The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-28
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

James O'Brien, better known as Bob
Lindsay. pleaded guilty in New York court TO
perjury III the famous Morey trial, and was
sentenced to State prison for eight years.
In a billiard contest ut New York
Schaefer scored 1000 points while slosson wss
making 2,7SO.
The typhus fever has made it's appear
ance in New York. II is the most dreaded Of
all diseases 10y doctors, for II does not respect
the profession.
The Bankers and Merchants Tele-
graph Company, Of New York, organized with
capital Of s., 600 600. has begun the construc-
ton OF a twelve wire line bstween Boston and
Washington.
The butter-deslers OF Washington
market. New York have resolved no. 10 deal in
oleomRrgarine.
The medical profession in tho State of
New York IS making an earnest effort to secure
the repeal Of the law forhidding vivisection.
An aifray at Troy, n Y. growing out
Of a quarrel over last falls election, resulted in
the instant killing Of one man. two others being
fatally shot.
West
Mark Beaubien, doubtless the most
noted Of all the pioneers of Chicago, who kept
the first hotel ANA ran the earliest ferry across
the Chicago river, died At KaEkakee, H., few
days ago, aged 81 years. David Mckee, an
other Of the early plou"crs Of Chicago, has
alec passed away, AZ the age Of 81
Sioux City dispatches of the 14th
inst. represent that snow covers the prairiss to
the depth Of one to three feet, and farmers in
that section cannot commence plowing for
several weeks. An aid society has been formed
70 distribute relief in the flooded districts,
where the destitute number over 5000. A
Yankton dispatch Of the 18th states that twenty
families residing at a bend in tho Missouri
river fifteen miles below Yankton were impris-
oned by fields OF heavy ice. A colony OF 1870
people, who had been surrounded by water at
Msyville for two weeks, had boen rescued. Two
relief parties were ondeavoring to reach Meek
ling, where fifty persons were imprisoned by
fields Of ice from five to twenty feet high.
Probably 5000 settlers have been rendered des-
titute On the Dakots bottoms.
The annual report of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fc road shows gro,s earnings
Of $3.50, 975 and net income OF S4,2l3, TO.
The length Of the road is ], 539 miles, and It's
funded debt SIS, $4,000.
At a short-horn sale in Waukegan,
ILL.,, one hcifer brought 1880, and another
S2250
The Chicago Times says: "a thor
ough canvass Of the Wiuter-wheat region has
been made by n representative of the Times.
II is evident that the damage done in Illinois
and Indiana is much greater than in the other
States, and has led to authorizations altogether
too dismal. There is good reason to believe
that the yield OF the country at large will be
nearly as great as for the last two years, as the
acreage has very greatly increased. That the
crop Is very backward goes unquestioned but
the prolonged snow-storms have proven bull
wark Of defense against nipping frosts."
Mayor Means, of Cincinnati, has
issued an order closing all the Sunday theaters.
Judge Mallory, of Milwaukee, has
declared the Wisconsin Anii-Treating law in
operative and void, on the ground that the bill
rs enacted presupposca the existence Of law
which, since the revision of the Wisconsin
statutes, has not been ia existence.
Chicago papers chronicle the death of
Col. ii. W. Fanar, iOr many years business
manager OF the fleming Journal, Of that city,
The Central Pacific road, with 2,644
miles of rail, reports gross earnings for March
of Sl,6430OO.
The Federal Court at Indianapolis has
ordered the sale Of the Fort Wayne, Muncie
and Cincinnati road within sixty days.
The northern wing of the Illinois
Southern HosptaI for the Insane, located ut
Anna, H., was dc.t ,ycd b. fire. One patient
porished III the IlRnr- Tbs loss il estimated
at S2O0.OOO