The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-12-05
From Fridays Daily.


Willard & Barney's exchange, $12981.
The assessment by lots will be made
Dec 9Th, at 10:00a m.
Mr.. Armstrong, of Lake CRYSTAL,
who runs temperance ball IN that VII
lage, was arrested this week hv the U.
S. Marshall, and was taken to st. Paul,
having been indicted by the grand jury
on the charge of selling Intoxicating iiq-
uor without license.
The Thanksgiving ball given by Co.
F last night was very pleasant affair.
Nearly fiftv couples were in attendance.
The new Stern hall promises to be ia
vorite place for dancing parties, as it is
the largest hall in the city, being con-
siderably larger than The SauIpaugh
dining room. The company will give
too more parties during the winter.
= They all do it. The New Ulm
Reuiew says that as much as $50 goes out
of New Ulm every month through the
American Express company for chances
in the Louisiana lottery. THIS is since
the anti-lottery law went into effect,
prohibiting the sending oflottery money
through the mails. Most of this amount
is said to come from laboring men.
- Surely no finer weather ever added
to the pleasures of Thanksgiving than
was the case Yesterday. 1t was a de-
light to be out of doors, aud this partial
~ accounted for the large attendance at
the churches in the forenoon. The
union services at the NJ. E. church
drew full attendance, and the congre-
cation listened to a thoughtfully pre-
pared sermon by Rev. |. L. Cory. The
services at the Episcopal and Catholic
churches were also well attended.
The grand jury will have about as
much work TO do next week as usual, as
several new cases have been started
this week that will require attention.
Among others Is that of woman NAM
ed Mrs. Pugh, of Ceresco, who, with
her son and daughter. is bound over to
await the action of the grand jury. Mrs.
Pugh and her son are in Jail, having
neglected to furnish the required bail of
5000. 1t seems that they became en-
gagged in fight with one-legged man
named Jones, oyer trepass by cattle.
They had about done him up when
'neighbor named Joe Rice put in an ap-
pearance and took the part of Jones.
The two were unable 10 overcome the
fury of their opponents and were knock
ed out. They had Mrs. Pugh and her
offspring arrested for assault and the
latter had hearing before Justice Rus
sell. Byron Hughes appeared for the
plaintiffs.
The usually quiet village of Lake
Crystal has been agitated over case of
forgery for a couple of days. Tuesday
noon farmer claiming to come from
Linden, Brown Co., but really of Wat
onwan Co., brought in load of wheat,
containing % bushels, and sold it to
W. P. Cobb, grain buyer. The latter
gave him the usual order on the bank,
but the farmer raised the figures to So
and inserted the word "fsx" for wheat
which he erased, and raised the price
to $109 per bushel. P. A. Larson
cashed the order. Having been SO sue
cessful, the farmer thought he would
try it over again, so he stole blank
order from Mr.. Cobb's office and filed
it out with so bushels Of wheat at the
prevailing price, forging Mr.. Cobb's
name to it. W. P. Marston was in the
bank, when he appeared, and cashed
this order. The forgery was soon dis
covered, but the man had gone. Off
GERS were despatched after him and he
was finally secured. The money was re-
covered, and we understand that the
case will be dropped.
There has been nothing definite as
certained IN regard to the disease which
took off Jno. Schweitzer's hogs. The
case has been quietly followed up, and
efforts have been made to ascertain
where the hogs come from. They were
taken from the yards of Cunningham q
Haas, st. Paul, who claim that they
came from North Dakota and were all
right. They say that the disease was
contracted in this city. Parts of the
dead hogs have been analyzed and
tuberculosis of the lungs has been dis
covered. DIR. Warner believes that the
disease is cholera without much doubt,
while Mr.. Schweitzer continues to deny
it. DR.. Hewitt, secretary of the State
Board of Health, will attend the meet
ing of the Minnesota Valley Medical
Association in this city next Tuesday,
and will take occasion to look into the
matter. Mr.. Schweitzer has killed the
fourteen remaining hogs in his yard, and
has been advised by DIR. Warner to
close the yard untilspring and thorough
ly fumigate it. U. s. Karmany lost four
hogs this week, and DR.. Warner has
looked into the case. The disease seems
to be somewhat different from that of
Mr.. Schweitzer's hogs, and the remain.
der are well. They seemed to have
died of pneumonia.
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