The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-25
PEOPLE AND EVEN

Ex-Minister thelphs will resume his
pr0fessorshlp at Yale in January.
The late Henry Charles MISSIONER,
coachman to the Prince of Wales, left a
fortune of about $4,000.
Fashionable woman this winter will
be as shaggy as a bear. All smooth
dress material is to be neglected.
Jack the Ripper" should he live up
to his late manifesto, will startle the
world tomorrow with another atrocity.
1t is rumored IN Albany that Wander
bilt money is going to erect mammoth
summer hotel on the Hudson, just out
of Albany.
Ferrets have been turned loose in the
White House garrett, and the rats are
beginning to feel like Democratic
fourth-class postmasters.
While in England the Shah acquired
an awful passion for cape-coats. He
wears them-of gorgeous hues too-at
all times and places.
Both the candidates for Governor of
Massachusetts this year are Harvard
alumni. Mr.. Brackettln the class of 1865.
Mr.. Russell in that of 1877.
Prince V. Duleep Singh, the East
Indian noble who has been passing
several weeks at fashionable autumn
resorts in New England, has returned to
New York.
A Germon sculptor accompanied Edi-
son over to America in order to COM
plete on the steamer the sittings which
| the inventor had not had time:to give
him IN Heidelberg.
Joseph Pulitzer is willing to spend
his money. Not finding twenty-four
other citizens to meet his 100000 with
an equal amount on the part of each,
he has personally and Internationally
subscribed $4,000.
! George B. Mcclellan, son of General
Mcclellan, and a reporter on New
York paper, has been appointed treasur-
er and auditor of the Brooklyn bridge
trustees, at salary of$4,OOO. The office
is new one.
, AS a matter of fact, that masterful
J and strategic gentlemen, Mr.. Erastus
! Wiman, who fred a political speech at
the Pan-American delegates when DIM
| ing them Sunday at Niagara, sent out
that same speech to the press some two
weeks in advance.
James 6. Blaine, Jr., has returned to
Waterville, Me, and resumed work in
the machine shops of the Maine Central
Railroad, where he is buIsly engaged in
! learning his trade.
The Detroit Tribune, in its laudable
crusade to hoist the American flag over
the public schools of Michigan, has sup
piled ninety-six schools with Educational
banner. 1t enables school to get an
1sx10 flag at half price.
Kate Field has concluded to spend
the winter in Washington. She has a
fancy she wants to start weekly news
paper, one not merely polemical but, as
she says, that would appear to any one
with live mind. She has trap set
for ideas from various correspondents.
She thinks that to be the true journal
ism which shapes public opinion, not
that shaped by it.
Three day s deposits in the old cracker
bag fastened to a New York City tele-
graph pole, the pole upon which a tele'
graph ineman recently met so horrible
death, amounted on Monday to 81 ,672
The sympathizing multitude, stirred to
the depths by these oft recurring
calamities, were the contributors, as wit
ness the nature of the deposits: pennies
sos; nickels, 4, $50: silver dollars, 6; So
cent pieces, SO; 25-cent pieces, 52I
dimes, 652; Scent pieces, 20. The larg
est single contribution was $40 bill.
Judge William NJ. Dickson, of Cincin
natl, killed in the incline railway disast
err, had for his wife Miss Annie Marie
the daughter of DR.. John T. Parker,
lineal descendent of General Benjamin
, Logan, of Kentucky pioneer memory
: and Colonel John Allen, who fell IL
| command of the Kentuckians at Rive
5 Raisin in 1912. Mrs. Dickson was ais
Il cousin of Abraham Lincoln, of Cover
nor Crittenden, of Kentucky. and O
I Logan Murray and Eli Murray.
y Two young men haue just sailed from
New York who will find what they ar
. going after, and lots yet, too. They ar
Royal Carroll Phelphs and Harry Carey
and they are bound for Africa for bi
. hunting. At lumbar, where they pus
- into the interior, Willie Chauler await
them. Carey and Chauler are nephew
. of John Jacob and William Aston
u Phelps is grandson of ex-Governo
y John Lee Carroll, of Maryland. Thei
: outfit will be only less than Stanley
. when he started from the Congo.