The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-10-25
Rose BlOndel's Action in
United States Court.
is PERSONAL INJURY CASE
Federal Tribunal Begins Operations
Today; Number of Persons Adj
mitted to Citizenship.
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
The October term of the federal
court convened at ten o'clock this
forenoon, Judge Charles F. Amidon OF
Fargo, n. D., presiding in the alb
sence of Judge Lochren. Among the
court officers present were United
States Marshal William H. Grimshaw
of Minneapolis, Clerks Henry d! Lang
and Charles L. Spencer, and Court
Reporter H. H. Horn of st. Paul.
The call of the roll of the petit
jury showed few absentees. No grand
jury was summoned, as there were no
criminal business.
The calendar of civil cases was
called, and disposed of as follows:
Yellow Medicine County bank VS.
Robert Burgess, continued.
Libby FELTON,, as administrators, ETC..
VS.. the Omaha road, dismissed.
Anna B. Kelley, as administrators,
etc, VS.. Omaha road, motion to re-
mand previously granted.
Rose Blondel VS.. the Omaha road
for trial.
The following chancery cases were
on the calendar:
William A. Funk VS.. A. w. Towns
berry and others, passed.
George w. Norman and Others VS..
the Industrial Construction Company
and w. Mossman, testimony being
taken before a commissioner
Eugene Masterson VS.. Patrick ].
McElroy, decree entered, giving the
property in dispute to the plaintiff.
In the matter of Cecil Sharpe and
Catherine A. Sharpe, alleged bank
ruptcy, passed.
Henry w. Volk as trustee in bank
ruptcy of the Widell-Finley company,
bankrupt, VS.. William G. Hoerr, con-
tinued by consent.
The first case for trial will be that
of Rose Blondel against the Omaha
road, to recover $4,000 damages for
injuries that she alleges were re-
eeived by being bumped in a car when
the train started up, iniuring her
eyesight, etc. She lives near Noun
tain Lake, and the injury is alleged
to have occurred year ago last Sep
TENDER, but the suit was only recent
ly started. The railroad company de-
MES the allegations in the complaint
The following persons were admitted
to citizenship: L. X. Frederickson of
Lake Crystal, a farmer, twenty nine
years old, who came from Denmark in
1898; Harry Miller of Minneapolis,
formerly of Mankato, wholesale
liquor dealer, of Jewish nationality,
who came to America from Russia in
1900, and said he was farmer in
Russia and had nothing to do with
anarchists; August Jacob Flicker, a
farmer living near Dickinson, N. D.,
and who formerly lived in Mankato,
and who came from Germany in 1895;
Owen Solomon Hughes a farmer of
Lake Crystal, who came from Wales
in 1894; John Rausmann, laborer of
this city, who came from Germany
when sixteen years old, but who did
not read about an anarchist killing
President Mckinley; John Gustafson,
a farmer of this city, who came from
Sweden in 1893; John Peter Sorenson
of North Mankato, laborer, who said
that he never got drunk, and could
give the names of two or three of
the former presidents of the United
States, and who came from Denmark
in 1892; Abraham Miller of Minneapo-
lis, formerly of Mankato, wholesale
liquor dealer, who is Jew and came
from Russia; and G. w. Ton and
others.