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Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10
GOULD ASTONlSHED.
The Great Railroad Magnate. Now That
the Backbone of the Strike il Broken,
Expresses Astonishment at the Weakness
of the Knights of Labor.


the Backbone of the Strike ia Broken,
Expresses AstOnishment at the Weakness
of the Knights of Labor.
New YORK, April 5.-Jay Gould said to
a reporter to-day: "The strike on our
railroads is practically over Its back
bone is broken. have been astonis&ed
at much of the revelation that has come
through the recent disturbances, but
nothing has been so surprising as the
proof that have had Of the weakness of
the Knights of Labor. They have no such
organizations as l had supposed. Their
demonstrations and assertions had led
me to believe them not only formidable,
but practically unconquerable. Recent
history has proved this idea all false.
They are weak. They are not the sort
of an organization that win victories. So
great was my apprehension as to the
strength of the Knights of Labor, and so
great was my fear of what might come
from fight by them, that for over year
we have been carrying hundreds of men
on the Missouri Pacific railroad pay-rolls
for whom we really had no need. We
were paying them their wages only be-
cause we were apprehensive of an ex-
treme emergency to follow a strike by the
Knights Now we find that the mol.ey spent
in this way was practically wasted.
Up to this time we have taken back
twenty-five men who have been active in
these strike troubles at st. Louis. We
can get all the men we want without
having to call upon single one of the
strikers. Labor in fact is overabundant
in all the strike districts. We de-
cided to give the men in East st. Louis
until one O'Clock this Monday afternoon
to return to work-such a number of
them at least as we require. II they
refuse this generous offer they will
get no further chance. Our minds are
made up to bring this whole business to
an end right away. The public patience
is worn out; we can not afford to be
thought guilty of trihing in SO grave
situation.
Mr.. Gould deplored the outbreak that
led to bloodshed at Fort Worth on Satur
day, and said his advices all showed that
the officers were the victims OF mas
sacre. They were not in any way re-
sponsiple for the savage episode.
Governor Ireland arrived at Fort Worth
at five O'Clock Saturday night, and Mr..
Gould believed that the presence there Of
the States chief executive, supported by
his troops would render impossible any
thing like recurrence Of Saturdays
fight with bullets
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10
HERE'S A PRETTY MESS.
Congress Continually Getting Behind with
It's Work and Strong Probability That
the Session VIII be Prolonged Until Sep
tember =. The Members Taking Things
EaStaS. However.


It's Work. and Strong Probability That
the Session VIII be Prolonged Until Sep
tember - The Members Taking Things
EassaS. However.
WASHINGTON, April 5.-Business before
Congress is becoming considerably CON-
plicated. Three special orders, one made
for February % and two for days in
March, have been passed over in the Sem
ate, while the Logan bill to increase the
efficiency of the army is spread like a
blanket over Mr.. Platt's bill to admit
Washington Territory to Statehood
which is unfinished business. In the
House the Labor Arbitration bill last
week ran rough shod over private-hill
lay and the special order for the discus
sion of the free coinage of silver. Two
or three appropriation bills hang fire, the
Post-oflfce bill being in an incomplete
condition, with no time fixed for
resuming its consideration. Then,
to make matters still more compli-
Gated in the House, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of the coming week
have been set aside for the silver debate,
"to make up for lost time'' with hope
and a slight prospect of disposing of it
before the close of another week.
Old members and Senators say it has
been years since the work of consider
ing appropriation bills was so far behind
as now. 1t would take two or three
months of solid work to finally dispose
of these appropriation bills were Con-
gress to confine itself to those meas
ures and the necessary incidental husi-
ness only. But with silver, the navy for
tification ordnance, the tariff, Dakota
and other Territories, bankruptcy, ship
ping, Interstate commerce, foreign af-
fairs, public lands, rivers and harbors, pub
tic buildings and grounds, pensions, con-
tested election cases, currency and coin
age, and number of judicial measures,
All of which demand, in stentorian tones,
action at this session, the prospects are
that adjournment will not be had before
the popular time, August, or the unusual
date of September. Up to this time,
however, no especial nervousness has
been shown by any one interested in any
especial measure, and things run along
with the apparent idea that time will be
taken for every thing urgent, if it takes
all summer.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

.p,prv Of Mexican customs officers re-
,antlv surprised band of smugglers near
San Fernando, killed their leader and cap
,nrad large quantity of goods.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

