The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-08-09
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

Belford's Magazine will hereafter bt
independent instead of Democratic.
The Order of the Kings Daughter nov
numbers 81, 900 active members.
Despite recent gifts to the colleges
which amounted to So, 000, 900 as whole
these institutions, it is said, do not have
sufficient money, and feel financially EN-
barrassed. Yale College, it is reported
needs $1,000, 600; Harvard as much, anC
Columbia College requires 81, 000,000.
The widow of the once famous Johr
Morrissey, after conspicuous and gilt
tering life, now ekes out a poor existence
In her childhood home, the little mort
gagged cottage near Troy, where, as tn,
daughter of Captain Smith, of the steam
boat Empire, she married a young deck
hand of the same boat many years ago
Her mainstay is an adopted son livini
in California. John Morrissey was steam
boat man, gambler, pugilist, and Con
gresham. He made great deal O
money. Until Heenan broke his nose b,
was considered one OF the handsomes
men Of this time.
Peter Jackson, the bad colored maj
with his fists from Australia, sails fo
England Aug. Ii with "Parson" Davies
The California Athletic Club hold him a
5000 month to fight any man it produces
for purse. The Buffalo Express, talkIn,
with it, says: "The question of the poss
utility of meeting with Sullivan PROVED
a little aggravating to Jackson. I've beef
asked that question a thousand times.
said Jackson, somewhat ruffied. Sullivan
is only an ordinary human being, and
the club can get him out there I'll figh
him in a minute. That's my business
It's what I'm paid for"
General Butler is at st. John, N. B.
keeping house on his yacht, the America
President and Mrs. Cleveland vii
spend the latter part of August with DR.
Joseph Burnett at Deerfoot, Southboro
Mass.
The fashionable London wedding rim,
has recently been of dull gold, but Prin
cess Louise went back to the old fashion
and chose hers bright.
Yesterday law went into effect in Con
necticut requiring the removal of al
screens interfering with the view of a 50
loon bar from the street.
1t is proposed in Fremont, Ohio, {,
establish school in honor of the lat,
Mrs. Hayes, wife of ex-president Hayes
The school is to be given the nam,
"LucY Webb Hayes Seminary"
Charles Hinkel, Washington arch
itect, proposes for the worlds fair tina
New York wants to have an "Eiffel'
tower 800 feet high. Around the foo
of the tower shall be forty-eight iro,
buildings.
"Rub-the-spots-off-yo ur-coat' Silas M
Wilson, the man who had walked on hi
knees for twenty years, and who hat
travelled all over the country selling soal
and insect powder, was buried in New
York on Sunday.
Cadet Edgar Jadwln, of the Yves
Point Military Academy, class of 100, ha
stood at the head of his class every Yea
since his admission. He is resident O
Honesdale, Pa, and son of ex- Congress
man G. G. Jadwin.
MIR. Blaine is haying his billiard room
in his Bar Harbor cottage put in orde
for the entertainment of Presiden
Harrison. A match game of billiard
between these two men would interes
the whole country.
The late Theodore Dwight Woolsey
ex-president of Yale, provided in his vii
that such books from his library in Latin
Greek and German as the committee Q
the Yale University library may select b
given to that institution.
At Manchester the Chamber of Com
merce presented an address to the Shah
Before it was read the Shah asked
through the interpreter, if it wss yer
long. "No, your Majesty" "Well, the
read it, but be quick as you canl"
Col. Merwin Monohue, president of tn
California Athletic Club, has offered
purse of $1,000 for finished fight bs
tween Jake Kilrain and Peter Jackson
the Australian wonder, the fight to com
off in California within six months.
The Maharajah ofSingapore, who is i
Paris, is astonishing even that blase cit,
His coaches, attendants, costumes an
expenditures are based on such a seal
OF elegance that he seems to have th
wealth of the East at his disposal. Fl
far outshines the Shah of Persia.
The richest woman in America is
resident of South America. She is M
only the richest woman IN the America
but she is the richest woman in th
world. She has one of the largest 70
tunes held by either sex. This woma
is Dona lsador Cousino, of Chilli. She
the biggest real estate owner in Santias
and Valparaiso. South America fortune
are hard to estimate, but many Poop
have put hers above$200, 000, 900. None
multiplies fast in her hands, and her o.
tiseverywhere.