The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-08-18
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

L TdCtle'SIldkc nest, IcW udyS ago,
and killed eighteen of the reptiles.
1t is stated that Rev. +. W. Young,
principal of the High Forest semin-
airy. is about to remove that school to
Rochester.
The Faribault Democrat has seen q
| stalk of wild rice twenty-three feet
long taken from one of the lakes near
that city.
Monday, at Waseca, Gottlieb linn
was struck by stone which fell by the
breaking of Il derrick, and probably
fatally injured.
The Redwing Methodists are ex-
pending their energies over "a discuss.
ion as To the sinflIlness of Sunday
camp meetings.
There will be "a puLlic land sale at
Duluth, December 4th. The lists
for Il public sale in the st. Cloud dis
trict are being prepared.
The Minnesota Valley Medical So
cicty will meet In Waseca on the first
Tuesday in September. DIR. Hunt of
that town is president of that society.
Ichahod West, aged SO years, com.
mitt,d suicide 10y hanging, last Tues
day morning, at the house oi his son,
in Vivian township, Waseca county.
Simon Barrigar, large farmer,
four miles south OF Duntlas. was
burned out the other night. His house,
Two barns, horses, cows and hogs were
destroyed. Nothing was saved.
4 citizen of Homer, Winona coun-
ty, has 200 apple trees bearing this
year. lie thinks he has successfully
demonstrated the fruitgrOwing ca
pacity of Southern Minnesota.
The st. Paul water works have
been purchased blythe city. The ne
gotiationS were completed on Satur-
day last, and the city will pay $780,
600 i'm bonds taken by the company ut
par.
Some unknown individual hid be-
hind pile of railroad iron ut Duluth
one evening last week and tossed
Tribune reporter brick to wear in
his hat. The reporter now takes the
other street.
The German Lutheran church at
saltwater has split into two factions
all because they could not agree upon
the Interpretation to be given to a
Latin word. They now endeavor to
look each other out of the church.
Col. DeGraff has over one hundred
elk in an inclosure on his farm near
MINI. As all breeders
know, Mr.. DeGraff has also one of
the finest ShOrt.horn herds i'm the
State, and also large stock of fine
horses.
Tom TalbertsOn, of Peterson, sec,
ton foreman OIL the Southern Minnie
sofa, while riding on railway veloc-
ipede, was run over and had both
legs crushed by the night train Mon
day morning. IL is said he was in
tOxicated. His limbs were amputa-
ted.
Jacob Greier wanted some money
to pay his wedding expenses so, in
with man named Schmitt
he stole two cows last week from {
lairyman at st. Paul and sold them
in ShakOpee where schmidt was soon
after arrested. GREER was taken
next day at st. Paul just as he was
sitting down to the wedding banquet
The city council and boaLd Of .d1-
,atiOn at Winona. are at loggerhe'i's
,yer the school appOItionlnent for The
,nsuins. year The former has the
,eto power over the Boards cSti-
mates and has refused TO concur in
eyeral items which the Board thinks
slential to the proper conduct of the
cloolS. 1t seems to be the case Vi
% many cooks.
&c ;s5sg..has appointed the
:-lSaYin. membsSs of tic state board
d EQUALIZATION ] Ist di.trict, 5. w.
tsHnr,. oostage usove Third dis
trrt, Hon. Jas. G. Lawrence, Eaba-
sEa Fifth district. Hon. u Il. Page,
Seventh district, Hon.
James Compton, Fergus Falls; Ninth
district, Hon. ThOs. Montgomery, St.
l'eier; Eleventh district, Maj. -ilbert
n. Seip, Duluth. Hon. John AicNel. ;,
y of Houston was appointed las ~
member of the Eleventh district vice
Hon. G. W. Frank, resigned.
The commissioners of Mobiles 'coun-
~ have directed the auditor to enter
or taxation on the tax lists of 1882
Lhree section of railroad lands in
three different towns in that county.
with the view to testing the legality
Of such proceedings. When the old
s;n,y Nitu c,on,,.Oy cnll ifS rnaI .hal
to the present proprietors it retained
the lands derived from the general
and has maintained its
old organization and name, without
owning foot of railroad in the state,
to claim exemption of its land from
taxation.
The st. Cloud Jounal-P Press, in
speaking of the Mankato and st.
Cloud railroad says Lieutenant Gov:
ernor Gilman, Senators w. ii. Officer,
of Austin, and W. NJ. Campbell. of
who accompanied IL. 5.
Sill, the expert engineer, sent out by
the North and South Railroad Com.
pany, to examine and report Oh the
route to be selected for that road,
reached Hutchinson Saturday. They
had an interview with number of
prominent citizens of that place and
advised that the people, of
that vicinity, should wait little and
not Obligate themselves too heavily to
other roads us they had reason to be-
lieve the North and South line from
to st. Cloud would be built
soon. Mr.. Sill stated that his report
to the company would be favorable.
A ftcr some further remarks by the
gentlemen present the party started
for Mankato.
The youthful editor of the Jackson
Republic, is Il highly imaginative and
eloquent individual, and when he OBJ
served a peculiar something in the
heavens one day last week, he went
into raptures rs follows
At about fifteen minutes past nine
o'clock last Thursday morning a
glance AT the heavens revealed a
strange, remarkable and beautiful
sight. Carelessly scattered through
out the sky. as a child at play might
toss his hoops, were a number of i'm
mense halos, or rings of light, some
linked together, some dipping beyond
the horizon and others clustered about
the sun, all combining to give the
heavens wierd, fantastic, yet beauti.
full appearance. The halos nearest
the sun, which was bright and hot
and riding through a clear, though
not entirely cloudless sky, were tinted
with rainbow colors, though their
number and size and position would
hardly permit the name rainbow.
Overhead, little to the northwest,
was the most singular and beautiful
Three halo-rings, i'm
mense in circumference, though slen.
SWeOt the Sky from