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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-07-28
NORTHWESTERN NAMES,

Several Wisconsin, and Minnesota Mon
~, Given Commissions. ,#
WASHINGTON, July 24.-The follow.
Ing are among the additional appoint
ments to the volunteer army just an
nounced: =,. <.-... .:..s.l. 5s.~: III ::.s2s<
To be captains: Frank L. French,
captain, Third Wisconsin,; Charles A.
Green, Second Wisconsin,; Christopher
J. Rellis, captain, Fourth Wiconsin;
Frank a. Sullivan, first lieutenant,
First Wisconsin. B. Z. ;.s::5.. 2 1@s.= 3s s.
4 To be first h1utsnants: John ".
Green, private, Second Wisconsin:
Charles J. Geishbury, captain, Fonrth
Wisconsin, George j. Gibson, captain,
Fifteenth Mipnesots; Alfred s. Morkan,
captain, Thirtesnth Minnesota; Harry
W. Newton, captain, Third Wisconsin;
Cushman "a. Rice, first lieutenant. FIJI.
tteenth Minnesot1;; Trad deus Wild. lieul.-
tenant, First Wisconsin. j B.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-07-28
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IN. Weyerhauerer, G. .. Hawley. "a. r.
Transact general banking business. buy
and sell foreign and domestic exchange. Pay
a rerest on time deposits. 60 f:Es.'.,55s
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- Of Crown AMI Bridge work and Straight.
ening OF Irregular Teeth, Gas or oduntunder
for painless extraction OF teeth. Over First
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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-07-28

ElR N, W. CHANCE. Office over Tanners
~ Store. Office hours: to IL morning,
phone connection, Wetzel's drug store, Little
Falls, MINI.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-07-28
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-06-16
THE CITY WINS.
Mrs. RadlOff's Case Thrown Out
of Court.
The Jury Finds for the Defendant in the
StrObel Ditch
Case.

The city won signal victory Wednes-
day in the suit brought against it by Mrs.
Louise Radlof to recover $4,000 dam
ages for injuries sustained by reason of
an alleged defective sidewalk on North
Front street. A jury was empaneled
in the case and Arthur Schaub made
the opening argument for the plaintiff.
He then took the witness stand himself
and was about to testify when
City Attorney Daley sprung a
motion to dismiss on the ground that
the notice of claim for damages served
on the city was insufficient for the rea-
son that it did not specify where the
accident occurred.
A E Clark, the other attorney for
the plaintiff argued the motion, but
Judge Severance, after examining the
papers. held the point well taken and
granted the motion.
The dismissal of the case on the
ground of insufficiency of the notice
throws it out entirely, as it is too late
to serve another notice on the city. I'm
less the case is carried to the supreme
court and the decision of the lower court
overturned the action has been ended.
The jury in the case of Gott-
fried Strobel VS.. George ISchulte and
Frank Weimer retired at 4:45 o'clock
yesterday afternoon and had agreed
upon verdict by $50 p. m. This was
sealed and opened this morning and
was in favor of the defendant. The
following special findings were re-
turned:
Was there ditch first opened across
plaintiffs premises from the culyert in
question to the ravine in question prior
to 1890? Answer. Yes"
Did this ditch become practically
filled up before the year 1890? Answer,
mo"
Did the plaintiff in the year 1890 plow
and drag the ground through which
said ditch ran so as to make the same,
including said ditch, practically level
surface? Answer, No"
Did defendants in digging or opening
the ditch which they dug and opened
follow the line of any ditch Heretofore
being on said premises. Answer,
Yes"
The case of Hans Holm VS.. the
Omaha road goes to trial tomorrow,
and will be followed by the trial of
VIM Haggerty Jr.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-06-16
GIRL DROWNED.
She Had Gone After Her Fathers
Cow.
A Seven Year Old Falls Into A Swollen
Creek in the North Part of
the City.

