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The herald., 1897-12-12

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do as. .103
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do 4s. ....... 94ia
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do deb IS. .116k
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Wab 1st 5s. ..107%
do 2ds. :. 81
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do did,. 8
The herald., 1897-12-12
THE INVESTOR
CONDUCTED BY GEO. A. DOBINS0N
Part section le l. S 10, 2 years, s

Part section 1g J. 10, 2 years,
per cent ...... ......... ............... 1,coo
Alphonse Paradis ct al. to Geo. It.
Conana-Lot 204 G & ID Adams street
tract: payable III installments, IL
(. per cent ......,. ........... .........,. l,45O
L. Il. Bradshaw to Hannah A. Bald
win-Part lot block 16 8, 3 years,
sls per cent ........... ........ 5000
Twenty-one mortgages under $1,000. :. S,97S
Total ......,. ....,,... .............. .s2S, ,523
The herald., 1897-12-12

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Ala class A. .103
Ala class B. .10S
Ala class c. 100
Ala Currency 100
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do adj 4s. :. 577s
Can So dds ....161s
Can Pac lists.
Chi Terminal. . 45h
c & Ohio 5s. .112k
c II & d 41ss. .10iM
ID & r G lists. .10S,1
ID & r G As. 90M
East Tenn lists. .110
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do 2ds. 400
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The herald., 1897-12-12
Bond List

NEW YORK. Dec. 1.-THE following
were the closing quotations on bonds
fCf
The herald., 1897-12-12

Wall paper, late styles, low prices. at
A. A. Eckstrom's. IA South Spring street.
The herald., 1897-12-12

NSAC Jaw hASSAAA6
Atchison' ....... 1878
do pfd.... 297s
Baltimore & O.1SA
Canada Pacific SOaA
Canada South. ssh
Central Pacific 1914
Ches & Ohio. 22M
Chicago & A. .162
c B & Q....... 98
Chi & e III. 521a
C C c & st L.. 35%
do pfd. %. so
Del & Hudson. 1881
D l. & w. ISL "a
D & r G....... IL
do pfd.... 45
Erie (new) -. 141a
do LIST pfd S6E
Fort Wayne ITO
ct Nor pfd,.,..ls0
Hooking Val.... 5H
Illinois Cen .1G
L e & W. II
do pfd. -. 70h
Lake Shore -. .173
Louis & Nash. ON
Manhattan l.. .107M
Met st Ry......10
Mich, Central. ..10i
MINI & st La. 26N
do pfd.... 88
Mo Tactic 80. IS
The herald., 1897-12-12
Mining Stock Quotations

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1.-THE closing
quotations for today on the stock exchange
The herald., 1897-12-12
Closing Stocks

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE following
were the closing stock quotations today:
Atchison ...... 1874 do Dfd.
The herald., 1897-12-12
OFFICE OF THE HERALD,
Los Angeles, December II, 1Ss

Tho Kentucky court of appeals held. In
the case of the Sun Life Insurance compa-
ny VS.. Bevans that where an insurance
Company sets up counter-clni under its
contract with the agents, that after the
agents are discharged. resign or are trans
fcrred the company shall retain certain
amount out of the salary for each policy
lapsed thereafter for five weeks before
such company is entitled to judgment
permitting 1t to claim and take out such
sums; they must prove the number of poll
cies lapsod, tho amounts, etc.. and that
where they fail to do so It Is proper to dis
miss their counter-ccaim.
The herald., 1897-12-12

Jotai w, ,VlZ,b0 S33, BIZ, MA
There Is apparently no increase from bond
interest, but a material gain from divi-
dends on stocks, showing not only that
old and reliable corporations are doing
better than formerly by their sharehold-
ers, but that new dividend money Is being
disbursed either by new interpretations
or else by resumption of dividends on
the part of old ones.
The herald., 1897-12-12

According to the New York Daily Stock
holder. interest on bonds and dividends on
stocks in December compare as follows:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28
IMPORTANT CHANGES.
Mankato Will be an Eating Station on
the Omaha.

