The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-10-20
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.
Brainerd is enjoying building


cereus open last Friday evening.
John Mcmahon, working at one of
the logging camps near Gull river,
fatally shot himself, Sunday, Oct. 8.
ID. j. Hub, of WinOna, who lost
one of his legs in railroad accident,
has began suit for $4,000 damages.
The Austin creamery company are
paying % cents per inch for cream,
and expect soon to make another
raise.
The Republicans Of Corner county
~ minated Julius Ackeman for the
Senate and G. e. Halgren and Peter
Jetes for the house.
Minneapolis mills will need 20 00O,.
900 bushels of wheat this year for
grinding Milwaukee mills, 10000
and st. Louis 15.000,0O0.
The editor of the Rochester Post
has been presented with an egg "eight
inches by six" Who will ..see" that
hen and go her lone better!'
| A twelve year old son of Hon. p.
A. Paterson, of Udolpho, Mower
county, was Instantly killed last week,
by Il colt stepping OH his breast.
An Indian mound near Lac Qui
Plrle was opened by curiosity hunt
ers last week. and quantity of hui
man bones and other relics found.
The Winona Tribune will publish
list of the delinquent subscribers
and the amounts they owe, and offer
the list To the highest bidder for cash.
The Albert Lea creamery closes
business for the season this week.
There has been manufactured 10000
pounds of butter against 10000 last
season.
The Neus of Winnebago City, says
that more buildings and better class
have been built in that town the past
year, than any other city in Faribault
county.
The October term of the United
States district court at st. Paul has
been adjourned until Dec. 18th, Judge
Nelson being detained East by reason
of his wife's illness.
A man attempted to pass the blow
off pipe of elevator B at Duluth, just
at the moment the engineer COM
menced to blow off the boilers,
and was badly though not fatally
scalded.
From present indications wages
for ordinary men in the woods will
run from 800 to 500 per month, while
leamsters, head choppers, scalers, and
other so-called skilled labor will r2n
from 1913 to $35.
Another attempt was made on
saturday evening to burn the Airing
ton House, at Faribault, by throwing
a burning handkerchief saturated
with kerosene through an open win
dow into the building.
The boys of st. Peter are amusing
themselves by tarring the door knobs
of the buildings. The Tribune says
this may be great fun for the boys,
but in case they are caught at it the
fun will be all on the other side.
Andrew Hoegem, of Rushford,
while threshing last week, caught his
right arm in the cylinder belt of the
Lhreshing machine, and broke it in
three places, the bones prOtruding.
| At first it was thought amputation
was necessary, but he isgetting along
nicely.
| j. ID. Blake has finally withdrawn
| from his large mercantile business at
Rochester, Mimi, closing ont to his
former partners, Messrs. Leet &
knowlton. and has removed to Min .
neapolis, where he is largely interest.
| I'd in real estate. He has recently
| laid out there an east side addition.
At Motley, j. A. Karson and H.
| n. Smith were attacked by bob cat
or Indian devil. The boys climbing
tree, the animal following, but they
kept him off with their knives and
clubs cut from the limbs of the tree
until The o'clock tram on the N.
Z. frightened it away. 1t started to
cross the track and was caught by the
cars and cut in two.
The Cook House and block, by far
the most elegant block in Rochester,
came near being consumed by fire be.
tween midnight and sunrise of Sum
day morning of last week. The fire
caught in the laundry, and ran up to
the third story of the magnificent
| building i'm box inclOsing water
| pipes. BY getting water into this
box, and by breaking into a room
that happened to be unOccupied, and
by most dilligent work in pouring a
stream of water into the laundry, the
tire WIS finally got under control,
with damage of only about $40O.
The story that Miss PinneO, the
equestrienne, had committed suicide
after falling from grace, is denied by
the Greeley, (COl.) Tribune. She Is
now Mrs. James Arthur, and instead
of occupying a grave, is devoted to
the interests of her husband and babe.
The conflicting stories probably arise
from the fact that there were two
Miss Pinneos both equestrians. They
were Miss Minnie and Lizzie. sisters,
and which 1t was that committed
suicide the dispatches fail to indicate.
1t is believed to be Minnie, who was
in attendance at the Minneapolis fair.
For fourteen long years Mr.. and
Mrs. David Moers have lived in log
house near the river, few miles
above Window. The logs were cut
from the timber standing on the ri
| yer in 1868, and there were not a
dozen souls in the county. Recently
| they built new frame house which
is now being finished. by E. Morton,
Esq and the old land mark has been
torn down and will he used for fuel.
When these people came to the coun-
ty the nearest postoffice was Jackson,
and the only market was MankatO.
aGGeek being required to make the
trip with oxen.
Mrs. Wackerle, formerly of Carver,
Minnesota, has just won an important
suit at st. Louis against the Mutual
Life Insurance company of New
York. Plaintiffs husband was
member of the 9th Minnesota regi.
ment, but after the war he led Il
nOmadic life, dying in the South
several years ago. having policy in
the defendants company 10 favor of
his wife. The proofs of the death
not being very conclusive the COM
pany declined to pay the loss and tha
widow brought suit which she has
steadily pressed for Two or three
years. Defendant found brother of
plaintiffs husband, who swore that
he was the husband Of plaintiff and
that the policy was OH his own life.
He told his story straight enough I'M
til it came to crOss-examinatiOn, when
he completely broke down and the
jury returned verdict of $4,000.
Fortune to Farmers aud Mechanics.
Thousands Of dollars can be saved by
using proper judgment IN taking care of
the health of yourself and family. If