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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-13
TOLD OF THE AUTHORS.

JUSTIN MCCARTHY once INDUCED in
writing poetry. He reformed, however,
before entering into politics
Miss WINNIE DAVIS is said to be at
work upon book of recollcctiors of
her father, the late Jefferson Davis, Esq.
RELIC hunters have stripped the
tomb of Walt Whitman and the hill on
which it is situated of nearly every
thing portable in the way of vines and
plants.
Mr.. HERDERT SPENCER, the phiios-
opher, tells with genuine amusement of
a letter he received not long ago from
"a wild west American publisher"
asking how much he would take for
the exclusive right to publish his poem,
''Fairie Queen" in the states.
NJ. ZoLA is great lover of curios.
His home in Paris and his country seat
at Medan are filled with artistic treas
ures, and he spends much of his spare
time in the auction rooms he only re-
mains three hours at his desk, and those
in the morning.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-13
ON THE sKIRM!SH LINE.

GERMANY has 3S5 military bands.
A OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES gun can
fire two shots 4 minute, each discharge
costing s1,375.
TIE testing of big guns at the Krupp
works makes cracked walls and broken
windows the fashion at Essen.
For three vacant chaplaincies in the
United States army over four thousand
applications have been placed on file.
TIE use of the long-rangc Martini
rifle has had a tendency to discourage
the pet rushing tactics of the native
tribes of India.
THE French army boasts of four liv-
ing generals On the retired list who
were born in the last century, and
twcpty-sevcn generals who have passed
the age of eighty.
THE dean of the French army is Gen.
Mengin-Secreulx, who was born at
Nancy, March IL, 1876. The ncxt in
succession is Count d'Anthoard- Vrain-
court, born December o5, 1906.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-13
IN THE FAR EAST.

CHINAMEN drink all their wines hot.
THEY have shot leopard in Bengal
credited with destroying 154 persons.
T1IEtrcgion about the Dead sea is one
of the hottest places on the globe, and
the sea is said to lose a million tons of
water day by evaporation.
THERE are hermits in China who tear
out their eyes in order, they say, that
by closing the two gates of love they
may open the thousand gates of wis
dom.
AT Scra1ng, China, the contract for
iron work for a large Chinese iron
works has been taken out of the
hands of English firms and given to
Belgians.
JAPANESE jugglers are deft smokers.
Several of them will sit before cur
tain and from the tobacco smoke which
issues from their mouths will form a
succession of readable letters.
THE Chinese like to sleep well but not
high. John makes great account of his
bed. which is very low indecd-scarcely
rising from the floor and is often
carved exquisitely of wood, but it never
occurs to him to make it any softer than
the rush mats will render it.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-13
RUNNING THE SCALE.

VIOLIN makers prize above all other
kinds of wood that which they extract
from the seasoned timbers of old houses.
EDWARD ATKINSON, the Boston politi-
cal economist, is going to write the
libretto for an opera that his son, a
bright fellow now in Munich, is COM
posing.
WALTER DAARosCn is said to be en-
gagged in writing an opera whose sub
ject is to be Uawthorne's Scarlet Let
ter" Mr.. G.. P. Lathrop is writing the
ibretto.
THE sale Of the Borghese library in
Rome will release lot of unknown and
interesting music, it having more than
$50 compositions of the first half of the
seventeenth century.
AMBROSE THOMAS, the famous COM
poser, is said to be contemplating re-
tirement from the dictatorship of the
Paris Conservative, the most important
musical appointment in France. M.
Thomas is in a very critical state of
health, his illness being much compli-
Gated at his advanced age.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-13
DoINes IN DAYS GONE BY.

TERTULLIAN, who wrote about A. D..
1876, said that kissing was first insti-
tuted for the purpose of discovering
whether the person kissed had been
guilty of tipping.
THE Servians have q curious custom
of giving a. parting kiss to their de-
ceased friends before final burial, and
the observance of it has caused & serious
epidemic of dipththeria. The custom
has now been forbidden.
THE ancients believed Delphi to be
situated in the exact center Of the land
surface of the world. Anton's class
ical dictionary, in article Delphi"
says: 'The ancients claimed that the
temple of Delphi stood on the navel of
the universe"
THE old Danish Vikings had the pleas
ing custom of stabbing an enemy in the
throat when he was drinking his mead.
From this arose the custom of mans
inviting all the members of company
to drink his hcalth,'' as, while thus oc-
cupied, they could not use their weap-
ans
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-13
RAILROAD LINKS.

