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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-26

it was matter wholly subject to the power
and discretion of the board of prison man
ayers. whose views on the matter he had
never learned. And again, some people
might be led to think he was not friendly
to the new reformatory. when in fact he
was strongly i'm favor of the institutions
maintenance. His talk with Chairman
McGrath was simply in the way of an ex-
change of views on prison management in
general. But the warden said that should
the board of managers consider the scheme
favorably he would be glad to organize the
prison on the grading system at once. He
added that the main objection to the plan
in the minds of some people was the mis-
taken notion that it would be more expen-
sive than the old way; while in truth it
would be move in the direction of econ
Omy. The only additional expense of any
consequence would be occasioned by the
first change in prison uniforms. but this
might be avoided almost entirely by gradu-
ally substituting the new uniforms as the
old ones wore out And as the stripes
would be retained as the dress of the lower
grade there would be no waste of the old
clothing. Any additional expense that it
might be thought well to incur would be
more than offset by the better work and
behavior of the convicts.
There is mistaken idea abroad that the
grading system is plan whereby convicts
are coddled and bribed into being good. but
such is not the case. Under a we'll man.
aged grading system no convict is given any
privilege or reward until he has earned it
by his labor and behavior. and he holds his
rewards no longer than his labor and be
haviOr remain up to the standard. There
is no station in the whole course where be
may relax his efforts without sliding back
down the hill he is climbing. No one needs
to be told the beneficient results of such a
course of discipline upon a class of men
whose greatest weakness is lack of per-
sistence in we'll doing. The advantage to
the state of such system lays in the fact
that it is a powerful reformatory agency
Experience has proved that a larger per
cent of prisoners can be reformed by this
course of treatment than by any other plan
yet tried. To be given its full effect the
indeterminate sentence and parole system
should be united with the grading system
But perhaps this cannot be brought about
all at once. so give us the grading system
as beginner.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-26
Origin of the English Parliament.

IA paper read before the prison C. L. SC
The original or first institution of Parlia.
ment is one OF those matters which lies so
far hidden in the dark ages of antiquity
that the tracing of it out is thing equally
difficult and uncertain.
The word Parliament is of modern date
and derived from the French, signifying an
assembly which met and conferred together
and was first applied to assemblies of states
under Louis VII. in France about the
middle of the twelfth century. But it is
certain that long before the introduction of
the Norman language into England, all
matters of Importance were debated and
settled in the great councils of the realm
a practice which seems to have been uni
versal among the northern nations, espe-
cially the Germans and carried by them
into all the countries of Europe which they
Overran at the dissolution of the Roman
Empire-relcs of which constitution, I'M
der various notifications and changes, are
still to be met with in diets of Poland, Ger
many and Sweden, and the assembly of the
estates of France. In England this general
council has been held immemOrially under
the several names of Michelsynoth or
great council MichelgemOte or great meeting
and more frequently Witenagemote. or the
meeting of wise men. We have instances
of it's meeting to order the affairs of the
kingdom, to make new laws or mend the
old. SO early as the reigns of Ina, king of the
West-SaxOns. Offa, king of the Mercians,
and Ethelbert. king of Kent. in the several
realms of the Heptarchy, and after their
union, King Alfred ordained perpetual
usage that the councils should meet twice a
year for these purposes. Hence it indis-
putably appears that Parliament or general
councils are cOeval with the kingdom itself.
but how they were constituted and COM
posed, is another question. and one on
which the pages of history are so dim that
we have no means of forming an opinion
except by conjecture. The constitution of the
Parliament as it now stands was founded in
the seventeenth year of the reign of King
John. A. D. 1915. in charter granted by
that king and has continued with but few
slight Interruptions ever since. c. w. K.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-26

''Sprays from the Sound" is the agreeable
title of a little journal that found its way to
our table this week from the reformatory
and branch workhouse. Harris Island. New
York City. The paper is beauty. and it is
certain that its editors and publishers are
experienced in their work. We like the
Sprays from the Sound and we like it's
motto ''Dare to do Right. Dare to be True"
and we wish the paper all that success it
deserves.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-26

