Mower County transcript., 1896-11-25
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
Barnesville has q night school.

NEWO LIN MlNNESUIA
Barnesville has night school. ~
West Concord is to have knitting
factory. :
Rev. F. Morrison has accepted the
post Of bishop of Duluth.
The Benson roller mill has begun
operations. Its capacity is 100 barrels
per day.
The Hastings electric light plant has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000:
insurance, $1,000.
A Christian Endeavor convention in
the district of Duluth, will be held at
Cloquet, Nov. ~ and %.
The St. Paul Winter Carnival associ-
alton has decided to Alild an old FASH
ioned ice palace this winter.
Schedules in the assignment of Will
ford & Northway, Minneapolis, shows
$4S,3l8 debts and $lOY,S 1882 assets.
DR.. J..C. Clark of Saltwater has been
elected president of the Minnesota
Charities and Corrections association.
The Miessman feed stables at Lu-
verne, just completed, burned to the
ground. The fire is supposed to have
been set by tramps.
An order has been issued at the post
Office department discontinuing the
postoface at Palisade, Lake county.
Mail In
Arthur johnson, tried at Center City
for the murder Of Edward Paul at Wy
oming and acquitted, will be tried on
Feb. 2 for the murder of Jacob Hays.
Edward Burns, suffering from a hem.
orrhage of the brain, caused by an ac-
cident, was locked up as "drunk'' at
St. Paul. He died in his cell within two
hours.
John Lynch and Frank Schultz were
arrested at St. Paul on charge Of
stealing check for $2,145 from the
desk of the cashier of the Second Ma
tional bank.
George Kelley, who has been on trial
at Center City for the murder of young
Paul and Hayes in a Wyoming res
taurant, was found guilty and SEN
fenced to death.
The postofice department has aban-
doned an attempt to test free rural
delivery at Hastings. 1t was found i'm
possible to establish the system within
the amount allowed for the purpose.
Deputy Game Warden Green seized
trunk marked "clothing," which had
been forwarded from Grand Marais to
Duluth. He suspected it on account of
the weight. 1t was filled with venison
Ignatius Donnelly has brought suit
against the Minneapolis Penny Press
for $4,000 for alleged failnre to carry
out contract for printing and mailing
Donnelly's paper, The Representative.
Edward S. Barring Gould of Mime.
apolis, son of the English author, S.
Barring Gould and Miss Marion D. Lin
ton, daughter of A. H. Linton, also of
Minneapolis were married at Santa
Monica, Cal.
The supreme court decided against
the Adams Express company in the
action brought by the state railroad and
warehouse commission to compel the
company to file schedules as in the case
of railroads.
DR.. E. o. Fernow, head of the for.
estry division of the department of
agriculture, is in Minnesota to investi-
gate and report upon the proposition
for national park at the headwaters
of the Mississippi.
The supreme court has handed down
its long expected decision regarding the
location Of the fourth hospital for the
iasane, the ruling being in favor of
Anoka. The decision affirms the order
of the lower court, which ruled in favor
of the action of the commission.
The B. B. Richards Lumber COM
pany of Duluth has made an assign
ment to the Dulnth Trust company.
The company's affairs have been
slightly involved, but the assets greatly
exceed liabilities, and it was hoped
until recently that it would pull
through.
Leblom Bloomquist, farmer living
seven miles north of Dawson, shot his
sister-in-l law, Mrs. John Bloomquist,
and then shot himself, dying almost
instantly. Mrs Bloomquist will prob
ably recover. There was no witness to