The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-11-11
Minnesota News.
DR.. Aiken, Of Rochester, died u
Norfolk, Va, last week.


DR.. Aiken, Of Rochester, died u
Norfolk, Va, last week.
Cars are now running 1856 miles
west Of Bismark on the NOrtheYo
Pacific railroad extension.
On Saturday evening q safe belongs
ing to s. G. Lund of OwatOnna, WIS
blown open. but the burglars received
nothing for their trouble.
How quiet and demure the Albero
Lea Standard, Austin Mercury and
Jackson Republic are since elections
one would think there had been fu.
neral.
Shelby Hayes, near LeSueur Cen.
| ter, threshed 480 bushels of RussiMl
Fife wheat from a fraction less thar
20 acres of land; which Is an ayeragi
Of about rs bushels per acre.
In the Northern part Of the State
wolves are very numerous. Ono
night last week near st.. Cloud, II
gentleman was attacked by large
pack Of them and narrowly escaped.
Some thirty subscribers to the Aus.
tin Mercury, living In Grand Meadow
stopped that paper last week because
1t could tell more lies In q minute
than they could investigate In
month.
VOLTS brewery was robbed OF
about $500 at saltwater last night.
The money was left In q small
wooden desk and the back door I'M
locked, SO that 1t was small job to
gain admittance, tear the lid of and
secure the money.
Mrs. Charles Randall Of st. Charles
died Monday night from the effects
of drinking some horse medicine.
She Is reported to have been under
the influence Of liquor for several
days and to have drank the medicine.
thinking it was whiskey.
The c. M. &. ST. P. r. r. COM
pany's coal house at Lanesboro burned
last night, entailing loss Of upwards
of 200 tons of coal, together with
the company's buildings adjoining.
and a spile.driver which stood on the
track within reach Of the flames.
Miss Emma Jewett returned home
last week after an absence Of two
months, during which she has added
much to Minnesota's reputation. 1t
Is a fact mentioned with pride by the
Scandinavian people that Miss j. Is
of Swedish parents, and the daughter
Of Il. c. Jewett by adoption only.
The large manufacturing and mer-
chantile house of n. Is. Harwood,
Minneapolis, suspended last week,
with liabilities of 500, 900 and assets
about the same amount. The suspen.
sion of the house throws out Of en-
pl0yment over three hundred persons.
1t was probably caused by the loss by
by fire last year OF $6O,OOO.
Indiana is q state Of great republi.
can majorities and great apples. Mrs
II. Douglass, living near Olmsted,
sent home from there some fruit OF
which q sample now before us, and
well named, a King apple measures
fourteen inches in circumference,
and Is 80 handsome that it were the
first apple we don't know as we would
blame the first woman much for eat
ing all but the core, as they said she
did, and handing that to the first
Post.
On Thursday Of last week, while
Mr.. Lester who lives two miles west
of here, was driving home with five
barrels of water on his wagon, boy
rode up on horseback behind Mr.. L.
which frightened his team and caused
1t to runaway. Mr.. L. was thrown
out under the wagon which passed
over the small of his back. His arm
was broken and the bones thrust out
through the skin. He was consider.
ably injured about the face and back,
and he sustained internal injuries.
He Is in danger of losing his arm II
not his life.-St. Peter Tribune.