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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-25
HITS THEIR PLANS.
Appointment of Mcconnell Disarranges
Plans of Some Second District Leaders.

Plans of Some Second District Leaders.
st. Paul, Jan. 90 The appointment
of w. w. P. Mcconnell for dairy and
food commissioner disarranges some
what the plans of certain second dis
trict leaders, who have been looking
forward to a man of their own for the
Office of bank examiner. Sentiment in
the district has practically united up
on H. A. Baldwin, cashier of the First
National bank at Redwood Falls, as a
successor to General Pope
Not later than Saturday a promi-
nent member of the second district
house delegation made some inquiries
of the governor relative to this mat
ter and received assurances which
were highly satisfactory.
McConnell's appointment, however,
has left the entire situation clouded in
uncertainty, and the chief executive
will probably be appealed to within
twenty four hours for information re-
garding his future intent. The friends
of Baldwin do not propose to give over
their efforts in his behalf until off
cially informed that there is no hope.
The appointment of Mcconnell does
not necessarily preclude the second
from obtaining recognition through
some one Of. the other appointive
offices. The astute politicians from
that end of the state were planning,
nevertheless, to put away all preferred
honors until the time might come
when they could claim the place of
public examiner.
The governors announce ment will
make no difference in their plans,
though it is conceded it may be some
what more difficult to land Bald win a
winner in the face of what has al
ready been done for the second district.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-25
NEIGHBORS INDIGNANT.
Placing of Diphtheria Patient in Va
cant House Causes Trouble.

People living in the neighborhood
of Sixth and Walnut streets are very
much wrought up over the placing of
diphtheria patient in vacant house
owned by Chas. j. Macbeth. The ten
ants of Mr.. Macbeth other house in
that vicinity have notified him that
they will move not unless the diph-
liberia patient is removed forthwith.
Mr.. Macbeth states that he has mott
fed the parties who are occupying the
McMahan house to vacate at once,
and that as soon as they move out he
will turn the house over to the city
for use as quarantine hospital He
expects to do this in a day or two. He
does not consider that the residents
near the Sixth and Walnut street cor
ner need have any fear of the disease
spreading as the city has the house
under quarantine. It's occupancy is
merely temporary.
The house has no sewer, and Stops
are thrown out in the yard Houses
are very close together there, and the
neighboring families have children.
The residents say that some house
more isolated should have been Sc
cured.
The patient is stranger in the
city, and was taken down with the
disease while in a lodging house.
Members of the council commi ttee
on health have been appealed to, but
without much result. Threats are
openly made that the house will be
burned unless something is done, but
not much stock is taken in this ex-
treme talk.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-25
STATE PRINTER.
W. c. Whitney ia Again Chosen
Responsible Position.

st. Paul, Jan. 90. -The state print
ing commission held a short meeting
yesterday and reelected Capt. G. c.
Whitney as superintendent of public
printing.
Capt Whitney has been reelected to
the position for the third time. He
was first chosen for the position with
out solicitation on his part, in Novem-
Der, 1895, to fill the unexpired term of
George 9. Stevens, and he has held the
position continuously since that time.
Capt Whitney has been in the print
ing and newspaper business since boy
hood and is one of the best known
practica printers in the state. He has
served in every position from Office
boy to manager of a large printing
house in the East, and from reporter
to managing editor on the daily press.
He was the editor and publisher of the
Marshall Ne VS. Messen ger, for many
years and was connected with the
GU ntry press for twenty-one years
He was very prominently associated
with the State Editorial association
for period of twelve years and was
president of the organization in 1895.
Mr.. Whitney is a prominent Repub-
lican and has always taken an active
part in the interest of the party. He
is at present secretary of the Republi-
can state central committee, and treas
urer of the State League of Republican
clubs He is member of the G.. A. R
the Masonic bodies, K. of p; 1. o. o.
F., the Elks and the Royal Arcan UNI.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-25

By recent change in the running
Of trains on the Gilmore branch, two
freight train crews lay over in Man
kato instead of Gilmore. The two
crews number ten men, the most of
whom are married, including Conduc-
tors thinner and Flood.
Sheriff Gerlich, County Attorney
Wilson, Coroner Kennedy, Robert
Lamm, Aid. A. G.. Meyer, W. F.
Jewson, and B. G. Parmalee attended
the funeral of the late DR.. W. S.
Smith at Waseca this forenoon.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-25
SOCietV...

