The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-06-28
CONDENSED VIKINGS.

A mine of anthracite coal of vast di-
mansions has been discovered at Can
more. n. w. 7.
to Mormonisn were landed at New York
Thursday.
A Maxim automatic gun, tested at the
naval proving grounds, Annapolis, Md,
Friday, fired $50 shots in minute.
The health of Lord Dufferin, at one
time governor general of Canada, is 80
bad that his physicians are axious about
him.
The 250th anniversary of the opening
of the first public school in the United
States was celebrated at Boston, Mass,
Saturday.
The Russian government has ordered
forty engines and 900 cars for the Eka-
terinoslov railway, to be used for mill
tary purposes.
The navy department has been in
formed that the cruiser Baltimore will
be ready for her official trip about July
9, at Philadelphia.
The application for the removal of
Police Justice King, of Buffalo, N. Y,
on the ground of misconduct, has been
Charles DeBaum, the defaulting cash
Ter of the National Park bank, Of New
York, was sentenced to five years and
seven months in the penitentiary.
A rule has been adopted by the inter-
nal revenue bureau forbidding the pres
ence in a distillery warehouse of any
person except in the presence of the
storekeeper.
1t is stated at Boston that the presi-
dent and Mrs. Harrison have accepted an
invitation to be present at Henry G.
Bowen's annual Fourth of July celebra-
ton at Woodstock.
The case against Mrs. Lowenstein, of
Chicago, charged with attempting to
kill her husband, Detective Lowenstein,
by shooting, has been dismissed, Lowen-
stein refusing to prosecute.
1t is reported that owing to making of
discriminating rates, criminal proceed
ings against the Minneapolis, Sault Ste.
Marie & Atlantic railway have been
ordered by the interstate commission.
Frank Woodruff, under arrest In Chi
ago in connection with the Cronin MUIR
der, sues the proprietors Of a dime
museum for exhibiting a wax figure of
himself as one of the Cronin murderers.
A Charleston special to The New York
Sun says: The telegram from this place
published in the New York papers on
Saturday that McDow had been elected
surgeon of the Lafayette artillery, Is en-
tirely untrue.
Guzpap- Blanco, the once idolizsd dc
tator OF Venezuela, has fallen. He IL
now in Paris, and there IL rejoicing In
the republic, Where the "ilustrious
American" is exscrated and lampoonsd
and caricatured numerically.
Postmaster General Wanamsker IL In
vestigating the charge that Andrew D.
Slosson, Democratic postmaster at Wa
verify, N. Y, offered to sell his commits.
sion to a Republican aspirant for the
Office.
Ex-Governor Oden Bowie, Of Mary.
land, who fought in the Mexican war.
being second lieutenant of Company e.
Baltimore and Washington battalion.
has been granted pension. lt com.
mences Jan. 80, 1889, at So per month.
A wealthy old miser at Franklin. XIV.
while sick unto death, managed to get
out OF bed. and calling an old negro |
servant, ordered him to burn an old nail
keg. 1t was ascertained later that the |
keg contained $50, 900 in greenbaoks and
government bonds, which he was deter. |
mined that his wife, whom he is suing
for divorce, should not get.