The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-05
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.


Mr.. J. +. Wright, postmaster I
MantOrville, wants to be relieved
} his Office.
The Southern Minnesota Baptis
Association was held at st. Charlie
on August 2nd.
James Laird, Esq, of Chatfield
sold eighty acres of land for 81, 200
one day last week.
The location of the Black Hills rail
road through Fergus Falls is practic
ally decided upon.
The trustees of st. Mary's Hall, a
Faribault, are contemplating the cree
ton Of new hall.
A. G. Smith, of Rochester, denie:
the report that he has accepted posi-
ton at Puget Sound.
The New Ulm Reuie~ estimates the
loss in that city by the storm of the
18th nlt.. upward Of $250.000.
Fairmont has organized a driving
park association, and taken steps to
make the town more attractive.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis rail-
road company will build their road
through Redwood county for $45, 900.
Owatonna is to have a new Court
House, q site for the same having
been purchased, for which $4,000
were paid.
Prof. Davis, formerly superinten-
dent of schools at Rochester, has been
chosen to the same position at Dead
wood, ID. Il.
The attorneys of the third judicial
district have signed a petition request.
ing Hon. Charles NJ. Start to become
a non. partisan candidate for District
Judge this fall.
Mr.. II. G. JudsOn wishes us to state
there will be no fair ground privil-
eyes for booths, stalls, ETC.. granted
until Tuesday before the State fair,
August 29.-ROchester Record d Union.
DeGraff & Hopkins, proprietors of
the Lake Elysian stock farm. Waseca
county, will have two of their best
horses at the Minneapolis fair, in
September.
The Hon. j. II. Flanagan, promi.
nent farmer of ROsem0unt and men,
Der of the house of representatives in
1870 and 1871, died ON Thursday of
sOftening of the brain, aged fortysix
years.-Hasfiags Gazette.
Christian Miller, who lived in the
southwestern part of this city, has
been more or less afflicted with in.
sanity for some time, and last week
his condition became much worse,
and on Friday he was taken to the
asylum at st. Peter.
A prisoner confined in the Wadena
village calabOOse on last Monday
night, built a fire in the building on
his own account, and, after warming
himself, left the institution, and was
next morning found by the astOnished
village marshal trading the paddock
of his cell and the outside lock Of
the calaboose off for whisky in
saloon near by.
Last week Mr.. T.. II. Faus received
notice that his claim in Grant county
would be cancelled unless he made up
the deficiency of fifty cents per acre, he
having proved up Il year ago, paying
seventy.fivc cents Oh the acre. The
late ruling of the Land Commissioner
is that the deficiency must be made
up or the claim fOrfeited.-Big Stone
Heruid.
A. S. Brooks, of Reedsburg, Wis,
has sent Postmaster Fiddes bottle
of seventeen.year lOcusts. They re-
semble June bug somewhat in size
and shape, and are destroying crops
and young orchards in the Reedsburg
region. They deposit their eggs
where they appear, and it requires q
period of seventeen years for the eggs
to hatch-hence the name.--Jacks0n
Republic.
Twenty.four cents was the amount
due the government in the settlement
with A. G.. Smith, who for ten years
has been Collector of Internal Rev.
enue for this district. Such was the
condition of affairs when his success.
sor was appointed. Few officers OF
the government can show such a rec.
ord. Commissioner Raum cOmpli-
ments Mr.. Smith for the manner in
which the work has been accomplish
ed.-Rushtord Star.
Rochester is to have a new cream
cry, and the Record d Union says that
the company have ordered 4.hOrse
power engine and are making prepar-
atiOns to collect the cream from the
farming district. The company are
particularly fortunate in having an
excellent place to keep their creamery
butter. Their large underground
cellar has a capacity of at least five
car loads. and dHring the heated term
in summer maintains temperature
of "a degrees.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad, it is said. are going to begin
August 10th to lay down coal in sheds
against snow blOckades and rs a pro-
lection to settlers on all the territory
west of a north and south line down
through Calmar, Iowa, and st. Paul.
This coal is soft coal, and will be dis
posed of by their agents, wholesale
and retail, lower than ever before.
The prices named are $4.0O and $3.50
per ton. Coal will be furnished by
the company only on the Hastings &
Dakota, Southern Minnesota, Iowa Il
Dakota divisions. On the line named
east of this point the local dealers
will remain the distributors.
The Lanesboro Journal, in describ-
| ing the falling of a meteor near that
place last week, says: when dis.
covered, it was going in a northwest.
erly direction. In shape 1t resembled
a sky.rocket, only of far greater mag
nitude and brilliancy. The head APP
peared to be a ball of white fire, fol.
lowed by a fanlike tail Of golden
tinge, which appeared to be about ten
degrees long. From the time 1t be-
came visible. it remained in view pos
sibly minute and a half, passing d.
rectly through space with not the
slightest deviation from its straight
course, and with wonderful velocity.
1t was sight that will ever remain
pictured upon the mind of the be-
holder, and one that will be enlisted
in the memory as grand beyond de.
scriptiOn."
The Attorney General has given an
opinion that under Chapter 50. Laws
Of 1881, county commissioners are en-
titled to mileage as follows Ten
cents per mile for attending meetings
of the board, not, however to exceed
six sessions in any one year. In adj
dition to this, when any commissioner
is actually employed in the business
of the county by order Of the board,
he is entitled to "ten cents per mile
for every mile travelled In the per.
formance of such duty" He may,
therefore, receive mileage for six ses-
sions and also for any distance he may
necessarily travel in performing the