Mower County transcript., 1892-02-10
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS

Laloh0, carton county.
Madelia is to have a new high school
building, to cost $26, 900.
At the city election in Duluth last
week Charles D'Autremont, DEM, was
elected mayor. r
The percentage of pauperism in Min
nesota is shown to be much lower than
IN the rest of the United States.
The president has appointed Captain
Henry A. Castle postmaster at st. Paul.
and John Boreen at Saltwater.
John P. Kelly, of Winona, wants
81 800 from that oity for a broken wrist
received from = fall on slippery side
walk. #~ =.
A hermit named Williams. who has
resided near Pine City for tho past
twenty years, has mysteriously disap-
peared.
Winnipeg took tho tankard in the in
ternational curling match at St. Panl
last week. St. Paul has held it for two
years.
There is to be another elsoric line be-
tween St. Paul and Minneapolis. T.
will be an extension Of the st. Anthony
Park line. .-<
Peter Olson, who tried to thaw out a
can of dynamite on a stove at- Sank
Rapids, died from the effects of the ex-
plosion that resulted.
The auditing department of the Wis
consin Central road is to ,be removed
from Chicago to st. Paul, and meroeil
into that OF the Northern Pacific.
Attorney General Miller has appointed
Robert &. Evans OF Minneapolis. special
assistant attorney in the prosecution of
suits against the Northern Pacific rail
road.
The Minneapolis Eastern Railway
company reports its gross earnings for
the year 1891 as al ,605. rs. the tax on
Wmch, at per cent, amounts to ST.
24S.17. SN'
Charles D. Eveney, prominent
farmer OF Wheaton. has been sued for
$lO,OOO damages by the wife of A. Du-
mont. saloon keeper, for defamation
of character.
Oot johnson, Scandinavian carpen-
ter, who went to visit with his friend.
John Anderson, Of Wayzata. over Christ.
mas, disappeared on the evening of Dec
II and has not been seen since.
A slander suit involving $40 00o has
peen oegun IN the district court of Fari-
Dauit county by Rev. Theodore Venn
asalns1 heV. Kobert Hughes. The lat
Ter succeeds the former as pastor.
Professor H. P. Judson, of the state
university, has just been elected profes-
sor OF history and dean of the under
graduate department of the University
OF Chicago. He will assume the dnties
OF his new position.
The Duluth chamber ef commerce has
passed resolution asking the Minnesota
members OF congress to favor the in
cludlng IN the new river and harbor bill
OF an appropriation for dredging the
upper bay from West Duluth to the foot
of the dalles.
The Montgomery, lie Sueuer county,
Messenger was awarded the county
printing, but an injunction was issued
because the paper had missed one issue
during the year. The injunction suit
was dismissed by tho district court
and the award of the commissioners
confirmed.
Mrs. Michael Brady died last week at
Carlton. She had been seriously i'll for
several weeks, and the money from her
saloon was sent to her house. On the
DAY OF her death, while she was in a
dying condition, unknown parties en-
tered the house and carried off the
whole sum, about 81 500.
y. A. Lawrence, assistant food and
dairy commissioner, states that there il
q general misrepresentation in regard to
the use of oleomragarine in hotels. res.
taurants, etc. Whenever found in such
places by the inspectors, oleomarparine
is invariably seized and confscated, re.
gardless OF the presence of the govern
ment stamp on the package, or any
other qualifying circumstance.
Tuesday afternoon a threshing engine
owned by II. 81. Finroe, and used II
running saw mill six miles south .o1
Lake Park, burst, and killed two men
and injured one other. Torger Nestlebv
the sawyer, was struck by the front
door of the boiler and killed Godfred
Lien, the engineer, who was standing
by the boiler when it exploded. wax
hoisted into tho air fifty feet and badly
mangled.
The members of the Democratic state
central committee will meet in St. Pau
at o'clock in the afternoon of Tues
day, Feb: 16, to hear the report.
of the Minnesota Democratic. asso
citation and to fix date for tht
holding of the state convention that will
chose delegates to tho coming nationa
convention. The annual meeting of tn,
Minnesota Democratic association viii
be held on the same day, calls for thi.
meeting having just been sent out b,
Secretary Smalley.
There has just come to light at Pin,
City one of the most atrocious ant
brutal acts ever committed. William
Francey, a farmer living two mile
south of this place, became crazed q
the sight of G. A. Robinson's cattl,
travelling through his farm for water
and chopped two ribs out of one with: q,
axe. cut ones leg, split anothers horn
and made cut fourteen inches long i,
another. No explanation is given fo1
the crime. Intense Indignation is ex
pressed by farmers and citizens,
The Mankato Review exposes a
length the operations of the so-callet
alliance Fence company" of Mime
apolis, who are said to be swindline til,
farmers OF that part of the state through
agents. They manage to sell seyera
yards Of fence, and then they lay wire
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