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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-09-25

Peterson removed his family to his
new home to-day.
Ellis s. Ellsworth have been COM
PEELED, on account of increased bust
ness, to build an addition on the rear
of their barn, the extension being AK
20 feet.
Peter HansouI who was married
to Miss Lena Rasmuson on Saturday,
has been employed for some years in
this city, and is highly respected by.
all who know him. The best wishes
ot~the-community go with him at the
start of his matrimonial career.
We are in receipt of samples of
smoke flint corn from the farm of B..
III. Burrill, of Nicollet county. He
says he has several acres of the same
Kind and only planted June 18th.
Some of the ears measure in the
neighborhood of fourteen inches in
length.
The game of ball on Saturday af-
ternoon between the Normal and
High school mines, which was played
on the ground near the Franklin
school was, as usual, exciting and full
of fun. The previous week the Nor
mails having won victory from their
opponents, the High school boys went
on the field Saturday, with lots of
ginger and determination to win, and
the following score shows they were
victorious.
High School, ......5 0 6 / , 0 10
Normal School ....3 0 0002 3 3-13
"A very pleasant party of thirty
gathered at the residence of Mr.. B.
Roemer Saturday night in honor of
his forty-frst birthday. About nine
o'clock the Liedertafel singing society
serenaded him and at the conclusion
were invited in the parlors where they
were received by both host and host
ess. Mr.. Roemer was led to refer to
the day when he first came to Manka-
to some twenty years or more ago.
While stories of those days were being
spoken Of the singing society rendered
several selections in satisfactory
manner. All who were present thor
oughly enjoyed the occasional wished
for the host all that he wished for
himself in the days and years to come.
Conrad Klaus, aged 60, a respected
citizen of this city, was called upon
to-day to make complaint against
his son, Geo. Klaus, for using threat
ening language and threatened as
sault. Acquarrel ensued over some
private matter, and the son, who is
about 30 years of age, said to his
father: II will kill you tonight as
sure as | live" On this complaint
Chief of Police Yates arrested the de-
PENDANT and brought him before Judge
Porter, who placed him under bonds
to the amount of $500 to keep the
peace. As that sum or bondsman was
not forthcoming, the prisoner was
about to be taken to the county jail,
when the old father relented and
promised to let up on his boy. The
case is still open, and, if at any time
in the future the son should make
another break at his father the court
will order the re-arrest of the defend
ent. There is too much of this spirit
of quarreling and then when brought
to the seat of justice of relenting. An
example should be made which will
deter others from assaulting or threat
ening these who watched over them
in their tender years.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-09-25
From Thursdays Daily,

The Star Clothing House will
have an announcement of its stock in
next weeks issue.
"A marriage license has been
granted to Jacob Lampert, Jr., and
Maggie Lena Vogt.
All those who trade SO worth at
the Model Clothing House get one
years subscription to the FREE PRESS
free. If
The thermometer registered 81
degrees this morning at o'clock. At
noon it had gone up to Sc degrees,
but fell to 81 at three o'clock.
School furniture, maps, globes,
blackboards, etc. Write for prices to
]. P. Read, Maukato. sep11-jan1
Mrs. Viva Boyd is the recipient of
piece of redwood bark, taken from
tree in California, the bark measur-
ing Is inches in thickness, and weigh
Is pounds. See has placed it on exhi-
bition at Thoms' store The bark is
indeed a curiosity.
Invitations are out announcing
the 18th anniversary celebration of
Blue Earth Lodge, No. 80, A. o. q. w.
at Grand opera-house, Mankato, Thurs
day, Oct. Sth. The event will be cele-
brated by free lecture and banquet,
and royal time will no doubt be the
result. f1t6
While driving down steep hill,
some few miles out of town yesterday,
the break on the threshing machine
owned by Messrs Frank Kunz and
George Klugharz, broke and the next
moment the machine was dashing
down the incline with great rapidity.
The thresher is in pretty bad condi-
tion, and it will take week or more
to place it in proper shape for work
ing.
The proyerbial colored man is not
the only successful masticator of the
watermelon. A young man, yet in his
teens, sat on the curb stone near the
corner OF Jackson and Front streets,
this afternoon at three O'Clock, and in
very short order disposed of the con-
tents ola good sized melon, and looked
as though he might be able to get
away with another one.
Mr.. Gotlieb Toucholl, of Pleasant
Mound, met with a severe loss on
Tuesday afternoon, caused by the
burning ofhis barn, granary, all Of bis
farming implements, hay, several hogs,
and quite a quantity of grain. He es-
Inmates his loss at $1,000, but is only
insured for 5000. The origin of the
fire is unknown, but it is thought to
have been started by some careless
smoker, who threw lighted pipe
down and then left it.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-09-25