Little Martha Huettl, the seven year
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Huettl, who live on North Front street
close to the city limits on the road to ST..
Peter, fell into the creek near her home
Tuesday evening and was drowned.
At about half past five o'clock, in
company with her sister, Theresa, aged
twelve years. she started after the fam
lily COW, that was pasturing across the
creek, which has been swollen into a
a torrent by the rains. A plank spans
the creek, which is narrow and deep at
that place, and Theresa held back until
her little sister should be safely across
Martha started out bravely to cross
on the plank, but the roaring of the
stream below made her dizzy and
when half way across she turned to
come back and fell off of the plank
She was swept down stream before the
eyes of her Mortified sister who at once
gave the alarm. Mr.. Bodtke was close
by and ran to the creek but could see
nothing of the little girl. Mr.. Huettl
and some railroad men then searched
down stream until they came to Mr..
Ecksteins house, which is built in the
ravine. There the remains were found,
having caught on the corner of partly
submerged chicken coop.
The body was recovered fifteen or
twenty minutes after the accident, but
life was extinct. The body was badly
bruised, and the head was bleeding,
showing that the fierce stream had
rolled the body over and over and
struck it against the rocks that line it's
bed
The place where the body was found
is couple of blocks below Mr.. HuettFs
house. The house is east of the road,
and Mr.. Eckstein's house is west of it,
so that the body was carried under the
culvert and under the railroad bridge.
AT the point where the little girl fell off
OF the plank the water was four or five
feet deep. The creek expands into a
wide sheet of water covering slough
below, and if the body had gone there
it would have been difficult to have
found it.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-06-16
ELEVEN INCHES.
This is the June Rain Fall to
Date.
More Cases of Damage Inflicted by the
Rushing Torrents in the
Country.

The rainfall for June up to Wednes-
day was almost eleven inches, accord
ing to Mr.. Lockerby. Seven-eights OF
an inch fell yesterday afternoon. 1t is
the greatest rainfall known In this
vicinity for the same period of time.
Kleinschmidt Bros. have been oblig
ed to shut down their hardwood factory
this week, on account of the presence
of three feet of water in their base
ment, extinguishlng the fires under the
boiler. Attempts to pump the water
out have failed as the soil is so sandy
that it runs in as fast as pumped out.
A sewer connection was put in today.
The supervisors of Lime township
were in the city yesterday. They esti-
mate the cost of repairing and replac-
ing bridges and culverts and fixing the
roads in that township at So, 900.
Four or five acres of the citizens
twenty -four acre field of sugar beets
were washed out and lost.
A building on G. M. Bradleys' farm,
built on the side of creek bank, was
washed away and 300 bushels of corn
lost. The loss on building was 500. A
SOW with some little pigs was stranded
on an island and only one pig lost. Two
were found mile and half down
stream, alive and hungry
Joe Schingle lost 10000 brick in his
North Mankato brick yard. He lost the
same number once before this spring.
The Minnesota river has to rise but a
few inches more to back over the inlet
into Mud lake, and that would cause a
three foot rise in the lake and inundate
ninety acres of corn.
The weather service promises fair
weather for tomorrow.
President Porter estimates that at
least 81, 500 will be required to repair
the damage done to streets and culverts
in this city. The figure is more apt to
be higher than lower.
County Surveyor Brooks will go to
Amboy tomorrow to devise means of
draining that village which is under
water
The trans have not yet resumed
their schedule time, but will soon be
running as usual.
The Cannon Valley division will not
be opened for traffic until Friday or
son Lake has not yet been cleared
away, and when this is done there is a
washout hundred feet long and TWEEN
ty feet deep to be filled in.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-06-16
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

The following warranty deeds have
been filed:
Chas. J. Macbeth to Minnie E. John
son, north forty feet of lot sixteen, block
three, Eagle Lake, for $40.
Alfred L. Redner to Phineas Latin
ST, nw4. sec. 26, and SET, net, sec. 27
Shelby, for 81, 900.
Frank Swenson to VIM. NJ. Lang,
west 105 acres of south 145 acres of sw4,
sec. A. Mapleton, for So, 225.
Frank Swanson to .. G. Argetsinger,
ST, SET. and ne5, sci, sec. 10, and ne4,
mel, sec. Is, Rapidan, north of LeSueul
river; sw4, sw4, sec. 7, Decoria, north
of LeSueur river, 100 acres in all.
VIM R. McMahan to Chas. J. Mac.
beth, lots 1, 2, 8. 4, and 6, McMahan' Is
addition.
Increase A. Pelton to Robt. S. Prit-
chard and Hugh II. Edwards, lots two
and three, Pelton's subdivision, city,
for $500.
Ira Bishop to Mary Roe, lots one and
two, block seven, Stephens add. to
Mapleton, for 81, 500.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-06-16

