The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-05
MINNESOTA NEWS.

hUbSELL HID bcch
ed postmistress at Mantorville.
Mr.. l. THOMPSON has farm of 400
acres in Newberg, Fillmore county.
The First National bank of Anoka has
doubled its capital and paid about S40,-
600 in dividends the first year.
Mr.. LEONARD A. TAYLOR, a promising
young man of %, died at his fathers
residencein Princeton, on recently.
CHAs. RoDELL, ESQ.,, prominent cit
izen of Jordan, Scott county, died sud-
denly recently from heart disease.
Mr.. DAVID o. GoULET, highly es-
teemed citizen of Little Falls, Morrison
county, died on the Odd inst.
THE measles are prevailing extensively
in the eastern part of Meeker county
some entire families being down with it.
Mrs. JOHN F. NoRRIsH, OF Hastings,
slipped on an icy sidewalk the other day
! and broke one of her arms.
Mr.. J. F. NoRRIsH, of Hastings,
slipped and fell Oh the ice few days
since and broke his right arm near the
wrist.
GEORGE STEVENSON, OF the town OF
Haywood, Benton county, fell from his
sleigh the other night and fractured his
collar-bone.
Mrs. SETH HARRIS, of Hastings, WAS
| ing Heart disease was the probable
cause.
JOHN RoTH, of Lamberton, Redwood
county, recently lost three children and
q sister-in-law by diphtheria. There are
t%enty-one cases reported III town.
Mrs. JOHN REIGER, of Hastings, slip
ped and fell on nicy sidewalk, and strik-
ing on her head fractured her skull. The
injury is very serious.
C. S. BOYD, of Monticello, Wright
county, was killed the other day by a
falling tree. He had lived on the farm
where he was killed since 1855.
L. L. HANNAMAN, long resident Of
Reeds Landing, and widely known
! throughout the county, died recently of
pneumonia.
WOLVES howl about Mantorvilie night
". The other night the wolves entered
a stable and attacked cow, larcerating
her ears and neck in their hungry fe-
rocity.
THE Morris Tribaac says that during
the extreme cold weather of last month.
! the railroad company, through General
! Manager Hill, gave to the new settlers
in the Graceville colony Il donation of
seventy-fve cords of wood.
HENRY MASS, of Pickerel Lake town.
ship, Freedom county, while feeding his
horses the other evening, in some way
got under their feet and received injuries
which caused his death in few hours.
He was "a years old.
The Glyndon NemS says that the
! GlyndOn mill enterprise is making good
! Roadway. Subscriptions to the stock Of
the concern have reached nearly $12, 900
in amount, and come from all classes of
citizens. There will be mill we verify
believe.
DODGE COUNTY people have organized
q society to be called the dodge Coun-
ty, Minnesota, Colony" for Dakota.
One of the provisions is that the head
quarters of the colony shall be ut De
Smet, in Kingsbury county, Dakota, on
the line of the Dakota Central railroad.
MICHAEL HASTINGS, aged twenty-three
years, son of Thomas Hastings, of Hyde
Park, was brought before Judge of
Probate Court, T. j. Collier, at Lake
City, and upon an examination by Drs.
Milligan and Low, of Wabasha, was adj
judged insane, and will be sent to the
asylum at st. Peter.
We learn that Neil GAVIN, of Mayville
township, experienced the misfortune of
having his leg broken below the knee on
Monday last He was riding horseback,
and his horse, being smooth shod,
slipped and fell, throwing his rider
against stump, with the lamentable re-
snlt above Observation-Disclosures (io"stOn
CO.. argus.
Mr.. JOSEPH L. CHAPMAN, OF Cannon
Falls, died recently. He was one Of the
charter members of Oriental Lodge, No.
81, +. & A. NJ, organized i'll 1860, of
which lodge he was master. He served
through the war, enlisting August IL,
1862, and receiving at once heutenant's !
commission in the Eighth regiment.
A LITTLE son of Louis Peterson, of !
Stockholm, Wright county, died recently
from the effects Of grain Of coffee |
lodged in his windpipe. Three physi- |,
clans were summoned, and were about !
to administer chloroform and open the .
windpipe to extract the kernel, but the |
little sufferer expired before the opera
ton could be performed.
TIE old mission farm on the shore Of
Lake Pokegama has been SELECTED as
the site for q new hotel for summer
boarders. The first printing press in
Minnesota was established there in ter
ritorial times, and what is known us the
EMISSION Farm was cleared md cult
waited ut that time. Pokegama cuts an
important figure in the history of Min
nesota. Pine city Record.
LEVI s. THOMPSON, "justice of the
pence an stock-raiser of Evansville,
Douglas county, Mimi, arrived in New
York on Tuesday Of last week, and the
World recounts misfortune which be-
fel him in that wicked city: He made
the acquaintance of respectable looking
man who accompanied him on his way to
the Pennsylvania railroad depot, where
Mr.. Thompson intended to buy ticket
for Washington. AS they were walking
slong the street man approached Mr..
Thompson's new acquaintance and noti-
flying him that certain goods had been
shipped asked for money to pay the
Mr.. Thompson's friend said
he had only 500 bond and he asked
Mr.. Thompson to lend him $50 ON 1t.
Mr.. Thompson took the $50 out of his
pocket, and as lie did so his companion
the money from his hand and
ran away, followed by the other man.
The thief was arrested.