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New Ulm review., 1901-04-03
Means Cutin Wages

London. April 1.-The board regu-
1ating the Scottish manufactured iron
trade wages have decided that there
was a decline in the selling prices in
January and February which equals
ten per cent. reduction in wages. The
reduction begins Monday next.
New Ulm review., 1901-04-03
Big steamer Launched

stettin, April l.. The twin-screw
steamer Kron-Prinz Wilhelm, of $4,000
tons register, belonging to the North
German Lloyd Steamship company,
was launched here Saturday morning
in the presence of Crown Prince Fred
erick William.
New Ulm review., 1901-04-03

Washington, April /. Senator
Mitchell, of Oregon, is confined to his
bed with an acute attack of the grip
and has. been prohibited by his physi-
clan from giving any attention to cor
respondence or business. He is not
considered seriously i'll, but it is
necessary that he should keep quiet
for few days.
New Ulm review., 1901-04-03
Condition Improved.

New York. April THE condition
of Richard Hayden Moulton, the young
man who shot Alexander w. Dingwan
in the Pabst's rathskeller recently,
was said to be somewhat improved Sat
urdaY.
New Ulm review., 1901-04-03
, Fatal Gas Explosion.

Pittsburgh, Pa, April by an ex-
plosion of gas at furnace C, of the
Edgar Thomson steel works at Brad
~dock, Pa, Saturday, five men were
terribly burned, two fatally. Their
names: George RAIDER, will die;
George Hosack will die; George Goga,
Charles Porter, Michael Grannon
The men were plumbers and the ex-
plosion was caused by escaping natur-
al gas from a broken main, igniting
from the furnace.
New Ulm review., 1901-04-03
Return, to Work.

Marseilles. April 1.-The engineers
and boilermakers have resumed work.
but the strike of the dock laborers has
not changed.
New Ulm review., 1901-04-03
Resigned,

Copenhagen, April 1.At the clos
ing of the rigsdag Saturday S. Hoegs-
bro, president of the folhething, an.
nounced his resignation.
New Ulm review., 1901-04-03
Two sunfocated by Coal Gas.

Sioux Falls, S. D., April / Mrs. Jo-
years old, were suffocated by escaping
coal gas Saturday. The woman's hus-
band was overcome, but will recover
New Ulm review., 1901-04-03
GEN. Trias Sees Aguina1do.

Manila, April l. Aguinaldo on
Friday received a number of former
insurgent leaders in his quarters at
Malacanang palace. Among them was
Gen. Trias, the commander of the in
surgent forces in southern Luzon, who
recently surrendered to the American
authorities. Gen. Trias told Aguinal
do why he surrendered. He said that
continuance of armed opposition to
the United States was unjustifiab BILE
and ruinous, that the independence of
the Philippines was impossible, and
that the Filipinos would better accept
liberty, prosperity and progress under
American rule.
AS yet .Aguinaldo has given no hint
of his own sentiments. While he was
being brought here by his captors on
the gunboat Nicksburg he said that in
June, 1899, he, together with a number
of officers, swore to prosecute the war
as long as they lived. He considered
this oath inviolable and that he intend
ed to live up to it. Later, however, he
declared that he haddesired peace from
the outbreak of hostilities, was con
yinced that majority of his follow
ers desired the cessation of the war,
and that he would use every means in
his power to accomplish this end.
These two statements are character
istic OF the shifty nature of the Fill
pino leader.
Aguinaldo in the course of conver-
sation on the gunboat said that he had
never been in single battle, a state
ment which may perhaps be true. He
admitted that he had ordered the as
sassination of Gen. Luna, giving as his
reason that the security of the Fill
pino cause demanded Gen. Luna's
death
New Ulm review., 1901-04-03
BURNED ON FIRE ESCAPE.
Mother and Two Little Ones Perish
When They Are Very Near
to Safety.
FATAL FIRE IN NEW YORK TENEMENT.
Fierce Flames from Floor Below Cut
OF Observation-Disclosures Bodies Re-.
covered-Gas Explosion in Furnace
at Bradock, Pa. Five Burned,
Two Fatally.