The summer time card on the
Omaha road will make some import.
ant changes in the running time.
The 1:23 p. m. train from st. Paul.
bringing the noon papers, will arrive
about forty minutis earlier. Kasota
is the present eating place for this
train, but under the new time card
Mankato will be the place. The Saul
paugh will be in position to handle
this business.
Another Omaha passenger train will
be placed on the Elmore branch, to
meet the demand for better facilities.
Several other minor changes will
doubtless be made. The new card
will probably go into effect Sunday.
The summer time card on the Min
neapolis & St. Louis road went into
effect yesterday. No change is made
in the running time of any of the
trains except that the 6:25 a. M.
freight leaves at sos a. m.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28
NORTH MANKATO w. c. T. U

Mrs. L. G.. Johnson, who was an
nounced last week, for Wednesday
and Thursday of this week, came on
Saturday unexpected through mis-
take of the state superintendent of
lecture bureau. She spoke in the M.
e. Chapel in North Mankato Satur-
day evening, her subject being, "Why
l am member of the w. G. T. U.
and bitter opponent of the liquor
traffic"
The answer in short was that the
w. g. T. q. is for God and home and
native land and the liquor traffic is an
enemy to God, home state and nation.
Last night she spoke and sang in the
Free Baptist church in West Manka-
to. Her subject was THE Boys and
the Girls" and she assured the peo-
pie that from travelling over our
land and through our cities from one
end to the other she finds that there
is not boy or girl safe. Not one.
Because of the trinity of hell, the
saloon, the gambling bells and the
brothel, which have traps set every
where to entrap them.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28
BARN BURNERS ABROAD.
They Visit the Country to Ply Their
r1iSchief.
Two Barns Near Eagle Lake go up
i'm Smoke.

The barn burner, finding it too warm
in Mankato, has evidently taken to
the country. on Saturday night,
about eleven o'clock, 1. N. Ewing,
father of County Treasurer Ewing and
A. B. Ewing,ulost his barn, together
with it's contents, including grain and
hay. Mr.. Ewing's farm is a mile and
a half north of Eagle Lake. His loss
is about $500, and it is thought that
the barn was insured for 5000.
Sunday night, at about midnight,
Chas. Nimmerfros barn burned. He
lives half mile south of.Eagle Lake,
and lost his .hay,;'grain and. twelve
hogs. His loss is 5000 to $500, and he
he carried!insurance in .the .McPher-
son Fire Insurance Co., but how much
is not known.
1t is not known how either of these
fires started, but coming so close to-
gether, and being situated only two
miles apart there is a belief that
they were of incendiary origin.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28
KINDERGARTEN CLOSES.
Children Entertain Their Seniors
With Games and Songs.

The Kindergarten closed Monday
for the summer holiday with ex-
ercises peculiarly suitable to it's work
and mission.
The children sung their songs and
played their little games with the
earnestness and joyousness which is
part of their every day delight in
their Kindergarten.
A number of the parents and
friends of the children were present.,
and their interest helped to mace the
occasion a happy one.
There were almost no features that
were not in the every day program
for the kindergarten. The little
May Qneen game. has been a regular
feature of the work or play this spring
Perhaps the only unusual item on
the program was the distribution of
the books which contain the
work of the children in paper folding !,
cutting, weaving, sewing, FASTING,
etc., in which they were greatly de-
lighted, and the pansies, the seeds of
which they had planted themselves.
Each pansy plant with little dirt
was placed in pretty paper basket.
The graduate from the kindergar-
ten course is Miss Minnie Blake.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28
WHOLESALE GROCERY GONE.
l Patterson Mercantile Co.'S. Large Three Story
Building and Stock Wiped Out.
A Destructive MORNING BLAZE.
Fire InflictS a Loss Of $4,000, Against Which
There is $4,000 Insurance.
THIRD SERIOUS FIRE THIS SPRING.
Efforts of the Firemen are Successful in Saving
Efforts of the Firemen are Successful in Saving
Adjoining Property.
WILL PROBABLY REBUILD.
The Business Will Be Continued
in Another Building,
Until the Burned Block Can be
Rebuilt.

