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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-06-22
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
MAPLEToN, June 20.

-hhEL1AONJ ouuc ZUs
Rev. A. s. Stowe has returned from
Idaho to make arrangements to move
his family there. Jno. S. Larkin is also
preparing to move his family to w. T.
this fall. Rob. Rogers is so well pleased
that he will make the Pacific coast his
future home. They are good citizens
and We wish them success.
Mrs. VIM. Hanna and Mrs. Jas. Wis.
hart accompanied by some of their chill
dren, are visiting Levi Credicott's family
in Winnebago City.
Our street commissioner, MCQUEEN,
has graded our High school lot in fine
shape.
Mrs. Beeman Annis oldest daughter
of l.. Chestnut, died Monday morning
June Is, OF consumption. Her husband
VIII Annis, youngest of the Annis fam.
lily, died over three years ago. They
have left boy about three years old.
Mrs. Jas. H. Quinn, of Wells, attended
Mrs. Annis' funeral.
Lerton Moses has gone to Mortified;
his brother Albert will return with him.
Harmonic band are practiciny daily
now preparing for the Fourth.
Mrs. G. &. Spaulding with Marietta,
Charley and Blossom, returned home
last Saturday from a two weeks and a
half visit among friends and relatives IN
Bangor and Sparta, Wisconsin.
Mrs. James Gillespie. of Single
Creek, near Minneapolis, is visiting her
parents Mr.. and Mrs. F. Abrams and
sister, Mrs. Horace Bartlett.
Rev. Mr.. Hunt, who has located among
us so recently, has two daughters visit.
ing him, one teacher from Utah, the
other from Ohio.
Mr.. L G. Pudney has moved biz
family from East Henderson to this
place. They occupy the Comstock
house.
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GIFTS OF POISON.

1t is time that respectable merchants
combined with consumers for the sup
preston Of all gift, prize and lottery
schemes in connection with the sale of
articles of merchandise. These schemes
are not only demoralizing to legitimate
business and to the morals of the COM
munitv, but in the extent in which they
are being carried in the sale of articles
of food have become a source of great
danger to the pnblic health. They are,
no matter in what form they appear,
nothing more or less than devices to
swindle honest and unsuspecting people.
1t is gratifying to learn that in some
instances the officers of the law have
tiken hold of the matter. In New York,
and also in Chicago, parties who in this
way offered gifts to purchasers of their
packages have recently been arrested
upon indictments for lottery swindling.
The latest candidates, both for public
execration and criminal prosecution,
are the manufacturers of the alum bak.
ing powders, who are both, by means
of gifts and lottery tickets, disposing OF
large quantities oftheir corrosively pois-
onous compounds, which are so well
known to be detrimental to health that
no housekeepcr will admit them to her
kitchen knowingly. This form of swim.
die is not only being peddled from
house to house, but under the promise
of large profits realized, the -manufact.
urers are entrenching themselves be.
hind the counters Of many grocers by
getting them to offer the alum goods with
the gifts or lottery tickets attached
thereby shifting the liability to prose.
cutlon, in part, upon other and perhaps
innocent parties. Every grocer or deal.
er, for instance, who sells or offers fol-
sale any of the prize or lottery baking
powders is a criminal IN the eye of the
law, and liable, upon conviction, to fine
and imprisonment, while those who sell
the gift goods are, morally, as RESPONSE
BILE, for they are offering an inducement
or prize, to housekeepers to use a food
that contains corrosive poison. This
Is predlcament in which it is not DOS.
sible our grocers will care to place them.
selves when they come to think serious.
ly of the matter.
1t must be borne in mind that every
one of these gift of prize baking pow.
ders are alum baking powders. These
powders cost less than four cents q
pound to produce; the gift or prize costs
but few cents more. They are sold al
the price of first-class baking powders
so that the swindle, in a commercial
sense, is enormous. But the chief mi
guilty of the business consists IN selling
as presumably wholesome, an article O.
a positively injurious character, and by
means of gifts or brides inducing ser.
wants or unsuspective housekeepers t.
purchase and use it in our daily food.
There should be some prompt method
OF reaching these dangerous practices
and Furnishing the parties engaged il
their promotion. If the present laws
are not ample, we commend the matter
to the consideration of our State BoarC
OF Health for recommendation OF sucl
additional legislation as shall be effect
i've for the protection of the public.
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ROUTINE WORK.
Doings of the Convention ut the After
noon Session. ....

