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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-11-30
From Tuesdays Daily.
ZIMMERMANS TRIAL BEGINS.
The SaIfer Cases Go Over to the Feb.
ruary Term at LeSueur Center.

ruary Term at LeSueHr Center.
District court convened again at
two O'Clock this afternoon, and the
trial of Philip Jenkins Jr., of Cam
bria, on the charge of attempted rape
upon thirteen year old Ellen Davis,
of the same town was to be taken ups.
B. Wilson is attorney for the defense
Jenkins is about nineteen years old,
and was out of the state reformatory
on parole when the alleged crime was
committed The latter happened Sat
urday afternoon, June 9th. Ellen
Davis, daughter of VIM. Davis, was
on her way to church to practice for
some doing, and it is claimed that
young Jenkins dragged her through
barbed wire fence into a wheat field,
where he threw her down and attempt
ed to accomplish his purpose She re-
sisted and her clothing was torn and
her neck scratched. A neighbor and
his hired man came along just then
and Jenkins was frightened and ran
away. Jenkins walked to Mankato,
where he was arrested at the house OF
his aunt.
Judge Caldwell and the attorneys
interested have agreed that the trial of
John and Joe Salfer and Graves go
over to the February term at LIE Sueur
Center. They had been set for today.
The motion for a new trial in the case
of Martin Murray will be decided on
Friday of this week. None of the at
torneys went to LIE Sueur Center to-
day. There have been rumors that the
complaining witness, Miss Welsh,
would not show up, but County At
torney. Hughes has a letter from her
saying that she would appear at any
time that is desired.
A special from LIE Sueur says: For
some time it has been rumored that
Edith Watson, the principal witness
in the Salfer Graves Murray trial,
had been spirited away. Today the
rumor was confirmed by County Attor-
ney Kirwin's report to Judge Caldwell
and the special term, which had been
called for their trial has been adjourn
ed to the regular spring term.
When court convened this afternoon
it developed that the Jenkins case
would not go to trial, as it was agreed
that he be sent back to Red Wing to
serve out his sentence in the state
training school. He was committed
by Justice Jenkins, of Cambria, until
Jan. 1st, 1904, and that gentleman this
afternoon wrote to the authorities at
Red Wing and asked them to come and
take the prisoner back there The case
will not be dismissed from the calen-
dar, however. .
The trial of Harry Zimmerman on
the charge of forgery was commenced.
W. L. Comstock is his attorney. 1t
is charged that Zimmerman forged G.
G. Phillips name to check and
passed it on Kleinschmidt Bros, at the
Stahl House.
Judge Cray has made orders for
judgment in the cases of Jacob Jones
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-11-30

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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-11-30

Judge Cray has made orders for
Judgment in the cases of Jacob Jones
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Poison in any and all
sta ges; contains no
mineral to break down
your constitution {; it 10
, 1900-08-16
Express Messenger Murdered

Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 10.-When the
Panhandle express train No. s from
the west pulled into the union station
shortly after IL O'Clock tonight,
Charles Lane, the express messenger,
% years of age, was found dead in
the car with a bullet in his heart. The
safe had been opened with Lanes keys
and all the valuables taken. The key
was left in the lock.
The murder and robbery is supposed
to have taken place between Milford
Center and Columbus, as no harm had
befallen the express messenger when
the train stopped there. The messen-
ger was alone, No one heard the
shot.
1t is supposed the robber jumped off
the train as it slowed up coming into
the union station.
Indications are that there was n des-
perate and bloody struggle, the mes
senger bravely fighting for the safety
of the property intrusted to his care
and defending his life.
One report is that $4,000 in money
was secured by the robbers.
At Marble Cliff the train slowed up
for a minute to allow n man to board
1t and 1t "a away almost before he
had entered the coach. Here, ii is
believed, the robbers had been waiting
for the ear and they probably sur
prised the messenger at the rear door
and possibly the side door, open for
mir.
, 1900-08-16
CHINA WANTS PEACE
BUT MUST ACT FIRST.

