The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-06-22

/ at the big Southwestern Minnesota ccle
bration in Mankato on the Fourth. Tw.
Hose Companies and the Militia compan,
has designated their intention of being
+. here. Owatonna fire department is ais,
expected. In fact rs it now appears
all the boys will be here.
Under theauspices and for the bene,
fit of the Mission Sabbath school. an ice
cream festival will he held this Friday
afternoon and evening in the tent be-
tween Christensen Bros. dry goods store
and Jorgenscn n Madson's tailor shop.
\ liberal patronage should he accorded.
The Gas Company is way behind
with their orders for fittings, but an in
creased force has been added and work
will he pushed as rapidly as possible.
There should he no hesitancy among
our business men to place their orders,
as all contracts made at this time will
be filled at cost.
-Messrs. Craig n Co, are pushing
the mason work on the reservoir at the
gas works, and with fair weather will
have 1T completed in few days. The
main building Is nearly finished, and
| things begin To assume q busincss.like
appearance about the illuminating
end" of town.
Mr.. Geo. b. Owen has purchased
| +. y. Titllnys interest in the book and
stationery business and will hereafter
devote his time to this in connection
with his insurance business. Mrs.
Owen will assume control in Georges
absence. Mr.. Tiffany will continue in
the sewing machine and organ business
NJ the old stand.
All passenger trains over the Oma-
In road now run Ia st. Paul ria Mn
ncapoliS, taking the 81. Louis track AT
Merriam Junction. Ii this change does
not cilcctually kill Shakopee it is hard
Ia tell what will. The company con-
dcscendigly run Il .'stub" from the juno
ton 10 81. Paul and return. rid of Sha-
kopee each day.
A postal card received, states that
there is some talk of Il small steam boat
being put on the river at Mankato be-
tween this and the Fourth of July for
excursions, Snd Ia run between Manka-
| Ia and New Tim for the season as
pleasure boat. This is pleasant news,
aud the venture might he made 10 pay
handsome profit.
In eNcavating at the cement works
yesterday a tooth or moler was uncarth-
cd about three feet beneath the surface,
three inches long 10y one and II halt in
chcs in diameter EMBEDDED beneath the
root of IN old tree. Ii has been thor
oughly examined. and many believe it
Ia have belonged To MaStadon. Man
kato soil yields everything.
Under the new order of things on
the c., ST. p, NJ. II o. road, Mankato
now receives the st. Paul morning pa
pcrS at $50 o'clock \. NJ, three hours
earlier than under the old regime. With
the through train from Des Moines to
81. Paul which passes this point at 30
l.. NJ. one can reach st. Paul at a little
after Ii o'clock. In the morning the
train leaves St. Paul at 80 and reaches
here at 8: 30.
On and after July 2nd, all money
order offices in the United States will
issue money orders from one cent to
one hundred dollars. This change will
be one that the public will appreciate,
and inasmuch as al order for Il less sum
than 800 can be procured for three
cents, medium for the transmission
of fractional currency at nominal cost
will he afforded which will prove very
convenient indeed.
Mr.. Daniel Wagner gives notice
that he is now ready to insure against the
loss of property by cyclones as well AS
fire. In face of the fact that cyclones
for the past few months have proved far
more destructive to property than any
of the elements which have appeared to
lay waste the hard-earned gains of a
lifetime, 1t might not be an improper
thing TO look into this matter. There
is no telling when the gale will strike us.
If the Tracy Trumpet Is authority,
and the incident relative to John Skog's
death At Tracy, notice of which was
given in these columns last week, is
true, Skog deliberately suicIded. 1t is
reported that Skog got on the track
about twenty feet IN front of the APP
preaching engine and deliberately
walked toward it. The engineer yelled
at him but he continued in his course
until struck down by the engine.
Bert S. Law, who for some time
has been employed rs salesman. for E.
n. Tiffany started on prospecting tour
in Wisconsin. He has a drug store in
view at Cumberland, and should he
conclude to stay there his father and
mother will follow soon. Bert feels
confident OF success in the business as
he has the experience of five years as a
prescription clerk to start with. May
success and prosperity be with him,
Mr.. Henry Shaubut received let
ter from DIR. Lewis on Monday, an
nouncing his safe arrival at London,
England. The trip was made in about
sixteen days from New Yoik, and the
. doctor and his daughter made the run
without suffering from sea sickness while
Mrs. Lewis and the little boy were only
sick day or so. With the exception
of one day the sea was calm, and Mr..
, Lewis writes that II jolly lot Of pas.
sengers combined to make the trip ex-
ccptionally pleasant.
The hand organ man now supplietl
the passcrs-by on the streets with sweet
strains of sold and familiar tunes" al
just whatever price you please to con
tribute. 1t would seem II good specula
ton for some entcrprising hand-orgar
manufacturer to gather in these old in
, strumcnts and knock out "tOoth" here
and there, which would at least give 6
> little variety to those tunes which have