A bill was introduced in the House Tues
day prohibiting the letting of prison labor,
the rental of shops and grounds at the state
prison at Saltwater, and to remove the con-
tractors at the expiration of their contract"
1t provides that the board of managers and
the warden shall find proper employment
for the inmates on state account. as the
present law provides. The bill was re-
ferred to the prison and reformatory COM
mittee.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-26

Ex-Warden j. j. Randall has passed
from EARTH Mr.. Randall died at 3:15
o'clock Wednesday morning at the resi-
dence of DR.. j. H. Murphy in St. Paul. He
was grand, good man.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-26

c. A. Violet and John Connolly have
leased the Saltwater Democrat printing
office from j. S. Vandiver. 1t does not yet
appear why Mr.. Vandiver has withdrawn
from active interest in the paper, but it is to
be presumed that he got tired OF waiting
for the delinquents to call and settle up.
THE MIRROR wishes the new firm prosper
ity.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-26

A jury in court at Mexico, Mo-, brought
in such an outrageous verdict that the judge
dismissed them in this humiliating fashion:
lit is the sentence of this court that the
sheriff conduct you to the rear door of the
court house and allow you to depart as
your services will not be again required
during my term of ofice."-The Oregon
Statesman.
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NEWS OF A WEEK.
MARCH Is.

MARCH 49,
The embargo has been removed and
American cattle are now being landed in
the ports of Germany.
1t is reported that nearly 600 lives were.
lost by the sinking of the steamer Utopia
yesterday in Gibraltar bay.
A fatal shooting affray in New Orleans
grows out OF the recent lynching by which
Frank Waters, journalist, is killed, and
Attorney Arthur Dunn is seriously wounded.
The National COrdage Company's factory
at Elizabeth, N. j.. is DESTROYED by fire.
This was the largest cOrdage works in the
U. S.. and employed 600 hands. The loss
is $500, 600.
MARCH 10.
The South Dakota Tascott is not Tascott.
The bill giving Minneapolis new char
ter. passes in the Senate.
The Louisville. KY, banking firm of
Schwartz & Co., of fifty years. standing,
fails.
Henry Aveling, we'll known actor, COM
mits suicide in the Sturtavant house, New
York.
Chas. N. FELTON, is elected United States
Senator from California to fill the vacancy
Sts
1t is said that Pennsylvania has been rob-
bed of over million dollars by the corrupt
management of the soldiers orphans
schools.
MARCH TO-
st. Georges Episcopal church in st. Louis
is destroyed by fire.
Lawrence Barrett, the great tragedian.
dies suddenly in New York City of heart
failure resulting from an attack of pneumo-
MIA.
The Anaconda Company shuts down it's
smelling works and closes it's mines at
Butte, Mont, and 1900 men are thrown
out of work.
MARCH 21.
great fire in Shang Hal, China, de-
StrOyS 5000 houses, and 5000 people are
made homeless.
Mrs. S. Jourdant. a St. Paul lady, is killed
by an ccle which fell from the top of the
Chamber of Commerce building.
Gen. Joseph E. johnson, the last of the
great Confederate commanders, died to-day
at his residence in Washington, D. C.
MARCH %.
The new Holmes block, the finest in De-
troit, Mimi, burned to day
The Hatfield Mccoy feud in West Vir.
ginia and Kentucky is ended after having
lasted fifteen years and cost 100 lives.
1t is announced that Anna Dickinson is
not insane, and that her trouble is nervous
prOstratlOn brought on by OverwOrk.
MARCH %.
Queen Victoria visits France.
Ex-GOv Lucius Robinson of New York.
died at Elmira to day.
Timothy D. Healy. the famous anti.Par-
nellite. is assaulted by mob in the streets
of Cork and receives severe injuries.
A boy is arrested in New York City who
has been engaged of late at setting fire to.
tenement houses in which ten persons have
lost their lives. He is believed to be insane.
MARCH "a.
The death rate is increased SO per cent
by la grippe in Pittsburg.
The body of Gen. Joseph E. johnson is
laid to rest in Green Mount cemetery, Balti-
more.
Dana Child. the 16-year-old nephew of
Senator E. A. Child, is killed at Glencoe.
Mimi, while jumping from moving train.
By collision of freight and passenger
trains on the Chicago & Northwestern near
Green Bay, Wis.,, Willis Andrews fireman.
is killed and many passengers are injured.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-26

Anger prompts men to contention; ava
rice, to oppression"
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-03-26

