The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-03-03

Inrealcucu rne people IRON inc Iact rnar tn
telegraph lines Of the country were practically
controlled by one man. Congressman Reagan
spoke and explained his bill, which no claimed
was only step III the direction of CURLING the
power of monopolies. Resolutions embodying
the spirit of the meeting were then adopted.
Mr.. William ID. HoWells has resigned
the edtorship of the Asidniic Monthly, and it is
currently reported that he is to be appointed
Minister and Charge al Berne, Switzerland
Mrs. julius Clemens, of Northamp-
ton, Mass. q victim of hereditary insanity, rose
from her bed in the night, went to the barn,
saturated her clothing With kerosene, and.
lighting match, burned herself to n crisp
Boston parties, who held controlling
interest in the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore road, have transferred their stock to
Jay Gould and the Baltimore and Ohio. TAo
Pennsylvania road is thus deprived of southern
connections by way of Baltimore.
West.
The Illinois Senate, by vote of 43 to
l, passed the bill imposing upon telegraph com
panes tax of 2 per cent. Oh the gross re-
ceipts.
The house of Fred Lanyon, on the
River Sioux, fifty miles from Sioux City, Iowa.,
was destroyed by fire, and l0-months-old
baby persisted in tho flames.
Loran V. Kennedy, Postmaster at
FairvIew. Neb. was lodged in Jail at Omahs,
ON the charge of robbing registered letters. He
has confessed his guilt.
A loss of $4,000 was incurred at
Denver by the destruction Of number of
buildings on CliT street.
Mrs. Irene Crandall and her child
were found dead in the road near their home
i'll Grant county, MIMI 1t is thought they
were murdered by her husband.
Twenty days Were consumed in San
Francisco in obtaining jury to try Isaac Kali
loeb for the murder of Charles DeYoung.
The large livery-stable of L. Levy was
burned at Nebraska City, and two helpers
named John Jackson and Frank Otto were
burned to death.
About 500 men and women of Chi
cago are given to the habit Of smoking opium.
South.
The cotton warehouse occupied by
Allen l. Crawford, in Columbus, Ga, was
burned. The los. il estimated at $4,000.
A number of Swiss farmers of the bet
ter class have determined to settle on land in
Eastern Kentucky. a number of the colonists
have arrived. The bulk Of them will come in
April
Frank Twiggs, convicted of the muir
der OF William Drisco!i, in Burke county, Ga,
last November. has been hung at WayGosboro.
The wife of William Fowlkes has
been found guilty of the murder of her hus-
band and sentenced to DO hanged at Peters
burg, Va.
Frank Twiggs has been sentenced to
death at Waynesboro, Ga.
United States Deputy Marshal w. +.
Gary, was killed in Kicking county, s. C., by an
illicit distllier named Kelly.
A large eagle attacked a boy as he sat
st breakfast in his fathers house near Milton,
\. c., dragged him out through the open win
dow and tried to carry him of. The fight wac
a desperate one, and would have ended in the
death of the boy had not the bird fatally in
jured itself hy striking its neck upon sharp
stick which stood upright in the ground. The
father was attracted to the secne by the boy
cries, but, thanking the eagle was the devil
ran away AZ fast rs his legs would carry him.
The boy was terribly manSci.
The lower house OF the Arkansas Leg
islature has resolved to submit TO the people
constitutional amendment to prohibit the sat
of liquor.