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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-20
TO COUNTY AGENTS.
MINNESOTA SOLDIERS HOME,
CIR pATrT MINI Iu1v IN 1904

Owing to the variety of circumStan-
ces it will be necessary to open new
series of books, commence a new SER
les of numbers, and require entirely
new applications for the relief fund
after August l, 1894.
The Board of Trustees greatly re-
grets the additional labor this will
impose on the County Agents, and
has postponed it as long as possible.
But experience has shown us that
once in three or four years this must
be done. 1t will be well therefore to
take no new applications for relief I'M
til after August /. as the work will
have to be done over again. An en-
tirely new series of blank applications
is being printed, and full supply
will be sent you in few days.
All old blank applications for relief
should be at once destroyed.
The new only will be accepted af-
ter August first. Then, as terms of
relief expire instead of the ''Applica-
tions for Renewal" the new applia-
tions for relief must be forwarded.
After they have been allowed, and
have run three months, the applica-
tions for renewal will, of course, be
used as heretofore.
The indications now are that the
demands on both the relief fund and
the Soldiers Home will be greater
during the ensuing fiscial year than
ever before. At the same time our
resources will be less. Under the
legislation of 1893 which cancelled
our previous accumulations, and which
in effect requires that about half the
expense of maintaining the Home
shall be taken from the relief fund,
we shall be obliged to largely restrict
appropriations of aid to pensioned APP
plicants. OF course the present finan-
cial stringency was not anticipated by
the legislature, but we are obliged to
accommodate ourselves to the situa-
tion as it is. =
We shall do our best to distribute
the very limited means at our disposal
among the most necessitous cases, and
must ask County Agents to aid us in
discriminating wisely.
We shall enter upon the fiscial year
beginning August l, 1894, with all past
accumulations practically cancelled
or expended. We shall have probably
less than $4,000 available of relief
during that year. We have the
names of 1000 applicants on our re-
lief list today. This would allow only
S1.66 per month to each applicant the
year round. The necessity for dis
elimination is thus plainly apparent.
Those who receive no pensions must
be first helped. Then those with pen
sions of 81 to Sc per month. Pension
ers at So, S12 and over can be helped
only in extreme cases, and the special
necessities must be plainly set forth,
to receive attention.
Extra copies of this circular will be
sent you to be used freely in explain
ing the situation to applicants.
Thanking the County Agents most
heartily for their valuable aid and
patriotic cooperation in the past, we
sincerely bespeak their continued as
sistance in the good work which for
seven years has done so much for the
relief of our worthy veterans.
Very Respectfully,
HENRY A. CASTLE.
President.
/. FL. B. BEEBEE,
Secretary
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-20
Debs Comes off His High Perch
and Proposes to End The
Strike.

ST. PAUL, July 13.-[ Especial Debs
made proposition this morning
through the mayor of Chicago that he
would declare the strike off on condi-
tion that the railways would take
back all employees not charged with
criminal offence. The railroad man
ayers will consider the proposition
tomorrow. If not accept, Gompers
will in all probability call out the
federation.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-20
Low Rates to Colorado.

On July 21st and 22d the North
Western Line will sell excursion
tickets to Denver, Pueblo and Colo
RADIO Springs and return at exceedingly
low rates; good for return passage I'M
til August 25th, inclusive. For tickets
and full information apply to Agents
Chicago & North Western R'y. 4t3
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-20
PRENDERGAST PULLED.
The Assassin of Mayor Harrison
Meets His Fate on the
GallOwS,
HE DIES GAME.

DST. PAUL, July 13.-[Speciall Prem
dergast, the murderer of Mayor Har-
rison, of Chicago, was hanged at HAS
this morning. He went to the gallows
with unfiinching step and died game.
His neck was apparently broken.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-20
PUBLIC SCHOOL AFFAIRS.

The school board held a special
meeting Friday night and transacted
considerable business.
Bids for additions, repairs, ETC.,
were opened, and were as follows:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-20
Wool! Wool /!

