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The herald., 1897-01-11
Just Off Fifth Street

East line Ruth ave-, north of Fifth
St, frontage of 25 feet. A strictly
handy location. Look into this
The herald., 1897-01-11

All prices OF wallpaper greatly reduced
A. A. Eckstrom. S24 South Spring street.
The herald., 1897-01-11
Grand Chance for investment

A block of land facing on Central ave-.
adjoining electric railway power
house, having frontage OF four streets,
suitable for subdivision or for manuI
featuring purposes. This Is an ups-
usual offering, and an oppof~
tunity for investment that has net
for some time been equaled Look
this over and prepare your bid.
The herald., 1897-01-11
Fine Building Lot

On east line of Gladys avenue. south
from Fifth ST., frontage of 80 feet. In
finely improved district. Close to car
lines. Short walk from city center
The herald., 1897-01-11
THE RING.

There is talk of a match being az
ranged at the Athletic club between
Joe Cotton and Burns, the lucky winner
of the fight with Billy Gallagher last
week.
The herald., 1897-01-11

Special terms are offered on all of the
above, particulars of which can be obtained
from catalogue or upon inquiry at QUE
office. The list speaks for itself, and IL
an offering of such property interests ysu
be on hand at our office
The herald., 1897-01-11
At Auction
In Our SaIeSrOOn7
III S. Broadway
At l o. M. Sharp
Saturday, Jan. 23d

Call at our Office and obtain catalogue,
Including in its lists all of the folowing'
The herald., 1897-01-11
Cream home Location

West line Ruth ave-, south from
Sixth St., frontage 50 feet. Street
work all complete. in block of fine
modern homes. This is excellen1
property.
The herald., 1897-01-11
Residence Property

On east line of Golden ave-, betwe
Eighth and Ninth SITS. Two cho
building lots, each 5ox135, fine neie
borhood. Street work complete,
Guiding sewer, An excellent buv
The herald., 1897-01-11
Choice Building Lots

On west line McGarry street. SOU
from Sixteenth. in the Meade al
Dalton tract, frontage Of 200 fee
Must be sold for whatever is ofrere
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-07-10

would assist in unearthing the
frauds-they lost the confidence of
the entire State.
When the Roman Catholic
church in Portsmouth, Va. burned
down some days ago, the Baptist
and Methodist churches of the city
offered the homeless congregation
the free use of their chapels until
it coulu provide itself with another
edifice. and three Methodist and
one Episcopal clergyman called
personally on the priest to express
their sympathy with him and his
people. This is the kind of spirit
that ought to dominate in all chris
tan sections.-Rayne Tribune.
Yes, Brother Hearnc, that is
practical Christianity.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-07-10
FRUIT FARMING.

To The Progress.
Fruit farming is one of the many
new Developments of the South.
South Georgia and Florida are in
the lead, not so much from climate
conditions, as from the cheap land
upon which these new industries
were inaugurated by Northern
people. Fruit farming in a Sec
ton of poor pine land has a ten
dency to advance the value of
farm land. Land in the vicinity
of Fitzgerald, Ca; around PEN
sacola, Florida, and all through
South Georgia and Florida are
worth more today than a more fer
tile class of land is Bossier, Caddo
and other parishes, of Louisiana,
now in rail connection with the
West. Last week we visited a
number of fruit farms North of
Pensacola on the L. & N. road.
There were farms of 800 acres on
land that 10 years ago, with tim
Der cut off, was on the market at
S1.25 per acre. Now such land
sell for $500 per acre, the pine
timber having been utilized by
the saw mills. Below Ocala, Fla.
a stock company owns grape
vineyard that produced last year
over seventy-five tons of grapes.
A certain farm South of Macon,
Ca, produced some years ago,
enough cotton, baled, to load one
car per year, the same land now
in peach trees yields 40 car loads
of peaches per year. The cost
per acre of fruit farming is ten
fold more than the cost per acre
of growing cotton. If the South
can increase it's expense account
on the farm and make this farm
produce crops that will pay this
expense account, increase the
value of realty and pay from to
10 per cent on the capital invested,
then we will have a starting point
for increased bus mess and better
times. Northern capital with
capacity, can be induced to put a
plant near Shreveport if induce
ments are offered. K.
Milton, Fla. July 2, 1897,
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-07-10
Strayed Or StO1eu.

