The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-09-29

house has been begun, under the
charge of Adolph Stahl, Of Mlnneapo-
lis, who represents L. A. McVlcar'
decorators and fresco artists. The
ceiling has been nearly all frescoed
and the entire work of the interior
OF the building will be completed in
two weeks. The stage decorations
and the box tapestries are to be very
elegant, as can be seen by the design.
The general effect of the interior Will
be light buff color, with darker
trimmings. and everything will har-
mouize perfectly. The opening enter
tainment at the opera house will oc-
cur in about a month.
From the Mapleton Enterprise we
learn that last Friday afternoon,
while the Hartwick crew were thresh-
ing at Aug. Pomranke's, in the town
of Lyra, the boiler of the engine ex-
ploded, but no one was seriously IN
jured. Some of the pieces were
thrown 200 feet, and the engine turn
ed a complete somersault. From the
same paper we learn that last Satur-
day the two and half year old boy
of Lewis Heolcht, of Danville, was
burned to death. The boy Was alone
in the house and set fire to his cloth
ing. His mother, on returning to the
house, smothered the flames, but the
child died in few hours.
Humphrey H. Jones, of Judson,
was in the cityTuesdayand statesthat
he purchasedIfrom his father 12O acres
of land and has paid all but $40 OF the
purchase price, 81, 200. Mr.. Jones is
one of the parties to the lawsuit re
ferred to the other day.
"A special train passed through the
city Monday forenoon on the Omaha
road, bearing Henry Irving and Ellen
Terry and their troup, to Minneapo-
lis and St. Paul, where they will Ill
engagements this week. The train
came from Portland, Oregon, without
stop, in four days. There were
J several sleepers, Irving's private car
and several baggage cars. A number
: of our citizens are talking of going tt
the Twin cities to hear this famous
company.
| "A new social function in Lari
more, n, D., is peanut hunt.
: At the house warming Of Mr.. an'
Mrs. Platt, recently, each guest wa
started in pursuit of the hidden pea
nuts, which were concealed in ever
. imaginable and unimaginaEle place il
the house. After thorough scare
, upstairs, down stairs, and in oil
pipes, they proceeded to count thel
peanuts. Arthur RounSWell wa
! awarded the first prize.
Q The Marshall Milling Co., whic
was sued last week in the q. S. Gil
h cult court in this city for alleged IL
L fragment of a trade mark, by tn
o Pillsbury-W ashburn Co., OF Mime
Il apolis, claims that it is an advertiser
: dodge on the part of the latter.
n claims that the Minneapolis compar
II has never complained of the use
a the label, land that it does not have
s. patent on any common words in til
e English language. 1t also claim
$. that it's trade mark is very dissimll;
>, to that of the Pillsbury- Washbul
- Co., and that only the word ''Best"
:. anywhere near the same.
n A severe freeze occurred Sund;
ne night, and water standing in open a
to was coated over with ice
quarter of an inch ithick this NOR
Mt ing. 1t was the first heavy frost
no the season, and foliage will now ia
cd on a variegated hue, and the leav
no will soon commence to drop. L
po thermometer registered "a degre
ar during the night.
n st. Peter Tribune: The sport
ct fraternity of Mankato propose to b
I'd. grounds for racing, base ball a
at other purposes. This is thong
al, necessary owing to objections to t
IT. use OF the fair grounds. Every CO
he munity has it's quota Of mean MT
and when the horsemen, cyclists a
III ballists of Mankato have secul
en- their own grounds they should chal
nd directors and GROWERS double "a
tut of admission. with orders to ushers
conduct them to back seat.