The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-03-22
-Messrs. Marston and Holley, O

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, March
"a, %, and 26, owing to work on the new
bridge.
%. P. Hamburg's stock of goods al
Lake Crystal has been sold by the asslg.
nee TO W. p. Marston, for $9O5. The
creditors will receive about % cents on
the dollar.
An infant daughter of Hans John
son, living on North Front street, near
the stone quarries, died this morning,
aged sixteen months. The funeral will
be held az the house at o'clock Monday
afternoon.
-Wickersham & Brown have secured
the contract for the plumbing and gas
fitting ut the courthouse, and have al
ready begun work. This contract was
secured from Mr.. Flachsenhar, and in
wolves a great amount of work.
The normal literary society held an
interesting meeting last night. The In
dian Lake debating society took part in
the program. An election of officers re-
suited in the election of John o. Parry,
president, and Miss Edith Short, secre-
tary.
MIR. Oscar Cassidy, of this city,
shipped twelve car loads of sheep to-day
to Chicago. The cars averaged eighty
five sheep each. Mr.. Cassidy has large
number of sheep left on his farm near
Good Thunder, and he finds them very
profitable raising.
The addition which Mr.. Walker will
build will be to the building he now oc-
cupies. The room he moves into is a
good-sized one, being We believe the
widest single store room along the street.
1t will afford Messrs. Walker & Son a
better opportunity to display the large
. line of goods thew ALWAYS have in stock.
The people living on n. Fourth and
n. Third streets are complaining about
the wav the city has been laying side
walks there. They say that on \. Fourth
street sidewalks have been built, but no
crosswaIks, while on \. Third street
crosswaIks have been put down, and
several of the property owners have not
been forced 10 build sidewalks. They
also claim that partially has been
shown.
A late Lacrosse paper says:
The Lacrosse LInseed OH Co., has not
yet given possession of their mill prop
erty here TO Mr.. +. G. Warner, the Man
kato gentleman, who it was reported
had bought it. Mr.. Warner is in the
city and it is likely that the papers will
be signed and the money paid over
within day or so. The works will be
run here as usual if the trade is made,
and would be in operation now but there
is scarcity OF seed. Mr.. Warner is in
terested in the Mankato mill, of which
he has been superintendent the past
three wears.
Austin Transcript, 18th: Mr.. Arthur
W. Burnett, of Mahkato, and Miss Ame-
liza J. Rollings. OF Red Rock, were mar
ried Sunday noon, at the home of the
brides parents, near Brownsville. The
wedding was private. The bride was
student for some time, at the Mankato
Normal school, and is one of our most
estimable and worthy Young ladies. Mr..
and Mrs. Burnett go to housekeeping
at once near Garden City, Blue Earth
county.
The chief of police had occasion re-
Gently to visit the city burying ground
for dead animals and found the carcasses
of seven horses, a cow and mule lying
on top of the ground without an effort
having been made to cover them. He
desires to give notice that the first per-
son who is hereafter found to violate the
ordinance relating to the burylng of
dead ANIMALS will be prosecuted to the
full extent of the law. He says he
means business. The ordinance re-
uaires that animals be buried at least
three feet deep.
Mr.. w. W. P. Mcconnell has re-
moved his stock from the south side of
the double store and has given up that
portion. He will occupy only the north
half hereafter, the fact of his devoting
his attention to dry goods and carpets
exclusively rendering the additional
room unnecessary. The north portion
has been divided from the other half by
partition. With the new and tasty
paper and a thorough kalsomining not
only has the appearance been improved
ten fold but the entire room is excel
lently lighted by day.
Judge Severance has granted new
trial in the case of Hannah c. Smith, as
administrators for John w. Smith, de-
ceased, VS.. the Winona & st. Peter rail-
road company. Smith was killed on the
road and action was brought to recover
damages. The jury disagreed on the
irst trial, and the second trial the jury
rendered verdict for the plaintiff of
5000. This was on Dec. ~, 1887. The
grou..d for granting another trial was
that an action could not be maintained
anywhere under the evidence.
"A meeting of the stockholders of the
natural gas company was held last night.
A quorum was not present, but the sem
timent, of those present was that the
matter be allowed to rest until the re-
suit of the drilling at Albert Lea is ascer-
tanned. If the Albert Lea company is
successful in getting flow of gas, then
operations will be resumed at Mlnneopa
Fails, and probably will be in any case
later in the season.
| About two weeks ago man giving
the name of Gustav John borrowed $40
from the Citizens National Bank, leav-
ing note for 500, signed by farmer
named Meyer, living near Lake Crystal,
as collateral. A few DAYS later 1t was as
certained that the signature had been
forged. The matter was kept very still
and when John was located the other
day at Milbank, OAK, orders were sent
for his arrest on the charge of forgery
He was arrested Yesterday and steps
we're immediately taken TO get out re-
auisition papers. AS soon as this is ar
ranged the sheriff will go after the pris
oner.
"A Mankato dispatch to the Minnea'
polls Tribune says: Mrs. Charles Fish
of Worthington, Mimi, the woman who
eloped with member of Sutton's Gun
Toms Cabin" company at that place
last week, and was found in this city las
Sunday, has again left her husband ano
: is en- route to join the same troup again
On arriving at their home in Worthing
: ton, Mrs. Fish confessed to her HUSBAND
!, that she had been of loose character TO
over year and that che no longer loves
4 him, and had made up her mind to joll