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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
Miners Convention Finally Ac-
CeptS the Proposition of
the Operators.
Provision in the Agreement
Not to Return to Work
For Ten Days.
Settlement Is Brought About
Mainly by the Work of
Mr.. Sovereign.

COLUMBUS, O., Sept. l3.-The great
coal strike has at last been settled. In
national convention here representatives
of the miners agreed to accept the Co.
cent rate for the Pittsburg district, but
they voted that none of the men should
return to work until the expiration of
10 days. this being done in order to give
the strikers in other districts time to
arrange proporhonate scales. The res
olution favoring the acceptance of the
proposition had been defeated at the
morning session by vote of 4O7 yeas to
415 nays. After the noon recess Grand
Master J. r. Sovereign of the Knights
of Labor was admitted to the hall and
addressed the convention for nearly two
hours. He adjured the delegates to ac-
cept the settlement, if they valued the
aid of organized labor.
Reconsidered the Vote.
At the close of hi S speech a motion to
reconsider the vote by which the settle
ment resolution was rejected in the
morning was passed, and the resolution
was put to vote again after brief dis
cussion. The vote stood 495 votes for
the resolution to BIT against it, II votes
not being cast.
1t will now be necessary for the OPP
orators of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to
get together and pay the wage scale de-
manded if they wish their miners to go
to work at the end of 10 days. If they
do not they will be obliged to sit idle
and see the Pennsylvania mines supply
ing the empty market. The 10 days
limit was allowed for this purpose.
Ratchford Is Pleased.
President Ratcfford said that he was
well pleased with the resu 1t of the con-
vention.
sit is as complete national settle
ment of the miners wage question as
we have ever had," he said. 1--WE will
have to fight De Armitt in P ennsylvania
of course, will have the northern OPP
orators to whip into line, and we will
have some fighting to do in West Vir-
ginia. The Indiana operators, however,
have already offered to pay the scale.
1t has been severa! years since there
was well defined wage scale for West
Virginia. Since then the mining con-
ditions there have changed so much
that we will probably have to call a
conference of miners and operators to
fix a new scale.''
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
Go to W. B. Walker & Son for fall
10 rohnc

Go to w. B. Walker & Son for fall
lap-robes,
j. G.. Roller will sell bicycles and
buggies at cost to make room.
"A car load of Norwegian plows on
sale at Chris Danielson's. They are
the best plows made.
-First-class complete secondhand
threshing outfit for sale. J. G
ROLLER.
W. B. Walker & Son have just re-
ceived the largest and best line of lap
robes ever shown in the city. Call
and see them.
The JOoTnaL-FREE PRESS COM
bination is pleasing proposition and
one that will at once be taken ad-
vantage of by large proportion of
our people
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
Sept 3 10 II

ORDER TO EXAMINE AMOUNTS.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
y Earth-ss. In Probate Court, Special Term,
1897.
In the matter of the estate OF Mary A.
Cheever, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Z.
G. Harrington, executor of tn last will and
testament and OF the estate of Mary A.
Cheever, deceased, representing, among other
things, that he has fully administered
said estate, and praying that time and
place be fixed for examining and allowing the
final account of his administration, and for the
assignment of the residue of said estate to the
parties entitled thereto by law.
1t is ordered that said account be examined
and petition heard. by this court, on Tuesday,
the 2Sth day OF September, A. D. 1897, at 10
O'Clock q. M, at the Probate office in the City
of Mankato, in said county.
And it is further ordered, That notice there
of be given to all persons interested by publish
ing col of thsorder once in each week for three
successive weeks prior to said day of hearing in
the Mankato Free Press a weekly newspaper
printed and published at the city Of Mankato in
said county.
Dated at the City of Mankato the 31st day
OF August, A. D. 1897.
By the Court,
probate Seal GEO. w. MEAD,
Judge OF Probate
Lorin Cray,
Attorney for Executor,
Mankato. Mimi.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
ARGENTINE TO RETAlIATE.
Our Tariff Does Not Suit the South Amer
lean Republic.