From the residence of Frank r,
Hicks, in Shreveport on Friday
night, May % 1897, one red sorrel
mare, about ID hands high, long
bodied shod on front feet. Holds
Rer head very high and is about
6 or 7 years old. A liberal reward
will be paid ror her return to +.
H. Hicks or Ed. Nix.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-07-10

lists and the silver Democrats
seems likely to suffer an abrupt
termination when the National
convention of the PoP1list party
meets in Memphis next month.
Tom Watson, who, with his mid
dle-of-the-road followers, seems
likely to control the convention,
in recent issue Of his paper de-
nounces the semi-fiat silver dollar
propositins and says:
''We genuine Pops contend tn at
tiatism which is good for 40 cents
is good for 100 cents. If the prin-
pie OF flatism is sound it is sound
all the way. 1t can not be lust
sound enough to make up the 40
cents difference between silver and
gold: if the government stamp
can make 40 cents out of nothing,
it can make 100 cents out of the
same material Lake Charles
Tribune.
What is your idea about it Bro.
Beatty!
Mr.. Cleveland is said to have re-
fused $50, 700 a year from a literary
syndicate for two magazine arti-
cles month. Whereupon the
Houston Post remarks: It would
puzzle the fool killer to know
which to attack first, Grover or the
enthusiastically Item.
There was no job for the fool
killer there; the statement that the
old narrow-minded egotist ever
received any such offer is doubt
less an unmanly SANDER on the
good standing and Judgment of
syndicate, circulated by some
mandy pamby, soft Drained milk
sop of a cuckoo whe has plenty
of brass, if no sense.
Texas is to tax cigarette deal ers
to the tune of ST 200 year, the
object of the new law being evil
IDENTIFY to tax them out of exist
ence.
Between Jan. /, and May Is,
1897, the number of persons ex-
PEELED from the German empire
was 235, including twenty-one wo-
men.-Florida Parishes.
The Carrollton News says "the
ring headed by John Fitzpatrick
was not as black as it was paint
ed after all. Comparisons are obi
Gus or we should draw the deadly
parallel with the "gang" admins
tration and the present one. It'll
strikes us Fitzpatrick would show
to splendid advantage-in fact we
know it,
You are right co nfrere, and thei
present four years of office will be
their death knell. They hood
winked the people of the Crescent
City once, but we will venture to
say that at the next election this
crowd of Performers" will be com
pletely wiped out.-Banner-De
Ocrat.
The Progress differs from Car
rollton News in the statement that
the Fitzpatrick gang would show
to advantage in comparison with
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-07-10
@Hh1 John Picket
Excelsior $roeery~~

In connection with my Commits
sion Business l have opened the
above Retail Grocery, and carry Il
full stock OF Fancy and Staple
Groceries, consisting OF the best
durham creamery butter best
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-11-12
WORK.
Tried to Fire a Shed of the Lam
pert Lumber Company.
L. Lampert offers a Reward OF $500 for
the Arrest and Conviction of the
Miscreaht.

An effort was made to burn one Of
the lumber sheds of the Lampert
Lumber company Friday evening, the
big shed on Second street, and for the
storage OF tar paper, window sashes,
etc., being chosen. Martin Wiltgen
was passing down Main street at about
seven o'clock, and happening to look
across the lumber yard saw the glass
transom over a door near the center
of the shed lighted upon from within
as though a fire had been started
there. He made an investigation and
found that his suspicious were true.
he FASTENED tO notify Chief Phillips,
and a still alarm was turned in. The
fire was extinguished with a chemical
before much damage had been done.
Some of the window sashes were
burned along the edge. but can be
planed down.
There can be no doubt about the fire
being of incendiary origin. A roll O
tarred paper had been carried from
the front room T. the third room
back, and leaned on end against a pile
of window sashes. Oil had been ap-
piled to it, the wrapper removed, and
the tarred paper set on fire. A dark
red flame shot forth and crept up the
pile of sashes, and made the light
which Mr.. Wiltgen happened to no.
tice through the transom. The fire
could MOI have been burning over five
minutes when it was discovered. The
roll of tarred paper was partially con-
sumed. Under it was found the broken
remains of a whiskey flask, which
must have been broken before the fire
or during it,as the inside of the pieces
is as much smoked as The outside. 1t
may be that the oil used in saturat-
ing the roll of paper was carried in
this bottle. Several burned matches
were also found. Chief Wagon was
notified and made an investigation
this morning. There is no clue to the
culprit.
Mr.. L. Lampert stated to the FREE
PRESS this morning that he had de-
cided to offer a reward of $500 for the
arrest and conviction of the person
who started the fire. He is at a loss
to know why anyone should attempt
to burn any of his property, and lays
it either to spite work or accident on
the part of some n who had gained
access to the building. 1t is difficult
to see how the fire could have been
accidental, in view of the bringing
and placing of the roll of tarred pa
per. The lock OF one of the doors had
been broken for some time, and it was
through this door that entrance was
gained.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-11-12
CORNELL===HAILSTON.
. Mapleton Young Man Secures a
Bride From Afar.