The divorce case of Mrs. Laura Nc
Intire VS.. DR.. Henry Williams McIn-
tire, of Red Wing, was tried Wednes-
day, Lorin Cray appearing for the
plaintiff and no appearance being made
for the defendant. Testimony was
taken and it is probable that judgment
will be rendered in day or two. Mrs
McIntire alleges infdelity and deser-
ton on the part of her husband and
asks to have her maiden name, Miss
Laura Klein restored.
Commenting upon the high school
graduating exercises of that city, the
Waseca Journal says: The address of
Prof. Cooper, president of the Mankato
Normal school, was interesting and full
of good sus gestions and the professor
made very good impression with all
in our city.
A. E. Clark Tuesday filed the 'appli-
cation of Mrs. Todd for the appoint
ment of her daughter, Mrs. Deemer, as
administrator of the estate of the late
Mrs. Crosby.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-06-16
MRS. SMITHS ATTORNEY.
She Gives Judge Andrews the Most Credit
Regarding Her Successful Appeal.

Since the decision last week by the
supreme court in the now celebrated
case of Azella F. Smith ct al vs..
Messrs. Barr, Hubbard and Palmer, d
question that is being discussed In
and out of the legal fraternity is who
her attorney was who woD the victory
for her.
In order to settle this matter. Mrs.
Smith was asked in regard 10 the
matter and she state tnat to great
extent she was her own attorney.
Nevertheless, she with the other
plaintiffs said that she feels very
grateful to Judge Torrey for assis-
lance in looking up the law when the
fist motion to dismiss was made,
some two or three years age. So far
as the appeal was concerned, she said
that Judge Andrews was the only at
torney in the city who knew that the
appeal was to be taken until it was
ready to be served, and was the only
one, in fact, who advised the plaintiffs
that the case was appealable and as
sisted them in preparing the appeal
papers, for which assistance and en-
couragement they feel very grateful
to him, although Mrs. Smith herself
believed the case appealable and says
she would have appealed il all of the
attorneys in the state had discourag.
ed it.
Along this line, the plaintiffs also
say they feel grateful to A. e. Clark
for valuable assistance in serving the
paper books prepared by them.
Judge Andrews, when asked by the
reporter whether he was the attorney
for the plaintiffs in the appeal, re-
piled that Mrs. Smith was her own
attorney and good one, too, especial
ly so far as that case is concerned.
That modest gentleman admitted,
however, that the appeal papers were,
to quite an extent, prepared in his Of
fee, but subject to Mrs. Smiths ap
prevail. When asked what further
steps would be taken in the case he
said that he did not know, that he
had not yet seen the full text of the
supreme courts decision, that the
plaintiffs have full control of the
case, but it seemed to him that there
was nothing left to be done but for
he district court to render judg-
ment on the evidence. II this verdict
should be in the plaintiffs favor, it
would mean a Judgment in their favor
Of perhaps $780, 900 or S250,0C0, as the
land in question is now quite valu-
able,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-06-16
Hundred and Fifty Persons Re-
ported Killed and Twice as
Many Injured.
FIRE FOLLOWS THE STORM
Flames Threatened to Finish
What the Wind Had Failed
, to Accomplish.
Wires Are All Down and De-
tails of the Disaster Are
Very Meager.

