The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-06-22

sha failed, with liabilities at IS, 800.
Several black bears have recently
been seen In the vicinity of Red Lake
Falls.
Arlington and Gaylord have been
duly incorporated by the district
court.
Horse thieves are making their
presence felt in the vicinity Of Maple
wood.
Saltwater intends to have Main
street paved from Hersey's mill to
the prison.
Desirable business property at
Hutchinson has advanced so per cent.
this spring.
Anna Carlson of saltwater has gone
insane because her lover is going to
Denmark.
The Merchants hotel at Henderson
was burned by an incendiary last
Wednesday.
The reported cases of smallpox in
the vicinity Of Buffalo have turned
cut to be false.
st. Cloud had cutting affray last
week, in which George Kelsey was
badly wounded.
Dan Parsons was probably fatally
injured 10y being trown from horse
at Houston recently.
by an actual census taken with the
new city directory WinOna claims a
population of 1885.
VIM. Peterson, recently from
Springfield, ILL.,, was drowned last
week ut Lake Amelia.
Col. ii. Il. McIlvaine of Faribault
died suddenly at his residence Friday
morning of heart disease.
The residence of ID. S. Hayward of
st. Cloud was burglaiiZed last Thurs
day night and &75 taken.
Chas. BOrlle, Il German living at
GAINESVILLE, was struck by lightning
Friday and instantly killed.
S.V. Il. Sherwood, formerly post.
master of Brainerd. died at Hot
Springs, Montana, recently.
William Beardham was instantly
killed 1T WOrthington Thursday 10y
falling from Il windmill tower.
The new st. JOseph's Catholic
church ut WinOna was dedicated last
Sunday with imposing ceremonies.
VIM. Craig,a sewing machine agent
at Wiuona, has skipped out. leaving
numerous collections ::naccullnted for.
The case of John Ellis, of Fillmore
county, committed for rape, has been
continued until the next term Of
court.
George Bennison, working in one
of the mills at Duluth, was fatally
injured by being caught beween two
cog wheels.
Henry Haskncss, of RicefOrd, ac-
Gently shot himself last Tuesday, the
ball making in ugly bu: not danger
Gus wound.
A child Of John LystrOm of Indian
Lake was instantly killed by the dis
charge of gun in the hands of her
little brother.
The parties who went from. st. Pc
ter to Washington Territory have all
returned. They are now AL satisfied
with Minnesota.
Mr.. Fenner Of Owatonna received
fatal injuries last week by falling
through hole in a floor formerly
used rs stairway.
Rev. MIR. lockwood, pastor of the
First Baptist church at Winnebago
City, has resigned to go into the il
surance business.
Eric a. Wicklander, in attempting
to jump from swift running train at
AnOka, was thrown under the wheels
and instantly killed.
Henry Bloom was killed Thursday
at Duluth by being accidentally hit
on the head with pully block used
in erecting scaffOlding.
Hosea Straight, the Fairmont mu.
sic teacher, has been bound over in
the sum Of $500, fer adultery with
Mrs. Site. Mr.. Site will commence
proceedings for Il divorce.
John Manning, formerly of Winona
was killed at Redfeld, ID. T.. last
Thursday, by being thrown under a
sulky plow which he was driving.
Burglars are getting uncomfortab.
ly close to WatertOwn and the citizens
are talking of prompt punishment
provided any are caught in that burg.
The town of Cloquet, on an island
in the st. Louis river, is cut off from
the world by the disappearance down
stream of the bridge connecting with
the man land.
Daisy Belmont, one of the bare.
back riders in Dan CastellO's circus,
fell from her horse while giving an
exhibition at Duluth, and received
serious injuries.
The jury in the case of Betsy Mel
son of Fergus Falls who died from
the effects of an abortion, rendered a
verdict censuring DIR. VIM. Essen for
carelessness or incompetency.
James V. Ditmars, of Lake City,
has left in order to avoid prosecution
for the false imprisonment of a man
whose indictment for larceny he pro-
Cured. The action of Ditmars cost
the county $500.
In going home from church with
his girl Julius ZeithlsdOrf, living
near Fergus Falls, got to cutting up,
and in trying to steal kiss was
pushed backward over the wagon
seat, and fell thence to the ground,
the force OF the fall breaking his leg.
A moral is unnecessary.
Mobiles county has AN inventor III
the person Of j. w. Dyer, of Hersey,
who now has in the hands of patent
solicitors a snow plOw, an adjustable
gltage for steam boilers, a farm mill
for grinding feed. an adjustable guard
for corn plOws, an adjustable carriage
seat and Il breech loading gun.
The remains of Mai. llichael Cook,
of Faribault, who was killed at the
battle OF Nashville, December is,
1854, were last week exhumed f0y the
purpose of removal from one GENE.
terry to another. The body was viewed
by a number of relatives and friends,
and to the surprise of all was found
to be in II perfect state of preserva.
ton. looking us natural as the day he
was buried. nearly 10 years ago.
An Answer Wanted.
Can any one bring us a case of Liver
or Kidney Complaint that Electric Bit