The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-11-14

lT is said that lumbermen are only
offering Sl5 and $50 per month for worl
IN the woods the coming winter.
MAUD :. smashed her record agaiI
on Tuesday, by making a heat IN 2:09l
thus lowering the record J second.
JONES, the man who attempted t.
shoot Giteau shortly after the assassina
ton of Garfield, has been acquitted.
The hanging of II. John i'll efiig,
has occurred in number o.
places throughout the United States
ST. JOHN and his followers will nov
have serious time bringing thei
Democratic boy up in the way he ough
10 90.
The next Minnesota legislature vii
be composed of 80 Republicans, =
Democrats, / Independents and
Peoples.
THE next House of Representative
will be made up of lS3 Democrats ant
al Republicans, a gain for the Repub
licans of 222.
WHY don't the little Prohibition sue
cors JON the ''wah hoo of the dea
high moral reform party they hav
chaperoned?
IT. JOHN received little more thai
5000 votes in Kansas, while Mr.. Balm
got nearly 5000 plurality. st. JOIN
should emigrate.
PRESIDENT Arthur has issued tn
usual proclamation, setting aside Thur
day, November 9th, as a day of Nat
ional Thanksgiving.
JomN Il. French, the chairman of tn
Prohibition National committee, Ina
issued an address stating that the Pro
hibition vote decided the election.
The prohibition vote of the countr
Was 100000, large gain in four years
but time will show the polling of then
will be the father of much loss in tn
near future.
CHOLERA still exists in Paris in Il mil,
form. The authorities Of the city G
fashions have taken such precaution
as will relieve them "f Il violent rage O
the epidemic.
Mrs. i. +. STOREY, widow of the lat
Chicago editor, has applied for Il re
ceiver for the paper. 1t is the desir
of the rest of the relatives that an al
ministratOr be appointed.
PERHAPS all our citizens do not re
member that there will be no NOR,
county or state elections in Minnesoti
for two years. How quiet it will seen
with no conventions nor campaign can
wasting next year.
FIFTY years ago last Saturday, Gen
Sibley arrived at Mendoza, this state
The semi-centennial of this event wa
commemorated on that day in tin
way of an extensive banquet given t.
the General and his friends.
Now election is over, and a revival o
business may be looked for. The polit
ical excitement has for the last tire,
or four months rather stagnated bust
ness enterprises and whichever wa.
the balance tips, business must revive
SUPERINTENDENT JONES Of the Bur
lington, Iowa, schools, in compan,
with several lady and gentlemen
friends went onto pond for boa
ride and the skiff capsiZed, the Super
intendent and three ladies' bein
drowned.
THAT a man can be convicted of big
amy in Salt Lake City is hard thinj
to believe, but it has been done. Ru'
Clawson was convicted there last weel
of that crime. 1t would seem from
this, that there is yet some virtue il
the dignity of the law, and this curs
will yet be wiped out.
TIE poor old ecclesiastical somer
saultist and political nun, Henry War,
Beecher, will have serious tim
double back-actiOn hand-springing'
into the Republican line again, no,
that he has Wi peel the sweat of sin from
the humble Growers brow.
-S.
WATONwAN county is To have sena
tOrial contest next winter similar f
that which will he conducted for Blu
Earth county. w. X. Holmes has beef
nominated and elected to the senator
ship in that county and will contest 70
the seat, on account of Geo. Knutson
the present incumbent, holding tn
Office OF county auditor.
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TIE Chicago Inter- ocean strikes
popular chord with the remark tina
when the vote is honestly canvassed
without regard To the man il elects
the people will shake hands over tn
chasm and resume business. Tn
country is too full of brave, honest an,
patriotic men to permit anything t
destroy confidence in the perpetuit,
of Republican institutions or more thai
momentarily turn aside the happiness
peace, and prosperity of the country