TUE Pou Mall Gazette says Gladstone is
riding straight for fall, and unless he
modifes his Irish scheme the country VIII
have neither home rule nor Gladstone.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

Tar late Countess Chambord left y 'ou'-
ma u cash. deposited with the Roths-
obiIds besides vast and immensely vaiu-
oble estates in Austria.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

n, Er1ssEAUx and Fauviaux, Socialists,
-ho are responsible for much of the re-
W.T. W.T. trouble in Belgium. have been ar
Id
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10
e,ews from Everywhere.

rur President has approved the act au-
,borizing the appointment Oh an ac.ing
.ssistant treasurer.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

THE German Government intends to ap-
roint a commission, of which Drs. Vlchow
and Koch viii be members, to examine
pasteur,s method of treatment for rabies.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

A BODY of Belgian rioters attacked the
Trappist monastery at Chimay, but were
beaten off by the monks, who had armed
themselves with heavy bludgeons. The
rioters said they were more to be feared
than Belgian troops.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

,,n.l, -. !, GUTHRIE, of Leesburg, O., has in
- new telephone which is claimed
hr.as. ,sesS great superiority over any other
n, ,'1''on Of the kind. 1t does away with
=, nluctlon coil, the articulation of
n.at JDn oeing produced by natural and
A'Aleal ,.n. disturbance of the electric cur
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

ABRE LIszr arrived in London on the
81 and proceeded at once to the residence
o, his publisher at Sydenham, where all
the musical and literary celebrities of
the metropolis had been invited to meet
him.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

DR.. BRApTN, who attended Neal, the hy-
dronbohis victim. at Newark, N. j., got
some of Meals saliva in cut on ms hnger.
He has gone to Paris to be treated by
Pasteur.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

A GENERAL strike took place in the pa
per mills of Birmingham, Eng, on the 1st,
against an ordered reduction of thirty
three per cent in wages. 1t is believed
the strikers viii accept a more moderate
reduction
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

JAY GOULD intimates the intention of
The Missouri Pacific Company to use every
means within its power to secure the pun
lshment Of the strikers who have been
participants in acts of violence to the
property Of the company.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

The remains of Captain Emmett Craw-
ford arrived in Denver on the 9Th, in
charge of Major j. G. Bourke. of Captain
CraVIord's regiment and for long time
an aide to General Crook. The remains
will he Inferred at Kearney, Neb.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

N,t;- h'DolLAR counterfeit brownback
p,r,.u' .Yu'i oank note has been discovered,
Nat ,;s.'pg 10 be an issue of the Central
s;4ai bank Of Norwalk, Conn.,, and
q. NJ 'ae charter number of the bank as
asi 'ns bank has never issued a note
ts i.S ceres Of 1882, and its charter num-
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

THE Navajo Indians in the San Juan
country are reported to be on the eve of an
outbreak, and it is said they threaten to
kill every white man that does not vacate
a certain tract of land which they claim.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

PMSUE LUDWIG OF BATTENBERG and his
wife, who have both mastered the typo
graphic art, have just completed the put
ing in type of a two hundred page vol
ume entitled "My Journey to Bulgaria."
written by Prince Alexander's sister.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

4Hk Reading Pa.) iron works, in re-
spONSs 10 the petition presented by the
a'u' advanced wages fifteen per cent,
,,Arepung puddlers, who will receive three
'a'S and half instead of three dollars,
t.s ts.llins on the ID. The employees num-
vel some two thousand.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

GOVERNOR FORAKER of Ohio on the
0S appointed the Cincinnati police
~lnSlon, as follows: Two years,
naonas c. Minor, Democrat; Geo.
q S lopp' Republican; four years, Robert
n morgan, Republican; Milo G.. Dodds,
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

lHE Secretary of War received a dis
patch on the lst from General Crook con-
Af'aing the reports Of the surrender and
subsequent escape of Geronimo and part
o. nlS band, but giving no details in addi-
u0h 10 what has already been published.
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

