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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29
MANKATO FREEPRESS.

Not until the firemen had chopped
through this did their streams begin
to have an appreciate effect on the
flames.
Gradually the rescuers worked their
way downward through the pile. By
this time there were no cries or groans
to aid them, for the flames had de-
stroyed those unfortunates who were
not killed by the explosion or the fall.
But the work of rescue continued
with undated haste. Stretcher bear
ers stood by and bore away the burned
and blackened bodies. A vacant
house adjoining the factory was con-
verified into temporary morgue; here
the bodies were placed in collins and
taken to the nearest morgue. In sew
eral cases the charred corpses were so
hot when recovered that they could
scarcely be handled by the under
takers and assistants.
Hospitals Were Crowded.
The hospitals were besieged by rel
atives and friends of the injured men.
At Emergency hospital, which was
only a short distance from the scene
and where many of the injured were
carried in wagons, the floors of the re-
ception rooms and even the halls. were
used as a temporary resting place for
the victims. Physicians were hastily
summoned and the work of relief ex-
pedited. Similar scenes were enacted
at Grace and Harper hospitals.
The front building Of the plant sus-
tanned comparatively little damage,
considering the tremendous explosion
within 16 feet of it. Nothing is known
as yet about the cause of the explo-
sion. Inc Do1Iers mad Deen recently
inspected, and the engineer was
known as one of the most careful men
in the city. The firm has already
taken temporary quarters and will
resume business as soon as possible.
There were a dozen girls among the
employees on the. four floors of the
front building and there was some.
thing Of a panic among them, but no
body was injured. The property loss,
according to Secretary George w.
Childs, is about $1S0,0O0.
Of the 81 dead died at the hos
pitfalls and the other % were dug from
the ruins.
A. J. Balfour, first lord of the treas
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29
choctaw JUDGE May Hang.

Paris, Tex, Nov. 27.-Hotema, the
Choctaw Judge who is charged with
numbering three persons because he
believed them to be witches and re-
sponsible for the deaths of a number
of children who were afflicted with
meningitis, has been convicted of MUIR
der in the federal court. If the case
is affirmed by the supreme court he
will hang, as the jury made no rec.
ommendation of mercy.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29
Football Is Profftabe.

New Haven, Conn.,, Nov. N.-Yale's
receipts for the football season, it is
announced, are likely to prove the
largest ever taken in. From the games
with Harvard and Princeton about
$4,000 was realized. Receipts from
the minor games will bring the total
I'D to about $4,000.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29
Munsey Buys a Paper.

New York, Nov. 27.-Frank A. Mum
sey, the publisher, has purchased a
controlling interest in the New York
Daily News from Mrs. Benjamin A.
Wood. The sale, which was arranged
by G. M. Palmer, was finally concluded
during the day. The purchase price
was not made public. Mr.. Munsey re-
Gently bought The Times of Washing
ton
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29

tnat seem TO grow WIFI
the speed of Jonah's
gourd and must be dis
couraged by the man
with the hoe. There is
hard work a-plenty from
early morn to dewy eve.
There are endless fields
to be plowed and har-
rowed and planted and
moved, and there are
the same old cows
such a number of them
that must be driven in
from pasture in the
meadows or sought for
in their hiding places in
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29
French Cod FISHING Poor.

St. Johns, N. F., Nov. 27.-The
French cod fishing at st. Pierre has
closed, with results 20 per cent below
the last season. The st. Pierre short
age ensures good sale for the New
foundland catch, and also lessons the
prospect of French antagonism to a
treaty next season in the matter of the
coast dispute.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29

The battleship Missouri will be
launched at Newport News Saturday,
Dec. %, next.
Fighting is reported between Turk
ish troops and Armenians at Sassoun.
No details are available.
Protestant clergymen throughout
Saxony are preparing to protest
against Joseph Chamberlain's Edin-
br~0h snoech
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29

Lead, S. D, Nov. 27.-The Burliug-
ton road has bought the right of way
of the Wyoming and Dakota Railroad
company, and will build branch from
the Burlington main Line to Rapid
City. This road is already built from
Rapid City to Mystic and will be util-
lied as part of the new branch
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29
cold Winter Predicted for Europe.

