The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-14
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.
Flax is proving a good crop in Fill
more county.
The Mobiles County Fair closed
with $50 ahead.
Milk is selling at eight cents a
quart in st. Cloud.
From eight hundred to thousand
pair of bOb.sleds will he manufactured
in st. Cloud this season.
WOrthingtOn offers $4,000 and
right of way to the Il. G. IL N. N. r.,
provided it is built into that place in
1882.
The Waseca Herald of last week
contained graphic pen picture of
Waseca and its bushes men and
houses.
AS many as $50 horses in Minneap-
oils are now suffering from the cpl
ZOOt and unable to work. Business
is consequently much delayed in many
branches.
The Madelia Times reports that
hundreds of acres of flax will be
total loss because the ground was so
soft that teams could not be driven
into the fields.
A brilliant meteor of blush tint
came shooting toward the earth at
WinOna, about 8 o'clock the other
evening, and exploded like rocket
in Il shower of vivid cOlOrs, and dis
appeared.
During the month of September the
interest accruing OH the funds belong
ing to the State of Minnesota and
deposited in various banks in the city
of st. Paul, amounted to 81 ,723.7l,
and said amount was placed to the
credit OF State Treasurer KittlesOn.
Sherman Weyhe, aged twenty-six
years, respectable citizen of New
Ulm, committed suicide on Friday
afternoon, by shooting bullet
through his head, and died i'm.
mediately. The reason is unknown.
He leaves a wife and small child.
The LanesbOrO Journal says There
are owned in LanesborO four colts
ranging in ages as follows One two
year-Old, one three-year old, one four
year.Old and one five-year-Old, and the
owners challenge the State of Minne-
sofa to produce four colts of like
ages to a match of speed.
LanesbOrO Journal, October I. Mr..
John Lynch, who lives about two
miles west of town, finished thresh-
ing last week, and his yield is perhaps
the largest and best in the county.
He had an average of Twenty-Five and
a quarter bushels of No. winter
wheat per acre, which is certainly a
very satisfactory showing.
The Albert Lea Standard says The
creamery closed for the season ON
Monday last, having made over 1000
pounds of butter, which sold ut prices
ranging from % to 80 cents. Whether
it will be opened next season or not
depends upon the farmers. II there
were sufficient patronage to warrant
it, cream would be worth from 20 to
% cents per quart. Think of that,
you farmers who are fretting over
wet grain stacks, potatoes not dug,
corn unhuskcd, and blowing undOne.
Compared with the flood of last
April, although not reaching near It's
height, the present high river has
done incOmparably greater damage.
The hay alone, to say nothing of corn
and potatoes, that has been lost by
the high water must reach nearly one
thousand tons within range of de-
livery ut this market. Besides this,
the whole farming comm unity on the
opposite side of the river, which
furnishes nearly half the trade of the
town, has been cut off for nearly a
week and will he for about a week to
cOme.-Le Sueur Sentinel.
The WOrthingtOn Adrance says that
II. Radley, an Englishman who is
farming in Murray county, near AvO-
ca, has recently been unfortunate.
About three weeks ago he came to
Worthington and bought a flock of
sheep from Mr.. Alleys agent. The
rains delayed him some days, but
finally he drove them to the banks of
Lime creek, in sight of his own place,
and there camred, as the water was
too high TO cross. While camping
there. his man fired the grass to burn
off around some hay stacks, when the
fire got away and burned up both the
barn and house.
Rev. ThOs. McClary, who has been
pastor of the first M. +. church, st.
Paul, for the past three years. was the
recipient of pleasant farewell visit
a few evenings since from friends
who presented him a purse of $500,
in behalf Of the church. This act of
kindness implies also true Christian
charity on the part of his flock, for,
II our memory serves us, once on a
time, not long since, as Mr.. McClary
wound up his sermon he made a very
strong and urgent plea for liberal
contributions for some religious OBJ
ject, and after the collection was
taken, the pastor was so moved by its
small exhibit that he dismissed his
flock without prOnOuncing the bene-
in retaliation
VIM. Elias, farmer from the
county of Dodge, went to
Brownsville on Monday to market
some grain, invested part of the pro.
ceeds in fire.water, lOafed round the
town all the evening and finally, it is
said, went to bed on the sidewalk. A
bout midnight he aroused the sleeping
citizens in the vicinity of his lodging
place with loud and piteOus cries of
"f0r Gods sake don't kill me!' and
heavy blows as of sledstake were
plainly heard descending on the un.
fortunate man. When assistance ar
rived his assailant had fed. leaving
him with one arm broken and his
person otherwise badly battered and
bruised, his clothing half torn off,
and over $50 in cash missing.
The Faribault Republican. in speak
ing of frost says that the first frost
of the season, in this section, fell on
Wednesday morning last, which was
followed by another ON Saturday
They were very light,
being hardly severe enough to kill
tender vines on low grounds. On
high lands, cucumber, melon. tomato
and other such vines are putting
forth new growth and blooming
freely. In view of the abundant
rains of last month. the absence of
heavy frOsts is something remark.
able. We give below the dates of
the first frOsts for every year since
1855.
Oct. Is, 1895, killing frost.
Aug. =, 1865, -
Sept. !, 1867,