The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-10-07
JAMES CANNON'S WILL.

The will of the late James Cannon
was filed Thursday for probate. 1t il
a brief document, and is witnessed by
Lorin Cray and w. P. Coffin. The es
tate amounts to $4,000 of persona
property and s., 900 of real estate. IL
Mr.. Cannon's niece, Susan Fox, o.
Kearney, N. j.. $500 is left, and tt
his other niece, Lizzie Calmar, Of the
same place, 81, 500 is left.
To his wife, Elizabeth Cannon, the
residue of the property, real and per
sonal, is left. Mrs. Cannon and r. d
Hubbard are named as executors. The
will is dated July End, 1892.
The proposed high school field
day exercises have been indefinitely
postponed, as the boys find no time to
put themselves in training.
"A man named Rev, who is work.
ing on an excavation at Stephen
LammS house, was buried in cavein
Of dirt Wednesday afternoon. He was
dug out uninjured, but was in deep
enough to have smothered.
The Democratic county commit
tee for the ensuing two years is as
follows. Henry Robel, Chairman,
Chas. O'Connor, J. c. Wise, Jr., John
Krost, Pat Riley, W. w. Mobiles, Jno.
G.. Graham.
The funeral of Major Evans oc.
CURED at Garden City at p. m. Wed,
nesday afternoon. A large number OF
old friends and acquaintance were
present to witness the laying of the
remains away.
james Will and Miss Janet Ellis
were married Wednesday at the home
of the brides father, James Ellis ST.,
in Sterling. They are very excellent
young people and deserve long and
happy life.
The Popnlist county committee
held meeting at the Clifton House
Thursday. 1t was decided to
support the ticket named at Good
Thunder. A number of the candidates
were present.
OF j. II. Rogers & Co., who have
done considerable work in their line
of cleaning and purifying cisterns
without removing the water, in this
city, we can say that their method is
a good one and that they have done
good work. They intend to make a
trip through the country and anyone
wishing work in their line would do
well to address them at once, in care
of the Washington House, Mankato.
-Four people were Wednesday as
sembled at Wesley Maxfeld's resi-
dence, whose aggregate age was 332,
and their average age SO years. They
were Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Maxfeld ST.,
and Col and Mrs. B. F. Smith. They
are all spry and clipper for people of
their age, and cracked jokes and told
stories like young folks. We hope
they may be spared to meet together
for many years to come.
The following dispatch appeared
in Wednesdays Pioneer Press, from Ka-
sofa: Quite sensation was created
here today when it was learned that
one of the teachers in the public
school, Miss Taylor, had eloped. A
strange young man appeared in the
village and called on the pretty teach
er. They took walk and forgot to
come back in time for school. Miss
Taylor came here from Preston, MINI.
The State Board of EQualiza tion
has made the following changes in the
assessment rates of Blue Earth coun-
ty: Household and office furniture,
raised ten per cent: manufacturers
material and manufactured articles,
raised twenty per cent; manufacture
ers' tools, implements and machinery,
engines and boilers, raised twenty-five
per cent; bonds and stocks other than
bank'stOck, lowered fifteen per cent:
elevators, warehouses and improve
ments on lands the title of which is
vested in railroad companies, raised
fifteen per cent.
Franklin Barnes, of Lake Crystal,
had quite narrow escape from death
by suffocation in well last Saturday.
The we'll at his residence needed
cleaning; he engaged man, says the
Union, and himself concluded to clean
it out. A ladder was put down along
the side. A lantern was lit and lower
ed. 1t burned all right and he descend
ed, reaching the bottom. A bucket
was lowered and filed with water, and
after all had been drawn out of the
well he felt shortness for breath. A
second light was lowered and before it
reached him out it went. Thinking
perhaps it might have gone out by
sudden drop made by the man in low
ering 1.-THE called for third light and
by the time it came he was satisfied
dampS had taken possession Of the