The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-05-24
Here at Home.

MS career mas come TO llSllU III Guls
city. 7 J.GE. Hall, with whom he was
associated in this city, was looking
through the desk used by him in theil
office yesterday when he came across
a number Of newspaper clippings rela-
tive to.himself tWilson which he had
clipped from the daily papers. They
bear conclusive evidence of evil doings
in various parts of the country. We
CLEAN the following from them as pub
lished in the .HOrning Neacs today.
One of these clippings, containing a
telegram afrom Anamosa, under date
Of Nov. 18th last, says:
|, Anamosa has another sensation.
About'nine mOnthsago young fellow
by the name of Curtis got off the Mid
land passenger at Center Junction and
during his conversation at the hotel
said he was looking for. a place, to
start a newspaper. The people at
Center Junction at once set about and
raised Some.mOney for the fellow asa
persuader tostartin their town, which
he did, calling it the Center Junction
Call. He proved to be sensational
fellow, attended prayer meeting and
making loud talks, at the same time
being one of the ''boys. He soon be-
gan flying high with the girls, and
among his lady acquaintances was
Miss Arnold, only daughter of Deputy
Sheriff Hiram Arnold. He continued
his paper until about three months
ago, when he moved it ito Anamosa
and started the DAILY Cdt. Soon after
coming here he married Miss Arnold.
He began fight on the Republican
candidate for county clerk, and made
reckless assaults on him, which cost
him a great deal of business. Mr.. Ar
mold went his security for printing
material and other things, and he
bought new piano. Last Friday his
parents and Mr.. Curtis said he would
come Saturday night and spend Sun
day with her. But as he did not come
his wife returned home Monday, and
on inquiry it was learned that he had
skipped out. leaving her bride OF
only two months. He hired livery
team and drove to Cedar Rapids, and
from there no one knows where he
went. The young wife is heartbroken
1t is learned he is heavily involved
and the day he left town he borrowed
$3.50 from eight different business
men. OF course. Mr.. Arnold has to
pay his notes. gv
Another one conveyed the informa-
tion that he was private secretary to
the United States minister to Austria
in 1880, and that while absent he
travelled, extensively through the
Holy Land, and on returning to this
country worked upon the sympathies
of church people as a dumb mission
airy with more or less success. u At
Angola, Ind, he turned up as a re-
porter for the Herald, and married a
young lady.there under the name of
Curtis. He also held a similar posi-
tion on the Democrat at Huntington,
Ind, but suddenly left there, leaving
his wife and baby and many debts.
" At Lacon, Ill, he turned up in 1891
as b. f. Scott, where he worked as a
reporter on the Democrat He identi-
fed himself with the M. E. church,
became Sunday school superintendent,
and married Miss Mae Smith, a most
estimable lady and highly connected.
He published a temperance paper for
short time called the OuL. After
getting his wife to sign her property
over to him, he moved to Peoria, and
shortly afterward suddenly departed,
as detailed in the Tribune dispatch
above.
Another telegram from Anamosa
refers to the letter he sent his wife
there, from St. Louis stating that he
would drown himself, the substance
of which was published in the FREE
PRESS few evenings ago. 1t also
states that debts in the neighborhood
of $1,000 have come to light against
him. In conclusion, the Ne,os says:
AS to his plans of operation in Man
kato, we are informed that he had
commenced paying marked attention
to a highly connected young lady