The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-06-01
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

Albert Lea supports IL saloons.
Diphtheria is increasing at It. Paul.
Small pox is reported in Wright
county.
Pinkeye is prevalent in Nicollet
! county.
! The First Minnesota rcunim occurs
ut AnOka on June 81.
Ground has been broken on the
| Brainerd waterwOrks.
\ new high school building is m.
der consideration ut Red Wing.
A 500 team was drowned at Still.
water by backing off platform.
The bank of Perham will suspend
in consequence of the Breckenridge
failure.
A 5.year old son of a. Oleson. of
Faribanlt is missing. He is supposed
to he drowned.
\ new lead, supposed to contain
large quantities Of gold. has been
found at Granite Falls.
A reward has been offered for the
body of Mr.. Smith. who recently dis
appeared from Valley City.
twenty-five cases Of small pox have
been reported at Frankfort. near
Monticello. Two have already died.
A $4,000 wagon bridge has been
contracted for at Brainerd, and will
be built by the King Bridge company
of Cincinnati.
The Northern Pacific iron foundry
ut Brainerd is nearly completed, and
new iron foundry is in course of
construction.
Some of the old money bags in
Faribault have sustained sever
shock because the council favored
water works.
The Smith girl. recently missing ut
Duluth has been found. She is in
The hands of friends, but claims cruel
treatment by her parents.
Nellie Choate. a resident of Pres.
ton, has been selected us one OF six
teachers in the schools of the Argen.
tine Republic. South America.
The five year old son of Abel Ole
son Of Faribault, who mysteriOusly
disappeared last Monday, was found
Friday, drowned in Straight river.
The Millers' association of Min
neapOlis has purchased l2,000,000
bushels of wheat this season, and ex
poets to secure 100000 bushels
more.
Geo. FalrOy, Ona of the burglars re-
Gently arrested ut Money Greek. near
Winona, attempted To escape by
jumping from the train, but broke his
leg in the attempt.
Halfred Olson, IA young artist at
Austin, will compete for the 50 1000
prize offered by Harper's Bros. for
the best original drawing representing
Domett's Christmas Hymn.
The fire departments Of lied Wing,
NOrthiiell and OwatOnna accept
ed the invitation Of the Fa-ibanlt
department to visit that city on the
%0th, to take part in the hose CON-
pany contest.
a rascal named V. w. Taylor.
formerly of Anoka, deserted his wife
and went to Rush City. She is pen
niless and in delicate condition and
the people of Rush City talk OF tar
ring and feathering him.
The original plat Of the village of
Ex.nl,tnr flal i'm 1884, anl xyh.nl,
has been missing for twenty live years
having been in the possession Of u
lady of that village. was filed 1T the
registers Office on Thursday.
The grand Jury ut Cloquet found in
dictments against NJ. T.. WhitmOre
To the Knife Falls Lumber c0mpany's
store ut that place some time ago.
The woman Is already under arrest,
hut Whitnore skipped ont some time
ago.
The Bradstreet cOmpany's new
and Superintendent Mclver says there
are $40 more new firms doing bnsi-
ness i'm the Territory than there We're
three months ago. The increase in
Minnesota is between 1900 and ~
600.
j. l.. Smith, indicted last week for
bribing IA Justices Jury at Pelican
Rapids. failing to appear when the
case was called, leaving his bOndsmen
in the lurch. turned up Tuesday at
Fergus Falls on the train, and states
that he wants to stand his trial il the
court will allow him to appear and
relieve his bOndsmen. lie says he
was exposed TO smallpox in Dakota
and Thought the court would allow
linn time In come inta the TOWN.