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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25
What Mankatoite says:

The Madelia Times has this to remark
Capt. Beatty was up from Mankato,
on business, on Monday. Now the Cap.
tain is quiet and expert in geological
matters. He has done much in his
home city in the development of the
uuarries there, which he still owns, and
also in the lime business. He may be
credited with working up the discovery
of the cement rock and getting perma.
nent business established there. He
has also made the Alabama mineral
fields quite study, and the bent of his
mind runs in that channel.
While here Monday we dropped into
conversation with him relative to the
artesian well question and his theory Of
the water supply which has been struck
at Mankato is that the stratum which
furnishes it is above what he terms the
quartzite and the latter, which forms the
bed rock underlying .all this region, II
the same as that which crops out a
Sioux Falls, Luverne, in the northwest.
ern part of this county, and again q,
New Ulm.
We told him that a drill had been
sunk here 225 feet and no material diff
Guilty had been struck to impede the
drill. He says this is favorable, as i
sho VS. that the quartzite has made dll
and when this is the case and drills ART
sunk so as to strike some of the waite
veins above the rock, the supply il
almost certain to rise above the surface
of the ground and be attended with con
siderable pressure. He Is of the opin
ION that we can obtain a good artesiaI
we'll by going town reasonable depth
say about 400 feet. fla good flowing
well could be obtained at that depth o.
even a hundred feet deeper it woult
solve the question of water supply for us
| The water obtained from this source a
Mankato Is of excellent quality.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

THE Iowa Democrats, in their State
platform, declared for "the Australian
system of voting to the end that we may
have an honest ballot" The fact has
been noted by the Republican speakers
and papers of that state that the registry
law framed by Senator Hutchinson and
passed by the Republicans of the last
General Assembly in the face of the de-
termined opposition of Democratic leg
islatures embodies some of the essential
features of the Australian system. The
Democrats opposed that most excellent
measure for promoting an honest ballot,
and their present advocacy of the Aus
tralIan system is sham and pretense.
The Oskaloosa Uowa) Herald gives the
Hawkeye Democracy the following good
advice: "We suggest that the Demo-
Gratis pack their little Australian ballot
boom in ice and send it in a refrigerator
car, prepaid, to their friends, the Dem
ocrats of Mississippi. They are famish.
ingly and shiveringly destitute down
there of such common Iowa Democratic
necessities as ballot reform, and their
friends here can afford to unload the
whole boom on them. They have no
earthly use for it in Iowa, and ought to
send it to their poor relatives down
| South before it gets to fermenting'"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

THE organization of the Congress has
been taken up by the Washington cor
respondents, and for the next six weeks
the public will be dished up sweet NOR
sells of political representations digesti.
BILE and otherwise. The speakership con-
test is the one now receiving the most
particular attention and the public is
gently informed that Mckinley or Reed
will in all human probability be chosen.
1t is further given out that the house slate
has been arranged, and that Major j. NJ
Carson, of Pennsylvania, has been de.
cided upon as the clerk; Capt. Chas.
Adams, of Maryland, as door-keeper; H.
L, Swords, of Iowa, as Sergeant-at-arms
and Thos, II. Mckee, of Indiana, az
postmaster. Now that the slate-makers
have had their say, let the "smashers'
begin the slaughter. .-..-.-.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25
ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO WRECK
A TRAIN

The Wlnona Republican gives the fol-
lowing particulars of an attempt to wreck
vestlbuled train on the Burlington
which left st. Paul at ITO Thursday
evening. Just before the train pulled
out, says the Republican, from the sta
ton at Bay City, forty.fve miles south
of st. Paul, two men ran up and called
to the engineer and conductor to hold
the train. The men-who proved to be
the captain of boat on Lake Peplu, and
one of his men-were almost breathless
with their long run, and told their story
as follows: They had tied up their
boat about four miles below Bay City
and were walking up the track to the
town to obtain some supplies. They
had only gone a short distance when
they found lot of ties-fifteen in num-
ber-piled across the track around a
curve in one of the worst places for a
wreck on the entire road. Knowing
that the passenger train was about due,
they at once started up the track to warn
it of the danger-not stopping to re-
move the ties for the reason that they
thought the persons who placed the ties
were probably in watching, and would
very likely shoot or otherwise prevent
them from removing. the obstruction.
Their idea was that the ties were placed
there for the purpose of ROBBERY, if not
wrecking the train. Orders were given
that all the doors of the vestibule and
baggage and express cars be locked, and
the train proceed on its way at slow
speed until the obstruction was reached,
when the statement of the men was
found to be true. The ties were then
removed. Two of them looked as ifthey
had been struck or run over by former
train, and the theory advanced was that
the miscreants who did the work had
commenced operations and had placed
these two ties on the track, when a
north bound "wild" train, consisting OF
an engine and caboose, came along and
went over them. This wild" train was
met by the passenger train above Bay
City. After removing the ties the train
proceeded slowly until Maiden Rock
was reached, when notice of the occurr.
ance was telegraphed along the line, and
the section men on the different sections
were ordered out over the road. The
sleepers were filled with passengers
and had it not been for the timely dis.
covery of the distractions the loss to
life must have been terrible, as the train
would have plunged down high EN-.
embankment into Lake Pepin.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