Luke A, Cornell, a prominent young
Mapletonite, came to this city Fri
day and procured a license to wed
Miss Ad1ie M. Hailston, of Wdlla
Walla, Wash. He spent the afternoon
at the Clifton House, but time hung
heavily with him until the 7:2O p. m.
train arrived from St. Paul. Then he
met his bride, who had just arrived
from Washington. The two repaired
to the Clifton House, where DR.. G.
E. Line, the pastor of the M. E.
church, made them
Mr.. aud Mrs. Cornell remained at
the Clifton House until today, when
they went to Mapleton, their future
home. They are two bright appear
ing young people, and start out in
married life with the best wishes of
numerous friends for their future
happiness and success.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-11-12

company there: 1--WE have five
operators at an expense of $40 each.
-Four Of these operators work during
the day, and up to 900 p. M, each
WORKING seven hours, and there always
being two aU the switch board during
the day. We find that the Bell
people pay their operators all the way
from SIS TO SIS as d rule, u in rare
cases go as high as $40, and work them
lOuger hours THAN We work our help.
We concluded that our operators
could give better service when better
paid aud were worked shorter hours.
Our expense for operators, manager
and line man and what extra help we
have at odd times, will run up to
about 1925 per month.
"We get SlS. S24 and $50 for resi-
dencrs S, Offices and bus ness houses.
We aid, after we got most of our
business houses supplied, make what
we called a combination rate. For
instance, a man had a phone in his
business house at $50, we would say
to him that if he would let us put one
in the house we would make him a
combination rate of $40 for the two.
However. we never used this until we
han most of the business houses sup
piled with phones, and we do not
think it would be wise for you to
make this TO your people: especially
at the rates you propose to charge.
in regard TO putting more man
one instrument on a line, we had
several cases of this kind, and found
them very unsatisfactory from the
fact that people would brea into a
talk, and some of the subscribers
would have something to say over the
line that he did not care to have
other PEOPLE that were connected on
the same line hear, and for this rea-
son it grew to be a very un satisfactory
arrangement. We have only q or
two such cases now in the enOire ex-
change, and have put up a separate
line for each instrument.
"ln regard to the cost, $40 per in
strument you will find to be ample
and at the same time put in a first
class exchange, which you should use,
rs We find the best material to be the
c0eapnst in the long run, and at a
very little additional expense in the
start"
An adjournment was taken until
tonight, at 700 o'clock, when a meet
ing of all subscribers will be held at
The Saulpaugh, and telephone men
listened to, and Mr.. Cray will speak
further.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-11-12
OPENING OF THE R
The Citizens Lecture Course Opens the
Season With a Crowded House.

Monday night the Mankato theatre
was crowded to it's limit with an in
terested, enthusiastic audience to
Clara Schuman's Ladies Orchestra.
The orchestra consists of fourteen
ladies, one gentleman harpiest and a
gentleman leader. The ladies COM
prising the band are all splendid must
clans, modest and u~nassuming in
their manners, and gave a program
that elected hearty and frequent ap-
plause.
The gentlemen who have charge of
the lecture course have prepared a SER
les of entertainments for the winter
thatwill prove of muchinterest to our
people, and the magnificent audience
of last night is a sure guarantee that
they are to be rewarded by unusually
large houses throughout the course.
The next entertainment will be
given on the evening of Nov. 23d, at
which time DR., Frank Bristol will de-
liver a lecture on BRAINS" The
management feel confident that this
is to be one of the very best and most
instructive lectures in the course, and
those of our people who have not al
ready done so, should secur seats
without delay.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-11-12

