The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-21
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were seated at dinner. His reason was that
they would not give him enough to eat.
Internal revenue officials found IN
illicit still in ravine about fourteen miles from
Somerset, Pa, and captured four moonshiners
and $50 barrels of whisky.
A Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1450,
brought $4,000 at an auction sale in New York.
Ex-Attorney General Devens has
been re-appointed to the Supreme bench Of
Massachusetts.
]. L. & L. f. Kuntz, the well-known
lager-beer brewers of New York have made an
assignment to their father their liabilities be-
ing $4,000.
Jay Gould has bought Col. Tom
SCOTS interest in the Texas Pacific railroad.
Moody and Sankey have finished four
months Of continuous labor in San Francisco
A coal firm in Cleveland has sued two
railroads running into that city, claiming S27,-
900 for freight discrimination in favor Of other
dealers.
A company which proposes to build n
railway from Pekin to Grafton, H., has been
incorporated at Springfield, with n capital of
s., OO0, 0OO
Van Hise, Linn and Corwin, who
we're arrested at Cleveland for connection with
the Missouri land frauds, have been discharged
for lack of evidence, Detective Tyrrell failing to
appear to testify.
The municipal officers of Dodge City,
Kan, having refused to surrender to their sue
cessors, q body of seventy armed men proceeded
to break the locks of the Jail doors, and have
issued notice to all thugs to leave within
twenty-four hours
Fifty feet OF the Government riprap ut
Omaha has been washed out by the floods
Two men were swept out among the ice cakes
and drowned.
A Winona (Minn.) dispatch of the 9Th
INST. says: "The work Of raising the blockade
OH the west end OF the Chicago and North
western railroad is proceeding slowly. There
still remains $40 miles in blockaded state.
or this all but fifty miles can be easily raised.
The fifty miles consist of ice and frozen snow
that will have to be picked step by step. There
are from 400 to 500 men at work, and it is
thought that two weeks will see the road open
to PIERRE Oak. No trains have been run to
WATERFOWL, OAK, since the Goth Of January.
scarcity Of -four, oil and groceries, but no suf
fering from the lack OF these or other living
necessities"
All Luck, Chinaman, was hanged at
Nevada City for the murder Of q countryman.
Col. M. @. CARRIER, Postmaster at Mad
ison, Ind, and proprietor Of the Courier, died
from paralytic stroke.
Great activity is apparent in the work
Of grading the Northern Pacific up the valley
Of the Yellowstone, where 5000 men will soon
be employed, preference being given those who
intend settling in the region.
The conductors and drivers on the
West Division Railway Company, of Chicago,
struck for an advance of 90 per cent. in their
pay. Over half the city was deprived Of street.
car facilities for thirty-six hours, and people
had to foot 1t to and from their places
Of business. The sympathies Of the communi-
| ty were with the strikers, and the corporation
finally yielded to the demands Of the en-
ployes.
A strike of the Iourneymen carpenters
| Of Cincinnati resulted in the concession OF
S2.25 per day by 125 builders
Under the escort of Senators Conk-
ling, Jones, Logan and others, the remains of
the late Senator Matt II. Carpenter, of Wiscon-
sin, arrived at Milwaukee on the 9th inst, and
we're formally delivered to the Governor and
Legislature Of the State that had elected Mr.
| Carpenter to the Senate, by Senator Conkling,
in behalf Of the Senatorial committee. The
body lay in state at the Court House on Sun
day, the 10th, and was viewed by $4,000 sor-
| rowing people, after which it was buried in
| Forest Hill Cemetery with imposing ceremo-
MES.
The iron-works of @. & G. Cooper &
Co., at Mount Vernon, Ohio, were destroyed by
fire, causing loss Of $4,000.
Gen. Ben Spooner died at Lawrence
burg Ind, last week. He was Colonel OF tho
Eghty-third Indiana In the war; and lost a leg
at Kenesaw. He was born in Mansfield, Ohio;
aged So.
Mrs. Charles Ballou, of Saranac,
Mich, known as the Mammoth Queen" is
dead. When travelling with exhibitions she
weighed $40 pounds, but wasted away to 400.
Mark Beaubien, doubtless the most
noted Of all the pioneers of Chicago. who kept
the first hotel and ran tho earliest ferry across
the Chicago river, died at Kankakee, ILL.,, few
days ago, aged 81 years. David Mckee, an
other Of the early pioneers Of Chicago, has
also passed away, at the age Of 80.
Seven persons were drowned by the
capsizing of row-boat on the Ashley river,
IN South Carolina.
The Confederate graves in New Or
leans were decorated with flowers contributed
by the Grand Army of the Republic.
Reports from all portions of South
Carolina are to the effect that the fruit crop
has been ruined by the extreme cold.
South Carolina Judges are quite gen.
orally enforcing the State law against carving
concealed weapons, for which offenss many
persons have been sent to the penitentiary.
Three horse-thievcs were summarily
disposed Of" by the vigiantes Of johnson
county, Tex.
Four inches of snow fell in Northern
Virginia on the night of April 8.
M. W. Gary, cavalry officer in the
Confederate army, and always prominent in
law and politics, died at Edgefeld, 8. @.
Deputy United States Marshal Sea-
greaves was recently assassinated and robbed
in Macon county, Tenn.
A party of armed and masked men
rode into Toledo, Ark, at daybreak, surround
cd the Court House, broke into the Treasurers
Office, and stole about $4,000. They then re-
mounted and escaped.
A negro woman was lynched at Mar
tins Depot, s. c., for attempted arson.