The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-11-02
MINNESOTA lNTELLIGENCE.


mt r seville. kaIdiyohi county.
Matthias schmidt Of Chaska has just
paid a line of $500 for selling tainted
meat.
The building of the Watasha Street
railway has been postponed until next
spring.
The New York children brought to
st. James last year have proven 10 he
nnisances.
Abbott Irving is in Jail ut Litch-
field. charged with shooting his neigh.
boris cattle.
During the fire at st. Vincent some
person tOok $500 from the pocket Of
Archie Bue.
The ChAtfield Democrat, an old-time
Blue Bourbon paper will support the
Republican State ticket.
Mr.. John CoOkbain. of VermilliOn,
one of the early settlers of Dakota
county, died Thursday morning.
Nearly 100 per cent more coal is
being shipped west over the Wa
st. T.. than was r~equired'last year.
Knnte Tresberg. one Of tho pion-
eers of Wisconsin and Minnesota,
died near Ashby. aged eighty-one
years.
The Southern Minnesota Fair As
socirtion has paid it's bills and prem
iums in full, and is in Il prosperous
George Head. the pioneer settler OF
Rochester, died at bermuda Islands
.n October 4th. where he had gone
for his health.
Two Farlianlt hunters recently
captured II large American eagle that
measured six and n half feet from
tip tn tip of its wings.
n. D-I.acy Wood. editor OF the
County Press. has been nom.
mated 10y the Republicans for Judge
of Probate of that county.
-Four carpenters employed hy Peter
at SpiritwWml Lake farm
nea jamestown, were POISONED by
canned cOrned beef.
ROb't Mayer, marshal of O.ton.
Vile. while carPl. ssly handling 4 re.
vOlver. shot. hut not fatally injured.
ID. Bell, a fireman on ii railroad.
John JansOn, q twelve year.old boy
of Center City, has been sent L" the
school until IF age, for setting
liIe To the house OF his employer.
Five hundred and twenty acres of
lands we've sold at the public
sale at Redwood Falls. ~ the 9th
at from $3.50 To $685. per acre.
A reason given for hears being so
numerous in Minnesota this season,
is that the fires raging In the Brit
ish possessions have driven them
south.
EX-Secretary Window will next week
from Europe. and resume an
interest in the Broadway Tn.
railroad, Of which he is a
director.
Young Chase. confined in the Fari.
county Jail for stealing cattle,
is of a wealthy Vermont family. His
has served several terms i'm
the legislature.
Sleepy Eye Herald: Grant Prescott
has caught 1900 muskrats in sixteen
lays. Their skins are worth sixteen
cents, a price which makes the catch
4 pretty profitable one.
minneapolis is again terribly
,conrged with diIhtheria, and a
quarantine has been established
4 large number of families in
\ hich the disease prevails.
In the district court at WinOna,
f. Los+y WAS found guilty Of
notwithstanding the forged
tote had been stolen from the office
# the prosecuting attorney.
At Red Lake Falls a farmer who
lad just driven into his barn was
eyerely injured, and his team was
Tiled hy the giving way Of the upper
which was overloaded with
wheat.
The Alexandria Manufacturing
company is to he recognized as a
Dint stock company of heavy capital
nd greatly enlarged facilities for
r,siness. New buildings will he
rected next season..
Miss Anna q. Baldwin. a teacher in
he WinOna Normal School. has az
epted the position of principal of
he cOlorrd Normal School ut lamp.
IN, Va. The school has fifty tra u.
and one thousand scholars.
Last Saturday Mr.. Wood. Of Elk
liver. WAS ont hunting deer. and got
u top at stump Ia look for game.
lie carelessly let his rifle slip 81 as
} discharge it and MAS mentally
'ounded. dying the Same evening.
Commodore nilsson. Of st. Paul.
as purchased for $2j 900 the green
! iscnnsin pacing gelding. Johnston
hich made the phenomenal time of
mile i'm 2:l0 ut Chicago hast week.
all previous records in har.
ess.
" lille John Philips Of Mount
'leasant, Wanasha county. VAS hum
" Il STRAW stat X. fire Was blown there
.um 10 Il setting of four wheat stacks
U the adjoining farm Of Andrew
eddy, AMI the product at thirty.tive
res was consumed
The First National bank of Shake
Pr surrendered its charter two years
90, and organized unler the state
VS. us the bank of Shakoree. Now
icy surrender their state charter aud
me back under United States laws
|, the First National of Shakopee
gain.
At Fergus Falls. the school author
les we're shocked to find in the pub
G schoOlroom, two ten. year cid hOys
FRY much intoxicated. \ thorough
lvestigalinn is i.eing made ~ to how
icy were supplied with the liQuor,
nd Il prosecution at law will prota.
|y follow.
The Austin Transcript SAYS: Mrs.
. G. Squii-s has recently had some
nrOitant news. 1t seems by the
cath ni Il half.hrOiher she is liable to
a h~eiress, though to how much
not known. There is quite IA prop.
'ty left Ivy this brother. hut there
'e seventeen heirs, Mrs. Squires he
g one Of them.
Walter Birch, station agent in the
Minneapolis & st. Louis depot, at
has been arrested for the
rceny of $50 from one Byron, u
Dnng man from the country. Birch
,lled him into the depot. and while
lere it is alleged that he took the
30. claiming that he had lost some
nney during the morning. and sus-
scted the young man had found 1t.