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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-08-29
BoND-BLAINE CONVENTION.
Newfoundland Will Endeavor to Re.
vive the Agreement.

st. Johns, N. F., Aug. 23.-The an
nouncement that Sir Robert Bond, the
colonial premier, would visit Wash.
ington to revive the Bond-Blaine con-
vention has aroused great interest
here. Official authorities say that the
Canadian ministers at London offered
most strenuous protests against Sir
Robert being permitted to take this
course, but the imperial government
is said to have had no alternative but
to agree to the proposal
The convention was only disallow-
ed in 1890 until Canada had tried to
secure reciprocity. Canada failed to
do this, and there was, therefore, no
further warrant for hampering the eff
fort of Newfoundland.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-08-29
TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN NEW YORK.
Double Murder and Suicide in the
Apartments of a Woman.

New York, Aug. 28.-Lizzie Otto,
formerly of Stroudsburg, Pa, Arthur
Campbell of this city and Christian
Cans, government tailor at Fort Han
cock, are dead as the result of
tragedy which took place in the apart
ments of the woman in East Twenty
fifth street, where she was known as
Lizzie Hall. The woman and Camp
bell, it is believed, died almost instant
ly. Cans died in Bellevue hospital
later.
1t is said by the police that Cans
shot the woman and Campbell because
he objected to the presence of the
latter there. Then he fired a bullet
into the base of his brain, striking the
spinal cord.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-08-29
Life Sentence for Wife Murder

Shell Lake, Wis, Aug. 28.-George
Wolfe, the Chippewa Falls wife muir
derer, was brought here from Chip
pewa Falls during the day, and, upon a
plea of guilty of murder in the first
degree, was sentenced by Judge Vinje
to Imprisonment at EVaupun for life.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-08-29
Tramp Killed in Freight Wreck

Waupaca, Wis, Aug. 28.-A freight
wreck on the Wisconsin Central road
occurred in the Waupaca yards in
which tramp supposed to have hail
ed from Utica, N. Y, was killed and
another from Kankakee, ILL.,, probably
fatally injured. The man killed IS
said to be William O'Connell and the
injured man James Farrell.
TELEGRAPHlC BREyITIES,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-08-29
WORK TRAIN WRECKED.
Six Negro Laborers Killed and other.
Reported MISSING.

Van Buren,, Ark, Aug. 2S.-Six
negro laborers are known to be dead
and others are missing in a wreck of
a work train on the Kansas and Ar
kansas Valley division of the Iron
Mountain road, near Illinois Station.
i. T. The engineer and fireman es.
oaned
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-08-29

In enect Uec ~, lSOl.
Trains Going West and South.
esMoines and Sioux City Passenger No.
arrives at 10 As a. m. Departs at 10 AS a.. %
kansas City and Denver Express No.
arrives at 10 As p. m. departs at IL is Pm
Kansas City Mail and Express, No. l, arrives
.........at ii rs p. M, departs at Ii :35 p. q
st. James Passenger No. arrives at
1850 p. No. ..........d departs at 100 .. n
sMankato and fillmore Passenger No. Al
...... .................d departs at Ss .. N
Trains Going East and North.
Twin City Limited No arrives at 4 ;48 m
......................... departs at :48 q. N
sSt James Passenger No. 8, arrives at $3.50
a.. departs at 7:10 a. N
Twin City Local No. g. arrives at IL :35 pm
........d eparts at IL do q
Twin City Express No. arrives at4 :45pm
....".............. departs at 400 p. n
gilmore and MankatO Passenger No. 40,
........os.- arrives at SAC 2
STwin City and Mankato local, arrives at
TO: 40, a. m. departs at IL 90 p. m,
Daily except Sunday, Daily. Sunday on)
OHAs. E. JOHNBoE, Tickat Agsp:
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-08-29
BUSINESS SUSPENDED
GENERAL HOLIDAY DECLARED IN
MAINE TOWNS VISITED BY
THE PRESIDENT.
ANOTHER INTERESTING DAY

Short Drive Taken About the City of
Augusta Early in the Morning and
Later the Chief Executive Delivered
His Principal Speech at Bangor in
the Presence of an Immense Throng.
On His Way to Nashua, N. H.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30
Oriental Paner.Makinn.

