The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-07-05
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.
The Atlantic steamship Critic, wes
bound, passed seven big icebergs.

The Atlantic steamship Critic, west
bound, passed seven big iceberps.
Like New York and Illinois, Connecti-
cut has now assaulted the small boy
where he lives. A new Connecticut law
prohibits cigarette smoking by minors
under 10, and the sale of tobacco in any
form to such persons.
When Patrick Egan was appointed by
President Harrison 10 be United States
Minister to Chill he transferred to Mi
chael DavItt his shares in the newspaper
United Ireland. Mr.. Parnell and Mr..
Dayitt are now, therefore, the sole own
ers OF the paper.
The remains of Catherine Sewer, the
wife of Tennessee's first Governor, lie in
moss-grown corner of an abandoned
graveyard at Russellville, Ala. They
will likely be removed TO the new rest
ing place of her husband, to whom a
monument will duly be erected.
The great bridge which is to cross the
st. Lawrence at Quebec will, with its ap-
proaches, be "a, 900 feet or nearly SIX and
half miles long. The top OF the bridge
will be 40S feet above high-water level,
allowing the largest ocean vessels to pass
under it. One span in the bridge will
have length of ! ,442 feet.
General Don Carlos Buell., whose name
is now rarely seen IN print, is livinga re-
tired life in the little village of AirdrIe,
in Mclean county, Ky. Here the old
soldier passes a contented existence in a
beautiful home on the bluffs of Green
river. From the window of his library
he can see for miles up and down the
river and over the territory beyond.
The Pennsylvania Republican State
convention. called to nominate state
treasurer, meets at Harrisburg, Wednes-
day, Aug. z.
President Bartlett, of Dartmouth COL
lege, has reached home from California,
| where he has been since last fall, in bet
ter health than for years. .
Russell Harrison's latest business ven
ture is the erection of new hot swim
ming bath at Helena, M. T. The bath is
to be l2O feet square, and the water as 1t
flows into the bath from the springs will
drop distance of forty-two feet in cas-
cade.
B. P. shillaber MRS. Partington) is
tied up in complicated knot of rheum-
atism, but his cheerful disposition stands
by him still. To friend he recently
spoke of himself as sitting "from years
end to years end, armed with pen, pa
per, pipe, pills and patience"
Mrs. MacKGy has instituted libel pro-
ceedings against one London and one
provincial newspaper, with Sir Charles
Russell as her counsel, and proposes
giving whatever damages she RECEIVERS to
a London enarity. The bonanza lady's
desire is to get at the real authors of the
stories about her, if it be possible to do
so.
Mrs. Hayes and the wife of tho Lotto
E. R. s. Candy, also a woman of fine
qualities, died within few hours of one
another. 1t was General Candy who,
after long and faithful service, was
treacherously killed by Captain Jacks
band of Modocs in April, 1873, while
comforting on neutral ground in regard
to treaty of peace.
Bob Cook says Yale has rowed its last
race with the University of Pennsylva-
mia. He explains: Neither our Fresh
man or Varsity eight will compete with
their crews next year. We withdraw
from contests with them, because they
have persisted in rowing men as Fresh
men who have completed college courses
elsewhere, and are now in the profess
sional schools of the university.
The Federation of Labor has, says the
New York Sun, within the past two
years, gained enormously IN strength,
and is now probably the most powerful
organization of workingmen in the Uni
ted States, with larger membership
than the Knights of Labor. Its Presi-
dent is Mr.. Samuel Gompers, a cigar
maker, of about 45 years of age, who
may be seen daily at the national head
quarters of the Federation in Clinton
place. He is quiet and courteous man
of business habits, who has not yet bro
ken down under his heavy daily mail
and the trying duties of his Office. His
face and figure bear striking resem-
blance to those of General Phil Sheridan
in his prIme.