TUE serious illness of Gov. Foraker,
of Ohio is, it is hoped, to be onlv temp
orary. HIS services in the campaign
now being waged, while not essential to
Republican success, Is nevertheless de-
sired for the great amount of sound in
formation contained IN his speeches
and the consequent better education of
the voters on the issues at stake.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25
Merit Wins.

We desire to say to say to our citizens,
that for years we have been selling DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
DR.. Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's Ar
MICA Salve and Electric Bitters, and have
never handled remedies that sell as
well, or that have given such universal
satisfaction. We do not hesitate to guar
antee them every time, and We stand
ready to refund the purchase price, il
satisfactory results do not follow their
use. These remedies have won their
great popularity purely on their merits.
]. r. Jones druggists.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

JUDGE IRWIN, of the Marion County
lind. Criminal Court, held Wednesday
that the dressed beef act of the last
Legislature of that State is unconstitut-
ional, and directed that an entry be
made disrharging Philip Klein, of the
Chicago Dressed Beef Company, against
whom the proceeding were brought.
The prosecution was by information
charging the defendants with selling
for human food a quantity of dressed
beef in indianapolis which had not been
inspected alive in that city, the animals
from which it came having been slaugh-
tered at Chicago. The proceedings were
instituted with the understanding that
the case should be pressed to the
Supreme Court, with view of testing
the constitutionality of the law. This is
the third decision against the act which
has been rendered in the courts Of
Indiana.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

THE selection of General Raum for the
position of commissioner of pensions,
is well received throughout the country.
Mr.. Raum was commissioner of Intern
al Revenue at the time that Gen. j. H.
Baker had charge of the pension de-
partment, and Mr.. B. is confident, with
others who know the new commission
err, that he will make safe, efficient Of
fcer, and one that will use the "boys''
with entire justice. The General inter
ed upon the discharge of his duties this
morning,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

A SPECIAL dispatch received from St.
Paul at 2 p. IN. Saturday, says that word
had been received from Washington
this u. M, that President Harrison has
appointed Green B. Raum, of Ills,
commissioner of pensions to succeed
Corporal Tanner. Mr.. Raum is well
and favorably known in National affairs,
he having formerly held the office OF
Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
Thus it is that the anxious ones may
take rest,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

The Minneapolis Tribune-S Star says EST
Paul has decided to serve up to the peo.
pie of the Northwest, about the end Of
January, cold collation. in the shape Of
an ice palace and winter carnival. The
thermometer has fallen severa degrees
since the announcement" Which
announcement; the one that an ice
palace would be constructed, or that
made by Hon. A. Scheffer, that the
State legislature would foot the bills? The
latter announcement has caused a colo
chill to crep down the backs oftax payers
in this region.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

ST. PAUL is to have an ice palace, pro-
vided always that the weather ID suffic-
emily cold TO admit of the erection of the
structure. No one has any objection to
St. Paul having an ice palace or anything
else if it pays for it. A meeting of citiz-
ems was held Wednesday night and it
was decided to call upon the city council
for $4,000. No one outside will object
to this. If the CITY fathers Of st. Paul
want to donate the sum indicated, whose
business Is it other than the taxpayers
of that municipality? But when the Hon
Albert Scheffer promises, as he is re-
ported to have done, that any other
sum necessary for the erection of this
cold house, shall be voted out of the
state treasury by the next Legislature, II
is about time for the rural delegation tc
wake up. This proposition is one of the
most cheeky we have ever seen an
nounced. The bare idea that the legis
lature of Minnesota will vote twenty OF
thirty thousand dollars or any OtheI
sum, for private enterprise of this ma
ture is really too ridiculous to admit o.
serious thought. This is case where
Mr.. Scheffer has taken q bigger quiC
than he can chew.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

THE st. Paul Globe, even though Dem
ocratic, is getting decidedly stylish.
1t has just had rendered against it suit
for libel-the plaintiff getting an allow.
ance of $4,000 for injured innocence.
The case will be appealed and when the
end is reached the Globe NAV confidently
look for great reduction in the amount
of damages. Mr.. Baker, the editor
says he was never called upon to deny
the original charges made in his paper
and hence did not know that they were
not we'll founded.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25
WHAT THEY ARE WORTH.

