The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-05-12
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

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Cannon Falls charges $500 for sell.
ing liquor.
A case of small pox has been dis
covered in Duluth.
Waseca county issued only four
marriage licenses during April.
A Fargo paper complains that the
country there is full of snakes.
1t is reported that Duluth is to have
three story stone opera house.
N. b. johnson will build 100.
barrel mill this season at Maine, Otter
Tail county.
Farmers in the vicinity of Rush
City are sowing large quantities OF
onion seed this year.
A wolf attacked farmer near Cal.
edOnia and bit him quite severely
before it was killed.
o. v. Tousley, of Minnesota, has
been nominated Ivy the President to
be consul at Trietse.
State Treasurer Kittelson reports
the March settlements of the various
counties of the State allin.
Capt. HancOck's barn ut Big Stone,
burned together with all his farm
machinery, the other day.
Lake Elysian stock farm at james.
vile has just received ten car loads Of
choice thoroughbred cattle.
The public schools of Winona en-
ploy twenty.eight teachers and pay
them u monthly salary of $1,000.
Owing to the backward spring, the
Albert Lea creamery will not begin
cream gathering until the 18th inst.
The thirty.first annual convention
of the Minnesota Baptist Association
will be held in Hastings, June Is and
IA.
The Wadena planning mills have
| just Increased their capacity for work
by putting in a 4O.hOrse power Ell
CINE.
a Mr.. Lewis, of Lakeside, Cotton
wood county. ran a nail into one of
his eyes and will probably lose that
organ.
Thirty teams will start for the
Canadian Pacific railroad, May 8,
from Rochester. They get $50 per
month and found.
The Mortified butter factory is
contracting with farmers in that
vicinity for their milk for the coming
ut so cents per loo lbs.
Farim,ult Republicans: produce Is
up, rents are up. almost everything is
up, except newspapers, and one of
them goes up occasionally.
Phil La Page, Of Baldwin, was oh.
liged to have five toes amputated OH
account of having had them frozen
last winter in Il Dakota blizzard.
J. w. Babcock, recently released
from the insane asylum ut st. Peter,
made violent attack on his son, and
has been sent to the asylum again.
A freight engine on the Winona &
st. Peter road was thrown down an
embankment and badly smashed, by
reason OF II broken switch at Waseca.
| Messrs. Marvin & Cammack, of Ro-
chester, are making about 500 pounds
of butter per day. They pay % cents
per pound for cream and gather it
themselves.
On tract of land six miles from
Austin, where four years ago 800
acres of wheat were Sown, just twelve
acres of wheat will be grown this
year. The rest is in grass, barley,
oats and corn.
| Hon. j. NJ. Sloan, who represented
the south district of Steele county i'm
the legislature of 1874, died, after
prolonged illness of about two years,
on Sunday last, at his residence i'm the
town of Berlin.
The Faribault Driving Park asso.
citation has placed 800 at the dispo-
sal of Maj. BObleter, To he expended
| 10y him Us he sees it fit in bringing
the Second battalion together ut Fari-
hanlt on July 1. next.
Rev. McClary of saltwater on the
Minneapolis lynching 1.-The lynch
ing of McManus, whose unspeakable
crime shows him to have been an in
carnate fiend, was, believe, right i'm
the sight of God and all sound. minded
men,
| A delegation of ladies came before
the Rochester school board the other
evening, asking the board to intro.
duce and use temperance text book
in the public schools in that city. The
board declined to use their book as u
Textbook, but authorized them to
confer with the teachers, and to re-
| port to the board their views i'm re-
gard to the matter.
Rev. W. M. Bowdish, pastor of tho
NJ. f. church ut Fillmore, says Fill
more has been for Il long time
exempt from sickness. "Our church
was built in 1874, and no funeral has
attended in it until now. Only two
persons have died. He says not one
Sinkhole in fifty contains stagnant
water, and that the people of Foun-
tain are needlessiy alarmed.
The Minneapolis millers are about
to try the experiment of grinding Cali.
fornia wheat, 1880 bushels of which.
conveyed by two special trains, is now
on the way from San Francisco. The
wheat is different from that used by
the st. Louis millers, being of
variety, so hard that it is expected
softer grade will have to be mixed
with it to grind it successfully.
With onions at 50 per bushel we
hope our farmers may some of them
condescend to plant few seeds and
set few sets. There is no earthly
reason why men should be poor and
hard up when onions, potatoes, beans,
oats and corn bring such exOrbitant
prices in market as are now paid. Get
down off the wheat stills and condos.
cent to low things Of this character
which are among the necessaries OF
life, and hard times, complained of SO
bitterly, will disappear. Diversity
and have several strings to your bow,
intead of one. All the eggs in one
basket is too much risk.-Waseoa
Rddicdl.
A bill to permit the grinding of
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