The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-08-11
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

The Catholics in the town Of Bath,
FreebOrn county, are about to erccta
81 900 church.
Mr.. Finkle, of NOOrhead. Is build
ing 500. 200 barn OH his stock farm
near that place.
Chas. W. BabcOck, Of KasOta, has
sold 10 600 feet Of Tagging stone IN
the past two weeks.
Francis Vogel. of Oshawa, NIcollet
county, committed suicide last week
by taking strychnine.
The city Of Brainard finds itself
with assets amounting to 81 200 in
cash, and no liabilities.
A Chinese laundryman ut saltwater
has had his pig tail cut off, and is
row an American citizen.
The Pioneer Press says that there is
and diphtheria in st. Paul.
The total valuation of property in
Duluth is 81 100000, an increase of
over so per cent. in two years.
Mr.. AsleOn, q farmer who lives
neal Peterson. Fillmore county, has
sold over 81 900 worth of beef this
season.
The citizens of NicOllet county
are not extravagant in the way Of jew.
clry. as there is but 800 worth in the
county.
A prize soap package agent succeed.
ed in swindling an old farmer near
Cannon Falls out OF some $3.50 few
days ago.
Farmers generally are well satisfied
with the creamery venture, and next
year will find five creameries where
there is only one now.
Geo. +. Long. a compositor in the
Duluth Tribune office, was drowned
at the Superior dock in that city OH
Sunday morning, July 80.
The dead body Of an infant was
found in the lake at Waterville the
other day. The mother Is known and
the putative father Is in Jail.
1t is proposed to again change the
name Of Sleepy Eye, the enterprising
citizens Of that place believing that
the name Is not wide awake enough.
The Waseca Radical says bees
generally are said to be doing well
this season. The bee business has
been Improbable for the past few
years.
HOkah is to have newspaper To be
started by II. HOhl and James Ostran-
der. They take mp q field that has
already been abandonded by six diff
ferent editors.
Durant, Wheeler & Co., of Still.
water. since June 18th, have paid
So, 200 IN gold to driving crews
employed on logs in which they are
interested.
1t is claimed that the water of Lake
Telenka is poisoned, several cattle
that drank it having died, the coat.
ing being entirely eaten from their
stomachs.
The PipestOne Star says that Mr.. j.
II. Nichols offers to put $500 into "a
tow mill at that place, and IL this is
not enough will increase the amount
another thousand.
The boom at AnOka has turned out
over 46 200. 900 this season in forty
eight days. This is probably the lar.
gest amount ever turned out i'm that
length of time.
Absalom Wilcox, an old settler ut
Walnut Lake, Faribault county, was
fatally injured last Saturday by beng
thrown under wagon and the wheels
passing over him.
The bank Of II. ID. Brown & Co.,
of Albert Lea, has forwarded to the
treasury department since the 30th of
March $4,000 in mutilated and worn
currency for redemption.
The Winona & st. Peter and Min
nesota Central have sold 5000 acres
of their swamp lands in Freeborn
county to syndicateof Albert Lea
and Minneapolis men.
The citizens of Alexandria have
offered cash bonus of So 200 to u re-
sponsible party who will establish a
wagon factory i'm that town. The
grounds will also be given free.
II is reported at Albert Lea that the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
road has leased the Luverne 4 Sioux
Falls railway and will complete its
line from Spirit Lake to WOrthington
by Oct. l.
Some malicious persons took the
hnprnu nn1 hlr of nr Rtnhar6 Of
GlyndOn, to marsh north of that
place. broke the buggy to pieces and
cut the harness to shreds. The mat
ter grows out of the enforcement of
the anti. liquor law in the village of
GlyndOn.
Talking about large.sized pickerel
The st. Paul Pioneer Press says:
Don't let it be forgotten that in 1851
there was caught in Lake Johanna,
IN ancient pickerel weighing forty
three pounds. This has never been
beaten yet. The witnesses to this
fact are living in st. Paul now.
A paper mill is about to be started
at Austin and another one at Red
Wing. OF all places in the State out
side of Minneapolis, the city of Man.
kato is by far the best location for an
extensive paper mill. The supply of
raw material is abundant, the facili.
ties for manufacturing are good, and
the means for transportation are un-
in this region.
A petition presented to Gov. Hub.
hard by an uncle of the Younger
thieves and murderers, now in the
State prison at Saltwater, con.
three or four thousand
written names, asking for their
pardon, has received no favor. The
governor refuses pardon. Every
In Minnesota approves of
the action of the governor
The Wells Adrocate says the farm.
ers in that section are getting little
frightened over a worm that Is play.
ing havoc with the pOtatoe vines.
The worm is described as about one
inch i'm length, of a grayish color,
and very lively. 1t works
ON the inside of the vine, causing il
to wither and die. To what extent
the injury already done is not known
rs the worm has only noticed within
the past week.
A northern Minnesota Press AssO-
citation has been formed with the fol-
lowing officers:
President-Col Lounsberry, Bismarck Trit-
Vice Presidential. W. Edwards, Fargo Ar
Secretary-J II. Truesdell. Moorhead ysps
Treasurer-J. b. Hall, Fargo Rspnbiicas
Executive Committee-H. r. Hall, 81 Paul