The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-07
MINNESOTA NEWS.

OF BeHenty-uVe OF one Hunureu pelichns
about Lake Elysian.
The Gale lonia Journal says j. G.
Easton cleared $500, 900 by the sale Of
the Southern Minnesota recently.
JOHN HANSON, of Tyler, Lyon county
commissioner, has lately lost three chill
dren with diphtheria.
DUCKS ut Hartford, Todd county, are
reported to be 80 numerous as to cover
hundreds of acres of stubble land.
THE boring for coal in Freeb orn county
is still continued. A four-inch vein Of
coal was struck at the depth of 1876 feet.
THERE is now probability Of having
q new bridge over the Pomme de Terre,
ON the Glenwood road.
PnINEAs GAGE, Of Seward, Mobiles
county, was so badly burned a short
time since, by prairie fire, as to cause
his death.
GILBERT PETERSON Of Granly, Nicollet
county, has q stallion colt that weighs
1,348 pounds, but his age is not men
toned.
G. CoGIL, living four or five miles
from Morris, Stevens county, recently
sold 100 acres of improved land for
$4,000. This marks the value of land in
that vicinity.
TIE other day Peter Anet, aged II,
fell between his horses and loaded
wagon. The horses ran, and q wheel of
the wagon passed over his head, causing
instant death.
The city council of Owatonna are
considering the building of an addition
to the city hall forty feet long and two
stories high-the lower part to be used
as "lock-up."
Mrs. EMMA Cook, of Caledonia, widow
of the late Judge Cook, received recently
1900 from the order of United Work
men, the judge, at the time of his death,
being a member of that organization.
The Chisago and Pine counties agri.
cultural fair will be held at Long
Branch, on Tuesday, August 81, and
Wednesday and Thursday, September l
and 2. .
Mrs. Brown, wife of II. w. Brown,
one of the first settlers Of Faribault,
committed suicide at Blue Earth City,
ON the 22d, by drowning. Her insanity
was produced by long illness.
A MAN named George Wiltee of Glas-
gov, Wabasha county, made a deadly
assault Oh his wife at Wabasha the other
day, because she refused to sign deed
disposing of his farm.
The remains of O man were recently
found in Dora, Otter Tail county, sup
posed to be those of German, missing
since last Christmas. The skull was
broken, which leads to the belief that he
may have been foully dealt with.
Mrs. L. NJ. MURPHY presented the
Pine City Record editor with hens
egg measuring 81 inches one way and
III inches the other. This beats the
largest egg story of the season and is the
largest thing out-of hen.
We noticed we'll built dwelling, clap
boarded and shingled, with stove burn
ing inside, built on top of wagon box,
filled with happy looking family, pass
ing through town last week, among the
emigrant teams heading Westward
Moatcvic1co Loader.
JOHN J. MCDONALD for some twelve
years foreman in the carr iage shop of H.
c. Parrot & Co., st. Charles, died quite
suddenly last week, of chronic inhamma-
ton of the liver, aged thirty.five years.
He was an estimable man and his death
is deplored by many friends.
AT recent school meeting in Crooks
ton in relation to educational matters, it
was decided to build one school house
Oh the Davis addition and one in South
Crookston, to cost 81 900 each. A pro-
position to build large school house In
the city was voted down.
Hon. r.. /. SMITH, who has beenvery
sick, had q surgical operation performed
on him by surgeons from Faribault, re-
lieving him of fluid accumulations in the
region of the heart. The operation was
performed, we understand,
and he was easier at once.-Austin
Register.
JOHN REYNOLDS, employed on the
Southern Minnesota railroad, met with
fatal accident ut Houston, last week. He
was coupling cars, missed his footing and
fell under the cars. His thigh was 30
badly crushed that it could not be set,
both legs were broken, and he received
other injuries. He died in a few hours
after receiving his injuries.
A TRIAL of the soft coal which is being
mined on the line of the Northern Pacific
was made recently at the Office
of the land department of the road with
q most satisfactory result. The coal is
Ignite, and when placed in the CRATE on
a foundation fire of wood it ignites read
ily and gave out heat of much greater
than is generated by anthra-
cite.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred about
two miles south of Princetown on the
oath. Hon. G. H. Chadbourne was in
his barn attending stock, and upon en-
tering the stall of his bull saw that the
animal had loosened himself in some
way, and ON goingto tie him up was hor-
ribly mangled in his right side by the
bull, one of the horns enter
ing Mt the lower rib and passing up to
the shoulder blade. The doctors say
there is little hope Of his recovery.
The bodies of two men-W. A. Weeks
and J. II. Pagenlopf-were found nine
miles north of Lake Benton on the Odd.
At the inquest several witnesses were
but no satisfaction gained as
TO how the men came to their death.
Weeks and Pagenkopflay within ten feet
of each other. There was no marks to
show that they had met with q violent
death. 1t is the general opinion that
they had been poisoned, rs it appears
that they left their teams and went to a
to lie down. Weeks leaves o
wife and two children.
LONG PRAIRIE Todd county, argus:
One day last week Mrs. Len Eddy, of
went out to gather some
maple sap and left her 6-months old
baby sitting in chair at safe distance,
rs she thought, from a dish pan full of
boiling water, which she left standing on
the floor. When she returned, in short
time, she found that in some way the
child had tipped the chair and fallen in
to the pan of hot water, and was wallow.
ing in it almost dead when she entered
the house. The child was almost cooked
and suffered but one hour after being