TIE rs,s.. o'"i number of rioters killed during
esraf., am riotIng in Belgium has been as
hat Il. ~ oe twenty-six. 1t is probable
strikars F0'sohs arrested for melting the
sitis A., Violence can not be punished,
acino 'ouotful whether the mere act of
pro,,.g; 70 riot is punishable under the
''''isions of the penal code. ~
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

otSsora. as no change in the condition
scans 10y, , Manning on the Cd. Hisphv-
6st n tS.1 would only say, when interview ed.
little worsp p"'ieh1 was a little better or a
hown ~ as the case might be. II is
tally psrsI,er' that the Secretary is par
ans. 'Tra,yzed' Tb and can barely move his
aNimmediat was no danger, however, OF
''a's Change in his condition
Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-10

bepart,,nrssln.a nave been issued from the War
nsais Of :, ana! King the following assign.
eeperal' 7 sal division commanders: Maior.
sc; Aajor.Gsn7lu Division of the Attain
Missouri gnefai M Terry, Division of the
co Vision Of tha haiqr-G General Howard. Di.
croos, reliass, Il tue Pacific; Brigadier-Gsnera, m
Sanand of ,ho ~ y niS own request from the
natts; Brlsas'0 lsa to the Department Of f'nu, ths
eRs Dsp.ssIraa'.sar saa'sr- General Miles assigned led
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-09
SKIPPED WITH THE FUNDS,

Two weeks ago we announced the or
ganization of local dramatic company
at st. Clair, under the auspices of tho
Mcpherson star band, for the express
purpose of increasing the funds of the
latter organization. The dramatic com.
pact was under the direction of a profess
slOnal Snowman, Dell Knowlton, well
known to many in tins part of the coun-
try. A good programme was prepared
and presented in Haynes hall at ST.
Clair last Thursday evening to large
house, many being unable to gain ad-
mittancc. The company went to Eagle
Lake Friday evening and were greeted
with a paying house, and had arranged
to repeat the entertainment at st. Clair
on Saturday evening, but during the
day Mr.. and Mrs. knOwltOn drove to
Eagle Lake and have not put in an APP
pearance since. Now the band boys do
not lament the departure of the knowl-
tons so much as they do the fact that
the unscrupulous "Del" was permitted
I'd carry the proceeds of the entertain
ments and apparently forgot to give the
boys their "percentage." Several of the
business men of that place, also, would
like to learn the address of the cute
Snowman that they may send him their
bill. 1t was SCOOP" for Knowlton,
and we would advise other towns where
he NAV call. to adopt the leash" sys-
tenn Immediately upon his arrival in
their midst
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-09
Madison Lake.

Farmers begin to talk of seeding.
Mr.. Inkstcin Is building new house.
MIR. Knapp is erecting a new residence.
Mr.. Hoagland Is inclosing his saw-mill.
Mr.. MeFaddcn has moved into is new house
Allyn g. Fuller are doing II tRriving business
Mr.. Reed, formerly of Eagle Lake, has loca-
ted I'm our village.
Our saw mill is running full bl asst, the best
of lumber is turned out daily.
Miss Emma Fletcher of Mankato is spendin g
a few days with her sister, Mrs. J. Haslip.
We learn that some party from Mankat is
erecting boat-house on the west side of the
lake.
Mr.. Coleman has purchased two aoros OF
land Of Mrs. MOttwilie and intends star ting a
nor.~i
GAYS of Edgewood, are visiting their mother
who has been very sick.
Mr.. Robertson. jr., Of Eagle Lake, paid our
village visit last week, perhaps, with view
of establishing a (reedJing society.
Our lively blacksmith is constantly employ.
cd, shooting, repairing, etc. Mr.. II. receives
the patronage OF the majority of our farm crs.
Miss Gilmore, of WinnebagO Agency, pro-
poses teaching a select school i'm Madison
Lake. The villigers will build a temporary
house for that purpose.
Mr. H. Fuller, brother of our mercha MT, also
former resident of Eagle Lake has remove ed
to our village. Our Eagle Lake FIR lends seem
suddenly to have acquired love for the more
beautiful Madison Lake, and We suggest that
they all remove within. VIC.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-09

No one but coward would be guilty
IF publishing such fraudulent telegram
as that which appeared in the Register
"Wednesday, and no one with a parti-
Gle of decency would presume to attach
the signature of q reputable gentleman's
name thereto. Congressman Wakefield
has been malicOusly lied abont regard
ing the MankatO postotiice matter, and
the subscribing of his name to tele-
gram which he never issued is certainly
very cowardly and very despieaDle
trick. So far as the uncalled for attacks
anon the editor ofthe FREE PRESS by
the paper referred to is concerned, we
care nothing, but that Mr.. Wake
field should be reported in the untruth-
full manner that he has been is nothing
short of the most villaipous libel, and
we take this opportunity to 30 stamp it.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-09
PROHIBITION.