Mankato is unfortunate this spring
in the matter of fires. For years it has
been the boast of our citizens that the
fire losses were practically nothing,
seldom exceeding from $4,000 toS1O, 900
a year. The city now seems to be pay
ing dearly for it's previous exemption,
and the year 1897 will 60 down in
local history as a most disastrous one.
Within space of six or eight weeks,
the ire fend has thrice reveled in the
destruction of large and important
buildings situated in the business
center of the city and threatened
adjacent property.
Our citizens were awakened at about
half past five o'clock Saturday by
the blowing of whistles and
the ringing of the fire bell. There
was very little air stirring and the
clouds hung low and damp in the sky,
and it was easy to discern where the
fire was, as black pail of smoke hung
over the wholesale grocery store Of
the L. Patterson Mercantile Go. The
fire department. was soon at work, and
a crowd of citizens gathered to watch
the work of destruction, or to
attempt TO save property from adjoin-
ing buildings, Should their services
become necessary for that purpose.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28
CLEAR THE ALLEYS.

There is considerable complaint
about the alleys being INSTRUCTED
with old boxes and refuse of one kind
or another, in clear violation of the
ordinances. In case of fire it not
only makes it extremely dangerous,
but is liable to hinder the work of the
tiremen. Every property owner should
see to it at once that the alley
adjacent to his property is thoroughly
cleaned, and every obstruction out of
the way. The city authorities have
on several occasions requested that
the nuisance be abated, and are likely
to take ashand in the matter il some
thing is not done, where the trouble
exists.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28

itself out and been drowned out by
the streams Of water played upon the
debris, the firemen pushed the south
wall in, so that it would not fall into
the Owen building should north
wind spring up. The front wall was
anchored by ropes.
Some falling bricks from the north
wall crushed in J. A. Wizards little
story frame building occupied by J.
Williams as feed store. The stock
which it contained was damaged by
the falling debris and water.
1t was fortunate that the weather
was favorable, for with some of the
west winds that we have had, the adj
jacent buildings on both sides of the
street would have been seriously en-
dangered. AS 1T was, while some OF
the property owners were nervous fol-
time, there was little real danger.
No hose burst, and the fire appara,
tus worked satisfactorily. Chief
Phillips has no further recommends
tiOnS to make to the council at the
present time.
The fire was an angry one for a'time
and was particularly hot in the rear
The iron sheeted ware house on the
alley and forty-fUur feet south of the
store was not endangered. 1t con-
tains stock to the value of $4,000 to
81 900, such as stone ware, etc. Two
carloads of sugar and one of salmon
are on the track not yet unloaded.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28

Geo. Pond, of the old base ball as.
ISOLATION, has made a proposition to
Gaylord Lamb, of the new associa.
tion, that the nine directors of the
former association play nine inning
game of ball with the nine directors
OF the latter association, the proceeds
to be used in paying the debts now
owed. He believes that if such a
game were we'll advertised it would
draw big crowd and help to extri-
cate the two associations from their
financial difficulties.
-Jno. G. Noe distributed twenty
packages of sugar beet seed Thursday
to farmers who called for it. He
still has thirty pounds to be given out
as fast as called for. A one pound
package seeds one-seventh of an acre,
and many of our farmers ought to try
it. Mr.. Noe has received another
small supply of beet seed from Con-
gresham McCleary, which will be
given out after the supply of German
seed is exhausted.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28
ORIGIN OF FIRE A MYSTERY.
Third Floor Was Ablaze When
the Firenen Arrived.
J. Williams Feed Store Crushed
in by Failing Walls.

man. The officer wen& to turn on the
alarm, but in the meantime the fire
had attracted the attention of the
night Waterman of the Milwaukee
road, who blew an engine whistle and
informed one of the bus drivers at
Lees old barn, who quickly turned in
the alarm from box 35, at the Manka-
to Savings bank corner.
When the fire department arrived
on the scene, the rear of the third
story was in flames, and the entire
building was filled with smoke.
Chief Phillips states that it is his
belief that the fire started on the
third floor near the rear and worked
down, or else that it started in the
basement and went up the elevator
shaft.
A. B. Ewing states that he was one
of the half dozen men first on the
ground, and that he went to the rear
of the building and saw the fire in
the rear of the first floor. 1t is his
opinion that it was there that it
started. If this is so, it might have
started among the matches.
Henry Leonard states that he
went through the building some
months ago in company with an in
surance inspector, and that the latter
spoke of the elevator shaft in the rear
and remarked that if fire once started
in it's vicinity it would be useless for
any fire department to try to save the
building.
Whether the fire started on the
first or third floor, all concede that it
commenced in the rear of the build
ing and that it must have smouldered
for several hours before it was dis
covered.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28
ElGHT,WILL WE'D.
Cupid Has Not Been Idle This
Spring.

