The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-09-28

from Maukato were also in attendance
and an occasion long to be remembered
was the result. A sumptuous repast
was served at midnight, and the new
lodge was set afloat in form at 1870 a.
m.
The big mill quotes bran $1,000
per ton; shorts $500, and middlings
$14 LOO, at the mill.
Mrs. Jesse Welsh met with an
unfortunate accident Friday evening.
She was returning to her house from
her daughters home and slipped and
fell. Her left arm was kbrOken close
to the shoulder joint, making a bad
fracture. DR.. Webster was summon
ed and set the bone, and Mrs. Welsh
is doing as well as could be expected.
Five months ago she fell and broke
he left wrist.
Albert Schippel has prepared and
forwarded plans for an office building
for the Marshall Mill Co. He has also
drawn new plans for Reese Thomas
house in West Mankato, and the con-
tract for this building was awarded to
[. n. Day & Co., today. The house
has been enlarged from the original
plan and will be completed uthis year,
and will be seven room house, cost
ing about $1,000.
Prof. 'Lugger says that the whole
southeastern part of the state is in
fected this year with chinch bugs, as
far, in fact, as the timber line ex-
tends. Out in the open prairie coun-
try there is little danger, for the rea-
son that the chinch bugs frequent
wooded regions. This whole region,
save in some few isolated places, will,
so the professor is confident, be alive
with the pests next summer, and
their early spring flights will carry
them to the parts not infected.
1t is reported that the Prohibit
tion county committee met at Good
Thunder Friday and carried out
the threat made by local Prohibs at
the time of the Republican county
convention, by placing on the ticket a
candidate for senator. The man
chosen for this position is said to be
Rev. w. III. Whitelaw, of Good
Thunder. The only object sought to
be accomplished by this move is to
detract as many Prohibition votes as
possible from Senator Barr. Why he
should be punished for any fancied
slight by the Republican convention
no one can understand except Pro-
hibitionist. 1t is safe to say that Mr..
Barr will lose few votes by this move,
as those who had intended to vote for
for him are going to do so anyway,
with very few exceptions.
John c. Sweet has sent a vigorous
protest to the county fair officials, in
which he complains of the treatment
accorded his brother, A. j. Sweet, in
the bicycle races at Garden City
Thursday. He states that Messrs.
Owen and McMurtrie went to Sweet
and stated that unless he would con-
sent to divide the prize money with
them and Mr.. Matter they would not
go in the races and thereby there
would not be sufficient starters to
make race. The division, he says,
was to be 81 to each of the five men
and SIS to Matter, Lewis and Sweet
paying no entrance fee and Owen,
Walker and McMurtrie to pay en-
trance fees. He says that his brother
objected to this treatment at the
hands of the older riders, and that
Messrs. Lewis and Walker also object
ed to any such scheme. He was will
ling that Messrs. Overland McMurtrie
should have something for going in,
but not nearly as much as they de-
manded. He says that Mr.. Matter
told his brother that they had him,
and that he finally consented under
protest. If he had received the awards
according to the races, of which he
won three, his prizes would have
amounted to something like 1923 OF