Our Tariff Does Not Suit the South Amer
lean Republic.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-Argentine
at last has taken steps to retaliate upon
the United States for supposed dis
elimination in the new tariff. A tele-
gram was received at the state depart
ment from United States Minister
Buchanan, reading as follows:
Argentine tariff for next year has
been sent to the Argentine congress-.
Argentine president recommends, in
view of the United States tariff, the
following increased duty: Sixty-six per
cent on yellow pine; 1875 per cent on
farm wagons; 100 per cent on plows;
harrows, kerosene and agricultural
machinery not specifically mentioned.
Also recommends maximum and mini
mum clause according to which the
president can apply at will 30 per cent
duty in additional duty. Am writing
fully in regard to the situation"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
Sept 10 II 21
ORDER TO EXAMINE ACCOUNTS.

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
- Earth-ss. In Probate Court, Special
Term, September 7, 1897.
In the matter OF the estate of Hans Peter
Olsen, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition OF
Anna Huntz widow of said Hans Peter Olsen,
deceased, representing, among other things
that said estate has been fully administered,
and praying that time and place be fixed for
hearing said petition and for the assignment
OF the residue of said estate to the parties en-
titled thereto by law.
1t is, ordered, That said petition be
I'd day of October, A. D, 1897, at 10
O'Clock a. NJ. at the Probate Office in the City
OF Mankato in said county.
And it is further ordered, That notice
thereof be given to all persons interested by
publishing copy of this order once in each week
for, three successive weeks, prior to said day
of hearing, in the Mankato Free Press, a weekly
newspaper printed and published at the
City of Mankato in said county
Dated at the city Mankato, the 7th day OF
September, A. d. 1897.
By the Court,
TPRoBATE SEAL GEO. W. MEAD,
Judge of Probate.
Thos Hughes,
Attorney for Petitioner.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17

There is more Catarrh in this section
-ofthe country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed incurable. For
great many years doctors pronounced
it a local disease, and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly fail
ing to cure with local treatment, pro-
nounced it lncurable. Science has
proven catarrh to be constitutional
disease, and, therefore, requires con-
stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by +. J. Cheney
& Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con-
stitutional cure on the market. 1t is
taken internally in doses from 10
drops to teaspoonful. 1t acts
directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and
testimonials Address,
+. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.,
"a Sold by druggists, 75c.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
Teachers Examinations,

for Blue Earth county will be held as
follows, beginning promptly at eight
o'clock each day:
Mankato, III. S. Friday and Satur-
day, Sept. "a and %. Paper will be
furnished.
The usual program will be followed.
No certificates extended, endorsed or
renewed, and no private examinations
granted to anyone. All permanent
certificates issued to persons, who
during the present school year did not
attend a summer school are hereby
revoked.
GEO. W. SCHERER,
Co. Supt. of Schools.
Mankato, July %, 1897.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
AT NEARLY HALF PRICE
A HERD OF JERSEYS.

For the next few weeks / offer d
rare chance to persons wishing to
start dairy farm or raise their rat
ing at the creamery. l will sell at an
extremely low price, thirteen Jerseys,
all in perfect condition, including
fresh mich cows; also heifers, sired
by the celebrated thoroughbred reg
istered bull "St. Valentine" IA. J. G..
c. whose dam was recently imported
from the Isle of jersey. Cows at their
best are guaranteed to make an aver
age Of fourteen pounds of butter
weekly. For family use there are
none better in the northwest, being
constant mixers. Easy terms. Reas-
on for settings, lack of stable room.
Address, H. A. SEIGNEURET,
Henderson, MINI.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
WARSHIPS ASHORE,
Furious Hurricane in the Harbor of Yoke
hama.