Highest market prices paid for good,
clean wool by Mankato Knitting
Mills.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-20

When Baby was sick. we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-20
NOney to Lend.

on good farm land at Mankato
Savings Bank. 51tf
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-20

PAINTING EAST MANKATO SCHOOL
HOUSE.
O. Throdahl $1,000: H. J. Boegen,
S6l.25; H. d. Williams, $40; Austin s.
Williams, $50, and $15 extra for Stating
black boards; Joseph Brisbie, S5S.
Contract let to Austin & Williams
at $50 for two coats throughout and
blackboards slated.
Bids for plastering were not asked
for, but four bids were received, but
they were SO indefinite as to what was
included in the bids that they were
referred to the committee on property
and expense, with authority to act.
The following were chosen as judges
of election:
1st precinct-John D. Duane, H,
Hillesheim, Q. Leonard.
Ind precinct-Clark Keysor, w. d.
Tompkins, Geo. Copp,
3rd precinct-Wm. Paddock, E. r.
Kennedy, A. NJ. Smith.
4th precinct-O. G. Olsen, A. G.
Barney, John Barnard.
A communication was received from
Miss Jessie NJ Nichol, teacher of the
Sth grade of the High school building,
asking to be released from
the contract for the coming year,
having been elected assistant princi.
pal of the New Ulm High school, a
position which offered her better in.
ducements and being in the line OF
work she had been expecting to have
in this city. The request was granted
and the Sth grade was declared vacant
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-20

Binding Irvine for everybody at
Bottom prices. J. G.. Roller.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-20
Girl Wanted.

Good kitchen girl at SO4 South Front
street.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-20

J. G. Roller will sell wagons, bug.
gies and bicycles at cost for 30 days.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-09-06

press il to your heart, angel to angel
will repeat the story of Main, ''He de-
livered him to his mother" Did you
notice that passage in the text as read
-? "He delivered him to his mother. !"
o We troubled souls. o We who have
lived to see every prospect blasted,
peeled, scattered, consumed, Wait a
little. The seed-time of tears will be-
come the wheat harvest. In a cline
cut of no wintry blast, under sky
palled by no hurting tempest, and
amidst redeemed ones that weep not,
that part not, that die not, friend will
come to friend, and kindred will join
kindred and the long procession that
marches the avenues of gold will lift
up their palms as again and again it is
announced that the same one who came
to the relief of this woman of the text
came to the relief of many a maternal
heart, and repeated the wonders of res
direction, and delivered him to his
mother" o, that will be the harvest Of
the world. That will be the corona
ton of princes. That will be the Sab
bath of eternity.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-09-06

Every schoolboy knows which Is the
smallest and which is the largest state
in the Union, but how many know
which is the lowest and which is the
highest2 According to the recently
announced results of measurements
and calculations made by the United
States geological survey Delaware is
the lowest state, its elevation over sea
level averaging only sixty feet. Cci-
orado is the highest, averaging six
thousand. eight hundred feet above
the sea, while Wyoming is close sec
ond, only one hundred feet lower than
Colorado. In minimum elevation Flori-
da and Louisiana dispute for second
place after Delaware, their average
elevation being, for each. one hundred
feet. Taking the United States as a
whole, our country lies above the aver
age elevation of the land of the globe
philadelphia Record
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-09-06

down TO rest many times
each day; had sick head
ache very often, many
pains and aches all the
time. After ! had taken
one bottle of your Fa-
vorite Prescription /
could see a great change
in my strength and less
sick headaches Contin-
ued taking the medicine
until | had taken seven
bottles of the Favoritc'
and one Of the Golden
Medical Discovery. I am
now able to do house
work for myself and
husband and two child
r-an arf4r4 nina ord Hra
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-09-06