IN this age of peace it is not pleas
ant to think of those who have held
honorable positions in any government
choosing to ''fy to the evils they know
not Of rather than bear the outrageous
stings Of fortune and yet the Chilli
ans are rejoicing over the suicide of
President Barmacedi. The national
holidays which were to have ended
Saturday, SO say the dispatches, are
being continued, and in Valparaiso
celebrations with feaSts and illumina-
tions are being followed by great
crowds shouting and singing in tri-
umph over the death of their former
ruler. Some good may come of it, as
it is almost certain that with Balma-
cedia out of the way the angel of peace
will hoover over the Chillians.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-09-25
MASkA,o FREE Press
HOME JoTTINos.
From Fridays Daily.

"A marriage license has been grant
ed Herman A. g. Rabenhart and En-
-Ena Meyer, both of Mapleton.
DIR. Halves sold to Thos. Rooney,
Esq of Lake Crystal, yesterday, Man
kato residence property, three houses
.xand lots, for SC, 600. Cityproperty "do
move"
-Mapleton has sort of building
boom on. Six new and modern dwell
ings are in process of erection, and one
store building. Mapleton is a proud
little village, and her people are of
the broad gagged kind.
THE Mankato Mercantile Co., have
exclusive control, for this place, OF
The only Practical carpet exhibitor
made for the purpose of showing SAM
pies of carpets matched for room
eight yards square. Their panorama
of carpets is shown free OF charge.
They can please you in style, quality
and price. Call at their store and see
them.
If push and energy goes, then
MankatO will be connected by tele-
graph with both ST. Clair and Rapi-
dan Mills in short time. Interested
parties say they are encouraged in
their plans and will push it to a con-
clusion. The scheme will surely be a
ben eft to the business men of this
city.
Here is what the Lake Crystal
Union thinks of our new High School
building: "This building is one OF
the finest school buildings in the state.
Its location is commanding, slightly
view, opposite the new court house,
and the eye finds rest in the beautiful
scenery that is seen in all directions.
Its architectural design and finish are
credit to any state. 1t has all the
conveniences for comfort and health.
The pupils attending school there
ought to feel proud of such magni-
ficent structure, for the citizens of
Mankato certainly are. Mankato is
rapidly and surely becoming an edu-
cational center"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-09-25
From at:rday's Daily.

The large plate-glass front of S.
B. Martins jewelry store, on South
Front street, was broken sometime
last night-after the hour of closing,
by some malicious person. The indi-
cations are that it was broken by the
throwing Of stone against it. The
police, it is said, have clue, and if
the miscreant is found he should get
the full extent of the law.
An action has been commenced in
the court of Rochester, Olmsted coun-
ty, by John II. Harrison VS.. Jennie NJ.
Harrison, his wife, for absolute di-
Vorce. The defendant is a resident
of this city, and has retained Hughes
s. COmStock as her counsel. 1t is eX-
pected from all indications, that this
will be an exceedingly interesting and
exciting case when brought up for
trial.
Frank L. Waters, who has been
member of the firm of r. D. Hub
bard & Co., of this city, for several
years, has this day by mutual consent
sold all of his interests in the business,
but will not sever his connection for
a time. Mr.. Walters will take with
him, wherever he goes, the best wishes
of host of friends in society as well
as business circles, and the least we
can say is that we hope he will sue
coed in all his future undertakings.
The death of Miss Anna Kohler
has cast gloom over the home of
Mrs. John Krost. The deceased was
"a resident of Waconia, Mimi, and
came to this city to visit her sister,
when suddenly she was taken with
typhoid fever and died yesterday. On
an early train this morning her re-
mains were taken to her late home
where the funeral will be held this
afternoon. The friends of the deceaS-
ed were not few here, and in the
hour of bereavement extend their
sympathy to the afflicted household
where shining light has gone out.
The house of Mr.. L. T. Grady,
who lives on Walnut street, was bro
ken into last night about IL o'clock,
and but for the presence of mind of
Mrs. Grady, the burglar would have
gotten off with considerable booty.
Both Mrs. Grady and her aged mother
had retired for the night, when one
of the children cried for glass of
water. Mother-like, Mrs. Grady went
to supply the demand of thirst and as
she stepped into the dining room she
was startled to behold man Just en-
1ering the window. The thief was
somewhat surprised himself, for in
the twinkling of an eye he jumped
out OF the window and ran like deer
toward Front street. BY this time a
Mr.. Funk, hearing the alarm, ran
from his house near by, but the burg
lar had made good his escape. He
left his shoe-prints in the sand under
the window, which clearly shows he
wore tennis shoes. InaD examination
by FREE Press man this morning,
1T was found that three other win
uoWs had been tempered with. Mrs.
Grady describes the man as being
snort, and wearing dark suit of
clothes.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-09-25

