The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-02-24
T. A. McLain started from Bradford

I. A. McLain started from Bradford,
Pa, for Aiken with eco pounds o. n.tro-glycer-
inc in cutter HIS horse evidently ran away,
az after an explosion Only pieces Of flesh re-
manned OF tue outfit
A committee Of directors of the Per-
manent Exhi i,;ou at Philadelphia voted to sell
tho building. which Was the nam structure Of
the Centennial.
The New Jersey oystermen report
that the deep 100 on tho rivers and on the sea-
shore has played havoc with many OF the
oyster-beds.
In the Whitaker court martial, DIR.
Alexander. psf Surgeon AZ West Point, ex-
pressed the hccf that the negro cadet mutt
lated himself.
against wonau-suf,raSo.
Jacob Schaefcr defeated William Sex
ton, in New York. In the greatest billiard match
over seen in ia c:.y. The game was for
$1,000, cushion ca ,',s. l0o points up.
Several Chicago grocers have been ar
rested and fined ior selling bogus butter.
A fleeing band of Apaches was thor
oughly whipped ir a party Of New Mexicans,
who killed eieh. and sent the remainder of III
hot haste FOR the frontier.
Four men were swept into eternity by
tho explosion of iire-damp in Warmers coal
bank, Robbins Station. Ohio and five others
were badly injuho'a
The details of drunken tragedy come
over the wires from New Mexico where Julian
Vigil chopped his wife aid daughter into
pieces, MORALLY wounded his son, and hanged
himself 10 n raftor.
Six laborers were burned to death by
an explosion in the l. mon, mine, near Helena,
VI. Il.
The interior of tho Michigan Avenue
Baptist Church. in Chicago, was destroyed
by an incondiary :ro. The los, was about
ESQ, coo.
Omaha is to have grain elevator
with capacity OF 100000 bushels The Union
Pacific railway will subscribe 500, 900 toward its
construction aud leading citizens have pledged
$4,000
An electric light company, with n
capital OF $500, 900, has been organized in De-
troit. It proposes to finnish heat and motive
power.
At Robinson. Col, Deputy Marshal
Mcllhanny was fatally shot by persons in am
bush.
Judge Gardner, OF the Superior Court
Of Chicago, decides that Mrs Rsppleye, an il
legitimate dang ter OF the late John 8. Wallace.
il entitled to one-;hrd of the estate OF deceased
South.
The steamship Josephine, running
between Havana and New Orleans, was wrecked
near Ship island. the passengers and crew be-
ing rescued after floating in small boats 70,
seven hours.
The Southern Oil Works, in Memphis,
we're destroyed by tire. The loss was Sl25,000
A loss of So, 900 was incurred ut Deni-
on, Tex, by tho burning Of Kuhn's grocery
house, Goodsells dry-goods establishment, and
the Herald Office.
The Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio
railroad was sold at auction at Richmond, Va,
under decree of the United States Circuit
Court. Clarence II. Clark, Of Philadelphia, be-
came the purchaser for himself and associates
for ss,605, 000 The intention is to use the
road as a section OF grand trunk line from the
seaboard TO the West and Southwest
Green jackson, colored, was hanged
ut Marion. Crittcnden county, Tenn.
A landslide at the tunnel near Ash
VILE n C. vas being removed by a force of
.wenty corvicts, when a large mass Of earth
fell into the cut, burying the whole number
Four OF the men were killed, several Others
sustained serious injuries, aud some OF them
are expected to die.
The murder Of F. Fl. Peterson, of
Madison, Fla, by negro named Savage, Gre
atel intense excitement. The assassin was
sent to Jail. and the Governor sent two militia
companies TO keep guard over him.
4 volcano has been discovered In the
Allegheny mountains, in Fayette county, Va.
Steam rises in considerabl, volume, and stones
thrown in were heard plunging down tho abyss
for several seconds.
The Pope has appointed Vicar Gen.
eral Janssens, of Richmond, Bishop of Natchez.
J. c. Neerez is to be Bishop Of San Antonio.
A tornado sweeping through the pines
Of North Carolina crushed rude hut occupied
by turpentine makers, killing ten Of them and
seriously wOunding three others.
A loss OF $4,000 was sustained at
Charleston, 8. c., BY tho burning Of two bsg
factories.