The clerk of courts office did land
office business in marriage license
Monday, Deputy Eberhart had little
time for anything else. First came
Tim Ryan, of Danville, who wanted
to wed Miss Mary Ruorke, of McPher-
son. This was no sooner fixed up
than WILDER E. Williamson, of Medo.
came in and said that he and Miss
Hansena Dina Benson, of the same
town, had agreed on date. He was
handed "a spermit, and before long
Harry L. Sprague, of Mapleton,
strolled in and confdentially an
nounced that Miss Jennes D. Little,
a damsel of his town, had agreed to
take him for better or worse. When
his case had been attended to, Rallin
L. Baker, another Mapleton boy, ap-
preached the desk and said that Miss
Laila E. Day, fair daughter of Ma
pleton, had conferred her hand upon
him and that he would like license.
This was granted.
-Four weddings will take place soon,
aud eight hearts be made happy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28
THE ORIGIN UNKNOWN.
Even the Place Where the Fire
Started Uncertain.

How the fire started will probably
always remain one of those impene-
trable secrets so often connected with
fires. The employees all left the
building at 600 o'clock Friday night.
and the doors were locked. No light
Is kept in the building at night, and
the electric current on the wires is
cut off, so Supt. Brown informs us.
The current on the electric motor
that runs the elevator is cut of
when not used, by pulling switch.
There is no Waterman to the build
ing. The theories most frequently
advanced are those of spontaneous
combustion and mice igniting
matches. Mr.. III. A. Patterson states
that the building was in avery clean
condition, no dust lying around, and
this would seem to refute the theory
of spontaneous combustion.
A large stock of matches recently
received, was stored at the rear of the
first floor. 1T is possible that mice,
in knawing through a box, ignited
one, which would set off the entire
lot.
There are various reports in circu-
lation as to when the fire was first
seen and in what part of the building.
When the 4:l5 a. m. passenger train
on the Omaha road went through,
the train men noticed an unusual
smoke, but thought that it proceeded
from the Milwaukee engine house,
which is between the burned store
and the union depot. After this,
several other people claim to have
seen smoke in that direction. At
about Sis a. M, the cook of The
Saulpaugh heard glass break and saw
smoke issuing from the rear OF
the wholesale grocery store. and in
formed Fred Trounsberger, the yard
man of the hotel, of the fact. Young
Trounsberger ran to the city hall and
found Officer Lundterg and another
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28
WILL FILL ORDERS.
The Company Will Secure New Quar-
tiers Temporarily.

The following circular was mailed
to 500 patrons of the L. Patterson
Mercantile Co. before II o'clock that
forenoon:
MANKATO, Mimi, May %, 1897.
TO Our Patrons:
A disastrous fire broke out in our
warehouse and store building at 5
o'clock this morning, resulting in a
complete loss to building and con-
tents. 1t is our intention to replenish
stock in other quarters at once, and
we ask the indulgence of our GUS
TONERS during the short period of our
inability to supply their wants.
Very truly yours,
l.. PATTERSON MERCANTILE Co.
There are several vacant buildings
that can be used by the company
until it can rebuild, as it will un-
doubtedly do at once. The J. III.
Long building or several stores on
South Front street could be used.
Owing to the dangerous condition
of the walls, travel on that side of
Front street is prohibited.
The business of the L. Patterson
Mercantile Co. was transacted in the
FREE PRESS office Saturday, room
being made for the purpose.
Mr.. E. L. Patterson states that the
salvage from the building will not
pay the expense of getting it out.
A stream was played on the north
wall that afternoon to tear it down as
much as possible.
Officer Lundberg states that he
went by the front of the building at
= and CnonEn nfinnr
Schuette was at the morning train
and saw nothing, and after going to
the city hall walked down town.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28

