The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-06-27


an Suffrage association are preparing
for another campaign during the ex!
ira session of the legislature The
suffrage bill again will be introduced |
in both houses. 1t will be practic-
ally the same as the one introduced
at the regular session.
Governor Eberhart's statement in
Chicago Sunday that he is confident
that full suffrage will come in Min
nesota soon, is inspiring local work
ers with hope.
Mrs. C. G. Higbee, chairman of
the legislative committee of the Min
nesota association, is in the east,
and did not expect to return until
September, but local workers think
the situation may bring her home
Immediately to direct the work.
Miss Theresa B. Peyton, president
of the Minnesota Equal Franchise
league, said yesterday that the legis-
Iatiye committee of that ofganiza-
ton, with Mrs. Alpha Boostrom as
chairman, already has outlined it's
plans.
.The victory in Illinois will have
splendid effect in Minnesota" said
Miss Peyton, land we feel confident,
with the prediction of the governor
taken into consideration, that the
bill will meet with different recep-
ton from the house this year. 1t
will be introduced by Representative
Larson in the house and Senator
Sageng in the senate. Governor
Eberhart has always stood for suf-
frage, and now that he is making
speeches for it, it looks good for
Minnesota"
1.-THE governors statement in Hi
nois looks as though it might be a
| tip for Minnesota workers." said
Mrs. d. Hessian. HE seems conf
dent and we expect different result
from the campaign in the extra ses
sion than we had in the regular leg
islature."
/ Mrs. L. A. Hamlin is chairman of
| the legislative committee of the
Woman's Welfare league. The league
is now making a campaign for 1000
members before July 1, and will be
in a position to make strong ap-
I peal during the legislative session.
/ Philadelphia, June 24.-Controver-
sizes regarding the disposition of the
estate of Benjamin Franklin have
been settled by the restoration of his
will by the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania The document recent.
ly found in vault in the city hail.
was almost undecipherable when
found 1t has been encased in trans.
parent silk, which will permit of il
being handled by many generations
to come.
In the first sentence Franklin de
scribes himself as printer, placing
his trade above the honorable titles
conferred upon him by his country.
One of the requests is to one o.
his son-in-laws, Richard Bache, OF
! condition that the latter free his
: negro man Bob" His son William
: once governor of the Jerseys, whc
opposed his activities for independ
ence, was cut off with a tract o
, land in Nova Scotia, few small
/ sums previously loaned and col
lection of books.
: my fine crabtree walking sticl
5 with a gold head curiously wrough
] in the form of the capital of liberty,
5 says another paragraph, 81 give t
S my friend and the friend of man
y kind, George Washington. If it wer
!, scepter he has merited it an
e would become it,
h A small portrait of the King o
a France, mounted in a frame contain
ing 408 diamonds, he bequeathed t
his daughter, Sarah Bache, on cond
ton that she was not to form an
of the diamonds into ornament
either for herself or daughters.
a Considerable sums of money OWN
to Franklin for years were collecte
y by the Pennsylvania hospital throug
a paragraph empowering such actor
d OF the moneys he received as pres
dent of the assembly the create
l. part was set aside for education;
/, and charitable purposes in Bosto
and Philadelphia.
E. In providing for his burial Franz
e lin directed the inscription on til
tomb to be simply the names Be
If jamin and Deborah Franklin wit
n the date of their deaths.
ie e. ", Jackson and his nice from
N town in Indiana left Mankato We
r terday after a fruitless attempt
capture and take home the allegt
ID refractory husband of the niece. II
" husband left a town in Indiana {
8 May 81 in company with anoth
mans wife, so it is claimed by pa
m les. His wife at once set out to tr;
II her husband, and enlisted the sci
Or ices of her uncle, e. V. Jackson,
prominent business man in Cinci
10 natti. Mr. Jackson followed t
~ couple for some time, and the q
rv tomobile, which belonged to the recl
ant husbands wife, furnished t
no clue. IT was an Auburn car, a.
no Mr.. Jackson notified the authoriti
IN here to look for the car and its
: cupants. The couple were locat
In at Madison Lake. The man had reg
ba tered as C. E. Carson. 1t is report
bo that Carson claimed to be an
70 fetal of the Great Western TO;
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