The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-03-29
NUMBER Al
CONDENSED NEWS OF THE DAY.

Indiana coal operators demand re-
duction of last years scale.
Old Point Comfort expects Mrs. Har-
rison to come there soon.
James Russell Lowell sails for Europe
on the Pavonia April 81.
A company has been formed to run
electric wires in Washington.
The mayor of New York supervises
the expenditure of $36, 100000.
1t is officially denied that Austria is
preparing for war with Servia.
Secretary Tracy will dispose of his
fancy trotting stock in New York.
Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid
have been warm friends from boyhood.
The strike in the ship building trade
at Belfast is spreading. About one
thousand men are idle.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the new British
minister to the United States, will sail
for America on April ID.
Congressman Yoder, of the Fifth Ohio
district, is said to be candidate for gov
ernor on the Democratic ticket.
Rabbi j. H. Chumaciero, of Evans
vile, Ind, has been elected chief rabbi
for life of the Dutch West Indies.
The gallows on which the Barrett
brothers were hanged have already been
placed on exhibition in dime museum.
Somerset, Ohio, men may as well
stand back. Pretty Nellie Sheridan, a
niece of the general, wants to be post
mistress.
The report Of the designations of Count
Kalncky and Won Taafe is not confirmed
by any advices received here from
Vienna.
The constitutionality of the Alabama
law prohibiting the selling of pools on
races outside of the state will be tested
in the courts.
Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania has
granted respite to Baronovski, the
Schuylkill county murder, from March
% to May 1.
Ex-Queen Natalie of Servia will soon
make application for the annulment Of
the decree of divorce granted to her hus-
band, ex-King Milan.
Like Gen. Grant, Grover Cleveland has
acquired the art of making felicitlous
after dinner speeches, which he did not
possess before he became president.
Among the transfers of troops ordered
by the secretary of war is that of light
battery F, Third artillery, from Fort
Smelling, MIMI, to Fort Ripley, Kan.
The Belgian Agricultural League Fed
Grafton has unanimously adopted reso-
luton favoring the imposition of an i'm
port duty upon agricultural products.
The Illinois senate passed bill prohibit
ing the sale of reworked or colored but
ter; also, bill appropriating $50, 600 for
a monument to the late John A. Logan.
s. E. Gross and w. P. Rend, nomi-
nees of the Labor party of Chicago for
the offices of mayor and city treasurer
respectively, have declined to make the
race.
Edward A. Birnie, aged so, committed
suicide by jumping to the street from a
room in the fourth story of boarding
mouse ON West Twenty-fifth street, New
York.
William A. Thomas, a white man at
Richmond, Va, left an estate of $500, 900
to Bette Lewis, mulatto, his natural
daughter. Cousins of the dead man are
fighting the will.
The circuit court at GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
has decided, in the case of Wheeler
against the city, that property not bene-
fitted by public water works cannot be
taxed for water works purposes.
The New Mexico cattle sanitary board
report that since the enactment, of the
quarantine law in 1887 against diseased
cattle being admitted no case of bovine
disease, and especially Texas fever, has
appeared in that territory.
A New York establishment has con-
structed a two-foot steam whistle for a
Canadian saw mill. 1t can be heard
twenty miles. The mill is in sparsely
settled district, and the whistle is de-
signed to summon assistance in case of
fire.
Tiffin, Ohio, had a day boom. The
street railway was sold for $25, 900 to
Eastern capitalists, who also bought fifty
town lots upon which to locate the big
Brewer pottery, and on the same day
large rolling mill and another pottery
were collared per contract.
Professor Brooks HIS obtained several
observations of new white region of
Saturn's ring, and announces his discov-
cry that the light is variable and that
pulsations of the light at irregular inter-
walls have been detected by him. This
evidence of change in Satnrn's system
is of the highest scientific interest.
The United States steamer Yantic,
now at the New York yard, has been
thoroughly fumigated and cleaned of
the yellow fever, which she took on
board during her recent trip south, and
will soon go under the orders of Rear
Admiral Gherardi, commanding the
North Atlantic squadron, to reinforce
the fleet in the West Indies.
1t has been discovered that the large
sixteen-foot bending rolls supplied to the
Norfolk navy yard for use in the con-
struction of the Texas, do not meet the
requirements of the contract. After
the roll were purchased it was found
that their capacity was limited to six
teen-foot plates, while the bottom plates
of the Texas are twenty feet in length.