with the powers for a cessation of hos
~tilities.
The reply. in effect, is a reiteration
of the demands previously made by the
United States upon China. coupled with
a vigorous intimation that no negotia-
tons will be entered into until the Chi
nese government shall have complied
with those demands.
This government, inspired by a de
termination to effect the rescue OF the
legationers besieged in Pekin, takes adj
vantage, in the reply to the edict, to
reiterate the demands previously made
to China. These demands were first
made by the President July 23rd, and
subsequently We're reiterated sub
stantially by Acting Secretary Adee, by
direction of the President.
The demands for the protection of the
ministers. for free communication be-
tween them and their respective gov
ernments. and for the restoration of or
der in China, form the keynote of the
memorandum forwarded to the imper-
ial government by the President
, 1900-08-16

New York. Aug. 12.-Death reaped
n harvest yesterday from New Works
humidity. At least thirty-three per
sons died in this city and vicinity.
thirty of them from prostrations and
three children from falling from fire
escapes on which they had crowded To
get some relief from the torturing heat.
Since August 9th, when the tempera.
ture was n~inety-One degrees. the condi.
tions have been growing worse. All in
all. ii the hottest continuous weather
New York has aver had. ForecaSteT
Emery said to-day that it surpassed in
the aggregate the record of the 1896
hot spell. All local weather records fol
this year We're broken in the most un
comfortable way. The thermometer
reached n~inety-five nj . p. m. and reg.
istered the same figures IN hour later,
This was the official record taken in
the bureau. high above the street. and
is many degrees cooler than the TEN
perature the people We're subjected to
ON the streets.
y thunder shower to-day brought n
lower temperature and much needed
relief from the heat.
, 1900-08-16

Washington. Aug. 12.-Indicatlons of
the desires of China for a peaceful set
Element of her present difficulties have
been multiplying for several days. OF
fetal evidence of that desire was pre-
scented to the Department of State TO-
day. 1t was in the form of an edict
promulgated by the emperor, kwang
Hsu. appointing Earl Ii Hung Chang
as envoy plenipotentiary to negotiate
with the powers for an immediate
cessation of hostilities," pending a so
luton of the problems which have
grown out of the a~nti-foreign uprising
in the empire.
Earl Ii is to act directly for the EN-
peror and n fair inference is that what
ever terms of settlement he may reach
with the powers will he approved by
the imperial government.
Tonight Secretary Adee. by direction
of President Mckinley, presented to
Minister WI for transmission to his
government the reply of the United
States to the imperial edict appointing
Ii Hung Chang envoy to negotiate
, 1900-08-16

Chicago, Aug. l2.-General Joseph
wheeler mnde IA strong plea for the
standing army In his convocation ad.
dress at the University of Chicago. lie
declared that the most certain way ia
avoid the dcsoiation and the horrors of
war was to he constantly ready with
men ana arms for every emergency,
,la' me only security for peace was IL
he always prepared and ready to en-,
gage in al
At the close Of the address General
Wheeler was cheered by the students.
many Of whom are from the southern
states, and when the University band
struck up the tune of Dixie" the en-,
thusiasm rose to IA high pitch.
, 1900-08-16

Hong Kong, Aug. 10.-Rioting and
loOting continues around Swatow and
the vicerOy ignores the protests of the
foreign cOnsuls. All the missions AT
ing kang tIung Chun), have beer
RACED to the ground and the native
Christians stoned to death. The Rev.
Mr.. Fisher and the Rev. Mr.. Grocs.
beck telegraphed to-day to Consul Gen.
eral Wildmun as follows:
Three more chapels burned, mission
houses looted. Our lives endangered.
Taotai silent. Save us. I]nsurrection
spreading"
The extreme Importance of this spe-
clal cable lies in the proof 1t gives that
the anti-fOreign agitation exists in the
most aggravated form all over China
for Swatow is in the province of Kwan
Tung and far away 10 the south of the
scenes of the massacres already re-
ported. China is getting rid of the
hated foreigners by the most expedi-
tiOus methods.
, 1900-08-16
solLs A KETTLE ON ICE.
Professor Tnntroye Claims He Can Also
Do More Wonderful Things.

