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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-02-06
MANKATO MARKETS,

Grain and Stock Markets corrected dsfIv
other markets corrected on date OF weekly issue.
Mankato Feb 3 1897
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-03
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

GEORGE ELLIOTT flogged his wife at
Sumpter, S. c., on the both, and his
mother-in-law coming on the scene at
the time, drove the blade of a hatchet
into Elliott's skull. His injuries will
prove fatal.
r. w. WALKER, postmaster at War
rior, Ala, and his partner, John Dudley,
were arrested on the SOth charged with
converting $3.50 of postoffice money or
ders to the firms use.
ALL of Central Dakota was visited on
the 3Oth with heavy snow, averaging
two or three inches of moisture.
THE draw span of the Gould bridge
over the Arkansas River at Fort Smith,
Ark, was swung into position on the
3Oth, connecting Fort Smith with the
Cherokee shore. This is one of the
longest bridges in tho United States,
being 2,37O feet from approach to ap-
prOach.
NICHOLAS HAIGE, of indianapolis,
Ind, was choked to death on the 3Oth
while eating dinner by piece of beef
lodging in his windpipe. Before medi-
cal help could be secured he was dead.
His death was an exceedingly painful
one.
THE exports of specie from New York
for the past week amounted to S92S, 73s,
of which 1858, 61s was in gold and $751;
100 in silver.
REPORTS from many parts of Kansas
show falling off in the registration of
women voters. In Topeka the registra-
tion is unusually large. Over 25 per
cent of the 1900 voters are women.
The increase is due TO the colored
women who are hauled TO the registra-
tion office in droves.
THE past week has been marked by
unusual activity in industrial matters
throughout the South.
THE cattle market in Kansas City
reached the highest point on the 2sth
since the winter of 1882 and 1888. A
lot of forty-nine shorthorn steers, aver
aging l, ,392 pounds. were sold for S6.05.
E. HUDsoN and JEFF Dinsmore, colored,
who burned a portion of Russellville,
Ala, were taken from jail at Bellgreen,
Ala, on the 18th, and lynched.
BUSINESS failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven
days number 256 as compared with
total OF 275 last week. For the CORE
spending week Of last year the figures
were 243,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-03
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS.
An Important Event.

CHATTANOOGA, March 25.-The steam
er Herbert loosed her cable at 10 o'clock
this morning and steamed off from the
wharf on her long trip to st. Louis. The
route will be down the Tennessee river
through the famous Mussel Shoals
Canal, completed by the United State
government last fall at cost of S3, 1000,
600, thence into the Ohio river and next
into the, Mississippi. A large crowd
gathered on the shore to witness the
departure of the boat, which left amid
the waving of hands and handkerchiefs
and many huzzas and the sounding OF
whistles.
The steamer Herbert is owned by the
Tennessee, Ohio & Mississippi River
Packet Company, and is one of the pret-
tiest and most comfortably arranged
boats that floats on the Tennessee. She
carried four barges and a full load on
deck. The cargo consisted of two barges
of coal and agricultural and other i'm
plements of Chattanooga manufactures,
besides a good passenger list. 1t will
be the first freight ever shipped by
water from Chattanooga to ST. Louis.
One firm here has twenty-five car loads
of goods waiting in st. Louis to be
brought here, and indications are that a
big business will be done. Freight rates
will be just 40 per cent. less than those
by rail. The merchants of this city are
iubilant
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-03
Chatranooga Belt Railroad.

CHATTANOOGA, March 26.-The Chat
tanooga Union Railroad changed hands
this afternoon. Three-fourths of the
stock was bought from the Chattanooga
holders by Jere Baxter, for himself and
associates. Contracts were signed be-
tween President James and Col. Baxter.
The company will be organized in about
sixty days. The stock of the old COM
pany is $1,000, 900, and the property is
bonded for $75O,OO0, including the
Georgia avenue terminal facilities. The
road has fifty miles of track and is
three times the length of the next
largest belt railroad in the Union. 1t is
the feeder of all enterprises and rail
roads in Chattanooga and vicinity and
does a big passenger business. Col.
Baxter's associates are Boston capi-
talists who are connected with him in a
Lookout Mountain deal, large trans
action involving the most valuable
franchise in the South.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-03
AN ADVENTURES FoILEo.

