The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-01-20

d6UfoWS III Jerusalem.
j. A. Presley's new store building
was yesterday accepted from the con
tractors, Adams & Schingle. The
building is practically completed.
W. B. Craig has hauled quantity
of sand, to be used in the work on the
Foundation of the public building.
The attendance at St. Johns
Catholic hall Saturday night was not
very large, though the entertainment
was fair.
Walter Fowler was Monday
bound over to await the action of the
grand jury on the charge of grand
larceny in the second degree. Bail
was placed at 5000, which he was I'M
able to furnish, and he went to jail.
Fred Widell shipped his derricks
and machinery to Superior Monday, to
be used in the big contract he has
taken, for work on two large elevators
at that place. S. w. Burgess went to
Superior yesterday to superintend the
LOB.
Mrs. Goodyear died at Mapleton
Monday and the funeral occurred
yesterday. She was one of the early
settlers of Beauford, having first be-
come resident of that town some
twenty-five years ago. For some time
past the family have lived in Maple
ton. She leaves husband and five
grown up children. Her death was
caused by cancer of the stomach. from
which she had long been sufferer.
She was we'll known over the section
of country in which she lived and was
highly respected by all.
| Matte Whitcomb, housekeeper
employed by T. H. Williams, was
Monday adjudged insane and ordered
sent to the st. Peter asylum. She is
a native of Sweden. married, 40 years
old, and is the mother of three child
rem. The insanity came on two weeks
: ago, since which time she has been
} depressed and silent. The disease is
| hereditary, and she has brother in
) sane. She has been confined in the
Rochester asylum at least two times
: and once at St. Peter.
Judge Severance has overruled
the demurrer entered by the city tC
2 L. G.. M. Fletchers Injunction pro.
( ceedirgs. This was no surprise to the
city attorney, who had rather expected
/ such an outcome. He will, now put liz
: an answer as soon as possible, and the
S case will be tried on its merits, anG
: he has no doubt but that the city will
: eventually be successful. The demurr
er was put in more in compliancewitk
. the formaliteS of law than with ar
expectation of success on that point
J, Miss May Melville, member o
t the Joe Murphy Co., which played II
g this city week ago Monday. lost TIVE
e diamond rings while engaged in the
l. dressing room. She took off the ring
IS and laid them on the table and wen
out to get some ashes to busnish III
q the dusty looking glass which adorn
4 the dressing room, and on her return
a in a moment the rings were gone
+, Both were handsome and costly, an
y she left the matter with Chief Yates
He has succeeded in recovering on
> of the rings, and Monday forwarded
;. to her by express to Omaha, where tn
company is now playing.
70 The semi-annual census of tn
D. telephone was made during the forty
eight hours between eight a. m. Wed
&c nesday and Friday mornings last. Dul
e ing that time the local central offic
n received 1902 calls. This is niue
le more than ever before. Wednesday
II and Thursdays are quieter days tina
er the average. Taking the period as a
ID average, however, it gives the numbe
70 of calls at the central office as 170,S
IS in year. The prompt and cOurteou
n mannerin which the operator, Mis-
to Agnes Coughiin, discharges her diff
<, cult duties is entirely satisfactory
N the public. More instruments al
of now in use than ever before and til
& service is rapidly growing in popula
1T ity.
1. The Utica, n Y, Saturday Glot
Is says: "Diphtheria is prevalent anon
d. the school children of Detroit, Mich
es and the charge is made by DR.. r.
oe Farnun, of that city, that the disea'
III has been spread by interchanging lea
ey pencils. Every morning the childre
/" in the schools are each given lea
pencil. At night these are droppe
into box and the next morning agal
IN distributed, so that scholar stant
~ little chance of getting the same pc
4 Gil twice. Each scholar will probab
n, put the point of the pencil in his
"a her mouth at least 40 times day, ar
y with the pencil thus going fro
r mouth to mouth it is easy to see tn;
L., the practice might become DANCE
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