The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-11-13
From Sat2 rday's Daily.

From Sat@ rdays Daily.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Low, of North Mankato, died Yester-
day of inflammation of the bowels.
The funeral takes place tomorrow.
Unto Mr.. and Mrs John G.. Car
-penter, daughter has been born, and
John is all smiles and as clipper as
though it was the first advent in his
family.
On account of their increasing
business, Young s. Monson have rent
ed the store building adjoining them,
which will make things much more
convenient for them.
-Sackett s. Fay have sunk an ar
tesian well at their mill at St. Peter
which flows lis gallons of water per
minute, and will give then all the wa
Ter they want. The well is 325 feet in
depth.
1t is reported by telegraph, that
Windfred Keysor, Esq, former re-
sident Of Mankato, but for number
>Df years a citizen of Nebraska, was
elected on Tuesday, to district
judgeship in the state now claimed by
him as his home.
The business of Mr.. A. q. Meyer
has increased to such an extent as to
compel him to rent the building adj
Joining his present establishment on
East Hickory street. The new quar-
tiers will be used for show room of
marble and granite monuments, and
all kinds Of mantelS and filings, the
old building to be used exclusively
for manufacturing. After the first Of
the year Mr.. Meyer will double his
working force.
Mrs. Matilda Ooth0ldt, died last
evening at the residence of her sOn-in-
law, w. w. Chittenden on Minnesota
st. She was in her ninety-second-
year and had lived near Winnebago
City during the past tWenty-eight
years. A brief funeral service was
held at the house and the remains,
attended by her son, Mr.. and Mrs.
Chittenden, and her granddaughter,
Mrs. w. Spaulding were taken to
Winnebago City where the interment
viii take place tomorrow.
MIR. S. B. Martin has taken in as
partner, Mr. Frank Herr, who has
been in his employ for years. Here
after the firm will be known as Mar
tin & HGrr. They intend to make eX-
tensiYe repairs to the store now Occu
pied by them, and will also put in
some elegant fixtures. Both members
of this new jeWelry firm are too well
known for US to particulari2e as to
their personal and business qualities.
They will no doubt have one of the
best jeWelry stores in southern Mime
sofa.
The quarters at City Hall, gener-
ally used by the hose company as d
meeting room, were this morning, at
nine o'clock, transformed into civil
service examination room, for the
purpose of examining candidates for
the following departments of the fed
eral government: Railway mail SER
vice, department copyist, special alb
stractor for agricultural department
at Washington, and also for Stenogra-
piers and typeWriters. The eXami-
nation was conducted under the sn-
sperFisiOn Of L. w. COvell, ESQ, Of
Washington, d. c., postmaster w. w.
p Mcconnell and Senator Geo. T.
Barr. There were nine applications
fsr examination for the several posi-
tio2se
~ - When Chief of Police Yates and
several of his officers went to the room
occupied by Mrs. Nelson for the pur-
pose of taking her to the asylum at
St. Peter, they found big contract
ON their hands. She resisted every
effort to take her from the room, and
ON one or two occasions escaped from
their grasp and attempted to Jump
from her window at the Saulpaugh.
Finally she decided to 90 peaceably
and quietly, but when she reached the
sidewalk where about hundred or
more people stock gazing with curioS-
ity at her, she refused to go further.
After the handouts had been placed
on her wrists, she rayed for few
minutes. but when the officers drove
away she cried out, "NOw we are Off
get there"
We notice in a Mapleton dispatch
TO the Minneapolis Journal, yesterday,
that j. r. Brown, l.. Troendle and @.
HI. Brown, have just closed deal for
80 acres of land adjoining Seattle,
Washington, the consideration being
SID,0 We are glad to see that our
Mapleton friends have surplus wealth
DO invest, and hope their greatest eX-
pectationS will be realized. But what
is the matter with Blue Earth county
as place for investments Our re-
sources are great. and money properly
invested in many lines ought to yield
gDod returns.
From MONDAYS Daily