The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-05-31
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

Gen. Sherman declines to have writ
ten a life of his late wife.
Robert Garrett and family are bound
for Europe on the Werra.
Sir MoreIl Mackenzie has greatly re-
gained his health at Madeira.
w. d. Howells will spend the summer
near Boston and go to that city to live IN
the fall.
Samuel Huebsch, learned and indus
trious American Hebrew, has translated
the Proverbs of Solomon into Volapuk.
David Dudley Field saws there are too
many lawyers. New York State has
IL 900, and the United States 10000.
Miss Frances Z. Willard attended
eight State conventions of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union in the
South.
Chauncey Depew was offered the Of
fee of Minister to Japan by Secretary
Seward in Johnson's administration in
1866. He declined it.
The trial of the patent case of the
Westinghouse company against the Edi-
son company opened in the United
States court in Pittsburg Monday. Pat.
ents worth SIC, 200, 600 are at stake.
After thirty-fve years of fire duty
Chief Charles Oscar Shay, of the New
York fire department, retires at his own
request on half-pay. Two assistant chiefs
were made deputies of equal rank. AS
sIstant Chief of Department, Hugh Bon
ner, age 40, is made chief.
Harvard University, by gift of Harry
Cary, of 'S9, gets a new athletic building.
1t will cost from $25, 900 to 10000, and
contain a rowing tank; a baseball cage,
and courts serviceable for tennis.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
promised to be present at the parade OF
the Brooklyn Sunday school Oh June g.
President and Mrs. Harrison will review
the parade of June in New York.
George M. Storrs, of New York, son of
the late Emory A. Storrs, who was ar
rested week before last at the instance
of his wife, on charge of blackmail,
was released on a writ of habeas corpus,
FRIDAY, by Judge Ingraham.
Archbishop Corrigsn is said to be one
of the best amateur pedestrians In New
York. He never uses a carriage except
in bad weather or when In a hurry. He
is fine specimen of manhood and, in
addition to presiding over the largest
Catholic see in the country, is the young
est bishop in the United States.
The saloon-keepers' canvass of Phila-
delphia on the prohibition amendment,
with four wards to hear from, gives a
majority against the amendment of ST.
592. The wards in which the canvass
has not been completed, it is estimated,
will bring the majority against the
amendment up to about 65 600.
Tho following Western boys were adj
mitted to the United States Naval Acad-
envy at the May examinations: Frank
L. Chadwick, Minnesota; Henry b..
Price, Iowa; William A. Baehr, Wiscon-
sin; Thomas S. Wilson, Illinois; Percy
N. Olmstead, Oregon; Charles A. Lane,
Missouri; Daniel G. Nulting, Kansas;
Allen M. Cook, Kansas; Fred K. Per-
kins, California. There will be no more
admissions until June.
Mayor Grant has made his important
Ignoring the practice of
years, whereby the board of police COM
missioners was divided equally between
the two parties, he disappointed James
]. Martin, Tammanyite, to succeed s.
b. French, Republican. HIS only Re-
publican appointee is a police justice.
Tammany rules the roost. The New
York Herald warns him that the police
board appointment was Dlunder.
The four largest alumni bodies in New
York City and immediate vicinity are
those of Harvard. Union, Princeton and
Yale. The Harvard club numbers 604
of whom 4l2 are resident and
1872 nonresident. The Union College
Alumni Association, of New York, has
38l members, of whom 40 are non-resi-
dent. The Princeton Club, of New York,
of New York, has 26S.