Thirty of their friends gave Mr.. and
Mrs. Lang surprise party Mondayeve-
n ing at their home on Agency hill.
Refreshments were served dancing
INDUCED in, and all had pleasant
time.
Invitations are out for the dancing
party to be given by Mankato lodge
No 36, K. of P, at the A. o. U. W.
hall Thursday evening. Dode Fisk S
orchestra, of Baraboo, Wis, will fur
nish the music. This is the last party
which the lodge will give before lent.
The Cotillion Club will give their
party Friday evening, Jan. %, at
Schiller hall. Ainsworth orchestra,
of Mason City, Iowa, will furnish the
music.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-25
ACCEPTS AMENDMENTS.

London, Jan. 22.-The Washington
correspondent of the Daily Mail says
he understands it is practically GER
tain that Great Britain will accept the
amendments of the United States sem
ate to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-25
ELECT SENATORS.
Minnesota Legislature Chooses
Nelson and Clapp.
Meets at Noon Today and Ratifies RepuD-
lican Caucus Nomin-
atoms.

st. Paul, Jan. Ex-senator Knute
Nelson and Gen. Moses E. Clapp were
elected United States senators for the
long and short terms respectively by
the legislature in separate sessions at
noon TODAY
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-25
VICTIM OF GRIP.
Henry S. Hilton Dies After an Illness of
a Week.

w
Henry S. Hilton, an old and respect
ed resident of Mcpherson, died Tues
day morning at Z 80 o'clock after
week illness with the grip. He was
ffty-nine years of age and located in
Mcpherson more than forty years ago.
When the war broke out he enlisted in
Co. A., Second Minnesota, and was sub
sequently member of Wilkin post.
He contracted asthma while in the
army. He is survived by his wife,
four sons and three daughters.
Mr.. Hilton was known to many of
our people, and was a good and indus
trious citizen, whose taking off causes
much regret. The funeral occurred
from the house at one o'clock Wednes-
day afternoon.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-25

The Bitters
has behind it
a record of
fifty years of
C u re S, a n d
when t a k g n
faithfully
Dyspepsia,
BiliOusneSS
and all stom.
ach disorders
W III trouble
you no longer.
a dose at bed
time insures
r e f r e S b i n.g
sleep.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-25
GROWING VILLAGES.
Population of Some of Them in This Sec
ton of the State.

Following is the population of
several of the villages of this county
for 1900 and 1890, as will some of
those in the immediate surrounding
territory
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-25

The viewers of ditch No. 6
met Wednesday. They are E. J.
Sheldon of this city, VIM. White of
Amboy, and Fred Lassow of St. Clair.
The ditch is to drain land in Lincoln,
Butternut Valley and Judson and will
be long one with several branches.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-25
SECURES A JUDGMENT.

Chas. J. Macbeth returned this
morning from Chamberlain, S. D.,
where he has been looking after his
ranch interests. He states that there
has been no snow there, and that cattle
are fat.
Last Wednesday the district court
of the Chamberlain district filed de-
cision in his So, 600 suit against his
former partner, J. @. Anderson, for
money loaned. The court gives him
judgment for about $1,000. The
defendant took stay of thirty days.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-01-25

The condition of Mrs. Sarah M.
Rule, mother of Rev. F. M. Rule, who
met with an accident at her home at
st. Paul last Tuesday, has not i'm
proved. The doctors say that she can
not recover, but death is not expected
Immediately.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-22
rAYHAWKFR JoTs.