A New York Newspaper Reporter Heads
OFF a Notorious Woman who was Posing
as a MiIlionaire's Widow and Playing for
Bis Stakes-On Track of the Arch Con-
spiratOr.
New YORK, March 2S.-The Herald
publishes in detail the story already
published in brief of the attempt of
notorious woman to secure the estate OF
the late millionaire leather merchant,
Loring A. Robertson, by posing as his
widow. Her plot was frustrated, the
Herald declares, by one of its reporters,
who recognized the alleged widow
as a frequenter of houses of ill-fame,
and investigated her history. The
result was that she was forced
to abandon her plan of contesting Rob-
ertsOn's will. She called herself Helen
Brewer, but her real name is Cassie
Brooks, or Connor, the latter being the
name of her present protector, va
riety actor. The Herald states, how
ever, that there was a Helen Brewer,
VINO was once a c-ose friend of Rob
ertsons. She is now living in north
erR New York, Llder an assumed
name, among strangers. She is broken
in health and spirits, and has no
ambition to initiate the bogus widow.
But the fact of the existence of a real
Helen Brewer suggests the inquiry:
''Who put Cassie Brooks up to the idea
of attempting to secure Robertson's
millions by posing as Helen Brewer,
who possibly might claim a marriage
under New York laws?" The Herald
thinks it is on the track of this arch
conspirator, for whom Cassie was only
tool, and that it will shortly be able
4o avpoca bic i6a,4i+u
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-03
GONE TO JOIN HER JEWELS.

Death of Mary II. Cushing, the Mother of
Four Illustrious Sons who Gave Their
Lives to Their Country-TO be Inferred
Beside Her Boys.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, March 2S.-Mrs.
Mary B. Cushing, widow of the late
Milton Buckingham Cushing, died in
this city Thursday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Z. II. Bouten, of old
age. She was born at Salem, Mass.
September %, 1907, and was lineal
descendant of John Alden. She was
the mother of Milton B. Cushing, pay
master of the United States navy,
who died at Washington, d. c., Janu-
ary 1, 1887; of Luther Ward Cushing,
who was killed by the Apaches in
Arizona in 1874; of Col. Alonzo Cushing,
who was killed at the battle of Gettys-
burg, while in command of Battery A,
Fourth United States artillery, and OF
Commander w. B. Cushing, of Alber-
marie fame, who died at Washington,
d. c., in 1877. Mrs. E. II. Bouten, at
whose home Mrs. Cushing died, is the
only remaining member of the Cushing
family. The body will be deposited in
the receiving vault at Mount Mora
cemetery, and in the spring will be sent
to Fredonia, N. Y, and inferred in a
memorial lot where the four sons are
buried
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-03
A POSITIVE FORGERY.

A Card Purporting to Come from w. 8.
Parkerson, of New Orleans, which that
Gentleman Denounces as Forgery
Sensational Disclosures in the Grand
Jury Observation-Disclosures Tactics of
the Defense.
NEW ORLEANS, March 26.-The dis
patches say the New York World con-
tanned card purporting to come from
Mr.. w. S. Parkerson, who led the citi-
zens' movement here recently, in which,
among other things, Mr.. Parkerson is
made to say that there has been much
useless noise and waste of ink over the
just execution of the assassins; that we
have been found guilty and condemned
to final punishment by the Malta;
that the city cares nothing for
the condemnation of President DAN
gels of the Society of Fraterno;
that he hopes that if D'Angels owns
the eleven brutes who met their deaths
at the hands of our citizens as his
countrymen, and wishes to avenge their
death, he will hurry and do SO; that the
writer hopes D'Angels will collect
every black-eyed son of Sicily to his
standard and come to New Orleans
ready for business; that the city is pre-
pared to meet ten times our number in
honorable combat, and that the people
have nothing to apologize for and will
repeat what they have done if the oc-
casior ever presents itself.
Mr.. Parkerson was shown the letter
and pronounced it a positive forgery.
The letter is full of braggadocio, he
said, and he would have to be either
drunk or crazy to pen such a note.
He has never written a line to the
World or any other paper concerning
the tragedy. and has not accepted an
offer to write an article on lynching for
a syndicate, nor does he intend to write
a single word to anyone touching the
trouble.
Some sensational disclosures are
made in connection with the grand jury
investigation. 1t is learned that the de-
fense in the Hennessy case made an eff.
fort to doctor the records of the cleo
trio light company in order to show
that the light at the corner of Girod
and Basin was burning dimly when the
assassination occurred. The de1ense
laid particular stress on the light. An
employe of the electric light company
who kept the records says unknown per-
sons tampered with them, and changed
the original records in order to show that
the lights were poor between the hours of
1920 and 10:4O, when the shooting oc-
CURED. This employe and two others
were summoned by the defense, but
were not put on the stand. A subpoena
duces tecum was also issued for the
records, but for some reason they also
were not offered, why it is not known.
The report of the grand jury promises
to be startling, as Detective O'Malley is
said to have had a hand in having the
records altered to suit the purpose of
the defense.
The cornerstone of the new masonic
temple will be laid here with appropri-
ate ceremonies this evening.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-03
A SHOCKING AFFAIR.

