The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-08-10
The monthly report Of the wea-

since the bureau was started twenty
wears ago. 1t was hotter than any
other July by an average OF one
degree. The Pioneer Fuel Co., of
Minneapolis, which has kept records
since 1922, report it the hottest July
since 1880, when the average tempera-
ture was 81. The weather bureau re-
port shows the average temperature
last month to have been rs, while the
July average of the last twenty years
has been p. The total excess of tenn
perature last month was lis degrees,
and the total since Jan. 1St is 544 de-
grees. During last month there was
the least precipitation at St. Paul
since the bureau was started in 1871,
being only ID inches. The average
precipitation for July has been 1872
inches. The deficiency last month was
3.19 inches, but since Jan. 1st there
has been All excess of .25 inches.
Richards & Pingle's famous
Georgia Minstrels thoroughly pleased
their hearers Thursday, and if they
ever return they will surely have a
packed house. This is one of the best
minstrel companies that has ever
visited Mankato, and the best colored
MINISTRIES we ever had the pleasure
of listening to. There are no sticks,
and the members are as good actors
as they are singers, which is saying
good deal. Some of them have very
fine voices indeed, and it was a real
treat to hear them. Several novelties
were introduced, including game OF
crap shooting, and correct represen.
tation of a cake walk. In the latter
the audience acted as judges, and
''hot stuff was awarded the cake.
There is general complaint in re.
gard to the condition of some of the
sidewalks in the city. Go on almost
any street and the pedestrian will
strike from one to dozen nails pro-
truding up an inch or more. Ladies'
shoes are torn, men are put out OF
sorts, and children fall down over
them. The sidewalks have been the
pride of the city for several years
past, but no one who does much walk
ing now can disagree with the aSser-
tion that the walks are becoming in
places in dangerous condition. Be-
tween the property owners and the
street force this ought to be promptly
remedied.
Mrs. Geo. M. Palmer met with
quite serious accident Wednesday
morning while riding her bicycle to
Lake Emily to attend the Baptist
picnic. While cOasting down the long
hill by Jared Lewis farm the wheel
ran into piece of sand and sloughed
around, throwing Mrs. Palmer violent
ly to the ground. She sustained a
severe bruise above her right eye, and
was unconscious for two hours. She
was carried into Mr.. Lewis house, and
Mr.. Palmer was sent for. After re-
covering she was taken to Lake Emily,
but was unable to sit up. She is still
stiff and sore, and will feel the effects
of her fall for some time.
j. 0. Baum, who it will be re-
membered by our readers pretended
to buy the Washington House in this
city something like year ago, has
turned up at Sioux Falls, S. D., where
he passed himself off as detective
and claimed he was after Frank
James, the noted outlaw. What call
ed him to Sioux Falls, however, is
the fact that his wife is there staying
with Mr.. Miller and wife and selling
various little articles to support her.
self. She says she has left him, and
he is trying to get her to live with
him again.
From the Garden City Ginlet we
learn of the death Saturday last OF
Charles Sherwood at the ripe age OF
II years of Bright's disease. He was
living with his daughter, Mrs. f.
FairchildS. He was born in New
York, and had been a resident of this
county for rs years, but of late has
lived in Faribault. With his wife he
was spending the summer with his
daughter. Six children survive him.
The funeral took place Monday at
Garden City.
-Mapleton Enterprise: While clean
ing revolver on Wednesday morning
Otto Wendland, the timer at j. M.
Sprague's, shot himself through the
palm of the right hand, the bullet
splintering the bones quite severely.
During the heavy lightning
last week, l.. Rahmel lost valuable
hog that happened to be against a
wire fence which was thoroughly
charged with the electrical force.
Gen. J. H. Baker has threshed
his barley, and from sixteen acre
field of barley that was not touched
by the chinch bugs he had yield OF
fifty bushels per acre. In field
| where the buUS did cOnSiderahlv dam.