Mower County transcript., 1891-10-07
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS


The shipments Of iron ore this season
from Two Harbors reaches 741 .8O5 tons.
Governor Merriam has refused to
commute the sentence of William Rose.
Hon. Mark Il. Dunnell, of Owatonna,
will 60 to Ohio to take part in the cam
paign.
August Schenecke, we'll digger of
Henderson, broke his neck by falling
into well.
The next convention of insurance COM
held at St. Paul.
A company for the manufacture of
sewer pipe has been organized at Red
Wing, with a capital of $4,000.
Jackson, Jackson county, has been
made pres: lential office, and Hon. Alex
Fiddes reaprointed postmaster.
William Mitchell, the fireman who
was severely' injured at the recent ele-
vator fire in Minneapolis, died Thursday.
Thomas Elliott, who built the first
house in .Mapleton, accidentally fell into
the Maple river Thursday and drowned.
At Moorhead the city council have
decided to discontinue half the gas
lamps and substitute five electric arc
lamps.
St. Mary's academy, Benedictine
seminary at St. Joseph, Stearns county,
will have $4,000 brick addition to its
building.
The prison board has decided on the
purchase Of new tWine plant to cost
about $4,000, and employ about forty
convicts.
Vincent P. Kukowski, the Winona
policeman who killed August Dommcr
slaughter in the second degree
The fourth annual convention Of thu
Protestant Episcopal Church Sunday
School association Of the diocese cf Min
nesota was held in St. Paul last week.
A novel industry has been incorpor-
ated in St. Paul, being a col.lpany to
indemnify business men from losses and
reVerses. 1t incorporates for $250,000,
The passenger steamer Winslow, of
the Lake Superior Transit companys
line, burned at her dock at Duluth
Saturday. She was valued at *:Ss5, 900.
The St. C:oud street railway system
has passed into the hands Of the Thonr-
son-Houston company Of st. Paul. The
present system will be changed to an
electric plant.
Professional burglars broke into A. B.
Hanscoms restaurant. at Willmar,
drilled a hole in the safe and broke the
combination, securing $4CO III money,
some promissory notes and other valua-
bic papers.
Grading on the Great Northern be.
tween Red Lake Falls and st. Hilaire is
about completed Work is being pushed
on the line and the southern connectiC j
with the Fosston branch will probably
be made this fall.
Strong & Miller, of Minneapolis, will
build new elevator at Hastings on the
burned site of the railroad one on the
levee. The capacity viii be Is, 600 bushels
and work upon the building will be
commenced at once.
w. G. Bredenhagen, president of thu
New Ulm and Southwestern, says tina
now there is no longer any question bu
what building operations will; be com
menced next spring, so as to have thu
road completed by fall.
Fifteen yonng men from Tipperary
and Kilkenny, Ireland, have been Sc
lected by Bishop McGolrick, of Duluth
as students aspirant for the American
priesthood. They have sailed on boart
the Wisconsin for New York, on thei1
way to Archbishop Ireland at St. Paul
Superintendent Myers, Of the St. Clou,
reformatory, in speaking Of the worl
done by the inmates of the refOrmator
this past year, said that they has sol
$4,000 worth of stone. Superintendent
Myers is of the opinion that the reform
atory could furnish within ten year
enough cut stone for new state capitol
The steamer China last week r1nloade
the largest consignment of sugar eve
brought to Duluth. The sugar took u
the greater part of the vessels hold an
weighed 800 tons. AS car load is pu
at Is tons it can be seen that the con
signment would fill so cars. The suga
was consigned to Duluth and Twin Cit
jobbers.
A contract for convict labor has bee
let to the Minnesota Thresher compan
by the board OF prison managers. Th
company agrees to pay 55 cents da
per convict for $50 convicts, and 5000
month for the rent Of shops and the Vs
of the machinery, and 1925 a month fo
power and heat, which are furnishe
from the prison boilers. This will max
the entire receipts by the state abor
$4,000 year from the thresher con
pany and about double what has eve
been paid before.