The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-02-01
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A fire company is being organized
at Sank Rapids.
Virgil N. h II has been appointed
postmaster isvGlencoe.
Gilbert & Sons, retail grocers, Min
neapolis, have assigned. Liabilities,
$500.
Steele county will vote ut the next
election on bonding the county for
court house.
There are $500 900 feet of logs ~.
ing OH Moose river, that were banked
by one firm of Saltwater.
Paul a. johnson ran five miles in
twenty. nine inmates and forty.three
seconds at st. Paul on Saturday.
Close Bros. are getting ready to
build 100 farm tenant houses and
barns at PipestOne next summer.
Barney Overpeck, of Stearns coun-
ty, the Oldest coroner III the State,
has resigned OF account OF i'll health.
Articles of incorporation of the
German Press Association OF st. Paul
were filed Friday. with capital OF
$4,000.
Mr.. :. W. Davis. Of st. Peter. has
shipped 40 far this winter 300 head
of live hogs and 5000 pounds Of
dressed hogs.
The Masons Of Luverue are con
SderIng the project of erecting tine
two story brick block for the use and
benefit of the lodge.
LitcLfe1d is greatly annoyed hy
petty thieves, all OF whom So far,
have escaped the shot time cap
ture would involve.
At Alexandria a sOmpany has been
organized with $4,000 capital for
The manufacture of furniture and
farming implements.
John Chester. a school boy at Fer.
gus Falls, committed suicide last
Thur sday, because his teacher 5tUiG
ed him before MI his scholars.
The Sheriff Of II. Louis county ha.
possession Of the Duluth Times Pub
fishing company. OF which y. j.
sawyer forecloscd "a mortgage.
n hog killed at Beaver Creek, ii
few days ago. by Mr.. +. Williams,
was examined and the meat found To
he literally alive with trichir%.
The st. Paul Board of Education.
being ont of funds. has borrowed
SO, 900 with which 10 pay teachers
salaries for the month of January.
A number of farmers of Olmsted
county are going - experiment with
Egyptian corn, this season. The
corn comes from Lower California.
The RushfOrd star says new rail-
road is in contemplation from WinOna
to Charles City, Iowa. to intersect
the new La Crosse and Southwestern.
Greenwood & Co.. hardware mer-
chants of Duluth, We're burned ont on
Thursday evening. Loss $4,000 or
S25 600; loss on building $4,000; both
partially insured.
The old settlers Of st. Peter and
vicinity will hold their annual meet
ing at the City Hall in the second
week in February-probably on the
18th of the month.
John Glust, aged fifty years, sa-
loon keeper at Lake City, slipped and
fell Monday night, breaking one leg.
and dying the next morning from the
effects OF the injury.
"A four gallsn pocket flask was
the New Years gift received by the
editor of the Lake Benton NewS. The
editor has been "full as goose
ever siIce-probably.
Ihe first annual exhibition of the
Southern Minnesota Poultry and Pet
Stock Association, to he held i'll
Rochester, Feb. 70. 90 and q, piom-
Uses TO ba well patlonized by exhibit
tors.
The Lac qui Parle County lady
superintendent got there i'll spite
of the attempt to bar her out on the
ground of sex. "When a woman
says she will, she will, you may de-
pend ont.
The farmers of Battle Lake are
trying to devise means for the cree
ton of Il steam Touring mill at that
place, being dissatisfied with the
grading anu price of wheat SHIPPED
out ~ other points.
Fred ReSinSer was killed by the
cavng OF a gravel pit on the Duluth
and Iron Range last week. On the
same road, John Dempsey was killed
and Albert Sloan seriously injured by
the premature explosion of blast.
The wife of y. Sterett. a farmer
living at Mount Pleasant. near Lake
City, attempted to poison her hus-
band 10y mixing stryshnine with his
honey. He is expected to recover.
The woman is believed to be insane.
a lad of Il in Fergus Falls, step.
son of F. Dunn, shot himself dead
with Il revolver at his home last week.
No other cause is known than his
feeling worried for fear he would lie
unable to pass his school examina-
ton.
The Grand Hotel, at Fergus Falls,
which was closed recently in cOnse-
quence of the assignment OF the land.
lord, is to be re-opened soon by the
assignee. 1t is first-ciass house,
heated by steam and lighted with
gas, and cost $4,000.
The county attorney of Lac quI
Parle county, in making a statement
under oath of the fees received Ivy
virtue of his Office for the year in
fees, fines, recsgniZances, forfeltnres,
ETC., says the same was-
not dollar nor penny.
Thugs are getting in their work
very intentionally to the citizens of
NJ Minneapolis. The JOsrnal strongly
advises that the only way to deal with
This class of beings is "to shoot and
shoot to kill" lncendiaries are also
active in the sawdust city.
The commissions of Oliver ]. Gibbs
Jr., of Lake City as commissioner of
the worlds cotton Industrial eXpOsi
lion. 1884, and Samuel f. Adams, OF
as alternate, signed 10y
he President and Secretary of state.
we're received by the Governor on the
24th inst.
A meeting Of the State Agricultur-
Il society WAS held last week and by
, unanimous vote it was decided 10
secure permanent grounds for exhi-
bitiOn at some point between ST.