Furious Hurricane in the Harbor of Xoko-
hama.
YOKOHAMA, Sept. ia fierce hurri-
cane swept over the city and harbor on
Thursday night, causing severe floods,
doing much damage to property and fol-
lowed by considerable loss of life.
When the typhoon was at it's height,
the German warship Irene, the British
ship Glenricht, Captain Davies. which
reached Yokohama on July 81 from
Port Gamble, and the British ship Ions
dale, Captain Fraser, which reached
Yokohama on Aug. %, from Antwerp,
were driven ashore. All three have
since been hoateds
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
Ordered Out a Troop of Cavalry.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Sept. Ex-Governor
Hastings at noon ordered the First city
troop of Philadelphia to take the field,
and an hour later received word that
the troopers were moving toward Ha-
zleton. General Snowden advised this
move, as he believed the cavalry can
be used effectually to quell rioters if
another riot shall break out.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
HEDGE AND WIRE FENCE.
Recommended by a Committee Who
Have Investigated This Fence.

MANKATO, Mimi, Aug. Is, 1897
The undersigned committee invited
by JAS. T. Morris, treasurer and man
ager of the Minnesota Hedge and
Wire Fence Co.. of Minneapolis, Mimi.
to visit Slayton and investigate one
of their fences completed this spring,
found it compact and beautiful and
fully up to representation.
We believe it will add materially to
the value of land enclosed by it. These
fences of honey locust we were in
formed by Q. E. Dinehart, cashier
State bank of Slayton, were planted
six years ago, received no attention
whatever, were not cultivated, and
with the exception of a few places
where they failed to secure stand
the fences will turn the smallest to
the largest stock.
We heartily recommend and believe
it to be the coming fence.
J. G. WISE, ST.,
Editor Revieoo, Mankato.
L. P. HUNT,
Editor FREE PRESS, MankatO.
PETER LLOYD,
EXEC. Treasurer, MankatO.
CARLOS BOYNTON,
MankatO.
M. 0. SUNDT,
Mankato.
II. CLAY BURGESS,
Mankato.
D. T. RAsDALL,
St. Clair.
B. 0. KILLMER,
Amboy.
DR.. IRA BISHOP,
Mapleton.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
Proposals For Wood.

Sealed bids will be received by the
undersigned up to Monday, Sept. Goth,
1897, for 300 cords dry maple wood; 300
cords soft wood (elm and basewood J
all of first quality and delivered on
the Normal school grounds, Mankato,
Mimi, as needed. Bids may be made
for any part of said wood. The right
is reserved to reject any or all bids.
Address, GEO. Fl. CLARK,
Resident Director State Normal
School, 500, So. Broad St., or call at
Glass Block, Mankato, MINI.
Mankato, Mimi, Aug. Is, 1897.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
PITS READY FOR WORK.
Operators Believe the Ten Day Proviso
Will Be Ignored.

Operators Believe the Ten Day Proviso
Will Be Ignored.
PITTsBURG, Sept. 13.-The Pittsburg
district coal operators believe that this
week will find many mines in this re-
gion in full operation, and to further
this belief the majority of the mine
owners have announced that their pits
will be opened in the morning in readi-
ness for all of their men who may wish
to ignore the Today proviso Of the Col
umbus settlement. 1t is believed that
many of the strikers will take advan-
tage of the opportunity. Secretary
Warner of the Miners association, how
ever, says the Columbus agreement will
be strictly adhered to. A district con-
vention Of the miners has been called, at
which matters of Importance will be
discussed,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
Jailed Rioting Poles

DUBOIS, Pa, Sept. 13.-Sheriff Smith
took eight of the rioting Poles to the
county Jail at Clearield and has three
others under arrest. The foreigners
were greatly excited when they learned
that their leaders were to be taken to
Jail, and threats of attempting to rescue
them We're made.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
THAT CUBAN VICTORY.
Official Dispatch Says the spaniards
Fought Heroica1ly.

