The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-08
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

The State S8ngerbund will meet at
Faribault Sept. IL and Is.
The new officers of the Duluth land
office have entered upon their duty.
Track laying on the Cannon Valley
road. is progressing at the rate of
mile per day.
Resolutions are being circulated and
signed in Mortified relative to the
observance Of the Sabbath.
Douglas county has l22 lakes each
over a half mile long and 81 lakes
OF less than half mile each.
The Albert Lea Enterprise claims
that not reaper or mower accident
was had in that county this season.
=. L. Lindbergh, of Grove City,
last week sold S 200 worth of hogs
from ms pens. He says there's money
in hogs.
Fergus Falls rejoices i'm the pur-
chase of costly steam fire engine and
over 900 feet of hose, with hook and
ladder truck.
Judge Sherman Page, it is said. has.
bought an orange grove in California
and will remove to that State before
many months.
Last year Freeborn county raised
1903 bushels of flax seed from $50
acres Of land. This. year there are
l,ll3'acres sown.
The family mich cows in northern
Minneapolis are dying, and the people
have reached the conclusion that
some vicious vandal is poisoning
| them.
Bishop Ireland's Minnesota colonies
are so well satisfied with this seasons
crop that the Bishop contemplates
bringing other large COLONIES To this
state.
Mortified reports field Of wheat
which threshed thirty bushels of
wheat to the acre, and returns from
several fields of twenty bushels TO the
acre.
The c., M. & st. p. railroad com.
pany have established land agency
at jackson, for the purpose of push
ing the sale of their lands i'm Jackson
county.
Senator Window has been engaged
to deliver the annual address at the
fair of the Dodge County Agricultural
and Mechanical Society. ON the 9th
of September.
The freight train bound north from
Detroit yesterday morning was tele-
scOped by train from the rear,
doing damage to railroad and person.
al property to the amount of $40. 900.
In the southern part of the State
meetings are being held for the pur.
pose of agitating the temperance
question and also for the annihilation
of Free Masons and Odd Fellows. A
big job.
1t Is suggested, in view of the
American Academy of Sciences hold.
ing its next annual meeting in Min
neapOlis, that a building be erected
for the use of the State society in
that city.
Alexandria held a railroad mass
meeting recently and appointed
committee of three to correspond
with railroad mer to see what chance
there was for another line through
the town.
1t is proposed by the companies and
societies interested to build at Min
neapOlis an armory for the use of the
different military companies of the
city, and for Darius and Zion CON-
manderies.
A lie Sueur man found lot of pigs
in his corn field and drove them to
the pound, only to find on his return
home, that the pigs were his own.
He had to pay the fine on the porkers
just the same.
The st. Peter Times says that in the
event the Republicans nominate an
obnoxious candidate for Judge of the
Ninth District, it is not improbable
that j. V. Arctander may take IA hand
in the canvass.
4 bOut 4 500 bushels of the new
wheat crop had been delivered to the
elevators of lie Sueur up to Tuesday
evening. OF this all graded No l
except 3S4 bushels No. , and twenty
eight bushels No. 3.
E. j. Russell, of Michigan, a former
resident of Blue Earth county, writes
to Secretary Young of the State Board
of migration, that large colony
from that State will come to Mime
Sota in the spring.
The Farihault (Rice Co.. Democrat
reports chinch bugs i'm large numbers
in some localities. 1t intimatcs that
wet weather saved the wheat but
predicts that corn will suffer greatly
during dry season.
At the dance last week at Lake
Emily, NicOllet county, the caller
ordered to swing the best looking
man. and, strange to say, the ladies
were unanimous for once. Twelve
of them made for the same young
man.
A CrOOkstOn man recently poisoned
a neighbours COW and for the offense
was sentenced to 80 days in jail,
There was no room in the Jail and SO
he was released. but citizens formed
Il mob and gave him coat of tar and
feathers.
John j. Aune, of Fergus Falls,
while hitching his horses to a harvest
err, was knocked down by the team
starting and his right leg severed by
the sickle of the machine. Mr.. Aune
bled to death from the wound before
a physician could be summoned.
A woman named JOrgesOn in
humanity heat Frank, son of John b.
McCrady. in his fathers barn at Au.
rora, last Tuesday. The father made
complaint before City Justice Beers,
the same day, and warrant was
promptly issued for her arrest. The
hoy is only seven years old and the
father says his body is badly bruised.
Ahstin has a new company of mill
tia with the following officers
Captain, J. s. Anderson; first lienten.
ant, Ii. w. Films second lieutenant,
Frank Richards; first sergeant, Will
Richardson second sergeant. w. j.
Schwan third sergeant, Prof. A.W.
Rakin: fourth sergeant, Edward
Sterling; fifth sergeant. Dwight
Skinner.
The Austin Transcript relates of
Holstein cow on the Taopi farm of
that county, which suckles twin
calves, yet has to he MIXED three
times day, filling large pail each
time. That's a whopper or the Hol-
stems beat the world for fluid. We
haven't anything up this way that
gives down like that except the rail-
road water tank.
Gov. Hubbard has consented to al.
low Muller post, G. A. R., at Still