Mrs. G. L. Benedict. is lying very
low with Inflammation of the bowels.
She is attended by Drs. Har-
rington and Warner. She has been
sick since Sunday. Her many friends
hope for her early recovery.
GAINESVILLE Argus: Mr.. P. Fl. Kel-
ley, the good natured and popular
Eagle Lake travelling salesman, paid
GAINESVILLE his custom Try visit StJur
day last and while here took occasion
to tell the Argus reporter that Eagle
Lake is enjoying An unprecedented
business boom just now. A new
creamery is going in, the mill is put
ting in an electric light plant to be
utilized for village purposes and re-
Gently there have been established
two telephone lines. This, surely, is
sufficient to give any town a good
sized start.
The Belgrade authorities have
not yet paid to the city their share
of the expense of building the bridge
side walks. From a prominent North
Slider, we learn that the chairman of
the Belgrade town board is willing to
sign the order at any time. City
Recorder Brown notified the board
two months ago that the bridge had
been completed and accepted and
that the payments were due. The
county has paid it's share, and the de-
lay of Belgrade is unaccountable. We
understand that only one member of
the Belgrade town board opposed the
payment, and he intends to move in
TOY Mankato soon.
Good Thunder Herald: A party
of our sports, headed by Attorney
Halves went cunning for ducks at
Lura Lake on Monday and succeeded
in bagging n apiece. \ \ Fred
Hike has just finished threshing
his grain and reports from
a 10 acre field he threshed 81 bushels
per acre, machine measure, the same
when marketed, averaged up 333
bushels per acre and graded No. l.
| From a "a acre field he threshed TIC
| bushels, or an average of nearly 81
bushels per acre. This wheat is a
variety of blue stem which he had
imported and the yield is by far the
best we have yet heard of this season.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-11-12

Thrown From a Carriage This
Forenoon.
Unfortunate Ending of the Shopping Trip
of a Party of Ladies From BeaufOrd.

Friday morning Mrs. John Hoppa,of
Beauford township, accompanied by
her mother, Mrs. Minnie Schultz, and
her daughters, Misses Martha and
Anna Hoppa, started to drive to Man
kato on a shopping tour. They drove
one horse, hitched to a carriage, and
all went well until the party came to
Bunker hill. When about half way
down the hill, one of the hold back
straps broke, and the horse made a
sudden turn and tipped the carriage
over and then dashed on down the
hill and was finally caught in the city,
before much injury was done to either
carriage or horse. This was at ten
o'clock this forenoon.
When the accident occurred, the
youngest girl, Anna, jumped from the
carriage and was uninjured. The
other three were thrown out and were
badly injured. Mrs. Schultz, who is
" years old, had her right arm dislo-
Gated and was cut and bruised over
one eye, and received a painful injury
in her breast. She also suffered
severely from the shock, on account
of her age. Her injuries are the most
severe of the three, although it is not
thought that she received any serious
internal injuries.
Mrs. Hoppa was rendered uncon-
scious by her fall and remained SO for
an hour. Her right arm was broken
and she received a bad cut over her
left eye. Martha Hoppa, who is a
young lady of about twenty years, was
unconscious for an hour after the in
jury. She was badly bruised about
the forehead and chin.
Chas. Schultz, a neighbor of the
Hoppa's, was driving in just ahead of
them, and when their horse dashed
past them he stopped to see what was
the matter. He took the ladies to
DR.. Andrews.o office, where the injuries
of the unfortunate M were dressed.
Afterwards Mrs. Schultz and Mrs
Hoppa were taken to the hospital,
The former will have to remain there
for some time. but the latter expects
to be taken home tomorrow.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-11-12
TEACHERS In SESSION..
Opening of the Southern Minnesota AS
ISOLATION This Afternoon.