In the matter of making and using
paper We are not in line with the Chi
nese and other Asiatics, who not only
make the finest paper in the world,
but apply it to all sorts of uses, max
ing window panes, fans, umbrellas,
sandals and even cloaks and other
garments of it.
The art of making paper from
mulberry bast is said to have been in
vented in China in the second century
B. c. Afterward bamboo shoots,
straw, grass and other materials were
also used. The manufacture spread
to the adjacent countries.
The Arabs learned it in Samarcand,
and their learned men carefully kept
secret the process by which they
made paper for their own USE The
crusades made Europe acquainted
with the art, and the first paper mill
in Germany dates from the twelfth
century.
To this day the process of paper
making in the east is simple and ap.
parently crude, the fibres being torn
apart with the fingers and the pulp
pressed in some such primitive con
trivance as the one here illustrated
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30

An eminent scientist noticing the
mysterious way in which sounds
sometimes, are lost in space recently
undertook an interesting experiment
in a balloon. He found that while
still within talking distance of earth
all sound of the human voice was
quenched in the mere indistinguish-
able hum of the human hive. Equally
lost was the striking of clocks and
ringing of bells, but dogs bark rang
out clearly. So, also, the below of a
COW far out in some field would pene-
trate above the babel of busy town,
while screeching of railway whistles
pierced the sky up to three miles
and, gathered in from vast areas,
often reached an intensity positively
painful.
The strangest of all acoustic phe-
nomena is the unaccountable silence
which sometimes ensues when sound
is to be expected In many cases it
has been proved that, speaking liter
ally, the lost sounds issuing from a
point on a seacoast were not extin-
guished, for they were heard distinct
ly farther out at sea. Heavy salutes,
unheard by people within twenty or
thirty miles have been plainly aud
ible at a much greater distance, and
this apparently not in direction
favored by the wind. The scientist
who conducted the balloon expert
ment offers the theory that condi-
lions of the aerial currents rather
than the direction of the wind are
responsible for these phenomena
Through a certain upper stratum,
measured by many hundreds of feet,
he found streamlets of wind, wild,
strong and biting, and dead opposed
to the main broad current. The
copious commingling of dry, colder
air with the warmer and moister wind
the scientist maintains, was necessar-
lily an opaque sound barrier, and
when allowance is made for casual
but powerful up-draughts there would
seem no difficulty in accounting for
fcAleness in the travel of sound.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30
A Sea Horse cannbt

Among the curiosities gathered at
sea by the mate of the schooner Me.
rom, in port from Port Tampa. was
a specimen of sea horse, which he
found in a bunch of sea grass he
pulled on board while the Merom was
in the Gulf of Mexico, says the Bait.
more Sun. The fish is about inches
long, and has a head and neck
shaped like those of a horse. The
mate kept the fish alive in sea water
for two days, but it then died. 1t
was preserved by drying in the sun.
The sea horse is rarely caught. The
mate of the Merom said it was the
first he had ever seen. Dictionary
makers speak of the sea horse as a
fish with head like those of a horse
and the hinder parts like those of
a fish," The Nereids were said to
have used sea horses as riding steeds
and Neptune to have employed them
for drawing his chariot. There is
nothing fabulous about the fish that
arrived here. There are now two
specimens of the sea horse in Balti.
more.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30
The "Taxameter" Cab.

Public automobiles operated in
Berlin run at the same tariff as the
droschkies, which go by horse power
that is, about seventy-fve cents an
hour.
Like most of the Berlin public We
hicles and those of other German
cities, it is equipped with a taxa
meter. This device is a clock whose
speed is accelerated by an odometer
attached to the axle of the cab. The
revolutions of the wheels mark the
distance travelled, and according to
this distance you pay for the use Of
your cab.
The clocks face is divided into
spaces, representing one hundred
pfennigs. The minimum face is fifty
pfennigs, and the clock hand starts
at the fifty pfennig mark. When you
have travelled distance which &C
cording to the legal schedule is
chargeable at fifty pfennigs the clock
hand jumps to fifty-fve, and it con-
tinues to move as the wheels revolve.
If your cab stands still the hand still
goes, but at slower rate of speed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30
TWO Good Irish Bulls.