IT. I'D Ha-l UIIt dII i've.
I also take dressmaking. and enjoy walking
mile at q time. when / can have the time to
DO 50. And / am sure il is all due TO DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription as know WIS
failing fast before l commenced to take it,
Sold BY medicine dealers everywhere.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-09-06
HUSI3SsEE38

dtO0d County, ". T., writes: After my third
child was born. / barely gained strength
enough in two years time, so as to be able
to crawl about TO accomplish the little house
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-09-06
Earth hath no sorrow
That Heaven cannot cure

7 learn. again, from all this that
Christ i the master of the grave. Just
outside the gate of the city Death and
Christ measured lances. and when the
voung man rose Death dropped. Now
we are sure of our resurrection. o.
what a scene it was when the young
man came hack The mother never ex-
pected to hear him spS>lk again. She
never thought that he would kiss her
again. How the tears started, and how
the heart throbbed. as she said: %. my
son. nv son. my som And that scene
is going TO be repeated. It is going TO
he repeated ten thousand times. These
broken family circles have got to come
together. These extinguished house
hold lights have got to be rekindled.
There will be a stir in the family lot in
the cemetery. and there win be rush
INTO life at the command: Young man.
I say unto thee. Arise, A. the child
shakes of the dust of the tomb and comes
forth fresh and fair and beautiful. and
You throw your arms around it and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
MAKING HAY.

From % 10 80 1-3 per cent. or more
of the hay crop in this country is
wasted for the want of knowledge of
how to cure it and from careless
methods in securing it. This, you will
admit, is a great leak | claim that
hay should be cured in the shade. 1t
is as important to the hay as herbs,
which are cured in the shade, for medi-
cine.
The method [ use is simple and no
more expensive than that commonly
practiced by the farmers. The grass
should be cut down after the dew is
off, when convenient to do so, and left
in the sun until wilted, but not allowed
to bleach, then it should be put into
heaps of about 100 pounds when dry,
and nicely trimmed, and covered i'm
mediately with a waterproof hay cap.
(No other cap will have the same eff
fect) 1t should be left in this way
for several days, according to the state
Of the weather, and should not be dis
turbed until dry enough to cart to the
barn and NOW away. This work may
be done in dull weather unless it rains.
1t may be necessary to shake out to
the sun little next to the ground so
not to NOW away any damp locks.
When treated this way the farmer will
find he owns from % to 33 per cent.
more weight from the same grass, and
it's feeding quality will be equal to hay
made in the old way, even in best
weather, with a reasonable ration of
grain thrown in. The waterproof hay
caps will pay for themselves more
than once every season and be just as
good next time.
I have about 600 of these waterproof
caps, and would not do without them
if I lad to pay three times the price.
Of course, this is a larger number
than most farmers would need. You
can make your own calculations in re-
gard to the savings of this country, if
this plan could be adopted and carried
out This l call the cooking pro-
cess" as the sap is nearly all cooked
into the hay, instead Of being evlpO
rated out and bleached by the power
full action of the sun.
If you can prevail on the farmers to
adopt this method, you may be re-
garded as a great benefactor, and my
purpose will have been served in the
good it will accomplish to my brother
farmers.-B. r. Brown, in Farm Jour
nal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
OVERFEEDING COWS.

A great deal Of overlooking and
stuffing have resulted from the enron
eous belief that the COW could be
made to increase the quantity and
quality of milk without limit by sim
ply increasing the ration. According
to this theory it would only be neces-
sary to find out the best ration that
could be fed to the COWS with the
largest amount Of margin Of profits,
and then go ahead in supplying the
animal with unlimited quantities. The
COW would simply be a feeding and
producing machine at this rate. Feed
would be showed in, and it would
come out in the form of milk and
cream worth twice as much as the
food.
Unfortunately, this theory is not cor
rect. There is limit to the ration for
cows, which the sooner we understand
the less we will lose by unwise feed
ing. When the COW gets as much as
she can digest and assimilate the limit
is reached. All fed to her after this
will be wasted material. Instead Of
coming out in the form of cream and
milk worth more than food it will not
be valued at half what the ration cost.
Besides, the animals system in the
course Of time will rebel against such
unfair treatment. and a sick cow may
be on ones hands.
There must be wisdom and sound
judgment in feeding as we'll as in any
thing ere If any one expects to find |
a new system of feeding cows for |
milk and butter an easy way to wealth |
there will be Disappointment All that
is claimed for the new feeding is that !
given good animals they can be grad |
ually made to produce more milk than |
they do now if they are properly fed |
But this increase in quantity and |
quality must reach limit in time
where it can go no further, and then
all that one need expect is to main
tain this standard.
Every one must be the absolute
Judge Of where this limit in feeding
is placed in each individual COW. All
cows differ, and in many ways. One
will demand more food and give less
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19