J. J. Hill is worth $l5, 100000.
Z. B. Coke is worth $40, 1000, 900.
Jay Gould is worth SIS, 600, 900.
J. G. Fair is worth $20,000,000.
A. j. Drexel is worth $20,O00,000.
John /. Blair is worth $40,000,000.
p. r. Barnum is worth 5000, 900.
D. w. Bishop is worth $l5,000,000.
Bavid Sinton is worth SO, 000,0 900.
w. d. Sloane is worth $4,000, 900.
Robert Bonner is worth S9,00O,000
John P. Jones is worth $15, 100000.
Sidney Dillon is worth Sic. 100000
J. W. Mackay is worthe $50, 000, 900.
Philip Armour is worth S25, 900, 900.
Marshall Field is worth $l5, 0O0, 900.
Lew Z. Morton is perth $l0,000,0 900.
Russell A. Alger is worth 100000
Claus Spreckels is worth $40, 900, 900.
Senator German is worth sc, 000, 900.
James Mcmillan is worth $4,000, 00
Leland Stanford is worth $40, O0O, 0O
C. P. Huntington is worth $40, 900 ,0O
Andrew Carnegie is worth $40, 10000
Ex-senator. Palmer is worth S. 900, 0O
John Wan2maker is worth $50, 900 ,O0'
The Astor family is worth $500, DOC, 0O
George S. Croker is worth S12 ,000, 0Ol
John D. Rockefeller is worth $50 900 ,00l
The Vanderbilt family is worth $3.50
300, 900.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25
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Catarrh Can't be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATION, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is blood or constitutional dis
ease, and in order to cure it you have to
take internal remedies Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, and acts direct
ly on the blood and mucus surface.
Halls Catarrh Cure is no quack medl-
cine. 1t was prescribed by one of the
best physicians in this country for years,
and is regular prescription. 1t is COM
posed of the best tonics known, COM
bined with the best blood purifiers, act
ing directly on the mucus surface. The
perfect combination of the two ingredi-
ents is what produces such wonderful
results in curing catarrh. Send for tes-
timonials free.
FL. CHENEY & CO., Prop, Toledo,
o. Sold by Druggists, price 75c.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

Mr.. G. CLEVELAND has signified his
willingness to take the stump in New
York for the Democratic ticket. If
Governor Hill, when he returns from
the south, finds Grover speaking from
the house-tops, some ones hair will get
severe pulling. Hill is now busy
working up for himself little presi-
dental boom and he will allow no fool
ishness. Hill, in one of his speeches
in the south, said he could not furnish
his hearers with anything about the re-
markable developments and resources
of that section, because he had left his
encyclopedia at home. The only differ
ence between Hill and Cleveland is, the
latter always carries his IN his inside
pocket, and is, therefore, loaded for
any and all occasions on the resources
and magnifcence of the country"
David should profit by his illustrious
predecessor example. There Is moth
| ing like being primed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

The exhibitions of jealousy which
crop out in each meeting of the city
council between the rights of the Board
of Public Works and the aldermen is
becoming veritable bore with the pub
lie, and the tax payers are getting pretty
nearly tired of paying eighteen or TWEEN.
ty dollars per night in waste of time ov-
er "rights of parties" A special COM
mittee, at liberal salary, should be ap-
pointed to arrange a code of ethics be-
tween the conflicting bodies, and LEI
each know what its duty is. 1t would
be saving of time and money to the
city. And when this is done, city en-.
gineer should be secured who has the
capacity for overseeing all public work
and who has the disposition to please
all factions. Until some such steps at
these are taken we might as well sus
pend public business. There is alto
gether too much nonsense exercised
somewhere, and who is at fault the FREE
PRESS does not pretend to know or say
| But that screw is loose somewhere il
too patent to admit of discussion.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

DULUTH NelCs:-Senator Sabn's South
American ventures appear to be most
promising, His companies have many
exclusive franchises of great value in
Venezuela, and already are paying hand
some dividends on capital invested.
His defeat for the senate seems to have
been a good thing for Mr.. Sabin's financ'
es, while Washburn's success has almost
wrecked his fortunes.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25
The Virginia Idea.

