The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-01-13
From TUESDAYS DAILY FREE Pass,

seer of the poor farm, and Larry Griffin
ianItor at the county offices.
Two new Ruttan furnaces have just
been put into the Normal school build
ing, which is now entirely heated BY this
kind of furnaces.
Mrs. Emma Harke received to-day
8. 600 from the Minnesota Odd Fellows
Benefit Association as insurance on the
life of her husband, Fred Harke, who
died last October.
-Drs. H. c. Smith and John Nutting
have been appointed physicians for the
First commissioner district, VIM. Jaco-
by for the second, John w. Williams for
the third, o. H. McMichael for the
fourth and Ira Bishop for the fifth.
The contract for furnishing 40 cords
of elm wood at S223 per cord and 20
cords of maple wood at S3.9S per cord
has been awarded to Chas. A. Ruberg
by the County Commissioners. Adam
Arnold secured a contract for furnishing
100 cords of elm wood at 40 per cord.
The report of Mr.. w. b. Torrey, late
Clerk of Court, shows that the fees re-
ceived by him during 1887 amounted to
81. 1850. The report of Sheriff Piper
shows 81, 572 "a to have been received by
him during the same time in fees, and
that of Register of Deeds Bierbauer
shows 81 $50 10 to have been received.
The funeral of the late Mrs. +. K.
Trinque was held at 1870 this forenoon
from the residence, corner Of Jackson
and Fourth streets, and was largely at
tended by sympathizing friends and
neighbors. The services were conduct
ed by Rev. II. A. Bushnell, assisted by
Rev.W. w. Whitney. A beautiful floral
emblem in the shape of an anchor laid
upon the coffin. This was pre-
scented by Mrs. Trlnque's late boarders
as token of their esteem for the one
who did so much toward making her
house home for them. They remem-
Der with gratitude her solicitude for
their comfort, which did not even end
when at Christmas-he: fffty-trst birth
day-she was compelled to give up the
active supervision of the affairs of the
house. The services this morning were
brief, but impressive. The interment
was at Glenwood cemetery.
-Mankato has always been remark
ably fortunate in regard to fires and the
record for 1887 is a good one. Aside
from the burning of the tub factory,
where the net loss was but $1,000, the
total losses amount to only about s., 800
and this was mostly covered by insur-
ance. The fact that Mankato is blessed
with an excellent fire department and
bv the absence of fire bugs is the
main cause of her good fortune in this
regard There is no better volunteer
fire department in the State than ours.
The members are mostly business men
| and property owners and all are gentle
men. Their reliability and promptness
| in turning out at the most unreasonable
/ hours and in the most unfavorabie
weather should not go unnoticed. The
department during the past year has
saved thousands of dollars worth of
property in this city, besides responding
to outside appeals for aid 1t is credit
to the city and is an organization of
which the citizens are proud.
w. 7. Mills, a prohibition stump
speaker, will lecture at the Opera House
Friday evening, Jan. 9th, on the sub
iect, "ShalI the Government by the PEG
pie Fall?" The lecture is free, and in
the interest of the prohibition party.
An exchange SPEAKS as follows of Mr..
Mills:
"Mr, Mills is the little monitor of the
cold water movement in the presence OF
the Merrimac of intemperance. He is
the Phil Sheridan of this mighty war.
| But he is moreover a mastery surgeon
opens the wounds of party hurt or SEN
sitiveness, carefully, neatly, tenderly,
and then uses but one stroke OF the
keen knife of his coDsumate logic. One
flash of the blade of honest truth and
the work is uone. His speech is serious,
eloquent, real. There is no sham or dis
play about it, but it comes like the sun
shine upon all clear, strong, illuminative.
CFrom Wednesdays DAILY FREE PRESS
"A marriage license was granted yes
terday to Julius d. Tolzman and Anna
A. NJ. Habeck.
Mr.. Micheal Murphy died last even
ing of hemorage of the lungs after a
short illness. The funeral will occur to-
morrow.
Mr.. J. f. Dennis, Jr., recently oil
Minneapolis, has taken a position in the
postoffice, and viii have charge of the
general delivery.
To-day was the coolest yet, the Their
momete indicating "a degrees below
zero early this morning. 1t makes one
tired to read the predictions of the sig
nal service at st. Paul which has for sew
eral days foretold warm weather, only
to have each succeeding day colder than
ever. The only thing that it has yet
predicted with any accuracy is the arri'
val of cold waves.
"A leap year party was given in one
: of the rooms in KleIn's building las
evening. The young ladies did the hon
ors of the occasion with becoming grace
t called for and escorted the boys to the
8 hall, and after an evening spent very
pleasantly in dancing, took them to Por
i ter's restaurant for supper. The youni
ladies did things up in the best of style
t and the boys ought TO profit by thu
5 pointers so pleasantly given.
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