The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-16
MINNEsOTA NEWS.

DIR. d. 8. HoRsHA, of Owatonna, aged
SO years, is dead.
TRACY has voted 1000 bonds for q
new school house.
WORK on the stone bridge at Jordan,
Scott county, is delayed by high water.
SwAMPs, marshes and small streams
are reported to be full of water in all
parts Of the state.
W. H. KELLY has purchased the Park
house property, Owatonna, Of John
Shea, for $4,000.
THRTY-FIvE thousand railroad ties
have been unloaded ct Glencoe to be
used in constructing a branch road.
Mr.. HERMAN HERENpGFER, an old
resident of New Ulm, and q carpenter by
trade, was found dead in his shop on the
9th.
THE Wells advocate says IL, 900
young cattle have been purchased and
shipped out of Faribault county the past
year.
IT is reported Mr.. Parnell secured
5000 acres Of land near Graceville, Big
Stone county, for a colony of Irish emf
grants.
SEVERAL families, numbering in all
thirty persons, have recently arrived in
Montrose, Wright county, from West
Virginia.
IT is reported that q narrow gauge
railroad will be built from Montgomery,
LIE Sueur county, to LIE Sueur Centre
the present year.
A l2-YEAR-oLD daughter of q. Russell,
of Lemond, Steele county, carelessly
handling q loaded revolver the other day,
shot off one of her fingers.
The Redwood Gazette says w. H.
Hawk, clerk of the court. was recently
arrested and held in $500 bail to appear
before q legal tribunal on a charge of
embezzlement.
The Advocate says Jordan, Scott
county, is enjoying al unprecedented
boom in real estate, and that there will
be more good buildings put up there
this season than for some years before.
The Wright county annual fair will be
held this year at Rockford, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, September %, %
and "a. Hon. L. A. Thompson of Wa
basha county, is to deliver the annual
address.
THE body of Trule Nordlie Knudson
has been found in a snow-drift, on the
banks of Lake Sigel, neal Tracy. Knud-
son was lost in a blizzard on the 21st OF
December last while on his way home
from Tracy.
Mr.. s. FRAoUER, of Hermann, Grant
county, recently had about $50 bushels
of oats stolen from his granary, q short
distance north of town. No clue to the
thieves has been found and the case is
being worked up.
A Two-YEAR old daughter of James
Gebbie came lear losing her life recent
ly by eating crackers on which poison
had been spread to kill rats. A timely
discovery and prompt action by a physi.
clan saved the life Of the child.
LAST week, Mrs. N. B. Langdon, re.
siding on whav is known as the Langdon
farm, some seven miles distant from
Marshall, Lyon county, committed sui
eide by the use of chloroform. She had
not lived happily with her husband, and
during the last week is reported to have
been in O bad state of mind.
ROCHESTER, Record and Union: Last
Saturday DR.. W. A. Allen removed from
the arm of Mr.. II. Rathburn a thorn
that he had carried therein over thirty
years. It had occasioned Mr.. Rathburn
no trouble until the last year, when it
became very painful. That arm will be
lonesome without its old companion.
In Wheeling, Rice county, last week,
Mr.. Boaldar had loaded his gun and
placed it in the corner Of q DON while
he went to get O nail on which to hang
the gun. The gun fell and was discharg-
ed, the ball passing through q door and
into the heart of his daughter in an adj
joining room, producing death almost
Instantly.
The Good Samaritan (Episcopal)
Church property at Sank Center, was
bonded with o mortgage of $4,000 and
interest thereon amounting to $500. The
holder agreed to accept 81, 800 as pay.
ment in full of the Indebtedness, If paid
by April 1. By a vigorous effort Of the
church and society, the amount was
raised and the mortgage destroyed.
THE Hermann Herald gives IN account
of the drowning of q fine span of horses
the other day, belonging to E. s. Beck,
of Browns valley, while ~endeavoring to
ford the Twelve Mile creek. The high
water had carried away the bridge, and
the horses sank down into deep water
and were unable to help themselves.
Another team is reported to have been
drowned in the same locality the next
day.
LAKE CRY is just now exercised with
a scandal of considerable village proper
tions. The parties are a leading mer-
chant, his wife and brother-all high
toned, but the two latter will propably
be less stony" in the future than in the
past. The wife is charged with having
committed theft, and was caught in the
act by her 13-year old son, and on being
confronted by the injured husband, both
the guilty parties confessed the crime.
A FELLOW named Showack was left in
charge of n farm, owned by a non-resi-
dent, for the winter, in the northern part
of Stevens county, having on it a herd
of over forty head Of cattle. The worse
than brute, through laziness and care
.lessness, let the cattle actually starve to
death, about twenty or twenty-five head
died during the winter. The
whole herd was kept in a small barn,
and, being loose, many we're trampled on
and killed. Showack has left for parts