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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-02-12
Belgrade Items.

ChaS. LOuckS has bid adieu to
friends and neighbors and started for
bis place of business once more at
Montana.
We are very sorry to hear that Mrs.
& ii. RiSJ is very sick.
Miss Zula Cram and cousin, Miss
Green, have gone to Faribault. Miss
Zula Is thinking sonle Of taking a trip
10 Washington IN The spring.
Our school closed last week Friday.
We were sorry TO have school close SO
early in the winter on account of our
big boys, but are very glad We can
have The same teacher in the spring
again. Miss Sheran is a No. l teacher,
aud We think we all know enough to
appreciate good teacher when we
find one
Our literary last Thursday evening
was largely attended, and are sure all
those that attended were well pleased
and not a little surprised to ind our
young people of Belgrade could speak
and sing as well as they did. There is
good material in Belgrade. II only
needs cultivating, and The literary is
just the society to do it. Our next
literary will meet Feb. II, Friday
evening instead of Thursday evening
as heretofore. We we're glad to see
Miss Abbie Randall, who has been I'M
able to fill her place as organisJ lately
on account of sickness, lat her old place
again.
There was quite party of young
people drove out from MankatO last
Thursday evening to attend the liter
airy. and Miss Fanny Keene and Geo.
Phelps rendered US two very touching
but enjoyable pieces.
Miss Myrta Cole has been staying at
Nell Purries the past two weeks.
Mr.. Warren, of Waterville, preached
the funeral sermon of Miss Eva
Fletcher, and all who heard it agree
it was one of the finest sermons ever
preached in the Belgrade church. Miss
Eva Fletcher died at her home in Bel
grade, Jan. 80, 1897. She was attend
ing the state Normal school, Man
kato, until her failing health obliged
her to return home, where her health
has been failing ever since. 1t is said
she was unconscious at the last, so
did not realize that she was to pass
from pain and sorrow. She had but
just reached the 10Th year of her age,
and it seems very sad to have to give
her up so early to rest. Her eXem-
pIary character and ability we're
such as to endear her to the hearts of
everyone, and she was beloved by all
who knew her. The funeral was held
at the Belgrade church on Tuesday,
Feb. End, at HOO a. m. The remains
were inferred in Glenwood cemetery,
and were followed to their final rest
Ing place by large concourse of
mourning friends and relatives.
Jesus called for her our loved one,
We have seen her leave our side.
She is free from pain and sorrow
And the anxious dread of morrow.
She has passed the vale of shadows
With its dark and chilling tide,
In that bright and glorious city
She will ever more abide.
Home at last on Heavens mountain,
Ever more welcomed guest,
There she'll wait to greet her loved ones
In the mansions of the blest.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-02-12
A CUSTOn MILL.
EDITOR FREE PRESS.

EDITOR FREE PRESS.
Notwithstanding reports in circu-
lation, West Mankat0 is likely to have
a custom mill after all. A combi-
nation mill grinding flour, rye, corn
meal, and in fact everything in the
grain line.
1t has been very quietly worked for
some time and so successful have the
parties been presenting the PROPOSE
tion that they have succeeded in OBJ
tanning over half of the subscription
wanted.
There are great many rumors put
afioat by parties who seem to know
more about the business than those
directly interested. People are not
supposed to make their private bust
ness public property.
The party ting the offer for
the milling company is an experienced
mill man himself and has been in the
employ of two of the largest milling
manufacturing companies of the
states for years; man of experience
in business and good habits.
The proposition made by the repre-
sentative of the company is fair and
perfectly safe, as subscribers are not
required to pay any part of their sub
scription until the mill is built, equip
ped and has been in successful opera
tion for thirty days.
WEST SIDER.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-02-12

The Mapleton Enterprise states
that another claim to the amount of
$685. has turned up against the as
signee of the Mapleton bank. This
comes in the shape of suit by Fl.
J. Witt against the assignee for the
amount named. From the summons
it appears that Chas. H. Brown gave
five promissory notes for SO, 500 each to
A. F. Schmidt and F. T. Blunck, of
Davenport, Iowa, at Ripon, Wis, on
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-02-12

Jonas Burrill, of Belgrade, marke ted
seven May pigs here yesterday, that
tipped the beam at 1890 pounds, and
received Sc pound for the same. Mr..
Burrill says Mankato markets are all
right.
The Great Northern Railway has
One Million acres choice wheat lands
in Minnesota still undisposed Of.
Write for maps and full particulars
Land Commissioner, Great Northern
Railroad, ST. Paul. Mimi. 33t13
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-02-12
The Courts Instructions.