Editor Free Press:
"Ah what sins are committed i'm thy
name" We have just had an election
as 1853 of our voters know. Carney gets
7l2 and 1t is reasonably certain that many
of those misguided idiots who call them.
selves prohibitionists, voted for the
head center of the whiskey interests.
John A. Willard receives 652 votes and
Moses Gates 374. 81 votes taken from
Gates and given to Willard, would have
changed the result, and we are laborIno
under the delusion that the said Gates
would have been just as happy, just as
useful to his fellow men and covered
with an equal amount of glory without
these 81 votes, and we would not now
have the prospect ola wide open saloon
policy before us, ifthese could have gone
to Mr. Willard. Why is it that the pro-
hibitionists whose commendable zeal in a
good cause is so void of wisdom, mIst
straightway rush into convention and
nominate somebody. There was no
more prospect of electing Moses Gates
Mayor, than there was of putting the
Shah of Persia INTO this position, and in
case they had elected him is any one
fool enough to suppose that it would
have resulted in the drinking or manu-
facture of one less glass of whiskey than
in tho event of Mr.. Wizards election?
They talk about standing up to be count
ed. Next time let them secure this re-
suit by nominating and voting for a
pOundmaster and place their votes for
Mayor where they will count something
for order, for decency, and more espec-
tally for temperance. FABER.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-09
Edgewood.

The l. o. G. r., of this place have re
Gently started library.
Mr.. w. A. Warren was home from
the Normal last week for little rest.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. w. Thew and +. w
Washburn spent part of last week in
Mankato.
Misses Hattie and Nellie Cornish are
spending their vacation ut home, hay
ing Taught very successfully IN Nebras
ka.
A party from Wisconsin was here this
week trying to buy Captain Randal's
interest in the mill, but, sorry to say,
was not successful.
We notice there is a petition in oul
post-Otiice to have j. G. Wise reoppoint
ed postmaster in Mankato. We think
the county had better let MankatO at
tend to its own business.
The editor of the Mankato State Reg
lister was in town one day recently. W.
heard that he got into discussion will
our prohibition champions. a man ha'
got To be posted If he holds Grannis ant
Robinson down.
We think "Justice" is doing it W
good. He speaks our mind exactly. o
course We don't want anyone killed oI
MANNED by tho fall of our county build
ing, but If the present incumbcnts vii
only risk il till fall, we will try and cleo
some one that will take their chances
and not grumble.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-09

We are informed that the proper au.
;horities at Washington have just de-
rided two cases bearing upon the title
Of railroad companies TO their lands in
this state. The cases in question were
from Tracy, Minnesota, and the Secre-
'ary decides that since the land had
been certified To the roads, the depart
Inent has no further jurisdiction. This
Rill he interesting news to those who
wildly rushed OFF last fall and filed on
railroad lands in different parts of the
state expecting to secure bonanza
sometime. They are few dollars poor
or but richer in wisdom.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-09

TIE defeat of q. A. Pillsbury for a
second term To the mayoralty of Min
tleapoIis is no credit TO the people OF
that fair metropolis. The past admin
;strations Of Ames are too fresh III the
memory of the people of the state for
.hem 10 greet the result of Tuesday :
election with any degree of delightful
eclat-that is, the order loving clement
which class forms the larger part of the
state population. Mr.. PIllsbury made
Minneapolis such mayor as any pro-
gressive city needs. and to be thus de-
Geated is not treating the gentleman as
Le deserves
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-09
Good Thunder.