Doings of the Convention Mt the After
noon Session. .......
CHICAGO, June 21.-At 1880 D. m.
the second days session Of the Republi-
can national convention was called to
order and prayer offered by Stephen A.
Northrup, of Fort Wayne, Ind.
The chairman stated that the commit
tee on credentials could not report til 8
p. IN. It was moved that a recess be
taken till 500 p. m. The motion was
finally withdrawn and permanent organ
ization proceeded with.
The report of the committee on perma.
nent organization was read by exGov-
ernOr Foster, of Ohio. and was heartily
cheered when he read the name OF M. NJ.
Estee, Of California, as permanent chair
man.
Ex-Governor Foster proceeded to read
the list of vice presidents as selected by
the various state delegations.
The report of the committee on perma-
nent organization was as follows:
Chairman-Hon. M. M. Estee, of Cali
fornia.
Secretaries-Charles w. Clisbee, Mich
igan; Michael Griffin, Wisconsin,; Will
lam Buel, Tennessee; Mr.. Lynch, Penn
sYlVanla o.
gan, Tennessee; Tsms Bixby, Minnesota;
Henry NJ. Cooper, Arkansas; William
Nelson, New Jersey; A. w. Monroe,
Maryland; J. e. Wiley, Texas; C. M.
Shinn, West Virginia, and John E.
Minor, Louisiana.
Reading Clerks-Henry Ballard, Yer
mont; Col. Clarkson Lake, New York;
Capt. David Lenning, Ohio; James H.
Stone, Michigan, and George M. Brink.
erhoff, Illinois.
Official Stenoerapher - Gustavus P.
English.
Sergeant at Arms-Charles Fitzsim-
mons, Chicago.
The report was adopted without dis
sent, and the chair appointed ex-Gover.
nor Foster, of Ohio, and Mr.. George B.
Sloane, of New York, q committee to
escort Mr.. Estee to the platform. Mr.,
Estee spoke very briefly, his address &C.
cupying but ten minutes. He said:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: Follow.
ing so illustrious q gentleman as your temper.
airy chairman. / shall not attempt to detai1
you by any heightened speech. l only want tt
say to you that we live so far from the center
of the repdblic, over on the Pacific shore, that
I cannot even guess who your nominee is going
to be. Uaughter)
OF course, you all know. I say further, tC
you, gentlemen of the convention. that an
not able to say exactly what your platform
will be; but the people of the country have
echoed its sentiments and the rattle of the
skirmish line was heard only two weeks age
from Oregon.
God willing,-resumed Mr.. Estee, next No
yember you will hear from Cleveland's Apo
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nounced that they would not be ready 10
report until to-day whersupon Hallam Of
Kansas moved 10 adjourn until morn
ing. This was greeted with cries Of
mo" The galleries were evidently not
In hurry TO have an adjournment.
Bob Ingersoll was called for but the
chairman raped loudly for order, which
was finally restored.
The Chairman OF committee on creden-
tials hers announced that the committee
would be ready 10 report in about twenty
minutes
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MALONE. dience, who lost
interest after learning the result of the
Virginia contest.
Russell presented minority report
Riddleberger rose to speak against the
min GRITTY report, which wanted him ex-
cluded from the hall as delegate.
Wall, of Nebraska, said the question
did not concern Riddleberger's district.
Wood, of Virginia, proceeded to give
q long history of the case, which appar-
emily wearied the audience, as a move
ment was begun to leave the hall.
Gibson, of Ohio, moved that both the
Virginia delegations be seated, with the
states vote equally divided. Wise sec
onded this motion and made a manly
speech. He said he was willing in q
spirit of concession to have the Ninth
Virginia district the one in question:
represented as the credentials committee
saw fit.
Hepburn, of Iowa, protested vigor-
ously against what he called trickery,
and the convention applauded.
Vest, of Missouri, moved the adoption
of the previous question, but his motion
was not seconded. Great confusion fol-
lowed, and Allen, of Virginia, a dele
gate at large, protested against the re-
port of the committee on credentials
being accepted, because II it were 1t
would disfranohise the delegates hon.
estly elected.
The previous question was carried ON
q second motion from Vest, and the
amendment was carried by rising vote.
Bayne, of Pennsylvania, called for q
vote by states on the motion of Gibson.
The chairman and convention here be-
Ill ~, tor,
nicalities, and Butterworth, of Ohio,
moved to table motion to reconsider.
Fessenden, of Connecticut, moved to
lay the motion to reconsider upon the
table. A division being called for, the
motion was carried by PAT ayes to 172
nays.
Amendment moved that the Wood dele
cation be admitted, which brought
Wise to his feet for an excited protest.
The chairman announced that the
question was upon the adoption Of the
majority report for the second district. of
Virginia. A motion to adjourn was
uproariously defeated.
Hustled of New York asked to have the
rule read requiring that the secretary
call the roll of states. Senator Miller of
New York rose to a point of order and
said the question was as to whether the
report of the minority should be sub
stituted for the report of the majority.
This question was put and the chair an
nounced the motion lost. A roll call
was demanded and properly seconded.
The chairman stated that the vote for
the adoption of the minority report ad-
mits the Malone delegates and adop-
ton of the majority admits the Wise
delegates. The roll was called and re-
suited, ayes 240, noes 81, thus defeat
ing Malone.
The question of the adoption of the re-
mainder of the majority report was put
and carried.
Convention adjourned ct l1:30 till
noon Tomorrow
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mattox all over this great republic. ZAP
plause)
Friends and gentlemen of the convention,
again thanking you for the high honor you
have conferred upon me and impressing you
with the belief with all my heart and soul that
our duties are of the gravest and most delica. Q
character, and trusting from the depth of my
soul that it may be done to promote the best
interest of our common country and advance
the great Republican party, will call for the
next order of business
Two gavels were then presented to the
chairman, silver one by Mayor Roche,
of Chicago, and one from the Galena
Ills, delegation, made from Grants old
desk used in his Galena tannery.
In presenting the latter Delegate
Works said it was plain tool, and made
neither of silver nor gold, but is con-
nected with great name in American
history. 1t was made from piece of
wood from a desk in q tanuery in Ga
lena, Ills, which was left by that silent
soldier, U. S. Grant, when he took the
field to fight for his country.
The mention of Gen. Grants name was
greeted with an Outburst of cheering
which lasted several moments, and was
the warmest demonstration of the day.
The report of the committee on rules
was read. Ten votes were allowed to
Dakota, six to Washington and two to
the District of Columbia The rules pro-
posed no dispensing of the roll call in
nominating, and opposed the unit rule,
and are substantially those sdopted by
all previous conventions.
After a long wrangle and many amend
ments, which were all lost, the original
report was adopted and the convention
took q recess till p. m.
Wednesday Evening.
CHICAGO, June 20, The rays from a
thousand electric lights mingiing with
the stars AMI stripes made the auditorium
blaze Of glory last evening, when the
chairmans gavel fell at 8:35.
1.-THE converts IN will come to order and
gentlemen will please be seated" said
Chairman Estee, and in q few minutes all
was silent.
A telegram from San Francisco was
read thanking the convention for the
recognition OF California in the conven-
ton by the appointmet of Mr.. Estee as
permanent chairman.
Wellington of Maryland, offered q
resolution rendering Germany sympathy
in her national bereavement. This was
substituted by o resolution from Harri-
son of North Carolina, to the same effect
which was adopted by rising vote.
A resolution was offered by Dixson of
Maryland, rendering resolution of re-
spect to tho memory of Gen. Grant and
john A. Logan. Adopted by rising
vote.
The committee on resolutions an
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THE Republican convention will not
make much of a mistake in adopting a
pronounced anti-ssloon plank. Prohi-
bition should not be endorsed, but there
should be a recognition of the progress
i've temperance sentiment which is one
of the features of the times. The party
can afford to be fair and squsre on tins
question. 1t has few votes to lose and
many to gain by such course.
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REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES.

