The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-06-02

animal was sent TO the state ASr1cul-
tural college at Brookings. The meat
Iof the beast was distributed far and
wide
The name of the elephant was Hero
morning and spent several hours in
the city.
Bernard S. Boman, of the recently
organized Mankato furniture house
known as the Johnson Boman COM
pany, has moved to Mankato from
Winthrop, with his wife and infant
daughter. He has sold out his store
interests in Winthrop. He resides at
Main and Fourth streets.
st. Paul, Mimi, May 26.-Money set
aside in the tax levy for certain roads
by a local government unit cannot be
diverted after it is collected for use
On other roads. Citizens of Lake
Fremont demurred to the action of
their governing body in using $4,000
that had thus been set aside and not
used on the roads for which it was
levied, and the Minnesota supreme
The Canadian moratorium law, Civ
ing the right to delay the payment of
a debt, does not apply to attachments
of property in Minnesota for the col
lection of that debt, even though the
debt was contracted in Canada, &C
cording to decision rendered today
by the state supreme court.
This is in an action brought by
Harry Hewitt against George Dredge
to recover $500.
A kick given by one employee to
/, another will not make the company,
employing both, liable for damages
according to decision rendered by
| the state supreme court today. When
Chester Sunderland, employed by the
Northern Express company, asked for
raise, he got raise with the boot.
He sued the company for damages.
A right, granted to build road
through certain piece of land, by
a husband without the wife's consent,
is void, the supreme court decided
today. Knute Bakka of Warsaw,
I Goodhue county, a farmer, granted
Warsaw township the right to build
such a road. The wife's agreement
was not secured, and suit was
brought to have the road abolished.
from Fridays Dairy.
AS the result of high words that
took place between members of the
crew that were on the train leaving
here for St. James late last night, and
party of eight young fellows, some
of whom were reported to be under
the influence of liquor, two of the
party were locked up at the police
station last night. The arrests were
made by Officers Albrecht and An
drew Lundberg.
The boys who were locked up were
James Shannon and Oscar Osland.
The two stated this morning that all
eight of the boys came from st.
James on the ten o'clock train, and
the crowd had been drinking. Two
of the crowd, they said, tried to
hoard the train in order to go home.
but the brakeman would not allow
them on Then followed quite an
argument, with the result that the
police were sent for. Shannon and
Osland were the only ones that were
apprehended, the rest scattering
Both boys admitted this morning
that they had been drinking, but both
! denied that they had been drunk.
/ The boys came from a dry town.
Both the young men were charged
in police court with disorderly con-
duct and pleaded not guilty. Their
caes were set for trial on May 81 at
70 p. m. Bond of $1O0 was required
for each, and they were locked up
again.
Winona, Mimi, May &C. w.
Davis, aged sixty-nine, of Minneapo-
Ills, met death yesterday as an indirect
result of the severe rain and electric
!, al storm which passed over this sec
ton. Davis was an engineer employed
at Lewiston. A narrow guage line
had been laid and he was in the cab
of small locomotive on a demon
stration trip while probably 500 villag
ers and members of the crew looked
on. The rain had made the temporary
roadbed soft and when the twelve
ton locomotive ran out upon it, 1T
gave way. the engine turned over on
its side and the engineer was unable
F., to escape from the cab filed with
steam He was so badly scalded that
he died four hours later. The loco
motive was wrecked.
Chicago, H., May 26-Freed of the
charge of having attempted to gain
part of the estate of her husband by
presenting the baby Of another wom-
an as her own, Mrs. John Ledger
wood Matters is now making fight
to keep this baby and have it adj
judged her own child. In this she Is
! being vigorously fought by Mar
garet Ryan, the Canadian girl. who
declares herself to be the real
!. mother of the child.