The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-03-23
MINNESOTA INTELLIGENCE.


Mortified expects to have II new
passenger depot this summer.
A movement Is on foot to organize
q. a. X. post in NOrthfield.
The sum of $4,000 was paid out
for pork in Faribault this season.
Mrs. Nary Bone died ut Saltwater.
the other day, at the age OF 100 years.
y new encampment of Odd Fellows
will soon he established ut WinOna.
Win0na has subscribed $4,000 to
establish harvester works in that
city.
The advance sheets of the new
history of Winona county have been
issued.
\ German Printers Mutual Aid
o,ciety has been organized at ~.
Cloud.
Cattle are reported to hAv' r; ,,,'' sx
throurb The. w.i"s-. 5rheiaii) III GA
. m,II condition.
The city fathers Of Faribauit have
made i trip to DEBORAH, Iowa, to ill.,
spect the water.wVrks system of that
place.
An unsuccessful attempt WAS made
Monday night to burglailze The sale
of the st. Paul & Sioux City road ut
Sliakopee.
The son Of Jake Fratenberg. II re-
siaurant keeper at Duluth, recently
decampcd with $1,000 belonging to
his father.
The city councils of Fargo and
MoOrhead have ratified the contracts
for the building Of the two bridges to
connect the cities.
Mr.. w. G. Ward Of Waseca will
furnish the Guards fine field east Of
that town for "a parade ground when
they encamp there next summer.
Andrew Weaver was robbed Of u
check for $3.50 and SIS in money in Il
shanty where he stopped to sleep.
between Vermilion and Duluth on
Monday night.
G.. ID. Baker of Fergus Falls has
furnished the Northern Pacific com.
pany II 200 cords of wood, which
would make il pile four feet high and
twentysix miles long.
The new ladies hall Of Carleton
College at Northiield was dedicated
OH Wednesday evening with approp.
rate literary exercises. The struc-
ture is comnodious and elegant.
Charles Hoffman, was followed l.y
pack of five wolves last week while
getting a load of hay four miles from
Cannon Falls. but unfortunately had
no weapons along with which to Sc.
cure the bounty.
The cases against Byron and Hunt.
lngtOn, the engineer and conductor
who, it was alleged, were criminally
negligent III causing the railroad ac-
cident at Atwater some time ago,
were dismissed before ever going to
the jury.
A fatal accident occurred in Eure-
ka, near the Range line road, Tues.
day forenoon. Lutte Harper ald
companion were chOpping hard wood
logs, when tree lodged, and in en-.
deavoriDg to get it down Harper was
hit and Instantly killed, his cOmpan.
ion also being badly hurt.
The st. Clond Water Power com.
pany has been reorganized, with some
Of the leading men of the place as ia
cOrporators, and with an authorized
capital of 100000. The city has al
ready voted $4,000 to any company
that will construct u good and sui
iicient dam. with attendant water
works Tor the city, at any point with.
in the original city limits.
The mails Oh Wednesday brought
the immigration department of the
Manitoba road over 200 letters from
Europe, and u cOrrespOndingly large
domestic male. Very encouraging
letters were received from the gen
eral agents in Scandinavia of the In.
man ana American lines Of steamers
Indicating the prospects of another
season of large immigration, and that
Il larger percentage than heretofore
win hook through to points in the
Northwest.
The st. Peter Tribune, which ought
10 know what it is talking about.
says: There were the usual number
of crazy people brought here last
week. There are generally two big
strong men come with each crazy
person brought III. and after they leave
their patient at the hospital, they go
to the NicOllet House and relate the
hair.breadth escapes, and tell just
how they managed to get here with
their patient and the amount of
muscle it required, etc. When these
officers brag ana blow so much they
do not know that al attendant can
take from twenty to thirty of these
unfOrtunates and march them around
town and never have u particle of
trouble, and they never think of
Dragging about it, either"
A son Of Judge Farmer was ex.
PEELED from school ut Spring Valley
because he selected for Il defamation
and insisted upon reading an extract
case was referred to the local board
of education, who sustained the
teacher, and was then referred To the
State educational department., and
finally To the attorney general for the
legal. points. The opinion of the at.
torney general Is given adversely to
the decision Of the teacher and the
Spring Valley board of education.
The points set forth are: That the
teacher has the right to demand of
the pupil the preparation Of such III.
ticles for defamation as in the teach.
er's mind is deemed best and proper;
but in this instance no particular Sc
lection was specified, and the choice
of the pupil was not vulgar or objec-
tiOnable under the law, and that the
teachers only recourse. under the
existing circumstances. was to simply
forbid the recitation Of the selection
referred 10.
The suicide of Mrs. BONN, u bar
ber's wife at DelanO, a few days ago,
was peculiarly sad. She married a
few months ago at the age of seven.
teen. All went well until one week
ago, when certain scOundrelly young
men in Delano, as a practical joke on
Bonn, told him that they had had
improper relations with his young
wife, and BOhn WAS fool enough to
walk into the trap and believe the
mischievous lie. In rage of jeal.
ousy he accused the innocent girl
wife of inGdelity. In her delicate
condition Of health the false charge
nearly drove her wild with mental
agony. She vehemently protested
her innocence and begged to be til.
ken home to her parents at the ad-
al