Mower County transcript., 1898-02-09
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Winnebago City proposes to have a
! sewer system.
Ma1kato Oddfellows have dedicated
their new building.
Anew telephone company has been
organized at Mankato.
Thirty three horses perished in a liv.
ery stable fro at Minneapolis.
The increase in population Of state
Insane hospitals during the year wal
only 78.
The supreme court has decided that a
deposit in an insolvent bank is an Offset
to indebtedness to the bank.
g. E. Wood Of Spring Valley has
agreed to build a 75.barrel roller mill at
Herman for bonus Of $1,000.
| Winona now runs "bobtail'' street
cars, the conductors having been laid
off in tho interests Of economy.
Isaac Staples, the Saltwater lumber.
man, is seriously i'll. He is 81 years
Did and it is feared he will not recover.
In place Of the buildings DESTROYED
| by fire at.Stewartville early this winter
! new and better ones are to be erected.
The poultry show at St. Paul is being
held in connection with the annual
meeting of the State Poultry associa.
tion.
Frank M. Nye, receiver of the Bank
Of Minneapolis. has been authorized to
pay dividend Of 40 per cent to the
creditors.
A fight on ore freight rates will be
commenced at Duluth in few days by
fling complaint with the state rail.
road commission.
III health has compelled Senator
Teller to decline the invitation to at.
tend the Butler Populist demonstration
at Minneapolis Feb. 49,
! Byron A. Cole of New London has
obtained verdict Of $3.50 against N. o.
Andrews of Minneapolis for false i'm
prisonment. He sued for Sc, ,00O.
A St. Paul physician has asked per.
mission to hypnotize John Moshik,
soon to be hanged at Minneapolis He
believes this would lessen the horror of
hanging.
The German Lutherans in the synods
Of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan
their aged people without relatives, at
Belle Plaine.
The friends of John McCallen, who
was found dead recently near New
Duluth, have concluded he was mur.
dered. and have requested the coroner
to make an investigation.
Twenty-one business men of St. Paul
and other Minnesota cities were at
Omaha last week looking over the ex.
position grounds, making arrangements
for participating in the exposition.
!! Miss Alice McKiernan was killed ard
A. B. famous, her companion, was
seriously injured at West St. Paul.
The carriage in which they were riding
was struck by Great Western train.
The annual meeting of the state
board of boiler inspectors will be held
at the capitol Wednesday, Feb. 2S
The annual reports of the inspectors
will then be filed. officers elected and
rules adopted for the ensuing year.
May.dway-gah.no.n head chief of
the Red Lake bands of Chippewa In.
dians and the seer and oracle of the
,Chippewas of Minnesota, is dead. The
venerable chief was near the century
mark of life and was the oldest and,
without doubt, the wisest sachem Of
the tribe.
Henry Truelsen, Democrat. Populist,
was reelected mayor Of Duluth by a
majority of about 1000 over Elmer T.
Mitchell, Republican. The fusionists
elected aldermen, the Republicans 4,
and independents 2. The council will
now stand: Fusionists 8, Republicans
:, and independents 2.
Notification has been given that the
board of regents of the state university
is prepared to carry out the provisions
Of the law passed by the last legisla-
ture, providing for the care and treat
ment Of INDECENT, crippled and de-
formed children who have been resi-.
dents of the state not less than q year.
These children will be cared for in the
city and county hospital at St. Paul.
THE IRELAND LANDS.
Decision by Which tho Archbishop Both