The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-01
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| AnuloW Idpper, IHe muruerer Ol
Rosa Mixa at Carver, has been found
guilty of murder and sentenced to be
hung.
A white man and a colored man
were each seriously wounded as the
result of stabbing ARRAY in Wi
mona saloon. 1t was the result of a
former quarrel.
The oairymen and creamerymen of
Martin and Faribault counties will
meet in their annual convention at
Blue Earth on Thursday, Oct. 31st.
The Faribault school board has ap-
pointed truant officer.
Forest fires are raging in the vicinity
of Milacca.
Articles of incorporation of the st.
Cload Light and Power Co. have been
filed. 1t is successor of the Gas &
Electric Co. of that city.
A young man named Buengard liv-
ing near Mortified had one of his
hands taken off in corn shredder
yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Tousingnoult,
who live near Faribault, celebra ted
their golden wedding Monday. They
have eight children, thirty eight grand
children and one great grandchild, liv-
ing.
Mrs. Helen G. hammers, one of the
old settlers of st. CrOix valley, ia dead
at Saltwater
Little Kenneth Kerfoot, the little
four year old son of S. F. Kerfoot of
Winona, got shut up in a locker in the
Y. NJ. @. A. tennis court by small
playmate and it was several hours be-
fore he was found, and then only by
accident; as it was closed for the sea-
son and would not have been opened
until spring.
The price of Redwood county farm
lands has doubled in the past three
years, and lands in the vicinity of
Redwood Falls have sold at from $40
to $50 per acre.
| DR.. Bracken of the state board of
health pronounces the suspicious cases
held as small pox at Austin, chicken
pox and ordered the temporary quar-
antine removed.
The citizens of West Concord have
but in a telephone exchange and have
fifty subscribers thereto.
Gold, Staoeck & Co. will open their
private bank at Redwood Falls on
Nov. 1st.
l.. A. Garfield of st. Cloud, who at
tempted to poison his wife several
months ago and then kill himself, was
found yesterday afternoon in the loft
of his barn with several slashes in his
neck made by razor. 1t is believed
he will recover. He had just been
paroled from the Fergus Falls hospital.
A few days ago Public Examiner
Pope declared SIS, 900 worth of insur-
ance on the Winona county court house
void, because one of the commissioners
was member of the firm writing it,,
has given it as his opinion in letter
to the county auditor that the entire
$50, 600 is also void.
Nels Hanson, who more than five
years ago broke his parole from the
Minnesota state reformatory at st.
Cloud was returned there yesterday.
Ele has since served term in the New
Jersey state prison, from which he was
just released.
Selig Kramer of Wadena who was
charged with burning the store of
Kramer Bros. of Bertha, of which firm
he was member, had his case dis
missed by the court. 1t was claimed
by Clinton Amsbaugh that he set fire
to the store at the instigation of Kra-
mer. Amsbaugh's testimony was unsup-
ported and the law does not allow of a
conviction on the unsupported testi-
mony of an accomplice.
The farmers around Mortified found
their sugar beet crop a paying invest
ment this year.
A new state bank will be established
at Fergus Falls.
Felix Kobus of Winona, who was re-
Gently paroled from the state training
school at Red Wing, has been return
ed to the school for breaking his par
ole. He exhibited worse features than
when first sent.
John D. Rupp of Butrernut has been
missing since last May. A few days
before he disappeared he had a check
cashed for large sum and has not
been seen since. His brother from
Kansas has arrived to see what he can
do in solving the mystery.
W. E. Hoist. we'll to-do farmer
near Red Wing has sold his farm and
Joined Dowies Zion city.
Safe crackers blew open the safe in
the depot of the Great Western road
at Waterville Thurdsay night and
got 80 cents.