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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

IT is said Tammany is not having
good success in finding an orator for
its Fourth of July celebration. Demo-
cratic congressman who have received
invitations are little shy about ac-
cepting them, on account of the revela-
tionS which are being made before the
LeXow committee. Even Speaker
Crisp, who received his strongest sup
port in his campaign for the speaker
ship from Tammany, declines to &C
cept an invitation to make the ad-
dress. The revelations which have
been made do not encourage famili-
arity on the part of men who have
heretofore been glad to associate with
that organization and receive favors
from it, as they fear that future as
ISOLATION will cause loss of standing
to them. 1t is the old story. Tam
many is now under cloud, not of as
Sertion by political enemies, but from
the disclosures before an official COM
mittee. and those who were once sup
plants for its favOrS are now ready to
kick it If they can be assured that it
is really down. The opinion is said to
be growing in Washington that it will
never again be the power in state and
national politics, that it has been.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

A MOVE is being made in New York
to get Erastus Wiman pardOned, or
his sentence reduced. If the sentence
is wrong, this move is all right, but
from the evidence introduced it does
not seem to be at all out of the way.
He betrayed a trust that was repOsed
in him, and he should suffer for it,
the same as any man. The fact that
he had been a man of wealth and posi-
tion should not enter into the matter
at all, and sympathy which will stand
in the way of justice in his case. is
committing wrong upon society. 1t
is often said that men surrounded
by wealth and responsibility are pretty
sure to escape punishment for any
crime they may commit, While this
comes too near being true in many in.
stances, it is not in all, and should
not be in this, and the future should
see the number of cases where justice
is enforced greatly multiplied.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29
DIED.

At st. Anthony park, Mimi, June
q, 1894, W. W. Phelps, of asthma and
heart failure. He was born in Mex
leo, Otsego county, n. Y, June %,
1914, coming with his parents to
Madely, Wis, at six years of age, and
for the next twenty-three years was
resident at that place. He was mar
ried to Miss Cynthia E. Melendy, of
Belmont, Wis, in 1873 The follow
ing year he moved to Eagle Lake,
Mimi, which was his home till 1888
when he moved to ST. Anthony park,
His wife dying May I, 1884, his mother
came from Wisconsin to be the light
and comfort of his household. In
June, 1885, he married Miss Emma
Melendy, sister of his former wife,
who, with their boy, aged six years.
his aged mother and one sister remain
to mourn his loss Mr. Phelps will
long be remembered for his genial
ways, uniform cheerfulneSs and kind
ness to the needy. Being successful
in business he aided others in getting
start in life. His liberality to be-
nevOlent causes, was known to all in
terested in those matters. The M. E.
church at Eagle Lake is monument
to his liberality. 1t his latter days
he gave much attention to the duties
he owed to God and man. Thus with
firm faith in his savior his death
was characteristic of the quietness of
his life. His remains were laid to
rest beside his former wife at Eagle
Lake. Funeral services were con-
Quoted by Rev. c. D. Cook, of Eagle
Lake, his former pastor
G. D. Cook.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29
A MAPLETON CASE.

John SchWeitzer, who is charged by
Henry Troendle with using abusive
language towards him, came up from
Mapleton Tuesday and pleaded
not guilty to the charge He was de-
Tended by attorney Plymat, while
County Attorney Benedict was assist
ed by w. e. Young. The attorneys
for the state found a fatal defect in
the warrant before the trial began,
and on their motion the case was dis
missed, the costs devolying on the
state.
Another warrant was Immediately
prepared and served, and the same
witnesses were subpoenaed. of whom
there were large number from Ma
pleton. The defense waived a jury,
and the case was tried this afternoon.
The defense put on witness to show
that the words alleged in the COM
plant were not used, while the plaintiff
attempted to show that the defend
ants witnesses were not present all
the time, and might not have heard
all that was said. The plaintiff and
defendant are among the principal
business men of Mapleton, and the
affair is one to be deplored under the
circumstances. 1t started from a
trivial matter, and it would have been
| hnfter for all concerned cOuld if have
been settled without getting into
court.
Mr.. SchWeitzer was found guilty
and was fined So and costs.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29
THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AN
ARCHY.

