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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18
ATTEMPTED HOUSE BREAKING.

An attempt was made to break into
Conductor G. A. Browns residence, in
the north part of city, Thursdaynight
at about 11:30 o'clock, Mrs. Brown
and her children were in the house
alone and had retired some two hours
before. She was awakened by hearing
a man at work on the window under
meath her sleeping apartment, and on
looking out saw by the moonlight a
man working at the window and one
on the porch trying to get in at the
door. She took her revolver and fired
a dozen or fifteen shots, to alarm the
neighborhood, and the men ran to-
wards the barn. The parties in the
next house went out to see what was
the matter, and A. G. Johnson, clerk
in the Model Clothing House, who was
spending the evening there, took a
revolver with him. Mrs. Brown di-
rected him to 60 to the barn, and when
he got near it he heard one man speak
in a low voice to another, ''give it to
him." Mr.. johnson thought discre-
tion the better part of valor. and ran
back to the house. Later, on going
home, when, little past the barn, he
lookedcfacbni md saw four men coming
towards him. They followed him for
some distance and then went off to-
wards the hospital.
Investigation of the window Show
ed that it had been unfastened Mr..
Johnson notified Mr.. Brown at the
depot, and the latter got two night
watchmen to 60 to the house with
him, but an investigation failed to
find anyone. The parties are believed
to have been tramps, who are becOm-
ing very numerous and annoying in
that part Of the city, where the rail
road crossings are so plenty.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18
WISE IS CONFlRrlED.

The Senate Friday confirmed the
nomination of Jno. G. Wise as post
master at Mankato. His selection
will be bitter dose for local Democ-
racy, but this administration has been
continuous round of plumbers and
will so continue to the end Of the
chapter, and the Democrats can blame
no one but themselves. 1t now
only remains to be seen Wheth
er the German Democrats, to whom
Cleveland owes his election and to
whose adherence the party itself owes
its existence, will continue servile. 1t
is not believed those of Mankato will
longer sit by and take broken prom
ises to bolster up activity, followed by
demagogical flattery and hypocritical
solicitude.
This kind of ''Stock in trade" has be-
come somewhat nauseating and, like
hay fever, most disagreeable and de-
bilitating.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18
HAYCRAFTS EXAMINATION.

The examination of Emery Hay
craft, of Lincoln, on the charge of
assaulting Joseph Erickson, was begun
before Judge Shissler Saturday.
Erickson failed to put in an appear
ance, much to the surprise of the
county attorney. Richard x. Turner
testified that he saw the beginning of
the trouble and that both men were
pulling at grain sack when Erickson
started to strike Haycraft with a
hammer, when Haycraft struck Erick-
son. The rest of the struggle he did
not see, but he afterwards saw Erick-
son lying on the barn floor, bleeding
and insensible. A. Cook and Drs.
Cooley and McCurdy were sworn, and
the latter two testified that erysipelas
set in and Erickson became very sick,
but is now practically recovered. The
county attorney asked for continu-
ance until May 26th, which was grant
ed, as he said he suspected crooked
work in the absence of Erickson and
he wanted to investigate it thorough
ly. The case will doubtless come be-
fore the grand jury, and not come up
in the municipal court again. w. e.
Young appeared for Haycraft.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18

restorer. Physicians prescribe it for
dyspepsia, kidney trouble, sick head
aches, and all forms of nervous weak
ness, because it makes people well
when other remedies can do no good.
Men and women who have the tired,
languid feeling that indicates depleted
blood and a feeble condition Of the
nervous system, need Paine's celery
compound, the remarkable discovery
of Prof. Edward E. Phelps, M. D.,
LII. d., of Dartmouth medical school,
the one great spring medicine pre-
scribed by physicians of every school.
Sleep is the necessary condition of
the system to restore it's lost powers
and retain it's yigor. Paine's celery
compound quickly repairs the wasted,
WORKOUT, nervous tissues, calms and
eQualizeS nervous action and brings
refreshing sleep that makes recovery
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18
SAILED THE SEAS SO YEARS.
One of His Experiences.
convinced

