The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-06-21
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

Over 10000 people are attending the
Dunkard's annual convention at Harri-
sonburg, Va.
Professor James Bryce, author of "The
American Commonwealth" is about to
ter, England. Miss Ashton's mother
was Bostonian.
A broken canal wall. in Holyoke, the
great paper making city of New England,
throws 1900 people out of work for a
week or more.
Five Judges of the Supreme Court of
New York signed last week in their Of
fetal capacity memorial to Mr.. Glad
stone, expressing their sympathy with
the cause of home rule in Ireland.
Said Judge Field of the Kansas City
Bench in divorce case Wednesday:
"The testimony shows that she is d.
vorced woman, and a divorced woman
is only safe from suspicion when she is
in a nunnery.
The will of the late Allen Thorndyke
Rice has been discovered in the hands
of an aunt in England; and by her has
been forwarded to G. U. Getting, of Bos-
ton, who ID believed to be one of the
persons named as executors.
The Australian ballot system has this
year been rejected by the Republican
legislatures of Illinois, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and Maine, and vetoed by the Re-
publican Governor of Connecticut and
Democratic Governor of New York.
A large section of country is much IN
terested in meeting to be held at Ann
apolis to-day, the meeting of the direc-
tors OF the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
1t was 80 damaged by the floods that at
the time there was talk of its abandon
ment.
A member of Murat Halstead's family
has received brief note from him writ
ten on May 80, as his vessel was nearing
Southampton, in which he says that his
health has improved, and that he felt
much more like himself than when he
set sail from New York.
The Divinity Building, the first struc-
ture to be erected for the future Nation
al Catholic University at Washington, is
about completed. 1t is four stories high,
and was built with the fund of $50, 900
donated for this use by Miss Caldwell.
Only hftv can be admitted when the un-
iversity shall be Dedicated, Oct. 80.
The triangular race, at New London,
between the University crews Of Column
bia, Cornell, and Pennsylvania, three
| miles, will take place on the 9th inst.
and the e-Harvard race on the 28th.
| The Yale-Pennsylvania four-mile race
has been fixed for June 81, and the
Yale-Pennsylvania two-mile freshman
race for June 25.
One hundred and twenty-five young
gentlemen from various States and Ter
| ritories in America have received ap.
pointments to West Point this wear, and
| to-day will begin their examinations for
admission to the Academy. Besides
these boys are thirty-fve alternates, who
| will try the examinations if their princi.
pals fail to pass.
| Mr.. Blaine's son-in-law, Colonel Cop.
pinger, is an educated Irishman of the
fine and gentlemanly type met in Dub.
| lin within the university walls. He was
an officer in Papal Zouaves in Rome
some time, but resigned to come to this
country to live. He has an excellent
record as soldier, and big saber chi
across his neck tells of actual conflict Of
battle.
The Paris correspondent of London
Truth says that Mrs. Whitelaw Reid
whom he styles "the new United States
Ministries" sis lady of good mental
poise and intellectual culture. She wal
much in her girlhood in California, but
has the good Boston-cum-New York
manner. Still young, she has an air Of
native refinement, is free from all trace
of self-assertive habit, and will take uI
her position with quiet, unobtrusive dig
nifty.
The American Social Science Assoeia
ton has appointed as delegates to the
| Worlds Congress, to be held in Paris
from July 3 to s and from August to IL
Mr.. John p. Townsend, of New York
the Rev. John Graham Brooks, O
Brookton, Mass, and John s. White
Ii. D., head master of the Berkeley
school, New York. Mr.. Townsend il
chairmen of the delegation, and DIR
White is to give an address in French q
the August session on "The Moral anG
Intellectual Value of Physical Training
Mrs. Harrison recently said to friend
"It may be that after time l may ge,
used to the unpleasant features of my
present position, but just now am moi
in contended frame of mind. / dom
like the White House as residence.
detest tho publicity which pertains u
our home life, and regret that am OBJ
liged to see 30 little of my husband. Il
it not absurd that my father and tn,
babies should be gossiped about all owe
the country? My husband is President
but that is no reason why the rest of u
should be made public characters"