The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-01-01


He will be the IGNORED suest at .
memorial banquet on the cvening OF
January 6. as.e 5..,.y..s...s.,:; - e 8
erom Mondays Daily.
A voluntary petition In bankruptcy
has been filed In the federal court
By Grover wier, who has for some
time been engaged in the livery bosi-
ness in Mankato. The liabilities are
placed at sss4.42, all unsecured
claims. The assets are about $500.
John E. Regain Is attorney for the
petitioner. r- ..s-. ss,ss
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy {
was filed today by Max Becker. q
dealer i'm farm produce, OF Marshall,
MINI. The petitioners attorneys are
Mathews & Mathews Of Marshall.
The petition gives $9,12s.50 as the
total debts, $s,033.50 being unse-
cured. The assets total ss.033.50, OF
which $500 is claimed to be ex.
cmpt. L. :. ir.,.... -,
An involuntary petition in bank.
ruptcy has been filed by SELF,
Schwab & Co. Of Chicago against
Paul w. Prigge of Waseca. MINI.
The petitioning creditor sets forth
that he has a provable claim against
the alleged bankrupt, amounting to
So. TO6.O5, and that the latter com
mitted an act OF bankruptcy In
transferring, while insolvent, a por-
ton of his property to one OF his
creditors.
So. 80 ., ,'--
From Mondays Daiis. ts
Mr.. and Mrs. p. ]. Splitter, West
Prairie, Wis, just across the river
from Winona. are awaiting with
great apprehension for news regard
ing the disappearance Of their son,
Charles G. Splitter. Northwestern
engineer of Huron. s. D.. who drop
ped completely out OF sight about
three weeks ago. II Is believed that
he has met with a serious accident
or with a definitely planned attempt
to injure him. He was known in
Winona.
He has been with the North.
western for the last nine years.
railway officials and police authori-
ties are exerting every effort to trace
him but the last time he was seen
cd heard from was on December Is.
Mr.. Splitter left Huron on De.
cember 16 for Crandall. s. D..
where he was to have been married
the next day to Miss Lawson. 1t
is known that he arrived at Aber.
deem, a junction point between HUI
ron and Crandall, but after he, left
the train there II has not been
learned where he went. 80 -
Had Received Threat Letter.
In few days. when his disap.
pearance aroused alarm, an unop-
pened letter threatening him with
bodily injury was found in sis his
room. Friends OF the missing man
do not believe that a threat OF this
kind would have deferred any inten.
ton he may have had, even though
he had read the letter. In, Aber-
deem Mr.. Splitter directed that his
check be sent to Chicago which city
he expected to visit on his wedding
tour. but Il Is still In the hands
OF the railway officials there. He had
rented house in Huron and In
tended to make his home there.
| Mr.. Splitter was born and reared
near Winona. He Is q member OF
family widely known In Trempea.
leau county. .Ea.zL.
Last night the parents declared
that diligent search had thus far
failed to give any intimation- as to
their sons whereabouts. The first
information that. he was missing
came to them in a letter from his
fiancee, asking IL they had any idea
of where he might be reached.
Mr.. Splitter is well.kDown among
railroad men on the Northwestern
| line. ..,..# - a D.,