For thirty-eight years Capt Loud followed
the sea, most of that time as master of yes
SELL and upon retiring from the water was APP
pointed by the Secretary of the United States
Treasury to superintend the seal fisheries in
Alaska, which position he held five years. He
relates one experience as follows:
For several years / had been troubled with
general nervousness and pain in the region
of my heart. My greatest affection was
sleeplessneSs; it was almost impossible at any
time to obtain rest and sleep. Having seen
DR.. Miles remedies advertised began using
Nervine After taking a small quantity the
benefit received was SO great that | was posi-
lively alarmed, thinking the remedy con-
tanned opiates which would finally be injuri-
Gus to me; but on being assured by the drug
gist that it was perfectly harmless, l contin
ued it together with the Heart Cure. Today
can conscientiously say that DR.. Miles Re
storative Nervine and New Heart Cure did
more for me than anything / had ever taken.
had been treated by eminent physicians
in New York and San Francisco without ben
eft. l owe my present good health to the
judicious use of these most valuable remedies,
and heartily recommend them to all afflicted
as [ was."-Capt. A. p. Loud, Hampden, Ne.
Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine and New Cure
are sold by all druggists on a positive guaran-
tee, or by DIR. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart,
Ind, on receipt of price, 81 per bottle, or six
bottles for IS, express prepaid. They are
free from all opiates and dangerous drugs.
Sold +" al druggists.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18

easy.
There is such thing as too closely
watching for signs of i'll health, but,
on the other hand, there is a wise at
tention to signs of weakness and
breaking down. Painful sensations
and sudden weakness are natures evil
dent hints. Constipation, with fatu-
ency and nausea, in the early morning,
suggests serious trouble. The dull,
wearing ache at side and back should
make one pause to think.
Bright's disease and disorders of the
heart and liver may be positively and
permanently cured by taking Paine's
celery compound as soon as neuralgia,
weakness, rheumatism, lack. of appe-
tite, and low spirits show the begin
nings of disease of some Of these i'm
portant organs.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18

The U1aaon says that the Lake
Crystal boating club has decided to
celebrate July Fourth on a grander
scale than ever before. The same
paper says that A. J. Gilman's span
of horses, hitched to buggy, ran
away last week, going through two
wire fences into a slough, where one
of them was drowned.
Fred j. Hawkins, of Lake
Washington, has been appointed a
deputy game and fish warden, and has
entered on the discharge of his duties.
He intends to see that the law is
strictly enforced and will prosecute
such as violate it. In this, he should
receive the encouragement and assist
ance of all law-abiding citizens.
August Frohbos met with mis-
fortuneFridaymorning, while at work
in the Byron street sewer. A slight
cave-in occurred and his right wrist
was broken, and right side injured.
He was taken to his home, near the
FRANKLIN school house, between Sec
ond and Broad streets.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
infiamed condition Of the mucous lin
ing of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is infiamed you have rumbl-
ing sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed, Deafness is
the result, and unless the inflammation
can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to it's normal condition, hear
ing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inflamed con-
dition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness Caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall S
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars: free.
E. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
EgSSold by Druggists, 75c.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18
FLOATING OUR BONDS.

Mr.. Prior, of the firm of Dietz,
Denison & Prior, of Cleveland, Ohio.
purchasers of municipal bonds, is in
the city. Speaking of the floating of
the $4,000 of refunding bonds by the
city, he said that municipal bonds are
in good demand now He suggested
that the new bonds be advertised
about Sept. 1st, and that they be five
per cent bonds, payable in twenty
years. He thought that these might
be sold at slightly above par, while
four per cent bonds could not be sold
at all, and four and half per cent
bonds would be very doubtful of sale.
Mr.. Prior was emphatic in saying that
it was not necessary to make the
bonds gold bonds, but thought that
the successful bidder should have a
voice in drawing up the face of the
bonds. He said that as soon as the
city shows up a population of 10000
it's bonds will be more desirable, as
they can be purchased by the savings
banks of Maine. If a census could be
held this summer, it would be money
in the treasury, by the higher bids re-
ceived
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18