AS thev are Set Forth in the Plat
form Adopted To-Day.
CHICAGO, June 2l.-The platform is q
lengthy document. A brief synopsis is
as follows: The first paragraph eulogiz-
es the Republican dead, Lincoln, Grant,
Garfield, Arthur, Logan, Conkling; also
Sheridan; greeting extended to Brazil
for the emancipation of her slaves, and
to Ireland for her home rule prospects.
The party's answering devotion to the
constitution is reaffirmed, and full, fair,
free ballots declared to be its foundation.
Protection is uncompromisingly favored.
cts abandonment hurts everybody but
the usurer and sheriff. The Mills bill
is denounced as destructive of business
prosperity and demoralizlng in its ten
denotes; free wool condemned and the
Democratic tariff policy declared to be
in the interests, not of America, but of
Europe. A
REDUCTION OF THE SURPLUS
to be allowed by the repeal of the tax on
tobacco and spirits used in mechanisms
and arts, by revision of the tariff laws
in directions of checking importation of
home products, and of removing the du-
ties from ne0essarles not produced at
home, and if necessary to further reduce
the surplus, by repeal of all the inter-
nal revenue. Importation of Chinese
labor denounced. Legislation making
"trusts" impossible, and equalizing
transportation rates favored. The Re-
publican policy of American homesteads
for Americans upheld; the restoration
of unearned railroad land grants begun
under Arthur should be continued. A
strong plank for the immediate admis-
sion of South Dakota, and for the admis-
sion as soon as possible of Washington.
North Dakota, and Montana, with home
rule meantime for these and other ter
ritories. The party is pledged to put
down Mormonism as political power.
Bimetallism is favored, also reduction
of letter postage to one cent an ounce.
Legislation for the rehabilitation of our
merchant marine favored. The admin
istration's cowardly foreign policy de-
nounced, and especially its failure to up
hold the Monroe doctrine in the fisher
les negotiations. The Mugwumps de-
nounced, and the civil service plank of
'S4 re-adopted. Cleveland's pension We
toes held up to scorn, and liberal PEN
sion policy advocated. Platform closes
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WAITING FOR A BALLOT.
Such Was the Condition of Affair,

