The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-03-15
NUMBER 80
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

est work to the highest bidder among
competing publishers.
The addition of four new stars to the
National flag makes Ben Buffers United
States Bunting Co. 100000 ahead.
The late Mary Louise Booth, editor of
Harper's Bazaar, received larger salary
than any woman journalist in the world.
Harriet Beecher's Stoves son is writ
ing the biography of his illustrious
mother, and will publish it when fin
Ished.
Little Phil" Sheridan, just turning 8,
is the perfect physical counterpart of his
father. He also shows his fathers cour-
age and equaninnIty.
Sir Edwin Arnold has just had large
tumor removed from his head, and he
will soon discard the scull cap he has
long been wearing. He recently under
went an operation for hepatic abscess.
The st. Louis militia is on the eve of
dissolution. 1t will in all probability 90
to pieces on the LIST of April, all because
there is no State law in existence provid-
ing for the maintenance ofmilitia COM
panies.
The Indian determination equipment
of two boys who lately ran away from
Edwardsville, ILL.,, was 32-calibre re-
volver, twenty-seven rounds of cartridges,
lunch basket, set of school books,
and three dime novels.
A San Francisco man was thrown off
street railway dummy because he
wished to ply his fare with Scent
piece and 2-cent piece. He sues for
So, 600, claiming the money offered was
legal tender.
Colonel Elliot F. Shepard, the editor
of the New York Mail and Express, car
ries tortoIse-shell handled cane. On
the broad gold band dividing the handle
of the cane from the stick the following
suggestive text is engraved: "a soft an
swer turneth away wrath"
General Adam Badeau has begun suit
against Charles L. Webster & Co, to re-
cover $22, 800 damages for their failure |
to publish his work, "Grant in Peace"
which he declares the firm agreed to put |
before the public, printed and bound, as |
companion volume TO the Grant
"Memairs."
Noah Brooks and william ID. Howells
are among the few well-known writer's
who have learned to manipulate the
typewriting machine. Mr.. Brooks, who
has been used to debating his literary
productions to the stenoprapher, now
sits down to his typewriter and plays
on the koyc as no compoeoc. He Gndo |
that this process saves great deal of
time.
Mrs. Cleveland has decided. with the
consent of the lessee, to send her two
dogs-Hector, the poodle, and Kav, the
great mastiff-to Oakview, where her
Alderney COW, the gift of Geo. w.
Childs, will also be kept for the summer.
Mr.. Cleveland will not sell his horses
and carriages, but will have them ship
ped at once to New York.
Representatives from eighteen States
attended the National Greenback con-
ference called to meet in Washington
Wednesday. Col. j. H. Ruter, of Flori-
da, was elected chairman, and commit
tee on resolutions was appointed as fol-
lows: Messrs. George N Jones, New York;
Lee Crandall, Washington; J. M. Troth,
Virginia; Chas Roberts, California; Ben
jamin Colvin, Michigan, and R. w. Rut-
er, Florida.
To look at Judge Cooley, of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, who seems
to be bound in cali, and as unsentimental
as his own work on the laws of corpora
tons, no one would suppose that he
would ever elope with a girl; but that
was the way he got his wife. The affair
didn't happen very recently, says the
Washington Post, and has created no
sensation in Washington society this
winter, for very few people know the
facts or even suspect that Judge Cooley
is such giddy fellow. The lady in the
case was farmers daughter, and it
happened more than thirty years ago.
She now presides over his house at Ann
Arbor, and has spent good part of the
winter at the Arlington Hotel. There
are six children to raise up and call her
blessed, and that marriage could posi-
bly, be failure never entered her head.
Says General Boynton in the Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette. "Genial Col
onel Lamont will be long and pleasantly
remembered. He has fulfilled the du-
ties of his arduous position with tact
and ability, maintaining from first to
last quite courtesy toward all who
have come in contact with him, without
regard to their political affiliations.
There have been no private secretaries :
more faithful to their chief, more SER
viceable to HIM, or who possessed great
er discretion in dealing with all who
had business with the Executive. He
has been more useful to the President
than most of his Cabinet officers, aud
his name and fame will be long and
more pleasantly remembered in Wash
ington."
The inaugural committee achieved an
financial success. Not
only was enough money made from the
sale of privileges and of tickets to the
ball to defray all expenses and to return
the $50, 900 guarantee subscribed bv pub
hc-spirited citizens, but there will be a
surplus of about $4,000. There were
1900 tickets to the ball sold, netting
$4,000, and it it expected that the re-
ceipts from the sale oftickets to the pro-
menade concert held in the ballroom
Wednesday and from the sale of souve-
mir ball tickets will bring this amount up
to $4,000.
The most conspicuous thing about the
upper rooms of the White House when
the Harrison family got together after
the parade was over was huge rag doll
with its fiat white face, painted in glar-
ing colors that lay in prominent place
Just at the head of the stairs. 1t was
Betsy" one ofthe family of babies Nc
Kee, and the men who brought the
traps ofthe family over from the Airing
ton had dumped it down in the most ,
conspicuous spot in the house. The
children had not come back from the ,
hotel yet, and Mrs. Harrison grabbed
up the doll and made believe to fondle
it, laughingly saying it was the nearest
thing she could get to her babies. u