The question having been raised
whether crushed limestone will make
good roads, a Red Wing citizen pub,
fishes in the Red Wing Republican the
following experience: early in the
sixties this gentleman lived at St.
Paul, and it was decided there at the
time to use crushed limestone in road
making. A street was covered with
it, the work being carefully done in
every way, but the results were such
that in very short time the use OF the
material was abandoned. For when
the stone had become thoroughly
crushed, in rainy weather the road
was always filled with mud OF the
worst kind, and in dry weather the
dust therefrom was equally as OBJ
iectionable. And the street was nearly
always either dusty or muddy"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18
HOMES IN CONFUSION.
Moving and Cleaning Days Are Upon Us-Comfores
Men and Cross Tired Out Nervous Women.

Van Tromp, with broom at his
masthead, sailed up and down the
Thames in defiance.
Brooms and dust rags are now put
ting households everywhere into con-
fusion.
The traditional time for moving and
house cleaning is upon US. Innumer-
able cases of weakened nerves, eX-
hausted strength and debility date
from these days of feverish eXertion,
fret and cold rooms.
Every good HOUSEWIFE however,
feels bound to risk health and strength
in this annual struggle with dirt and
dust.
But as preparation for great bodily
and mental strain, hosts of careful
women build up their strength with
Paine's celery compound, the great
nerve and brain strengthened and
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18
WILL EXPIRE JUNE Ist.

We desire to call the attention OF
our readers to the fact that our of.
fer of the Chicago Inter Ocean with
the WEEKLY FREE PRESS at 25c a
year will expire June 1st next. After
that date it will be impossible for us
to make rate at this low price.
Those who desire this greatest of all
western newspapers should hand in
their subscriptions at once. Remem-
Der the WEEKLY FREE PRESS and the
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if taken before June 1st.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18
CONTRACT AWARDED.

Bids were opened at 200 o'clock
Saturday at the county auditors
office for putting in culvert between
sections 30 and 80, South Bend. The
bids were as follows:
T. r. Coughlan, 1912.
John Shananan, S16S.
John johnson & Co., S273.
n. P. Oleson, S185.
l. j. Fitzsimmons, 1926
John McNan, 1915.
John Lindberg, S174.
The contract was awarded to Mr..
Shanahan, being the lowest bidder.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18
The Laboring Men.

To the laboring men we will say-if
you need anything in the way of work
ing clothes, such as cheap wooden
pants, Jean pants, cotton pants, over
alls, jackets, working shirts of all de-
scription, boots and shoes, ana If you
can spare us the time to look through
our line you will be repaid for your
trouble as we can save you from 10 to
25 per cent.
MODEL CLOTHING & SHOE HOUSE.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18
Our Friends Made Comfortable.

In order to give all our friends a
chance forest themselves when weary
we are again giving away one of those
large comfortable rocking chairs with
every $25 purchase. Model Clothing
and Shoe House.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18

Every boy buying a suit from the
Model Clothing and Shoe House, is
furnished with an order for a large
size photograph free-to be taken in
the new suit purchased from us. The
"Model" beats the world for goods
and prices. Call and see us and be
convinced.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18

John Mundell's solar tip school
shoes are warranted never to rip
stitch. Every pair that don't wear
well will be replaced by a new pair.
We sell them at wholesale or retail.
G. III. AUSTIN & Son.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18

We find Mr.. w. P. Spaulding bus
lily engaged in G. I'll. Austin & Sons
shoe store. He will be pleased to have
his friends call and look over the new
styles of shoes which are arriving ev-
cry day from the factories. He will
take special pains to show goods wheth-
er parties wish to buy or not.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18
None But Our Friends Know.