''BenevOence is allied to few vices; self
ishneSs, to fewer virtues"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-03-13
First ins. Jan. 80; last March lS.
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE.

nEFAULT has been made In TN. cond1tl e,i,s
~ of a MORTGAGE executed by Mark RalDie
Isinelel to George Pfeffer. dated January loth,
1884, and recorded in the ONCE OF the Register
OF Deeds of Blue Earth county, Minnesota, Sep
TENDER 4th, 1890, in book 81 OF mortgages, on
mage 372, conveying the following described real
estate lying and being in said county OF Blue
Earth and State of Minnesota, viz: The north
east quarter of the northwest quarter OF section
No sixteen, (16) in township No. one hundred
and eight (lOS) north OF range twenty-six (26)
west, to secure the payment OF ain prOmls-
sorry note of the same date, made by said MARX
dollars, payable January 18th, 1889, with in,
terest at per cent per annum which note ana
mortgage were by written assignment dated
Nov. 9th, 1888, duly assigned by said George
Pfeffer to Charles Graf, and which assignment
was duly record d in said office OF the Register
day of September, 1890, in book 20 OF mort,
cages, on page 376, and there is now due and
claimed to be due on said note and mortgage
twenty two hundred and thirty nine and 3I-loo
dollars, together with thirty dollars stipulated
in said mortgage to be paid as solicitors fees In
case of foreclosure thereof, and no proceeding at
law or otherwise has been instituted to collect
said debt or any part thereof, and said mort
gage contains power OF sale,
Therefore notice is hereby given that by viz
tue of said power OF sale, and OF the statutes In
such case made and provided, said mortgage
viii be foreclosed and the premises therein and
above descr bed will be sold by the sheriff OF
said Blue Earth county, at public auction, on
the 14th day of March, 1891, at ten O'Clock A:
NJ, at the front door OF the court house OF said
Blue Earth County, in Mankato, Mimi, to sat.
isfy the amount then due on said note aud
mortgage, together with said thirty dollars SOL
Dated at Mankato, Minnesota, this goth day
Of January, 1891.
Tnos. HusHEs, Assignee.
Axxo--.xr g.. A,.tcnaa
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-03-13
PRocTOR's TRIP WEST.

Secretary OF War Will Take a Tour o
Inspection of Army Posts.
WASHINGTON, March 10..-Secretary
Proctor starts on an inspection tour of
military posts. He will first make q
tour OF Texas, thence to New Mexico,
Arizona and onward to the Pacific coast.
He will return by the Northern route.
stopping at all the important posts en-
route. He will stop at Chicago to exam
inc the progress being made on buildings
at Fort Sheridan, and with the view to
determining what allotment he will
make for carrying ON work there during
the next fiscal year. The sum of $745, 900
is available for distribution among about
a half dozen large posts, including Fort
Sheridan. One of the objects of the
secretary's tour is to ascertain the needs
by personal inspection of the more inn
portant posts before making the allot-
ment. 1t is understood that the quarter
master general will recommend the
allotment of $4,000 for Fort Sheridan.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-03-13
EvADING RULES.
Railroad War Threatened by the Action
of the Kansas City.

Railroad War Threatened by the Action
ofthe Kansas City.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, March 10. There
is trouble brewing in Western passen-
ger circles on account of the Chicago st.
Paul and Kansas City, in manipulating
passenger rates. On the one-day limited
through Chicago ticket, the road here
tofore extended the time to five days
and by scalping on local points did big
business. The principal points receiv-
ing the benefit of the scalper rates are
Des Moines and Marshalltown. The
matter was brought to the attention of
the other roads, and such pressure was
brought to bear that these tickets were
withdrawn. The same road is issuing
five-day limited tickets to Forest Home,
ten miles this side of Chicago, to which
point there is no rule to govern the rate
and the old system of scalping is pro-
tected on this ticket. The other roads
have discovered the plan and threaten
to resort to some desperate methods if
the tickets are not withdrawn
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-03-13
JUST WANTS A TRIAL.