London, Nov. 27.-Danish meteor
ologists predict a severe winter, with
great cold. Heavy snowstorms have
occurred in Austria and Spain, with
serious Interruptions to railroad traffic
as a result The temperature in
Spain is lower than it has been for
many years past.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29
A NEW COMBINATION.
Made Up of Lines in the Baltimore and
Ohio Territory.

Baltimore, Nov. 27.-The creation of
q new system will be the feature of
new financial arrangements of the Bal.
timore and Ohio railroad. The newly
created system will be known as the
Baltimore and Ohio, Pittsburg, Lake
Erie and West Virginia system. 1t
will, as indicated by it's title, be made
up of the lines of the Baltimore and
Ohio, extending from the great lakes
to the coal fields of Pennsylvania and
West Virginia. This plan will bring
together into a compact system about
1000 miles of railroad.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29

thdhhS 10 hOt q hiiNoh I'LL
mer day and shall come
back to the old farm
again to quaff your wa
tiers. And, though July
may not be November,
that day will be a day
of thanks indeed.
Once more the old
bard sings, and as we
listen we do not even
glance through the win
dow across the snow
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29
kinq Alexander Wants a Divorce.

Vienna, Nov. 27.-The Hungarian
papers allege that King Alexander Of
Servia desires to divorce Queen Draga
in order that he may marry his sister
in-law, Helene Benyewitch, and that
this accounts for Queen Draga's recent
historical outbreaks.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29


stones ABOUT pi it is that the old place
ra'eS anu sn0S'S is such a magnet to
those who have left it, why with potent
and tender but invisible fingers it draws
us back when the harvest is over, when
the fields are under their blankets of
snow, when that greatest Of all home
days, Thanksgiving, is with US once more.
Berlin, Nov. 26.-German newspa-
pers assert that Baron Won Reisswitz
has been summary dismissed from
the army by order of Emperor Will
lam. Baron Won Reisswitz was colo
mel of the regiment in which Lieuten-
ant Blaskowitz, who was recently
killed in duel with brother officer,
had served. The action was taken be-
cause Baron Won Reisswitz did moth
ing to prevent the duel in which Bias
koWitZ was killed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29

STURDY, Teu CHeeheu DOy,
who swung an AK all day,
slept all night without
even turning over and ate
three square meals that
made the hired man turn
green with envy
Where the doves coo in
the dovecot on the wagon
shed and the swallows
(now far away, alasD
play hide and seek and
tag and follow my leader
around the old barn and
under its caves
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29

eS of forest where the
partridge drummed up
on a log and the gray
S quirrels scampered
among the leaves or
darted up the trunks of
great trees-the trees
carefully and annoy
ingly interposed be-
tween them and the boy
with the gun.
And as he sings of
these and other happy
scenes of boyhood on
the farm we know why
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29
UNABLE TO AGREE.
Jury in the SempIe Counterfeitine
Case Is Discharged.

Philadelphia, Nov. 27.-After de
liberating for nearly 80 hours the jury
in the case of John L. Semple, the
Camden, N. j., lawyer, who was tried
in the United States district court
here, charged with aiding and abetting
counterfeiters, was unable to agree
and was discharged. Semple was &C
cused of having assisted Arthur Tay.
lor and Baldwin S. Bredell in the man.
ufacture of plates from which were
printed $40 counterfeit notes. Taylor
and Bredell are awaiting sentence fol-
their part in the famous Lancaster,
Pa, revenue stamp counterfeiting
case.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29

