The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-11-14
MINNESOTA ITEMS.

At Chatfield, John Bowers was held
I'D by three men and robbed of $31 and
his watch.
F.. Lewis, a Sank Center photo
grapher, has skipped out leaving num-
erous creditors to mourn.
William Schengler, living near
Willard, committed suicide by hanging
while temporarily deranged.
A Citizens Protective association has
been organized in Minneapolis, to
agitate for return to low license.
Suplice l.. Pointe, aged 10l years,
visited his nephew in Minneapolis.
He was born near Montreal, June %,
1888.
a young Fnlander was arrested at
Duluth Tuesday, on suspicion of hav-
ing robbed two of his countrymen of
$500.
ii. P. Clarity, Minneapolis saloon
keeper, cut his throat Sunday, intiict-
ing dangerous wound. He was sick
and respondent.
John :. Barnes and Tom McAlpine
had hard glove fight near St. Paul on
Sunday, McAlpine being Knocked ont
the seventh round.
Children playing with matches set
fire to the barn of Fred Letter, near
COurie, which was consumed with its
contents. Three cows were roasted to
death. Loss $3.50.
An accident occurred at Gen. Wash
burns new building at Anoka Monday
morning, resulting. in the death of
young man named Charles Knowles,
whose parents reside in Minneapolis.
The steam ferryboat City fWabasha,
which struck pier at Shawtown, while
doing temporary service at Eau Claire,
Wis, has been raised and will be re-
turned to Wabasha by the city authori-
ties of Eau Claire.
During Monday and Tuesday 1000
acres of land, supposed to contain silver,
last week, were located in townships
81 and TO, range q, st. Louis county.
Some of Duluth's wealthy citizens are
interested in the scheme.
A sneak thief affected an entrance
through the window to Paul Mays
residence at Howard Lake, during the
absence of the family, and changed
clothes with May, leaving an old suit
in exchange for May S best besides tax
ing some jewelry.
Rev. r. f. Sample of Minneapolis,
states that the published reports con-
corning the ravages of cholera in
European cities were exaggerated and
so far as his observation extended, the
disease prevailed most extensively in
cities and towns paying the least atten-
ton to cleanliness.
On the 9TH of November Gen. Henry
III. Sibley will have completed half
century as resident of what is now
Minnesota. At the period Nov. Z,
1884, when he arrived at Mendoza,
this region contained only handful of
white Inhabitants, scattered here and
there. Now there are fully one million
persons occupying the same ground.
During all this period Gen. Sibley's
residence has been in or in sight of
what is now st. Paul.
Brainerd Tribune: a disastrous
prairie fire swept over the country
southeast of MenOken recently, coming
from the direction of Long Lake City.
II destroyed fifty-fve hundred bushels
of oates, one hundred tons Of hay, and
| OCnef property vdlueu al 9AOO, DelOnS-
ing to III. &. Sinclair wheat in the
stack, a valuable horse, cow and calf
belonging to J. B. Glasscock. j. 0.
Rhlncburger lost stable and contents
estimated at $3.50 George Doan, stable
and contents, valued at 500.
Freight No. 10 and Cahill's extra
collided $50 last Tuesday evening at
the lower part of the Manitoba railway
yard, Glyndon, staving in the heads of
both locomotives and wrecking ten
cars of the first named train, which
was running ten miles an hour. The
engineers claim that their sight was
obscured by the smoke of a
burning stack near the track. j. r.
Knowles, of Fergus Fails, brakeman of
No. 80, was thrown from the top of
car amid the wreck and suffered
fracture of the left pelvis bone, beside
internal injuries possibly of a serious
nature. The engineer of the freight,
was somewhat bruised in the head.
A gentleman who has just returned
from trip to the southern part of
Minnesota, states that the prairie fires