Do you know where you can buy two
pairs OF heavy ribbed boys bicycle
hose for 25c? The Model Clothing
House is the place.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-05-18
HOmeSeekerS Excursions,

Two special Home-seekers' EXcur-
sions will be run by the Omaha rail
way, the first on May 8th, the second
May 29th. One fare for the round
trip. For further particulars call on
or address ALLAN BURDICK, agent.
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taken before June 1st next.
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MODEL CLOTHING & SHOE HOUSE.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-05-05

If Nansen praises the paradisiacal
condition of the primitive Esquimaus
he owns that their morality left some-
thing to desire. Their manners and
habits, now as then, must be remark
ably free and easy. Half n dozen fam
lilies, larger or smaller. may huddle to-
gether through the winter in a single
dark and sitting hut If they wear
clothes of any kind, the dress is so
slight as to be quite indistinguishab BILE
from utter nakedness. In the upper
and more refined circles the married
couples, with their younger children,
may lie apart beneath the sleeping
benches; otherwise. all are packed pro-
miscuously together. So that the
Greenland gentleman of the old school
really did not offer much when he
placed every one Of his wives, with the
other contents of the hovel, at the dis
posal of any casual visitor.
With those easy notions rs to rela-
tions between the sexes, 1t followed,
naturally. that the family of any Green
land maiden thought her highly hon.
ored when any white settler threw the
handkerchief to her, whether he were
chief of n post or merely common
sailor That growing intermixture of
the races has been tending to their re-
spective deterioration. - Blackwood' S
Mapazinc
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-05-05
The First Meerschaum Pipe.

A shoemaker, Kavol Kowates, who.
in 1928. lived at Pesth, the capital of
Hungary. smoked the first meerschaum
pipe Besides being shoemaker, how
ever, he was one of natures handi-
craftsmen, being gifted with intuitive
genius for carving in wood and other
material. This brought him in con-
toct with Count Andrassy, with who
he became a great favorite. The coo<
on his re,orn from n mission to e.
key broughtN ..h him piece of whitll
clay, which had been presented to him
as q curiosity on account of its extra
ordinary light specific gravity. 1t
struck the shoemaker that being por-
Gus, it must be well adapted for pipes,
as it would absorb the nicotine. The
experiment was tried, and Kavol cut a
pipe for the count and one for himself
The first meerschaum pipe made and
smoked by Kavol Kowates, has been
preserved in the museum at Pesth.--
Chicago Tribune
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-05-05

Mr.. G.. w. Il. Garrett, of Lamar,
Barton county, is a candidate for rail-
road and warehouse commissioner.
For many years he was a resident OF
this county, living in Middleton town.
ship. Mr.. Garrett is young man,
and has been highly honored IN his
own county where he has filed several
important county offices. Courteous,
affable, and efficient, If he should
receive the nomination at Kansas City,
he will be elected, and prove worthy
official. He has many friends here,
and his candidacy will be considered
before the Lafayette delegation casts
It's vote.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-05-05

An important part of the furniture of
the end-of-the-century house is the col
lection of candlesticks. The tinkling
cut-glass candelabra of our grand
mothers have been brought out from
the dusty seclusion of the closet, and
set. once again, - a position of honor.
High brass and silver holders, either
real antiques or a good imitation, are
used to great extent in the dining
room for state occasions. And now tho
bedroom candle has been imported
from England, and it is correct to hand
your guest his little brass hand CANDLE
stick when the good-nights are said. II
he does not want to read in his room,
or if the guest does not happen to be n
woman with abundant tresses to do
up" before she sleeps, this feeble light
may be sufficient. Otherwise, the visi-
tor is apt to wish for less style and n
more generous supply of illumination.
Philadelphia Press.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-05-05

