The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-26
Efforts > 70 being made to organize a

| Carl Dice presents long schedule
of prices to-day for the readers of TIL
FREE Pass To reflect upon, and which
must challenge attention.
The Ladies Society of the Presby
terrain church will be entertained THU
afternoon and evening by Mrs. j. I
Williams. at her home on Broad street
Clerk of court Torrey has ISSUED
marriage licenses Ia the following par
ties since our last issue. Hellick Helix
son and lnger q. Olson, Geo. r. Mich
ol and Cora a. Case.
! Mr.. J. III. Long will remove his fam
ily 10 Dakota next week, and MIR. o. {
McCurdy will take possession of his resi-
dence on Third street. Mr.. Long vii
divide his time between Mankato and
his Dakota home.
| The effort To organize Il camp ol
Sons of Veterans in this city last We'd
nesday night did not materialize on nc
count of the limited number present,
and the matter was postponed until
| "Wednesday OF next week.
The Mankatoites are to have their
street cars running by June 10th. We
are not informed vet as to whether the
cars will run two blocks or more. Time
will tell.-S. Peter Herald.
1t usually does take insane people a
considerable time to comprehend any
thing.
-Messrs. Frink 4 Richards unfu ri
their commercial banner to-day, i'll the
form of half sheet supplement IN the
FREE PRESS. Our readers will find
much food for reflection in what they
say. In these times of practical econ
omy with all classes, such statements
must attract.
A full railway postoffice service has
been established on the Omaha road +,
between st. Paul and Omaha. This
service was put on about two weeks
ago, and greatly facilitates in handling
the immense amount of mail which is
handled on this line. The new cars
are fifty feet long.
Mr.. I. NJ. Pugh, desiring that the
farmers should know his agricultural
warehouse is headquarters, has an adver-
tisement in to-dav's FREE Press. Those
in need of such goods as advertised,
should call on Mr.. Pugh. He has COM
plate stock, and delares that he will not
be undersold.
The Mcpherson Star Band has or
sanized a dramatic club, and are rehears-
ing the two famous productions Ten
Nights i'm Bar Room and "liumpty
Dumpty," which they will give to the
public ere long. They are using print
er's ink" literally, which fact means
good houses.
Hon. VI. ID. l.. Collester's little eight
year old son died last night. He had
been an Invalid for four years, with no
hope of recovery. Mr.. {. and family
have the warmest sympathy of all their
friends in the loss of their little one,
whom they have cared for so tenderly
through his long period of suffering.
1t is safe to say that the jolly Path
finders are the largest, most expensive
" conducted, and most proficient music
al company ever appearing in this city.
In the party are several who are known
throughout the profession as finished
artists, and their Scraps" has proved
the most successful musical absurdity
eXtant.
d., L., In, rh
attic orchestral fact which will be
greeted with pleasure by our theatre
patrons. 1t is under the leadership of
Mr.. Chris. J. Smith. who was for five
years baritone soloist with Gilmore of
New York fame. The band also is led
10y him and during the afternoon to-mor-
row an open air concert will be
given.
j. Flachsenhar, Esq, Is doing land
office business, SO to speak, in contract
ing for residences. He will build the
two residences for Pond Bros, one for
Bequette and one for Leo s. Lamm, and
Notwithstanding all these, says he can
put up two or three more. Mr.. Lamm s
residence is to be one ofthe finest in the
city, and will cost from four to five thous-
and dollars.
1t has been curren tly asserted by
some that Thos. Hughes, ESD, is in tn e
field as a candidate for mayor, and that
he will receive the prohibition vote.
We know beyond peradventure that
Mr.. Hughes is not in the race in any
sense of the word, and that he has per-
sonally requested some of the leading
prohibitionlsts not to cast their ballots
for him ,as he does not consider himself
a candidate, proper.
-Chas. Paetsoltz, of Mapleton, a boy
aged ii years, was brought To this city
by officer Tenny Wednesday, enroute to
St. Paul, where the lad will be placed in
the reform school for a short period,
having been convicted Of petty larceny
at Mapieton. He had been for several
weeks pllfering small sums of change
from the cash drawer in the Mapleton
House, at which he was finally detected.
"A very touching case Of the wreck
ola once happy household exists at ka
sofa, lie sueur county, it being the fam
ilv of Mr.. p. +. Thompson, who died
last Monday in the insane asylum ut st.
Peter. During the winter, Mr.. T.'s
daughter, an accomplished and intelli-
gent young lady, who was then engaged
i'm teaching school at Kasota, sickened
and died, and the sorrow dethrone d
the fathers reason, while the mothe r
was Frustrated and vet lies hopelessly
i'll. Their misfortune arouses unlimited
sympathy in the locality where the
family resided.
1t is the opinion of some that the
turbulent feeling extant among the Ia
boring classes ofthe country will mani
fest itself at Mankato the coming sum
mer. There being several hundred
| men employed in the quarries and man
ufacturing institutions here, general
strike would be q matter of serious mo-
ment, but we feel confident that the
laboring classes of Mankato are sufli-
GENTLY endowed with discretion to see
that such procedure would result in
much inconvenience and loss to them
selves and families, and remain within
the limits of law and order.
The insinuatlon, or rather assertion
that l.. p Hunt while postmaster, col
lected rent for the basement of the post
office building and neglected to turn the
funds over to the government is false