Mower County transcript., 1892-06-15
MIN ESQ Ia NEWS,

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There We're several cases Of sunstroke
" Minneapolis Saturday and Sunday.
The national convention Of state insur-
ance commissioners is in session at St.
Paul.
st. Paul lady school teachers have
been placed on the same salary list as
the men.
The drowning season opened in st.
Paui Tuesday by the strangulation Of
two boys and a man.
Emiel Prusser, aged II, was drowned
while bathing In the Minnesota river at
Mankato, Saturday.
The state conclave of Odd Fellows
was held at Duluth last week. About
900 delegates were present.
Up to last Saturday evening the ST,
Croix boom at Saltwater had turned out
lO3,OOO, 900 feet Of logs this season.
A burglar was shot In the leg and CAP
tured while attempting to break into a
Morristown meat market, Friday night.
George G. Gilallan, Of ST. Paul, has
resigned as assistant general passenger
agent OF the St. Paul and Duluth road.
=. NJ. Pope, Of Mankato, has been
nominated for congress by the Peoples
party of the Second congressional dis
trict.
Two men from Chippewa Falls were
run down by an electric car in Mime
apolis Sunday and perhaps fatally in
jured.
Charles s. Drake, one of the oldest and
best known printers In St. Paul. died
very suddenly of appoplexy Sunday
afternoon.
The new Republican administration at
st. Paul is now In full swing and the
Globe Is finding fault while the Pioneer
Press praises.
Henry Bower, of Minneapolis. hung
himself in the Brainerd lookup Thursday
night. He was waiting an examination
as to his sanity. =
Indications of unlimited quantities of
silver, copper and iron ore have been re-
Gently discovered within twenty miles
OF Staples. 1t is supposed to be a con-
tinuation of the Mesaba range.
Fred Douglass, the noted colored man.
discussed the race problem in the Church
OF the Redeemer, Minneapolis, Sunday,
and claimed that the negro problem was
settled so far as principles and institu-
hons are concerned.
A meeting was held at Staples Tues
day evening to agitate the question of
forming new county from the northern
tier of towns Of Todd county and the
unorganized territory north, with Sta
pies as the county seat.
The trial of John P. Rossback. in.
d1cted for murder in the third degree.
has been commenced before Judge Kepr
at St. Paul. On the evening of April q
last, Rossback struck James Gibbons on
the head with an aae during quarrel. ,
AT 3 o'clock a. m, fire caught in the
rear of DR.. A. E.. Higbee's house, II
Third avenue south, Minneapolis. DR..
Higbee's hired man, named Carl Palnlof,
who roomed upstairs in that part Of the
dwelling was smothered to death. The
coroner was notified Of the fatality.
Frank Eddy attempted suicide by
jumping from the steel arch bridge into
the Mississippi at Minneapolis. Saturday.
He struck the water feet foremost and
evidently changed his mind about dying.
as he was struggling hard to regain the
shore when rescued by q policeman. He
is undoubtedly insane.
The silver jubilee of the Rt. Rev.
Bishop McGolrick, Of the diocese of Du-
luth. who for many years was chief
priset of the church of the immaculate
Conception in Minneapolis previous to
his elevation as bishop, was celebrated
Thursday last by the Catholics of Duluth
and Of that diocese in the most enthusi-
astic manner.