The Philadelphia Times gives two
good samples of Irish bulls. DR..
O'Hague, health officer at Minneapo-
lis, when recently in Philadelphia at
gathering of medical men, became
engaged in discussion of the dan.
gers resulting from impure drinking
water.
why" he said, "the typhoid fever
bacilli call for the most diligent at
tention if the health of a community
is to be conserved. They are so small,
gentlemen, that a handful of them
could be placed on the point of a
needle!"
Still another bull is contributed by
a reader, who says he overheard a
street car argument between two
Celts the other day concerning the
Spiritualistic leanings of the late
Ferdinand j. Dreer.
well" said one, "he moight have
been bit foolish an behaved in ban.
shee an the loike, but he knew
enough to have himself cr-remated."
can do yez be thinkin' that's a
good thing?" asked his opponent.
why, man do that! Whin yes is
cr-remated yez can have the ashes put
in little tin box an carry EN- around
in your visit pocket wild yez."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30
Estate For Orphans Benefit.

The will of DR.. George w. Ramsay,
who died in Washington, Pa, few
days ago, is one of the most remark
able documents of the kind ever plac-
ed on record. A valuable landed es-
tate is held in trust for his grand
niece At her death the estate reverts
to the corporation of Washington
county, Pennsylvania, to be held in
trust in perpetuity for all INDECENT
orphans under IA years of age who
are descended from the father of the
testator. After 200 years all orphans
born in the county of the age named
are to become beneficiaries under
this provision, the same as literal
descendants. The estate will undoubt.
eddy be very valuable in 2102.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30
Rain of Bats.

A very strange phenomenon has oc-
Cured in Algeria, in the district
round about Bougle, during the pas
sage of a cyclone, which wrought
much damage. The natives who had
come into the town relate that during
the storm there was a regular hail of
rats and mice. The story, on the face
of it, appears improbable, but the
witnesses who testify to its truth are
so numerous that some amount of
credence must be attached to it. 1t is
stated that the rodents fell in such
great quantity that during the quar-
ter of an hour that the phenomenon
lasted all the fields were infested.
Some of the rats and mice were found
impaled on the pointed stakes EN-.
ployed to separate one piece of land
from another. The question natur.
ally arises: Where did the animals
come from?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30
Cat Fed Its Mistress.

Mrs. S. H. Love of Oral Oaks, Not
toway county, Va, vouches for this
story of animal intelligence and de-
votion, and Mrs. Love is the wife of
a Baptist minister.
For some time she has been in very
poor health. Her cat seemed to real
ize her condition and seemed also to
decide that something must be done
about it. Instinct taught the animal
that something to tempt the appetite
was of first Importance, so she turn.
ed her attention in this direction.
Almost every day since that time
the cat has brought partridge or
young rabbit and laid it at the feet
of her mistress.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30

So for four tickets for the excursion.
The minute the boat left the dock
they commenced selling beer. The
barroom occupied most of one of
the decks. and everybody in sight
helped himself, paying or not for
what he got about as he pleased. AS
a result of this freedom the partner
of the professional swimmer, who
had been on short rations for several
weeks, drank more than was good
for him, as we afterwards learned to
our sorrow.
Finally the steamer reached a
place in the river where we thought
it safe to spring our great scheme.
My partner jumped into the water,
aud the man on the lookout raised
the cry of Man overheard At the
word the professional swimmer, who
was located on the upper deck, threw
a@ his coat and vest, kicked off his
shoes, leaving all his clothes in
charge of his partner. and made a
spectacular dive into the river.
Instantly the passengers were all
attention. They crowded to the rail
and watched every motion. The
swimmer reached my partner in a
few moments and pretended to beat
him over the head so that he might
be safely handled. The captain
stopped the steamer, and a boat
pulled off for the rescue. AS soon
as the two conspirators were pulled
into the boat it was my turn to come
to the front. / climbed up on to
the railing, took off my silk hat,
threw the last three dollars we had
into it, and called upon the passen-
gers to contribute literally to a fund
for the hero who had risked his life
to rescue the stranger. The re-
sp0nse was instantaneous. Almost
everybody put in something, and
my three large silver dollars set an
example which was quickly followed.
BY the time the boat with the rescu-
ing party on board reached the
steamer l had over a hundred dol
lars in the hat, and had only begun.
Out of the corner of my eye l saw
the two dripping figures pulled up
on board Then something happened.
Somebody hit me, the silk hat, with
its contents, was pulled out Of my
hands, and / was hustled into a dark
and cramped little hole.
Presently and in fragments l
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30

