The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-14
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department..
While making dynamite cartridges at
WilkesbaIre, Pa, William Hinsey was torn
into fragments aud the building was denloE
ishod.
The iron molders OF Pittsburgh have
secured an advance OF 10 per cent. in way - in
forty shops.
There is such boom in favor Of ere
nation that the lie Moyne furnace at Wssa-
inston, Pa, is TO be enlarged and new ~
tort put in.
O'Connell, one of the persons who
planted the bomb ut the Lord Mayors mansion
in London. has reached Nov York.
Charles Scribner d Sons have sold
their interest in Scribne'''s Monthly ~. Nicho-
las and tho Illustrated Magazine for boys and
Girls to Mr.. Roswell Smith, the business mana
ger OF these periodicals.. The editorial and
business management will 10 continued as NJ
present
Capt. Boycott, whose treatment IN
Ireland 10y the members OF tho Land LoSgus
gave rise to the term "boycottiug," arrived in
Now York last week.
On the ground that the compensation
offered is inadequate, the Mayor OF New Yorh
has vetoed the bill permitting the Edison Flee
trio Light Company TO lay tubes in tho streets
West
A fire at Leadville destroyed McDan-
iers Thoa;or and restaurant and saloon adj
joining.
Gen. Benjamin. F. Loan, who made
all enYiablc record III the Union army and
served three terms In Congress, died at ST.
Joseph, Mo.
The Superior Court at San Francisco,
in one OF the suits instituted by Burke against
Flood and ether bonanza kings, has rendered a
decision which will force the lattor to disgorge
over $500. 200 to victimIZed stocSNoldsr.
The Indians Mt Hoocheno Alaska, re-
Gently burned at the stake two Of their number
for some crime.
Several stores having been robbed at
Pierre, Oak, City visilantS. armed with rifles,
picked up all the questionable mon in town and
drove them away With warning.
A party of ten cowboys engaged in a
lark al O'Neill City, Neb., and killed Sheriff
Kearns and seriously wounded Ms deputy
because they objected 10 tho breaking up of an
auction. The nuyderers escaped.
Mark Malta, formerly of Chicago, was
mortaly wounded in an srray in newspaper
Office at Deaawood, by Texan named Ebelin.
Mrs. Albright, residing near Youngs.
town, Ohio, hanged herself with ske!n Of
yarn. leaving tive children. The receipt Of the
news caused her uncle, John E!izers, 30 fall
dead.
Reports from the winter wheat i'll Ohio
show a large increase in acreage and d pronlis-
ing condition Of tho plants, even beneath the
snowy covering.
BY collision on the st. Paul, Mime
apolis and Manitoba road. near Rothsay, two
men were killed ami i've seriously injured.
In the slang OF that section, the people
OF Sidney, Neb., had roundup of thieves, and
lodged them in jail.
Included in the railroad projects char
tered in Indiana are narrow-Sauge line from
Terre Haute TO Merom, and road from Terre
Haute to Columbus.
The indianapolis, bloomington and
Western road has swallowed the Springfield
Southern, line lis miles in length.
Charles Schoonover, OF Michigan,
who Is delivering temperance lectures in Cen
trsl Iowa, is but Ii years Of age.
GTain-dealers at ST. Louis send out
reports Of great damage 10 winter wheat in st.
Clair and Clinton counties, III.
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Wisconsin, tho Legislature, by an unaccounL-
able bluuder, omitted the town of RidgowGy,
in Iowa county, and d!sfranchsed 500vcters.
AT Irving, Mich, Martin Iexter was
visiting at the house Of q neiShbor named Ben
jamin Trego, when the latter stepped from the
room, returned with an ak, and split Texters
head 10 the chin. Jealousy was apparently the
cause.
In the case of the slaughter on the
ST. Paul and Manitoba road, the Coroner's jury
lind criminal carelessness on the part of Con
auctor Calvin and Brakeman Pearco. the
former is IN Jail.
The flood in the Upper Missouri has
swept away nearly all the buildings in Vor-
million, Oak.
Smith I. Manson, General Passenger
Agent Of the Wisconsin Central railroad, Was
killed while trying TO board freight train.
A vigilance committee has been or
ganized at Sidney, Neb., for the purpose of
driving thieves, cgt-throats and despcradoes
from the place. they having run the town for
sOme tins past.
Mrs. Sargent, of Santa Barbara, Cal,
vas brutaly murdered by shoep-herder, who.
in turn, was hanged by mob Of indignan.
citizens.
sIn the Mormon Conference, at Salt
Like City, John Taylor, President Of the
church, declared that the Saints proposed TO
obey all Gods revelations, including even the
one Oh rolygGmy.
Nearly all the live stock in the Mis-
sour river valley between Jefferson and Fort
Thompson is reported TO have been destroyed
by the flood.