A Machine Which a North Dakota Man
Claims Will Revolutionize Warfare.
WASHINGTON, March Represents
tive johnson, in company with Senator
Pierce, visited Secretary Tracy, of the
navy department, and said that con-
stituent of his living in North Dakota
had invented a machine which would
revolutionize naval warfare.
He had discovered plan whereby he
could destroy vessel or fort at any
time and any place. He was now con-
structing a model and would, within
sixty days, have it ready for trial. He
did not want to put any expense on the
government, but simply wanted fair
trial before the navy department when
he was ready to experiment with the
machine. This trial Secretary Tracy
promised he should have.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-03-13
UNPRECEDENTED RAINS.
Elves Inches Of Water Has
Fallen at Memphis i'm For
ty.eight Hours.
The Mississippi at That Point a
Foot and a Half Above
the Danger Line.
Five Hundred People at Nashville
Driven Into the Streets by the
High Water.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 9.-The rain
fall in this city and section of the South
for the past two days is unprecedented.
Nearly five inches have fallen in this
city during the past forty-eight hours.
Specials from the adjacent country re-
port the heavy rain as general. The en-
tire lower part of Canton, Miss, is un-
der water and all trains on the Illinois
Central road are delayed.
jackson, Miss. reports the Pearl river
as having risen three feet in twelve
hours and all trains delayed.
The Mississippi at Memphis is one and
q half feet above the danger line and
still rising. Considerable bottom coun-
try in Arkansas and Lower Mississippi
is overhowed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-03-13

2TATE OF MINNESOTA, County OF Blue
u Earth. In Probate Court.
In the matter OF the estate OF Jerusha w.
Hatch, deceased.
The State OF Minnesota and the said Probate
Court to all persons interested in the estate OF
Jerusha W. Hatch, deceased, greeting:
Whereas, Elisha Darlington, of the town of
Nontfort, State of Wisconsin, has filed a petition
in the Probate Court of the county Of Blue
Earth, for letters OF administration
to issue to Charles E. Baker, upon the
estate of Jerusha w. Hatch, late of said county,
deceased.
Therefore, you and each of you are cited and
required to appear at the Office of the Judge of
Probate, in the city OF Mankato, in said county
of Blue Earth, on the Goth day of March, A.
d. 1891, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of that
day and show cause why letters of administra-
ton upon said estate should not issue to the
said Charles Z. Baker, as prayed for in said
petition
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of the Probate Court
this 21st day of February, A. D. 1891.
w. B. TORREY,
Seal. Judge of Probate.
q. W. MEAD, ATTORNEY for Petitioner.
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Attorney for Administrator.
First ms. March 6; last March 20.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.

CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue Earth,
- In Probate Court. Special Term March 3,
1891
In the matter of the estate of Edward
s. Taylor, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Fred M
Dow setting forth that said Edward S. Taylor
deceased and said Fred NJ. Dow entered into an
oral contract whereby said deceased sold and
agreed to convey to said Fred M. Dow the fol-
lowing described real estate situate in the county
of Waseca and State of Minnesota to-wit: That
part of the southeast one-fourth of the south
west one-fourth of the southeast onefourth of
section No. thirty (30l town one hundred and
seven 100, range twenty-four 24 west, lying
north of the LeSueur River in said county,
upon payment to said deceased of the sum OF
1925, and that said Dow has paid said sum
of S125 and is entitled a deed OF convey, and
praying that license be to, F.. d. Seaman.
Administrator, granted to convey to sad Fred
NJ. Dow said above described real estate.
1t is therefore ordered, that all persons inter
ested in said estate appear before this Court on
Tuesday, the 31st day of March, A. d. 1891, at
10 o'clock a. m. at the Court House, in the City
show cause (if any there beg why license should
not be granted to said Administrator to convey
to said Fred NJ. Dow by Administrators deed
the said above described real estate pursuant
to said contract.
And it is further ordered that this order shall
be published once in each week, for three sue
cessive weeks prior to said day of hearing, in
the Mankato FREE PRESS, weekly newspaper
printed and published at Mankato, Mimi, in
said county. "a
Dated at Mankato, the 3rd day OF March,
By the Court:
VIM BeToRREY.
,PFAU & Young, Judge of Probate.
Ats for Petitioner.
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First ms. March 6; last ms. March 20.
ORDER FOR HEARING.

CTATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
" Earth In Probate Court. Special Term,
March 3rd, 1891.
In the matter of the estate of Elizabeth
Conrad deceased.
On receiving and filing the petition of William
Conrad of Beauford, Blue Earth county, Min
nesota, representing among other things, that
Elizabeth Conrad, late OF said county, on the
2Sth day of October, A. D., 1890, at Mankato
in said county died intestate, and being a resi-
dent of this county at the time of her death
leaving goods, chattels and estate within this
county, and that the said petitioner IS the sur
viving husband of said deceased, and praying
that administration of said estate be to said
William Conrad granted:
1t is ordered that said petition be heard be-
fore this court on Friday, the 9th day of
March, A. D. 1891, OF 10 O'Clock a. m, at the
City of Mankato, in said county.
Ordered further that notice thereof beg given to
the heirs of said deceased, and to all persons
interested. by publication once in each week,
for three successive weeks prior to said day of
hearing, in the Mankato Free Press, a weekly
newspaper printed and published at Mankato
in said county.
Dated at the City Of Mankato, the Bird day of
March, A, D.. 1891.
By the Court,
w B. TORREY,
TSEAL1 Judge of Probate.
6. W. MEAD,
Attornav for potitjonar
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To Be Baptized Snowflake.

PLATTEvILLE, Wis, March 9-The
one-week-old infant found in a snow
bank few days since in the neighbor-
ing village of Boscobel, snugly packed
in an ordinary shoe box, was Friday
formally adopted by Mr.. and Mrs. Adam
Bohe, of that place, and will be brought
up as their own child in affiuence. The
infant is said to be very beautiful, and
has been named and is to be baptized as
Snowflake. F." When found it was
dressed in the finest of clothing, beauti-
fully embroidered, and with gold chain
around its tiny neck. A neatly penciled
note commended the child to the chart
table people of the town and was signed
IA Deserted Wife"
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Ask for Arbitration,

CHICAGO, March 9.-Arbitration will
be resorted to by the carpenters of Chi
cago, before the final steps taken toward
a strike. This was the feeling of the
great mass meeting held at Battery D.
About 5000 carpenters We're in attend
ance. With the unanimous approval of
all the carpenters present a resolution
was adopted demanding that the ques-
lions now in dispute should be settled
by board of arbitration To prevent
blame being attached to the carpenters
if strike was ordered for April I, they
gave the Carpenters and Builders asso-
citation until March % to accede to their
demand for arbi tratiOn.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-03-13
Germany's Exhibit.

BERLIN, March 10.-The leading man
ufacturers of Germany will meet in
Berlin next week to consider their
course toward the Chicago exposition,
and to appoint a committee to take
charge of the German interest. The
German exhibits will doubtless be ex-
tensive The leading merchants and
aldermen of Berlin are invited to join in
the deliberations.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-03-13
LINE

between these principal cities, the Chi
cago & North Western system of lines
composed of the Chicago, st. Paul, Min
neapolis & Omaha, Chicago & North.
Western, and Fremont, Elkhorn & Mo.
Valley Rvs (all advertised as "The
North Western Line, ~ offers the quick
est means of reaching all cities and
towns In the territory intersected by il.
In connection with Union Pacific the c..
st. Paul, M. & o. Ry. also forms =
through line to the Pacific coast, operst-
ed as the Lake Superior, st. Paul, & On
ion Pacific Line. All particulars, with
maps and time tables, may be obtained
at any station, or write direct to
T. W. TEASDALE.
Gent Passenger Aoent, st. Paul,
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UNAVAILABLE HOMES.

Five Hundred Nashville People Driven
Int the Streets by High Water.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 9.-The
Cumberland river is doing considerable
damage here and in this vicinity. Five
hundred people have been driven into
the streets. The waters are still rising,
and two feet more will render at least a
thousand homes unhabitable. The eel
lars of the warehouses in the central
part of the city are full of water and
much property has been ruined.
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First worlds Fair Building.

CHICAGO, March 9.-The first build
ing OF the Worlds Columbian exposi-
ton has been begun at jackson park. 1t
is to be two stories in height, built of
brick, with dimensions 43x93 feet, and
two additional wings 22x22 each. In
this building will be placed two FIRE
proof vaults, designed for the safe keep
ing for the plans for all the exposition
construction. The plans are valued at
100000. Constructor General Burn
ham and staff will have their offices in
the building.