Mr.. M. f.. Berry, the collector of
Mapleton was in town to-day.
Miss Emma Smith, of Napoleon was
i'm town last week visiting Miss Ella Cor
nell.
Mr.. Ed. Terry has an assistant i'm
Charlie Austin, who is also studying tel
egraphy.
Mr.. Frank Stevens has commenced
his studies Of Blackstone, in the Office
Of A. f.. lIawes, Esq, of this place.
Mr.. John l.. Saxton has returned from
Ohio, and thinks of opening II college
of medicines. We wish him all the sue
cess imaginable.
Why IL " that Charlie kellogg always
sits upon the counter (of j. q. Graham's
stOre) Swallowed by that curious orni-
ment attached to which are those cur.
iously striped appendages?
Mr.. A +. Wendlandi has engaged the
services of genial Gus. Mechilke, VIII,
will stand behind the counter during
the coming season and neatly tie III
packages of thresEing machines and
bindere,
Mr.. M.iH. Bromley, the insurance
agent is in town renewing policies an,
Il
insuring new risks. lie reports bust
ness lively, and larger proportion o
the people investing In the safe com
panies which he represents.
Our hushandmen are making active
preparation for seeding and the fin,
weather of late has put many tracts IN
condition to seed at Once-in cdnse
quence of which our agricultural nipple
ment depot are busy setting up ma
chimes, etc.
The sale of Dick Houck's stock was q
financial success, and we understand il,
will within a few davs take a trip to the
Kentucky blue grass belt and purchase
thorough bred short horn stock to take
place of the graded stock sold ut his late
auction,
AS a warning to the net fishermen, lie
me say that it is understood that all par
ties fishing with any device save hool
and line ut the Cable Mill will be prose
cuted under the statute made and pro.
vided for such oifenses. LUPUS.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-09

\ fire of vast proportions broke out IN
the lumber yards at Lacrosse Thursday
morning about ten o'clock, and before
-,our o'cIG,k in the afternoon had burn
ed over an area averaging five blocks
long and block and u half in width,
,lnstroying about 100000 worth of
..roperty. The Paul and Coleman
w mills, planning mills, and lumber
.Irds are destroyed, with the Lacrosse
zap mandatory and number OF
dwellings. Only about half the proper
ty destroyed was insured, and at least
one thousand men are thrown out of
rmDloVment
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-09

TIE continuance of the strike on the
Gould system of railroads after the pub
lie were informed that the differences
would be submitted to arbitration, is
anything but cheering to the people OF
the whole country; for the horizon OF
the disturbed circle must necessarily
widen and lead to similar state where
a week ago order and serenity prevail
ed, and the feeling of animosity exist
ing between the parties will become
more caioused and less inclined to yield.
An unbiased mind can come to but one
conclusion after reading the reports in
detail, and that is, that blame is attach
able to both sides-the one for reckless
prOvOcation, and the other for inordin-
ate obstinacy. The striking laborers
had a justifiable end, perhaps, at the
outset, but the means employed, that of
violence of various kinds, left them less
entitled to that calm and ready consid-
Grafton which Mr.. Gould and his asso-
ciates have seemed to be 10th TO accord
Mr.. Gould has certainly had sufficient
experience with laboring classes to know
that obstinacy and arrOgancy toward
them will never be kindly received and
will he resented with an impetus more
rash than just. He should not have al
lowed some of his confidential assistants
to exhibit so much contempt as they
have done, but brought negotiations for
settlement TO focus at once, although
it required some surrender on his part.
While the mass of laborers acted Grim
inally in their procedures, their head
man, Mr.. Powderiy vas reasonable, and
would, no doubt, have yielded much
from the stand which his organization
took i'm the outset. The situation is a
serious and deplorable one, and settle
ment at an early day wall be a most well
come conclusion of the greatest strike
on record.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-09

The rejection of one Of the bosses APP
pointees is giving so. X. j. II. H." a
deal of uneasiness. and he is damning
Senator Sabin with all the vehemence
within his vocabulary of epithets. 1t
is no secret to those informed upon the
question that Senator Sabin, i'm the I'M
fortunate embarrassment jim which the
Northwestern Car Manufacturing Com
pany became involved, had something
like 800, 900 involved and he went
down with the concern like D man. He
did not, like go. X, y. Ii. X" and Mr..
Meagher, Of this city and others who
were stockholders and directors, try TO
get rid of his interest, but stood manful-
" up and suffered Il great loss when had
he been half the rascal he IL now
charged with by these same men, he
could have saved great bulk of the for :
tune he has lost-perl,aps only temper
arily, for his well known business sagac-
ity and pluck is vet equal to bringing
the affairs out of choas onto firm basis.
For a man like =. H.. Kelley To stand
up and try to bring opprobrium upon a
gentleman like Senator Sabin only
makes the former appear before the
public in anything but an enviable
light.