The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-11-17
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

pond at Austin.
A cast Of pink.eye is repotcd in
Duluth, and owners of horses are
getting anxious.
The benedicts and bachelors of
Saltwater will play a match game of
base ball tomorrow.
Cars were placed upon the street
railway ut Duluth this week and the
road formally opened.
Gaylord. Sibley county, has its first
paper, the Register, which came in
to existence last Friday.
w. r. Rice, of Rochester, took
carIolic acid by mistake the other
day, and narrowly escaped dying.
The female aspIrant for the Office
of superintendent of Schools III Scott
county. was inglOriOusly defeated.
A Juror of Montevideo had his
pocket picked the other day. Not
the usual way of treating jurymen.
The Fergus Falls Journal did liter.
ally take the cake ; it MAS brought to
IL 10y the ladies of All Halloween party.
Seven car loads. double deckersl
of sheep from Miles City, Montana,
arrived in st. Paul this week for that
market.
The Lyon County Neni is an anon
ally for a country newspaper. 1t
says it's subscribers are paying up
promptly.
The improvements to the Duluth
harbOr, under the direction of the
Ohio Central Barge & Coal Company,
are going OH rapidly.
The kitchen car OF the construction
train N the Cannon Valley road took
fire from the stove pipe and was
burned Sunday night.
Wine and women made A. L. An
derson, agent for the American Ex-
press Go. at kasota, a defaulter to
the amount of $2l5.
Election is over and the country
press is Illuminating on Thanksgiving
day, and the possibility of some n
sending in a turkey.
The ladies' of Minneapolis are en-
.deavOring to establish a free hOmeO-
pathic hospital and dispensaiy for
women and children, in that city.
An old lady riding in a farm wagon
near Fisher was thrown out in front
of the wagon aud "a run over, sus-
tanning injuries from which she will
die.
e. F. Drake and family are prepar.
ing to leave st. Paul the last of next
week and will visit England, Ger.
many and France during the winter
months.
The would-be rapist from Brecken-
ridge, is still confined in the Jail at
Fergus Falls, awaiting until it will
he safe to he taken to the former
place for trial.
The druge and jewelry store of
Jesse b. StinehOur in Wadena was
entered Tuesday night by burglars
and robbed of money and jewelry to
an amount bwteen 800 and $500.
If"E. B. Witherell'' ever left his
valise and other effects in a grove
near the town of Cascade, Olmstead
county, he al find them by applying
to Hon. VIM. Brown of that place.
A fourth and successful attempt
was made to burn an empty building
in Albert Lea Saturday. The build
ing had been used as Il house of pros
titution. The mayor offers 800 for
the inccndiary.
Farmer Marsh of Saltwater. while
driving in the country the other day,
was attacked by a highwayman. who
endeavored to stop him, but was OBJ
liged to give it up after being severe
ly pounded over the head with a
wlrip.
The Anoka Union is sure that un-
less the brutal whipping in the pub
lie shoots of that city is done away
with, trouble will follow. The Union
cites an instance of Il small hoy who
stood up to rest himself after being
severely punished.
Two brothers. George and Albert
Bea, living near M~antorville, went
cunning last Sunday. In walking
along Albert stumbled against his
brother, who fell, and in. falling dis
charged his gun, the charge entering
Albert's head, killing him instantly.
Arthur Blake, formerly of Water
bury, Conn, and lately from Fargo,
was found dead IN the drug store of
j. S. johnson ut Ada. on the I'd inst,
where he had been clerking. He was
found leaning forward in his chair
with a handkerchief thoroughly Satur-
ated with clOroform over his face.
Dependency.
informant IN is wanted of Thomas
Henry Larke, who left st. Ignace
about the middle of last June for
Duluth in-cOmpany with two young
men named Malcolm and Mcdonald.
Any information concerning his
whereabouts will be thankfully re-
ceived Ivy his anxious mother, Mrs.
Henry Larke, Sault st. Marie, Mich.
On Monday last, passenger trains
between Albert Lea and st. Louis,
instead of running yer the c., b.. &
q. from Burlington to Monmouth,
H., and thence to St Louis, COM
menced running directly south from
Burlington OH the west side of the
river via KeOkuk, Hannibal and LOU
isiana. This route is somewhat short.
er than the other.
Anton Eckstein, for many years a
~ AIn r ~
Brown county. was found dead on
the public highway near his resi-.
dence i'm the town of Stark, on Mon
day night Of last week. Mr.. Eckstein
had spent the evening at one of his
neighbours, and departed for his
home in apparently good health.
Death resulted from apOplexy.
On Thursday afternoon a terrible
accident occurred in McMullen's saw
mill in Minneapolis. AL. w. Trevet-
te, foreman, vas standing on a Level
with The slab saw, fixing the rollers
to another saw, when, in stepping
back, he Slipped on the rollers and
fell partially on the slab saw, which
cut off his left hip in such a manner
that he will probably be crippled for
life.
A farmer leaving e Worthing-
ton went to his stable, accompanied
by his two little boys, Thursday
night, to milk his cow. One of the
boys kept the lamp while the father
MIXED. In the loft overhead was
stored Il quantity of corn, which
broke down the floor. The father
finally released himself, but the lire
which communicated from the lamp
spread SO rapidly, that it was impOs.
sible To rescue the two little boys,
.rha a,crislaad In tho aamas .S did