The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-08-02

Stories From Home and Elsewhere.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
While Mrs r. G. Bachertz and hel
guest, Mrs. John Andrews of Burnside
Iowa, were crossing Cherry street on
the west side of Front yesterday after
noon, a livery rig containing four OF
five young men came rapidly up from
Minnesota street The ladies hurried
across, as there was plenty of ROOM
but when the driver saw them hurry
ing he deliberately whipped up the
horses and drove at them, SO the ladies
as well as several spectators say. The
ladies then ran, but Mrs. Andrews was
struck and knocked into the gutter
and painfully shaken up and bruised,
and Mrs. Bachertz was also struck, but
not knocked over. When the young
men saw what they had done they
whipped up the horses and drove at a
| furious gait away.
| When the team was returned to the
livery barn it was covered with foam
] from fast driving. The police took the
young men in charge, but after taking
their names allowed them to 90, pend
ing the issuing of a warrant for their
arrest. in case Mrs. Andrews should
conclude to prosecute them. According
to spectators, the act of the young fell
lows was nothing short of ruffainlys
and they ought to receive the punish
ment that their act merited.
The men claimed that they could not
manage the team, but the liveryman
reported that the horses were docile
and easily controlled, and the other
witnesses bear out the statements made
by the two ladies. The police did not
think that the men had been drinking
Fairmont. July 29.-The Mutual
Benefit Life Insurance company of
amount of farm loans annually in
this county,> it is said, is taking steps
to test the mortgage registry tax law
passed at the last legislature, on the
grounds that it already pays something
over $4,000 tax for the privilege of
doing business in this state, and the
additional mortgage registry tax would
mean double taxation of the company's
holdings in this state.
The county treasurer this week was
asked to indorse his certificate on one
of the company's mortgages, to the eff
feet that it was exempt from taxation,
in order to have the same recorded.
The same request was made in regard
to renewal mortgage. These re-
newal agreements, it seems, are issued
by the company to borrowers of their
funds, whose mortgages have expired
and which they wish extended for
longer period of time. Upon the re-
newal agreement being recorded it ex-
tends the mortgage for longer time.
The company contends that the extern
sion of an already existing mortgage is
not mortgage subject to taxation
within the meaning of the mortgage
tax registry law, and also is exempt for
the reason first above stated.
| The county treasurer refused to make
certificates of exemption ON the two
instruments offered him, but Endorsed
upon each certificate of doubt. The
company paid the amount of registry
tax in both instances to the clerk OF
court, to be held subject to decision in
the courts. The mortgage and agree
ment then were handed to the regis
ter for record.
Henry Rohmer, alias Fred Williams,
Who swindled number of farmers in
Goodhue county out of at least $4,000
by securing eggs in large quantities
without ever paying for them and who
served eleven months in the Saltwater
prison for his crime, is again in trou-
BILE in New York city. Rohmer be-
gan his swindling operations in Mime
sofa about three years ago. At first
he paid cash for his produce and after
securing the confidence of the people as
to his supposed honest business meth
DDS, Rohmer, or Fred Williams, as he
was known in this state, secured large
quantities of eggs on credit. Not until
he swindled the farmers out of thou
sands of dollars was his scheme of
doing business discovered.
An itinerant blacksmith, who has
been working at different shops in the
city, has made trouble for the police.
He was working for T. H. Foley two
or three days last week, and on Fri
day left and at the same time Mr..
Foley missed hammer and pliers. 1t
was afterwards found that the fellow
had sold a hammer and pliers to q
farmer, but claimed that they were
his own. Mr.. Foley did not care to
prosecute.
Friday the man worked for Frank
Mahowald, and when he left Friday
night pair of pliers was missing.
He was found and the pliers were
located and gotten back. The man
seems to be given to drink.
Saturday the man stole hammer
from John D6ugherty's blacksmith
shop, and sold it to a man in West
Mankato. This was after he had been
released, but he was locked up again
yesterday, while drunk. Today he was
sentenced to the county Jail for ten
days straight by Judge Comstock, at
hard labor. He gave the name of
Tom Cummins.
From Tuesdays Daily.
Washington, July 30.-"Wheat will
| be worth SIPS bushel this year,"
said Gporoe c. Howe of Duluth at the