The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-03

this city soon.
VIM. Stahl, of Decoria, wa
brought into the city Monday OF
warrant charging him with assault
ing Gustav Ploog. He pleaded guilty
and was fined $1125.
"A warrants was issued Friday
for the arrest of rWm. Stahl, cor
the charge of assaulting Gustav Ploog
in the third degree. The assault was
committed this morning
w. w. Mendenhall states that he
will: not be a candidate for county
commissioner in the fourth district.
His friends haye been urging him to
run for the office.
Some of the older settlers admit
that Thursday was the hottest day
they ever saw in Mankato. 1t was a
regular Dakota sizzard, with all the
adjuncts. The night was the warm
est yet experienced.
The suit of the Chicago Organ Co.
VS.. Herman Kohler, to recover an
organ, was tried in the municipal
court today. The organ was replev-
ined and the suit is to determine the
ownership of it. A adjournment was
taken for week, when the organ is
to be produced in court.
Contractor Page has his hands
full during this heated term in keep
ing the dust down, but is doing as
well if not better than can be expect
ed when we remember that water
evaporates from the heated surface of
our streets so rapidly under the
scOrching heat of the sun.
-AugustaL Danielson Friday after
noon made application to be appoint
ed Administrative of the estate of her
late husband, Andrew M. DanielsOn,
who died recently at Madison, Wis,
and also to be appointed guardian of
her six children, whose ages range
from two to thirteen years. The per-
sonal property amounts to $3.50, and
real estate to 5000. There is $1,000 of
life insurance in the United Workmen,
of which 81, 700 goes to the children.
The temperature Thursday after
noon remained at 102 in the shade I'M
til six o'clock, when it began to Slow
ly descend. The hottest part OF the
day was from four to six o'clock, and
the wind seemed like the mouth of a
fiery furnace. Unless rain comes soon,
it is feared that the corn crop will be
ruined, as the ears will not form,
however much the stalk may grow.
A rain during the next few days may
save it however. Potatoes are in a
bad way.
DIR. J. W. Andrews received the
following telegram Thursday from
Peoria, Ill: ''Theatre burned early
this a. m. Lost everything. Every
body safe. GEO. ANDREWS" The
Andrews Opera Co. had a months en-
gagement there, and had played but
a week. The iron hand of fate seems
to be still pursuing the company,
whose many Mankato friends will re-
greet the loss which has again befal-
len it.
The sooner the fire alarm system
is put in the better. No one could be
found at the city hall last night to
give the fire alarm, for some time, land
again this afternoon this office had
occasion to ring up the city hall but
could get no response. Until the
electric system is secured, we would
respectfully suggest that it would be
well to have Waterman at the city
hall every minute of the "a hours of
the day. When a fire alarm or a
policeman is wanted, delay cannot
very well be brooked. If the city does
not have enough men in it's employ to
have one at the city hall all the time,
man should be hired for the purpose.
Prof. Otto Lugger was in the city
Friday and said that the heat Thurs
day was the greatest he ever knew
outside of the tropics, and would be
considered great there. He said that
the season had been the worst possible
for the propagation of the chinch bug
direase in the fields, and said that the
farmers seem to have taken no inter
est in protecting their corn fields by
blowing around them. This lack of
interest, he said, would result IN a
great deal of loss to the farmers who
are suffering from the bugs on Their
land. Prof. Lugger will return again
shortly to take little vacation in
MankatO.
The fire department was called
out at 1890 Thursday night by 9
burning brush heap just over the en-
bankment to the south of the Normal
school building. The heavy wind was
blowing the sparks on that and Other
buildings, and the danger of the lat
ter catching fire appeared to be immi
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