The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-11-21
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-Wlckersham d Brown have the con-
tract for fitting out the residence Of d.
H. Evans, of Tracy, with steam heat.
According to the annual report oil
the Commissioner of Pensions there are
800 pensioners in Blue Earth county.
"A marriage license was issued yes
terday to August Mathews, of Kossuth
Co., Iowa, and Louisa Schultz, of De-
coria.
&C. G. Quinn isputting the steel vault
in the new Mankato National bank
building. It is duplicate of the one IN
the First National bank.
The great improvement which the
guttering on blocks IA and Is has prov
ed should lead the property owners on
the blocks further south to have that
part of Front street guttered next
spring.
Mr.. I. Longini, of the old reliable
Star Clothing House, has new adver-
tisement.in to-day's paper. Mr.. L. has
an exceptionally fine stock of goods
from which to select.
The committees that have been APP
pointed to revise the charter should do
so early enough to give the public a
chance to examine and criticise their
work. In their work they should take
the public entirely into their confidence.
They will doubtless see that this will be
desirable as matter of self-protection,
for in case of mistakes or undesirable
changes the fault would be laid at their
feet.
The Model One Price Clothing
House, owing to rush of business in
their new and elegant quarters, brought
in change for their advertisement too
late for this issue. They will have some
thing new to FAY next week, and in the
meantime 90 and look their stock
through.
1t has not yet been determined
whether the disease that has affected
Mr.. Schweitzer's hogs is cholera or not.
The health officer is still investigating it.
He has suspicious that cholera affected
hogs are being brought into some of the
at st. Paul and has so mott
fed the secretary of the State Board of
Health. 1t will probably be decided in
a day or two what will be done with Mr..
hogs. If cholera Is proved,
they must all be killed and the pens va
cate for two years. He continues to
deny that his pigs died of cholera.
Some of the boys at Good Thunder
are laughing over little quiet sport
which they had Yesterday at the ex-
pense of travelling man. The latter
had finished displaying his goods and
stepped over to the postofice for a
During his absence cat was
placed in his sample grip. Everyth ng
went well until he boarded the train for
Mankato, when subdued but plainly
heard mewing was, heard in the car.
No one could find out from where the
sound came. When the train reached
and the travelling man got up
10 60 out, the cat, disturbed by the
of the grip, set up vigor-
ous yeowling, that attracted the atten-
ton of all. The travelling man began to
realize what was the matter and ex-
planned that che guessed the boys at
Good Thunder had been playing little
trick on him.
The Lake CRYSTAL Union says that N.
Westover, of Good Thunder, reports
hat man by the name of Coon sunk
bored well on his place to the depth of
l25 feet, and in that depth, the augur
passed through two strata of load stone;
he rods used in manipulating the aug
If were so heavily charged that they
would pick up a heavy rod of iron, and
pins thrown at the rods from quite dis
ance were attracted and stuck fast to
hem. After sufficient water was OBJ
aimed a pump was put in, but the plum
,er became fastened, and in trying to
,et it loose, the rod broke, leaving it at
he bottom Of the we'll. Every effort
vas made to grapple for the plunger,
,ut without avail. Another well is be-
ng sunk near the old one, by the same
party, which he hopes will be finished
IN few days.