The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-01-25
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that cause.
Waseca citizens are asking the city
council to establish a system of wood
inspection.
St. Cloud by a vote of 7O2 to SO de.
cides in favor of an improved system
of water works.
The Litchfeld Swedish Lutheran
Society have decided to erect church
edifice this year.
Rev. John Meier will leave st. Pc
ter to take. charge of the Catholic
church at Red Wing.
Nicholas Just, Of Stearns county,
was instantly killed last week by
heavy saw log rolling upon him.
W. w. Perry, Brainerd restaurant
keeper, has skipped for parts un-
known, leaving creditors to mourn.
The expense OF collecting and re-
cording statistics of births and deaths
in Helnepin county amounts to ST..
500.
1t is stated that fourteen Olmsted
county farmers have gone to Europe
to purchase 5loOded stock for their
farms.
The Rush City Post brings the mild
accusations Of murder and abortion
against DR.. Jackson, late of North
Branch.
St. Paul is to have a professional
base ball club, $4,000 having been
invested in the stock of the new Or
ganiZatiOn.
B. B. Wolff and H. H. Wells, of
Morris, have dissolved partnership,
the latter to give his entire attention
TO his bank.
There are thirty saloons at Agate
Bay. most Of which have no license.
and United Ssates marshal has
gone to bring the prOprietOrs to time.
The man Schmidt. accused of rap
ing a l1.year.Old girl at Blue Earth
City, has been convicted and SEN
fenced TO two years in the peniten-
tiarv.
Rochester claims that the diph.
iberia reports are much exaggerated,
and that the only cases in the city
have been under strict quarantine
from the first.
Gus Thoreson, farmer living near
Baskerville, lett town Thursday last
Intoxicated, and was found frozen to
death the next day. He was an habit
ual drunkard.
The Journal insists that Brainard
has all the population it can support,
and that any attempt to induce more
peof.a to 60 there is not only poor
policy but wrong.
Andrew Erickson, of Freeland, left
Candy in an intoxicated condition,
and before reaching home was 50 bad
ly frozen that the amputation of
both legs above the knees has become
necessary.
The Catholic church editice i'm
Chaska is to be enlarged and rebuilt
at an outlay of from 1000 to Sl2,
900. When finished 1t will be one
of the most imposing structures in
Minnesota Valley.
Mr.. Sampson, of Crookston, has
gone to Washington TO advocate a
scheme to dam the headwaters of,the
Red Lake river at its source, So as 10
he able to utilize the water as wanted
to aid the water powers.
John J. Engeman, Il carpenter of
Winona, has fallen heir To large
fortune by the death Of his brother,
VIM. a. Engeman, proprietor Of the
Brighton Beach track and of the
Ocean hotel at Coney Island.
Judge Buckham decides that the
Waseca County Bank is holden to
pay its taxes us equalized by the State
hoard, and also ali costs and disburse
ments Of the law suit that has been
necessary to get this decision.
Judge Collins has ordered John T.
Byrnes, of Byrnes6 Byrnes, attorneys
IF Minneapolis, TO show cause at
chambers in st. Cloud, on the 2Sth of
this month, why he should not he
disbarred from practice in this court.
4 young man at Monticello had AN
eye put out while foOling with pow
Ter the other day. He constructed II
wooden cannon, loaded and fired it
off. 1t burst, and IA splinter struck
one of his eyes ard destroyed the
sight.
The Rochester Post, In speaking of
the Olmstead county poor farm says:
The expense of maintaining the
poor on the poor farm for the year--
BAL weeks OF board--was Si67, and
the receipts from the farm were
$54S."
Peter Hanson, a gay young clerk of
Sleepy Eye, jumped the town the
other day. The laws of our State
wouldn't permit of his marrying two
girls, with whom he had been little
too intimate, and to avoid trouble lie
skipped.
Young Paul Meinert, Of Rolling
stone, who was shot in the face by a
young mans careless handling of
shotgun some time ago, will be a
cripple for life. The injured boy will
receive $1,000 and all the expenses
incurred by the accident.
Two SONS of Peter Peterson of the
town of Harvey. Meeker county, were
fOO.ing with a revolver. AS usual,
the thing was loaded, and went off
just ut the wrong moment, the ball
entering one of the boys head just
above the mouth. The boy will re-
cover.
Ludwig Kruger and John Arson,
farmers, were in Alexandria on the
9Th. got full of tanglefoot and quar-
relied on their way home, when Ar
son struck Kruger on the head with
sled stake, fracturing his skull, from
which he will probably die. Arson
has skipped the country.
J. z. Martin, of Lake City, has
sold his filly, Julia Goldsmith, Tor
$500 to j. II. Phillips, Of Suffolk
Park, Philadelphia. Julia Goldsmith
was bred by the noted horse breeder,
Richard Richards, of Racine, and is
a daughter of the celebrated Alden
Goldsmith, lalf.brOther to st. Julien.
DR.. l.. A. Cooley, of LeSueur, was
arrested last Saturday on the charge
of stealing $50 from the safe of Cass
Cosgrove. The evidence was all cir
but strong enough to
warrant the court to place the DR..
under bonds to insure his attend.
ance at the next term of district
court.