The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-03-29


Chicken thieves are playing sad havoc
with ex-President Cleveland's fowls at
Oak View.
The Reading iron works will resume
business ON more economical scale. So
say the creditors.
The hair of Emperor Francis Joseph
has turned entirely white since Ru-
dolph's untimely death.
Springfield, Ohio, Prohibitionists re-
quest the state convention to nominate
DIR. j. b. Helvig for governor.
A bill is pending in the New York
legislature to establish savings banks in
the public schools of the state.
A constable in West Virginia. who
killed man who resisted arrest, has
been found guilty of manslaughter.
At its first meeting in April, ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland and ex-Secretary Villas
will be initiated members of Tammany
hall.
Billy McGlory has sold out his New
York dive for $S1 900. 1t will be con-
verified into factory. He paid $61 900
for it ten years ago.
Sank Center, Mimi, proposes to get
an opera house by submitting a PROPOSE
ton to the voters to bond the city 81, 500
with which to build it.
Barnum's hotel, Baltimore, founded In
1926, and made famous by Dickens, who
said it was the best hostelry In America,
is to be closed and sold April 4.
Pennsylvania days among the monu-
ments of the Gettysburg battle field win
be celebrated on May 81 and ~. Presi-
dent Harrison is expected to review the
parade.
Mrs. Pierce, of New York, who COM
peted in the Nice beauty show, was
awarded the first prize, which she re-
returned with the request that il be
devoted to charitable purposes.
OF 26I interviews with the Leading
professional and business men of Massa-
chusetts, printed in The Philadelphia
Press, 1873 express themselves as opposed
to a constitutional prohibition amend
ment.
President Harriscn's first exercise of
the pardoning power was made in COM
muting the sentence of Albert Green, a
colored murderer, who was sentenced to
be hanged in Washington on April 5, to
imprisonment for life.
The wife of Conductor Rand, of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail-
road, who died two weeks ago, commit
ted suicicide at her home in Rock Island,
Ills, by asphyxiation. Her two chill
dren, who were in the same room, will
probably recover.
street car company are found in Column
hT1S hos al fha ha4
two crossings and then reported the
conductor and driver who accommodate
ingly stopped there for him. The COM
pany promptly discharged the faithful
employees, who both have large families
dependent upon their labors.
Fanny Davenport, the actress, ap-
pealed in person to the governor of Ten
nessee for the release of Charles Talbot,
the Memphis hotel clerk who stole her
diamonds two years ago and was sent
to the penitentiary for six years. After
his release Talbot called upon Miss
Davenport, who spoke kindly to him
and gave him 500 in money with
which to begin life anew.
Foreign.
A large number of foreign jews have
been expelled from Kieff, Russia.
The strikes prevailing in many of the
German provinces are rapidly spread
ing.
The German government has ordered
$4,000 swords of the new pattern to be
manufactured at Sollingen, and has also
given orders for the manufacture and
delivery of large number of repeating
rifles by the Werndl rifle factory at
Vienna.
The Germans are organizing q deep
sea expedition at Kiel, similar to that Of
the Challenger, for the purpose of
making soundings, ascertainihG the
character of the bottom, etc. The ex-
petition will be under the supervision Of
Professors Schutt, Henson and Brandt,
and will start about the end of June.