The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-03-18
Stories of Interest

Stories OF Interest
From Mondays Daily.
Miss hiaude Pfifer, who was last
week shot by her father, is doing nice
lly at st. ]oscphs hospital although
not yet out of danger. She is putting
up splendid fight for life.
The inquest over Robert s. Plifcr,
the suicide aud would-be murderer, will
be beld at ten o'clock tomorrow fore
noon.
Coult Heard Shooting.
1t is said that Julius Coult heard
the shooting just as he was crossing
the Minnesota river bridge, on his
way home, and that he made up his
mind that if shooting was going on at
the Plifer home he had better keep on
going, rather than return.
A gentleman who was formerly a
lneighbor of Pfifer states that some
time ago Pfifer gave his son, Edgar
Il brutal whipping, and that the boy
had been afraid to return home since
then. The father became remorseful
and Respondent, especially as he could
not induce the boy to return, and this
lis thought to have unsettled his reason
| to some extent.
Pffer Hated Churches.
The same gentleman states that
Pffer was a hater of churches and re-
lligion. He did not believe in Creator,
and disliked to see people gong past
his place to church. He would not
allow Bible in his house. Neverthe
less, he was good neighbor in many
ways.
| Another man who knew Pfifer states
that he was a man of quick temper,
who would lose his head when in a
passion, but otherwise mild and easy
going man.
Make Arrangements for Funeral.
Mrs. Pfifer, accompanied by her
brother-in-law, A. Z. Pfifer of Quinler,
Okla, was in the city yesterday after
room, making arrangements for the
funeral of her husband. The services
will behold at the undertaking rooms
of the John Klein Undertaking company
lat nine o'clock tomorrow forenoon, but it
has not been decided where the interment
will take place. Mrs. Pffer and her
brother in.law returned to Judson last
night.
A very strange affair has just come
Ito light at Ivanhoe-strange from every
feature of its environment. A few
years ago one of the live wires III
that county was A. II. A1ohlcr, who
graduated from the newspaper business
ito the legal profession, and while he
was jolly good fellow he was inclined
Ito be somewhat bibulous. About 1906
he left for new location in the
state of Washington, and among his
commercial transactions he sold u hair
mattress to Landlord Lane of the Ivan
hoe hotel.
The latter found the article in too
close alliance with bed bugs for utility
in his hotel, and threw it out of doors,
with permission to the kids to make
u bon fire of it. But the kids found
more fun in using it for play mat
and for four years it has been COM
mon property among them.
Found Fat Wallet.
a few days ago the old mattress
went to pieces, and some of the kids
extracted from the remnants fat
wallet containing currency to the
amount of one thousand dollars, and
naturally there was much consterna-
|tion, not the least as to ownership.
As to this there will probably be lit
igation, and when Mohlcr in his Wash
ington fastness learns of the find he
may be eliminated from the affair
by absolute heart failure. The finder
of the currency mincwas not one of
the landlods offspring.
Who Hid the Money?
The question arises. who hid the
money in the mattress? OF course
Mohler might easily accumulate that
amount during his brief newspaper
career, but as lie practiced law after
" ard his existence would naturally
require him to draw on any previously
accrued funds. 1t is barely possible
he received the wad as a retainer, and
Wis overwhelmed with forgetfulness
about its location
On Saturday evening about seventy
five of the employees of the Widell
company gathered at the Workman's
Benefit hall, when everything was in
readiness, General Widell was asked to
come to the hall, as his employees
wished to speak to him. On Mr.. Wi
dcll's arrival, Claus Swanson, on be-
half of the employees, presented him
with u diamond stick pin. He said
that it was not SO much the value
of the pin that they wished him to
consider. but the spirit which prompt
ed its giving. Mr.. Swanson said they
all knew that their employer, in work
ing for his own interests, never for
got his employees and worked to their
interest as well.
Thanked the Employees.
General NNidcll was very much
pleased with the gift and thanked the
employees very kindly for remembering
him in this way. He said he would
wear the pin all Of his life with a