The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-11-10
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

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| luth with considerable success.
The new Catholic school at LeSueur
is now open with 100 students.
Supplies for the camps are going
out from Duluth very rapidly now.
Rev. Father Annis, Catholic priest
at Mapleton, died at thai place re-
Gently.
A Mr.. Brown. OF Rochester, realized
$500 from the milk of twenty cows
this season.
The Red Wing Manufacturing COM
pany will soon erect three story
brick building.
~ church bell weighing 600 pounds
has been received ut Dcano for the
Catholic church.
The superintendent of schools i'm
Otter Tail county adverlises for
twenty-five teachers.
j. Grassle las shipped 80 ear loads
OF cattle from Rochester this season
piS Ing o;.t 100000 therefor.
The Litchiield Bucket Brigade.
with eighteen buckets, truck and asl-
dcrs is now fully equipped and !, ady
for blazr.
Worthington has driven the last
Spike connecting the Burlington road
To the Omaha at that place, and great
y rtjoicrs over it.
u. Gilmore, Il well known poet and
historian of Faribault. is writing
poem on the Indians, their history,
character and their doom.
Arthur b. Lake, drug clerk at
Ada, went on big spree, and feeling
deIirium coming Oh, took chlorofurm
TO cOunteract it, and died.
At Granite Falls Mr.. d. ii. Knox,
VIII lie Oiling threshing machine,
was caught. his arm being crushed SO
hat amputation was necessary.
The jury III The Thompson case at
MOorhead returned Il verdict that
Thompson came to his death by poi
son administered by his own hand.
W. p. IIinkle, of Montevitleu, has
received back pension money to the
amount OF ST., 100. His case has been
before the department for nearly
twenty years.
The merchants of Little Falls have
uTganiZed themselves into body
called the Little Falls Farmers Pro.
tective association, for the purpose of
huying wheat.
l.. j. Huff, of Albert Lea, who lost
! leg some time ago 10y being run over
10y The ears, has commenced suit in
The United States court, claiming
$50, 900 damages.
The people of Geneva, Freedom
county will vote next Tuesday upon
proposition To bond the town for
81 900 in aid of the st. Cloud, Man
katu 4 Austin railway.
Xaber Draper, the han injured by
4 train at Albert Lea last summer,
has been taken care of by the city ut
Il cost Of $500. and the city wants the
railroad to help foot the BILL
The new Congregational church ut
Winona is Il magnificent structure,
hcins built of stone, and the auditor
min has Il seating capacity of 600.
Tie building complete cost S3S, 900.
\ strong LeaIthy man preferred II
modest request To The 81. Louis coun
" commissioners, the other day, for
Sl2O 10 carry himself and family back
10 Maine. The request was not
granted.
Mrs. Thomas Fisher. living mear
Wa,ler.i, died very suddenly the
other day, and al investigation dcvel-
uprd an attempt III abortion, which
caused her death. The attempt WAS
srlf-n;luc.
Tie iew Milwaukee and st. Paul
machine shops, in South Minneapolis,
are completed IL all intents ami pur-
poses, and work has been commenced
i'm the blacksmith and machinery de-
paltihenis.
The iron on the l.. F. & ID. railway
reached Morris last week. Vice
President Cakes aud party of officials
PASSED over the lines to inspect its
construction and it will soon he
turned over to the operating depart
menL.
Last week the remains of 4 drowned
MAJ, apparently about 30 years OF
age, were found floating in the river
ut Minnriska, Wabaslaw county.
The body WAS supposed To he that of
John sullivan, calsiZed in Il boat near
Alma.
The Campbell murler ease has been
to Elk River, Sherburne
county. and will he tried at the reSu
lar term in February next. Only
seven men were selected as jurors
from 1877. The prisoner was returned
To the Jail at st. Cloud.
Wednesday morning, while John
Lillian was crossing the Manitoba
railroad bridge at Moorhead, he WIS
struck by an engine and Knocked 10
the ground, Il distance OF 35 feet. No
bones were broken, hut it is feared
he is injured internally.
MIR. Clough, Il farmer living about
seven miles north of CrOokston. was
looking over some ploughing, when
he discovered lying in II furrow the
body of Il man about 20 years of age,
with light hair and mustache. and
when found was in an almost nude
condition.
Mrs. Emily Edmonds, female re-
cluse, who had lived in little cabin
solitary and alone, just west of this
village, during the past sixteen years,
took her final departure on Monday
last, for western New York, where
she expects to end her days.-KdssOn
Republican,.
The heirs of the Franklin Steele
estate propose to perpetilate his name
and confer IL public benefit upon the
city of Minneapolis by donating
square of ground for public park,
the city to improve it and permit the
heirs to erect monument to MIR.
Steele in the center.
The Pillsbury A mill at Mimeap-
oils did one day last week what it
has been trying for some time to do,
and what some skepLical persons have
said il could not do, viz: turn out
5000 barrels of -four. 1t succeeded
in making the best record ever made
by amy mill in the wOrld-5,1O7
barrels.
AS shown by the new comparative
tables, the apporlionment To each
pupil in the public schoOls. is Sill
for this fall II gain of 10 cents from
last fall. and II gain of 81 cents from
1861. The amount distributed Is
gaining steadily, and soon Minnesota
will have one of the best school funds
in the Union.
Monday last VIM. o. Thatcher, n
br;,k, man on the Minnesota Central
construction train, while engaged III
coupling the engine To Il tram ut fiat