The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-23
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

Mr.. j. L. Smith, of Heron Lake,
has erected a mill for utilizing the
fibre of flax straw.
Two hunters ut OrtOnville in one
days hunt, last week, bagged 1O5
chickens and ducks.
Mcleod county elected delegates
on the 10Th to the Republican State
Convention unin~structed.
The democratic state central COM
mittee have fixed upon Thursday,
Oct. 8, for their state convention.
NicOllet county surpasses Blue
Earth county in the crop of candi-
dates for office, the first having As.
Miss Abby GoOdsell, of Mortified,
Mimi. has been elected to the presi-
dency of Vassar College, at POugh-
keepsie, N. Y.
The valleys of the ZumbrO river are
the places to go for wild grapes, high
bush c%ranberries, and wild hops, says
an exhange.
The Duluth Tribune insists that tho
dull days in Duluth are over and that
an expansion in business is justified
by the present outlook.
During the past month or six weeks
there have been at least a half dozen
instances of grain stacks being struck
by lightning in Olmstead county.
The total receipts at the State Fair
were about So 5000, and sufficient to
pay all expenses and premiums in
full, lacking about $500.
Hamline University opens with Is
students and they confidently expect
the number will 60 up to 100. The
previous term opened with but SIS.
DIR. Welcome. of Sleepy Eye, says
:hcre has at 40 n time been more
than 20 cases of diphtheria in that
place, in It's present spread not half
the cases there were two years ago.
$50 cases of typhoid fever were re-
ported in Minneapolis last Thursday,
and the water from the wells in that
city is being analysed to see if its
impurities do not invite disease.
The Board Of Trade of Rochester,
talk of purchasing the State Fair
grounds together with all the build
ings &c. 1t would seem by this that
the State Fair Is to sink into oblivion.
The Rochester Creamery was award
ed the premium Oh their exhibit Of
butter ut the late fair. Although
they have only commenced opera
tiOns, they ARE manufacturing an eX-
cellent article of creamery butter.
Martin Ferguson, a miller working
in the Fillmore mill ut WykOff, was
caught in the machinery of the mill
and SO badly injured that his right
arm had to be amputated at the
shoulder joint.
The spiritualists held a convention
in Minneapolis from the ID to the 5th
Sept, and formed a State organization
consisting Of %iifty.seven members.
The admission fec is 81, and they early
dues the same.
OF the date, Sept. Is, the Republican,,
printed ut Sleepy Eye, says: Doctor
| Welcomes family have gone to Man.
katO to spend the winter, Mrs. W.
to visit among old friends and the
boys to attend school.
According to the Bismarck Tribune,
Frank j. Mead is fairly booming in
Mandan, where he has Il surveyor
laying out so acres of his claim into
city lots. The first we know he will
be called a blOated land owner.
Another new railroad company has
been organized for the development
Of the great wheat belt of Dakota.
1t is to be called the Fargo and North
western, and the track will be laid
from Fargo In a nOrthwesterly direc-
tiOn next spring.
1t has long been a disputed point
whether a dog possessed any positive
| value or not, in law. Judge Cooley
Of Minneapolis decides that u dog is
property, and in a certain suit just
terminated the value of $25 was
sustained.
Bro. SanbOrn, of the Madelia Times
went to the Minneapolis Exposition.
He says "Bill Kings international
hOrse-race came off on Monday, and
that on the third round Miss Robin.
son tainted. 1t must have been very
notifying to her."
Two land locked salmon were re-
Gently caught in Lake MinnetOnka,
one weighing 5 and the other y pounds.
We hear nothing as yet Of the stock
let loose in Lake Madison. We very
much fear that the old inhabitants
were too ~voraciOus for the small fry
planted there.
Detective Hoy. of Minneapolis, for
capturing a thief who stole A. U.
Gilman's watch has been presented
by that gentleman with u magnificent
gold ring.-Now il our city detectives
will only catch the bold thieves who
stole ROemer and Hawley's fine nags
last week, they might see Hoy and 60
him Q%uadruple on his pile.
The office of Mr.. Rounseville. pro-
prietOr of a lumber yard at st. Peter,
was broken into and his safe blown
open ON Wednesday night. Tho
burglars drilled holes in the top of
the safe and placed wet coats over
the front Of it to deaden the sound.
The safe was completely ruined, but
the scamps only got about SO for their
trouble. They were undoubtedly old
hands at the business.
Duluth, like many other cities,
meets now and then with rough reali-
ties. On Friday, the 10th inst, she
was struck by q terrific storm, said
to have been the severest northeastern
aver known there. About 8 A. Nj.
the lighthouse, which was built in
1870, was blown down and tumbling
to pieces fell with q crash into the
canal. The Minneapolis & st. Louis
road had nine cars loaded with flour
standing on the track beyond TIE
elevator, which was undermined by
the water and the flour damaged.
Secretary Young of the state board
of immigration makes the statement
that 81, 600, 600 had been brought into
Minnesota by immigrants thus far
this year. He says that the most
reliable estimates place the number
Of immigrants to the State during the
last eight months at 10000, and that
the amount Of money brought by them
would average 500 to each person.
The most desirable class comes from
Germany and France. They. as u
rule, have more means than the I'M
migrant from England. The Irish
immigrants are the poorest Of all. In
support of his assertion regarding the
amount of money brought into the
State, MI. Young recited numerous
instances of immigrants having drafts
of from 81 900 all the way up to &c.
600. Last spring he vas called on
by a party Of v from Germany,
who had drafts for sc. 900; another
time a German immigrant having