The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-06-04
MINNESOTA NEWS.


biggest fair for the fall of 1850 that has
ever been seen in the county.
In Big Stone county the other day, a
claim jumper had a coat of tar and feath-
ers put Oh him and he gave up the claim.
In Currie, Murray county the Scrivens
family have buried four children within
n month, their deaths being caused by
that fatal disease, diphtheria.
A sIx-YEAR-oLD son of Frank Blair, Of
Caledonia, had his right leg broken
below the knee last week by the kick of
cow. The fracture was bad one.
WORK on the court house in Shakopee
is progressing rapidly. The additions,
improvement of the court room, ETC.,
will be completed by the next term Of
court.
THE annual meeting of the State Med
ical society of Minnesota will be held ut
Albert Lea, June Is and 1G. The rail-
ways will carry physicians and their
families mt one and One-fifth fare for the
round trip.
AN inhuman brute in Caledonia is in
Jail for whipping his mother, a woman
aged 60 years. He knocked her Out-of-
doors, and then seized a club and pounded
her till she was insensible.
LAST week little child of Charles
Porter, of Charlestown, Redwood county,
while playing IN boat with three other
children, fell into the water and was
drowned.
The other day Stiles NJ. West of War
saw, Goodhue county, aged IA years,
had nail which he was attempting to
drive into post, fly and strike one OF
his eyes. The sight is entirely de-
stroyed.
SHERIFF BRAY, on Monday, conveyed q
little 11-year-old girl, by the name of
Nellie OlesOn, of the town of Severance,
to the asylum at st. Peter, she having
been declared to be insane.
Lndepcndcnt, May q.
DURING late storm lightning struck
the house of w. H. Hammond, three or
four miles south of Fergus Falls, Otter
Tail county, instantly killing his daugh-
ter Mary aged 10 years, and seriously in
juring boy year or two younger.
Two SONS of p. J. Tuttle, of Minton,
Steele county, were struck by lightning
one morning last week, while Mt work III
the field planting corn. The Oldest,
aged Is, was killed instantly; the young
est, aged seven, was badly burned, but
| will recover.
A. X. ANDERSON, ID. NJ. Hill and
James Mclean, of Lake Crystal, have
gone to Colorado to try their luck. Mr..
Anderson's brother started last spring,
and this spring sold out mining property
for the handsome sum of $500 He
left four years ago with only 81 in his
pocket.
THE tree from which the Big Cotton
wood in Redwood county derives its
name is said to be "a feet in circumfer.
ence, Its lowest branch is 80 feet from
the ground. 1t is located some five miles
northwest of Lamberton, and is described
as towering above the bluffs in thai
vicinity.
DIR. G. j. SHELDON, of Mound Prai
RE, Houston county, died on Tuesday,
after short illness. Deceased was 70
years old. He was an old settler and
pioneer in Houston county, widely and
favorably known as a finished scholar
and gentleman. He once or twice repre-
scented his district in the state leeisla-
ture.
| ANGELINA SHARETTE, young hall
breed girl, committed suicide ut Brain
erd. Her father had given her shaking
by way of punishment for her supposed
liberation of the attentions Of some young
men who were intoxicated. The girl
went up stairs, called her mother, and
told her she had taken strychnine. She
| .nl. ,No f,un to-
HARLOW F. CURTIS, aged 65 years,
residingnear this place, ended his earthly
troubles last Friday afternoon, by hang.
ing himself in his stable while his wife
and children were temporarily absent
from home. He left letter to his wife,
bidding her and the children last fare.
well, closing with the statement that he
could no longer struggle under the bur-
dens of life which oppressed him.-Bea-
rer Fails (RenriHe co., Times.
THOMAS HELLINGER, well known
farmer who lived in Glasgow for over
TWENTY-FIVE years, and on one farm in
Trout Brook valley for fifteen years, met
with n frightful accident on last Friday
which cost him his life. He was driving
from Wabashaw to his home. The team
was in front of Joseph POSSES place,
when he fell out of the wagon, headlong,
his head catching between the iron
brace and the wagon-bed, breaking his
neck and killing him instantly. He left
a wife and ten children in comfortable
circumstances city Leader
May II.
On Monday morning Edgar A. Black
man, an employee Mt the Jordan City
mills, was caught in the bolt gearing anG
so terribly mangled that death ensued il
few hours. A spout had become
clogged, aud while reaching into it will
his right arm, his clothing was caught IL
the meshes of the cog wheels, and ere ht
could free himself they were fastened
upon his body. With maddened effort
Blackman braced himself and tore away
from the engine of death. Though ter
ribly torn and mangled, he walked some
distance to stairway, down this fIgh,
and partly down another, when his
strength left him and he fell. The de.
ceased was "a years of age and leaves
wife and child.-ScOH County Adpocatc.
The other evening rs A. B. Davis, Of
Winnebago City, Faribault county, was
returning from Iowa, where he had sold
drove of cattle for 81, 500, he was stop.
ped near the state line by three men who
commanded him to throw up his hands
and surrender. Mr.. Davis, who is an
old ex-sheriff, knew that meant business,
and with great presence of mind, threw
UP his hands, but in doing 80 he clutch
ed his package of money, and threw il
over his head into the grass, unnoticed
by the robbers. The men then searched
him and not finding any money as they
expected, they treated him terribly and
left him more dead than alive. He sue
ceeded in getting to house, and the
next day search was made and the money
found.
A MAN named Jacob Hansen, a stone
cutter. met with sudden death at Ban
holzer's brewery, st. Paul, on the Odd
Hansen had driven out to the garden tt
engage man to do some work for HIM
and stood talking with the man near the
shaft Leading down to the beer vault, &
small round aperture about eighteen
inches across and forty-five feet deep,
over the top of which were a couple Of
boards. While thus talking, Hansen.
who is a heavy man, stepped on the
board directly over the center, which
broke, letting him fall to the bottom, by
which he sustained compound fracture
of the left leg between the knee and hip
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