Judge Severance announced that all
of the Jurors in the court not on the
panel now sitting are discharged for
the term. This means that the remain
ing criminal cases go over to the May
term of court.
Judge Severance then addressed him
self to the jury and instructed it as to
the law applicable to the case. The
jurors should be satisfied beyond a
reasonable doubt as to the truth OF the
charge against the accused. This is not
mere possible doubt, and absolute
certainty is not required, but moral
certainty is required. The court read
the charge in the Indictment, and de-
fined homicide.
The court said that this is no ordi
nary occasion, and the duty to be per
formed was no ordinary one.
| The state only demands a fair and
impartial trial and a fearless verdict,
whether it aquits or condemns the
accused. You are not here to satisfy
likes or dislikes or to pander to maud
lin sympathy. The question is not
what you have power to do, but what
you ought to do in view of all the evil
dence in the case.
The defendant claims that he acted
in self defense to save himself from per-
sonal injury, the deceased having
threatened to kill him. A person has
a right to resist and repel a hostile at
tack by force, and if necessary may do
so to the extent of taking life, but only
when there are no other reasonable or
practicable means of avoiding the in
jury threatened. If reasonably prac-
tical to escape, the assaulted person
must do so rather than take his assail-
ants life. A person need not retreat if
such retreat endangers him. A person
is not justified in killing person out of
cowardice on the assumption of self de-
Tense. The defendant would in no case
be justified in killing the deceased in
anger or to redress his grievances or
those of anybody else,
The statement of a person who be-
lieves he is about to die, detailing the
circumstances under which he receiv-
ed a mortal wound, may be received
in evidence. 1t is presumed that all
temptation to deceive is removed, and
that he would testify as truthfully as
though having taken an oath in court
The defendont is competent witness
on his own behalf, but the law does
not fix credibility to be placed upon
his testimony. The deep interest
which he has in the result
should be taken into consideration :.
The interest which all the witnesses
have in the outcome, and probability
of their evidence, should be taken in
to consideration.
If the jury finds that the shooting
was done in self defense
the defendant should be acquitted.
The court instructed the jury that
it could find the defendant guilty of
murder in the first or second degree.
If there is doubt as to which degree
the crime, if there has been one, comes
under, you should take the lower.
The court delivered the two forms
of verdict to the jury, and allowed it
to take all of the exhibits.
David Davis was sworn aud took
charge of the jury which retired at
400 p. m.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-02-12

May 81, 1895. They were secured by
mortgage on 40 acres of land in
Washington, which it seems is not
sufficient to satisfy the mortgage
The Enterprise says that it is not pro-
bable that the claim will stand the
test as the property which was turned
over in the assignment was not the
property of G. HI. Brown, but that of
Mr.. j. E. Brown and it is hard to
see how claim against anyone else
can be considered.
Good Thunder Herald:
our most prominent hog raisers, Mr..
q. E. Marston is coming to the front
in fine style. On Saturday last he
marketed to r. L. Houk, our general
stock buyer, 10 April and May pigs,
which averaged $50 pounds and netted
him the neat little sum of S725.0O.
Notwithstanding the low price pork
is bringing, Mr.. Matston has come out
with good profit 4 X Ice in
the Maple river this winter is so filled
with sand as to be unfit for use and
our merchants are obliged to haul from
the Blue Earth river. the quality be-
ing excellent
The Mapleton Enterprise says that
the Mapleton bank has been sold to
Mr.. Chancey Sellers, of BeaufOrd, for
$4,000 The block is a fine one and
cost SIS, 900 last year. 1t is considered
bargain at the price for which it
sold
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-02-12

for life or hanging, would take the
latter. ask you to be merciful.
Mr.. Young closed at 3:05 p. M, hav-
ing spoken two hours and quarter in
all. Many OF the ladies who were
present, friends of Crook, were in
tears
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-02-12
Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul.