"A Beautiful Young Lady of Lansing.
Mich, Commits Suicide on the Eve of
Her Expected Marriage.
LANSING, Mich, March 2S.-The mar
riage of Miss Myrtle Coats and Frank
Conklin was fixed for next Wednesday,.
Thursday night Miss Coats, who was of
unusual beauty, and not quite Is years
of age, was seized with convulsions
and died in less than two hours.
Just before her death a lengthy
letter to her family was found in her
clothing. This letter admitted that she
had committed suicide by poisoning. and
revealed the cause of self-destruction,
but her parents absolutely refused to
show the message to her lover or the
authorities, except that portion of it
which detailed with minute clearness
her arrangements for the suicide and
her directions concerning her funeral.
The community is considerably stirred
up over the matter. the air of mystery
surrounding it making the excitement
more intense.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-03
THE sTRATHAIRLY WRECK.

The Unequal Struggle for Life of the Crew
of the Ill-Fnted steamer Strathairly
the Carolina COast-A Desperate Plunge
as Forlorn Hope, in which Eleven Out
of Seventeen Perished.
NORFOLK, Va, March 2S.-As soon as
the 5trathairly struck the, captain, en-
gineer and chief officer took refuge aft,
but the second or third sea that rushed
over the steamer carried them away.
other members of the crew took to the
forward rigging. All day efforts were
made to get line to the wreck, but
they failed. About 5 p. m. the men, real
izing that their only chance for life was
to jump overheard, prepared for the
struggle. 1t was thrilling scene on
that barren coast. On the sands were
hundred fisher-folk and the members
of two life-saving crews. Clinging to
The wreck were seventeen men. Each
one could be seen divesting himself of
wearing apparel-they were preparing
to fight with death. Soon the
naked figures stood up-naled save
for the life belt. They hesi-
tated a minute, then at sig
nal jumped into the boiling waters. A
hundred men on shore rushed into the
surf as far as they dared and met the
oncoming waves that were burdened
with human freight. 1t was all over in
a minute or two. Each life-saver
caught hand, a leg or a tuft
of hair and struggled with his
freight to the beach. Seveteen
bodies were laid on the sands
The terrible under-tow had crushed the
life out of eleven, but six were saved
and cared for by the fisher-folk. The
survivors are being cared for at Eliza
beth City, from where, after recovery,
they will be sent home
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-03
A STANDING MENACE.

Remedy Needed to Restrict the Foreign
Element that Lives Among Us but
Places It's Allegiance EIsewhere-EIore
Stringent Immigration Inspection Sug-
gested.
WASHINGTON, March 26.-The follow
ing letter, addressed to the president by
William Hosea Ballou, who has been
residing in New Orleans for several
months, has been received at the eXecu-
tive mansion:
"Your attention is directed to the
menace to the country by large ele-
ment of foreign-born people appealing
to foreign sovereign for revenge, by
arms or diplomacy, on account OF an
act of the community of New Orleans.
/ submit that the presence of an inn
mense body of foreigners within
the United States not in sympathy with
us, our customs and laws, who, what
ever the provocation, call upon for
eign country for aid, can not be de-
pended upon in times of national dam
ger and war, and are constant menace
to our peace fand safety. Washington
is the place, and you alone as the rep
resentative of the sovereign people, to
whom appeal should be made by all
claiming allegiance to this country.
''In view of these facts 1 suggest the
need of stringent immigration inspec-
ton and restriction, otherwise foreign
countries, hostile to us prospectively,
will plant large bodies of men and
women on this soil who will breed
others of their kind, and will rise against
US whenever called upon by the govern
ment from which they came, while pro-
Tossing quasi allegiance to the United
States While we may regard with
pride all foreign-American patriots, the
time has come to distrust all who look
to foreign country for protection,
while claiming loyalty to this country"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-03
THE WORLDS FAIR.

