The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-27
MINNESOTA NEWS.

A FIRST class oat meal mill is being
erected at Lanesboro, Fillmore county.
The name Of Hersey station on the
Sioux City road is to be changed to Brew
ster.
HIM. SHERwIN, of Flandreau, Fill.
more county, has received 500 back
pension.
Col. NATHAN p. AMEs, who was one
Of the early settlers Of Clay county, re-
Gently died in Massachusetts.
The largest farm in Stevens county is
owned by Edward T. Archibald of Dun
das, it contains 800, 900 acres.
OTTER TAIL has 1868 sheep yielding
90, 200 pounds Of wool, but has not q
carding machine in the county.
THERE were 476 acres Of sugar cane
planted in Waseca county this yea,
against 81 acres last year. The present
crop is said to be doing nicely.
A FARMER in Rock Dell, Olmsteai
county, boasts that his son, only thirteen
years old, cut with q twine- binder, il
just two days, recently, fifty.two acres o.
wheat.
IT is stated that thirty-eight acres have
been planted to forest trees this year in
Waseca county. In the county, is is re-
ported, that q, 1854 acres have beer
planted in all to forest trees, which trees
are making due progress in growth.
AN old man named Brake, of this vii
lage, in his seventy-fourth year, is said
to be growing new set of teeth and get.
ting q new crop of hair on his head. Who
will now dispute the revigorating and re.
juvenating qualities of LanesbOro air p
Harding's Herald.
On the 10th instant Mr.. Shields, on
old resident Of Houston, Houston county,
was run over by two hand cars and both
legs crushed above the ankle. The limbs
were set, but the next day one of them
had to be amputated, and very little
hopes are had of the other.
ANDREW PETER SwENsoN, q Swede, OF
Carver, was FRUSTRATED by the heat one
day last week, while engaged at work
near Swenson's school house. He lived
but two hours. He had recently al.
rived from Sweden. He leaves a wife
and xix children, who were dependent on
him for support.
The Park region, 30 called, is that
high, rolling, lake, grove and prairie re-
gion, whose waters flow west to the Red
river valley, south to the Minnesota and
east to the Mississippi. The Red river
valley proper extends from Big Stone
lake to Lake Winnipeg, near 200 miles,
embracing width of from fifty to seventy.
five miles, with Lake Traverse, the Bots
de Sioux and the Red river from Brock.
inridge north for its center.-Feryus
Fats Journal.
WHILE Patrick Kelley, of Jessenland,
was at woik cutting his grain on Thurs
day of last week, one of the horses goi
his foot over the tongue, of the machine,
Mr.. Kelly went in front Of the team to
remove bolt in order to lower the
tongue. When the bolt came off he
was crushed to the earth and was so in
iured by the tongue which rested across
his stomach, that he died in about twenty.
four hours. The deceased leaves wild
ow and several children.
(.Sibley county Independent.
ONE Butler was sent from Cannon
Falls one day last week to set up reap
er, and being man of frequent iba-
tons, he took his bottle with him, be-
came crazy drunk andin his fenzied hilar-
ity, he took after little boy on horse
back, pursuing him in his rattle trap
buggy with the yells of the damned, on
q narrow turnpike road. The boy and
his horse were frightened, and the horse
stumbled, throwing the boy on wire
fence, fracturing his skull, cutting his
body and injuring him seriously in 9th
err respects. The boys name was Peter
son and at last accounts he was under
medical care with little hopes of recov-
ery.-Red Wing Republican.