ottawa gets into the game with four
tickets for the spring election.
Realizing that the town requires a
cleaning up Mankato viii establish a
soap factory
The Bachelor Girls club Of Hoising-
ton intermiugles their gossip with cheese
and cracker lunches
Anticipating a drOuth In Ireland Q
Greenwood county farmer will plant
1000 bushels Of potatoes
The small boy and the fishing pole
have appeared at Florence, but the fsh
appear to be from Missouri
An untimely prairie fire has destroyed
the grass and feed in three townships
Of Lane and Finney counties.
Topeka jointists are emerging from
their temporary retirement since Mrs
Nation has buried the Ratchet
A little colored girl has the distinction
Of being the first person sent from J ohm
son county to the reform school
Mac Shurts OF Kirwfn viii leave with
his family this week for oklahoma In
other words he Will change shurts-
Lehigh Adventists dine freely on
hygiene sausage which is said to have
peculiar powers as 3 hair restorer.
Soft drinks seem to have the same
dizzy effect that the old kind did at
Great Bend before the days OF the cru
SADIE.
A Pottawatomie county man adver--
tfses: Lost. strayed or stolen, one red
rooster. viii give a liberal reward tor
the same"
Mr.. Carnegie isn't the only pippin on
the twig. Alone and unaided q small
club of Eureka women have raised $500
for library fund
The Neosho county woman who has
successfully pulled 200 doWny little
chicks through the March blizzards may
be pardoned for doing a little Growing
A DightOn man who has had exper-
fence says the hen beats the incubator
"A fellow don't have to get up In the
night to see if the blamed old things
going"
The average man, when he hears an
operate or Classic piece of music
rendered by an artist" goes home and
lays away the gun that he had loaded
for cats.-Peabody News
So pestiferous are the pupils of dis
trict No. las, Elk county, that the school
board has advertised for a red headed
woman teacher with muscles Of iron and
not less than $50 pounds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-22
PROOF OF HIS INNOCENCE


A curate up north, says rumor, has
furnished another example of the pseudo
apology at his own expense. Having
preached d very clever sermon on the
Sunday, he called upon a certain colonel
on the Monday especially to ask his
opinion.
How did I like the sermon 2" said the
colonel. Very much, indeed. It's one
OF my favorites."
"One of your favorites?'' stammered
the curate. slightly puzzled. IT do not
understand
The colonel regarded him with
twinkle at the back of his eyes. "Of
course, won't say a word he said.
but know very well that you stole it,
and also where you stole it from"
Sir" said the curate, and he spoke
from out the whirlwind OF his righteous
indignation. Il am not in the habit. Sir,
of stealing my sermons. I fear you are
laboring under a mistake, and-er-fOr-
getting yourself, sir. I must ask you to
apologize
The colonel was silent a moment Then
he said; 1T may be that I have made
a mistake Wait moment I will make
sure"
Going to his bookcase. he took down a
massive tonne of sermons-a rare and
almost forgotten work. He turned to
certain page, and an apologetic, humble
look came upon his face as he glanced
up at the curate. Il beg your pardon
he said. II apologize. You did not
steal it, after all, for I find it is still
here My mistake. sir: my mistakei"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-22
The Widow Got the Verdict.

rF'rom the Detroit Free Press.
Never cross-quesIion an Irishman
from the old Sod" advises one of the
foremost railroad attorneys Of the age
Even if he does not think of an answer
he will stumble into some bull that will
demoralize the court and jury, and
whenever a witness tickles jury his
testimony gains vastly in its influence.
Yes, I'm speaking from experience.
The only witness who ever made me
throw up my hands and leave the court
room was a green Irishnaan- A section
man had been killed by an express train
and his widow was suing for damages.
I had a good case, but made the mistake
Of trying to turn the main witness inside
out
I'm his quaint way he had given a
casionally shedding tears and calling on
the saints Among other things he
swore positively that the locomotive
whistle was not sounded until after the
whole train had passed over his departed
friend Then I thought 1 had him.
& See here McGinnis.' said I, you
admit that the whistle blew?
81 'Yis, sor: 1t blewed, sor.'
"a Now If that whistle sounded in time
to give Michael warning the fact would
be in favor OF the company, wouldn't
it2'
g sYis, sor, and Mike would be tistifyin'
here this day The jury glggled.
Never mind that. You were Mixes
friend and you would like to help his
widow out, but just tell me now what
earthly purpose there could be for the
engineer to blow that whistle after Mike
had been struck
I presume thot the whistle wore
for the mkt man on the thrack, sor.'
Il left and the widow got all she
asked
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-22
WHERE no REGIsTER.
Books at Auditorium and Also in the
Various Wards.