New York, April Mrs. Esther
Cohen and two of her children, Ben
jamin, aged five, and Sophia, one year
old, perished by the burning of a five
story tenement house at Delaney and
Norfolk streets early Saturday. In
the panic which occurred mothers lost
their reason and threw their children
from the windows and fire escapes to
the street below. That all We're caught
by the police and fremen and escaped
serious injury, seems almost miracle.
Following is a list of the injured:
Max Salisbury, 20, burned about face,
hands and body; John j. Reardon, de-
tective, cut on hands and face by fall
ing glass; Michael Oestfeldt, suffering
from shock and contusions.
There were 13 families in the house.
The fire was discovered at $3.50 o'clock
by the wife of the janitor who aroused
her husband, and together they went
to the front Of the house, giving the
alarm.
New Ulm review., 1901-04-03
Burned on Fire Escape.

On the top floor of the tenement
lived Morris Cohen, his wife and their
children, Sophia, Harry and Benjamin.
The flames We're already through the
roof when they were awakened. Es-
cape by the hallway was cut off. Crop
ing their way through the smoke to
the window, Cohen picked up the boy
Harry, and, calling to his wife to fol-
low, got out on the fire escape and
started to descend. Mrs. Cohen car
ried the baby in her arms and the boy
Benjamin followed. Out on the fire
escape, the flames and smoke which
burst from the windows below them
separated the members of the family,
and only Cohen and the boy reached
the street. When the fremen were
finally able to reach the top floor, they
found the bodies of Mrs. Cohen and
the other two children blackened and
burned, lying on the fire escape land
ing.
The damage by the fire is estimated
at $4,000.
New Ulm review., 1901-04-03
e May visit AguinaIdo.


Manila, April 1.-The wife and
mother of Aguinaldo, who have been
living at Binacayan, near old Cavite,
have been granted permission to visit
him.
The Spaniard Lorenzo Prieto, who
was charged with assisting the insur-
gents by furnishing information to
the insurgent general Cables, in ex
change for trading privileges, was
tried by a military commission, found
guilty and sentenced to death. Gen.
Macarthur commuted the sentence to
imprisonment for ten years.
Prieto was the agent of the firm of
Mendezona & Co., and to certain eNt
tent was associated with D. A. Car1nan
the American contractor, also charged
with aiding the Filipino insurgents.
New Ulm review., 1901-04-03
THANKS Of THE NATION.
Telegram of Appreciation Sent to
Gen. Funston by President
Mckinley.
PART OF THE MESSAGE MADE PUBLIC.
Wife and Mother of Aguinaldo Given
Permission to Visit Him = Cen.
Trias Sees Former Chief and Tells
Why He Surrender red-Ag -Aguina1do's
Sentiments Unknown.

Washington, April 1.-The war de-
partment Saturday made public a por-
tion of the cablegram sent Friday to
Gen. Macarthur, conveying the appre-
citation of the president and secretary
of war of Gen. Funston's capture Of
Aguinaldo. 1t is as follows:
Washington. D. c., March 29.-Mac-
Arthur, Manila: The president directs me
to express his high appreciation of the
gallant corduct of Gen. Funston and of
the officers and men of the army and navy
engaged with him in the Palanan expedi-
ton. The secretary of war personally joins
in this expression.
(Signed) tCORBIN.'
There is excellent reason for the
belief that the portion of Gen. Cor
bins message not made public re-
lates to the case of Aguinaldo, the
question of whose deportation is now
a source of some perplexity to the
administration. Although 1t is more
than probable that Gen. Macarthur
is asked for an expression of his
Judgment as to the best course to
pursue with regard to his prisoner,
it is barely possible that the mes
sage contains definite instructions ON
that point.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-05
MAPLETON.

From the Enterprise:
The family of Mr.. Geo. Beise of
Medo was taken quite seriously ill
early Tuesday morning and for while
their condition was considered serious
DR.. Kruger was sent for and he
found that on the previous evening at
supper all had partaken of some brick
cheese, and that about three o'clock
Tuesday morning they were all awak
ened about the same time by being i'll
at the stomach. They vomited quite
freely and at the time the doctor left
they were feeling much better, though
weak. The doctor has sent sample
of the cheese to the state board of
health for analysis.
Assessor Davis has completed his
work in the village and finds that
while our people are pretty we'll to do
that they are not 80 aristocratic as to
possess any diamonds even if they do
indulge the extravaganza of keeping
30 dogs. The total assessed valuation
of the property of $50, $50; goods and
merchandise being listed at $23, 1875
household furniture "a, 100; and
credits other than banks SO, 246. The
number of horses is found to be 80, as
sessed at 81. 632. There are 10 sheep,
81 hogs, AZ sewing machines, 50
watches, Is organs and 16 pianos.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-05
Society,".