the next day after the democratic
primary.
The resident with the large bridge
nose S the idol of the city.
School boys talk bridge while play
ing marbles.
The Board of Trade have bridged
their differences, and are all in favor
of the bridge TO Ray county.
The Santa Fo. railroad wants the
bridge, and so does Jim. McGrew.
The ferry company are the only ones
who do not favor building bridge.
Brother Trigg, of the Richmond
COnservator, will favor the bridge when
he is senator.
Bill Meet will wash his face and walk
TO Richmond to church when the
bridge is built.
Maidens who are crossed in love can
jump from the bridge and get righted
on the Ray county shore.
Never IN the history of the old town,
where so many good people live, was
il so stirred up as over the enterprise
of building bridge across the Mis-
souri, river.
hope they may get it.
Lexington is noted for its fine schools,
hospitality OF the people, best country
hotel in the state-Mrs. Nickell's home,
pretty girls, brave men, old cour,
house, conservative inhabitants, and
for not being the Lexington where
Congressman Breckenridge came from.
And several other things praise
worthy to the citizens.
If there is anything the matter with
Lexington it is because it was born too
early.
II was born at time when the buff
falo, bear, elk and moose came to the
place where the ferry boat now lands,
to get drink.
The cup to date" now lands from
Ray county at the same place, but goes
up town to get drink.
have known some Kansas town.
born too late.
They are the birthplace of calamity
hOwlers.
Consequently they are forever in thu
position Of the cows taIl-growins
down.
Thine for the people now on earth
SIMEON DINwIDDIE, Deacon.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-05-05
RICH AND SOFT VOICES.
Experiments with Coiored Boys and Girl
by DIR. Antonin Dyorak.

Experiments with Coiored Boys and Girls
by Dr. Antonin Dvorak.
DIR. Antonin Dvorak, director of the
National Conservatory of Music of
America. has become deeply interested
in the cultivation of the Negro voice.
For several months past he has con-
ducted class of colored boys o., girls,
with the object of not only teaching
them the elementary principles of
music, but OF studying the range, the
power and the possibilities of their
voices His pupils have entered en-
Enthusiastically into the spirit of the
work, and il n critical listener may
find fault with the technique or the art
of their choruses, he could find nothing
to criticise in the vim and the intelli-
gence of their singing. When asked
| how he had succeeded thus far and
what observations he had made, DR.
Dvorak said:
Even the short term of tuition that
we have given colored pupils entities
| their possibilities In general they
have rich and soft. natural voices.
The cultivation of their voices, how
ever, has been of such short period as
compared with that of the whites that
it is impossible to say accurately what
| we will be able to bring them to. We
can only judge by their present status,
| that is, their natural voice and tenn
permanent, but think we have a right
| to expect excellent results 1t does
not require voice and ear only to sing
well, but n necessary requisite is the
sanguine temperament and the vivid,
easily affected and susceptible imagina-
tion. | have not noticed these qualities
SO much in the voices of the white pu
| pills as in those of the colored ones. In
volume their voice is superior to that OF
the whites, and in timbre it is equal Il
not superior. Colored people have GER
tainly every requisite to make good
| opera singers. Their fondness of show
their vanity, love of color, and mimicry
make them natural actors"
| DIR. Dvorak said that he would like
| to see a genuine old-fashioned coloreo
| minstrel show-not of the burnt corl
variety, but genuine darxies, who
without any knowledge of musical ar
or stage effects, sing and dance as theil
| forefathers did.
Mrs. Jeanette NJ. Thurber, the pres
ident of the conservatory. said: 1T il
one of the most delightful things il
the world to watch our colored class a
work. The amount of enthusiasm
which they throw into their singing i
wonderful. II their voices turn out N
DR. Dvorak thinks they will, we ma,
all look forward to the Negro rac'
taking the lead in American music
do not see why they could not b
trained TO opera as well as the ItaliaI
singers are. If, unframed, their voice
are so excellent, what may we not ex
pect after years of hard work an'
training?"-N. Y. sun.