The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-07-20
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.

The pay roll of the Chain Lake
Creamery for the month of June
amounts to over s. 900.
The citizens Of Anoka see the elec.
!; , trio light on the staff at Minneapolis
t. sixteen miles away.
q Four hundred and thirty members
Of the second regiment. NJ n. e.,
:, were in camp ut New Ulm last week
# The supreme court decides that
Henry q German is sheriff of Ram.
, sey county in the contested election
i case.
Waseca residents who hail from
: the Green Mountain state, Vermont,
i are arranging Tor a basket picnic July
5 %.
) rho1Yrge LS';;as 'w,>te}ford was
, s..ati! iy lightning last Saturday
, morning. and damaged to the extent
of 500.
The only cOlOred man on the st.
Pau. police force has been requested
TO resign. on account of general neg.
ect of duty.
The first white child born in Fer
gus Falls. Nellie Hartley, is twelve
/ years old, and lives at Scramble. Otter
Tail county.
Red Wing by Il vote Of 4D.I ayes tn
81 noes has decided To build and own
water works, issuing bonds to pay
for the same.
The hotel at CockatO burned last
saturday morning. AMI three guests
persisted in the flames. Three-fonrths
Of the town was burned, causing Il
loss 0i sec, 900.
The new exhibition building on
;he state fair grounds at Owatonna
| was blown down by Il heavy gale
Thursday night.
y disease has appeared in herd Of
Cattle belonging to II. :. Johnson, of
Morris. supposed To hc black tongue.
Several have died.
Taking the estimate from the city
directory just being published, Min
| neapO!iS now claims Il population of
one hundred thousand.
The citizens of Willmar lave rails.
ed 81 600 by subscription. and the
rity council will put in the rest and
adopt sewerage system.
Morrison county has voted 10y
majority of $50 tn issue bonds To- the
amount of $1,000 to mi.ld bridge
over the Mississippi river.
An incident of the celebration of
the Fergus Falls was the explosion
of Il cannon. There were several mar
row escapes from dying missiles.
Geo. Sayker, sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for seven Yeas for the mur.
der of Mr.. SOnter of New Prague, has
been parlOned for good behavior.
Duluth has instituted IL war against
tramps. Their late ordinance on this
subject includes thieves and gamblers
among this tribe, and they are all or
dered out of town.
James Thomas. OF Parker's Prairie
~. s'''r-.1i-a Il" :, well thirty feet deep
after nine hours digging ~ ."4s...
large force of men.
The drives of John O'}rien. Nal
10y Brothers and Mr.. Clure. contain
ing 40.0OO,O00, feet of logs were
slnic,d through the ChengwatOnna
Pine county, a few days ago.
Kendrick. the man who abducted
his daughter ut Mo0rhead and WAS ar
rested, has been discharged, his for
mer wife having refused to prosecute
after receiving back her child.
A Hollander at Orange City wrote
two postal cards to firm in Worth
ingtOn. lie then enclosed the two
cards in an envelope, sealed it up,put
on three cent stamp and mailed it
The nardscrable flour mill owned
by j. n. Cummings OF Spring Valley
has been burned with entire loss.
The property was worth $4,000, and
important repairs were in prog.
reSS.
The Grant county seat war has
been settled by II compromise and the
records have now been pe;tceably re-
moved to Milbank, which town as
sumes the expenses incurred by the
trial.
n pile of wood ut Aitkin took fire
the other day from sparks of Il loco.
motive. The pile contained 4SO cords,
and about $50 cords were fuined be.
fore the fire was subdued. involving
4 loss of $3.50.
William SOmmers of Hastings. act
lIated by jealousy, shot his vii three
times the other day. One ball entered
The right breast, another the lett ear,
and the third graZed her head. The
physician thinks the wounded woman
may recover.
A valuable dog belonging to Phillip
BoydUn of AnOka was poisoned last
and while the owner was
trying to administer lard to counter
act the effects of the poison he was
bitten in the hand and it is feared the
wound the will prove fatal to him.
The Faribault Water Works
Company has filed articles of incor-
I'oratiOn with the secretary of state.
The capital stock Of the company is
fixed ut 500, 900, and its corporations
are Geo. f.. Beach, }. &. Emmett, Ii.
W. Brown and Geo. Fuss of Mime.
apOlis, and Josia Hill Of Clinton, la.
a wife heater ut Turtle river WAS
taken by his indignant naishhnrs AMI
;hrGwu into the river, ana not salts
lied without that, they filled Il tub
with ice water and he'd him until he
begged for mercy. After helng ne;,r-
~ straHgled in the tub. THE wife beat
pr promised never 10 offend again and
he was set 4 liberty.
At il meeting of the German I.uth-
aran synod at New Ulm, Il resolution
was adopted To build 1T the earliest
time possible AN institution eombin-
ing Il preparatory school for divinity
st ndents and an academy. or high
school, SO called, the building to cost
about Sl4,O00. The people of New
Ulm have made Il proposition to do
nate the necessary grounds, about
one block and some $1,000.
"A train of twenty -nine car loads of
lumber from the Eau Claire Co,
passed through Lansboro last week.
The entire brOadsides of nearly every
ear were placardcd with the quaint
words Dakota is busted. This entire
train of lumber is for Close Bros. x
Co., i'm the great Pipestone City. Min
nesota.' 1t is reported that the lum-
Der belongs to an English cOlony,whO
who, having become Disguised with
resolved to Try their fortunes
in Minnesota.
Life Saving Present.