The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-06-29
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.
Since last fall six persons have been
drowned in Lake Pepin.

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drowned in Lake Pepin.
Weather interfered with the sue
cess of the Saltwater races.
Superior has organized chamber
of commerce with forty members.
A new Seminary and Normal school
is being built in Rocheste: this sum
mer.
r. Is. Walker, of Minneapolis. will
erect saw mill costing 100000 at
Grand Forks.
Albert Lea subscribes 5000 for
the Presbyterian female college to lie
located there.
The Duluth Lumber COmpany's
mill barely escaped destruction by
fire last Thursday.
Mary L. Wood secured a judgement
Of $5, 900 against the w. IL st. p. X.
Il. ut Rochester, last week.
Any information concerning the
whereabouts of DR.. O. s. Howard
would he gratefully received at Glen
wood.
The lawyers have organized State
Bar Association. One vice-president
and one member of committee on ad-
mission were chosen from each judi
cial district.
The Minneapolis pest house was
set on fire one day last week, but the
blaze was discovered in time to avoid
any serious damage.
The depot at Twin Lakes on the
Minneapolis x st. Louis road was
broken into and $40. the contents
of the money drawer, taken.
The Harvester Works at Rochester
are running full force of men and
will have several hundred machines
ready for the harvest of 1883.
Willmar votes tn issue bonds to
the extent of sos, 600, to aid in the
construction of railroad running
from Sank Center to Granite Falls.
The Sank Center Tribune says two
young ladies. Miss Wheeler, OF Sank
Centre, and Miss Beebe, of Minneap-
oils. succeeded in capturing two
young deer, last week.
J. ID. Martin, formerly of ROches.
ter, committed suicide by drowning,
1T Estrllinc, Dakota, last week He
WAS at the time of his death Register
of Deeds for Hamlin county.
Mrs. Tigue, of Coon Creek, went out
to look after the cows, and she has
not been found rs yet. 1t is feared
she wandered into the creek and was
drowned. She was eighty five years
old.
Mrs. Ludger Dngas, who lived in
the town OF Belle Prairie. took bed
bug poison, through mistake for me.
,icinr, and died In four huu s. She
leaves Il husband and thirteen chill.
dren.
The annual report of the st. Paul.
Minneapolis 4 Manitoba railway will
show earnings of So, 00,000,-an in.
crease of $4,000, 900 over last year.
The surplus In net earnings is ST.
100000.
While dance was in progress ut
Spruce Hill, Murray county, Dennis
Miller and Michael Henry got into
quarrel, during which Miller received
seven stabs in the head and body, two
reaching the lungs. He will prObab.
ly die. Henry escaped.
Seven hundred and three new men,
bers were taken into the Odd Fellows
lodges of Minnesota during the past
lodge year. There are in the State
lwenty.four hundred members of the
Mutual Benefit Society.
The annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Society of Civil Engineers closed
at Lake MinnetOnka last Friday night.
An elegant banquet was rendered the
visitors Ivy leading business men Of
st. Paul and Minneapolis.
4 large amount of fresh breaking
is being dune this year by the farm.
ers of the state. Our wealth will in.
crease in proportion to the additional
number of acres put under cultiva-
ton. The move is wise one.
The Mayor OF st. Paul is making
war against the gamblers and other
disreputable characters of that city,
and many are leaving. Minneapolis
complains that she receives more than
her share of those who are forced to
get out.
The change in the officers of tie
General Land Office at Duluth has
discussion as to the former
Ut affairs there. There
are statements and cOunter.state.
ments, and that Is the extent of the
public information.
J. J. Hill, of st. Paul, has imported
a herd of fine cattle from scotland.
The lot includes fourteen cows and
heiiers from the herds Of the Earl Of
the Earl of South Esk,
and MIR. Ferguson. of kinhOctry.
They cost nearly $4,000.
A case of body snatching is report
ed at Little Falls, where the remains
OF Il little child were taken. The
parents wished to have the body 10.
moved, and when the coffin was ia
ken out it WAS discovered to be open
and he child's clothes rolled up in IA
bundle.
Ex-Secretary Window is off this
week for Il years trip abroad, sailing
from New York OH the 9th inst. Oh
the steamer Werra, of the North
German LlOyd's line. His wife and
two daughters accompany him. The
trip is purely for recreation, and they
propose to visit all important places
in Europe.
The Minnesota Synod of the Nor.
wegian Lutheran church, held its an
n,.al session ut the church of that
near ZumbrOti last
week. Four hundred delegates, be-
sides II great humber of visitors, were
present. Advanced ground was ia
ken in regard to preaching in the
English language.
County surveyor Relf, of Brainard,
who has been re-surveying in the
northern part of IOrr.sOn county.
says the government buildings at
Fort Ripley are all falling down from
decay. 1t Is urged that these build
ings should be sold 80 that the set
tiers in the neighbOrhO0d could buy
them and convert them into substan-
tial buildings ON their farms.
The lakes of Ramsey county are
from six to ten feet higher than at
this time last year. Some curious
phenomena are observed. A few days
since IL lake Of sixty acres area, beyond
Phalen, rose one foot in an hour, and
overlooked the roadway on its shores,
although there had been 70 rain for