The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-13
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

chartered members.
The United States Circuit Court
has been adjourned until the first
Monday in November.
Patrick Havity, a convict In the
penitentiary at saltwater. died Of
consumption. Thursday.
The Mortified Neos exhibits its
extravaganza and the advent Of good
times by dOnnine neat, new dress.
The third legislative district of
Stearns county will hold three con.
ventiOns, by as many different politi-
cal factions.
Scarlet fever is making its appear
ance south of Rochester. There are
three cases in one family, and one
victim will probably die.
David stockton, was convicted at
Anoka, of making an attempt on the
life of Vim. Ramph, and sentenced
to one years hard labor in the pene.
Tertiary.
A heavy thresher in Rice county
reports the wheat yield as varying
from eighteen to twenty-six bushels
per acre. He places the average ut
twenty bushels.
George Reid, of Houston Co., born
in 1882, is now in his 10lst year, hale
and hearty. He has never been sick
so rs to need a physician for more
than hundred years.
The rate of taxation for the city of
St. Paul proper is fixed at l2x mills
and 10 mills for West st. Paul. This
valuation Is made upon $40, 600. 900 of
zeal and personal property.
The conservation of the ne n church
at st. Johns, Stearns county, will &C.
cur on the 18th instant. On the same
day. the 25th jubilee of the order in
Minnesota will be celebrated.
The Glencoe Enterprise is reliably
informed that there is man in New
Auburn who stands SO IN height,
yet while standing erect his beard
trails four inches on the ground.
The Republican candidates for Sen.
ator and representative having re-
fused to promise assistance to the
temperance people of Nicollet county,
temperance ticket will be nomina-
ted.
The case of Huntington, the con.
ductOr on the train concerned in the
recent disaster at Atwater, came up
in Willmar yesterday, hut was ad-
journed to Friday by consent Of
council.
Daniel Mckenzie has sued the city
of Mortified for 81 900 claiming that
amount Of damages for an injury
sustained by him last winter by fall
ing through a defective plank In the
sidewalk.
A new and well filed paper, the
gaylord Register, has been started at
Gay Sibley county. 1t is an off.
spring of the Glencoe Register, and
starts well filled with local advertis.
ing and local news.
Filing Ellingsen, fourteen year
old boy at Fergus Falls came home
from fishing last Friday, and com
planned of feeling ill; suddenly he
arose from the chair In which he was
sitting, and fell forward dead.
The authorities of AnOka have at
last arrested gang of boys who have
been the pest Of the entire town Dy
breaking windows and committing
Expectations in every section. They
were taken before Il judge and fined:
John L. Miller, one of st. Pauls
best known and most prominent bust
ness men, died at his residence on
Monday, the disease was typhoid
fever. A son of Commodore KittsOn,
aged %, also died of the same disease
on the same day.
The I. N. Cummings-JOhn Taylor
lawsuit at Spring Valley has been
settled by paying Taylor the sum of
81, 200 90. This vexatiOus case has
been in the courts eleven years, and
Judges, juries, lawyers and litigants
aie glad to get rid of it.
An attempt was made to burgle the
residence of the editor of the Winona
Republican, but failed to effect an en-
trance, las every door and window
was bolted as a precautiOn against
anybody getting in and leaving things
of value," as the editor tells US.
The Granite Falls gold mine is
pronounced u veritable fact by the
Journal A sample of the gold bear
ing rock Was sent to the T0michi
Concentrating Works in Colorado,
and assaycd, resulting in the discov-
ely of $l0.08 to the ton, which will
pay to mine extensively.
The great belt, nearly 1 400 feet in
length, for conveying grain between
elevator Is and the new store house,
Duluth, was put in motion last week.
This is. us before stated, the longest
belt of the kind in the world, and it
can transfer 10000 bushels per hour
from one house to the other.
Mrs, Sharp is circulating q petition
at Fergus Falls, which will be pre-
scented to Gov. Hubbard asking for
the pardon of VIM. Hartley and Ed.
Rowland, convicted last May of burg.
larry. The citizens are generally
signing the petition, as great doubt Is
expressed of the guilt Of the two
boys.
Rev. E. r. LathrOp has written
trenchant letter to the Minneapolis
Tribune, In which he enters protest
against the practice of the Central
Agitation Committee, of sending per.
sons of no qualifications, who are Of.
ten more adventures, weighing down
the temperance cause with fiat, stale
and Improbable lectures.
Washburn & Co., at their saw mills
at AnOka, lately produced stick Of
timber sixty-eight feet in length,
twenty inches in diameter ut the base
and thirteen inches at the top. Or
dered for the electric mast at st. Paul.
The timber by some inadvertance Of
the workmen, rolled from the cars
and snapped 20 feet off. 1t was val.
ued at $40. The company is try.
ing TO find another stick suitable.
Joseph Maize and wife. who reside
in the town of Blaine, Anoka county,
went to town Oct. End and INDUCED
freely in fOrty.rOd whisky. On their
way home Maize began to abuse his
wife, and afterwards knocked her
down and began jumping on her with
both feet. She managed to escape
and give an alarm, and when the res
cuing party arrived, they found that
he had broken nearly every article
in the house. He resisted arrest and
was fired at with shot gun by con.
stable Lyon. dozen or more shots
taking effect, one entering his eye,
and which will undoubtedly destroy
his sight. He was finally captured
and sentenced to ten days imprison.