Do More wonderful IhinBb.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 10.-Ar-
mics may be annihilated and warships
melted at nine miles by a new device
using III SUMS rays, If the claims OF
the inventor are borne out. John q.
Sharp, n Salt Lake business man, is
financial hacker of the new device,
which was invented by Prof. Jules
Tantroye of Seattle. Mr.. Sharp said:
1.-The simple principle upon which all
this is based is the focusing of the
suns rays with glass, but the method
used Is different from all others in the
past. Last February Professor Tan
trove was experimenting in Seattle
with pieces of plate glass and made
this valuable discovery. After he dis
covered, accidentally, that he could To-
Gus the suns rays without the aid of
a lens-that is. with straight pieces of
glass-he began experimenting. AS a
result he constructed n little machine
with plates of glass ten inches square
with which he was able to perform
some wonderful feats. One of these,
which l witnessed. was to set n tea
kettle on n cake of ice put OF the roof
of his house thirty Get from the ma
chine and cause the ice-cold water to
boil in less than four minutes. An
other was to set fire to n board almost
instantly at the same distance. Pro-
fessor TantrOve constructed n larger
machine on the same principle with
plates of glass thirty inches square
and thus multiplied his power TO so
wonderful an extent that we propose
to lay the matter before the war and
navy departments of the general gov
eminent"
, 1900-08-16
AT the Wrong Shop.

Colonel Bryan is going 10 the annual meeting of the q. A. H. at Chicago
Mr. Mckinley, as an old soldier and as President wa naturally invited. Col
onel Bryan MAS also invited ut al courtesy We don't know what ecnm of
the invitation that was sent him, hmt the Hon. Carter Harrison. mayor of Chi
cago. chose to ssun that the moul had been sighted, and kicked up Il ire
nendous potter about the supposed indgniy to the peerless. The young
mayor with tn" brown fedora clustered that the encnmpmcmt would he suub-
bd H. the city pvcrnntI if the colonel was lot asked to come olnbl
the veterans could have survived the snub, and there is IL % reason in the M
ture of things why Il candidate who holds no official post. who n toe Young
to tight In the CWl War, and who spends n great deal of his time in Iastng
the Grand Army We're carefully courteous, and even young Carter is nw sat
khcl
Yet why does Colonel Bryan want to talk to the G. \. r.? His Irresistible
cacoethts loquendi aus he his only Justification for putting himself int II
pac" where Ii doesn't fit The Grand Army of the Republic is composed IF
men who fought to force pOn the Southern people Il government against their
consent Tile great purpose which it fought for IL achieved i1ntp the
principles which the colonel is 10 preaching.
The q. A. Il. is II band OF hmperialsts among whom the colonel will he MS
much mi of place ms Colonel lack Chnn womd be at Il meeting of The Aurr
can Peace Soctety-New York sun.
, 1900-08-16
Chinese Force Are pemorallzed.

London, Aug. 1.-THE morning pa
pers express satisfaction at the latest
developments in China. The average
comment is that China is nov genu-
inely suing for peace through Ii Hung
Chang.
Dispatches printed this morning give
further details of the taking of Yang
Tsung. According to the Daily Nails
correspondent the attack was led by
the Americans and British. The Chi
nese position consisted of seven lines
of intrenchments. The enemy fell back,
until, driven to the last line, they fed
to Pekin completely demoralized. The
Chinese say they retreated because the
British poured poison into their
troops. This refers TO the lyddite shells
which the Chinese hen experienced for
the first time.
The correspondent adds that the
British casualties We're 200 and the
Americans $50, out this latter estimate,
it will be noticed, is four times great
err than that of General Chaffee's re
port.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says the
Chinese minister there, Yang Yu, has
received a telegram announcing that
Ii Hung Chang Is dangerously i'll and
CouiHltu W Ms p'h' anu tHHt hN mas
been granted a months cave.
Another st. Petersburg dispatch as
serts that the Russian general staff has
been notified that Chinese L., 900 strong
are moving from Hu Nan and Hu ri
toward Pekin and Tien Tslu.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily News, wiring Thursday, an
nounces that the Chinese merchants
are petltioping the authorities not to
land troops.
, 1900-08-16