One of the greatest economies in
corn growing is the way in which the
first crop Of weeds is disposed Of by
Il thorough narrowing once, and even
twice, before the corn reaches the sur
face. If there are no loose sodS or
stones left on the surface to be
dragged through the SOIL not a grain
of corn will be injured The harrow
teeth loosen the surface soil and al
low more air and warmth to come in.
The work is especially beneficial after
a rain has packed the surface. There
is also a great Improvement in the
filth of the narrowed soil all through
the season from the extra narrowing
at this time. This can be plainly seen
when the culIlvator is run through the
rows the first time. The narrowing is
continued by some farmers until the
corn is five or six inches high, but if
the surface has been narrowed until
corn is up the after work can be done
quite as we'll with the cultivator,
though at a much slower rate. One
man with two horses will harrow
three times as large a field as a man
and horse can cultivate, taking one
row at a time. The harrow reaches
where the cultivatoT cannot, but it
occasionally covers a plant so that it's
growth is checked.-American Cuitiva-
tor
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19

TO him that it would create comment
if one in his station in life, humble
newspaper carrier, should apply for
high office in the municipal govern
menL
lie appeared in Corporation Counsel
Adolph kraus' office one day and an
nounced that he desired to succeed
Mr.. kraus in the position. Mr.. Kraus
laughed at him and took the an
n0uncement as a joke.
This visit was not noticed by the
papers as Prendergast expected Ex
asperaIed by his failure to secure the
notoriety he crayed, Prendergast de
termined TO make another attempt.
At last he selected Mayor Harrison.
He called upon the mayor, and, with
all the gravity he could master, stated
his desire to be appointed corporation
counsel But the mayor was in good
hum0r and the righteousness Of the
affair struck him. He chaffed Prem
dergast good-naturedly and speedily
forgot him.
Again Prendergast failed of his OBJ
ject. He was now more determined
than ever to attain it. He resolved
that he would get his name into the
newspapers even at the risk of ar
rest. He called again upon Mayor
Harrison and limited that if his request
did not secure prompt attention it
would be the worse for the mayor,
Nj. Harrison did not know fear and
he treated Prendergast's threats as
lightly as he had treated his request.
PrendergaSt wrote to the mayor.
His letter were not only unanswered,
but he could not be sure they had ever
been delivered. Again he called on
Mayor Harrison. This time he was
received brusquely and warned to keep
away and trouble the mayor no more.
Desperate with his determination to
secure the lOnged-f0r notOriety, Prem
| derSaSt at last worked himself into a
frenzied momentary courage and com
| mitted the frightful crime for which
! he died yesterday.
On the night of Oct. %, 1898, Car
! ter H. Harrison, mayor of Chicago,
was seated at dinner with his son and
daughter, in his residence on Ashland
! boulevard. The doorbell rang and an
ill-clad fellow asked to see the mayor
The man was Prendergast. When he
was informed that the mayor was al
| dinner, he turned away and said he
! would return later. 1t was "Ameri
! can Cities" day at the worlds fair
and the mayor had made the best
speech Of his life to a vast throng OF
people.
! Mr.. Harrison was doing He was
awakened by the sound of voices and
came towards the door. The man ap
! preached the mayor, pointed a revol
yer at Mr.. Harrison's breast and fired
| The assassin ran into the street, and
after discharging ball at the pur
suing butter, disappeared, shortly af
! forwards Surrenderi1S himself to the
police, about the tine that Mayor
Harrison expired in the arms of Miss
Anna Howard, OF New Orleans. tc
whom he was to have been married il
a few days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19

