The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-23
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MS legs Dauly CUT ny moving macnlne
the other day.
Mrs. FRANK HYLAND died at Empire,
Dakota country on the 18th from prostra-
ton by the heat.
CocHRoN's Touring mill on Wolf
creek, near Dundas, Rice county, was
destroyed by fire last week.
A SON of Mr.. Toedley, of Owatonna,
fell from o load Of hay Last week, and
had one Of his legs broken.
Mrs. G. 8. TRASH, of Caledonia,
Houston county, lately gave birth to
female infant which weighed 1884, pounds.
PAT REDMAN, of LanesborO, was
thrown from wagon last week by his
team running away, and had his collar
bone broken.
Ar Granite Falls on late Sunday
evening the mosquitoes were 30 thick
that part of the congregation in one of
the churches went out during service.
A MAN named Kenneth McCutcheon,
died at Anoka, penniless, friendless and
alone, last week, after an illness of sew
cral weeks. Nobody knows his antece-
dents.
The other day man was arrested ut
Albert Lea and put in the lookup for
drunkenness, and not long after was
found dead from the effects of his de-
bauch.
A LITTLE son of G. Berg, living near
Spring Valley, got one Of his hands
badly cut by moving machine the other
day. There is hope that the hand may
be saved.
DURING the storm of the 10th the barn
of Jacob Fluckiger. farmer living three
miles west of Monticello, was struck by
lightning and both of his horses instant
ly killed.
AT st. Cloud, last week, Joseph Set
Zer and NJ. Duae, of st. Cloud, by the
premature explosion of a blast, had their
eyes filled with particles of powder.
Setter loses one of his eyes.
Mrs. ANDREW BYRNEs, of Warsaw.
Goodhue county, had received back pen
sion amounting to 81 ,52S for the death
of her son in the army. She will get a
pension of So a month III the future.
ANDREW RITZ, of CRANKY, Nicollet
county, received a bad cut on his leg
from a moving machine the other day.
He had incautiously stepped in front of
the machine, when the team started.
RECENTLY john Mercer Howell, en-
plOyed on the construction train of
the Northwestern railroad, near Pine
Greek, Wlnona county, was thrown under
a train and crushed, dying soon after.
Jos. BOWLER, of Bird Island, day or
two since, lost his barn, a span of
horses and harness, and three year-old
colt, by fire, set, we understand, by one
of his children. Falls Times.
The city council has accepted the pro-
position of the Cleveland, Ohio, Bridge
company, for the sum of S3,317.6O. The
bridge will be of iron, of two spans of
104 feet each, and in width sixteen feet.
-Rushford Star.
Mrs. KoNzoN, lately from Germany,
was admiriDg the working of moving
machine in Caledonia, when, uncautious-
ly approaching too near, she had one of
her legs SO seriously cut that it is feared
amputation will be necessary.
ANDREW AUSTIN, living about nine
miles from Forest City, Meeker county.
had his stables destroyed by fire last
week, over seventy bushels of wheat,
mule, colt, harness, farming supplements,
etc. Mr.. Austin was severely burned
trying to save his wheat.
QUITE an accident occurred on Lily
lake recently. Misses Eta and Clara
Mues and ALA Blakely were crossing in
a row boat, the wind arose, and the boat
was overturned. The young ladies'
showed great presence of mind, each
chung to an oar, and after considerable
effort Mr.. Fleet rescued them.-Lake
crystal Public Spirit.
On the 9th inst, at Heidelbeg, Scott
county, Mr.. Mertens was struck by
lightning and his body torn in eleven
pieces When the remains were found
the head, torn from the body, lay six
teen PAGES from the spot where was
struck; the vitals were torn out, and lay
upon the ground; the body was split
asunder, from the neck downward, and
the limbs were wrenched from their
sockets; the clothing was nearly stripped
of, and the shoes were torn from the
feet.
HORACE GILLETT met with q terrible
accident on last Sunday evening. He
was vigorously pounding a nail, when
the hammer slipped and the nail struck
him just below the ball of his left eye
with all the force of bullet. The eye
ball was badly cut, and considerable
aqueous humor was lost. The optic
nerve was struck and probably para
lyzed. He has forever lost his sight in
that eye, and it will take good care to
save the other, which is in danger of
being effected through sympathy.-Lake
city Leader, July 9Th.
MooRHEAD, Clay county, Aduocate:
One day last week, Knute Nelson, Roda,
lost his life by drowning in Talti lake,
just north of Cromwell township, Clay
county. He and his brother, a young
Tatli, were breaking when the oxen ran
away and got into the lake. Nelson took
his boat and padded to the rescue, while
Tath went for his boat. When Tatli re-
turned he found one of the oxen all
right The other three were drowned
and strangled all in a heap. Nelson's
boat was upside down and the poor fell
low nowhere to be seen. The body was
found next day.