Mower County transcript., 1891-05-27
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

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Three persons died last week at Min
neapolls from injuries received by being |
struck by electric cars. .~-
Minneapolis mills ground al, ,O75 bar
rels of flour last week, against 129, $40
the corresponding week last year.
Fred q. L. Hunt, Minneapolis bicy-
clist, contemplates making a journey |
around the world on his wheel.
The Minnesota Farmers Alliance In
surance company has filed articles OF
incorporation. = Ignatius Donnelly is
president.
Judson n. Cross, of Minneapolis, is
one of board of three commissioners
to 90 to Europe and examine into the
immigrant question.
The homeopathic physicians of Min
nesota held their twenty sixth annual
convention at the capitol at st. Paul,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday OF
last week.
At the special county election at
Northern Pacific Junction the question
of bonding the county for $25, 900 to
build roads and bridges was carried
almost unanimously.
Commencement exercises are being
held at the Winona normal school this
week. The graduating class numbers
fifty, the same number as last year, of
whom forty-fve are ladies and five
gentlemen.
DR.. E. M. Morehouse, mayor of Owa-
tonna, died Saturday morning, having
lived just week after receiving injur-
les by falling down stairs. The funeral
occurred Tuesday, and was in charge of
the Masonic fraternity.
Two children of Mr.. and Mrs. Felix
Lawler were burned to death in fire
which consumed their dwelling at Min
neapolis Saturday. Mrs. Lawler was
so badly burned in attempting their
rescue that she may also die.
At the annual meeting of the Mount
Vernon association, which took place
at Mount Vernon last week, Mrs. Judge
presented 81 ,050 as Minnesota's contrib
ution to the Mount Vernon fund.
Two we'll known Indian guides, Pete
Morrison and jackson Carbon, were
drowned in North lake while endeavor-
ing to rescue Frenchman from drown
ing. The Indians were drunk at the
time the accident occurred, and upset
their canoe.
Chambers has appeared among the
horses in the vicinity of Alexandria,
Mimi, and several have died from the
disease. The local boards have taken
steps to root out the scourge. Probably
as many as 100 horses have been infec-
ted throughout the country.
The big lumber yards of J. w. Day &
Co. at Minneapolis, were wiped out by
fire about a. m. Wednesday, involving
a loss of between Is, 900, 600 and 100000
900 feet Of lumber, mostly last seasons
q cut, worth about $l2 thousand feet.
The total loss is placed at 1928, 900; in
surance $140,000
There is a postoffice in Pine county
called Sandstone. It is on the Kettle
. river, and railroad building through
that county has town not great way
off called Sandstone. Some OF the
people in the vicinity want to get the
two Offices amalgamafed and some do
not. The matter has been appealed to
the department for settlement.
A De Lacy Wood, editor of The Two
Harbors Iron Post, is soon to pull up
stakes and move to Grand Marais, a
small village on the north shore.
A De Lacy Wood is famous as the Two
Harbors editor whom the alleged White
Caps, who recently tarred and feathered
and shot citizen of the place. ordered
. to leave town on peril of his life.
At Duluth, T. r. Yolton, proprie
tor of the Saddle Rock restaurant,
was arrested at the instance of woman
who claims that she is his wife and that
he ran away from her two years ago
with $4,000 belonging to her. Yoltol
has been living here with a woman
whom everyone supposed was his wife.
A curious fact is that just as wife No. 1
arrives woman No. 2 skips out with
$4,000.
At Fergus Falls Saturday, Adelbert
Goheen, the murderer of Rosetta Bray,
was sentenced to be hanged at such a
time after ninety days as the governor
shall decide upon. lie took his SEN
tence in the same unaffected manner
that he has shown throughout the trial
There is a rumor that he attempted to
hang himself in jail, but it is denied.
His counsel are making an effort to
prisonment, and all but one Juror signed
the petition. The judge, however, in
sentencing him, said there We're no nit
igating circumstances.
j. V. Brewer, the commissioner of this
new Itasca state park, established by
the last legislature, is taking active
steps to look up the abstracts Of title in
order to secure lands within its borders,
owned by private parties. The park is
situated in the northern part of the
state, about twenty miles from Park
Rapids, and contains about thirty-four
squire miles. The pioneer party to this
park will be made up of Professor
George D. Alton and Superintendent
w. NJ. West, of Faribault, who, with
several friends, will start about the
middle of June for a. stay Of several
weeks.
An intere sting case has been decided
at Fergus Falls. Several years ago
Thomas H. Garfield, the weIl-known
farmer at Lake Park, sold one Owen
Cowles a valuable horse, taking his
note and security on the horse. About
four years ago Cowles desired to dis
pose of the horse and Mr.. Garfield
changed his security, taking a third
mortgage on Cowles' farm. The sum