"A man stepped into the County
Attorneys Office, at the court house
this morning, and proved, to his own
satisfaction, his faith in banking insti-
buttons. He had purchased a certain
amount of property in this county,
and when the papers had been properly
drawn, he pulled out one roll after
another from his pocket, each roll
being tied with heavy Irvine. The
bills were musty and showed they had
been sailed down in the old way-the
home pocket. where thieves many
times break through and steal. The
old gentleman unWound one cord after
another, and finally there lay before
him about $1,000 1t would have been
useless to have told him that had he
placed the amount in any bank, and
let it stay there for five years he could
have drawn in the neighborhood Of
$3.50 interest.
"A good story is told at the expense
of two we'll known sports of this city,
who went out hunting one day this
week for squirrels. They took their
rifles and soda water bottles along
with them, and had pretty fair success
under the circumstances. They had
secured about dozen squirrels, it is
said, when suddenly one of the boys
espied, or thought he did, an extreme,
ly large squirrel, so he called on his
companion to halt. Preparing his
rifle, he took aim and fired. The truth
has leaked out that he struck a log
about fifteen feet away, and instead
of the animal being a large squirrel,
it proved to be large cat, and not
withstanding the young man who
handled the rifle is reputed to be a
first-class sharp-shooter, the cat es-
capped injury. Boys, next time you &c
hunting, take your rifles, but leave
the soda water bottle at home.
Mr.. J. A. Williams, of South Bend
was in the city to-day and gave us
particulars Of fire which occurred
yesterday afternoon on the farm OF
Ole Staven, in his town. Henry Lock
man was threshing grain for Mr.. S.,
when fire started in one of the stalks,
supposedly from sparks thrown out
by the engine, and it spread with such
rapidity as to reuder all efforts to con.
troll it Of no avail. Two hundred
bushels of threshed wheat were burn
ed, together with two stacks Of un-
threshed flax, one of oats and one of
rye, twenty tons Of hay, one COW, and
all the barns and sheds. One horse
was so badly burned as to destroy his
usefulness. The house was saved.
The total loss will amount to about
81, 200 with not a dollar of insurance.
Mr.. Stayen is thus left on the eve Of
winter with nothing but his home.
His whole years labor reduced to
ashes in an hour is condition which
calls for deep sympathy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-09-25
LITERARY.

We acknowledge the receipt of a
copy of 'Lenoran a new vocal romanza
by G. A. White. This is an exquisite
song for the parlor or concert, and
should soon find its way to every vo-
calist, as it is arranged for tenor, So
prano or contralto.
Himmelman's Musical Journal is the
title of a monthly publication, devot-
ed to music, art and literature. 1t
contains several pieces of new music,
both instrumental and vocal. Ten
cents q copy or seyenty-flye cents a
year. Rub. ats & 8 Washington ST.,
Chicago.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-09-25

The ink from which this paper is
printed is manufactured by Ullmann
& Philpott, Cleveland, O. If
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-09-25

Ladies ALL LINEN Hem
stitched, at 10 and I2Hc.
The best value ever offered
in this city.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-09-25

800 pieces best quality all Silk Ribbon
purchased while in New York from Auc.
ton sale, Prices 5, s and Ioc for mar,
row widths; I21ac for No. II. and 15c
for No. 10 About half their value.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-02
BRIGHT BABBLIN,iS.


