The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Fifty Iowa farmers arrived at
Huron. Dakota, yesterday. preparing
to take up land in that vicinity.
In the charter election at San Fran.
cisco, just held, the Republicans
made almest a clean sweep.
Stephen S. Foster, of Worcester,
Mass, famous in the anti.slavery
agitation, and temperance labors, is
dead,
Four thousand acres Of timber and
five thousand acres of wheat, on the
farm of David Tracy, near Erie, Pa,
were destroyed by a forest fire.
An Indiana woman is the proud
owner of a washboard over one hund.
red years old.
A man in Tallahassee, Fla, has
bought a lottery ticket every month
for fifteen years and has never drawn
Il cent.
Over 700 wild turkeys are on Santa
Cruz island, just across the channel
from Santa Barbara, Cal. The first
of these birds yer placed there by
Judge Cation, Of Ottawa. ILL.,, about
five years ago.
a butterfly fish, weighing 200
pounds, jumped into a sail.boat neal
Pascagoula and created quite a com.
motion laundering about. 1t was
finally dubbed to death.
The squaw of a trustworthy half.
breed in Arizona informs the mill
tary authorities that the hostile
Indians number nine hundred.
~ company with u capital of So.
000,0 900 francs has been formed in
Paris for lending money on all kinds
of property in Canada, at s per cent.
interest.
DIR. Quinn, one of Ca~lifOrnia's
millionaires. keeps twenty ships busy
transporting his wheat to England.
lie owns $1,000 acres of rich grain
land, As 200 Of which were in wheat
season. One continuous furrow is
seventeen miles in length.
The long drought has compelled
Indiana saloon-keepers to announce /:
Whisky straight, 10 cents (; whisky
with water, Is cents" The higher
priced drink has been called for but
once, and that was by an Ohio pro.
hibitionist, who was not partial to
water but distrusted Indiana whisky.
Within the past ten days, large
orders have been received in Chicago
from Europe, and especially from
Germany, for clover seed, and the
sales on that account are said to
reach high up in the thousands of
bags, at the prices ranging from $3.50
to $3.50 per bushel. being an advance
of 81 so to 50 per bushel since July l.
At Haney Valley, Oregon, the
cattle-plague known as the black
leg, has been killing the calves in
great numbers. In a distance of
about three miles fifty dead calves
we're seen. The disease was brought
in from Montana. 1t does not affect
the older cattle, but it is fatal to
calves and occasionally to yearlings.
John Is. Raymond, of Fargo, d. r.,
says that he has harvested this sea-
son $4,000 worth of wheat from a
farm that cost him only $50 900 two
years ago.
If there should be a wool famine in
Il year OrtwO, there would be nothing
in the fact which would greatly sur
prise some of the principle authorities
Oh wool matters. Rot has carried off
many sheep in England and on the
continent, and it is said that sheep
are in numbers far below the average.
IL may be that the American WOOL
grower is at last about to find his
reward for having patiently chung to
his sheep through the long period of
low prices.
A piece of rock, weighing four
hundred pounds, was thrown by a
blast against the front door of the
parsonage of the Rev. DR.. HOugh. at
%StauntOn, Va. 1t crushed through
the door, and landing in the centre
of the room. broke through the floor.
Mrs. IIough was lying on q sofa in
the room, and was struck by several
fragments of the door. She escaped
injury.
Daniel Ii. MellOt, who more than
six years ago was tried in Fulton
county, Penn, for burning three of
his children, is again charged with an
act of brutality to n of his children
in Bedford county. Mellot had given
his child a coin to put in the Sabbath
school collection box. 1t seems the
child failed to do this, and took the
money home again. This angered
Mellott, ard as punishment he hung
the little fellow up by the heels.
Some person passing by cut him down
and sent for a physician, but before
he arrived the child was dead.