Prominent German Manufacturers and
Others Hold Conference in Regard to
Representation at Chicago.
BERLIN, March ga number OF
prominent German manufacturers, and
others interested in the subject held
conference in this city on the matter of
German representation at the Chicago
Worlds fair. The manufacturers pres
ent concurred in the belief that repre-
sentation worthy of the German en-
pire could only be obtained by the gov
ernment sending to the United States
commissioner intrusted with full power
to secure for such German manufact-
urers as might elect to send exhibits to
the fair all advantages which the in
dustries of Germany were entitled to.
A great deal of interest is manifest
among all classes of manufacturers
with reference to the exposition.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-03
The Affairs of the Washington National
Bank of New York.

NEW YORK, March 26.-Matters are
quiet in the Washington national bank.
According to Mr.. Hepburn's statement,
there is total apparent loss from all
sources of s13s, ,24S7S. If these figures
are true the stockholders can expect a
dividend of so per cent. If they get il
it viii be the first they ever received,
for the Washington has never paid a
dividend since it was organized. Mr..
Hepburn condemns the loose manage
ment of the banks affairs even n y
more emphatic manner than Mr.. Sidcll
Tilghman din-
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-03
Gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania viii Honor
Gov. HiII's Requisitfon.

HARRISBURG, Pa, March 25.-Gov.
Pattison has decided to issue writs for
the extradition of James Hughes, grand
master workman of the assembly of
garment cutters, who is wanted at
Rochester. n. Y, on charges Of extor-
tion and conspiracy made by l..
Adler Bros. & Co., of that city.
The governor says that the papers
from Gov. Hill asking for the extradi-
ton of Hughes were in proper form,
and there remained no other course for
him to pursue than to issue the writS.
The writs viii be isued.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-25
OBSERVATIONS.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett will soon
return to the United States. She has been
writing new play during her stay in
Europe.
Miss Anna w. Kelly of Denver has Just
been elected reading clerk to the Colorado
state senate. She reads rapidly, correctly
and with clearness of accent and pro-
nunciation.
The oriental craze is on the wane in
Eng and and no japanese pottery il now
seen in the best houses. Just now pretty
new Devonsbire pottery, odd Normandy
pitchers, jugs, candlesticks and vases and
dainty Coalport china are in favor. Table
glass 10 gilded around the edge, If not all
over, and has the owners initials in gold
letters on each article.
1t is pretty fashion to have everything
in a bedroom to correspond. A charming
room we know of has the bedspread,
bureau-cover and washstand splasher all
made of pale blue linen powdered" with
yellow primroses. The linen is edged
with narrow lace and the white muslin
curtains are tied back with primrose yell
low ribbons. The carpet is of the same
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-25

shade OF blue in Brussels "filling." which
is, as YOU know, solid color, and the
furniture for this pretty room is Of white
enamel.
When tired OF the too often common
place cloth or whatever is placed under
the bowl in the center OF the dining
table hide il away in q dark closet and
put in its place a dainty hemstitched linen
handkerchief which you have yourself
adorned with some embroidery in colors
to match the tinting of the china or the
flowers. And be sure the embroidery IS
done in wash silk. Ii any OF your guests
do not admire the contrast between the
texture of the kerchief and that of the
damask on which it lies, set him down as
having no soul above turnips and potatoes
and a boiled dinner"
Society in the East has adopted fad
that is a decided sensation. Dancing, OF
the sort executed by the ballet dancers
across the footlights, is to become a
feature of afternoon entertainments. The
professional singer and elocutionlst have
taken the places of the young amateurs
who formerly sang and recited at recrp-
tons and teas. Several society beauties
are adding the skirt dance to their list of
accomplishments, and will soon try their
udrlng accompaniment before an audience
OF their friends. Most of the ladies hav-
ing danced in public in the kirmess will
have no false scruples against initiating
the brilliant Carmencita before their
friends.
Some new brocaded silk bags, for hold
ing flowers upon the dinner table, are thus
described by a fashionable fancy article
maker: One delicate pink brocaded sack
with its full heading lined with satin
springs from a base formed OF a large, full
blown rose, four or five close rows of
petals round the bag. Another much
larger one had a broad band down the
center Of dark velvet, covered all over
with thick outstanding embroidery of
roses, and this was fanked on either side
by very light blush pink satin. There
was a tin inside for the flowers, which fell
over the white heading, but on the out
side there was an artificial bramble stem
with prominent thorns, wonderfully nat
ural-and blended with this were artificial
roses, forCet-me-nots, and peoples. Some
times orchids and begonias. often violets
and pansies, aud thrice pretty delicate
sprays OF ferns.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-25
CLEVELAND AND SILVER.
An Indiana Democrat Expresses His OPP
nosltion To- Free Coinngn.