THE railway dining cars in this coun-
try earn more than the sleeping and
baggage cars together
THERE are 1925 miles of railroads
in the United States, nearly enough to
span the world seven times
THE Austrian railway companies
have presented Emperor Francis Joseph
with train de luxe, which has just
been constructed for his exclusive use.
THE Manhattan On. " elevated rail
road carries, it is claimed, 100000 pas
sengers daily. At this rate years
total would amount to 1872, 600, and
at scent fares the receipts would be
s0,125,000.
THE total number of railway en-
ployes on June so, 1890, was 40, 1904
The number killed by accident during
the twelve months preceding was 2,451,
and the number injured was 22,396.
This is death for every SOC and an in
jury for every 30 employed.
A RAILWAY beginning at Belize and
extending to the state of Guatemala, at
or near the town OF Peten. is under con-
tract. 1t will open up extensive areas
of lands of the most fertile description
and will afford access to the mineral
regions of British Honduras, which are
now beyond the reach of transportation.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-13
UP WITH THE TIMES.

THE corkscrew is worming its way
into the favor of the public. A ma
chine has been invented which makes
10000 corlSscrews every day.
A DIsH-wAsHING machine has been for
some time in use in New York hotel.
With two persons to attend it, it washes
one thousand dishes an hour.
SQUARE bottomed paper bags are made
by machine which was invented by
Margaret /, Knight, who has also in
vented a machine for folding them.
BRIcKs made of plaster of paris and
cork are now used in the construction
of powder mills. In case of explosion
they offer slight resistance and are
broken to atoms
AN automatically working match ma
chine has recently been invented, hav-
ing capacity of 100000 ticks day,
which it arranges over a vat where the
heads are put on.
WARNED by the recent floods in the
west, several persons in the vicinity of
large rivers have erected their houses
on ''wannigans." These are fat-bot-
toned boats, on which the house is ex-
pected to float in case the river disturbs
the foundation.
In one Of the Comstock mines new
water wheel is to be placed which is to
run /, 150 revolutions a minute and have
speed at it's periphery of 10,S05 feet
per minute. A greater head of water
than has ever before been applied to q
wheel will be used.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-13
Dissolution of Partnership.

Notice is hereby given that the partner
ship heretofore existing between Charles f.
Knapp and DR.. C. Richter under the firm
name of Knapp & Richter, is this day dis
solved by mutual consent. The business
will hereafter be carried on by Charles E.
Knapp. who will collect and settle all ac-
counts of the firm. CHAs. E. KNAPP
DIR. G. RICHTER.
DeLamar, Idaho, May 90, 1892
The business OF the late firm OF Knapp &
Richter will be continued by me, Thanking
the public for their past liberal patronage,
hope to merit Its continuance.
CHAs. E. KNAPP.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-13
PEOPLE AT The FAIR.

IT is reported that King Alexander,
of Servia, has decided TO visit the
worlds fair next year. lie is sixteen
years old and son of the much-talled-
of ex-King Milan and ex-Queen Natalie.
A GROUP of Caribs from the Lesser
Antilles, descendants of the cannibal
race discovered by Columbus on his
second voyage, will be at the worlds
fair, engaged in making baskets and in
other native industries.
AN agent of the Turkish government
is in Chicago to superintend the con-
struction of the Ottoman pavilion and
a Turkish village for the worlds fair.
A ,eompanying him are native masons
who will build the pavilion.
THE cable has announced that EN-
peror William, of Germany, has decided
to visit the worlds fair at Chicago next
year. This time the Allgemine Zeitung,
a leading paper of Munich, furnishes
the information, and claims that it is
authentic.
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Just Arrived.

