The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-04-05
CONDENSED NEWS OF THE DAY.


CONDENSED NEWS OF THE DAY.
The opera singer Girards is seriously i'll
at Berlin.
The valued policy insurance bill was
passed Thursday in the Illinois house.
The Prince of Wales has accepted an
invitation to dine with Mrs. j. w.
Mackay.
1t is an odd fact that Jay Gould, rain
or shine, winter or summer, always car
ries an umbrella.
The London Church Missionary So
ciety has received information that the
missionaries in Nyanza and Usagara are
safe.
Union Pacific earnings decreased $172,-
$50 gross and $77, lS9 net in February as
compared with the same month of last
year.
At Lexington, KY, a street car driver
named Fleming was attacked by roughs
while on his car, and probably fatally
cut.
A public debate has been arranged he.
tween Henry George and Samuel Smith,
place in London in May.
Thomas Keegan, the Irish rebel of '9S,
was buried in Juniata township, Penn
sylvania, Thursday, aged l0S. He came
to America seventy-five years ago.
DIR. r. p. Howard, dean of the medi-
cal faculty of McGill university, Mont
real, and one of the most distinguished
medical men on the continent, is dead.
Adam Forepaugh has sold handsome
African lion to Charles T. Yerkes, Jr., of
Chicago, which the latter intends to pre-
sent to the Chicago geological gardens.
At Lexington, KY, seven desperate
prisoners attacked the keeper of the
workhouse. Sullivan, disarmed him, shot
him perhaps fatally and escaped. They
are still at large.
Walt Whitman Is again confined to
his house in Camden, and his indisposi-
ton is so great that the "good gray poet
is unable to write at all. He is very fee
BILE. and has but little appetite.
The Berlin Tagblatt learns than Van.
derbilt's yacht will arrive at Hamburg in
May, and that the family will leave the
vessel at that port and make visit to
Berlin. The yacht is now at Nice.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared fourth dividend in favor Of
the creditors of the National bank o.
Auburn, N. Y, which failed JanuaI 8,
%, 1888. This makes in all 40 per &C 1t
on claims proved amounting to $3.50, $40.
Queen Victoria has sent message of
regret to Emperor William regarding
Germany's naval misfortune at Samoa
and expresses her deepest sympathy for
the relatives of the brave officers and
sailors who lost their lives in the dis
aster.
The steamer Harrox, which arrived in
New York from Rio Janiero. reports the
town of Santos as being yellow fever
ridden, the death rate reaching thirty a
day. Yellow fever and smallpox is also
devastating Rio Janiero, the daily deaths
being thirty.
At Paris, KY, aged Berry Childers,
alone and friendless, could not pay his
creditors, and his household goods were
set out in the road by the sheriff. Hav-
ing no place to put them the old man set
them on fire and went out into the cruel
world empty handed.
White Caps visited Plttsfield, ILL.,, Sat
urday and almost totally destroyed the
windows and sash in the building oocu-
pied by Charles Martin, negro running
a restaurant and gambling den. They
notified him they would hang him if he
again opened his place of business.
Emperor William has recently been
giving the municipal authorities at Ber-
lin some private lessons in politeness ana
courtesy. He has formally instructed
them in regard to the entertainment and
courtesies to be shown the new Japanese
envoy, whose arrival at Berlin is shortly
expected.
A dispatch from Salt Springs, Kings
county, N. b., says that an old man
named Robert Leckie and his family
were awakened Sunday morning by
flames in their house and had Just time
to escape with their lives. Leckie rushed
back to obtain some valuable papers and
was burned to death.
The Los Angeles police report that
Verona Baldwin, who gained such
notoriety several years ago by shooting
Lucky" Baldwin, is insane and that
they propose to put her in an asylum.
She fancies she is filled with electricity
and that she is related to noble English
family.
King Karl, of Wurtemburg is again
having trouble regarding his American
favorites, whom he placed over his state
officers in his confidence. He has ban
ished from his kingdom one of his privy
councillors who had secretly obtained
and afterwards divulged certain COM
promising correspondence between the
king and one of the Americans.
In New York, Judge Barrett, in the
case of the National Express company
against the tax commissioners. decided
that joint stock companies that have not
availed themselves of the privilege of
becoming corporations under the general
law are not liable to taxation on their
stock under the state law assessing the
capital stock of corporations.