The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-08
MINNESOTA NEWS.

nrSt settlefs OF Wllmar, died last week.
A THREE-YEAR old daughter of Alex
ander Miller, of Waconia, Carver county,
was drowned last week.
G.. w. WALL, of Preston, formerly of
Chatfeld, has just received pension
arrears amounting to 81, 700.
The seventeen year old daughter of
George Green, of West Newton, Nicol-
let county, died last week of aiphtheria.
A GUN that he did not know was
loaded, i'll the hands of a boy named
Oleson, in Otiseo, Waseca county, went
off and killed the boy.
A VERY large pelican was killed last
week by Gustave Shultz on Sleepy Eye
lake, Brown county. The bird meas
ured seven and half feet between wing
tips. Its bill was one foot in length.
WHILE steam thresher was at work
at Clontarf, Swift county. the other day,
fire caught in the stacks, and five Of
them were destroyed. The wheat be-
longed to Bishop Ireland, of st. Paul.
AN explosion OF ten kegs of giant
powder in stone quarry in Red Wing
the other day caused I'm earthquake"
in that enterprising town. The quaking
continued the regulation time OF STEW
seconds"
The remains OF Charles Fl. Maybee,
which were inferred at Pembina over
sixteen years ago, were removed last
week to Litchfield, MINI. Mr.. Maybee
was private in Company b of Hatch's
battalion of Minnesota volunteers.
The auditors sale of state lands in
Scott county will take place on Satur-
day, October 80, mt the court house in
Shakopee. This includes lands delin-
quent in taxes for more than one year,
as well as all school lands unsold in the
county.
The st. Peter Tribune says: The
fabulous prices paid for black walnut
lumber should induce the people to Gull
tivate the trees. These trees grow well
in this climate, and will undoubtedly pay
those who give their attention to the
business.
A PRAIRIE fire started recently south
OF Pipe Stone City, Pipe Stone county,
during heavy gale, and for a time
threatened serious consequences to
several stacks of grain in the vicinity.
Several plOws were set in motion and
breaks made around the stacks, and thus
they were saved. A large amount of
hay was consumed before the fire burned
out.
STEVENS county is the paradise for
hunters. A day or two ago Stan and
Harry Donnelly, at lake two miles
west of Donnelly, in few hours killed
forty ducks, goose, a crane, and lot
OF snipe. Ayear or twOago Mr.. Young
berg killed twenty-seven geese at one
shot. Will Adams is now camped
near here with Charlie Doty, and is
making sad havoc with the water FOWL
Norris Tribune.
The Plainview NeUs discloses another
scheme to cheat farmers. The rascals
contract with them for all the straw they
have, to be sent to Minneapolis to be
used in manufacturing straw paper, and
in little while the contract turns up in
the shape of notes, etc. This is the old
story, and if farmers are green enough to
be caught with such swindles, few
severe lessons will do them no harm.
To read of the various swindles perpe-
trated upon innocent farmers one would
be apt to take them for born idiots.
A YOUNG woman at Sleepy Eye the
other day got caught in the tlmbling rod
of d threshing machine, which would
have killed her outright if it had not
been for one of the threshers, who had
presence of mind enough to catch the rod
at a joint and run to one side, disjointing
it. The injured woman, who weighs $50
pounds, turned around the rod three
times and had her arm broken and the
flesh torn from herside, causing fright
full wound. Her garments were torn
completely from her. DIR. Marcellus,
who attends, reports that she is suffering
intensely, but will recover in time.
LAST week Lee Davis and Tom RAM
boo, of Hartford, went bear hunting
away northwest Of the bridge. They
struck trail which they decided was
made by bear and pursued it. After a
hot chase and hard fight they killed the
animal and dressed and carried it home,
it being small one. They congratu-
lated themselves ON their good fortune
and remarked the excellence flavor of the
flesh. When they came to offer the hide
for sale it was discovered to be dog
these hunters had killed for bear, and
their glory vanished. Prairie,
(1Odd county, Aryus.
Mrs. MARY KRIER- MESS; who lives
i'll the town of Sank Centre, on Monday
last, while attempting to load 32-calibre
revolver, one OF the cartridges, which
was an extra long one, refused to Ego
down." and in attempting to force it into
the chamber with nail, it exploded,
sending the ball through the palm Of
her hand and entering the left side Just
below the heart, and following short
distance just under the skin, the bullet
entered the abdominal cavity, and all
efforts to detect its location were una
vailing. 1t is a serious accident and
may terminate fatally. -JQeirOse Record,
September %.
TIMOTHY GILFoL, resident of Grace
vile, and one of the earliest settlers in
the Catholic colony, was killed yesterday
while returning home from Morris. II
appears that the deceased, together with
man named Massey, were going to
Graceville with load Of lumber, drawn
by yoke of oxen, and when near the
Halfway house, Gilfoil got down or fell
down alongside of his oxen in the road,
and as his companion says, was taking
drink" when the team started and
both wheels of the wagon passed over
his chest, injruing him so severely that
he died in a couple of hours. When
the stage passed the team Gilfoil was
dead, and Massey, the passenger, was
driving it toward Graceville. The de-
ceased leaves wife but no family
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