At 80 p. m. Saturday evening, at the
home Of the BRIDES parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. o. Nicholson, at 422 South Front
street, occurred the marriage of Miss
Ida May Nicholson and Mr.. Albert
John Gerlich. Rev. Geo. H. Davis,
rector of st. Johns Episcopal church,
performed the ceremony in the pres
ence of few relatives and friends
Supper followed. and the evening
was spent in social enjoyment. The
young couple will take brief trip to
the twin cities, and on their return
will make their residence in one of
the Chas. J. Macbeth houses on Wal
nut street, not far from the Jail.
Chas. Schwartz, the Mapleton drug
gist, cousin of the groom, and Miss
Ruth Nicholson, sister of the bride,
will be best man and maid of honor.
The bride is a most estimable young
lady, and her popularity is shown by
the large number of gifts which she
has received. The groom is son of
Sheriff and Mrs. Fred Gerlich and is
jailor at the county Jail and deputy
sheriff. He is popular and clever
young man, who was born and raised
in the county. The many friends of
both will extend their best wishes.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-05
A NEW CHURCH.
Methodists Propose to Start One
at Once.
The Present Building Said to be Unsafe
and a $4,000 Structure
Will be Erec ed.

At the meeting held Monday eve
ming, June 18th, of the Ladies Aid
society of the Methodist church
to which the official board of
the church had been invited. the
matter ofssbuilding new church was
brought up for discussion.
DR.. j. W. Andrews read letter
from the city engineer calling the at
tention of the trustees to the unsafe
condition of the building with its
cracked walls and crumbling arches.
1t was decided that it would be I'M
wise to expend single dollar on re-
pairs and various plans were discussed
as to the best way to proceed with
the building of new church Finally
it was unanimously agreed to begin
at once the building of church to
cost. not more than $50, 900.
At a meeting of the trustees of the
church held Monday evening, June a.
the action of the previous meeting was
ratified, and a finance committee was
appointed. This committee will i'm
mediately begin canvass with sub
scription list. Miss Minnie Van Blar-
cum is secretary of the finance commit
tee 1t is to be hoped that the project
can be carried through this time
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-05

most Of the time and sleep gave me no
rest or refreshment. I was troubled
with headache much Of the time and
my illness incapacitated me for energetic
work in my passionate.
ga sister-in-law living in Nebraska,
who had suffered very much and who
had used DIR. Williams Pink Pills with
good results, recommended them to me
and I decided to try them. I had taken
but two or three doses Of the pills when
I found that they were helping me, and
further use of the remedy brought such
relief that am glad to offer this public
recommendation of DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People in the interest Of
suffering humanity.
"My wife was troubled much as I
was and the pills also proved Of the
greatest benefit in her case.
1have recommended the pills to many
whom have met in my work and am
always pleased to indorse the medicine,
the excellence of which has been es-
tablished within my own observation.
Signed, REV. ENOCH HILL.
At all druggists or direct from DR..
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady,
N. Y, on receipt of price, 30 cents per
box; six boxes, $3.50.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-05
PAYING OFF DEBTS.
Sinking Fund Commission Meets and
Takes Up Notes.

The sinking fund commission met
Saturday forenoon and took up 81, 500 of
outstanding notes with money that
was in the sinking fund.
Thesmayor and recorder, who were
last night authorized to take up notes
to the amount of So, 500 with money in
the local improvement fund, took up
one $3.50 note today. They will get
together Monday and take up the bal
ance The floating debt has now been
reduced to $31, 663. and when the other
So, $50 has been paid Monday, it will
be still further reduced to $2S, 413.
This will be one-half what it was
when it had reached the maximum.
A great deal of interest has been saved
by the paying off of what has been paid,
and the council should strive to make
it possible to pay off the balance of the
debt as rapidly as possible.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-05
MANKATO JOINS IN.
Correspondence Between Several Cities
10 king Toward Ignoring Library
Flee ion Law.