$500 ~AA~
The registration books may be found
at the Office of the election commissioner
IN the Auditorium, and also at the fol-
FIRST WARD.
SelTers g James old posJoflcs build
Friday, March Is, 20, 21 and p.
Hanley Bros, store. Gordon and To-
peka avenue, Wednesday. Thursday and
Friday March 20, q and o.
SECOND WARD.
Frank Newland's grocery store, Sixth
and Lake street, Tuesday and Wednes-
day, March 10 and 90.
Adamson's shoe store, Thursday and
Friday, March p and q
Wh1tuesey's mercantile store, Second
and Madison Thursday and Friday.
March 20. p and %.
THIRD WARD.
Jordan's store, Twelfth and 1inco' n.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
March 20, p and %.
Rosser's drug store. Tenth and Topeka
avenue, Wednesday, Thursday and FRI
day, March 20, 81 and o.
FOURTH WARD.
Rice,s grocery store, Fourth and Tay-
March 20. p and %.
Merrill's drug store, Sixth and Clay,
" ednesday. Thursday and Friday March
20, q and p.
Osborn's grocery store, Seventeenth
and Kansas avenue. Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, March 20, q and %
Child's store, Twelfth and Washirg-
ton street, Wednesday Thursday and
Friday, March 90 81 and p
Store at Seventeenth and Buchanan
street, Wednesday, Thursday and FRI
day, March 20. p and %
SIXTH WARD.
Dickinson's grocery store, Tenth and
Morris avenue, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday. March 20, 81 and o.
KnOx's grocery store, Auburndale,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, March
20, Fl, and o.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-22
HAD A SHORT LEG.
z outh's Queer Reason For Refusing
to Marry Miss Kurz

Newark. N. J.. March 22.--That old
ditty, zone of His Legs Was Longer
Than It Really Ought to Be- is recalled
in a breach of promise suit brought by
Miss Rose Kurz of No. 5 Jones street
against Bernard Lilienthal Of No. 81
Mercer street.
Lilienthal is a. barber. He met the girl
when calling on her father. Six weeks
ago they became engaged, the father
promising to settle $500 on the bride
groom on the day of the marriage.
The young barber thought it strange
his f1nancee always received him sitting
in a chair, and did not get up and go
to the door with him when he left the
house. Several times he asked her to
take a stroll outdoors, but it was always
too wet or too dusty, or too slippery or
too windy, and, besides, 1t was so much
cozier in the parlor.
Finally however, in response to urgent
requests, she went out with him, but not
far To his surprise he noticed that she
walked with a decided limp. BY close OBJ
servation and questioning he learned
that one of her legs was much shorter
than the other. This did not please him,
and he said so, leaving her abruptly.
His uncle advised him not to marry
the girl He so informed her father,
who stormed, but to no avail. Last eve
ming the father swOre out a warrant be-
fore Justice Cohen, and Lilienthal was
arrested and head in $500 bail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-22
CUDAHY WON'T
SEND HIS SON.

Omaha, March Z2.-Chief of Police
Donahue was shown the dispatch from
Dallas stating that the sheriff there had
appealed to Mr.. Cudahy to send his son
to Dallas to identify the man Henderson
under sentence for a crime in that city.
The chief said the telegram had been
referred to him by Mr.. Cudahy. He said
Mr.. Cudahy would not send his son. and
that he (the chief would have nothing
whatever to do with the case.
When Henderson was ARRESTED his
photograph was sent to Chief Donahue.
who showed it to all the persons who
had seen the abductors. and none of
them could identity him. The chief of
police says there is absolutely no evil
dence to connect Henderson with the
case, and that he viii not act on Hen
derson's confession at all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-22
CUBA'S NEW TREASURER.
N otable Career of Gen. Carlos Rolof,
Soldier of Fortune.

Washington. March 22.-Carlos Rolof,
whose appointment as treasurer of Cuba
was confirmed by Secretary Root is not
a native Of the island although one of
the leading revoluuonists. He is a native
Of Poland. and is about So years of age.
In his boyhood he was brought to this
country and settled in New Orleans.
During the war of the rebellion, he serv-
ed in the Confederate army as an enlist
ed man, most of the time in the army
Of the southwest. In 1868, at the out
break of the ten years war in Cuba, he
went to that country and volunteered his
services to the Cubans-
He was made a brigadier general, and
afterWard rose to the rank Of major gen.
era1, on account Of bravery in action
At the close of the war in 1878 he went
to New York and remained in this coun-
try until the more recent revolution in
Cuba, which. in consequence of the as
sistance of the United States, resulted in
the complete overthrow of Spanish SOW
ereignty. During the last revolution
Rolof served for time as secretary Of
war of the so-called Cuban republic, and
spent some time in the United States
working up interest In the revolution
and securing substantial aid from our
citizens.
1t is said that he engineered several
successful hlibustering expeditions in
GLIDING one which left Baltimore on the
steamer James WoodaH, in July, 1895,
which carried $50 men and large sup
ply of arms and ammunition. Since the
American occupation Of Cuba, Gen.
Rolof has been connected with the fiscal
branch Of the government, and has dem
onstrated his fitness for the important
position to which he has been ap-
pointed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-22