Every little while there is some
thing comes to the surface which
causes renewed energy on the part
of the authorities and the public in
general against anarchists. The as
sassination of President CarnOt, in
France, the other day will not only
cause strong movement in that
country, but will doubtless stir up the
rest of the civilized world to closer
scrutiny of the workings of this law
less element in society. There is a
great deal of sentiment abroad in this
country at present which directly or
Indirectly breeds anarchy. The law
lessness which crops out here and
there from the CoXey movement, and
that which comes to the surface in
majority of the strikes and which is
either directly or indirectly defended
by the Populist agitators is most po-
tent cause for the growth OF anarch-
ism. because it does much to breed
contempt for the law. The cause OF
honest labor and the lawlessneSS
which has sprung from the CoXey
movement, and the strikes and
which has been defended by some of
the Populist governors, are two dis
tinct matters. The cause of true
labor is not elevated by the spirit OF
lawlesSness or the destruction of the
property Of the employing class, and
intelligent labor does not SO indulge.
There are here and there demagogues
who would have it appear, if possible,
that because this spirit OF lawlessneSs
is condemned, and the action of those
who have encouraged it, cenSured, that
those taking such a stand are the enc
mics of labor, when they are really
the workingman's best friend. There
has been entirely too much encOur-
agement given to the spirit of law
leSsness during the past few months,
and it behoOves laW-abiding people
everywhere to call a halt and dis
courage such a spirit whenever it
shows itself, and so stamp out the
growth of a sentiment which more
than anything gives encouragement
to anarchy. So long as there are Pen
noyer's, Waite's, dwellings and Alt
geld's in high positions, so long will
that spirit which encourages anarchy
bubble near the surface of society.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

The suit of O. G. Noble VS.. De-
forest Carpenter was tried today in
the municipal court, by jury. The
plaintiff sues to recover 800 on house
which the defendant claims to own
in Vernon Mr.. Noble levied On the
house in his capacity of constable, and
and the ownership is in question. ID.
A. Reed, of Lake Crystal, and W. n.
Plymat are the plaintiffs attorneys,
and Thos. Hughes is attorney for the
defendant.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29
nARRIED.

+. I'll. Morlock, of Good Thunder,
and Miss Rosalia E. Juergens, of
Jordan,were united in marriage at the
latter place Wednesday. After short
trip they will return to Good Thunder,
where they will be at home after
July 9TH.
Mr. Morlock is cashier of the Good
Thunder state bank, and is Young
man of whom only good is spoken.
He is enterprising and has promising
future. His bride is highly esteemed
by her many friends, and will be well
coined to this county. The FREE
PRESS joins the numerous other
friends of Mr.. and Mrs Morlock in ex-
tending them the very best wishes for
the future
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29
THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE AS.
SASS;NAi Ed

Last night France was thrown into
mourning by the assassination of
President Sadi-Carnot, and the world
at large was greatly shocked. The
crime was committed by young
Italian named SantO, but what the
motive was which impelled him to
commit the deed, is not known.
Whether it is blow struck by the
anarchists, or whether it is the insane
action of a crank, who like Prender-
CAST, imagined that he had been mis-
used at Carnot's hands, is yet mys-
terry, as the assassin refuses to talk.
But be this as it may France has
lost an able ruler against whose up
rightnesS of character the breath of
scandal has never blown. He has
proved himself a most conservative
leader and an able and judicious ruler.
Outside of his political enemies he
was beloved by all, and so little did
the political opposition amount to
that there would have been practically
no opposition to his reelection which
would have occurred next November.
Nothing in years has SO stirred up
the French populace as has this crime,
and at Lyons, where it occurred, the
people would have torn the assassin to
pieces had he not been rescued by the
police. But French Justice is swift,
and in few weeks his head will roll
into the basket from the knife of the
guillotine.
What effect the assassination will
have upon France and Europe, can
not be foreSeen, but it will probably
have the effect of consolidating the
friends of the republic, and at the
same time cause more sharp lookout
to be kept upon anarchists every
where
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29
A Year Without a Summer.