story of our put up job and the crowd
which had been contributing began
to clamor for our blood. They took
the hat away from me and ran me
into that dark hole. The rest of our
crowd were served in the same way.
"Once in the early '70s," says Mr..
Murdoch, 81 was member of lit
tie theatrical barn storming COM
pany which was playing the little off
the-railroad towns in New York and
Pennsylvania. At Granville, Pa, our
manager jumped the town with the
total proceeds, amounting to SO or
$40, leaving us to get forward as best
we could. l finally was sent ahead
to jamestown, Pa, to see what ar
rangements could be made to show
there. By telling a sad story of our
misfortunes and charging on tho
dramatic abilities of the company l
finally persuaded the school commit
tee to allow us the use of the school
house on condition that they should
have the first money taken in from
the sale of tickets. The hotelkeeper
was also persuaded to take his
chances on getting his money after
the performance was over So
went back to Granville and by pawn
ing two silver watches we raised
enough money to hire a farmer to
drive the company over to James
town in a bobsled. ! remember that
he first put a big feather-bed into the
sled box. On that the members of
the company knelt down on either
side and on top of us all straw was
heaped on until nothing could be
seen but here and there the top of a
cap or bonnet. At any rate l went
to sleep five minutes after we started
out and never have | enjoyed more
peaceful and restful sleep than on
that fourteen mile drive with the
thermometer fifteen degrees below
zero.
81 had made arrangements in
jamestown for the daughter of the
town blacksmith, girl named Muir
ply, to furnish the music on a new,
piano-the first in the town, which
her father had just bought for her
On arriving at jamestown with the
company l soon learned that there
was a bitter feeling existing because
another girl, who had always played
for dramatic companies on the melo-
deon, had been overlooked. So we
arranged to play two nights, with
Miss Murphy as the orchestra ON the
first night and the melodeon girl
on the second night. AS result we
had two huge houses and got well
sterted on my first experience as a
theatrical manager
Eat that tins the better class OF
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30

"Once in the late '70s," said Man
aEer John ]. Murdoch of Chicago, Il
had been playing through the south
with company which had the mis-
fortune to go broke at Selma, Ala
BY methods which IL might be en-
barrassing to recount my partner and
| worked our way over to st. Louis.
We arrived in the Missouri metropo-
lis with So cents as our joint capt.
tai.
''My partner had been reared In
the town of Troy, N. Y, and the first
day in st. Louis he ran across a pro-
fessional swimmer who had been
schoolmate of his in Troy. The swim
mer had been working in St Louis
natatorium, but had been discharged
the day before we got to town. He
had total capital of 80 cents, which,
after due consideration, he put into
the common pool. He also had
partner, who had no money at all.
"The four of us lived as long as
possible on the money in hand. Then
matters became desperate. We had
tried to get work of some kind, but
had failed utterly. Finally we held
a session at which the following
scheme was evolved:
1.-THE grocers of st. Louis had ar
ranged for q grand excursion on the
river. 1t was agreed, after long
discussion, that we should raise as
much money as possible, buy tickets
on the steamboat, and start on the
excursion. When the boat was a
good distance out from land my part
ner was to give a last despairing
wall and jump overheard. The pro-
fessional swimmer, who was to be
on the upper deck, was to throw off
his coat and vest, unloosen his shoes,
and leap overheard to the rescue at
the cry of Man overheard My part
ner was a good swimmer, so we fig
ured that nobody involved was run
ming much risk.
when the professional had beat
en- my partner into submission in the
water and a boat had put out from
the steamer to complete the rescue
we had arranged that Who at that
time ran strongly to silk hats and
red neckties-should take off my silk
hat, drop the cash we had left into
it, and collect as much money as l
could among the passengers for the
ostensible benefit of the heroic res
cuer.
I'VE managed to raise IS. and spent
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30
Costly Nest For a Rat.