Prison fair-female convicts.-Y onEerS Ga
zeite.
The Colonel will carry Iowa-that is the
kernel of -Pbilddslphia Press.
man may be lantern-jawed, and yet his face
may never light up.-N Y. Journal.
II have struck q tremendous blow ex-
claimed the man who got caught in q hurricane.
- Washington Sur.
81 see they have renewed some more of those
Grecian statues" Weren't they nude enough
befora?"-Ne,C York Herald.
White-This. salad is very gritty today
Wonder what is the matter with it? Mrs. White
Don't know. Probably 1t was dressed before
it was washed Life.
''You seem to be taking things easy said
Father Time 10 the Fool Killer. Yes" was
the reply the parachute-iumpe is looking
after my business. "-NelO Y0rH; sun.
Teacher-Tommy, can you give me a sentence
in which but is a conjunction? Tommy-See
the goat butt the boy. Butt is a conjunction
and connects the boy with the goat.-Br0okl57s
Eagle.
You must come over and play with the baby
some time" said the visitor. May be will, p"
answered the little girl rs tia walking baby
or just wagon Indianapolis journal.
"My dear, DO you think my voice needs cult
vationg' II thought it was getting it, darling.
am sure heard narrowing sounds when you
were singing just now. "-BatttmOre A3aertcan.
petrifed hog has been found near Clarks
vile, Tenn. 1t is supposed he was petrified by
seeing another hog uncross his legs in street
car when q well-dressed woman wanted to pass
Buffalo Cypress.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-02
nittees and organize TRANSPORTATION

mittees and organize transportation
bureaus until doomsday and you will
accomplish nothing SO long as there is an
absence of harmony on the part of those
who think they are Disseminated against
and wronged. There is just one way to
rectify the matter complained of and
that is for the aggrieved TO formulate their
complaints, demand relief and stand TO-
gether until they get what they ask. If the
railways are taking advantage of our mer-
chants, it is because tho latter are so in
harmonious that the railways are encour-
aged to do as they please, knowing that no
united protest will be made nor united
action taken.
We have noticed that whenever the de-
msnd upon the railways has been formid..
able and shown that it had behind it the
strength which comes of unity, respectful
difference has been given and something
accomplished. There is pointer in this
for our merchants and shippers who are
complaining that the railways are treating
Salt Lake unfairly. Act together and you
will succeed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-02
A DEEP CREEK ROAD.

CBy this time it should be known whether
or not g railway between this city and the
Deep Creek country is demanded and
would pay. A good many OF US have long
thought that such road was wanted and
that it would be profitable to the builders
as well as greatly beneficial to this city and
20 the region at the other end OF the line.
The men who have money and those who
construct railroads could not be made to
see things as we saw them, and because
they couldn't there is no railway across the
desert and the resources of the country
beyond are not being developed and utilized
as all would like to see them. We say that
by this time it should be known whether or
not il is worth the while of capitalists to
enter the field and invest in the enterprise.
Since the construction of the road was
earnestly agitated some years have passed,
and during the period good many mineral
lodges have been discovered around Deep
creek, and considerable development has
down" on prospects and much ore has
actually been transported by wagon, while
it is said that vast quantities of
ore not rich enough to pay wagon
freight, but which would pay trans
portation by rail and leave a hand
some profit to the owners, have been I'M
covered. The claim is that abundant
traffic for we'll equipped road would be
furnished at once. This has been the claim
all along. but it has been largely based on
the estimates of persons more or less en-
thusiastic, though all that has been said
may be absolutely true. Now, however, il
seems to us that figures based on demon
strable facts may be obtained, and if these
shall show that railway would be given
business to make the investment profitable
there ought to be little difficulty in finding
the money to build the road.
The HERALD is glad to know tina
the chamber of commerce vii
take the matter in hand, not with the view
Of constructing railway nor of raising th'
cash necessary, but with the idea of snow
ing, so far as it can be done, just what ar
the facts and what the probabilities l
this work shall be gone about Intelligent,
and not by boom methods and in boon
spirit, we believe the demonstration viii
be such that the required money will b.
forthcoming and within a reasonable periot
Salt Lake and Deep Creek will rejoice in
railway which will be mutually beneficial
and also immensely remunerative to TIL
owners of the line
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-02
THE OKLAHOMA BLUNDER.