Departing. Trains AZ irving
No. 1872 $50 a. m. No. 1'1-!2:30 D. m.
No. 104-2:3O p. m. No. 1873 S:rH p. m.
No. 16S-7:OH p m. No. 1873 400 p. m.
No. 1872 makes close connections at Austin
with through Sleeper-for St. Louis Peoria and
Kansas City arriving 7:15 next morning.
This train also connects for La Crosse and
Chicago.
No. 1O4 makes connection with Chicago
Sleepers at Austin and Lacrosse
J. G. MOORE, Agent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-02-12
Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway.
CANNON VALLEY

CANNON VALLEY.
Depart Arrive
No. % and "a Waterville
and Faribault Accommo. 645 m 4:05 m
No. 81 and %, St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Red Wing
Passenger 500 a m sos m
Daily except Sunday.
No. % connects at Waterville with through
trains for Des Moines; also with free chair car
to Denver, via Kansas City and Topeka. No.
81 connects with through trains having through
sleepers for Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City.
Information regarding rates, routes, ETC.,
cheerfully furnished upon application to
F. F. POWERS, Agent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-02-12
STAGE SCHEDULE.

Between Mankato st. Clair and Minnesots
Lake.
Leave Mankato daily at z 100 a. m.
Arrive at St. Clair daily at 10 as a. m.
Leave Minnesota Lake at 500 a. m. Monday.
Arrive at st. Clair at 2:15 D. m.
Leave st. Clair oaily at 2:45 p. m.
Leave Mankato daily at 6:l5 p. m.
Arrive St. Clair Tuesday at IL 100 q. m.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-02-12
Chicago & Northwestern.

Chicago & Northwestern.
EAST BOUND. Depart Arrive
+Chicago Mail and Passenger 7:15 m 7:5O m
t*Chicago express 4:O5 p m 435 p m
Piracy & Waseca Accom'dn 3:15 p m :55 p m
WEST BOUND.
SsDakota Passenger 1925 p m 100 m
4Mnn. Mail and Passenger 6:35 p m 7:1O p m
tWaseca & Tracy Accom'dn $50 m 9:35 m
tDaiIy except Sunday *Daily.
tSleepers Mankato to Chicago.
sSleepers Chicago to Mankato.
C. E. JOHNSON, Agent.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22
sclENTlFIcANo INDUSTRIAL.

Paper betting for machinery is be-
ing made and used in Germany.
An Oshkosh wis., firm is success
fully making binding twine of marsh
hay.
Liverpool has the largest fire en-
glne in the world-equal to throwing
1900 gallons minute and stream
14O feet high.
The Athens check factory is to he
operated by electricity. This is the
hrst cotton factory in Georgia to use
electricity as a motive power.
Natural gas is fast going. j. d.
Weeks has iust made report on the
supply and its decline for the National
Labor Bureau in which it appears that
the supply has fallen IA half in seven
years.
Fair haired people are becoming
less numerous than formerly. The Ell
cient Jews were ir-haired race;
now they are, with few exceptions,
dark. So it is in lesser degree with
the Irish, among whom $50 years ago
dark-haired person was almost un-
known.
The suggestion is advanced that
perhaps the ultimate field of acetylene
will be in the lighting of lighthouses
and on board ships. Its compactness
and the ease with which it can be
slowed away in the form of carbide
and ease of generation of the gas. to-
gether with great brilliancy, and point
to its adaptability for this purpose.
The stopping" qualities of the Lee
Metford rifle, now in use in the Brit
ish army, has been the subject of
much comment ever since the Chitral
campaign. The bullet used was there
found of very little use in stopping
the rush of determined body of ia
natics. This will not be the case in
future, it is stated, as new bullet has
been invented, the quality Of which
are said to be undoubted.
A recent discovery that practical
men as well as scientists approve is
the complete transformation of wood
into gas. The product has power
four times greater than that made
from bituminous coal. Its value lies
in adaptability as motive power,
! which can be applied to the produc-
tion of ceramics, in glass manufacture,
for Bessemer hearths, and like indus
tries. Rich in carbonic oxide as it is,
the gas is available for the manufac-
ture of oxalic acid and other chemi-
Gals, and, it is said, at very consid-
erable saving in cost.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

