The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-23
Around About Us ;

Saltwater is again having trouble
with it's water supply. Its present sup
ply is said to be impure.
u. E. Meyer, first uperintendent of
the reformatory at st. Cloud but now
resid ding in California, is back on a
visit and was given reception Tues
day at the reformatory by Supt.. Ran
dali.
Col. VIM. Pfaender of New U I'm,
president of the first battery of Min
nesota light artillery, has called a
meeting of that organization for Sept.
9th at the state fair grounds.
Sunday Frank Svejda, a farmer at
Willow River, near Pine City, took a
teaspoonful of some unlabled medicine
to relieve pain, which caused death
within a very short time. He leaves
a wife and family in Bohemia.
A dog poisoner is abroad at Fountain
City and no less than four valuable
dogs have been killed there in this de-
testable way.
Dorothy Washington of Duluth, a
colored woman, aged 107, is dead
She is supposed to have been the oldest
mind and active up to short time
before her death.
1t is rumored from Winona that the
Great Western road is seeking arrange
ments to enter that city over the Mil
waukee road. 1t is also said that the
Green Bay and Western road may be
absorbed by the @. G. w.
Several incendiary fires at Alex
andria have burned saloons, against
which they seem to be directed. There
is no clue to the incendiary.
A fire at Madison destroyed two
buildings belonging to 81. A. Larson,
Tuesday afternoon. One of the build
ings was occupied as furniture store,
but most of the stock was saved.
Albert Berger had his hand badly in
jured by catching it in the self-feeding
attachment of a threshing machine,
near Comfrey.
The four year-old son of Michael
Burgoyne, near Anoka, had both his
feet cut off by getting in front of a
mower his father was driving.
Morton has let the contract for its
waterworks system to Morse, Fairbanks
& Co.
81. 81. Dunn, Albert Lea, and La
fayette French, Austin, have been au-
thorized by Attorney General Douglas,
as attorneys for the state, to bring
suit, in which the attorney general
will join, against the Minneapolis &
st. Louis Railway company, to enforce
the legal penalty for failure to COM
ply with the provisions of chapter 1870
of the general laws of 1856, and the
acts amendatory thereof, which are
chapter 81 of the laws of 1897, and 27O
of the laws of 1901, in refusing to erect
depot at Emmons, a village located
in Freedom county, on the line be-
tween Minnesota and Iowa.
On account of the shores becoming
so thickly populated, the use of water
from shallow wells, and the unsanitary
conditions surrounding at Lake Mime.
tonka physicians predict the posi- bility
of an outbreak of typhoid fever there.
VIM. Bruemmer, who had just re,
turned to SlayUon from the ST. Peter
hospital, committed suicide by shoot.
ing himself through the head.
Brick blocks will be erected at Cam.
bria in place of the wooden structures
recently burned.
A. L. Sugg of Chillicothe, Mo-, was
arrested at Sleepy Eye on a charge Of
horse stealing aud was to have hi
hearing today.
The house, barns and outbuildings OIL
Peter Green, near Anoka, together
with 500 bushels of grain, his hay an6
household goods, were totally destroy
ed by fire. No insurance.