The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-09-10
MINNESOTA NEWS.

J. A. FOoTE, OF knoka, has just re-
ccived $764 back pension.
THE Clay county fair will take place
at Hawlcy, October 7 and 8.
THE sale Of state lands in Lyon county
will take place at Marshall, October 7th.
CHARLES Nelson, living near Atwater,
was last week awarded d pension OF some
$3.50.
A MAN in Westport, Pope cGtinty, has
had twenty-five young hogs carried offby
wolves.
A GENTLEMAN riding into st. Cloud,
distance Of twenty miles, counted S97
stacks of grain.
THE Herman Heraid says Rev. L. NJ.
| Gossard was fortunate enough to kill an
eighteen pound goose.
MRs. JENNIE NJ. JACKSON, one OF the
first settlers Of Big Stone county, died
on Monday ut OrtOliVille.
ONER $50 bushels of flax was destroyed
on G.. w. Kniss' farm near Luverne, by
the hail storms last week.
A son of August Legastrom, of New
Sweden, Nicollet county, was accident
ally and fatally shot Oh Monday.
A. BJEDKENGREN, Of Willmar, i'll a
quarrel, hit his brother OH the head with
d bar III iron. inflicting serious and it
may prove fatal wound.
MR. GEORGE A. FREUpENHIcH, of
Minnesota; is selling self-binders and
mowers in Russia and Roumania, and
will return home next winter.
ANEW town called jericho" six miles
west of Glencoe, in Mcleod county, has
been staked out and opened up to the
world, ~ q rival of Glencoe or any other
city.
GEORGE PHALsGKAPBj who recently
died in the town of Utica, Wenona
county, vas insured in the Druids ior
81. 900. which amount will be paid to the
widow.
Mr.. PAUL RosENDhIiD, register of
deeds of Houston county, died lit Spring
Grove Monday morning, aged forty-otie
years. He was born in Grams Prestige
ield Hadeland, Norway.
The railroad boys in Austin and up
and down the limo, friends uf the late
Henry w. Hull, accideptly killed last
week have made up purse of $3.50 aud
presented it to the widow.
The Eastwood trees in our forests are
being perfectly denuded of their leaves
by some kind of worm. In some
places the trees present the appearance
Of having been killed by fire. -GtencOe
Registers
An old log cabin at Mantorville, built
by Capt. Pete Mantr in 1866 was
wrecked by the late storm. 1t Was IN
old landmark of the early days, and when
new one of the most imposing structures
in the village.
AT Grand Meadow, Mower county, q
drunken man fell from wagon and
broke Lis neck. At the same place, a
lot of drunken iheh Gos into row.
One was stabbed in several places and
another disembowled.
Two years ago, A. w. Swenson, o
Alexandria, set out 450 apple trees ant
80 grape vines, and all are doing wei
and are in fine condition. Not ont
was killed last winter, and it is con
silcred that the last was the hardest
winter on trees since the winter O
1923.
IT appears, after all, that tdS titles in
Little Falls are just asgoodas WARRANTED
deeds. This is very fortunate, as the
) lots abandoned by owners after the In
dian outbreak of 1862 left II large por
tan of the real estate in the village in {
shape TO be bid IN for the taxes by any
persons who saw proper 10 Invest theii
money in that way. Consequently
; much moro than half of the village rea
estate, some of which is now very valua
BILE, is held under tax titles.-LiHl'
Fniis Transcripk