The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-02
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

lished as u daily on the four principal
days of the State fair.
Senator EdgeitOn will deliver the
address before the Lyon county fair
OH the Odd Of September.
Over 1900 has now been subscribed
towardsthe purchase of Il telescope for
the public school ut Waseca.
The material for syrup works at
Albert Lea is arriving. The price
to he paid for cane is 1926 per ton.
The bonds of PipestOne county
were recently negotiated ut six per
cent. interest and u premium OF $50.
One firm in Waseca sold 100 water
melons in one day last week. That
must have been Il rather melon cholic
day.
Welcome" Is the name given the
station between FairmOnt and Sher-
burn on the Southern Minnesota rail-
road.
W. G.. Ward retircs from the
Waseca Rodicoi, having leased the
Office for one year Ia Mr.. j. Il. Muir
ply.
Two children OF Henry Assem-
Eaclher, living near Lake Benton.
were killed by lightning Monday
night.
The gain of population in Dakota
this year has Outstripped anything in
the way of immigration ever known
in this country.
The Minnesota Temperance Union
is preparing for az annual convention
to be held in Minneapolis, September
9th and It'll.
The WOrthington Adcance published
last week a very full report of ex-
Governor Miller's life, sickness and
death, together with his will.
Old Daddy Powers of greenback
nOtcriety, in the southern part of this
state, has collapsed, busted, or rather
his fiat organ at Rochester has.
Twenty-Five sections, or 1928
acres of land in Jackson county, was
sold last week by j. G. EastOn and
others to II colony of ScOtchmen.
We learn that A. II. Bulls of Win
nelragO will take twelve head of Here
ford cattle from his stock farm to
the State far at Rochester this year.
II. W. UOlley. of WinnebagO City,
wishes to let u contract for blowing
four hundred acres of ground, and
| olcn fn,. tho nuffinU nm ut 4 u,O hundrp6
tons Of hay on his farm.
Farmers in some parts Of the state
complain of crickets eating the Irvine
with which their grain is bound,
thereby giving much trouble in hand
ling the bundles.
On Thursday of last week, while OH
his way home from AmbOy with u
load of lumber, Mr.. Henry Oberdich,
of Antrim, had the misfortune to
break one of his legs.
ID. Pbillcs. of Sank Center, has re-
ceived : 200 back pension, and is to
receive rs u month in the future. He
was a victim of Andersonville and
other s. .Lhern prisons.
j. L. Price of Olmstead Co., sold
| $50 head of sheep, last week, at $3.50
| per head. He has 300 head Of sheep
| and his son starts for Wisconsin in q
| few days for another car load.
The lowest yield of wheat reported
in half u dozen dispatches from points
in Southern Minnesota is three bush.
els per acre. The highest Is twenty
bushels and the average of the reports
Is ten.
st. Peter Tribune: The corn crop,
which is simply immense this year,
il considered out of frOst's way.
Many of the farmers are engaged
cutting up and putting the same in
shock.
The LaneshOrO .Journai truthfully
says, IL ma who can. but will not,
take his county paper, must not COM
plain of the manne in which the
affairs of his town and county are
conducted.
James Clark, Il day labOrer on the
railroad ut Pennington, received news
the other day that he had fallen heir
to fl0.000 i'm England, and took the
$500 that accompanied the nOtifica-
ton to look the matter mp.
The Minneapolis mills are reaping
Il rich harvest from the freight rate
war. 1t is now said the Grand Trunk
railway has given them u rate on
flour amounting to n. cents per 100,
and that the New York Central is
prepared to meet it.
Bishop Whipple. of the Episcopal
diocese of Minnesota, has issued q
circular to be read in all the churches
Oh the second Sunday in September,
in behalf of the contemplated effort
to raise 81 zoo. 900 to build churches
in the new and destitute fields of our
country.
AbOnt IS mules. Il lot of heavy
freight wagons, accompanied by
about Is or ~ men, came down by
rail from Fort Pierre yesterday, hav-
ing been engaged in freighting from
that place to DeadwOOd. They go
overland from here to Blue Earth
City to engage in working on the rail-
road asecd Herald.
James LewesOn, Il young man about
twenty-One years of age, in the en-
plOy of W. EllingsOn, of North
Prairie, met with IN accident ON
Sunday morning last that cost him
his life. While practicing gymna.
scum feats upon Il horizontal bar, he
accidentally lost his balance and fell,
| striking upon his head and shoulders
i'm such Il manner rs to induce paraly-
| sis of his entire lower extremities
from his hips.-LanesbOrO Journal.
The saltwater Messenger of Aug.
81. says that the only house in that
city struck by lightning on the prev
iOus Thursday, was protected" by a
lightning rod, and that the damage
was only trihing. but does not tell us
whether that trifling damage was
| attributable to the aforesaid lightning
rod or not. Editors should give us
| what there is of protection in this
lightning rod business, if they know
| positively Of its existence, and al
measure its radices.
Albert Lea Enterprise :: FreebOrn
county has u lady that is hard to dis.
| count. Here are the facts: Mrs.
| liver jacobson, of Hayward, accom-
panied by her husband, came to
town about ten days before harvest
| to get some medicine fora sick child.
| On the way home she gave birth to u
| healthy male child. At the commence.
ment OF harvest, in nine days time,
| she began binding on Il reaper, to
continue until all the grain ~ cut.
The circumstances are probably with.
out a parallel.
Consul Taylor and family left their
| home OH the 9th mlt., for Marseilles,
France. The day previous to start.