The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-04
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

bernnardt ID In the deepest mourning.
Saratoga proposes to erect a $50, 900
convention hall.
New York anarchists will celebrate
Nov. II with laborious effort.
Ex-Secretary Endlcott will practice
law with his son in Boston.
Robert Garrett is back in Baltimore,
but will not work for some time.
Peaches again grow in Connecticut,
and this years crop is fine one.
Wilkie Collins leaves his estate of $50,
600 to married adopted daughter.
General Butler is said to be arranging
for the publication of his memoirs.
Secretary Tracy will advise Congress
to build ten additional steel cruisers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Washington Mclean
have gone to Washington for the winter.
The newest Paris bangle bracelets of
silver are ornamented with small filigree
men.
Connecticut tries the secret ballot for
the first time, ut her town elections,
Oct.7.
Roswell P. Flower sends $4,000
check to the New York Worlds fair
committee.
The Hon. N. S. Berry, the venerable
war Governor of New Hampshire, is
very ill at Bristol.
There will be thirty-fve Japanese
attending Ann Harbor University and
High School this wear.
1t is said that Chauncey M. Depew's
postprandial wit and wisdom is to be
put between covers.
The Shah shocked and snubbed the
Austrian court right and left. His table
manners we're highly barbarous.
President Seelye will soon, for the
sake of his health, retire temporarily
from his duties at Annie rst College.
The will of the late "Sunset" Cox con.
tanned barely more than 200 words
He left his small estate to his widow.
New York's real estate exchange
favors taking part of Central Park fol
the fair; the park commissioners oppose
it.
The injured bottom of the cruiser
Boston has been repaired, and she il
ready to go to Newport for her tactical
trials.
Location of Roosevelt's ranch: In
the Little Missouri Valley, fourty
miles from the Montana and 100 south
OF the Canadian line.
Calvin Fairbank, of Angelica, N. Y, 6
veteran abolItionist of many experien
ces. will tell what he knew about slavery
on the lecture platform this winter.
Joseph Pulitzer writes from Switzer
land that his health forbids HIM servin.
on New York's worlds fair site commit
tee. He ia ready, however to subscribe
The par value of estates is sometimes
on paper only. John Guy Vassar, U
Poughkeepsie, left mining stocks wortl
$3.50, 1916 at par, but at present marke
rates, So GOA.
Count Berthier, a grandson of Bona
parties marshal. recently lost roll o
bank notes containing 800, 600 on rail
road train. He offers $4,000 reward TO
its return.
Ex-Minister and Mrs. Phelps hav,
been entertaining at Burlington, Vt.
Lady Shrewsbury, wife of the Earl o
Shrewsbury, and Lady Selkirk, wife o
the Earl of Selkirk.
Smith College has registered l72 new
students thissvear, an increase of !;
over last years enrolment. The colleg,
has just erected large dwelling-hous
accommodating about 20 students.
At the meeting in Boston Monday o
the survivors of the old abolition move
ment prayer was offered by the Rev
Joshua Young, the only clergyman
officiating at the funeral of John Brown
The Ri. Rev. Mar. O'Connell, recto
of the American College at Rome, ha
left for America. He brings an import
ant papal letter regarding the centennis
of the establishment of the Catholi
hierarchy in the United States.
The Loyal women of America
= Liberty, National association organize
, last year in Boston, when the schoc
, fight was on, have begun agitation i
New York. The movement is protes
r against Roman Catholic sectarianIsm /
public schools.
The great Montana gold bar, weighin
3 over 500 pounds, and worth $10O,346 q
has reached the Chase National Banl
New YORK. 1t was last at the MINI
eapolis exhibition. 1t will be melte
y into regulation bricks worth from s., OK
: to $40 COO.
Three years ago the trlennial CONVEX
n ton of the Protestant Episcopal Churc
!. met in Central Music Hall, Cl.icag,
: next week Wednesday the conventio
:. meets in st. Georges Church, Buthe
n ford Square, New York. It's rector
i the Rev. DR.. Rainsford, English, mu
q cular, jealous, Oxford bred. New Yoi
Episcopalians the past fourteen yea
!. have increased nearly four times as ia
as any other Protestant sect.