The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-29
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

AOOuVotCi opCShl pOiCo iOiCcs
during the fair, cost the city 1850.
Frank A. Ticknor. of Austin.
estimates his honey yield this year
al two tons.
The Mississippi Valley Industrial
Association Of Red Wing will hold
no fair this year.
M. j. Ryan has received The APP.
pointment of postmaster at Smiths
Mills. Blue Earth county.
The bin capacity of elevator G at
Duluth will be 100000 bushels, and
LOO, 900 bushels more can be stored on
the floor.
William Noonan Of Rosemount,
Dakota county, lost 40 acres of oats
anu % acres OF barley the other day
10y fire, started by sparks from the
tlileslnihg engine.
Hastings is said to have five GENE.
teri, S that are doing their best To
keep up with the fiity.two saloons in
that town and With some hope al sue.
cess II the town does not grow.
st. Paul and Minneapolis are now
PROPOSING a union lair, and IL is said
that Col. King is ready to surrender
control OF the Minneapolis ASSOCIATION
| with this Object in view.
The Sentinel says that from the Bird
vi August 10 the Bird of September
past, Il farmer not mary miles from
lie Sueur sold 5000 worth of cream
from II cows that had been fed Who'll
Iy ON grass. This is an average of
nearly VS. per COW.
Thiriy.one children arrived ut st.
James last Friday, from the Home Tor
the Friendiess, and the Five Point
Mission, of New York. They all
seemed to lie bright, intelligent clIii-
dren. Places were procured for ak
of them and applications remained
untitled.
Mr.. John Hickman of Hay Creek
had This year $500 bushels Of wheat.
that went thlrly-iiNe bushels To the
acre. the product of IA trifie less than
seventy five acres of land. That is
pretty good for old Goodhue county,
but good farming and the right kind
Of seed will do il.
The Mortified Journal says that
over 200 students are now enrolled at
Carleton College with prospects OF
larger humber; 100 are boarding at
Ladies hail. The work OH the new
hall is being hurried along and the
building will probably be ready for
use January /, 1883.
Jordan Adrocate: Last Friday morn
ing, the north bound express train on
the NJ. & st. l.. road killed little
Child belonging to Anton SCHUYLER,
near MOck's mills. The Child. about
one and II half years old, was playing
OH the track, and the engineer did not
see it in time to stop.
The Herald says that the village
council of Sleepy Eye propose TO build
u watertank for The purpose of secur-
ing Il supply of water in case of fires,
and also To run pipes connected with
the tank to different points i'm town
with hydrants located wherever they
may lie the most useful.
We learn that party of surveyors
in the employ of the t., G. r. ~ n.
railway, are running Il line from Lu.
Verne, Mimi, to Dell Rapids, in Min
nehaha county, and are heading in
the direction Of Howard and Huron.
The lalrty were this side of Dell
Rapids early this week. al right,
the more railroads the better say we.
We learn that a man thinking his
potatoes were fully ripe because the
vines were dead, dug them and put
them in a barrel in his shed. They
were perfectly dry, but soon COM
menced to decay and were soon rot
ten. 1t is best perhaps not TO hurry
the crop out of the ground, if this be
the c:ise.-Mddefid Times
During the thunder shower oe
Saturday afternoon, lightning struck
a barn on a. Pixies place, south of
Redwood Falls, and killed il valuable
team of horses. Two young men
we're standing by the team. one of
them between the two horses when
the bolt fell, but they escaped I'M.
hnrt. The building was but slightly
damaged.
Worthington has had jury trial
every day for four or live days
over the liquor cases, and it has made
things lively. Citizens growled and
swore at being called away from
business and when the Gases did not
go 10 suit the temperance element,
there were free chang nf perjury.
Both saloons are closed now ana the
proprietors are under arrest.
a ten year old son of Fred Chase,
Of Holding Ford, Stcarns county.
shot his little sister, aged three years,
last week, killing the child instantly.
A loaded gun stood in Il corner OF II
room in which The children were
playing, (the parents being in -.
ClOudD and the boy taking it up, it
was discharged into the body OF the
girl.
NJ. Majors, of Austin, has purchased
and shipped over 225 900 lbs. of but
ter since January last. Also, $4,000
dozen of eggs, and 10000 pounds of
wool. The average price paid for
butter has been nearly lSc. which is
much higher than usual, The aver
age for eggs. lac, which is also uu.
usually high. Last fall Mr.. Majors
shipped IL car loads of potatoes.
Albert Lea Standard: Early pota.
toes that have been dug and placed in
cellars arc rOtting badly, and it is be-
lieved that the later ones will share
the same fate. This reminds us that
many physicians are of the opinion
that diphtheria is often caused by the
presence of decaying vegetables in
cellars, and that they should under
no circumstances be permitted there.
1t cannot lie doubted at all events,
that cellar filled with dccaying
vegetable matter is a dangerous thing
which should he avoided.
Near Pine City, on Friday, Good.
win was watching deer lick on Cross
lake. Just after dark he supposed he
saw deer ut the lick and fired his
piece, Il shot gun loaded with buck
shot, ut it. Immediately upon dis
charging his gun he discovered that
he shot man, William Cambell, who
at the time was passing around the
lick looking after IL reflector which
he had left there sometime previous
ly. One slug Just grazed his cheek.
and another penetrated his body at
the scapula.
A sad and singular case Of misfor-
tune, suffering and narrow escape
from death calls for record. Last
Friday Afternoon as a freight train
was coming from the west, girl wis
discovered OF the track, IL short dist.
ance west of the round house. The
engineer gave several shrIll whistles
Of warning but she paid no attention
to them, and the train was stopped
and the girl taken from the track.
Horace Wagner brought her to
tnx,n aud ,lnoal hor i'm chnrnn .,f Tim