To THE EDIToR-Sir: Your tribute in a
recent issue to the courage Of ex-President
Cleveland on the silver question is grace
full and just. j think you might have gone
farther and affirmed that his silver letter
Is another evidence that his mind is accu-
rately informed and that it is time Y
warning 10 his party TO cal halt on this
question. While the bullion value OF the
two metals is SO radically apart, free
coinage that is the right OF the producer
to have silver coined into dolars-simp!y
means that this country will be the dump
ing ground OF the surplus silver OF the
world, and that even the gold pro-
duced in this country will cease to seek
our minis for coinage. For example: You
are a mine owner, or if it suit better, the
president of the farmers alliance is mine
owner and producer Of both metals-say
60 per cent. of silver and 40 per cent. OF
gold. He has the right under free coin
age" TO take his bars and his bricks 10 the
mint His gold bars are worth p per
cent. more in London than his silver
bricks. Would not the voluminous Polk,
the president of the alliance. send his
gold bars to London and exchange them
for silver with the odds Of % or 20 or even
10 per cent. in his favor? He can then
bring his bricks TO the mint and under
free coinage" pocket the profits. This Is
a good thing for the mine owners, but
what becomes of gold? Is it not clear
that it will make us like Russia. Austria
and the republics south of us-''a silver
nation"
This view is met by the statement that
the same argument was made when silver
was restored to the coinage of tine coun-
try. and that it was untrue then and is not
well-founded now. This answer would be
conclusive if there be no limit to our ca
pscity to absorb; but there is a limit.
France found it in coinage of 0,0OO,-
coo of silver and suspended silver coinage,
and thus maintains the double standard.
A like ratio would give us about Sl,l00,-
100000. SO there is no immediate danger
il the matter of coinage be left with the
treasury department. The treasury-and
therefore the people-get the benefit of
the profits on silver coinage instead of the
mine owners, who are just such Infants"
as the protected barons. Free coinage
means, in the near future, the debase-
ment of the circulating medium, and the
dehasement of currency means wild and
reckless speculation, panic, and the fur
Their oppression of the producing classes.
DOUBLE Standard.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-25
LIFE-SAvlNG SKIRT.
The Device Of Lady To save Herself
From Drowning.
VA

"While my wife and were on our last
trip 10 Europe said gentleman the
other day, 1--WE met middle-aged lady
who was going over for her health, and
my wife and she became great friends.
One day while sitting in the ladies' pri-
vate cabin the lady said: Let me show
you my life-preserver,' and removing her
outer skirt my wife behe,d skirt that was
a curiosity if nothing more.
Running up and down the skirt, at a
distance of two or three inches, were soft,
flexible rubber bands about two inches
wide. They we're sewed on at the side
of each band and ran all the way around
the skirt, and at the top they were all
Joined to broad rubber band six inches
wide. At the top of this band was a rub.
Der tube about two feet long. and which
ran up the waist in front and was LETT
resting on the top OF the corset
"Said the lady, You behold one of my
own inventions for saving my life. In case
OF an accident all Ihave to do is to take the
end of the rubbertube in my mouth, and in
two minutes l can fill all of the rubber
bands, which are hollow and alright,
with air. Then tying the tube in hard
knot. am ready for the waves. This