The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-16
MINNESOTA NEWS.

other day ana hal an arm broken.
RECENTLY Gerhardt Ellesing, of Grant
township, Stevens county, had thirty
acres Of wheat destroyed bya hail storm.
MATT JOHNSON, of Waltham, Mower
county, was killed last week by being
thrown from wagon by a runaway team.
EIGHT head Of yearling cattle were
killed by the down freight train, just
below Elk river, Wednesday afternoon.
THE New Ulm Turnverein gives notice
in the Post that the twelfth Minnesota
funniest will he held in New Ulm on
Saturday and Sunday, August Dist and
22d.
JOHN HALvORsEN, of Waseca, while
drunk the other day attempted suicide
by shooting himself with n pistol. He
made II had wound, but his recovery is
likely.
LOUIS NARCOTIC of Centerville, was
adjudeed insane by Drs. Freeman and
Wakefield, and sent to st. Peter by the
Judge of probate, in charge of Sheriff
Frost. Hcratd.
PATsEY MADDEN, of Fountain, Fill
more county, got drunk last week, lay
down OH the railroad track, went to sleep,
and was run over by train and crushed
into an unrecognizable mass of humanity.
JOHN TAPLEY and Henry Taylor, COM
mitted OH IL charge Of arson III Aitkin
county, have had their bail reduced from
$1,000 to 5000 each by Judge Stearns ut
Brainerd, which they obtained, and were
discharged.
A SAD accident occurred i'll Springfield,
Brown county, last Saturday afternoon,
resulting in the drowning of m eight
year-old son of James Arnold, while
bathing in the Cottonwood river in COM
pany with some other boys.
j. S. HAsKIFs, of Mortified, last week
captured turtle on the bank of the river
near his house. 1t weighed thirty-eight
pounds. He made II presant of it to
Prof. Sperry to so among the curiosities,
or good specimen for the department
of natural history.
FRED LABREE, young man at work
for Joseph Moses III the town of Della
ware, Grant county, while driving four
horses on sulky pillow, last Monday
during the shower, was struck by light
ming and killed instantaneously.
GROVE CITY (Meeker county, Tribune,
July 2: Stark Larsen shot and killed
Squire Clark Sundae evening, while the
young man was after his Gown. Stark
has been partially insane for long
while, and he ought to have been an in
mate of an insane asylum years ago.
HENRY HAssING, of Easton, Faribault
county, who was shot last winter by a
man named Ward, died last week from
the effects of the wound. He had SO far
recovered rs to be able to work. but Il
short time since went to some physicians
to have the ball extracted. The opera.
ton was not successful, and he suffered
a relapse from the effects of again open.
ing the wound, and died as above stated.
The bank at Ortonville, G. X. Orton,
president, corporation organized las,
winter under the banking laws of the
state, having been found on examination
to have paid in only q small fraction OF
! its capital stock and thus to have for
feited its franchises, has been permitted
to retire from business rs state bank
and has relinquished all its rights and
privileges as such and surrendered its
charter.
A BOY seven years old, son of Martin
Friski, about seven miles from this
place, was killed last week at his home
The boy was tying steer in the stable
and in his efforts to do so got the halter
twisted around his hand. BY sudden
jerks and frantic caperings the steer drew
the little boy all around the stable unit
life was nearly extinct. He died in abou
half an hour.-ApptctOn Recorder
Juiy l.
The Long Prairie Todd county, Aryu
SAYS: "a man named Young, keeping
a store in the town of Leslie, this cOun
ty, skipped the country the other day
deserving his wife and nine children, an,
eloped with young girl, sister OF Mel
CRANES wife, Of Alexandria. He tirs
disposed of his goods, sold a lot of rail
road ties, and got check for 81 ,OO
cashed He left his family almost lies
titute."
ONE morning last week the watchmal
ut the G. M. X st. p. railroad, Wabas
haw, rs he was returning from his duty
discovered the body of man floating i
the slough near the railroad bridge
Coroner Arnold was summoned an
viewed the body, and after due investi
CATION, came to the conclusion that
was case of suicide by drowning. Til
body was identified as that of Andre'
Headstrlm.
GEORGE o. WILDER, breaking som
two miles east of breckenridge, unhitcl
. ed his team and took shelter under hi
wagon during thunder storm. Th
wagon was struck by lightning and h
was stunned. He finally recovered cor
| seriousness to find he was blind and
) great agony. He CROPPED his way to on
of the horses, mounted him and the hors
, took him to town, where medical aid WI
summoned. The next morning he WI
unable to open his eyes, and his cond
ton was regarded very critical.
A STORY is told of a woman on IL
Sibley county prairie, illustrative OF IL
} female will. 1t seems that Chris. XIII
! kert had foreclosed mortgage on far
owned by this particular woman, and, |
. the time for redemption had near
t expired, Klinkert thought he would ga
time by putting in n large wheat Gre
{ the past spring. A few weeks ago, wht
} the woman found that she could not r
e deem the farm, she concluded upon r
!. venge, and she got it by blowing furroy
$ throughout the entire eighty-acre feel
: about three feet apart, thus saving lab
!, and at the same time destroying the Gro
e lie Sueur Sentinel.
. A SHOCKING death occurred near TOW
y on Saturday evening. When John Hah
= living n couple of miles from LIE Sueu
= on the opposite side of the river, was g
0 ing home from the celebration in col
. pany with his wife, his brother Mart
u and his wife, he ran his team to pass a
T. other, and, while on the full run, as
:, was turning short off the main road
g the top of the hill, near the red schc
% house, the whole four were thrown VI
;. lently out of the wagon. John stru
~ upon his head and shoulders, and it
Ii supposed that either his skull was fri
tured by the fall or that blood vesi
was bursted, for he died in an hour
is terward, before surgical aid could rea
n him. lie Seuer Sentinel.
w A Checkered Life.