The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-10-29

The remains will arrive here tomorrow
and the funeral will be held wednes-
day afternoon at two o'clock from the
home of Judge and Mrs. w. L. Com
stock. 225 Beach street, Rev. T. Ross
Paden, pastor Of the Presbyterian
church officiating. .. .p....s...
from Mondays Daily. $50
C. T. Chapman traffic manager OF
the Dan Patch lines, and General
Superintendent McNaughton will meet
with Mankato Commercial club mem
bers this week to confer on the mat
ter of better passenger service into
this city. Secretary +. F. Soaring Of
the Commercial club has received the
following letter from MIR. Chapman.
under date of October 21: rsr. .tn 3
"E. +. Soaring. secretary Mankato
Commercial club: Dear Sir: This
will acknowledge receipt of your let :
ter of October 10. and for your infor-
nation we are trying to work out
some Arrangement Of changing the
passenger service in and out of Man
kato, and as soon as 1t is possible for
us to do this, will advise wou farth-
err. Our general superintendent and
myself hope to be in Mankato some
day next week. and II we can so ar
range will advise you In advance. and
will be pleased TO meet you and other
members of your club TO talk over
this project. Yours very truly, G. T.
Chapman, traffic manager"
From Mondays Daily.
A stranger, giving the name Of
John Sullivan. and claiming to be
from Omaha, Neb.. was locked up by
Officers John Albrecht and Frank
Bienapfi last Saturday on the sup
position that he was insane. He was
going through the motions of firing
at people with rife. accusing them
OF wishing to attack him. and saying
that IL he had a real gun they would
never get him. This took place on
a crowded part of South Front street.
He claimed to have had his pocket
picked of $3.50 at Minot. The police
decided to hold him, pending an in
vestigation into his sanity. The man
seemed to belong to that numerous
class. that go about from place to
place, doing odd jobs. getting q little
money. and then moving on. a-- g-
Late In the day, Sullivan was COM
mitted to the ST. Peter asylum by
Judge Evan Hughes Of the probate
court.
From Mondays Dai'~.'
Mrs. Lena Shaw died this morning
at enc OF the local hospitals. death
being caused by complications, for
which she recently underwent an OPP
Grafton. She WAS the wife of Eric
Shaw, well known farmer Of But
ternut Valley. and will be greatly
missed from the community. She was
born March 3. 1866. in Lincoln town
ship. and was forty-nine years, seven
months. and twenty two days old at
the time Of her death. The surviving
relatives are the widower and fam
lily of two sons and two daughters.
The remains were shipped this after
noon from the undertaking parlors of
Kelley. Harris & Gosewisch, to Lake
Crystal. and funeral services will be
held from the family home in Butter
nut Valley on Wednesday afternoon
at two o'clock. r..
Minneapolis, October 25.-That the
Minneapolis Steel and Machinery
company may engage in the manufac-
ture OF war supplies was admitted to-
day. when George NJ. Gillette, presi-
dent OF the company. said there had
been negotiations. Mr. Gillette denied
that a contract for supplies had been
signed
Asked whether the company was to
undertake a contract Of approximate
ly s1.25O.000, Mr.. Gillette said:
There is nothing to that. We have
been negotiating. but no contract has
been signed yet"
A rumor that the firm of Wilson &
Force had given bond on a contract of
S1,250,O0 was not denied by Writ
Wilson. but he declined to discuss the
rumor.
from Mondays Daily.
Sheriff Anton Osten was called to
Judson about eleven o'clock last night
by message stating that there was a
crazy man there in the depot. The
sheriff brought the man to Mankato,
where he was held at the Jail. He
gave the name OF Fred Warner, and
said his home was at Owatonna. where
he had brother. William Warner. The
brother was notified. and came to
take the demented man home this
afternoon. When questioned by
Sheriff Osten. Fred Warner said that