Sister Sue and OF entnuSe, anu Wnefo
her beau an aruenL swimmer
could swim at least four
feet before he struck the grass fringed
bank. In fancy l can hear the bard's
Tyre and brief snatches of his song:
sing of the brook, where as boys we went
swimming,
The brook in the mead where we pad
died and dove,
Where after a rainstorm the green banks
trimming,
Where Sol threw off heat like the top Of
stove.
sing of the brook and its waters so cool
To hot, dusty limbs and to lips that
were dry;
] sing of sweet hours of skylarking and
fooling,
OF well knotted shirts, oh, so hard to
untiel
There is a change in the tune and the
subject, and the ever cool, ever faithful
spring of boyhood days now inspires the
bard:
sing of the spring and its barrel deep
sunken,
The spot which we sought on a hot sum-
mer's day;
sing of the spring and the nectar we've
drunken
In spare moments stolen from work and
from play.
How clear and how cold was the water
upwelng,
The water that came from the heart of
the hill,
As, bending, we drank of this fountain
thirst quelling,
As Tipping its bosom drank to
fill!
Was there ever such healthful,, re-
freshing, invigorating drink as that? May
the water sprite who dwells in the "heart
of the hill" never get tired or lazy or take
a day off for ages to come! The letters
of winter are making a futile effort to
close about you today, o spring, and the
thirst of November is not the thirst of
| July, but your charm is so potent that
months hence we shall forget the day of
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29

Medicine Lodge, Kan, Nov. 81
The divorce suit of David Nation
against Carrie Nation was completed
during the day so far as testimony
was concerned. Mr.. Nation read a
letter from his wife in which she de-
nounced him as a "hell-bound hypo-
critic" Mrs. Nation denounced him
in the witness box as "a husband who
would not build the fire on cold morn
l..
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29
COMPENSATION IMPOSSIBLE.
The Amount Required Is Too Large,
Says Lord Miner.

SoJS -SiN
Durham, Nov. 27.-The outlander
committee has issued a report of their
interview with Lord Miner, governor
of the Transyaal and British high COM
missioner in South Africa This re-
port asserts that in this interview
Lord Miner said that compensation to
British subjects on a general scale
would be impossible, the amount re,
quired would be SO enormous that the
idea CO.. not be entertained
With regard to the war debt, the re-
port says Lord Miner expressed his
belief that the British government
would not lay heavy burden on the
Transvaal.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29
A DAY OF THANKS
in THE OLD HOME
BY H. E. REALE.

cali him back to the old home when
THANKSGIVING day has come again.
Tnere's time for play as well as time
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29
DEATH RATE Is TERRIBLE.
Boer Preacher Describes the Concen
tration Camps.

tration Camps.
New York, Nov. 27.-Rev. Herman
d. Van Broeckhuysen, a Boer preacher,
addressed a meeting of Boer sympa-
thizers here. He declared the Beers
would never surrender, and then de-
voted most Of the remainder of his
talk to description of the concentra-
ton camps. He said:
There are "a of these camps along
the line of the railroad. They are
surrounded with barbed wire fences
10 feet high and outside of those
fences armed British soldiers are on
guard. Tae women and children sleep
on the bare ground, in tents or open
barracks. They are allowed one half
pound Of meat, one quarter of an
ounce Of coffee, two ounces of sugar
and a little salt every day. They are
practically living skeletons In Eng
land and Wales the average death
rate is IS in 1000. In these camps in
South Africa the death rate was 264
In 1000, while the death rate among
the children was 433 in 1000. Unless
some remedy is effected there will be
no children left"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29
Copyright, 1901, By 4 A. Brown.

LDER than the Fourth of
July by nearly a century
and a half and in some
respects nearer and dear
er to the American heart,
Thanksgiving day occu-
pies a place all its own.
The harvest is finished,
the mows are full of hay
and there is q conical
stack or two in the mead
Il II L l..
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29

Tor WOrk on the IarIn,
there are roses as well
as weeds, and the bard
of Ceres will strike a
responsive chord on the
heartstrings of the farm
bred boy when he sings
of the old swimming
hole in a bend of the
brook where a deep dive
meant a bump on the
brow that would make
a chronological profess
or enthuse, and where
nnl1n+ esxrvI M M nv
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29
Awful Loss of Life.

