The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-05-22
REMARKS ON THE SIDE.
From Saturdays Daily.

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The courts in Iowa will be given an
opportunity to decide whether liquor
dealers are responsible for sending a
man to the insane asylum. A dispatch
from Onawa says: Action for damages
and violation of the liquor law has been
commenced against all of the saloon
| keepers in Onawa in favor of the wife
and children of S. w. Andrews, a former
citizen, who is now in the Cherokee
insane asylum. Strong drink is alleged
in the paper as having caused the victim
tc become thoroughly besotted, neglect
full of his family and finally so as to
threaten their lives and crueIy turn
them out of doors in the night while
under the influence of liquor and in a
crazed condition, which finally resulted
in him being adjudged insane and SEN
fenced to the asylum. Each of the four
saloonkeepers has been sued for the
sum of $4,000.
Raising an interesting question as to
when life of animals actually becomes
, extinct Dr. Robert c. Kent, of New
York, has found it possible to restore a
dog to life after its heart had stopped
beating for sixteen minutes. After an
examination by surgeons an animal was
officially pronounced dead, yet DIR. Kemp
by massage of its heart so far brought
il back to life that it lived twenty four
hours, and meanwhile was so far restored
drank and performed its usual functions.
In eleven out of twenty-three expert
ments of this character DR.. Kemp sue
ceeded in restoring dogs to life," and he
is convinced that in the case of human
beings, under similar conditions the pro-
portion of restoration would be far
greater. The vital spark remains active,
he believes, and he merely fans it into
renewed life by massaging the heart.
For more than two years DR.. Kemp has
been making experiments of this char
acter in the physiological laboratory of
the college of physicians and surgeons.
The saloonkeepers of Gibson City, ILL.,,
with the aid of the Illinois Liquor Deal
ers' association won legal victory. They
were made defendants in a suit for dam
ages by Mrs Inez Martin. The prosecu-
ton claimed that the husband of the
plaintiff died from the effects of delirium
tremens and that the liquor sold by the
defendants was responsible. The point
was novel and the suit attracted great
attention. The verdict of the jury was
in favor of the saloonkeepers.
Unless the verdict of a jury in the
circuit court at Houghton, Mich. is reversed
or appeal, Joseph James, Calumet
saloonkeeper, will have to pay $4,000
damages to Andrew O'Neill, who lost an
eye by the explosion of a pop bottle.
After being out three hours the jury
awarded O'Neill $4,000 damages, he hav-
ing sued for $4,000. The bottle exploded
while O'Neill was trying to open it, while
employed as bartender by James.
This is the limit in the shape of in
functions. Judge Baxter of the Omaha
district court enjoined woman from
talking to her neighbors. And the neigh
bors are wondering what the penalty
will be when the injunction is disobeyed,
as some of them say it will be. Mrs.
l.. Oliphant Dodge, owner of large
apartment house, applied to the court
for an order restraining Mrs. Berge from
gossipping about her tenants, saying
that through her gossipy ways several
of them had threatened to leave the
building. The court ordered Mrs. Berge
not to enter the apartment house, or to
stop in front of the building to gossip,
and not to gossip to or about any one