The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-10
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

Edward D,srudorf, Brooklyn print
er. LinaI hl- wife and then committed suicide.
IN tire OLeary international pedestri-
az. contest d: S,w Yorl, Edward vint, Brook
lvu shoemaker. captured the belt. He made
o. mile il. six aavs. which exceeds ali previous
records.
4 train ON the Pennsylvania railroad
va, wrerk,i by an open switch near Trenton,
NJ. Tvo passengers We're killed, and ten
others seriously injured.
CCal-miu, agents held meeting at
PL-lads.L. aud. E, prevent oyer-production,
agreed jr-ter .o." in th,ir mj:cs six days in
tbs and ,..,. d. "a 81, neg, month.
The tug Jake Brands blew up of
SANDY HOOK, \. J.. and the engineer was blown
overheard and drowned and lis son fatally in
jused
Capt. Paul Boyton left st. Paul on
The 3O'h nit. FOR Cairo, III suit OF inflated
rubber, hoping 10 paddle the distsna" in si1
-. dag. ne then proposes to float down the
Missouri from Fort Benton TO st. Louis.
John f. Clapp, catcher and Captain
OF the Cleveland Baseball Club, was ap-
proachcd by J. :. Woodruff, dry-goods clerk
Of Chicago. who attempted TO corrupt him into
giving away games. The catcher WIS incor-
ruptiLle. aud ..gqve away" Woodruff instead,
aud lhe Young man was exposed in the Chicago
papers.
Hr. JOHN GIiscOm, the New York
81 10, q. ty-Ay
F,4i perhaps liitv, days. began his task on Sat-
griay, MAJ -, at noon, after partakinS OF q
L"asty meal with IA number OF professional
ru,u and otbcis, among whom was DIR. Tan
mr.
john l.. Eaurich, an indianapolis
policeman, -hot LIS wife in the right eye and
d. aI GU-, put a bullet III the arm OF her
ta.4cr, and wound up by killing himself.
\ fcud Of long standing impelled Prof.
Charles Stlckucy, Of Denver, TO kill NJ. Il.
rhaupeau. Mrs. II. o. Devroe sprang between
tLr men aud VIE uniutcnt,ona!ly slain.
Three masked robbers entered a store
At NorlonyI, Kan. drew reyolvers, and
forced those vro sent to keep still while 81, 200
Was extracted from the safe.
Anti-prohibitioniats ins Kansas have
tugcl.ou. methods Of evadns the new liquor
law. jug trains " arc doing good business
TAo friends Of temperance believe that the law
all eventually BE- entirely successful.
south.
duel took place near Charleston,
" Va, between John J.. and George Nunlcy,
ar,I. and nephew George war shot in the
U.puh before he got ready to fire.
The most careful estimates put the
cotton crop o! last year at G, 400 900 bales, or
alarly = million and a half bales more than the
,fhcHdid crop Of 1879. The greatest crop ever
Listed undor slavery was that Of 1860, which
:cll about Goa, 900 bales short of the yield Of
let year.
Fred Douglass, as part of the decora-
ton ccrCmou.cs, delivered an historical Grafton
o. john Brown At Harper's Forty, Va. Quite
s number Of Confcderates and old Virgnians
:.allrred 10 ALar him. Among the latter was
T.. " T. Hunter, Who was tho States Attorney
aho prosecuted john Brown. When Douglass
had finished lis Grafton, Mr.. Hunter vas one
@! tho first 20 congratulate him.
An attempt was made at Gainesville,
Teas, 10 arrest John Thompson for carrying
concealed weapons, when Lie turned upon his
pursucrs and killed Deputy Sheriffs Charles
Meredith, J.. KrIILt and Samuel Meredith.
At Frederick, Nd, u fine monument
was unveiled, at Sit. Olive Cemetery, over the
graves Of the Confederate soldiers who fell
at Antietain aud other battles fought in that
vicinity.
u. s. Grant has been elected President
OF the Texas Western Narrow Gauge road, and
active operations toward the Rio Grande will
be al once Commenced.