The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-01
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

The public land in Lyon county is
fast being taken up.
| The surveyors on the Cannon Val.
ley road have completed a survey to
NankatO.
VIM. Brown is in Jail at CrOOkston
TO answer to charge of burglary at
Fisher.
l.. Fl. PrOsser, residing near Wy
koff. lost finger in the machinery Of
a self-binder.
Judge Page of Austin has bought
IN orange grove in California and
will remove to that State before many
months.
J. Kingsley, brakeman on the
Northern Pacific, was crushed to
death last week while coupling cars
ut Brainard.
Sneak thieves helped themselves to
several suits of clothes in Chas. Gut
fleisch's tailOrshop at GAINESVILLE, a
few nights ago.
SpOrtsmen have been shooting
chickens all over the State regardless
of the law. which did not expire TN
til September LIST.
An old and respected citizen of
Austin, whose name has been sup
pressed, was recently fleeced out of
81 900 by confidence men.
Frogs in their travels were imped-
ed by an embankment at MOUrehead
and some fifty dozens captured, and
served to the guests ut the Grand
| Pacific.
A pool ball, quietly resting in its
accustomed rack in Il saltwater sa-
loon, suddenly exploded with a sharp
report. AMI the pieces flew in all di.
rectiOns.
a large bed of rich magnetic ore is
reported to have been discovered at
st. Paul. Specimens have been anal
) zed and found to yield a large per
cent. of ore.
The safe i'm the mill of w. A. New
ton & Co., Sank Rapids, was blown
open last Tuesday night about ll:30
o'clock and about $lOO in money and
checks taken.
The State S9ngerbund meets at
FarIbault September 5th and 9th,
great preparations for which are being
made. Sixteen societies are expected
10 participate.
A. l.. DuToit, editor of the Valley
Herald, of Chaska, died last Friday
morning of hemOrrhage of the stom.
ach, after an illness of only ten hours,
aged thirty-three years.
The State Treasurer has gone East
to purchase $3.50 900 of Minnesota AZ
per cent. bonds for the State school
bonds. which are now worth pre-
MUM OF 21a per cent. in financial
circles.
Charlie Fulmer, nine year.old
son of N. i. Fulmer, of st. Cloud,
while handling loaded pistol re-
Gently, was shot in the left hand, in
dieting painful though not serious
| wound.
Senator VIM. J. Bean. of NicOllet
county, writing to the st. Peter Trt-
bune, says 1--WE have been farming
here for "a years, and this is the
heaviest crop from spring blowing
have ever seen.
Mrs. Samuel Johnson, of saltwater,
was found dead in her bed, last week.
with a bottle of chlOrOfOrm close to
her nose. She had been in tue habit
of using the drug for nervous spells
and evidently, this time, took an
over dose.
The peat works in Anoka county
are situated on bog. with an area of
eighty acres. from which it is estim-
ated 1000, 900 tons of peat can he
prepared. The product of the works
will soon be put upon the market at
price TO compete with wood OF coal.
The Albert Lea STANDARD says: The
creamery is making only about 500
pounds of butter per day now. The
concern has sold no butter except
what was made in May, and has
about 10000 pounds i'm cold storage
east is cents is the present price for
cream.
The railroad tickets stolen from the
depot at Preston recently were found
under shock of wheat east of town
tied up in an old handkerchief. The
number stolen was one thousand and
iifty.nine. and one Thousand and fifty
eight were found. so that one ticket
"as the loss of the robbery.
a slaughtered hen ut Montevideo
Yielded up petriiied egg which
weighed three.qnarters of a pound.
How long the enterprlsing old bird
had transported this piece of ballast
before her death is unknown. She
always appeared in good health and
spirits. and gave no indication of the
weiShty secret she was concealing.
Mr.. f J. Russell. formerly of
Mankato. .but now of Michigan, writes
secretary Young of the state board
Of emigration, that quite colony is
being formed i'm his section of the
state to come to Minnesota in the
spring. Mr.. Young is also i'm receipt
of Il communication from Il Mr..
O'Keefe. of New York City, asking
information concerning government
lands, and saying that a Minnesota
colony is forming, which will probab-
ly he Il hundred or more families by
spring. This colony are looking for
timber section.