The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-10-21
THE EAGLE LAKE MEETING.

Falls, addressed by far the largest
political meeting Friday night yet held
at Eagle Lake this fall. The hall
was crowded and even standing room
was scarce. Those present were near
ly all voters and paid the closest at
tention to the arguments of the
speaker, frequently interrupting him
with applause. 1t was fine rally
and very encouraging strongly indicat-
ing the success of the party in Novem-
Der.
Mr.. Upton is an interesting speak
er and well posted upon all the SUBJ
iects touched upon in the present
campaign. He INDUCES in no mud
singing and treats all parties fairly
and respectfully. He went over the
tariff and financial questions in an
able manner and roasted the Chicago
gambling clique which he declared is
using the Democratic state commit
tee as catspaw to help defeat the
Republican anticipation bill. He ridi-
culed the assertions of the Democrat
ic wheat pamphlet and asked every
one to read it as being so ridiculous
as to refute itself. He showed up the
record of the man Wolcott.
John Williams was present and sang
two of his inspiring songs.
The foundation of the new knit
ting factory is completed and the
brick work is progressing rapidly.
The Good Thunder Herald comes
out square toed for Democracy, now
that its patron, the Alliance, has been
planted under the sod.
VIM. Curt, an unmarried man,
died at ST. Clair Wednesday, aged AZ
years. He had been a sufferer from
rheumatism for several years. The
funeral will occur at St. Clair at two
o'clock tomorrow afternoon, from the
Lutheran church.
Louis Under was one Of the for
Inmates among the investors in Du-
luth property. Six years ago he pur-
chased some inside property on First
street for 81, 200, which he has Just
sold to p B. Winston, of Minneapolis,
for 1850. We congratulate him up
on the success of his investment and
believe he is deserving all the good
fortune that befalls him.
DR. J. w. Andrews, assisted by
Drs. E. j. Davis and I. d. Webster,
successfully performed an operation
upon Mrs. Hayes, who lives on South
Front street, Thursday. She has
been suffering from a chronic infama-
tion of the left knee joint, and the
limb was amputated between the knee
and hip. Mrs. Hayes is getting along
as well as could be expected.
"A bad accident occurred on N.
Frontstreet Wednesday afternoon just
after we had gone to press. A Mr..
Hartung, who is a farmer residing in
Mankato township, in crossing the
street car track near A, Malchow's
grocery store struck W. III. Pfeffer's
carriage and was thrown out. He
was badly cut and bruised and suffer
ed a rupture. He is doing as well as
could be expected.
Some three weeks ago the G. & N.
w. changed the schedule time of run
ming their east bound passenger train
and to make time they were obliged to
run through Smiths Mills and Eagle
Lake without stopping, this prevent
ing people living at these points from
coming to Mankato and returning
sameday. To obviate this inconveni-
ence the Northwestern people will run
an ACKNOWLEDGEMENT leaving Manka-
to at 3:05 p. m. The new order of
things will 60 into effect Monday.
The Normal literary society held
a meeting last night. The ladies
quartet was especially pleasing to the
audience. Mr.. Crippen gave an ex-
hibition of Indian club swinging. The
principle event on the program was a
debate upon the question of which
side was to blame for the Homestead
troubles, the employers or employed.
The Judges thought that the side
which championed Mr.. Carnegie made
the best points, A question box af-
forded much amusement. The male
quartet rendered several selections.
Last Thursday night, at the usual
time of stopping, the steam threshing
outfit belonging to Terrison Bros. who
were at the time threshing for Mr..
Ben Peterson, was shut down for the
night. The next morning the steam
was gotten up and all being in readi-
ness the engineer partly let the steam
on and the engine was shaken as
though a bombshell had been.exploded
beneath it. Steam was Immediately
shut off and an investigation showed
that the cylinder bar had been screw
ed up and when steam had been ap-
piled had nearly burst the cylinder
mead. 1t is thought that some party
or no vsfi /rx Il ,.,Io I i