ST. PAUL, June 13.-New Richmond,
Wis, 81 miles east of here on the
Omaha and Wisconsin Central roads,
was partially destroyed by cyclone at
$3.50 p. m. 1t is reported that $50 peo-
pie were killed and from 200 to 400 Sc
riously injured. Fire followed the cy-
clone and much of what was left of the
town was destroyed. All wires to the
stricken city are down and the railroads
are impossible owing to the washing
out of bridges and tracks. Doctors and
nurses from surrounding towns have
left for the scene by team.
A special telegram from Burkhardt,
a town II miles south Of New Rich
mond, confirms the report that the
town of New Richmond had been prac-
tically wiped out by the cyclone and
that fire had added its terrors to the
scene. 1t was stated that the fallen
buildings were burning and that it was
feared that many bodies would be con-
sumed and perhaps some of those in
jured and pinioned in the wreckage
might be burned before assistance could
reach them. No estimate was given of
the total of casualties beyond the state
ment that it was large.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-06-16

On June l, says the MINI eapoliS
Tribune, there was Ais, 900, 900 silver dol
lars in the United States treasury, and
only 63, 434, PIT in circulation among the.
people, But against the silver dollars
in the treasury there are in circulation
$4O1, 900, 900 in silver certificates, so that
all but about $14,OO0,OO of the silver
dollars are practically in use as money.
The circulation of silver dollars is 5000,
600 larger than it was year ago, and
the prevailing scarcity of change should
lead to the calling out of the other H.
000 900 available silver dollars. The
treasury department will furnish all
needed facilities for getting this silver
into circulation. .
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-06-16
NEXT WEEK.
commencement Exercises at the
Normal.
Sixty Graduates Will Receive Their
Diplomas, Making Hundred for
the Year.

commencement week at the normal
school begins Sunday and the exercises
cover five days. About sixty graduates,
will receive their diplomas, which to-
gether with those who graduated at this
close of the previous quarters will make
class of about one hundred for the
year.
The closing exercises occur SO late
this year on account of the continuous
session plan, but next year they wiz
probably occur three weeks earlier.
The following is the program for ths,
week: ,.-. - g..
Annual Sermon-Sunday, June 1S s00
p. NJ, Presbyterian church, by tbs,
Rev. George HI Davis.
Kindergarten Closing Exercises Tues
day, June 20, 900 a. IN Kindergarten
Room.
Practice School Closing Exercises
Wednesday, June 81, 900 a, M, Nor
NAL Hall.
Faculty Reception to the Graduating.
Class-Wednesday, June 81, 500 d
M, Library.
Glass day Exercises Thursday, June
%, $50 a. M, Normal Hall.
Commencement Concert - Thursday
June %, 500 p. NJ, Normal Hall.
Annual Commencement Friday. June
%, 500 p. m, Normal Hall.
Address by Livingston G. Lord, Presl-
dent Moorhead Normal school.
Presentation of diplomas by the Hon,
A. 7. Ankeny, President of the State
Normal board. ~ t"-rs
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-06-16

The last congress appropriated $780,
900 for the extension of rural free mail
delivery, which appropriation will be-
come available on the first of neEt
month. 1t is said the postal authorities
will expend this among the several
states in proportion to their rural popu-
lation and the desire of the people f0T
better mail facilities. Application for
such service must be mede by petition
through the member of congress of the
district wherein the service is desired
Such petition must set forth the ma
ture of the country, whether thieklY
or sparsely settled, the principal oceu-
pations of the inhabitants character
and conditions of the roads and the dis
lance petitioners are now obliged to.
travel to obtain their mail In the few
places where rural mail delivery has
been experimental on, it is said to have
proved most satisfactory to its patrons
1t keeps the farmers in close touch
with the rest Of the world, and with all
local interests, and also enables them
to keep close watch of the markets. Ii
is SAID t6at wherever it has been tried
it hae grown greatly in favor with the
busint-s men, and has brought them in
close communication with them. The
greatest obstacle to rural delivery is
the roads, hnr it will doubtless have the
effect to Ter ew the agitation for better
roads and cause more interest therein
in the count y. as the advantage OF
rural deliver becomes better and more
gen orally known.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-06-16
NORMAL SCHOOL NOTES.

''In a Persian Garden" will be given
as the second part of the commence
ment concert program at normal hall
an the evening of June %, under the
direction of Madame Johanna Hess
Burr, of Chicago. A prominent tenor
and basso will also be here to assist in
the program. I'm Persian Garden, y
by Liza Lehman, is a musical setting
of The Rubaiyat' of Omar Khayyam.
This oriental song cycle for four solo
voices in cantata form with piano ac-
compartment, has been enthusically re,
ceived in London and New York. AS
a musical composition it places the
composer high in the ranks of the new
school.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-06-16
JUST MISSED HUDSON.
Storm Veered to the East Before Reach
ing That City.