Such Was the Condition of Affairs
in Chicago Wednesday Night.
CHICAGO, June 21.-Everybody is wait
lag for the first ballot. The coterie of
men who are standing together and try
ing to keep things in good shape hope to
finish the nominating speeches to day
and get ballot tonight. Before bal
lot has been taken there will be no
changes of position. Depew's friends are
not doing much for him. James Hustled
and ex-Collector Robertson are
about the only men who are
making serious effort to promote the
Depew movement. Depew will be voted
for probably not more than two or three
ballots. perhaps only enc. The climax is
TO come when New York breaks up, and
on New York's choice after Depew the
nomination may depend. It will be i'm.
possible to unite New York on another
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First ins. June p, last July 6.
CITATION.

CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
= Earth. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate Of John J. Hen.
ningsgaard, deceased.
The State of Minnesota and the said Probate
Court to all persons interested in the estate of
John J. Henningsgaard, deceased. Greeting:
You and each of you are hereby cited and
the Judge of Probate of the County of Blue
Earth, State of Minnesota, at his office, in the
City of Mankato, in said county, on the 9th
day OF July, A. ID. 1885, at 10 O'Clock in the
forenoon of that day, then and there to at
tend the final settlement of the account of
Bendt Peterson, administrator Of the estate
of John j. Henningsgaard. deceased, and the
distribution of said estate
in testimony whereof have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal Of the Probate
Court this 14th day of June, A. d: 1883.
lSEAL.] 6. W. MEAD,
Judge of Probate.
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Governor Foraker, of Ohio, was inv tied
to address the convention and did SO. He
elected much applause by saying 1--WE are
here to nominate the president Of the
United States" Said the Republican
party believes in free ballot and a fair
count, and in protective tariff. Foraker
went on to say that the free trade beliefs
and messages of Cleveland were inimical
to the best interests of the country and
that the Republican party believed in
protecting American industries, from the
fisheries in the East to the Chinese ques-
ton in the West Said he did not know
who the nominee would be, Ia voice,
"Gresham"l but he would be a gentle
man, an able man, he would have some
social standing, and would be loyal cit
lzen OF his country. Loud ana prolonged
applause.]
Foraker closed amid loud applause and
shouts for Gresham, Alger and all NOM
inees.
The chairman Of the committe on Gre
dentials THepburn of Iowal then re-
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A Tremendous Sensation

