The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30


same as during the Milwaukee debate.
The two speakers will pay the cost
of the debate, each will be allotted 100
tickets, and the entire balance of the
seating capacity of Orchestra hall will
be turned over to various Chicago busi-
mess and commercial organizations, in
proportion to their registered member
ship.
At Milwaukee there were nearly
5000 persons in attendance, and the
chicago debate promises to attract
even greater attention. These debates
have been compared to the historic de-
bates on slavery between Abraham
Lincoln and Stevan A. Douglas. mas
much as they are between the ac-
credited national representatives of the
vets and drys of the entire country.
st. Paul, April Ex-Governor John
A. Johnson has appointed the three
commissioners who are to investigate
employers liability legislation in other
states and countries and report to the
next legislature. The appointees are
George NJ. Gillette, representing the
employers; w. +. McEwen, state la
Dor commissioner, representing the
working men, and H. V. Mercer, rep
resenting the bar. The law provides
that the employers and workingmen
shall each be represented by one man
and that the third commissioner shall
be learned in the law. !
These commissioners will serve with.
out salary, but they will be allowed
! S 5000 to cover their expenses. 1t is
Germany and other European countries
which have workingmen's COMPENSATION
acts.
A law passed by the last legislature
requires employers and casualty insur-
ance companies TO file with state Of
%ficials, a report OF all accidents in Min
nesota.
The thirteenth m i-annual MEETING
of the Minnesota Valley Medical as.
ISOLATION will be held at the Knights
of Columbus hall Tuesday, Nav 4.
The president, Dir. r. Ms Hunt of Blue
Earth. .Mill preside apr. A. G.. Lied
loft of this city is the Secretary. DR..
\ Ida Osborn, the second vice president.
DIR. c.. F. Warner chairman of the ex-
le%cutive comanittee, Dr. j. w. Andrews
is a member of the program commit
tee, and Drs. Holbrook and Curran are
members of the committee on nomina,
tions and membership.
the morning session will be devoted
to business, and the reading of two
papers, one by DIR. A. O.. Bjelland on
Typhoid Fever" and one by DR.. J.
H. James on Diseases of the Lachry,
NAL Duct"
The following papers will he read
in the afternoon: Diseases of the
J Esophagus," by DR.. H. s. Plummer
"Some AtypfEhl, Gases of Gall Stones
DIR. j. w. Andrews. A clinic on psor-
iasis will be conducted by Or. Burnside
1 Foster, and a report of "a case OF
carcinoma o N divirticulitis of the sig
mold made by DR.. Fl. z. Giffen.
Asherville. NJ c.. April 26.--Awakened
at four o'clock yesterday morning by
the hotel management, 200 guests OF
the noted Battery Park hotel scrambled
in the darkness to reach the main
floor, a fire in "a detached laundry
honse having burned the electric light
wires supplying the hotel. Some fright.
ened ones threw their trunks from
! open windows and came down hall
dressed.
Among those present vas Madame
Olive Fremstad, the opera singer, who
said:
81 was sound asleep when awakened
by cries of fire. | arose and tried tc
turn on the electric light, but with nc
results. | heard cries of fire from
many places. | was much alarmed anG
CROPPED to the stairway, thence to the
office, which was filled with guests not
fully dressed.
"A friend in the city who came to
rescue me sent for candles and there
was a faint light in the great room.
had hoped my presence in the hote
would not be generally known, az
came here for rest but some one called
out my name"
With Nine. Fremsfad were Mrs. Au
gustus Fl. Vanwick, wife of Judge
Vanwick of Brooklyn and Mrs. James
Osborn. The fire did little damage
and the operation of the hotel was mo-
affected, the flames did not reach the
hotel proper before ~eXtinguished by 6
food of water from the main supplied
by the mountain reservoir. Guests
clothes in the laundry were damaged
in some cases.
Philadelphia, Pa, April 26.-All this
mystery about Mrs. Lot turning into
salt isn't any mystery at all.
It's as plain as d~aylight-so plair
that a twelve year old girl discovered
the flaw that sacred historians have
been making for a number of thousand
years.