Official Dispatch Says the spaniards
Fought Heroically.
MADRID, Sept. lathe official dis
patch from Havana giving details of
the loss of Victoria de las Tunas says:
The garrison of Victoria de las Tunas
consisted of $50 men, of whom 1876 were
sick and in the hospital. The place
capitulated after an heroic defense.
The commandant, with 8 officers and
70 men, marched out, taking with them
the sick and wounded. The insurgents
fired cannon at the hospital although
the flag of the Red Cross society was
hoisted over it at the time. Many of the
wounded persisted in the debris. The
insurgents lost 100 killed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
TO CHECkMATE RAILROADS,

South Dakota Extra Session Proposed to
Order Rate Reductions.
SIOUX FALLS, Sept. Ex-Governor
Lee is considering the advisability of
calling an extra session of the legisla-
ture to enact the proposed railway rate
reductions as law. In this way it is
believed the injunction granted by the
United States courts to the roads against
the state railroad commission will be
nullified. The administration news
papers are urging this course
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
DON CARLOS.

spoken section of the Spanish press.
Ell impartial. in an article dealing
with conflicting rumors now in circula-
ton, declares that it has reliable au-
thority for the statement that the Car
lists are secretly establishing an elabor-
ate military organization.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
Henderson, MINI

Goods are going up, and prices are
going down, and in order to make
room for our fall and winter stock, we
are sacrificing on all our light and
medium weight clothing. Model
Clothing and Shoe House.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
Poles Becoming Reconciled.

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 13.-It is the
general opinion, reflected in the press of
St. Petersburg and Warsaw, that the
visit of the Emperor Nicholas to the
city has sensibly diminished i'll feeling
and paved the way for a reconciliation
with the old Poles.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17

DR.. Amos is now in Mankato at
the American House and will be for
some time. All that wish to be treat
ed by hun come at once. Cheaper
than ever.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
CARLISTS ACTIVE
WATCHING EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO
EMBARRASS SPAIN.
Stated on Reliable Authority That They
Are Secretly Establishing an Elab-
crate Military Organ
iZatiOn.

MADRID, Sept. 13.-The persistence Of
the belief that the Carlists are watching
for an opportunity to take advantage Of
the present embarrassment of the gov
eminent over Cuba as soon as this can
be done without display of unpatriotic
motives is continually finding express
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-09-17
Revolution IN Guatemala.

BERLIN, Sept 13.-Dispatches from
Guatemala say that the long shoulder
ing flames of revolution have at last
broken out against President Barrios.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-06
Getting Married Quickly.

On last Monday week an Atlanta
gentleman announced t % friend that
he would leave mex day for a north
ern city to be married. He engaged
apartments for himself and bride.
The friend was dumbfounded.
why" l didn't know you were
even engaged, -" the friend said, being
unable to think of any adequate ex-
preston.
I'm not, - was the stunning reply.
YOU'RE not. Then how in the
name
Here the bridegroom-elect inter-
rupted and told him his love-story.
OF course, he knew whom he intended
to wed. He had seer her exactly four
times, had never proposed, but, new
ertheiess, was going to marry her i'm
mediately. He was opposed to long
engagements.
"Perhaps she WON'T" ventured the
friend.
but she WILL" assured the deter
mined lover.
To prove his confidence in the sue
cess of this very unusual matrimonial
venture he calmly offered 10 send the
friend a telegram as soOn as he put
the momentous question. Inthe mean
time he made arrangements for the re-
ception of his bride-to-be. Tbreedays
after his departure came the promised
telegram from the man with a pur-
pose. 1t was on schedule time and it
read:
proposed, aecepted-married-"-
Atlanta Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-06

l went to a circus, Tom, 1 sat be-
meath the tent, and saw the man from
Borneo likewise a tatooed gent: |
heard the toothless lion growl, while
men in spangled clothes stepped fear
lesslp into their dens and whacked
them on the nose. l saw the sacred
elephant spout water throughhis trunk,
and the salamander swallow lead and
other metal junk. l heard the merry
C wi get off some jokes we used to
know when we yer boys together,
Tom, some forty years ago. The same
old horses waddled round the same old
kind of rings; the same old comic
vocalist proved that he couldn't sing;
the same old hippopotamus wasgrunt-
ing in disgust, the same old hump
backed Persian OK was kicking up the
dust; and ladies on horseback steeds
to music sad and low--the same old
girls We used to see some forty years
ago.-Ex.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-06
His Father Was an Irtshman.