Correspondence Between Several Cities
10 king Toward Ignoring Library
Flee ion Law
The Red Wing Republican of Thurs
day evening says:
Winona seems to be in earnest in it's
opposition to the new library law. 1t
is the apparent intention of the
authorities of that city to follow the
advice of the city attorney and ignore
the law requiring each city to elect a
new library board in July. Cores
pondence has been opened with Off
Gals in other cities with the result
that Mankato has been induced to join
Winona in request to other cities to
take part in the proposed boycott on
the law. The communications have
been received by the board here, but
there is no probability that any atten-
ton will be paid to it. AS one mem
Der of the board said, there will be
nothing gained by fighting the law.
The board can work under its provi-
sions until the legislature gets together
to repeal it. The worst part OF the law
as this board members saw it is the
provision requiring the secretary to
give bonds when he has no financial
liability to the board. But no matter
what the defects of the law, there
will be an election for a library board
July 90.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-05
RAILWAY BUILDING.
Minnesota Leads the Northwest With
New Track for First six Months of 1901.
O. D,,,1 D;oooon D.oo,.

New Track for First six Months of 1901.
st. Paul Pioneer Press:
Minnesota leads the entire northwest
in railway construction for 1901, with
&C. 70 miles of new lines built for the
first six months, and still larger
mileage projected to be completed this
year. In North and South Dakota not
an additional mile of track has been
laid, although construction is planned
by several systems. Construction
in Wisconsin amounted to but 3. 70
miles and in Iowa to 9. 55 miles Only
five of thirty-eight states and terri
tories, according to advance statistics
from the Railway Age, have built
more than Minnesota.
The Chicago & North Western is
preparing to lay 200 miles during the
next six months, and all the North
Western systems are planning extern
sions upon which work has not yet
commenced. The largest single stretch
of rails laid this year is between Lib
eral, Kan. and Texas points, 139 miles.
A notable feature of the six months
construction work is that Georgia,
Oklahoma and Texas. the first two
practically undeveloped as far as rail
way resources are concerned, have
built the most important extensions.
New Oklahoma lines amount to 231
miles, Texas lines to 295 miles and
Georgia lines to 104 miles.
The great Central Western states,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois. Indiana
and Ohio, furnish only eighty
miles of the new lines, while nineteen
southern and southwestern states have
contributed 1, 800 miles. Almost all
the construction of Importance lies
west of the Mississippi.
The great railway systems, Great
Northern, Northern Pacific, Burling-
ton, Milwaukee, Illinois Central,
Union Pacific. Southern Pacific, Rock
Island and others have built the
greater part of the new lines. The
first half of the year witnessed more
track building than any other cores
ponding period. 1t is entirely probable
that construction in the United
States for the entire year will aggre-
gate 5000 miles, a remarkable record.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-05
BUTTER AND CHEESE.
Minnesota is Leading State in the Union
In These Products.

The Chicago North Weston line has
issued a neat folder for distribution.
1t relates to the dairy interests of Min
nesota. These are set forth in detail
and accompanying the reading matter
is map which shows the location of
every creamery and cheese factory in
the state. Minnesota has demonstrated
that in dairy products she is preemi-
nent. There were 52S creameries and
60 cheese factories in operation during
1900. These received milk from 331, 512
COWS, producing 972, 100, 800 pounds of
milk. The sum paid farmers for milk
and cream was Sc, $50, 914
The total number of pounds of
creamery butter made in 1900 was rs, =
600, 900, which at an average price of Is
cents pound would net the manufac-
turers 81, $50, 0OO The amount of
butter made on the farms by churning
during the year is estimated at 16, =
900. 900 pounds, the value of which
would be 50, 400, 900, making the total
value of the butter product $13, $50, 00O
@@ssOf the eighty-two counties of the
state only eleven in the northern por-
tion are without creameries. Free
born county has Twenty-Five. The
others average about nine each.
In 1884 Minnesota won the sweep
stakes at the New Orleans exposition
in 1898, first prize at Chicago In 1896,
gold and silver medals at the national
creamery contest; in 1897, gold
medal and silver cup. 1884 when Min
nesota took first prize there were less
than twenty creameries in the state.
In 1898 Minnesota scored first premium
at the national buttermakers' contest
and four first prizes at the Omaha ex-
position. In 1899 first prize was won
at Sioux Falls, and in 1900 the national
buttermakers' convention awarded
first prize to the north star state.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-05
$4,000 IN BONDS.
That is What North and South Road Gets
From Towns South of Here.

