The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-05-03
Around About Us

. Around About Us )
The.city council of st. james has de-
cidedsto gravel the business streets of
the.town this summer, and force of
men is now at work putting the streets
in shape.
Peter Fetherman of Waseca, aged
80, a cigarmaker and unmarried, COM
mitted suicide Thursday with revol-
yer. He was suffering from cancer of
the bowels and was told by doctors
that he had but few months to live.
Winona grocers have already COM
menced to plan for their annual sum-
mer outing. 1t has been decided that
it shall take the form of steamboat
excursion this year. The plan is to
charter Diamond 10 packet or some
thing equally as large. Wednesday,
Aug. 7. is the date favored for the
outing.
A stranger supposed to be John
Hemphill of Gainesville, Texas, was
killed by an Interurban Car Wednesday
night at Parents crossing, near the
city limits of Saltwater. The body
was found about 10 20 a. m. by
motorman.
The Washington Tool Co. of Owa-
tonna has reorganized and increased
its capital stock from $50, 900 to $50, =
900.
Fl. P. Man. an employe of the North
Western railroad, was killed by an ex-
press train at Winona Wednesday.
He passed under the gates to board a
local train when he was struck by the
express. The body was so mangled
that Identification would have been
impossible had not papers been found
along the track, that were in a small
grip carried by the victim. Man had
been in the employment of the North
Western three months and was work
ing with the civil engineers on the
Wisconsin division.
Four children were injured at North
field by torpedo placed on the Chi
cago & Great Western tracks to warn
trains of repairs being made. The
children were II, 9, 6 and 4 years old.
They tried to open the tin box contain
ing the torpedo, failing to do so a stone
was thrown upon it, exploding it,
tearing one child's hand, another re-
ceived scalp wound on the forehead
and the eye of another was so badly
injured that it had to be removed.
w. F. Selleck of the Austin schools
has been elected superintendent of the
Crookston schools.
The creameries of Redwood county
have paid their patrons 5000. 900 dur
ing the past year.
Orders for prison binder Irvine are
being received at very rapid rate and
Mr.. Wolfer is of the opinion that a
very large share of the prison output
will be disposed of by June 1. Many
club orders for Irvine in carload lots
have been booked and many orders for
Irvine in smaller lots are arriving in
every mail.
A moose head, consign ned to W. G.
Putnam, Davenport, Iowa, has been
seized by game warden, as has also
a caribou head en- route to w. G. Lam
nay at Estherville, Iowa. Both are now
in the possession of Game Warden
Fullerton.
Christensen s department store at
Sleepy Eye was burlgarized Wednesday
night and 800 worth of merchandise
taken away.
Leavitt, Lee and Morey, the recently
appointed members of the state board
of control, spent Thursday in Faribault
looking over the state institutions
located there and consulting with the
local members of the board of directors
of the Minnesota institute for detectives
in regard to the location of the pro-
posed cottages for epileptics. 1t was
decided to employ an expert landscape
gardner to map.--out the grounds at
the school of the feeble minded before
any decisive action would be taken
as to the location of the new build
ings
Children playing with bonfire set
fire to barn belonging to John Posch
of St. James, entirely destroying it.
The loss was about $500.
IA band 'Tof close to eighty gypsies,
that have been camping across Lake
Winona for several days, left early
yesterday morning over the Milwaukee
road in special Car for WilIiston,
N. D., that being on their way to