Seventy-eight years ago this year,
was the year without a summer,
Frost occurred every month in the
year 1916. Ice formed half an inch
thick in May; snow fell to the depth
of three inches in the interior of New
York and Massachusetts in June, and
ice was formed of the thickness OF
common window glass throughout
New York on the 9TH of July. Indian
corn was frozen SO that the greater
part was cut down and dried for fod
der in August, and farmers supplied
themselves with seed corn from the
corn produced in 1915 for the spring
of 1917.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29
GOVERNMENT BUILDING BIDS.

Two o'clock Wednesday was the
time set for opening bids for the cree,
tion Of the government building The
bids were to be opened at Washington.
Architect Gerlach states that there
will undoubtedly be fifteen or twenty
bids. The E. G. Burdick Co., Adams
& Schingle and Kleinschmidt Bros,
OF this city, put in bids. There are
four or five bidders from St. Paul, and
others from Peoria, ILL.,, Cincinnati,
st. Louis. andO probably Milwaukee
and Chicago, and perhaps other
places.
Mr.. Gerlach believes that either
Mankato or Kasota stone will be &C.
cepted for building purposes, as
freight charges will prevent other
stone from successfully ncompeting,
Several bids will be put in on Manka.
to stone. 1t is not probable that the
contract will be awarded at once.
Each bidder submits sample of the
stone he bids on, and these may have
to be examined.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29
THE SUGAR STEAL.

At the end Of June, the revenues of
the government of the United States,
for this fiscal year, will have failed to
meet it's expenditures by &c., 10000,
and it will be behind on it's payments
an indefinite amount. Besides this the
gold reserve will be many millions
short of the requirements of the law
In discussing the situation thus pre-
sented, Harper's Weekly, which is more
favorable to the administration than
against it, says the present condition
of things commenced back during the
session of the 51st congress, and then
proceeds to thresh over the old straw
about the extravaganza of the billion
dollar-congress. But the revenues, it
says, were further disaStrously affect
ed by the Mckinley law, and says
that they at once began to fall off.
OF course they did. The purpose of
the Mckinley law was to reduce the
revenues of the government, which at
that time were greatly in access of its
needs, and every Democrat IN the
country was yelling himself hoarse
over it and demanding that the sur
plus be reduced. But the revenues
from the Mckinley law were sufficient
to meet the ends of the government
until the Democratic party assumed
control and distrust spread every
where. But the Weekly admits, how
ever, that if no tariff bill passes, and
the people know that the Mckinley
law is to stand for the coming year or
more, that business will spring up
and the revenues will be sufficient for
the needs of the government. But
should the present senate measure
pass, it thinks the increase in revenue
would not be felt for months to
come, and comments thus upon it:
The important revenue producing
features OF the present tariff bill will
not go into effect until next
January. The tax on sugar.
for example, will be felt by the con.
sumers at once, for the sugar trust
Will add the the 40 per cent. imposed
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

on raw sugar on all their sales of re-
fined sugar that are effected after the
day on which the bill becomes a law.
But while the consumers gay the tax,
the money will go to the refiners, who
will not begin to pay a tax to the gov
eminent until after January /, 1895.
The excess of expenditure overrevenue
will certainly go on until after that
date.
The Democrats have always con-
demned a protective tariff because
they claim it taxes the people for the
benefit of the manufacturers, but the
protectionists were never guilty OF
enacting legislation which would take
such vast sum from the people and
give nothing in return.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

The insurance on Will II. Jones
grocery stock has been adjusted, and
he has been paid 81, 23O. He was insur-
ed in the Connecticut Fire Insurance
Co., Of which J. T. Williams & Son are
agents. This satisfies all of the losses
in the recent fire.
Bids Wee openedTuesday for paint.
ing the fence around the Sibley Mound
park. A. M. Grant bid S1.70 per rod,
0. Throdahl 95 cents, Lloyd Little
Sl.90, and Ell. d. Williams So. The
bids were on two coats of paint. Nc
action was taken by the board of pub
lie works.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29
s . e G TFIC s
COURT DAY.