Storm Veered to the East Before Reach
ing That City.
op HUDSON, Wis, June 13.-One of the
len, -aost terrific cyclones ever witnessed by
-rucl citizens of Hudson passed through
rops country here at about $50 p. N. 1t
n.y. Of, ned in waterspout four miles south
,dson on Lake st. Croix. 1t was
% -5-essed by hundreds of people and
seemed to follow the lake and to be
making directly for the city, but about
two miles south it veered to the east
and left the lake and crossed the coun-
try. 1t first struck the buildings of H.
S. Mattison. Just before the storm
reached the place the family cnd farm
help fed for the cellar. The cellar
door had just closed when the crash
came. This place was directly in the
line of the storm and not building
tree, wagon or piece of machinery is
left whole. The house was completely
swept from its foundations and nothing
remained but the floor, which covered
the people in the cellar. Not one of
them were harmed. Forty cattle and
about 100 sheep cannot be found. The
storm passed ON to the northeast de-
stroying everything in its way. Tele-
graph and telephone wires are all blown
down and adjoining towns cannot be
heard from.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-06-16
BREAKS REPAIRED.
Railway Traffic Resumes Its
Regular Course.
Lightning Strikes the Norwegian Luther
an Church. Other Storm
Notes.

The railroad blockage was broken
Tuesday by the arrival of the train that
left Minneapolis at 400 p. m. 1t came
in over the Chicago & Northwestern
tracks and reached the city at 1000 o.
M. The break in the Omaha track be-
tween this city and Kasota was repair
ed this morning and the through train
from the twin cities due here at 1920
p. m last night arrived at 945 o'clock
this forenoon over the Omaha tracks,
1t had attached to it the officials car of
Chicago Great Western road and also
two extra day coaches. The early
morning train for the twin cities went
through.
At shortly after midnight, 10 men
employed on the repair work near Brad
ley's crossing came into the city and
got lunch. Then they went to the
union depot and slept on the floor until
morning, when they went out again.
All were strangers to Mankato.
The washout on the Chicago & North.
western road between this city and
Mankato Junction was repaired last
evening, and the washout on the main
line was repaired this forenoon, so that
regular traffic has been resumed. The
main line is now all right as far east as
Lewiston, There is break near Min
nesota City.
A Chicago & Northwestern train
went east last night at 700 o'clock in
tending to go as far as Rochester and
turn around and come back, but it got
no farther than Waseca and had to tie
up there for the night. The heaviest
rain yet experienced there fell early in
the evening and rem dered the track I'M
safe in places,
The Cannon Valley division is still
tied up and will not be able to run
trains before tomorrow or Thursday.
A heavy rain fell at about seven
o'clock last night The rain was pre-.
celed by the passage of some dangerous
looking clouds.
Early in the evening the steeple of
the Norwegian Lutheran church on
Van Brunt street was struck and wreck
ed. The electric fluid ran down both
stove pipes. The damage done will
necessitate extensive repairs.
The bridge by the windmill in South
Bend was washed out Sunday, and
several smaller bridges in the western
part of the county went out.
Mrs. W. L. Coon's cellar was flooded
at the corner of Broad and Jackson
streets. u.s.
One lady whose cellar was flooded
made several trips across it in a tub
and thus managed to repleniSh the
pantry supplies. No accidents befell he1
craft.
The Minnesota river continues to
rise slowly and lie now as high as it was
at any time during the spring.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-06-16

The mortuary report of Health Of
ficer ,Holorook for May shows nineteen
deaths and thirteen births. Of the
deaths, ten were males and nine fe--
males; and of the births six were males
and seven were females. Of the deaths
twelve were single and seven married,
and fourteen were native born and FIVE
foreign born. There were five cases of
diphtheria during the month and mo-
deaths. a /.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-06-16
MANKATO INSURANCE COMPANY.

The German Life Insurance Com
pany of Mankato has been organized
and received authority from the in
surance commissioner to begin business.
It is mutual company on the assess
ment plan. The directors are John
Butter, Henry F. Leonard, Walter O..
Shirk, Robert Shirk and J. Shirk