The Chinese are very fond of mon.
strous forms of fruits and flowers, and
any departure from the normal form is
usually cherished and highly valued.
In their gardens they have numerous
forms of monstrous oranges-some will
produce fruit with points like fingers,
and are known as the hand orange.
Another form has long horn project
ing from the apex, and are known as
the horn orange. Another variety,
which botanists have known by the
name of Citrus aurantium distorium,
bears fruit in the resemblance of
cluster of sea shells To one ignorant
of the laws of vegetable morphology,
these spells ofwandering from the nor
NAL type are very mysterious; butwhen
it is understood that all parts of the
orange, as well as other fruits, are made
up of what would have been leaves or
branches changed so as to constitute
the various parts of the seed and YES
sells, and that very little difference
in the degree of life energy will change
them into various different parts that
come to make up the fruit, and the
mystery in great measure is solved.
There are few branches of botany
which give the lover of fruits and
flowers so much pleasure as the study
of morphology .-Meehan's Monthly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22
Woman in Horticulture.


According to the census of 1890 there
We're 312 commercial greenhouses, or
abont one in fifteen, owned and man
aged by women. We have q personal
acquaintance with several women who
are successful retail florists. Other
women to our knowledge are making
success of raising carnations and other
flowers for the wholesale trade. These
people soon learn that the business of
raising and selling flowers is beset by
much care and labor that does not come
under the head of poetry. And yet
nearly all women florists that we have
met were led into the business because
they first of all loved flowers. 1t adds
to the delight and success of any occu-
patton II one has Il love therefor. There
is no question that, as a rule, women
have greater fondness than men for
flowers; why therefore should they not
engage in growing and handling them
for profit. The rougher work about
flower raising, such as the care of
greenhouse furnaces, the handling of
soil and manure, and the like, can
easily be done by men who work for
moderate wages. If women are sue
cessful as florists they are equally so as
raisers of vegetables and small fruits,
especially strawberries; they direct the
rougher work, help to prepare the pro-
duce for customers, and perhaps take
in hand the selling, thus keeping
closely to touch with the state of the
market. Generally speaking, we think
that the raising of strawberries near
our best markets is further from being
overdone than that of almost any other
kind of produce. The consumption
is enormous, and fresh fruit brought
quickly from the fields, without large
distance intervening, always will sell
considerably higher than fruit long
from vines that has been shipped.
Much of the work of picking and hand
ling small fruits is well suited to be
done by women.-Vick's Magazine.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

In many of the great cities of
Europe, whenever great festival is
about to place, all the questionable
and suspicious characters are urged
by the police to take a few days airing
in the country, and to disappear for n
time from their accustomed haunts.
This is found preferable to putting
them under lock and key. In St.
Petersburg and Moscow and in Vi
emma those who do not leave of their
own accord on being thus pressed are
shipped off by the police in a special
train, and Japan has recently adopted
the same excellent custom. Now,
whenever a great popular pageant is
about to take place in the Mikado' s
capital, the ''Soshi- Kisha," or
train of blackguards, may be seen
steaming away into the country with
its freight of known and suspected
malefactors.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