would have been created one hundred
wears ago by the sight of one of our mod"
ern express trains whizzing along at the
rate of sixty miles an hour. Just think
how our grandfathers would have stared
at such a spectacle 1t takes good
deal to astonish people nowadays, but
some of the marvellous cures of con-
sumption, wrought by DR.. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery, have created
widespread amazement. Consumption
Is at last acknowledged durable. The
Golden Medical Discovery" is the only
known remedy for it. If taken at the
right time-which, bear in mind, is not
when the lungs are nearly gone-it will
90 right to the seat of the disease and ac-
compllsh its work as nothing else can.
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Doc. AMEs, not content with making
an ass of himself at st. Louis. stopped
off at Chicago to repeat the perform
ance. Ames is pretty dead duck, but
of course he doesn't know it. 1t looks
as though the limited amount of dor
msnt selfrespect it possesses would after
all compel the Democracy to repudiate
the Minneapolis demagogue and seek u
new candidate for governor.
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PRESIDENT MAKERS.
An AuspiciOus Opening or the
Republican Convention
at Chicago.
The Great Auditorium Filled to
Its Utmost Capacity With
Delegates and Audience.
Few Developments Bearing on the
Ultimate Choice Of the Body
Yet Apparent.
That Deadlock May Result Early in
the Proceedings Greatly
Feared.
IN cIch a Case the Ticket viii Be Blaine
aid Porter-An Eoqent Address
From Thurston.

CHICAGO, June 20.--The first days
session of the convention came as a re-
lief to the tired army of president
makers who had worn themselves out in
the hot corridors of the hotels, but it has
brought few developments bearing upon
the outcome. More significant than
anything else was the expression
Of the delegates concerning Blaine's
nomination. The galleries cheered the
leader of 1884, and so did the delegates,
in moderation; but when Chairman
Thurston warned the convention that it
must not commit suicide by nominating
Blaine against his will, the delegates
gave an expression Of approval. The ex-
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ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS.
First Days Work of the Great National
Gathering.


Gathering.
CHICAGO, June 20.-When Chairman
Jones, of the national Republican COM
mittee, assembled the platform of the
great AUDITORIUM hall at noon to call
the national Republican conven-
ton to order, he looked upon
scene unparalleled in the
history of public gatherings in this coun-
try. Larger assemblies have been held
In more spacious halls, but at none of
them have the ocular properties been so
effective or brilliancy of ilIumina-
ton and picturesque colorings SO
splendid. Every face can be seen
without effort, and an audience of 10, 900
appears to be an almost countless
multitude. The magnificent sweep of
the great gallery alone, which seats
nearly 5000 persons. is pic
ture which impresses even those
familiar with great audiences, and the
whole scene, bathed in food of electric
light shed by $500 incanC escy Mt lamps,
thrills even the most sluggish heart.
The decorations appear a trifle bewilder-
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with an appeal to workingmen. whose
prosperity is seriously threatened by
the Democratic free trade policy.
The first business of the morning was
the report Of this platform by Mckinley,
of Ohio. The announcement OF the pro-
tective plank was greeted by wild
burst of enthusiasm, lasting several min
utaa
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ing at first. The walls, the ceiling, and
every post, pillar and panel are covered
with flags, bunting and streamers, in
varied artistic designs and colors, and
portraits and paintings of historic scenes
meet the eye every where.
After prayer was offered, Julia Ward
Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic
was sung to the tune of "John Browns
Body" by Miss Romeiss, of Chicago.
John M. Thurston, of Nebraska, as
sumed the temporary craftsmanship, with
the following address:
Thurston's Speech.
GENTLEMEN OF THE CoNvENTIoN:-Deeply
sensitive Of the distinguished honor you have
conferred upon me as presiding officer of your
temporary organization, thank you, gentle
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Bucklen's Arnica Salye.

The best Salye in the world for Cuts.
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum
Fever Sores, letter. Chapped Hands
Chiiblains, Corns, and all skin eruptions
and positively cures Piles or no paw re.
CURED. 1t is guaranteed TO give perfeci
satisfaction, or money refunded. Pric,
% cts. per box. For sale by J. Il. Jones
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Syrup OF Figs.

Is natures own true laxative. 1t is the
most easily taken, and the most effective
remedy known to Cleanse the System
when Bilious or Costive; to Dispel Head
aches, Colds, and Fevers; to Cure Habit
ual Constipation, Indigestion, Piles, etc
Manufactured only by the California Fig
Syrup Company, San Francisco, Cal. J..
r. Jones druggist. sep 9 1yd&w