By the death Of Representative Bro
Eius, Of Pennsylvania, attention has
been called to the remarkable neurology
OF the Fifty-sixth congress Three sen
ators and sixteen members Of the house
died. including Mr. Brosius. Three
members are now in sanatoriums. With
the exception OF Representative Har-
mer, OF Pennsy lvania- they were not
what might be termed old men. although
several were over so. Most Of them had
had hardy constitutions apparently, and
IN a majority OF the cases their death
was sudden Lung trouble was respon-
sibIe for a large proportion OF the
deaths superinduced, it is held. in many
cases by the confinement at the capitol.
with it's foul air and drafts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-22

London. March 22.-Advices received
from Mengo. IN Uganda. Africa, dated
Thursday. March Il. say that NIuludzi
the AIohammedan prophet. who recently
proclaimed himself as leader Of a new re-
ligious doctrine in Uganda, died at Mengo
that afternoon under extraordinary cir
cumstances, after a short reign as a
prophet. The Sultan Of Imbogo the head
q Mohammedanism in Uganda denounced
the new doctrine preached by Muludzf and
a native court declared Muludzi to be an
inpostor. Whereupon Muludzi indignantly
declared he would no longer remain on
earth He left the native court and
ascended a small eminence outside the
kings enclosure, where he knelt called
loudly to Mohammad and suddenly ex-
nired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-22
THE HEALTH HABIT.
Just as Easy to Form as Any
Other.

We do not deliberately form our pet
habits but they are unconSciously &C
quired, and grow as we grow. and by
the time we learn they are hurting u.s.
we find them too strong to be easily
broken
Then, why not form a good habit, a
habit which will cOunteract the many
bad ones; in other words, contract the
questionable habit of being always
we'll
The best health habit to get into is
to have and keep vigorous stomach; if
you have a healthy digestion you can
drink your beloved coffee, smoke your
favorite brand of tobacco, and with lit
tie or no harm; the mischief begins
when these things are forced upon the
faithful stomach, without any assist
ance.
Form the habit of taking after meals
some harmless but efficient digestive
which will relieve the stomach Of SO
much extra work.
Nature furnishes us with such dfges-
tives, and when they are combined in
such pleasant preparation as Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets. they give the over
worked stomach just the necessary as
sIstance TO secure perfect digestion with
out any of the harmful effects Of cathar-
tics and similar drugs
The habit Of taking Stuart's Dvspep-
STA Tablets after meals is as necessary
to the weak stomach as food itself, and
indeed to get the benefit from food eaten
nothing better and certainly nothing
safer can be used.
Many families consider stuart's Tab
let's as essential In the house as knives
and forks.
They consist entirely Of natural diges-
tive principles without the erect or
characteristics Of drugs: they have no
cathartic action, but simply go to work
on the food eaten and digest it.
Take into account your bad habits
and the expense they entail and then in
vest so cents in a box of Stuarts Dys-
pepsia Tablets and see if your digestion
for the next month is not vastly i'm
proved.
Ask the clerk in any drug store the
name of the most successful and popular
stomach remedy and he will say
Stuart'a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-22
POINTED PARAeRAPHs

IFroEn the Chicago News.1
Anger IS stone cast into a hornets
nest
The harbor buoy is a child Of the sea.
Laziness begins with cobwebs and
ends in chains
Keeping out of debt is a hrst-class life
policy
Some people are SO cheerful they make
other folks weary
Many a bowling swell is the result Of
a detective tooth
The man who walks wires may be
skillful, but he isn't in it with the poll
tician who pulls them.
a man can always manage to attract
attention by either raising whiskers or
having them shaved off.
Let a fireman play on your piano with
his hose for few minutes If you want
to get all the music possible out Of it.
A boy boasts of what he IS going to do
when he becomes a man. and an old man
brags Of what he did when he was q
how.