There has evidently been great mis-man-
agement by the Interior department in the
arrangement for opening up the Oklahoma
country to settlement. A rush was to be
expected and that many disappointments
would follow was inevitable; but certainly
there was no reason why such multitude
of people should have been deceived.
A stupid blunder was committed when
the proposed town OF Chandler was chosen
as the central point in the country. 1t is
almost inaccessible: there is no water, and
the place is unhealthy. Water Is sold at
fifteen cents per buoket, or two buckets
for quarter 1t Is too expensive to wash
in and too nasty too drink. A correspon-
dent of Chicago psper recounts an Incl
dent:
Mounting stump dirty looking individual,
who but reflected tho looks Of al the rest
called attention by crying: gentlemen an d
Teller citizensr The crowd quoted down and
he proceeded: 81 want TO knsw how many
other id fools there are here!' With cries of
"Here we arei" about 1000 hands went up into
the air from all about and the sleepy ones be-
meath the rocks mumbled, count US in that
deal" And that episode, brief as it was. told
the truth
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-02
A CAMPAIGN BARREL.

The Ohio campaign, as usual, is full Of
novelties. Lately Major MCKINLEY in
vaded Bellfontaine with baud of tin
horns snd a barrel. The barrel waD rolled
up and set upon the platform. 1t was not
the Ordinary candidates ''bar'l," which is,
though lost TO sight to memory dear, but
one filed with sugRr-regular culinary su-
gar, common brown sugar, the short
sweotenin' - of the backwoods. 1t had
been presented to MCKINLEY as souvenir
Of his celebrated tariff law and on It were
labelled the figures ''SS 4O'' as the cost, low
grade sugar being upon the free list.
Here was another boomerang election
eering dodge, worthy to take place beside
the Piqus tin plate fake. The sugar which
was in that barrel was not the sugar that
comes into the United States free of duty
The raw material is admitted without tax,
but 1t must be refined to 10 marketable,
and the refners grade it and fix its price.
A quarrel has for some time been in pro-
gress between CLAUS SPREcKLEs and the
Sugar trust, and the cost to consumers of
refined sugar has been kept down, but it is
only matter of month or six weeks Of
time when there viii be compromise-in-
decd, it is already in progress-and the
product will go up.
The pointin the protectionists' argument
Of free sugar as a virtue of tho MCKINLEY
act is not well taken. AS THE HERALD has
before said, the features Of that measure to
which the Republicans most delight to
refer, are those wherein it most nearly ap-
proeches free trade. The Republican lead
ers fsncied when they put low grade
sugars on the free list, the people would be
go reioiced at the concession, and so CRATE
full for it, that they would submit quietly
to the increased duties on the other neces-
sites Of life and the talk about tariff re
form would cease forever. But they discov
cred their mistake last November and they
will in due time probably discover another
one, that free sugar only whets the PEG.
ple's appetite for free other tn ngs. Wher
they buy twenty i've pounds Of sugar fol-
81, they wonder why they submitted t
paying 81 for twelve pounds for SO many
years, They may take their pencils anC
figure out that this sugar tax, at the rate o.
50 q year, has cost them N thirty years S 15'
each, and this perhaps will open their eyei
ilar tax on clothing, Implements, tools
lumber. fencing wire, window glass
cups aud saucers, and all other necessarie
OF life. II they calculate with anythins
like accuracy they viii discover enough
one dollar, three dollar and five dollar
tariff taxes in this thing and that to max
up about $50 for every farmers family il
the land-all paid out year after year fo
the thirty years rule of the Republican
party to protect the manufacturing inter
eats, the infant Industries" OF the north
eastern section OF the country.
Il is not improbable, therefore, tina
Major MCKINLEY with his bsrrel OF suga
will teach more about the protective sys
TEN than he intends, and instead of recon
Cling the people TO it will make them a.
the more impatient for its overthrow. Tha
barrel is an object lesson of the mos
instructive and effective kind.