In the municipal court Tuesday fore.
noon the following cases were dispos.
ed Of:
Chittenden & Eastman VS.. Peterson
& Anderson, order for Judgment.
O. t. MOBILES VS.. Deforest Carpen
ter, trial June 9th.
II. E. Cahill VS.. l. Longini, tria
July 18th.
W. A. Lynch VS.. NJ. B. Rosdell, or
der for Judgment for $133.
W. \. Lynch VS.. Thos. O'Connor
order for Judgment for 50.
a. Breslauer s. Co. VS.. D. Weden
camp, order for judgment.
Eli De Rushia vs. G. w. Thompson
order for Judgment.
Chas. ellison VS.. c.. H. Mcneil. tria
June 28th.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

Mrs. Jones, an old lady 81 years of
age, died at the home of her son, D
NJ. Jones, at 400 State ST., Monday eve
ming. She had never been sick in her
life, and her death was due to old age.
She was highly respected by all, and
her death will be mourned by many
friends. The funeral will take place
at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon
and the burial will take place at Min
naODa
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

THE attempt will be made today to
report the tariff bill from the COM
mittee of the whole to the senate.
But this does not mean that final
vote will be reached today or even to-
morrow, as there is likely to be de-
bate of day or two after it is re-
ported. and it might be prolonged for
several days, but is not likely to.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

CONGRESSMAN BALDWIN is said to
be considering which he shall take, a
congressional or the gubernatorial
nomination. The Major should re-
member the old story of falling be-
tween two stools. He is pretty sure
of being tripped up on either one OF
these stools this year.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

CO NG8EssMAN HOLMAN, of Indiana,
thinl that the chances for the Demo
Gratis controlling the next house OF
representatives are not bright. The
Republicans, he says, are sure OF max
ing great gains, and the chances are
there will be a great upturning in the
congressional districts
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

Gov. FLOWER, of New York, is
credited with the following: "When
| was a boy ten mills made a cent,
but for the past year hundreds of
mills haven't made a cent" And this
change is all due to the threats of
the party the governor belongs to.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

THE destruction of crops from hail
storms for the season has commenced,
the first report coming from near
Huron, S. d., where the crops on a
strip of territory five or six miles long
and half mile wide were totally
ruined Saturday evening.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

The administration is making
claims Of saving a large amount OF
money in the way of pensions. 1t is
saying nothing about the wrongs it
has committed in doing it though.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

THE experience the country is having
through Grover Cleveland may prove
as effective as constitutional amend
ment in preventing the election of a
president to a second term. To be
sure this is one of the worst of the
cOuntry's experiences, however.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

THE Minneapolis Journal says:
anarchy makes no distinctions.
Carnot was patriot, but that made
no difference" Anarchy has no use
for patriot. If it had there would
be no anarchy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

About sixty Masons and their
ladies went to Lake Crystal Monday
on the Omaha train to celebrate
ST. Johns Day with a basket picnic.
The weather is favorable, and they
are no doubt having a fine time.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

ANOTHER heir to tine English throne
was born Saturday, being the third or
fourth down the line. The Queen is
in very good health for person OF her
age, and she is not worrying about sue
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

sTHE PAST guarantees the future.
1t is not what we say, but what
Hoods Sarsaparilla does, that tells the
story. Remember HOODS CURES
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29
T" How Well You LOOk"
Friends Surprised at the
Wonderful Improvement.

nc. l. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass:
Dear Srs:-I take pleasure in writing the
good have received from taking Hoods Sarsa-
parilla. Every spring and summer for six years
or more, my health has been so poor from heart
trouble and general debility that at times life
was burden. I would become so
Emaciated and Weak and Pale
that my friends thought would not live long
could do scarcely any work at all and had to
lie down every few minutes. I began getting
worse In January, losing my flesh and feeling SO
tired. I thought would try Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla and am happy to say am in better health
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-06-29

Mr.. SchWeitzer was found guilty
and was fined So and costs.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-10-30
ENDING OF AN EPOCH.
This l. What the Death Of the Prince of
American English Essayists Marks.