Washington. Aug. 1O.-The Navy De
pnrtment to-day received IA cablegram
from Shanghai, which. 1t is understood
gives notice of the intention of Admiral
Seymour to land troops there for the
defense of the city. The Shanghai
newspapers. according to the cable.
while acquiescing In the landing of
british troops, deprecate the idea that
England's example should he followed
by the powers. The United States
now has we warships at Shanghai To
safeguard American interests in case
of trouble there. the gunboats Castine
and Princeton. The latter arrived at
Shanghai today.
, 1900-08-16

Paris. Aug. 12.-DurinE maneuvers
of the French fleet off Cape st. Vim,
cent, last night. n collision occurred be.
tween the first-class b%attleship Bren.
nus, flying the flag of Vice Admiral
Fourier, commander of the fleet. and
the torpedo boat destroyer France
The France sank Immediately. and
only a portion of the crew, consisting
of four officers and fifty-eight men
Were saved.
1t is believed that no fewer than ff,
ty We're lost. Details are meagre. The
accident was due to the fact that the
France. which was II recent addition
Ia he French navy, turned TO the right
when ordered to the left.
, 1900-08-16

ST. Louis, Aug. l2.-Mauricc Brennan.
Fred T.. N~orthway and James
Schwartz, formerly employees of the st.
Louis Transist Company, were arrest
ed to-day ON the charge of dynamiting
the conduit of the Olive street cable
line last night. Brennan and North
way have confessed and have implicat-
ed Schwartz.
The Central Trades and Labor Union
to-day decided not 10 revoke the boy
colt which has been operative in conse-
quence of h street railway strike,
while the strike of the East st. Louis,
Illinois, electric railway WIS declared
off 10y unanimous vote of the EN-
ployes.
, 1900-08-16

Baltimore. Md. Aug. 10.-The cigar
shaped train invented by Frederick
Adams. and generally known as 'the
wind splitter" beat all records between
Philadelphia and Baltimore yesterday
when the run was made from Chest
nut station to this city in one hour and
forty-One minutes. At times "A speed
was maintained of e~ighty-two miles an
hour.
1t was $50 p. IN. when the wind
splitter started. 1t overlook the Royal
Blue limited which had gone out TWEEN
ty-three minutes earlier, and had to
slow down, losing several minutes. The
engine which drew the wind splitter
vas IL of the fifty-tive-ton type, while
the Royal Blue engine was twenty-five
tons heavier.
, 1900-08-16

A Rome correspondent describes the
Pope as particularly grieved at the de-
struction of the new Roman Catholic
cathedral in Pekin, toward the erec-
tion OF which he was a generous sub
scrlber, IT seems that the building
was an object of offense to the en-
press-dowager. by reason of its spires
overlapping those of the imperial res
idence. To satisfy her scruples. the
archbishop OF Pekin acquiesced in vari-
GUS architecture alterations. but APP
parently these were not sufficient to
avert the antagonism of the lady and
the Boxers. The Pope Is said to be en-
deavoring to arrange a coalition be
tween France, Austria. and Belgium
for the active protection and promo
ton of Catholic interest in the Far
East.
, 1900-08-16

The few Republican or Mugwump antllmpermlhus who are going to sup
port Mr. Bryan Will do 20 because the Democratic platform promises &c promise
independence to the fitrinos II because they believe that Mr. Bryan will
carry nj this promise q promise.
These Hnt-lmperalsts are easily satisfied. The Democratic platform puts
Filipino independence INTO the second place. First. thc United SmtpS are To
the fiipnos II stables government
lw long VIII take to MAKE II stable government in tmc Philippines?
Clearly n vcrnmc must endure II considerable lime before it can be called
stable Clearly the Unhcd State would have to educate the Fnpinos in self
nNcrnnnen before the government could have ny chance uf stability hide
psndenc wontd be delayed indefinitely. And the rngaIogs would he no better
pleased with tlHrf friends the Democrats, than they are with the Republicans
some ol the Democratic eNranhontsts II te South are processing sntsac
ton with the democratic recipe OF II stable government TO he followed by indie
pendenc. They think that annexation would come in time They know that
independence would he distant and unlikely
Somebody Is being unhhugEed, Is Democratic nnuImpruHism imperial
ism fura lf At any ratcF Filipino independence is OF likely to occur ipforp
November 31st Of the Foolun MIendar-Ncw York sun.
, 1900-08-16
That Essay on Imperialism.

