The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-17
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STREET CARNIVAL
YIELDS A ROMANCE
TWAS A CASE OF LOVE AT
FIRST SIGHT,
Caliope and Piano Player with the
Company WEEDS 17-Year-old Mankato
Girl in Less Than a Weeks Court
ship-Bride's Father Is Stubborn
and Loving Couple Are Temporarily
Separated.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Mankato, Mimi, July 1.-THE street car
birth to very pretty little romance, with ex-
citing features, but turning out well, as all
such affairs should, and generally do in book
and story. q
Early in the week Arthur Franklin, aged %,
from New York. caliope and piano player.
and a prepossessing young man, formed the &C
quaintance of Miss Catherine Macbeth. pretty
and petite, who Is Of well-to-do and highly
respected family residing in a large mansion on
aristocratc Broad street. 1t was case Of
love ut first sight with both, and as the
amusement company was to leave at the end
of the week extended tour there was
no time to be lost An engagement was followed
by marriage at the end Of the week. The
| nuptials were performed by Rev. George W..
Davis, pastor of the First Presby terrain church.
Five minutes later the young couple pre-.
sented themselves at the residence OF the bride $
parents. expecting or hoping to receive the
parental forgiyeness and blessing but IN THIS ms
| warm and declared that his daughter was but
II years Of age and that he would have the
bridegroom arrested for perjury In giving her
age as 20 to the clerk Of court. who issued the
license Entreaties were TN vain, and the bride
was detained, while her husband was warned
that If he did not leave the city at once he
would be arrested.
Scene on a Street.
Love laughs at locksmiths, and instead OF
leaving the city, Franklin pretended to do so.
but dressed in disguise. The following evening
he CHANGED to meet his bride on business
street and she at once few to his side, while
her younger brother pleaded with her to return.
crowd gathered, and the lad went for his
father. who arrived about the time that an
officer did. The latter did not heed the old
gentlemans commands to arrest the young
man, as there was no warrant out. The couple
was induced to walk to the city hall, fol
lowed by a large crowd, and there consu1ta
ton was had between all Of the interested
persons and the officials.
The bride pleaded with the officers that they
lock her up also, if her husband was locked up
and not to separate them. The outcome wat
that It was agreed that Franklin was to g
with the amusement company to Aberdeen
s. D., and thence to Canada, and that on 1T
return in three weeks he is to claim his brtd'
without further hlndrance She In the meantime
Is to remain with her parents.
New Bridge for the Park
The county board has awarded the contrac
for putting in a $1,000 concrete wagon bridg
over Minneopa creek, just above the falls Thi
will be in the new state park when 1t Is ed
tablshed. .;-,A.r..,..r w. ,:4,. a4.z
Jacob ]. Tofting, a Tracy merchant. has file
I a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities o
$1,744 and assets except those that are ez
empt or mortgaged OF the liabilities $40
. | secured.
J 9. W. Lee has been arrested and taken t
st. James to answer to the charge OF stealth
a double harness from Made11a man.
I, Much grain has been le7eled by recent storms
but it Is thought that most Of 1t will come
again. The outlook is considered excellent.