/ have just received full line of
millinery goods of the latest style.
Ladies' hats of all kinds, and other goods
common 10 the business. The public
isinvited to call and examine the saem.
MINNIE LENDBERG-
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Judge Wall, the senator from Mason,
came up and corroborated the state
mcnts of the others, and just then
Judge Brent, of the superior court,
joined the group: EYES," he chimed in,
"when witness yawns he is telling a
lie, and he knows it,
Several other lawyers were appealed
to and all bore out the statements
made. None, however, could explain
the phenomenon. Judge Yost was the
only one who had theory, and that
was that when fellow was swearing
20 lie he could not face the music and
his embarrassment found expression in
yawns.
Here is pointer to the legal fratcr-
nifty of the state. Two of the judges of
the superior court are committed, and
all that is necessary to impeach the ev;-
dcnce of witness in their minds is to
show that while giving it he yawned.
The parenthetical yawn may be occa-
sionally interspersed with effect in evil
dence submitted to them.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-08-13
A PECULIAR COLLECTION.

A Houston county, Georgia, man has
SOW years old, that has been. the
mother of 172 pigs, and now has litter
of eleven.
The discovery of an ice cave in the
state of Washington and mine of ice
in Montana are among the interesting
features of the news of the hot season.
CITIZENS of Perry, Ca, are wondering
at a young chicken owned by one of
them which has four legs, two of which
are where the tail feathers ought to be.
A LANCASTER county farmer owns q
pair of horses which are so well broken
that they will pull harrow regularly
across field from morning until night
without driver.
A STREAM near Tucson, Arizona. pet
rifles all soft substance thrown into it.
1t is in the great Colorado potato beetle
belt and at the time of their migrations
thousands of them strike the water and
are converted into solid stone.
The site of the city of Boston was
sold in 1886 by John Blackstone for $3.50.
This is big country. 1t contains land
enough to give every person in it farm
of 100 acres.
WELLsvMLE, Mo-, has nearly twice as
many dogs as inhabitants. 1t has ,740
residents and 3,40O dogs. ---.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-29
BURNED THIRTY BLOCKS
Property Valued at Over Mil
lion Destroyed by Fire at
Bay City, Mich.
A Number Of People Believed
to Have Lost Their Lives
in the Flames.
Northern Iowa and Southern
Minnesota Visited by Hail
and Wind Storms.

BAY CITY, Mich, July 26.-At 2
o'clock p. m. fire broke out in the lum-
bering mandatory of Miller & Turner
on the West side at the foot of Twenty
ninth street. A brisk wind sent the
flames across Water street to the East
side, which is principally, built up with
stores. hotels and restaurants, most of
which are of wood. Within an hour
Miller & Turner's entire plant had been
consumed. At this point the path of
confagration broadened and block after
block was swept off with terrible rapid
ity. Flint, Saginaw and Detroit were
telegraphed to for assistance and Sagi-
nav and Flint responded, each sending
one engine and quantities of hose, but
the flames continued to spread in spite of
the efforts of the fremen and at o'clock
p. m. more than 800 building had been
destroyed. Most of the buildings burned
were the dwellings of poor people.
Many rumors are afoat as to the num-
Der of persons who have persisted but so
far as known only one fatality is posi-
lively known. A woman was sick in
one of the houses and persisted before
help could reach her. The entire loss
will reach upwards of 81 100000.
The fire covered the territory from
the river on Thirty-third street to Nc
Cormick, north to Thirty first street,
east to Marsac, north to Thirtieth, east
to Broadway, north to Fremont, east to
Stanton, north block and half and
west to the river, thirty blocks in all. A
terrific wind from the southwest pre-
vailed. Long charred and burning
boards were lifted up bodily by the
wind, carried to a height of 300 feet,
whirled around like feathers and lodged
where another fire sprang up imme-
diately.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-29
CONTINUES TO DRAW.
Interest In the Alice Mitchell Trial Un
aoated.