PRENDERGAST PAYS THE PEN
Atty FOR MURDER.
His Nerve Does not Fail Him on the
GallOWs-His
Crime

Chicago, July fitzpatrick Eugene
Joseph Prendergast, assassin of May
or Carter II. Harrison, was hanged in
the county Jail yesterday. The drop
fell at 11:4S a. M.
The march to the scaffold began at
11:42, and in a few moments Sheriff
Gilbert and Jailor Morris appeared at
the right of the scaffold, the prisoner,
pale and unsteady, walking behind
them. On the scaffold he stood with
out apparent nervousness beyond a
slight appearance of weakness and IN
steadiness as his arms were being
piniOned. He was evidently strug-
Cling to hold himself together, and
looked out over the bunch Of witnesses
below, while the shroud was next
placed about him, and barring a lit
tie restless motion of the eyes up,
down and from side to side, there
was no evidence Of movement. The
rope was placed about his neck while
the cap was drawn over his head, and
PrendergaSt had looked his last on
earth. An instant later, at ff:4S, he
shot downward, his head twisted to
one side, his neck being apparently
broken. Slowly swaying back and
forth, he hung for a few moments
while physicians noted the pulse. A
slight spasmodic movement Of the
legs was all the sign Of life apparent
within the loosely hanging white
robe. At the expiration Of nine min
utes he was pronounced dead.
The assassin made no audible sound
from the time he left the cell, having
been dissuaded by the sheriff from car
rying out his announced intention of
making a twenty minutes speech on
the gallows. Ten minutes after the
trap fell the body was lowered into
coffin. The face of the dead was not
badly distorted.
THE MURDERER.
The crime and the criminal were
alike extraordinary. Prendergast,
newspaper carrier about % years Of
age, took great interest in politics.
During the mayoralty campaign two
years ago which resulted in the cleo
ton of Carter Harrison, he was active
in a small way in political circles and
spent much of his time electioneering
and working for Mr.. Harrison. He
was also an ardent and enthusiastic
advocate Of the single-tax theory. He
regarded himself as a prodigy of learn
ing and treated the other carriers
with supecaIhousness which they
were disposed rather to encourage
than resent, for Prendergast had a
disag reeable fondness for beating
and torturing his younger and slighter
co-workers. Last summer ne grew
tired of his featureless existence.
What he wanted more than all other
things, what was more necessary than
everything else to his happiness was
to be talked about At last it occurred |
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
DIDN'T NEED SUCH WARM
WEATHER.

The dainty bit Of summer girl in
a bewildering fluff Of gown was twit-
tering sweetly to the rural youth, and
he was so tickled he couldn't sit still.
She had only been in the country two
day and had met him that morning.
rs it always so warm as this in the
country" she inquired.
you don't think this is warm. do
you? he responded.
Indeed 1 do; think it is positively
hot"
Likely it is, but it is fine weather
for corn"
She looked at him doubtfuIly and
blushed.
But 1 have no corns," she said, and
he fell on the porch in a paroxysm-
Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19

At Winger, in New South Wales,
there is a burning mountain. It is
1920 feet in height, and is supposed
to be large coal seam which has in
some unaccountable way become ig
nited, and has been burning for many
years, certainly long before the adj
vent of the white man in this portion
of the colony. The course of the fire
can be traced a considerable distance
by the numerous depressions or
chasms occasioned by the falling in Of
the ground beneath which the coal has
been consumed. Smoke is continually
issuing from the sides of the mountain,
and in the vicinity of these openings
the surface is hot, and has a dry,
parched appearance, while sticks
thrust into these openings are readily
ignited.-New York Tribune.