The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-05-04

has beer discovered at Willmar.
The village printing of Duluth is to
be given to one of the daily papers.
Anoka people are agitating the
subject of building fine opera house.
A large timber wolf was recently
killed near St. Charles. Winona
county.
Frank Hardy, aged IA years was
instantly killed by the cars at Albert
Lea Saturday.
A case of smallpox has developed
at BraInerd, hundreds Of people hav.
ing been exposed.
John Halberg, grocer of Fergus
Falls, has failed with liabilities not
covered at 81 900.
The new steam Touring mill at AL.
bert Lea is to be four stories high
above the basement.
Sixty students were present at the
opening of the spring term of the
OwatOnna Academy.
Ries' opera house at ShakOpee was
opened Friday last by the Stevens
amateurs in Macbeth.
NOrwegians will celebrate Nor.
ways independence day anniversary
in Albert Lea, May IL.
Ralph Wager of Pipestone, during
an insane fit, locked himself up i'm his
room and cut his throat.
Horses about Rochester are suffer.
ing from disease of the lungs which
appears to be infectious.
A wedding among well.to.do people
ut Elk river was postponed on &C
count of the non.appearance of the
young man.
A little boy named Eddie Ford. Of
Preston, is negotiating for golden
seat in heaven. He was fOoling with
revolver,
The Millers Association, Minneap.
oils, announce an advance of two
cents for the best quality of wheat.
Present price, Sill.
A man named Edward Lyons, liv-
ing at Morris, suicided Saturday
night, by taking laudanum. He had
just ended two weeks drunk.
A hog belonging to John Lycan Of
Browns Valley was taken out alive
and healthy after having been buried
under stack of corn stalks for rs
days.
a little son of Andrew Robertson,
IA photographer of Fergus Falls. WAS
drowned in the Red River Friday
while trying to catch his hat, which
had fallen in.
The Hastings New Era says Mr.. F.
G. BOyntOn for the past three years
head miller of the Red Wing mills,
has purchased in interest in the En-.
mis- mill of that city.
The Mowberry Touring mill at
Stockton was destroyed 10y fire Satur-
day night, entaIling loss of $50, 90
to the owners. This is covered by
All insurance of $4,000.
. i. A. Anderson, i'm employ of the
st. Croix Lumber company, received
fatal injuries by being struck with a
board which was thrown by piece
of machinery in one of the mills.
Little Falls had sensation On
Wednesday. S. w. Fish and George
Balm, partners in business. quirrrlrd
over the division of property Fish
shot at Balm twice but did no damage.
The banks of Eagle Lake are lined
with dead fish, good judges estimat
ing the amount at fifty tons. The
authorities dug Il trench IA quarter of
Il mile in length and three feet deep.
in which the decaying fish were bur
led.
The Red Rock camp meeting will
be held this year from June Dist to
July Sd. This will be the fourteenth an
nual meeting. 1t is expected that
Chaplain McCabe will he present and
Rev. Thomas Harrison is positively
engaged.
AnOka is to have a new banking
with ii capital nj slr0,-
700. majority of which has ','n
10y ". ID Wash.u.,
new three story luck h'5i,!Wg rI,'
he erected Tor tn. use Of 'rt bank y
Mr.. Washburn.
A man named Stephen y Sampson,
on whose person was found il tnI
pass and $21, fell from - frrigh: rraIn
yesterday near Grand F"'ks AMI wa-
instantly killed. being cut ~ ;w". II
is supposed he was going /" Dew is
Lake to work on the railroad.
Mrs. Jeffrey. aged o. years. died at
Winona last Monday. Her athrr
was an English missionary who mar
ried an Indian squaw. Il direct drs-
pendant of the famous chief King
Pharaoh" of the Montauk tribe on
Long Island. Mrs. Jeffrey being tn.
only issue of this match. She distinct
ly remembered attending the funeral
of George Washington.
Mayor Ames of Minneapolis is re-
ported as saying that certain gentle
men i'm Minneapolis have agreed to
place in his hands $85 900 in cash for
the purpose of establishing new
paper, to be distinctively
journal, and to be sold
for two cents. Mayor Ames will be
chief editor. 1t is not stated who
will be chief mOurners, but that will
appear the sos, 900 has been planted.
Minneapolis Journal: Reports come
of lively affair IN our sister city of
st. Paul on Wednesday night. 1t is
alleged that Bill Delaney who was
bounced from the fire department
the instrumentality OF jim
met the latter in saloon,
and a fight ensued. AT this juncture,
it is asserted, Detective Common at
to separate the belligerpnts,
but instead, got into the fight himself
His brother Dick. the alderman, it is
further alleged, took hand IN. and
later as the story goes. Barney Smith,
Jerry McCarthy's son. Jim Bell. Pat
Capt. Clark, Of the police
force, and Tom Koran joined in the
melee. McCarty and Bell. it is stat
ed, went out and got pistols. but
when they returned they were driven
off. 1t is further alleged that De
tective Conner hit off one of HOran's
eyebrows. The fight is said to have
in Cunnelly's saloon at
$50 in the evening and to have wound
up in the basement of the variety
theater ut 3:30-the intervening time
having been. as the tale goes. about
equally divided between 'making up,
and fighting.
Given Away.
We cannot help noticing the liberal
a for mazda 40 oil ;.uaEla and crfurors