The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-02
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
OFFERs are made In Paramount for the
coming wool crop at 40 cents pound:
JULIAN KENNEY, of Pennington, has
been adiudged insane and sent to the
asylum.
JUDGE Cox has decided that r. II.
Miller is elected sheriff of Mobiles county
by 20 majority.
G. BAzAINE, q nephew of the French
marshal, is keeping liquor shop in
Minneapolis, MINI.
THE Worthington Advance Is author
ity for the statement that 10, 900 head Of
sheep are owned in Mobiles county.
The Chatfield foundry has received
orders from John Ward OF Amherst
township for 1000 rods of wire fence.
Rev. 8. ADAMS has been obliged, on
account of failing health, to resign his
passionate of the Baptist church of Gran
tie Falls.
THE black-leg disease has appeared
among the cattle in st. Mary, Waseca
county. One farmer lost twelve head
last week.
Tom NEsBrr, on his way to Hastings,
the other night, was driven back home, O
distance of about a mile, by large pack
of hungry wolves.
JOHN MoBozoK, Polander, lost his
life last week, about two miles from De-
lavan, in Fillmore county, by the caving
in of q well which he was digging.
Mr.. BARTON, of Sleepy Eye, aged SO
years, had hip-bone fractured the
other day by fall. Owing to his great
age, his recovery is hardly expected.
Mr.. KERIcK was thrown from his
wagon, near New Prague, the other day,
by the running away of his team, and
was so injured that he soon after died.
ANDREW WEBER, of Hay Creek,
Goodhue county, hung himself the other
day. He was q well-off farmer, aged 81
years. No cause known for his self-de-
struction.
Rev. DIR. HAwLEY, of Spafford
Springs, Conn, has finally accepted the
call from the Episcopal church in Brain
erd, and will assume the duties of rector
on April Is.
The Pine City Record SAYS: A fellow
asked us the other day if "hogs would
pay" We told him some would not,
and he few into terrible rage, knowing
his own delinquency to this paper.
JUDGE w. w. Woops, from Ohio, who
owns the largest and best stocked farm
Swift county, will erect large cheese
factory at Kerkhoven this spring. The
factory is to be conducted on the Ohio
(co-operative) plan.
WIN. III. HORNE, who was once vel
known about Little Falls and Grow
Wing, while intoxicated last Friday
night, shot and killed Mr.. Adams, al
Rat Portage, in Manitoba. He was
arrested and will probably be hanged.
THE Belle PLANE bridge has beer
completed. The borough council ISSUED
$40, 900 to the bridge commissioners
and this has all been used up, 80 it is re-
ported. The approaches and roads Il
the bridge are not completed ready fol
travel.
THE Glyndon Ne,os says that Pryor 4
Constain, Of Hawley, on Friday made al
assignment for the benefit of creditors
Assets are said to be large, but of doubt
full value. Ten thousand dollars
accounts against country customers art
included. s. G. Comstock is tn,
assignee.
AT Otixa, Waseca county, on the 21s
inst, a son of Mr.. Charles johnson wa,
taking shotgun out of an oat-bin in the
granary, Just as August Wetherbaum
was coming in at the granary door, ant
by some means the gun was discharged
and the contents struck Weatherbaum IL
the body, penetrating to his vitals, and
killing him instantly.
A BROTHER and sister of Mrs. DR.
McKenna of Caledonia, Houston county
arrived at Caledonia last week, from De
troit, having been summoned by letter
announcing the doctors death, which
was written in style closely initiating
Mrs. McKenna's, and over her name
The letter was heartless hoax, as DR.
McKenna was and is in his usual health
and attending to his professional duties
IT is getting to be serious question
with many of the villages of this state
what to do with the large and steadily
increasing influx of population pouring
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buildings for their accommodation
Families are often driven away for want
of housekeeping accommodations
while the great flow of population into
the state is encouraging to villages and
cities. .....
The Redwood Gazette says that w.
| III. Hawks, clerk of the courts, was ar.
rested on Wednesday afternoon and held
in the sum of $500 to appear before
Justice Flynn on Monday next, to an.
swer to the charge of embezzlement.
For some time past it has been
generally known that $712.40 which
were paid to Hawk as clerk OF
the court by Archibald Stewart to sat.
isfy q Judgment on the property Of
Geo. Cummings, on January II, 1878,
has never been handed to the owner Of
the lien nor accounted for in any other
way. The money not having been
applied to the purpose for which it was
given him he was arrested and will be
proceeded against criminally.
A BEAUTIFUL mirage appeared about
Z o'clock last Tuesday morning to the
north of Long Prairie. The whole Of
the Long Prairie valley and pinery
seemed to be lifted up into the clouds,
and presented grand panorama. One
of the most striking TEXTURES was the
columns of smoke emitting from the
farm-houses-more than q hundred in
number, the white columns of which
| curled up into the air and seemed as
distance of half a mile, though they were
from eight to twenty miles away. The
dark pine forest doomed up as O relief,
and seemed to be frame in which q
great landscape painting was inclosed;
but one which was drawn by hand that
cannot be equaled.-70dd County
Argus.
The New Ulm Rerie,D tells how a
couple in that section were married twice
in fourteen days. They went to clerk
for license, and supposing he had the
power, after the usual formalities, he pro-
nounced them man and wife. The young
couple lived happily together as man and
wife for fourteen days, when, like clap
of thunder from clear sky, the announce
ment came that they were not legally
married and that the job must be done
over again. After they had somewhat
recovered from their amazement, the
team was hitched up and the couple
again started out in search Of justice
of the peace, and once more the pair
were made happy by being pronounced
husband and wife-this time with q
clincher-and the much married couple
returned home to enjoy the second edi-
ton of their honeymoon.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New Ulm
Reuieto gives an account of the ravages
of diphtheria in Iberia and vicinity. A
Mr.. Rotman, of Leayenworth, lost his
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