There is no question of keeping off
the sun by means of the parasols with
which the summer girl is filling her
trunks for the coming campaign. Her
aim is simply to make her costume as
fluffy and highly colored rs possible,
and the parasol is decidedly an aid in
accomplishing the general effect
One of the most gorgeous of the sea-
son is the ''sunburst" parasol, which
is mass of elaborate huting. Then
there is the parasol composed entirely
of chiffon and ruffled from centre to
edge. Only a shade less elaborate is
the design of brocaded silk or satin,
lined with Il contrasting shade, and
decorated with frills of chiffon, punches
of artificial flowers, or now and then a
group of ostrich tips.
A particularly popular fancy is that
the morning parasols shall match the
shirt waist with which they are worn,
as the summer girl still clings to the
most comfortable morning costume
which she has ever known. Thus
the new parasols are made of Cham
bray, linen, muslin and null, and are
prettily lined with silk of becoming
shades. The number of these dainty
articles necessary to the summer girls s
OUTFIT has not yet been computed.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

George L.. kilmer in war article
headed "Rest in Scattered Urns, pub
lished in your paper to-day, makes Il
statement which / feel ought to be
corrected In speaking of the Con-
federate General Polk Bishop Polk
he states that he was killed near At
lanta by a shell aimed and fired by
General Sherman. This is not true.
/ was standing by the gun from which
the shot was fired that killed General
Polk, and know that General Sherman
was not present. The battery, tho
name of which / do not recall, was in
position on the left of our brigade, on
hill overlooking valley, on the OPP
posite side of which was another hill
covered with trees. While talking to
the sergeant in charge of one of the
guns, an officer approached and direct
ed the attention Of the sergeant to n
group of what appeared to be Confed-
crate officers at the edge of the woods
of the hill opposite, and ordered him
to give them q shot The sergeant
sighted his gun and fred The result
was great commotion and scattering.
Somebody had been hit. Next morn
ing we discovered it was General Polk.
The shot struck him in the upper arm,
plowing its way through the chest,
and cutting him almost in two. This
occurred on Pine Knob, not far from
Kenesaw Mountain. On our advance
the next day / visited the spot and saw
the stump of a tree against which Gen
eral Polk was leaning at the time he
was shot. The tree was covered with
his blood &C. Laux, in the Los An.
ualas Timea
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

Flowered grenadines appear to be
among the leaders in summer fabrics.
Grenadine, both plain and fancy,
takes high place among summer dress
fabrics.
Lilacs, white and purple, have taken
vendors.
The Partisan pompadour is the style
of coifiure which necessitates "rat"
to give its proper height.
The mushroom punches of ribbons
wired to stand high above the hat
crown are deemed essentially chic in
summer millinery.
Canvas is still very popular and
seems stoutly to resist the invasion of
double-faced cashmere and mohair-
two rivals Of canvas now in the field.
Sonora, the new bright shade of
Spanish red, is slightly less vivid than
cherry color, but more brilliant than
either the geranium or Danish dyes.
Gray silks and poplins are trimmed
with corselet and collars of yellow
satin; bolero of the gray lined with
yellow, and full vest of white chiffon
and yellow lace.
Silk blouses are made with tight
sleeves, buttoning from wrist to the
scant puff on the shoulders, and small
gold, not brass, buttons are layishly
used for trimming.
" Gray embroidered tulle, orange vel
vet, Venetian lace, cluster of Mermet
roses, and very unique buckle of
French brilliants form lovely model
for an evening hat made by Virot.
Foulards and all soft silks will be
warn during the summer. They are
printed in dainty designs and come in
soft colors and in such variety of
patterns that they may serve for any
purpose.
Crepe-de- Chine is to be very much
worn this season, especially for even
ing dresses and in combination with
other materials, and there is new
kind, ribbed like poplin, which is very
delicate and soft.
The turnover stock collar of linen
has been favorite for tailor-made
costumes and silk shirt waists for some
time, but it has now made its appear
ance in dainty embroidered lawn and
is even carried out in velvet and lace.
The English tailor-made coat has no
gathers at the top of the sleeves. 1t
has little fullness, which is arranged
in small dart seams covered with fancy
braiding. Many of the coats are
elaborately braided, and several differ
ent kinds of braid are used on one
garment.