The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-10-04
Around About Us

tinued in Benton county because of the
rural delivery routes.
The children injured by lightning
in the school house near St. Cloud are
improving.
Fred Molenhauer, a young farmer
living near Owatonna, got caught in
the belt of a threshing engine late
Wednesday afternoon and his left arm
was torn off and he was otherwi Sc
| badly bruised He is at the hospital
at Owatonna and it is feared he will
not recover.
The Dispatch states that there is still
large amount of threshingssto be
| done in the vicinity of Sleepy Eye.
The will of the late Bishop Whipple
has been presented for probate. One
third of his property and life insur-
ance goes to his widow and the re-
mainder is divided between son,
three daughters. grand son. niece
and cousin. Besides mis- residence in
Faribault, he had property in Duluth,
Florida and the Dakotas.
Miss Mary thinner has sued the
Leisen Shoe and Dry Goods Co. at st.
Cloud for $4,000 damages to her
character. She was charged with
stealing belt that was found under
her wrap.
Ludwick Keisler, laborer, was in
stantly killed by the cars on the Great
Northern track at st. Cloud yesterday
shortly before noon. His hat blew off
and he jumped to get it and fell under
the wheels.
Lawrence r. Ho well, who has been
travelling for the st. Cloud Grocery
company since its establishment some
thing over year ago, was arrested
yesterday morning by Sheriff Schilp-
lin, on a warrant sworn .out by J. G.
Cotton, a member of the firm, charg-
ing him with embezzlement of 1912. %
on Nov "a, 1900.
A farmer living near Duluth paid
SO each for two cartridges which he
killed out of season.
Morton has just commenced work on
a novel system of water works for fire
protection. AS the town is located
on granite ledge, it was impossible
to sink we'll. In lieu thereof the
council went about quarters of
mile to the northeast, on top of the
hills thanking the Minnesota valley
which are 90 or 100 feet higher than
the highest building in Morton, and
tapped a spring and sunk a cistern.
A conduit will be laid from this cis-
tern to town, and pipes from the con-
dit will furnish the water for fire
purposes at various points. The pres
sure will be very strong.
One of the girls employed in
Crookston hotel as dishwasher was
given a coat of tar and feathers by her
associates because of her anarchistic
references to the death of President
Mckinley.
Walter Anderson, one of the parties
who held up and killed John McGrath
in freight car near Little Falls last
harvest, has been sentenced to states
prison for thirty years, the full limit
of the law, he pleaded guilty to MUIR
der in the third degree.
Erick Maxi indicted for murder in
the first degree for killing Andrew
Tanner at Sandstone July 23d, pleaded
guilty to manslaughter in the second
degree and was sentenced to the re-
formatory at St. Cloud.
A child of Mr.. and Mrs. Wood at
Winona got hold of some strychnine
in some unaccountable manner and
swallowed it, narrowly escaping death.
A physician worked over it IA hours
to save it's life.
Mrs. Fanny B. Cross, widow of the
late DR.. E. c. Cross died at Roches-
ter Thursday. She was one of the
early settlers of that city.
Ed. Janke and Carl Groebner who
were arrested near New Ulm charged
with attempting to wreck traias on
the Minneapolis & st. Louis road,
have been held to the grand jury.
The druggists of Brown county
formed an organization at New Ulm
yesterday.
In the Milestone vs. Su tton case at
Fergus Falls for $40, 600 for SANDER.
verdict of 81 was rendered to plaintiff
by the jury.
Ole Melbye, postmaster at Ulen, has
pleaded to embezzlement and was sem
fenced to six months in Clay county
Jail.
VIM. Middagh has been sent to the
Clay county Jail for two months for
padding his stamp account as post
master at Rollag.
The warehouse of the Rush City
Mercantile Co. at Rush City, was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday morning. The
loss was about $4,000
A party of Great Western surveyors
are reported working in the vicinity
of Hastings.
Special Agent Eugene McComas who
has been engaged in rescaling the dead
and down timber on the reservation at
White Earth, has finished the work
and returned to Washington.
Lester Blinn of Kenyon. who was en-
gagged in unloading telegraph poles
from car while in motion, on the
Great Western in Iowa, slipp ed be-
tr-oo., tho carr nd had ono lon. ax.zrLx,.a