The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-05-04

The Mankato Cattle Company is
buying up 500 yearlings for shipment to
its ranch i'm Montana. OF these 30 are
being purchased in Mankato and go AT
Lake Crystal. A large number OF head
were delivered to-day at the depot.
Mr. T. Shanahan, a young man
about twenty-one years of age, Il son OF
John Shanahan, died ut his home al
Rush Lake yesterday morning, and the
funeral took place ut the German Catho-
lie church in this city ut ten o'clock this
forenoon.
Mr.. ID. Buck has secured temper.
airy injunction TO restrain the school
board of st. James from issuing Sl2,OoO
school bonds. The ground is illegal
voting of the bonds and illegal abandon
ment of the old grounds.
The various additions to the city are
being rapidly built up. Lumber dealers
report that their business is just us good
as il was year ago. When the founda-
ton of the new hotel is started il is gem
orally conceded that greater building
boom will set in than Mankato has ever
known.
Max Bernhard and Chas. Hallman,
officers of the Blue Earth county lodge
No. so, A. o. u. W., of this city, left this
morning for Lacrosse to pay the widow
of j. A. Winter the $1,000 life insurance
on her husband. Deceased was a men,
Der of the lodge, and it will be remem-
bered that he was frozen to death in the
great blizzard last winter. The prompt
payment of this sum speaks well for the
lodge, and shows it to be on fine basis,
financially.
The "Monon Route" is distributing
elegant programs of the coming session
in Cincinnati of the supreme lodge
Knights of Pythias, and reminding the
brethren of the order in very enter
prising way that the session referred to
will be mighty interesting occasion,
and that the route in question affords
exceptional facilities for getting there.
The supreme lodge meets June II for
four days convention and program.
The latter includes very interesting
prize drills for which cash prizes are of
fered. a cash prize of $500 is to be Civ
en- to the division of the uniform rank
travelling the greatest distance to attend
the meeting.
After three DAYS and nights of al
most steady rain the storm turned INTO
snow and before dark last evening an
inch had fallen, and il was still showing
HSntlN TINS morning. IeOple Invoke 10
see mother earth in a wintry guise once
more. This is quite remarkable, though
not unknown for the last day of April.
The ground is now thoroughly soaked
with moisture-more so than it has been
for four years. Some cellars have been
invaded and every cistern and well is
full to overlooking. The roads are we'll
high impossible and the streams are all
high.
"A serious runaway occurred near
the Omaha depot about noon to-day. a
Mr.. Silka, a farmer living near Smiths
Mill, was i'll the city delivering some cat
tie to be shipped over the Omaha road.
He was in a buggy near the track wait
ing for his son, when the horses, Il
Splendid team of blacks, became fright
tncd and ran down Washington street.
When near Third, Mr.. SIlka was thrown
against telephone pole and suffered
severe injuries. His arm was broken
and he received severe wounds on the
back of the head and on the chest, and
was badly bruised. DIR. Warner has the
case in charge. The man will recover.
One of the horses was hurt. The team
ran between two buildings and was
caught there.