Cape Girardeau, the ''hub"o of South
east Missouri, has a ''nigger" police
mar and, last week, with a great show
of authority and a lavish use of his
club, he arrested a ~peaceable white
mar and dragged him, bruised and
bleeding, through the streets to the
calaboose. Up in ''classic Cape they
poke all kinds of fun at Dunklin
county, but there is not a hook or
Granny of this fertile kingdom where
such action would be tolerated. Down
here, where a white man dares to call
his breath his own, that lousy, lazy,
crap-shoottng: coal-faced canine off
spring would last about as long as a
gentle snowflake in the kitchen of his
Santanic majesty, and thanks be to
glory for the fact.-Malden News.
Dave Piercefield, the colored police
man who is referred to in the above,
requests us to state that his father was
an Irishman and he says had his
father done him justice he would not
have been a niger.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-06
A COLD WINTER.

"We are going to have a terrible
winter. The weather will not only be
severely cold, but the cold will be per-
sistent and continued. We will nave
twenty-three SHOWS in Kentucky. The
first will fall on October 18th. There
will be three ice spells. The coolest
weather will be between the dates of
January 5 and Is. The first ice spell
will be in December, in which the ice
will be from three to five inches thick.
In January the ice will be from five to
seven inches thick. On the coolest
day thermometer will register % de-
grees below zero. This will be the
14th day of January. Look out for a
tartar this time" So says a Ken
lucky weather prophet.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-06

suppose a newspaper man every
time he hears of a man who severely
criticises him or his paper in public
should retaliate by holding up to pub
tic gaze the faults and shortcomings
OF said Pathfinder. what would be the
Result? Why, the citizen would think
himself outraged and would thirst for
the editors gore. That patient beast
of burden, the country journalist,
never does this unless under great pro-
vocation. 1t isn't because he's afraid
to; it's because he isn't mean enough.
He hears his paper called a worthless
sheet hssause its editor in doing his
duty has stepped on somebody's toes.
Such skin-iints should receive no
mercy at tie hands of the press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-06
\ Wonderful Blind Boy.

While visiting an old friend Oh the
Tennessee River. near where Shan
mons Greek empties in the larger
strean- not long since" said a coun-
try minister, Il saw a negro lad of u
VINO is as great a wonder to Inc as
Helen kellar, the wOrld-famous blind
girl and deaf-mute. He lives in a typ
ical Kentucky backwoods community,
and has had no advantages. My
friend asked NE if | would like to see
the youth, and | assured him | would.
We went 70 the child's home, if the
little hut might be termed home, and
betora L left it l had opened my eyes
vide In establishment. The boy was
born deaf and blind, and with one
arm. He was for years, while a mere
tot, called the freak by the negroes
who uaieeiingiy poked fun at the un-
fortunate. The child was given a
raised letter Bible by an old nomadic
missionary, who happened to see the
pickaninny while preaching to
the negroes, andtrom it the boy learned
every chapter il. the Bible. He can
quote any VERSE In the Scriptures and
20 It quickly. He spends evssy hour
o: his time i'll Studying Gods word.
sa.id say, he is grjn. to teach The blind
children vi his rssee. The lads name
is Harry William BALKAN Freeman
and he is d. goodloOking mulattO. l
am going TO get some friends OF mine
to join me, in d c~Sllection to hf sent to
the boy to. further his studias- His
works in the field and his IA
Their is a steamboat rOusaabOut.
Louisville Posi-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-06

y newspaper man in Ohio recently
brought suit against 43 men who
would not pay their subscription and
obtained a judgment in each case for
the amount of each claim. OF these,
% made affidavit that they owned no
more than the law allowed, thus pre-
venting attachment. Then under a
decision of the Supreme Court, they
were arrested for petit larcency and
bound over in the sum of So, 900 each.
All but six gave bond. and the six
went to jail. The new postal law
makes it larceny to take a paper and
refuse to pay for Tx.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-06

W. S. Wilkinson has sold the Jack
son Comet to Walker & Mitchell and
the name Of the paper is to be changed
TO jackson Herald. Under the new
management the paper will be Repub-
lican in politics. The Republicans OF
Jackson have long hankered for an
organ in their town and now they are
going to have that organ.