The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
THOMAS Rowe, one of the old and re-
spected citizens Of Mound Prairie, Hous-
ton county, died at his home in that
town on the 4th inst.
The ninth annual fair of Becker Coun-
ty Agricultural society will be held ut
Detroit, Wednesday and Thursday,
September 9th and 7th.
Mrs. FRANK ROBE, of Brownton,
Mcleod county, surprised her husband
last week by presenting him with three
fine hearty girls, all of an age.
PRoF. A. w. WILLIAMSON, OF st. Pc
ter, has been rendered and has accepted q
position as instructor in Augustine col
lege, a Swede Lutheran institution at
Rock Island, Ill.
AT a meeting Of the LIE Sueur County
Agricultural society, held on the Oath
ult., it was decided to hold the fair this
year on Friday and Saturday, the 18th
and 18th of September at LIE Sueur.
The Spring Valley Videttc has an ac-
count of the arrest of NJ. s. Horton, of
Redwood Falls for bigamy. Last fall
he married Miss Jemima Garrett, lady
of respectability, industrious and we'll
TODD.
A YOUNG Bohemian and his sister who
arrived in st. Paul recently, bound for
Scott county, got on the wrong track and
followed it on foot to Melrose, Steams
county, 108 miles out Of their way, and
had to return the same way.
w. E. WHEATON, of Wheaton island,
Big Stone lake, offers to wager his is-
land, valued at So, 900, against 81, 500 in
cash, with any checker player in the
United States, to play tournament of
five sittings, each sitting to comprise
twelve games.
QUITE large number of distressing,
and some fatal accidents, from farm ma
chinery, during harvest time, are being
chronicled by the by the local papers of
the state. A large per cent. OF these
accidents are due to sheer, and often
stupid carelessness.
A SAD accident occurred ut Norway,
Rice county, on Monday last While
playing in the harvest field the little
daughter of Ole y. Kivle was run over
by q harvester, one leg being about half
cut off just below the knee and the other
receiving two flesh wounds.
The saloon-keepers, brewers, drug
gists and liquor dealers generally OF
Jordan, Scott county, have formed O
mutual protection association, the object
of which is to offer consolidated OppOsi.
ton to the proposed enforcement of the
Sunday law by the temperance people.
THERE seems to be scarcity of wire
for the wire binders now used by farm.
ers. A gentleman who has travelled con-
siderable in the county says there are
thousands of acres of grain in some OF
the adjoining counties where the ma
chimes are standing idlefOr want of wire.
-,Sleepy Eye Herald.
A DISTRESSING accident occurred at the
funeral of James Whalen, in ST. Thomas
LIE Sueur county, recently. A team RAJ
away near the house where the funeral
services were being held, and ran direct
ly into the crowd. Nine or ten persons
were more or less injured, and Mrs
Spence, of Tyrone, seriously.
MIR. ID. o. SroRRs, living near Win,
stcd, Mcleod county, has over 500 apple
trees in an excellent healthy condition,
about 800 of them being in bearing. He
raises a large quantity of fruit every
year, and his trees are thrifty and free
from blight. He has all the well-known
varieties of fruit, but considers the
Wealthy apple the very best and most
hardy of all.
TODD county Argus: Sounding on
Osakis lake proves that it is rather shall
low, the deepest place found being only
sixty feet, while the large body Of the
lake is but from twelve to thirty feet.
Charlotte lake near this village was
sounded in one place by Lieut.. Latimer
twenty years ago, and 800 feet of line
failed to reach the bottom. The waters
of this lake rival the ocean for deep,
dark blue.
Mr.. JOHN STREET,, of st. Cloud town,
vest his grain. Therefore, on Sunday
afternoon last, after his neighbors had
been at church, they turned out with six
or eight harvesters and large force OF
men, and proceeded to cut his entire
crop. Such acts of charity are calculated
to make even the heart of philanthro.
pist warm towards his fellow-men.-S
Cloud Times.
On Wednesday morning, August 4th,
as Mrs. Clark Stiles and child, OF Orlan.
do, Sherburne county, was driving
across the bridge over the mill pond al
Maple town, in Elk River, the horse
backed off the bridge (there being no
railing) into the mill pond. John jane
son and Ned Bennett, seeing the acct
dent, boldly plunged into the water and
rescued the woman and child. The horse
was drowned.
As Patrick Hickey, son of Michael
Hickey, of Spring Lake, Scott county,
was recently driving q reaper in his
fathers field, he ran over scythe
which had been carelessly left at the
edge of the grain. The scythe was vio-
lently thrown upward, and struck the
driver across the left leg midway be-
tween the hip and the knee. A terrible
cash was cut, extending downward and
almost encircling the limb. The outer
muscles and cords were severed, but
most fortunately the artery WAS not
reached.
THERE is rock ON the hill just south of
town called "Sacred Rock" by the In
dams and old settlers of this place, that
is historical. Figures of different kinds
can be traced on its face, which seem to
have been cut into the stone, represent
ing a man, turtle, eagle, stars, crosses
and numerous other hieroglyphics which
cannot be made out. Mr.. L. Bailey,
who has lived in this county for a good
many years, says the Indians claim that
the figures were there when the present
race of Indians first came here, and they
were not made by them. The question
which agitates the mind of the present
inhabitants of this county is, what race
of people were the authors of these mys-
ferrous characters ?-BrOiUn's Valley
Reporter.
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