Albert Lea Tribune: The voting of
bonuses in aid of the Duluth, ST..
Cloud, Glencoe & Mankato Railway
company.between the latter place and
this city is completed, two towns in
Waseca county, Vivian and Freedom,
voting down the proposition, while
three in Blue Earth and one in Free
born county decided to issue bonds.
The bonds voted are as follows: st.
Clair, $1,000 Mcpherson, $12, 900
Medo. $4,000, all in Blue Earth
county, while Freeborn, this county,
voted $12, O0O The total is $43, 900,
snug sum for a beginning, but of
course it will not be available until
the road is built. Reports are that
the prospects are excellent that the
line from this city to Mankato will be
undertaken at no distant day.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-05

The farmers are not buying prison
Irvine very literally this season al
though crop prospects are good They
were much dissatisfied with the quality
last season, which they say was very
poor. Then the reform administration
would not allow them to cancel their
orders for portion of their invoice
when they found the crop would be
poor and they would not need near
what they ordered, and this made
them sore. Many, especially in the
north central portions of the state had
considerable left over, and so will buy
from dealers what more they need.
On June first only 8, 200, 900 pounds out
of a total output of nearly 1000, 900
had been sold. The Irvine is of good
quality this year and the effects of
"reform" at the state Irvine plant will
doubtless be gone by next season.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-05

The action of the council last eve
ming in granting two months ex-
tension on the present franchise for a
street railway, is said to be satisfac-
tory to the board of trade committee.
That committee, as stated yesterday
has no desire to get the franchise away
from the present holders, if they mean
business and will go to work and build
the line. They only desire that the
city be no longer tied up and all efforts
to put in line blocked. 1t is now up
to the gentlemen who hold the fran
chise, to go ahead and actively COM
mence the construction of the proposed
line. In this work the board of trade
committee has actively offered it's
hearty cooperation. They care not so
N UGH who builds the line, as they do
for its construction and operation.
The provisions which the council has
defined in making the extension are
such that the board of trade committee
can continue its work along the line
it has been pursuing and stand ready
with company at the end of the two
months to take a franchise if nothing
should be done in the meantime with
the present one, and so be in position
to put in a line in the early spring of
next year. Taken all in all, it begins
to look as though things were shaping
themselves for street railway line
for Mankato in the immediate future,
though it will not come this season
as many had hoped.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-05

AS might have been expected, Con-
gresham McCleary failed to put in an
appearance to investigate the demand
for rural routes from this place, and
has gone to Europe on a vacation. He
has sent out word, however, that be-
fore winter "Mapleton will have one
of the very best systems in the entire
country. '-Mapleton Enterprise.
This statement is hardly fair to Mr..
McCleary. If he could have had his
way, not only Mapleton but every
point in the second district that desir-
ed a rural delivery route would i'm
mediately secure one. But Mr.. Nc
Cleary does not have the say as to the
routes that go in. That belongs to the
postoffice department at Washington.
That department is overrun with ap-
plications, and the appropriation made
by the last congress, which it was sup
posed would be large enough to meet
all demands this coming year, will not
be half enough. Before the people got
awake to the benefits of the rural ser
vice, Mr.. McCleary got large num-
Der of routes established, more than
any other one congressman. But pro-
test has been made from other districts
that we have more than our share, and
now we must wait until things are
evened up. But Mr.. McCleary is not
to blame for this condition. The
route inspectors state that the work is
being pushed forward as rapidly as
possible, but that they are simply
overwhelmed with applications.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-05

1t is reported that J. Peirpont Morgan
intends to lock horns with organized
labor, and fight it in all the enterprises
in which he is interested. If this re-
port is true, Mr.. Morgan has entered
upon a larger and more difficult task
than any that he has yet taken hold
of in the way of forming great combin-
ations. Labor organizations have not
always been guided by the best of
Judgment, and have often been two
radical in their actions But in this
respect it cannot be said that combin-
ations of capital have always been
conducted with due respect to public
interests. Wherein Mr.. Morgan can
defend the combination of capital and
oppose that of labor on just ground is
hard to comprehend.