What becomes If all Mr. Bryan's fine drawn sentiments about "conGnInr
our sphere of activity to the western hemisphere" when he talks nhou uro
tcctrg the FHirinos from outside Interference while they work out their dos
tiny
The idcHo Of Il pTotectoratc vcr lO0O0OOO. independent Fntplnos scattered
over Loo. islands without ,soyerelgniF or authority over them Is n flight OF
folly So obnoxious to practical craftsmanship hal its adoption by MI BrNnn
shows to what straits he is driven by the question. How would you change
the American policy In the Philippines If 20 were Iroslenr?'
In the language of the Republican platform, our authority could no he
less than our responsibility That is an answer to every criticism Mr. Bryan
has made Of the Republican policy in the Philippines.
In spite of all his tears and ears owe the thick darkness Of p,rprtupI
vassNlagc' covering the Philippines Mr.. Bryan had not II word of sympathy To
hing 10 the negroes of North Carolina aud Alabama, citizens Of the United
States DISTINGUISHED of their rights under The constitution aud governed with
out thee puscuto OF he governed Chicago Times Herald
What chance there Is OF Mr. Jones hring able 10 keen his candidate uupt
according to program. may he seen from tile cheerful IN in which Mr. pFyor
gave to II reporter his program for the next thirty DAYS! First thr suwC6 a
acceptance; hen tWo other speeches Of apcUtnucp to the populst and SUyr
Republican committees: then the three letters # acceptance: then the spprc'
before the g. \. H. SO 4 Is talking is cunccrn1d. Jones may uronusr H.
Bryan will dispose.
, 1900-08-16

Many experiments will o be
made by the German army with diff
ferent types of automobiles for mill
tary service; the railway brigade has
charge of the affair and is to make n
series of trials in the open country.
in the neighborhood of Eberswalde, a
small town about twenty-five miles
from Berlin; the trials will be mad
under the supervision of the lieuten-
unt-general. nine officers of the gem
eral staff. eleven captains, two officers
of the engineering corps, IA number OF
subordinate officers, artiicers and
privates. In France a series of grand
maneuvers Will take place this year
in II eastern part Of the country. in
which a number of different types of
automobile will be tried. such as pc
troleum and electric vehicles. motto
cycles, besides n number of heavy
Scotte traction engines for the trans
portaticn of freight and baggage. Tho
experiments are to be carried out on
"a large scale. and the organization has
been for some time past engaged In
the special study of applying the au-
tomobile to military purposes.
, 1900-08-16

A trip from Berlin to Paris has been
made by Herr Arthur Reuter-, who
started from Berlin IN May 81. and
reached Paris on June 5. The route
followed included the cities of Magde-
burg. Brunswick. Hanover n Co
iogne; Aix-la-Chapelle and Liege; Ma
muir, Givet and Reims, making a total
distance of us miles. Herr Reuter-
stayed two days at Aix-la-Chapelle
and at Liege; he covered the distance
from Liege to Paris in t~wenty-one
hours.
, 1900-08-16

DIR. William Elliot Grifis. in a re-
cent article on Japan. speaks of the
rapid growth of It's already over
crowded population, and adds that the
Japanese, who have heretofore been
largely vegetarians, are now beginning
TO eat a good deal of meat. A meat
eating population makes greater de-
mands upon the land of a country than
does a nation of vegetarians. A piece
of beefsteak represents the growth of
an animal during many months in
which 1t has been eating grass and
other crops from a wide range OF ter
ritory; a dish of oatmeal is mans di-
rect Use of a vegetable product.
, 1900-08-16

New York, Aug. 12.-Nine persons
who sought shelter under trees In the
woods in the Bronx section, during n
storm, this evening, were struck by
lightning. They We're James Brown, n
Hungarian tailor of this city: his wife
and five children. and Bertha Lascho-
witt and Bertha Silverman. They Were
taken TO FOrdhnm hospital.
-Four persons Were killed in Brooklyn
aud two others stand little chance of
recovering from injuries received.