Interest In the Alice Mitchell Trial I'm
abated.
MEMPHIS, July Notwithstanding
the intense heat the second week of the
Alice Mitchell trial opened with the
court room packed with people. Much
of the time was consumed by the law
yers in wrangling over technicalities and
as a consequence only two witnesses
were examined. Miss Mitchell was pres
ent as usual and showed no signs of ia
tigue.
DR.. B. F. Turner, who has made the
study of diseases of the mind speciality,
YVES the first witness for the defense. He
detailed the matters discussed at inter-
uals with the defendant. She told him
OF her plans relative to marrying Freda.
He asked her if she understood what
she fully understood. Then he asked
her if she dil not know that one woman
could not marry another. She replied
that she could, or al least that she
could have married Freda, and would
have done it. He asked her if they
expected to have children and she said
she knew they could have no children
but she insisted that she could marry
F'reda and could not be talked out Of It.
Another thing that was noticeable was
her utter lack of emotion Oh all subjects
except when her affection for Freda
was spoken of. She showed no emotion
in discussing the tragedy itself or the
results Immediately preceding it, but
as soon as her love for Freda was spoken
of her lips would culver and her eyes
fill with tears. He finished by giving it
as his opinion that the defendant was
insane and incurably so.
Miss johnson, the companion of Alice
Mitchell at the time of the murder, was
recalled to the stand by the defense and
asked if she had ever seen Alice and
Freda Ward hug and kiss in public.
She said that Alice and Freda while
swinging Ill hammock at Gold Dust
embraced and kissed each other re-
peatedly before large crowd Of men.
The witness asked Alice if she was not
ashamed and she replied: 81 don't care
for what the hateful men think. I will
hug and kiss where and whenever I
please"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-29
Republican Ticket.
For President,
BENJAMIN HARRISON,
OF Indiana.
For Vice President.
WHITELAW REID,
OF New York.
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.

Republican convention for the State of Min
nesoto will be held on thursday, the 2Sth day
of July, 1892 in the Grand opera house, in the
city of st, Paul, at IL O'Clock a. m, for the
purpose of placing in nomination candidates
for the following offices: Governor, lieutenant
governor, secretary of state, treasurer attor-
ney general, three associate justices of the su-
preme court, and for the transaction OF such
other business as may properly come before the
convention.
All voters, without regard to past political
affiliations, who believe in the principles OF the
Republican party, and who desire its success in
the present campaign, are invited to participate
in the selection of delegates to this convention
The following resolutions were unanimously
adopted by the state committee:
Resolved, That each county be entitled to one
delegate for each 500 votes cast for the Repub-
Acan candidate for president in 1888, aud one
delegate for each fraction thereof over 100.
Resolved further, That each county be al
lowed in addition to the foregoing number of
delegates, five delegates at large
Under the above resolutions the several coun-
ties are entitled to the following number of dele
gates in the convention.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-29
IN THE MATTER OF WOOL.

Referring to Senator Davis the ST.
Paul Globe says that in view of the
steady decline in the price of wool
under the Mckinley law, he will have
to drop all references to the benefits
derived by the farmer therefrom.
With the Globe the wish is evidently
father from the thought. 1t would be
most happy in such depressed state of
affairsthatmuch suffering would result
therefrom, especially if the Mckinley
law could be held responsible for the
same. But unfortunately for the
free trader, though fortunate for the
country, there is nothing in the con-
dition of the wool ina rket that will
prevent Senator Davis, or any other
protectionist from abiding to and de-
Tending that portion OF the Mckinley
law which relates to the duties on
wool. True the Mckinley law has
not prevented decline in the price
of wool, but so far as that is concern
ed, there was uever any positive guar
antee to that effect. But there are
some things that the Globe and it's
free trade associates always neglect to
mention, and these are that the price
of wool throughout the world has de-
clined far more than in the United
States because of increased production
That up to few weeks ago, at least.
some grades of American wool had
not declined at all, and that in every
instance the same grade brought a
better price in this country than any
where else in the world. Under these
circumstances it is not probable that
Setator Davis will be at all backward
in referring to the wool question.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-29

BEATEN at their attempt to make
the people believe that the strikers at
Homestead were working at starva-
tion wages, the Democratic papers
are now trying to induce people to be-
lieve that the Republican press has
roundly abused the strikers for the at
titude they have taken. But outside
OF condeming their lawless acts the
Republican press have said nothing
against the position taken by the
strikers. as 1t has recognized that they
have the right to decline to work if
they so elect. A portion of the press
has, however, given some Democratic
demagogues a severe scoring, as
! well as Democracy generally for the
manner in which they attempted to
turn the trouble to a partisan end,
which is probably the cause of the
soreness
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-29
Car Shops Demolished.

