The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-08-13
LOCAL ITEMS.

One of the black hors es belonging
TO Hook and Ladder Co. No. l died
last night Of blind staggers. The
team was driven to Lake Emily Sun
day by the regular driver, and it was
the first time that it had been out of
the city limits. The horse was taken
sick at Kasota and was given all the
care possible. DR.. Dodds treated
the horse End pronounces it a case
where the animals heart must have
been affected for some time. 1t had
a vicious habit of kicking, which is
traced to the disease. Chief Phillips
and the firemeD feel very badly over
the loss of the horse, which broke up
finely matched team,
According to the Minneapolis
Times the authorities claim that Am
brose A. Reiff, Of Nicollet county,
married Edith Warren on March 23d,
and that the ceremony was perform
ed by person giving the name of
William Jones, said to have been a
friend of Ref, and with no authority
to marry the couple Miss Warren is
said to have given the county attor-
ney number of Rietf's letters, pro-
posing marriage, etc. He was to be
arraigned in the police court this
morning
The trial of the lien case of the
Cary-Lombard Co. VS.. L. P. Hunt ct
al, which was commenced before
Judge Severance yesterday, was COM
pleted today. The company's lien is
81, 1888. Lorin Cray and G. o. Daley
are attorneys for the plaintiff, and B.
| d. Smith and G. A. Severance are at
torneys for the defendants. The lien
case of Joseph Manderfeld against the
same defendants was begun His
lien isS32l. A. r. Pau is his attorney.
The attorneys in the Cary-Lombard
case were given ten days to file their
briefs; and the Manderfeld case was
continued until Saturday.
| Last evening about one hundred
and fifty people witnessed fine de-
bate in the Normal school hall on the
question Resolved, that the U. S.
has nothing to fear from the future
Of the negro in this country" Messrs.
Headly, Wildes and 6Brockway main
tanned the affirmative and Messrs.
Freelin, Williams and Laudy, the
negotative side. A delightful instru-
mental solo was given by Miss Sven
son, of St. Peter, and Miss Maud
Benson, of Minneapolis, rendered a
charming vocal solo. "
| H. G. Burgess, who has returned
from trip in the western counties of
the Second congressional district, re-
ports that the yield Of wheat in Pipe
stone and Murray counties will be
light, not going over seven to nine
bushels to the acre, in his judgment.
In Yellow Medicine, Lincoln, Lyon,
Lac qui Parle and Redwood counties
the yield will be good, averaging if
teen bushels to the acre. The quality
Will also De gOOu. ...
| "A dispatch from Rapidan states
that DR.. S. B. Brimhall, field veterin-
airy surgeon of the state board of
health, arrived there Friday to tell
the farmers what to do to check the
spread of hog cholera. We under
stand that he has taken steps to es-
tablish quarantine. This is the only
. effective way to prevent the spread of
the disease, and all farmers should
lend their cooperation. .-s
Complaint is being made of an
excavation for a sewer connection
that has been open on Fifth street for
two or three weeks. The excavation
f has evidently been abandoned by the
/ contractor, and every evening man
in the employ of the city trudges up
with two lanterns, and in the morning
? goes and gets them. The city should
$ have closed up the hole long ago.
WIN. Haggerty, who was taken in
, custody yesterday morning while re-
| sisting the officers who were ejecting
D his family from L. G.. M. Fletcher's
, building, pleaded guilty to the charge
E Of drunkenness, in the municipal
s court yesterday afternoon, and in de-
e fault Of fine Of $40 and costs he was
f sent to Jail for thirty days.
D An excursion party of number
of well known Mankato and Blue
: Earth county people will go to Slayton
L tomorrow in response to an invitation
: from the management of the Mime
: sofa Hedge and Wire Fence Co. The
5 company has some of it's fence there,
several years old. and in the prime Of
l condition. vsr
Mrs. Thomas Baynes died at her
home at 913 North Fourth street, at
about seven o'clock last evening, aged
twenty-eight years. The remains
will be taken to HARRISBURG tomorrow
. morning lea wing at eight O'clock where