Here is the way the Richmond cor.
respondent ofthe Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette pays his humorous respects to
"Billy" Malone: -.......
When the lion eats grass like an OK,
And the fishing worm swallows the whale
When the terrapins knit wooden socks.
And the hares outrun by the snail;
When serpents walk upright as men,
And the doodle bugs travel like frogs;
When the grasshopper feeds on hens,
And feathers are found upon hogs:
When Thomas cats swim i'm the air.
And elephants roost upon trees;
When insects In summer are rare,
And snuff never makes people sneeZe;
When fishes creep over dry land,
And mules in velocipedes ride;
When foxes lay eggs in the sand,
And women in dress take no pride:
When DutchmeE no longer drink beer,
And girls get to preaching on time;
When billy goats butt from the rear,
And treason no longer is crime;
When the humming bird brays like the ass,
And potato bugs sing like the lark;
When plowshares are made out of glass,
And tieas can be caught in the dark;
When gas meters cease to tell lies,
And the COWS jump over the moon;
When the Yankees forsake pumpkin pie,
And the dish runneth after the sposn;
When streams to their fountains flow back
And limburger smells like cologne;
When the skin of the white man turns black
And the hearts of Virgniaus to stone
Not till then will they follow the track;
or thy treachery, Billy Malone.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

JUDGE MATTHEWS, of the Supreme
Court, has rendered decision in the
case ofJames S. Harrison, appellant, VS..
the Nicollet National Bank of Minneap-
oils, reversing the decision of the lower
court and holding that draft made
payable at time subsequent to its date
is "bill of exchange" not "check, "
and hence entitled to six DAYS of grace.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

MINNEAPoLIs Journal: Ex-senator Sa.
bin made the Chicago folks glad when
he was down there the other day by
saying: "New York has just us good q
chance to get the worlds fair as Buck
Mccarthy has of being minister to Rus
STA. The fair will be held on Chicago't
lake 'front.'" The senator should have
added, "and the Republican convention
will be held at the same time in Mime
apolis." The two go together, yor
know.
If "the two go together, you know
how is the Journal going to explain why
the worlds fair should not be held il
MINNEAPOLIS?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

The National convention of street
railway magnates, which closed its
eighth annual convention in Minneapolis
Thursday evening, elected Thos. Lowry
president of the association. Mr.. l.. is
certainly one of the most level headed
men in the northwest, and his selection
as chief of the system of street railways
does the association credit.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

The noted j. f. COLON forgery case is
on trial in Minneapolis, and the read
ing public will follow the evidence with
no little interest. Either the accused is
a mighty big rascal, or he has been most
outrageously abused, and it is without
the province of anyone to foretell which
is the fact until the court shall have
rendered its decision.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

JOSEPH EDEIBROCK, postmaster at st.
Cloud, Stearns county, this state, is, it
is reported, short in his accounts, and
the sixth auditor of the treasury has
notified the postmaster general of the
fact. The auditor says that Postmaster
Edelbrock was short 1907 In his &C.
counts for the quarter ending March 81
ultimo, and payment was refused by
him upon department draft for that
amount, Congressman Comstoek will
will probably soon be called upon to
nominate a successor to the delinquent
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25
POND BROS, Proprietors.

THE latest ia that Judge Eegerton is to
be appointed Judge of the district of
South Dakota. Nj. Edgerton has host of
Minnesota friends who would be pleased
to see this done, but his age is against
him he being over 80 years old.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

J. J.HHL, the President OF the Mani
toba railroad, Is the latest name men
toned in connection with the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor. Well,
there is one thing sure; if the Demo
Gratis do nominate him they will have an
eminently respectable candidate.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

IT is reported that Maggie Mitchell has
again married, this time to Charles Alb
bolt. Maggie seems not to get over her
glrlish freaks. She Is old enough and has
had experience enough to desist from
such Youthful frollcs.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

JAMES j. WEST, late editor-in. chief OF
the Chicago Times, has been indicted by
the grand jury of Cook county for fraud
ulently issuing stock of the Times COM
DanY.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25

The German papers call General Bou-
lauger General Ex;" citing that he is an
ex-General, ex-Minister, ex-Deputy,
ex-party chief, ex-future Dictator, and
is now living in exile.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-07-13
THIB0DAUx, Lsr sAMED1, JULIET 1s, 1889.

de MelEn est du 20 mai, meme
aimee. II me semble que je suis
allie assez vite EN- besogne, ct je mai
pas lieu d'6tre mecOntent de moi
Paris, 16 juliet 1888.
~ La, Sc terminait IL troisieme
c;,hier ecrit par NJ. Lecoq. La lee.
ture de ces memories n'avait fait
que fortifier Jeanne dams son des.
sein j: tenir le serment fait a son
pere ct venger sa mort a quelqne
prix que ce fiit.
FIN DE La PREMIERE PARTIE.