The semi-annual meeting of the
Southern Minnesota Teachers Assocl-
alton opened in this city Friday after
noon with a large attendance.
A telegram has been received from
President Northrup, who was to have
given the address tonight, saying that
he is i'll and cannot be present. The
meeting will be held, however, and
short addresses will be given by some
of the more prominent educators pres
ent.
The printed program was followed
that afternoon.
Among those who are attending the
meeting are Misses Cora ~JorgenSen
and Hannah Mertesdorf, of Garden
City; Geo. G Borchardt, Madison; f.
L. Soaring, GAINESVILLE; Elizabeth Cole
man, Fannie L. Wright, May Hersey,
Alice Divine, Owatonna; Mary Il.
Jones, May E Wise, Blue Earth City:
J. D. Bond, ST. Paul; Cora Hill. Miss
DeLeo, Elysian; Jessie E. Ulrich,
Faribault: w. P. Rempel and wife,
st. James; J. M. Mcconnell, Heron
Lake; A. A. Hood, Marion Murphy,
II. Morgan, G. D. Knapp, Franz f.
Exner, Madelia; Jessie M. Wilbur,
Worthington; Mary Jones, Margaret
Murrey, Mary Cove, Adrian; Grace
Hall, Window; f. G. Bell, Clara City
v. r WATSON, G. F. Wienberger,
Blue Earth City; Emma B Huney,
Harriet Walter, A. S. Kirgsford, Ed
mund Gale Jewett, Ellen Carlton,
Nora Anderson, Mrs. M. Kingsley and
Mrs. L. Alexander.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-11-12
DR.. BEACH INJURED.
Thrown From a Buggy Yesterday and
Seriously Hurt.

DR.. A. w. Beach was severely in
jured in a tip over accident in North
Mankato yesterday afternoon. He
was driving in that suberb, and in
some manner the horse got the ad-
vantage and threw him out of the
buggy. In the fall, he suffered a
sprained ankle and his knee was
hurt. The injury occurred to the
member that was weakened by an in
jury,a year or so ago.
DR.. Beach may be laid up for
several weeks, which will be a source
of regret to his friends.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-11-12

No 1l6 Joseph Rausch VS. Lime
TOWNSHIP.
Nr1l7 Won BlatZ Brewing Co VS.
VIM Giraffe.
Nnll Rapidan Milling Co VS. W
w Weller.
No l9 Hanson, Lampert Co VS.
John Wabschall ct al.
No l20 Mary Noe, applt, VS. Geo II
Clark, receiver of Longini & Thoms,
resnt
No 121 August T Graf vs. Jay M
Jewett.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-11-12
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

The following transfers of real es-
tate were fled with the register of
deeds today:
Edwin A. Tiffany TO Christian It.
Dahl, part OF lot 10, block 6, RandalFs
addition. Amhoy, for 800.
Deburt U Weld to Geo X. Scott,
one.third acre in Lake Crystal, for
ST., 900.
Ernest f. Kobe to NJ. McCuaig. ne
!, ne I, sec 81. Danville, for 81. 100.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-11-12

John Lulsdorf has received a let
ter from A. w. Briggs,>a former Man
kato man who has just returned from
the Klondike, saying that he would be
in Mankato Tuesday OF Wednesday.
1t also says that Phil Lamm will re-
main in Circle City this winter.
The times., 1897-07-04

stron gest evidence OF her title, which was
also indorsed by an equally prominent ram
lily record. The dispute waxed warm, and
there were visions Of shotguns and bowie
knives as the only settlement of the quarrel
which might he the foundation of feud.
Indeed, had not someone summoned John
Randolph to decide the matter the dispute
might have resulted seriously,
Certain Investigations Which l have
been making recently" said he, "have
made me familiar with both OF these
family names. ] have seen them fre-
uuently in the colonial records, and there
can he no doubt of the validity OF the
claims put forward by these young la
dies. Besides, ! am in q position to de-
eide the right of priority i'll this case, and
believe ! ain the only man present who
could do so. II is fortunate for all Of us
that / ain able TO say that the original
occupant of this position is entitled TO 1t
by narrow margin of nine days
Feeling that her rights had been re-
stored, the injured beauty pushed the
impostor aside imperiously; but her tri-
unph was short-lived, for John Randolph
added: ''Yes, find that this young lady's
grandfather was exported as a convict
from England Just nine days earlier than
than the others ather."-Louisville
Courier Journal.