The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-05-20

man in the jail-yard saddle horse fer him,
took Winchester rihs and four rsvolvsrs from
the arms in the Jail, and rode out. Subse-
ouently he encountered man named Mat
thows. who had testified against him in a re-
cent trial. and killed him. He also murdered
another man he met ON tho road against whom
he bore grudge. The Young desperate il be-
iieved to have hei to Mexico.
The first vessel to pass through the
straits OF Mackinaw this season was the pro-
pellsr Garden City, which arrived at Alpena
from Chicago on the 4th OF May.
Tho indications of al, outbreak among
dispatch of six cavalry companies from the
contiguous forts to White river.
Eighty.four thousand immigrants ar
| rived in Chicago last month, and were distrib-
uted in different directions.
Hon. Ansel Briggs. the first Governor
Of Iowa, died the other day at Omaha.
Gilbert Hubbard, senior member OF
the Chicago firm OF Gilbert Hubbard 4 Co, is
| dead Charles Hitchcock. an old and prom
! ineut member OF the Chicago bar, has also
passed away.
There were 9s4 deaths in Chicago last
month.
Lout. Bulles followed band of In
dian murdercrs across the Rio Grando and
! killed four braves and sIuaw, capturing
twenty horses.
A coal-shaft in Usage county, Kan,
caught fire from a furnace i'll the air shaft
! Twenty-Five men were at work at the time,
but fifteen Of them were rescued. The remain
ing scven with three others who had gone to
their assistance, were taken out dead.
Troops have been sent to the Ute Res
ervstion to protect the Indians from invasion
hy whites
George c. Harding, editor of the In
dianapolis Saturday Recis7r is dead.
Trees 10y hundreds of thousands i'll
southern Wisconsin were destroyed by ground
| III "a during the snoH blockade.
Reports from eighteen counties III
Kansas indicate that the wheat crop this year
"ll Ire the biggest ever known
\ correspondent which the Chicago
| jriiH,s dispatched to the Hooded regions OF
tho Upper Missouri river sends t. that journal
| .ra'i!ic description uf The rain wrought 10y
..c high water in Dakota. The bulk Of the
| .rg,,ilg from the fool. he reports, Is confined
go the territory Letwceu isnk;on and Elk
| Point In tho river bottom. between
| !, - lciuts. hundreds OF once fertile
.'ms are now covered with five
| ut Of sand. In addition 20 their present
IA ,.ruiuI condition the unhappy dwellers IN
l., 'nuadatt = districts have to face the distress
| .4, prospect 81 wholesale malaria, resulting
| r,GI tho dnroul os ton Of tn usauds Of dead
| .I,.ls. and OF future want, because it has
| cen ..cces,sry 10 eat up al the grain and
| ,:,;ailc seed saved 70. this year,
| ny il order 10 save life. Tho sit
.a,ion OF these people is one that cries
loud for immediate relief in the way Of dona-
lo,S ot money and articles ~ food.-Ths
| Quariernastcr ct Yankton has issued nearly
5000 rations to the sutfey,rs by the flood.
APT Ciague who was sen: ly Gen. Terry on
tour of investigation, reports that the officers
Il Font Randall saved 700 persons from posi-
lie starvation.
There were 800 deaths III. Chicago last
vcck.
Rev. John McNlullcn, OF Chicago, has
cen appointed by the Pope Bishop Of the
th1Dc diocese Of Davenport, and Rev. Kill
IL {. Flash, OF Milwaukee, has boon made
Is shop Of the Diocese Of LaCIOsse.
Postmaster General Jameshas planned
. -l,ius of SO. 100 per annum by discontinue
| I'm . r-, GGil service on tie Southern rivers,
81. i- = olt To make still further reductions.
ia lie Palmer * Sullivan railroad
..uy. u~rr Acambaro, Mexico. Engineer Sa h
ill., While laborins undo an attack OF inNaD-
L., aI-,. I.rhiHocrs Martin aud Jones, when
.e Vac DISPATCHED by Engineer Fliiey.
South
4 ir.i 1T train on the Texas Pacific
n0g... went through bridge near Dallas.
o., ,.,...l,, Was iilcd, and the fireman, con-
l.,ur ana brakeman We're injured. Another
| u,h ~ the same road caused tie death Of
.. ."l 'ra wnun@GG ~ thir,l
VIZ, suEs school children were play
4g .ut- small teo ia The yard of n. L.
ir'u o.. 81 Int miles est of Winona Mass,
,.ihilrs struck the tree and Immediately
..lri lianns and Willie Iiarner, aged and
,,.rs. ,:rl Mrrg liightmsn.
Fifty negroes took from Jail at Sparta,
a1. q cylur.d lad who admitted having com
ritt,d an outrage on u child, and killed him
ol.h -hO;guns.
Four negro laborers on the Alabama
.mi Or at Southern road were covered by q
aul-Ide and killed.
Ia DOoley county, Ca, Joe Stovall
va !ndUlging in the pastim. Of beating his
.rlf- when ti- brother Jeh nierfcred, where
Il,ym Joe shot Jen, INJECTING mortal wounds.
Tie ceremony OF dedicating the tomb
90 the Association Of the Amy OF Northern
=. .a.ia, and tho unwilling Of the statue OF
-.uucw.il Jackson. took place at Metairis Gem.
.t,ry. in New Orleans.
Two mon named Hart and Register
= ought duel with knives in Sumter county,
, dr.. Resulting in the death OF both par
lcirauts. Hart was disemboweled and died
, tsrtly. and Register died four hours after
~ ai:n.v.
Ln at. Bulls, Of the Twenty-fourtl
infantry, commanding body Of Seminole
,couts, came UPON the band Of Indians who
murdered the McLawrin family, in Texas. HI
attacked their camp near the Pecos river
siled four bucks and one squaw, and cap
turgd one boy, one squaw, and twenty-one AMI
, mails