The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-08-31
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

The Minneapolis Daily NeWs has
suspended publication.
Fergus Falls is discussing bonus
for II Presbyterian college.
1t costs the city of Winona $4,000
to run Its municipal affairs.
The Meeker county fair will give
$500 in premiums for horse racing.
Policeman Buike, of Duluth, has
been held to the grand jury for high
way ROBBERY.
Gov. Hubbard received a patent
Saturday for 52,2Ol acres of swamp
and overlooked lands in the st. Cloud
lard district.
y Scandinavian picnic at Minnie
tOnka oil the 10Th absorbed eighteen
barrels of beer and wound up with u
drowning accident.
At present there are l05 cigar
manufactures, lO3 breweries, and AZ
wholesale liquor and rectifying estab-
lIshments in the State.
The barn of G. B. lockwood. Of
Fisher, was set ON fire by two boys
who were playing with matches.
The loss is estimated at $1,000.
The Hastings Union claims that
that city has the honor of being the
first city in the State in which the
cause Of wOman's suffrage took root.
The st. Louis River Water Power
company intend to build u canal for
power purposes from Thompson to
st. Louis river, Is miles south Of
Duluth.
BY a tabulated statement of the
number OF volunteers sent by the
several States. into the late war. we
see that MinheSO:a furnished % 800
neil.
Some young sports In New Ulm
were shooting at target the other
day, when one of them had finger
shot off by rifle in the hands of
another.
One Tom O'Brien, Of Milwaukee,
the father of 20 children, has bought
farm IN Carlton county and will
settle down and grow up with the
country.
y child of W. c. Parker, living
four miles north of Grand Forks. Oh
the Minnesota side of the Red River.
diGn't know it Was loaded, and is now
minus Il hand.
a number Of serious accidents have
t,na ri la, III.
I'd 10y barb wire fence. In Faribault
Il horse valued ut $500 WAS badly cut,
perhaps ruined.
Chain Lake Creamery, at Fair
count, has already made and ship
ped over 10000 pounds of gilt.edgc
butter tins year. which brought hot
less than Sl4,OOo.
+. :. Christensen. of Rush City,
has been appointed member Of the
state board of equalization in place
Of :. w Furber, removed from the
first judicaildIstIict.
An emigrant Frenchman. newly,
arrived, turned up in Lauesboro, Fill
more county, Mimi, recently, when
berkshire County, Mass.
The Sank Centre Tribune office was
entered by IA thief on the 18th inst.
and robbed of 81. The question that
now aSitates the Sauk Centerers Is
how did an editor come to have SD
much money!
a little son of VIM. Lowry, Of
Moscow, fell on hay knife, on sun
day last. cutting his hip badly, and
lnjuring the bone. The poor little
fellow Is doing AS well as could be
expected under the circumstances.
Any one having the knowledge of
Il Union soldier being buried III the
State OF Minnesota without head.
stone will confer Il favor Oh Adjutant
Hawley by reporting the
fact and the location to him, and he
will see that one is immediately fur
nished.
The ST. PaM Pioaeer Pres nays
that Gen. NJ. ID. Fowler, i..spector of
steam vessels. TIED up the steamer Ida
Fulton at saltwater w e,inesday, upon
the ground that the boilers were de-
icctive and dangerous. New boilers
will be substituted.
During recent thunderstorm a
large new building at the Mennonite
settlement, in Hutchinson county,
was struck by lightning and burned
to the ground. Fortunately the
building was unOccupied ut the time
Of the misliap, and no persons were
injured.
Adjt. Gen. Uawley, who believes
soldiers imprisoned during the war
were entitled to Communication for Ia.
ion, has written to the Adjutant
iei eral of the United States army
about it, and that official holds the
same opinion. Gen. Hawley will in
prosecute such claims.
rhe ration allowance is % cents u
lay.
The VOelkers family. living four
niles sOnth of saltwater, and consist
nS of husband wife and four chill.
iren, are all down with diptheria-
One Of the children has already died
ana the others are not expected to
i've. The members of the Sons of
Herman, tn which society he he
"ngs, will harvest and care for his
'rOps.
Hon. Ansley Grey, who once lee.
ured in Minnesota on temperance, is
II Jail in Denver for drunkenness.
The telegram announcing his mis-
Ortune states that he was once
brilliant attorney ut Milwaukee and
lad ut one time served in the assem-.
'ly. He married il wealthy Racine
i,dy. and soon squandeIed her fortune
Il $4,000. His dissipated habits led
o ii separation, and he has since been
travelling with circus side shows, and
occurring On temperance.
Drs. Blackmer and Jensen, of Al
'ert Lea. wrie recently called upon
U perform a surgical operation upon
he person OF Dane. ChlOrOfUrm
vas administered. and when it was
To take effect the patient
Jumped up and declared he would kill
he physicians. His wife appeared
pom the scene with "a large knife,
which she endeavored to give her
husband. Help WAS summoned and
he temporary maniac was quoted
without any damage.
Attorney General Hahn has rem
cred Il decision holding that when
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