From a double handful of tattered
pieces of green paper Major J. F. Fin
ney, the head of the sub-treasury in
New York, is trying to determine
whether the government owes the
papers owner a fortune or nothing at
all
The fragments are all that is left
of hidden store of greenbacks
which V. H. Lavigne of Riverside, N.
j., found the other day in a barn
he had just bought. He was looking
over the building wheu a big rat
jumped across his feet. He found the
hole it had come out of and looked
into it. To his amazement he saw a
large pile of bills fattened out against
the sides of the hole, as though the
rat had been nesting on them. He
reached in and pulled them out, but
they fell in pieces in his fingers.
Mr. Lavigne brought the pieces to
Major Finney for redemption. He
thinks they are worth about $4,000
1t is possible, however, that the
money is too badly torn to be worth
anything.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30
Parti.colored Sheen.

In the Camaroon district of Africa
are thousands of remarkable sheep,
and the Germans who have settled
there say that they are useful domes-
tic animals.
There are two species, one being
black and white and the other white
and yellowish brown, and they all diff
fer from the ordinary sheep in the
fact that they are covered with short
smooth hair instead of with wool, the
rams being the only ones among
them which have a thick fleece
around the neck.
A few of these animals were re.
Gently imported into Germany and
are not attracting much attention
there.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30
psI { ) @Itt2271lzlR

about seventy pounds, struck against
the closed shutters of a window,
broke through shutters, sash and
glass, carrying all away, tore a large
hole in the ceiling, then crashed into
window frame on the opposite side
of e-4e room. The timber doing the
damage was stump piece" and
had part of root to it, the ground
end having struck the house first. To
do this it was thrown upward at an
angle of about thirty-five degrees, as
the hole in the ceiling shows. This
seems to prove that the lightning
passed upward from the earth to the
clouds and not in the other direction.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30

learned what was the matter. The
minute the professional swimmer
was dragged on board his partner,
who had been holding his clothes,
came staggering down to the spot.
Here's your clothes. Bill" said
the inebrlated partner, throwing them
down on the deck. "Murdoch's got a
hatful of money already and I'm tired
carrying em around"
Somebody who was wise enough
to get on to the scheme heard the
remark and he successfully pumped
the drunken man till he gathered the
whole yarn. Then he spread the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30
Result Of LIGHTNING Stroke.

On the night of May storm pass.
ed over Gaithersburg, Md, the light.
ming striking large red oak tree that
stood about thirty feet from vacant
house. A large slab was torn from
one side and was broken into six
large pieces and hundreds of small
ones, some thrown distance of forty
yards. One piece, twelve feet long,
went entirely over the house; one
struck large tree near by, and the
heaviest, ten feet long and weighing
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30
Nod Made Will LEGAL.

Surrogate Church has decided in
the contest over the will of Mrs. Vir-
ginia Wilde in Brooklyn, that a nod
of the head was sufficient to dispose
of an estate. Mrs. Wilde left a small
estate to her daughter, and her son
contested the will. When the will
was executed she was suffering from
a throat affection, which made it diff
cult for her to speak. When the will
was prepared in accordance with
what the executor believed were her
wishes End was read to her, she nod
ded her assent to its provisions and
signed it, the executor guiding her
hand.-New York American.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30
earinq.eouId sim A..l,

Though close upon 70 years of age
Mr. Baring-Gould, the author of more
books than any living Englishman. is
as upright to-day as he was thirty
years ago. He attributes this erect
ness to his invariable custom of writ.
ing at high desk in a STANDING nosi.
ton. Mr.. Gould always writes with
quill pen, and his manuscript is not
beloved by printers. AS a relaxation
from literary work Mr.. Gould like the
late MIR. Gladstone, often spends a
couple of hours chopping down trees
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-30
MIdweek HOLIDAY plann.a

Merchants in Spokane, Wash. are
considering midweek half-holiday.
The midweek half-holiday is already
an institution in some parts Of Eng.
land; butchers loaf one halliday, bak-
ers another halliday and candlesticl-
makers another, and so on through
all the shopkeeping professions Me-
chanics and laboring men have the
saturday half-holiday, WORKING half
an hour extra on other eveninls to
obtain il