Daily globe., 1879-05-26
MANKATO NEWS.
Court Business-Noyel Answer to n Peti-
tion-Farmers Regulating wages-Obitu-
ary-RailrOad SDeculations.

Court Business-Novel Answer to Pett-
tion-Farmers Regulating wages-Obitu-
ary-Railroad speculations.
Correspondence of the Globe.
MANKATo, May 24.-Business has been
good for the past week. The May term Of
court being in session no doubt has had
some influence, in the way that SO many be-
ing in town, they can't help but buy, as the
merchants have put in such large and ele-
CANT stocks.
The court calendar shows eighteen crimi-
nal and forty four civil suits -Four of the
criminal docket has been quashed, being for
passing counterfeit money, John Griswold
and VIM. Morgan, who we're turned over to
the United States court and taken to ST.
Paul, Thursday.
There has been petition circulating
among the citizens for some time past to
give man named Dodge 5000 for the cap
ture Of John Campbell, the murderer of the
Jewett family some fourteen years ago.
This petition was presented to the county
board. who refused to take any action upon
it as it was out of their perogative under the
law, and it was returned to the petitioners
with the advice that it be presented to the
numerous signers for their endorsement for
the sum of 81 or more.
A ruralist, not being aware that our
county auditor, j. j. Thompson, put in an
apprenticeship in the fur trade, tried to draw
wolf bounty on fox scalps Wednesday.
The farmers of Mapleton met informally
on the 18th inst, and passed series of reso-
lutions not to pay more than
$2 per day to harvest hands,
as it was, in their opinion, sufficient
under the existing cheap rates for the neces-
saries of life, and really more than the
farmer can afford to pay in the majority of
cases. "A formal meeting will be held on the
31st ult., when steps will be taken to ask the
cooperation of farmers throughout the
| State.
Extensive preparations are being made for
a monthly stock fair or exchange. The first
to be held the Hh of June.
Mr.. 7. D. Warren was buried on Thurs
day. Rev. Mr.. Hobart conducted the ser
vices, and some very interesting and compi-
mentary remarks were made by Hon. NJ. s,
Wilkinson, in memory of the deceased. Mr..
Warren was one Of the Oldest residents Of
Mankato. He died very suddenly on Tues
day, of rheumatism of the heart.
!. The young ladies ef the Episcopal church
). met with excellent success ct their festiva
. Thursday evening, the total receipts being
something over $50. Much satisfaction hat
been expressed by those in attendance as tt
J the excellence of cream and Strawberries
and the delightful harmony of sentiment o
, the gathered units.
(; Bishop Whipple. the grand. good church
J man, confirmed four gentlemen and one lad.
last evening at st. Johns church. Mr.. Rich
mond, the rector, is very popular with hi
} people, and his work here shows how mucl
can be made out of almost nothing.
l Considerable speculating has been goiDl
. on in business circles here in regard to wha
project the st. Paul & Sioux City railroa,
has on foot in the vicinity of Heron Lake
Z Some say inasm uch as the st. Paul & Mil
r waukee headed them off on the Worthingtol
! & Sioux Falls branch, they will now hea
? them off in their. lately rumored purchase
0 the Southern Minnesota railroad. One re
= port has it that there was over continuou
Q mile of grade complete from Hero
t Lake on the surveyed route of the s. M. F
R. # this is true, everything has bee
s conducted with such utter secrecy that it
:. worthy of the old railroad king Vanderbilt