The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-07-28
had weighed down one of the high

had weighed down one of the high
tension wires at the o. B. Johnson
corner on Minnesota avenue, and as
soon as this came i'm contact with q
local low tension wire, the trouble
began. Both fires started at the
same time. An alarm was turned
i'm and there was "a prompt response
from the fire department. However,
it was not necessary to bring the
apparatus into play, the fires being
extinquished within few minutes
time. Had the accident to the wires
occurred at night, the results might
have been more serious. The dis
play window at Babcrichs, including
dress goods and draperies was
total loss. The damage at Clarks
was light.
From Saturdays Daily.
Gcoryc y, Dlnc', Nc wc.. auown
travelling salesman, is i'll at his home
226 Bradley street.
Tonight will see the harvest of
small grain in this county practically
completed. Most OF the fields were
cut yesterday.
Mrs. l.. l.. De Rosia wishes TO
thank her many friends for the show
er of beautiful postcards she received
in honor of her seventy-third birth
day.
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raised on the level part of Sibley park,
that was plowed up TO get rid of the
moles. The city will be selling pan
cakes next winter.
The funeral services over the re-
mains of the late John Olson Ulvin
yesterday afternoon were attended by
a large number of friends and neigh
bors. The services at the house at
one o'clock were in charge of Rev.
w. N. Jameson, and those at the
church were in charge of Rev. BrOnO.
At the church the services were held
on the lawn outside of the building.
Many floral offerings were made. The
interment was made at Decoria ceme-
terry.
New Ulm Journal: At a meeting
of st. Patrick Council, X. of c., held
Wednesday, evening, it was voted TO
donate $500 to the Church Of the
Holy Trinity. This money is to be
applied to the purchase of the new
communion railing to harmonic with
the high and side affairs. The new
railing has practically been selected
and will be an art work in white and
gold. The top will be of white mar
BILE and the pillars will be of suit
able design in onyx. This generous
gift on the part of the Knights was
prompted in return for the many
cOurtesies which have been extended
to them by the local congregation.
Winnebago Press News: Tuesday
afternoon Carlos Spokesman, the
drayman, was dangerously injured in
an elevator accident. 1t seems he
was engaged in hosting some plOws
to the second story in an elevator 1T
Earth avenue. When partly up the
rope broke and Spokesman, SO the
supposition is, was hit on the head
by one of the plOwS. A bad cash
was inflicted and the skull fractured.
DR.. Cooper was called but the in
jury to the skull was SO serious that
he summoned Dr.. Curran of MankatO.
The Mankato surgeon fixed the in
jured man up and gave it as his
opinion that he will recover, not.
mighty close call.
NicOllet Leader: Last Saturday
afternoon about three o'clock many
grasshoDpers could be seen flying
high up in the air, by standing close
to a building and looking up near the
sun they could be seen distinctly
flying in an easterly direction. Many
of the old settlers recalled the time,
about the year 1873, when the hop
pers took their departure from this
part of the country. They migrated
on southwest wind, going in
northeasterly direction and finally
would go out in the ocean where
they were afterwards washed up to
the shore in winrows. At times dur
ing their flight the sun was darkened,
the hoppers were so thick. The raw
ayers of the early day came from
the Rocky Mountains, while the ones
that have been flying the past week
are, it is said of the native variety.
The later seldom do much damage
only during not, dry seasons, such
as the present.
Worthington Globe: DR.. j. N.
Gould informed The Globe that a
number of cases of anthrax were
found in Sioux Valley, Jackson coun-
ty. Bacteridan anthrax is the most
ancient in fictitious disease TO animals
that is known. Moses, in his second
book mentions it and calls it the
sixth plague of Egypt" in his third
book he indicates the transmission of
anthrax to man by the INTERPRETATION
of soiled clothing. Stock buyers and
men who have anything to do with
the transportation of cattle will take
none from vicinity where anthrax
is thought to exist. All cases of an
thrax are under the supervision of
the state and the disease is kept