The awful crash came without the
slightest warning. Those in the front
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29

~Olana, NeD., NOV. zI.-Ine pro-
moters of four prize fights recently
pulled off in this city are in trouble
with the government over a failure to
pay internal revenues. The promoters
have been given until Dec. 1 to pay
the revenues with penalty attached
or be indicted by the federal grand
jury. Collector Stevenson says the
managers of some of the small affairs
have been trying to evade the revenue
tax and he has ordered that full pen
alties shall be collected.
Three Old War Monitors Condemned.
Washington, Nov. 27.-Three more
of the old war monitors which have
been lying at the League Island navy
yard for years past, have been con-
demaed and are to be sold at public
auction. They are the Catskill, built
by Ericsson, and the Manhattan and
Mahopack, built at Jersey City during
the days of the Civil war.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-29

A. ]. Balfour, first lord of the treas
ury and government leader in the
house of commons, is recovering from
his attack Of influenza
The Conservative, 1901-12-12
OMAHA AS A DEADBEAT.

The city up the river, the metropo-
lis of Nebraska, has had hard times,
as everybody knows, but is usually
supposed to have outlived her straits.
This is carefully encouraged by her
business men, and it is safe to say that
the public are beginning to assume
that it is founded on fact. It is inter
esting, though not especially crafty
ing to other Nebraskans, to learn that
Notwithstanding Omaha S credit is not
the best in the world In fact, among
bankers and dealers in securities, it is
said to be very bad, and getting worse.
There are plenty of financial operators
around the country who will not
touch scrap of paper bearing Oma-
has name with ten foot pole. They
have no more use for it than for con-
federate bonds or bills Of the wildcat
banks of Fontenelle and DeSoto. This
is not remainder of the prejudice
created in the boom days, but the re-
suit of systematic course of trickery
in handling certain classes of securi-
ties issued by Omaha, the honoring
of which seems to be very slight
matter in the minds of the city au-
thorities. They are very estimable
gentlemen individually, but they
seem to be easily misled by their
official advisers. At any rate they
are content to have the municipality
they represent put in the position of
a professional dead beat.
The Conservative, 1901-12-12
Che Conservative.

ling him, would send him into the
ring riveted securely to the seat Of a
protected automobile, with Gatling
gun on the dash board, rammed out in
front, two torpedo tubes below the
water line, and otherwise equipped
for rough house in case any opposi-
tion should develop in the district.
Then he could calmly ,maneuver for
the windward berth, make his little
spiel, and know that he was prepared
to make good.
The Conservative, 1901-12-12

lar hardihood. Such varieties should
be grown only in peach districts
where the winter temperature never
runs lower than 10 to 16 below zero.
By noticing the behavior of the bud
ded peach in the nursery row we have
some guide as to it's hardihood. We
have this day made careful examina-
tion of all the different varieties in
nursery with a view Of noting condi-
tions of the tree as to maturity and
as basis of comparison on the above
line Of thought
Varieties noted for special hardihood
ripen early, shed their foliage earlier
than other varieties with less reputa-
tion for hardihood. 1t requires no
more time nor space to grow peach
trees of the hardest known varieties
than to grow seedlings of unknown
and ofttimes of little value. The hard
lest varieties Of trees can now be pur-
chased at such low prices that it seems
much more profitable for the planter
to fill his ground with varieties of
the utmost hardihood and of known
and positive good quality. Wide OBJ
servation show that our hardest vari-
eties of grated apple trees are far
superior in hardihood to average seed
ling apple tree. Likewise the rare
Seeding peach of special hardihood
and of sufficient quality to justify pro-
pagation is taken up, budded, named
and set out with confidence knowing
that it will be found much harder,
much more valuable every day, than
the average Seeding.
E. F. STEPHENS.
Crete, Neb.
The Conservative, 1901-12-12

