The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-19
MINNESOTA. NEWS.

ed to be in active operation filing orders.
JOHN SHALIN, of Dassel, committed
suicide by poison on the night of the 9th.
The county treasurer of Pine county
is collecting taxes at the rate of 5000
day.
1T has been many years since as much
water has stood on Minnesota prairies as
at present.
Mr.. AND Mrs. H. OSWALD, of Wa
basha, lost their seventh and last surviy-
ing child last week.
A Mr.. KENIcK, near New Prague, LIE
Sueur county was killed last week by be-
ing thrown from his wagon.
Col. WILLIAM PFKNDER, late state
treasurer, will remove his family from
st. Paul to New Ulm in April.
The schools of Litchfield, Meeker
county. have been closed on account Of
the prevalence of scarlet fever.
A YOUNG man named P. w. Cunnein
fell from the new bridge at Sank Rapids
on Sunday last, and was killed.
THE other day thirty-two pound wild
cat was killed in Milford, Brown county.
1t measured thirty-two inches from tip
to tip.
PAUL KLUaER, of Lake City, lost his
team, for which he paid $2l0, by break
ing through the ice in twenty-five feet OF
water.
THE team of Daniel Weed, of Lake
City were drowned short time since by
breaking through the ice while crossing
Lake Pepin.
ERAsTUs DERBY, Of LIE Sueur, last
week received $500 pension money for
disability occasioned during the war Of
the rebellion.
Mr.. W. B. WHITNEY, formerly of
Wabasha, and a member of company G.
Eighth Minnesota, recently died at his
home in Marshal county.
A CRAZY family is that of Jonas Ten
uey, of Wabashaw. Three members of
the family have been taken to tie insane
asylum within the last three months.
Mr.. SMITH, of Muligan, Brown coun-
ty, buried five of his children last week,
all of whom died of diphtheria. Eigh-
teen cases arc reported at Walnut Grove.
A THREE-YEAR old daughter of John
Kruger, of Hastings, fell backward into
tub of hot wafer recently, and was
severely burned, but her life will be
saved.
Mr.. SETH H. KENNY, of Morristown,
writes to the Faribault Republican that
there were twelve deaths in that town
from diphtheria in radius of one-half
mile.
Mr.. G. H. ROCHE, a prominent and
wealthy gentleman of Chicago, recently
purchased six sections of railroad land
in Mobiles county, to be improved for a
stock farm.
Mr.. A. E. BUCHANAN, of Waseca,
caught pickerel with hook and line in
Rice lake last Tuesday. 1t weighed
eighteen pounds and measured forty-two
inches in length.
Rev. J. J. WALKER, formerly of Plain
view, Wabashaw county, died recently in
Topeka, Kansas. His remains were
talked to Plaiuview and inferred in the
cemetery of that place.
A LITTLE girl named Alice Smith, OF
Scrambler, Otter Tail county, twelve
years of age, fell on the hardened snow,
receiving an injury between her shout
ders, from which she died few days af-
forwards.
A wELL-DIGGER at Minnesota, Jackson
county, found a new soil fourteen feet
down, where grass had grown and solid
oak limbs as large a mans arm. The
wood turned black after being exposed
to the air.
In Richmond, Benton county, q mining
company has been formed, styled the
Richmond Mining Company" with q
capital of SO, 900, to dig for coal. Ithas
long been believed that coal can be
found in that locality.
LAST week David Weed, of Central
Point, Goodhue county, lost his team of
horses by taking them on the ice weakened
by mild weather. They were attached to a
sled load of wood, and broke through
the ice and were drowned.
RECENTLY Samuel Converse and wife,
of Bear Valley, were thrown from a
wagon. Mr.. Converse struck on his
back and head and died of his injuries
three days afterward. His wifewas bad
~ injured, but not fatally.
ONE night recently, Mr.. Weik, living
near Audubon, Stearns county, after
getting very drunk, started for home and
the next morning was found dead by the
railroad track near the depot, having
been run over by train during the
night.
AT meeting of the new cavalry COM
pany Just organized ut New Ulm, on
motion of Capt. Nix it was decided that
the company shall be known by the
name of the "Ramsey Guards, in honor
of Hon. Alexander Ramsey, the secre-
Rotary of war.
THE Pine City Record says that there
| is to be q celebration at historic Poke
CANA, and it is the intention to invite
| the Minnesota Historical society to be
present to hear an address by the Rev.
Mr.. Boutwell,, formerly in charge of the
Pokegama Mission, now living at Still
water.
RECENTLY Claus Luchan, a German
farmer of Chester, Wabashaw county,
was drowned in slough near his house,
into which he had driven bis team. The
water had risen much during the day,
and was running very rapidly, of which
condition he was not aware. The horses
escaped with part of the wagon. The
deceased was tifty-five years old, and
leaves wife and three children.
THE records of the secretary Of the
State Editorial association are very i'm
perfect, and in order to bring them any
where near perfection, one copy of pro-
cecdings of 1868, two OF 1875, and two of
1873 are needed to complete the file. If
any one of the craft can spare these
copies, please mail them to the secre-
tary, who is the editor of the Northern
Tvcr.-CfOOkstOn Northern Tier.
A SAD and fatal case of freezing oc-
CURED near Morris on tho the night of
the 9th. Two men, Cochran and d.
Leonard, left town for home about 6 p.
NJ, they got lost on the prairie. Coch-
ran finally came to house and was
taken in badly frozen. The lost Leonard,
who wandered around until overcome
with cold, was found on Monday near j.
@. McCarthy's farm dead. He was a
young single man and well-lked.
Prince on Sentry Duty.
tFrom the London Telegraph
In Bavaria O quaint custom obtains,
rendering it obligatory upon every prince
of the reigninQ house to perform at least