The Northwestern Telephone Ex-
change Co. has begun condemnation
proceedings through Mapleton, to Sc
cure right of way for it's new ex-
tension to Wells. The hearing will
occur in this city May 9th at 200 p.
m.
Commissioners Roberts and Bor-
ebert visited Good Thunder several
days ago and examined into the alleged
injustice to certain taxpayers on &C
count of incorrect valuations of real
estate. They found the facts to be as
represented by the petitionersandwill
recommend attachments at the June
meeting Of the board.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28

DIR. w. A. Beach, of this city, was
appointed a member of the executive
committee of the state homeopathic
institute, which met in St. Paul this
week.
Adam Rockefeller, who was on
Saturday convicted of murder in the
second degree at St. Peter, was
sentenced to Saltwater for life, and
will be taken there this week.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28
A GALLANT FIGHT.
Firemen Prevent the ConfIagratlon
From Extending.

AS soon as the .tiremen arrived on
the ground they saw the hopelessness
Of any efforts that might be made to
save the building, and took prompt
steps to prevent the fire from
spreading to adjoining buildings
and to reduce the heat of
the fire as much as pos
sible by pouring vast quantities OF
water into the building. The three
floors and basement of the block were
stored full of groceries and other lines
of goods carried by grocery stores.
Much of this stock was necessarily of a
highly inflamable nature. The lighter
goods were stored on the third floor,
and the heavier in the basement. The
building was so filled with smoke and
the fire spread so rapidly that nothing
was saved from the stock.
Lines of hose were pulled to the top
of Geo. B. Owens store and streams
played upon the roof. The side wall
being solid, there was no way of get
ting much water into the third floor,
as the distance from the ground at
the rear was too great.
1t did not take long for the roof and
floors to fall in. The rain began to
fall, and no danger was experienced
from sparks. Geo. B. Owen moved
out some of his stock, as a precau-
tionary measure, but this fortunate
ly proved to have been unnecessary,
as little or no damage was done to the
building. After the fire had burned
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28
STEEL DOORS.
The Mankato Boiler Works are rlan-
ufacturing Them.

The Mankato Steam Boiler Works
are engaged in making a first class
steel door which is designed for fire
protection and will also bother per-
son who would try to enter building
unlawfully. The doors are we'll made
of boiler steel. The company has just
placed set of these doors on the boil.
er house and barn of Fred Kron. The
windows are also similarly protected,
and the rear of the basement to his
store will have same kind of protection
From present indications the company
expects to do quite business in these
steel doors, and the serve a double
purpose in protection against fire and
burglars. Those interested should
call and see them.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28

too long has the red wave of war rolled
over it and marred it's beauty
Behind the sanguinary host, an
other host is approaching, from the
institutions of learning, from the
printing presses, from the cottages of
the humble.
When Dr.. Cleveland concluded,
several interested listeners, forgetting
the occasion, began to applaud.
Miss Esther Ellis sang "Tenting
Tonight" assisted by the choir, in a
highly effective manner.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28
A HEAVY LOSS.
1t Will Foot Up to $40, 900, With
$4,000 Insurance.

The loss will be heavy one. The
latter part of last December an inVen-
tory of the stock was taken and
amounted to nearly $4,000, and since
then it has been largely increased.
None of the members of the firm who
are in the city nor the bookkeeping
department can tell exactly how
much the stock in the building was
valued at, but all agree that it was
worth not far from 100000. There
will be very little salvage. The build
ing cost about $40 900, and is total
loss unless the front and part Of the
side walls can be used in rebuilding.
The north wall is considerably bulged
outward.
There was an insurance of $4,000
on the stock and $4,000 on the build
ing, divided among the following COM
maniac and auanciaS.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-05-28
DIED SUDDENLY.

II. J. Goodell came some time age
to visis his brother, Geo. w. Goodell,
at Garden City. He was suddenly
taken sick Saturday and complained
of pain in his side. He sent out for
some lemons, but before they could
be procured he had died. His re-
mains will oe shipped to his home.
He was about sixty years of age.