inst. three men attempted
to carry two.yearrold bull across Big
Stone lake, about three miles above Fos-
ter, in skiff; but when about midway
the bull upset the akitf, drowning one Of
the men, Ed. Boland by name. Before
starting the buls.ieet had been securely
tied, and he being unable to swim, was
also drowned.
LIrcHrIRLD has sensation in the
elopement Of Ennms Danielson, girl of
sixteen, daughter of laboring man,
with travelling Snowman named Robes,
who, in connection with a long-haired
Indian doctor Iighthall, has amused
people eveningso by initiating cat yells,
mule-braying. and other refined sounds,
while the doctor, pplled corns and sold
medicines at intervals. BY swearing be-
fore the court at Willmar that the girl
was nineteen years old, and sister of
Mrs. Lighthall they procured license.
A LrrrLHl thresyear-old son of Mr..
Foyle, station ae9nt at Edgartown,
Pipestone county, by some means got
hold of a loaded revolver unnoticed, and
said, "Pa, Tins goiug to shoot" Mr..
Foyle paid no attention to the child, and
the little fellow again told him he was
going to shoot. Just at that moment
Mr.. Foyle reached1up for book that he
wanted, when. 4 bullet went crushing
through his arm; frpm the pistol in the
hands of his boy, They hope to save
the arm, though the bones are badly
shattered. oJ1Iossa