has just returned from his daily la
Dor, to do the chores, lick his wife
and kiss the hired girl as has been
his wont. There is hitch in the
program and, to cut out the harrow
ing details, he soon finds himself try
ing to crawl further under the sink,
while above him towers form which
seems eleven inches taller than ever
before, and in. the voice of an emanci-
pated woman she addresses him thus:
"To begin, with, am 1T. I can vote
a ballot as large as yours with one
hand tied behind me. I no longer
plead with you, defy you. You
shall not press down upon the brow
of womankind this crown of mop
rags; you shall not cruelty femininity
upon cross of washboards. - That
is the picture, and who can doubt
that she gets the nomination on the
first ballot. Woman don't want to
vote because she is afraid to trust
the job to the sterner sex, as some of
us have been led to believe, but she
will no longer sit idly by and allow
herself to be classed with the drunk
ard, the idiotic and the insane. We
have this straight, but the name Of
our informant must not be discussed,
as she is the writer's wife, and must
not be subjected to the ridicule of
those of the opposite sex who have
not seen the handwriting on the
wall and duly noted that it is in
bold feminine hand.
Ed is to be crowned and there is to
be "doings" connected Herewith.
Among other things a wateryeyed,
hunkenshanked galoot, who never took
a fencing or fitting lesson in all his
wearisome and wearying existence,
will don burdensome armor and ma
jestic airs, both several sizes too large
for him, and ride back and forth in
front of the pavilion, or judges stand,
or whatever the works is to be called,
and in behalf Of his royal patron, Ed
Guelph. challenge all the Earth to
mortal combat OF course, this is
very romantic, but the thought Of
what might happen if some bellicose
dissenter in the crowd should an
nounce his former residence as Mis-
souri,, and ask to be shown, sends a
shiver over all England. The historic
exploit of the present champions s
father (the function is hereditary is
not calculated to reassure. He per.
formed his duty by riding into the
ring in a great suit of mail and boldly
defying any and all who denied his
sovereign's right to the throne to step
forth and be spitted, and then prompt
lY fell off his horse and remained
The Conservative, 1901-12-12
BUDDED AND SEEDING PEACHES.

BUDDED AND SEEDING PEACHES.
We notice general feeling that
Seeding peach trees have greater
hardihood than budded varieties, and
doubtless thousands of farmers will
this fall plant peach pits with the
idea Of raising trees and planting
them for chance peach crop. Going
through our nursery rows today, we
notice that the budded varieties
ripen their wood earlier and shed
their foliage earlier than the Seeding
trees along the side or in the same
rows. It not infreqnently happens
that all occasional bud does not knit
and grow. Thus an occasional Seeding
is found growing in the row with the
budded trees. This gives opportunity
for comparison in regard to early
ripening of wood and shedding Of
foliage. Another point of interest,
nearly all of our harder budded vari-
eties have already set fruit buds on
trees that have been growing six
months only from the bud, that is,
were budded in August and Septem-
Der, 1900, and commenced growth in
the spring of 1901. The Seeding
trees, however, of the age of two years
in the same row, have not yet devel-
oped fruit buds. We notice that orch
ards of Seeding peach trees do not as
a rule fruit as early, that is, at as
young an age as orchards of budded
varieties During this year, 1901, in
our orchards, yearling trees planted
in the year 1901, in rare cases set and
matured fruit in the same summer.
Not infrequently our hardest budded
varieties fruited the second summer
and quite freely the third summer.
The Duchess of Oldenburg apple is
a standard as to hardihood because it
invariably ripens it's wood early in
the fall, long before the approach of
winter. We find among varieties of
apples that those are the hardest
which have the wood most completely
ripened before the earliest late fall OF
winter periods of severe weather. An
unripe tree may be damaged in Oc.
tober. Sometimes unripe trees are
severely damaged by the first severe
frost or rather freeze coming in Sep.
tember. 1t follows therefore that only
ripening of wood is the measure OF
hardihood. It is quite true that the
average Seeding may be harder than
some budded varieties, notably those
| of the Crawford type or others Of SINH