PHILADELPHIA, July 26.-The storm
here at noon was a regular tornado al
Port Richmond. The Philadelphia and
Reading car repair shops, square il
length, were demolished and a numbe,
of workmen were injured. One hun.
dred and twenty-five men were EN-
ployed at the plant and the majority es
capped injury by crawling under freight
cars. The frame structure was crushed
in as though it had been an egg shell.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-29
HAIL AND WIND STORM.

Portions of Northern Iowa and Southern
minnesota Visited.
ALTOONA, Ia, July ga terrific hail
and wind storm swept through the
northern part of this county during the
morning, running all crops and doing
much damage to buildings. At Gilmore,
Mimi, houses were blown down and
railroad cars thrown from the track.
One man was killed in Elmore by light
ming. AT Ledyard several buildings
were demolished. The storm is said to
have struck Forest City. The amount
of damage done cannot be estimated at
this writing.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-29
Heavy Fire Losses.

HARRISON, S. D., July 26.-Fire broke
out in H.. Vas & Co.'S general store al
1:30p. m. 1t is total loss of 81 900,
insurance $4,000. Isaac Dehaani's gen
eral store is also total loss of $4,000
including house and furniture; insur-
ance $1,000. Several old buildings were
partially burned. The origin of the fire
Is unknown
Resigned From Seabury.
WASHINGTON, July 26.-The Rev. DIR.
B. Mcbride Sterret has resigned his
chair in the Seabury divinity school,
Faribault, Mimi. and accepted the
chair of physiology in the Columbian
university in this city.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-29

UNDER the head of 1.-THE Expense
of Protection the ST. Paul Globe
works off the old free trade chestnut
that "from tin cup to pair of wool
en- socks the house holder pays tariff
tax on almost every article of domes-
tic use he buys" Not word of this
happens to be true unless the article
purchased is imported, and as the
average American can buy home
made article that is generally better
and cheaper than the foreign make,
he buys that and so escapes the tariff
taxi
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-29
DROWNING ACCIDENTS.

Eleven Persons Perish Thus in Baltimore
in Two Days.
BALTIMORE, July 26.-Six colored per-
sons were drowned Monday near Balti-
more by the capsizing of row boat A
white boy fell off wharf in another
part of the city and was drowned. These
cases, with four which occurred on Sun
day, make eleven drowning accidents in
or near Baltimore in two days.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-29
Workingmen Killed.

AKRON, O., July 26.-During the
heavy storm Sunday evening the big
building of the National Sewer Pipe
works at Barberton was blown down
and two workmen, James Peterson and
M. Bohman, were buried in the ruins.
Peterson was dead when removed by
the rescuing party and Bohman was so
badly hurt that he may not recover.
The loss is $4,000.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-29
Giving Up Hope.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 26.-The steam
er City of New York, which has arrived
from Panama and way ports, reports
business stagnant at Panama and resi-
dents have given up all hopes of ever
seeing the canal finished. In Nicaragua
trouble was impending between the two
political parties and an outbreak ex.
pected. 1t would not affect the Nicara
qua canal in any way, however, and
work was being pushed ahead.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-29

The foregoing WAS unAn' HouS!y agreed upon
by the Republican ) a'e &c tr, cOmrpittee at a
meeting held in st. Paul Wednesday, June 1,
1892.
The county committees are most respectfully
requested to select such time for holding their
county conventions will be most convenient
for the voters in their respective counties.
JOEL p. HEATwOLE, Chairman.
TAMs BIXBY, Secretary.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-29
Farm MachinerV!
The best all guaranteed Steel Machinery Money Refunded

position sell as low the prices Mon
Seeder and Drills Steel Lever Harow Budlong Disk Harrow
and Grand Deteur Corn Cuvao and other tools
de and Hay Leaders, Yankee a5ooh Hay Rake Weir Economy
ubb Suy and Gang Pows Osborn Mowers and New
the latest improved lbs 1horse foot Binder.
Advance Engine and Seperator Auman Threshe
Sckers and Glover Hu Davis Machines
Graders Wagons Bugg and everything need Besides
thing have sell at highest market price Call you
buy You will get strictly honest deal and honest goods
I q KoT.T I'D
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-07-29
All for McGiIl,

ST. PAUL, July 26.-The Ramsey
county Republican convention has
elected thirty delegates to the state
convention. They are instructed for Nc
Gill