The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


DOMESTIC.
A Rockford, ILL.,, man was find $35
and costs for giving another man
liquor.
The grand jury at DeadwOod has
prosecuted the county commissioners
for making extravagant expenditures.
A cripple from Montreal, Ell route
for Texas, Is making his way through
central Vermont OH his hands and
knees.
During the month of July 1891
cOastwise vessels, with Il total ton
mage of 6S3 ,66S, arrived in the post of
Chicago.
The permanent exposition building
ut Philadelphia, which cost 81 $780,
600. was sold ut auction OH Tuesday
for $57 900.
a horse-thief Detective Associa-
ton is i'm session ut HOOpstown, iii.
There are 800 delegates present from
Iowa. Illinois. Indiana, and Missouri.
Claims to twenty gold mines, locat-
ell in Fulton, Hamlin, and Saratoga
counties. New York, have been filed
ut Albany with the secretary of state.
Seven members of the Molly Ma
guire order ere arrested in the mines
near Dunbar, Pa, for being concerned
in the assassination of Maurice Healy.
The Fenian torpedo boat has been
inspected by a United States official
i'm New York, who says that it is of
no practical use except for a harbor
defense.
The Treasury Departement has re.
ceived about $40, 900 worth of
bonds for continuation from English
holders. The London agency will be
closed ut once.
The Treasury Department are
making an effort to put a stop to the
custom of punching holes in coins.
They will invite the public to refuse
any clipped money.
The first party of Chinese students
who G being educated in New
England colleges left Hartford. Conn,
last week for home, via San Francis
co. Other parties are to follow.
Grove. the dynamite fiend. charges
that the Irish World collected 500. 200
for 1.-THE skirmishing fund.-" but can
not show $4,000 thereof. He claims
to be the originator of that fund.
The drOuth has become so intense
in the region tributary to Nashville,
that fire screens have been placed on
the locomotive smoke-stacks to pre-
vent a wholesale cOntlagration.
The immigration commissioners ut
New York have commenced suits
against the steamship companies to
recover $4,000 for inspection fees ut
Castle Garden for June and July.
Steuben Butler. the oldest resident
of Wilkesbarre, Pa, passed away at
the age of ". He was IL sOn of Col.
Zebulon Butler. who commanded the
settlers ut the massacre of Wyoming.
The supreme court of Nebraska
has pronounced constitutional i'm
every particular the liquor law which
compels salOon-keepers to pay licenses
of $500 Or s. 1000 and give $1,000
bonds.
Ex-senator Bruce, Register of the
Treasury, probably n of the best
posted men on the subject, believes
that with Il fair count Mississippi
will have Il Republican majority this
fall.
Creameries and cheese factories are
multiplying very fast in the northern
portion of Iowa. Some farmers who
have lived in both states declare
that bluegrass does better in Iowa
than Kentucky.
John Miller, of Cleveland, Ohio,
who has h~eroically saved from drown.
ing ut different times nearly 100 per.
SONS, has been presented with a gold
medal worth $50 by the Cleveland
Board Of Trade.
The bees upon the Pacific coast,
which are nov in such countless
swarms, are said to have all origin.
ated from two warns taken there
in 1853 by Mrs. Shelton, of Santa
Clara County.
Every county of North Carolina
from which returns have been re-
ceived thus far gives a large majority
against prohibition. The estimated
majority against the amendment is
$4,000 or 10000.
The Inter Ocean says: a new kind
of bug has been discovered in Connec.
ticut, with q mouth resembling that
of the Rev. DR.. Talmage, legs like
those of Carl Schurz, and it chews
tobacco like a Texan.
Palatine, N. Y, is said to be the
richest village of its size in the world.
1t has about five hundred inhabitants,
and it is said that over thirty of these
are worth from $4,000, 10000 to 500.
DOC, 900, while six have over $50, OOO,.
900.
A sheep dairy for the manufacture
of cheese has been started near Chat.
tanOOga. Sheep cheese is "a popular
article of food in Austria, and this
enterprise, beginning with one thou
sand sheep is under the management
of an Austrian.
Mr.. Harris Lewis, examining once
a sample of milk drawn from an un.
clean udder by u dirty man in a foul
remarked that there was q
little too much manure to be called
pure milk. and not quite enough for
"a good fertilizer,