The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-05-11
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

SduIiOiiiHy SikHbiS UcSdH lucSuoy
on Lake Superior.
| About 1000 900 feet of logs form
jam in Knife river.
A brick yard is talked of ut st.
Hilaire, Polk county.
Twenty-Five inmates occupy the
poor house in Winona county.
Kansas City parties are purchasing
potatoes by the car load in Faribanlt.
VIM. Sargent. aged ia years, died
ut Stewartvilie, Olmsted county. last
week.
Edward II. Williams Of Philadel-
phia has donated $4,000 to Carleton
College.
The Minnesota Valley Medical AS
ISOLATION meets at Sleepy Eye, Tues.
day, May sth.
| The Straits of Mackinaw are open
and navigation to Duluth is now IN.
interrupted.
The Long Prairie court house is to
he built by John Eaton of Alexan-
dria, for $4,000.
The Building and Loan association
of Wabaslla, capital stock $4,000 is
an assured fact.
J. s. Ellis, of Chatfield, has been
arrested for rape on his nine-ycar old
granddaughter.
Fergus Falls is to have telephone
connections with neighbOring towns
i'm Otter Tail county.
Company l, of the State Militia has
been organized ut st. Peter and has
ordered its uniforms.
The WinOna and st. Peter railroad
elevator ut 81. Peter is being removed
to NOrdland, Dakota.
The State prison ground at Still
water will be graded with 10000
yards Of cubic earth.
Watervllle is to have new roller
flour mill of seventy.iive barrels
day capacity to cost $4,000.
II. Gillitt of Hastings, MIMI, has
made az assignment to l.. s. Follett
for the benefit of all his creditors.
BY the explosion of a steam coil in
the st. Peter insane hospital the as
sistant cook was severely scalded.
The Faribault Knights Templars
observed Ascension day at the Cattle
dral, Bishop Whipple conducting the
exercises.
A man named McPeek of Murray
county has caused the arrest of one
Compton, who ran away with his
wife.
The Fergus Falls Duly Telegram
and Weekly Independent have cOnsOli.
dated under the title of Fergus Falls
Telegram.
A petition has been sent to the city
council of Faribault asking favorable
action in regard to the necessity Of
water works.
A painter named John Jones, at
work on the Duluth cOmpany's mill
fell from the ladder breaking his leg
in three places.
The drives on the Namecoggin,
ChibbOnnazie and Clam river will
suffer considerable this year for want
of high water.
S. S. Kinyon, for many years res
ident of Wilton, Waseca county,
suicided Monday by cutting his
throat with razor.
Lightning struck the hardware
store of Aaron Kribs at Galesville
last Wednesday night. destroying the
entire building. Fully insured.
Two men were drowned in the
Cottonwood at Milford while fishing
last Thursday. They were good
swimmers but were carried over the
dam.
r. c. Juilson of Pennington, secre.
tary of the State Fair Associations,
was thrown from his wagon q few
days ago dislocating the left shoulder
blade.
The barn of Fitzgerald Bros. at
Rochester, was struck by lightning
during the last storm and the entire
property, including q span of fine
horses were burned.
A three old child of Henry COville
of Wabasha, has died Of small pOx.
The house has been quarantined and
no apprehension of the disease
spreading exists.
+. ID. Taylor, late manager of The
.Stiitndter San, is missing. His pri-
xrot b,csnncc To- 10 10 1,ah al
and it is supposed he has gone east
to ''recuperate."
The Chamber of Commerce at Fer
gus Falls intend having the pond i'm.
proved water powers photographed
and engraved and distributed for nd.
vertising purposes.
Plans for the asylum for the blind,
which is to he erected at Faribault
are now completed and bids invited.
The building is to be SO feet long by
45 feet wide with towers.
Lists of lands to be added to the
tax duplicate of st. Louis county
amount to 22l ,095 acres. nearly all
pine. increasing the total acreage of
the county 100 per cent.
Unusual efforts have been made
in the interior towns of the state to
provide for tramps this season. Not
one of them will he able to trnthfully
say he is unable to obtain work.
The Southern Minnesota Fair as.
ISOLATION has invited the military
companies throughout the State to
participate and encamp at the RO.
chester grounds on the 3d and 4th of
July.
The elevator at Grove City was
burned yesterday morning. Lind.
berg's elevator, on the opposite side
of the track was in great danger,
taking fire three different times, but
was saved.
Wabasha Herald: Seeding is well
advanced in this country and will be
ended before the close Of
this week, unless there should be bad
weather, Considerable more wheat
has been sOwn than for two years
past, and less barley.
A young lady seventeen years old,
at Sleepy Eye caught her foot in a
railway frog in front of an approach.
ing freight Car. Being unable to ex.
tricate herself, the lady, with rare
presence Of mind, laid down on the
outside of the track, and thus saved
her life. but her foot was so badly
mangled by the car wheel that ampu.