This l. What the Death Of the Prince of
American English Essayists Marks.
With the death of Oliver Wendell
Holmes America comes to the end of its
first epoch in distinctive native pocsy.
With Emerson. Bryant, Lowell,
Longfellow, Whittier, in Particular
with Poe, Drake. Porcival, Hallcck and
Whitman also if one wishes to be truly
catholiC-the genial riponcd soul that
has now been garnered unto rest cousti.
tutes the galaxy Of singers whose names
for all time will crown the first century
of the letters OF this young republic.
IL is not, however, as u poet Of the
first magnitude that the three genera
tions of American readers who were his
contemporaries will chiefly honor OIL
YER Wendell Holmes. As ossayist and
philosopher rather than poet or novel.
list his memory will be the most wido.
~ and most tenderly cherished by his
survivors and transmitted To- the gencr-
ations that are to bc. llo had in de-
grco rarely given 60 man tho faculty of
making the reader Of his quaint philos.
ophy and kindly cheer his friend and
lifelong grateful beneficiary.
He was the prince Of American Eng
lish cssayiits. He had tho sense and in
sight Of William Ha2litt. tho grace and
sympathy Of Leigh Hunt, the strength
and quaintuess of William Cobhctt and
at will and upon occasion the polished
diction of Macaulay. IL is proof of the
virility Of Oliver Wendell Holmes
genius that no has left in the fold Of
English prose that no trod crop of
imitatols and disciples Would that his
school of writers might have inherited
the mantle of their prcceptor, might
have derived something of the profound
ness, the geniality and the choerincss of
Oliver Wendell Holmes. New York
Tclcprnn
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-10-30
USES FOR OLD STREET CARS.

A Boston IIan starts "a Movement Which
L. UnIhui;, Il ns 40 Possibilities.
Whilo the hugo traction corporation
which has FiiCironcd the city with tro,-
ley wires was wondering if it would not
bo the cheapest way to take the old cars
ont by the shipload iHid dump them in
some Lace where they would not inter
fero with navigation a citizen stepped
in and bid $50 for them. Ills first
move after Fctting the cars was to put
ono IN tho bach yard OF a friend and to
tell the Children tat they might use ii
for n play house. Tho children were in
ocstasies and sat up nights TO uso the
car. Other children came and pecred
through the pickets of the fence, and
went home and teased for street car.
The demand was created, and soon the
purveyor of broken down street cars did
q rushing business.
Mothers found they could put their
small children inside, and shutting the
doors leave them with feeling Of So
curity. 1t was the cheapest way, too,
in many cases to provide shade. The
cars could be secured for 50 apiece, and
the first outlay was the last. 80 cars
were dragged by horses into back yards,
and the trucks removed from under
them, and the brakes taken off. Now
that the new industry has been started
it is surprising how many uses are be-
ing found for these ancient conveyances.
At first they were thought Of only as
playhouses.
One purchaser turns his new acquisi'
tion into henhouse. Another, who Il
q contractor, pays his men every Satur'
day night from the door Of the old car.
One man fixed his up as a carpenter
shop for his boy, and one enterprisine
old woman in Cambridge made an offei
for ten cars. Her idea was to whee
them down to the seashore and convert
them into cottages and lighthouses, shift
ing their position with the tide. Her in
genious scheme, however, was thwarteo
by the refusal Of the owners of the beacl
TO sell her land for the purpose. Now
that the ball has been set rolling mex
summer may see the introduction o.
"house cars for the campers out, pic
nickers and excursionists. "-Bostoi
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