The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-07-06
MANKATo FREE Press.

The St. Clair mail wagon team
ran away at seven o'clock this NOR
ming along S. Front street.
The X. Of P. lodge is arranging to
have basket picnic at Lake Crystal
Friday, July 18th. The Lake Crystal
lodge will be asked to joint
Miss May Brown has disposed of
her millinery business at Mapleton to
Mrs. G. II. Dietz, and will soon go to
California.
Joseph Beetsch was arrested and
arraigned Friday, on the charge
of using abusive language toward T..
Mathews. He pleaded guilty and
was fined S. and costs.
The Mccormick company is meet
ing the price of prison Irvine, and
sells sisal at 81 cents and pure man
lila at s.! cents, all new Irvine just
from the factory.
We learn that Chas. III. DietZ, OF
Mapleton, will again be a candidate
for county treasurer. Though since
defeated he is not discouraged Turn
Republican, ChaS., and your chances
would be improved.
There is a rumor that Prof. E. W..
Parker of Garden City, would like to
be state senator from Blue Earth
county. There is also a report that
he may again be candidate for
county superintendent of schools.
Contractor Starkey has completed
both the Fifth and Byron street
sewers, and the streets have been
graded off. The recent rains have
helped ITO settle the filled soil in the
excavations, and no trouble is antici-
pated from the settling of the soil.
The Wild West show that eX-
hibited in this city and got into finan-
cial trouble at Minneapolis has gone
back to New Richland, where it start
ed from. The remaining property is
to be sold on mortgage, but there
are hopes Of securing fresh capital
and making another start.
j. G. Laurish, assessor of Danyille,
brought in his returns Friday. He
states that he will be candidate for
nomination as representative, at the
hands of the Republican county con-
vention. He would make a first-class
representative, and nomination
would be as good as an election this
year.
L. Patterson & Co. received some
freight the other day from Buffalo. 1t
came to Duluth by water, and the
freight to there was S4.9S, the freight
weighing 4,749 lbs. From Duluth to
this city, byrail, the freight was S19.91.
This illustrates the advantage of a
waterway in getting cheap transpor-
tatiOn.
Miss Carrie Ellefson, proprietor Of
the Minneopa House, swore out two
warrants Friday for the arrest
of Alfred Lundstrom and Chas. Irish
charging them with skipping their
board bills yesterday. She states that
LundStrOm owes her from June 9Th,
and Irish from Oct. 10th last. They
cannot be found and their where
about are unknown.
The sewer on Fourth street by
the Omaha depot is useless without
water mains, and the city will have
to lay mains along there. This can be
done by laying two blocks, one on
Washington street and the other on
Fourth. In case the sewer to the
brewery is put in, water mains will be
laid all along Fourth street. The
city has plenty of six inch water
mains on hand, that can be used for
this
Inspector MOBILES, while superin-
tending the laying of the Byron street
sewer, came in possession of some in
teresting relics, that were found
twenty or thirty feet under ground
Iney comprise piece OF hard coal,
meteor the size of goose egg, some
petrified wood, and piece of cedar
and one OF willow. 1t is surprising
that these should be found at so
great depth, in solid clay.
The trial of Anton Beetsch on
the charge of using abusive language
toward T.Mathews took place Friday
by jury. b. p. Freeman appeared for
the defendant and w. r. Geddes for
Mr. Mathews. The jury was out only
long enough to take two ballots, and
then returned a verdict of guilty.
Beetch was lined $40 and costs. Lena
Beetsch's case was postponed until
Monday. She is charged with SIM
liar offenSe.