The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-09-20
Stories From Home and Elsewhere.

From Mondays Daily

From Mondays Daily
Mrs. George Nj. Palmer met with
IA painful accident Saturday evening
at her home. She was turning the
crank of her automobile, preparing
to start out, when she lost her hold
and it flew around, striking her upon
the left wrist and breaking the BONE
She will be incapacitated for some
time.
Mrs. Clifford Julian was shot Sat
urday evening about 1870 O'Clock in
the Commercial hotel at Waseca.
Rudolph Munson of Albert Lea, and
Mrs. Clifford were together when the
shot was fired. The latter rushed into
the hall and fell into the arms of
chambermaid and expired. Munson
followed the woman into the hall and
tried to get a statement from her as
to how the shooting occurred but
death came too quickly.
Munson was arrested and placed in
Jail awaiting further developments. He
claims that Mrs. Julian shot herself.
Several guests at the hotel state that
the woman has been acting strangely
for several days and that she threat
ened to take her own life.
Munson is butcher by trade and
has been employed in one of the local
shops at Waseca. The woman followed
him from Albert Lea and they have
been living together as man and wife.
The woman was originally from Inde-
pendence, la.
The coroner impannelled a jury this
morning and testimony was listened
to.
The jury returned verdict this af-
ternoon that the woman came to her
death from a bullet fired from a re-
volver in the hands of Rudolph Mon
son.
Munson was bound over to the
grand jury.
The dead woman was the divorced
wife of Clifford Julian. Her maiden
name was Addie Gritten.
John Mitchell, who comes from near
was before the court late Saturday
AFTERNOON and pleaded guilty to the
charge of disorderly conduct. He admit
ted throwing some beer bottles over
high board fence He paid a fine of
S. and costs. 4a ,la..
Thomas Ryan who lives east of
Mapleton, was another fair visitor
who imbibed too freely. 1t cost him
S. and costs or seven days.
A special term of the district court
was held this afternoon, and the fol-
lowing was the calendar:
Standard Lumber company VS.. w.
r. Geddes, supplementary proceedings.
In re ditch No. Is.
John T.. May VS.. George Harding
and others, action to quiet title.
State eX rel John Casper VS.. Edgar
Weaver as county auditor, order to
show cause
Azella f. Smith VS.. William A.
uhh. W dIlCHu
Fred Arndt VS.. Joseph Wagner, mo-
tion for New trial.
Bertha C. Jordan VS.. William KEN
holtz, order to show cause.
DurYard f. Buell. VS.. Thomas Rus
sell, and others, action to quiet title.
The action of Jordan VS.. Kienholtz
is one to strike out part of B. y.
Reynolds answer
The action of Casper VS.. Auditor
Weaver is brought to compel him to
advertise and sell county ditch No.
10, known as the Mcnamara ditch,
near Madison Lake. The matter of
selling the ditch job was dismissed
| recently because the bids were not
as low as some of the parties inter
ested wished, but Mr.. Casper claims
that the auditor had no authority to
dismiss the project, and asks the court
to compel hi INTO advertise and sell
the ditch. Pau Pau, c. ]. Laur
isch and c. i. Benedict are the at
torneys in the case.
The disappearance of Harry Boyd,
a hired man in the employ of George
Staff, a prominent farmer of Dakota
county is the cause of much specula-
ton. Boyd was sent to Waterford with
a load of grain to have ground into
grist. lnstead~~he drove to Northfield
and sold the grain to "a local ele-
vator, taking the cash and drove the
team to Waterford where he departed
on a southbound train. Besides the
money he received from the sale of
the grain he also decamped with $3.50
given him by his employer.
| Postoffice Inspector Chase, of Water
town, rs. d., is in the city inyesti-
| eating the need of another rural free
| delivery route. If one is established
| it will probably go southwest from the
city, towards Indian lake and Rapi-
dan.
Frank Wing the clever artist of The
Minneapolis Journal was on the state
fair grounds and got look at Gener-
lal J. II. Baker, with the result that
! a very likeness of the gineral appears
in The Sunday Journal.
james Gray, who accompanies Mr..