The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-06-21
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New York, June 15-It is as much
as a flys life is worth to get with
in swatting distance of the suburb
of. New Rochelle these days. Every.
body is swatting them in Thomas
Paine's old town, but the bright
particular swatters. are the boys and
girls, who are competing for prizes
offered by the civic committee of the
New Rochelle Woman's club Since
the contest was inaugurated it is
estimated that the insect mortality
in; New Rochelle has averaged from
two to three millions per day. The
competition comes to close today,
and every kid in the little city is
trying TO .fatten up his swatting
average before the season closes.
Scores of boxes of very diseased
and defunct flies are stored away
in the archives, or elsewhere, of the
Woman's club, and a special com
mittee Of members has been appoint
ed to count them. They will not at
tempt to count each individual fly,
but will pour them out in gill meas
ures, counting 1900 to gill; Ac-
cording to New Rochelle clubwomen,
this is the standard measure for flies.
So anxious have the youngsters been
to win out in the fly killing cam
paign that tehy have neglected les
sons and everything else, and have
chased flies all day and dreamed of
flies at night. Today there is scarce
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and it is rumored that some enter
prising future captains of industry
have gone to Mount Vernon and the
other nearby towns to carry on their
swatting activities. The first prize,
carrying with it the title of cham
pion fly swatter Of New Rochelle,
is twenty dollars in gold with ten
dollars to the second, five other
prizes of two dollars each and ten
consolation prizes of one dollar each.
The other day an unknown man,
ragged and unkempt, collapsed on
an east side street car and was car
ried into a nearby drug store, where
he died. Heart disease was given
as the cause. The usual curious
crowd gathered about the man, and
made half-contemptuous, Multiplying
remarks about his very evident pow
erty. 1.-The potters' field for him, y
was the consensus of opinion. The
body was removed to a police sta
ton. and the pockets of the mans
clothes, which were sewed up, were
opened. In one pocket was 1891, in
another $1,000, and in a third $3.50,
and smaller sums were distributed
about his person. There were also
receipts for money orders for nearly
a Thousand dollars sent abroad. The
news spread rapidly over the East
Side, and soon the station was
thronged with people, asking to look
at the corpse.
ooh, my poor dear father" ex-
claimed che man, weeping violently,
and adding, to the policeman, Give
me the money" ....
"My long lost brother screamed
a woman. 81 have not seen him
since we left HUSBAND. Give me
the mercy
HE is my cousin" protested a
third, "and | am his only living rel
alive. Oh it is such sadness. We
cabs and a brass band. Give me the
money"
1t was finally discovered that the
dead man was Joseph Wagman, a
fish dealer, who had led solitary
life and apparently had no relatives
and no friends other than business
acquaintances. With a hundred peO-
pie claiming the fortune left by the
dead man, by reason of various re-
lationships, the police are in guam
Diary as to what disposal to make of
the money. -r
Abdul BAHIA, the Persian religious
leader and spiritual and temporal
head of the fourteen millions of Ba-
haists scattered throughout the world
will not return to his native land.
Abdul BAHIA, the son of the founder
of the Bahaist sect came to America
to address the Lake Mohonk Peace
conference and the American con.
gress of Bahaists in Chicago, expect
ing to leave this month on the re-
turn journey to Persia. The vener-
able prophet has been SO pleased
with his reception in America that
he has decided to stay, and will to-
day take up his home at II Bradford
Place, Montclair, N. J. There are
about fifty Bahaists in the Jersey
suburb. The venerable prophet has
spent forty of his seventy years in
prison because of his religious be.
liefs, which are somewhat similar
theosophy in that they include the
spirit of universal Brotherhood and
the unity of all religions, with hav.
ing any specific creed.
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While Harvard alumni from all
over the country are holding their
national reunion in New York today
Yale men from many states gathered
here this morning preparatory to a
trip to New Haven for the tenth re-
union of Yale '02 graduates. The
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