Mower County transcript., 1898-09-07
NEWS IN MINNESOTA 4 +

session at the capital
Nearly 400 cars of range cattle passed
through St. Paul Tuesday:
M. J. RDowling has decided not to be
q candidate for state senator from his
district. ..@5s.f ..l.,:.
Milo White Of .Chatfeld has been
nominated for congress by First dis
trict Democrats. H.. -.
Twenty.four counties in Minnesota
have no jails and as many more have
no need of them. ~.
The Princeton brick manufacturers
expect their output to reach the 8,O00,.
600 mark this season.
Adjutant's reports show: that over
300 men Of the Fifteenth regiment are
sick or absent on leave. K S.....
East Grand Forks will discard it's
special charter and incorporate under
the general laws of tho state.
A mill of $50 barrels daily capacity
will be built at Saltwater, in place of
the Staples mill recently burned.
The transport St. Paul has arrived at
Manila. Among the troops on board
were 800 recruits for the Thirteenth
Minnesota. Ill.,. ..-.
The St. Paul health departments
bacteriologist reports that the typhoid
epidemic at Camp Ramsey came from
the delivery hose of the distributing
tank. = II ~ n
A telegram from the war department
to Governor Clough announces that
the T welfth and Fourteenth Minnesota
regiments will be mustered out imme-'
diately. - '.|''~~5 ]
Lieutenant Louis Mueller of Com.
pany A, Twelfth regiment, who was
brought from Chickamauga to New
Ulm Monday last, with typhoid fever,
Is dead. He was buried with military
nonors. Il 1....-', 49, .,,-,,.
The receipts of the internal revenue
Office at St. Paul for August were
e253, 900; $4,000 Of this amount was
for proprietary and documentary
stamps,i including imprinted stamps.
: The beer tax receipts were $50, 900, and
OF this amount $4,000 was the war
tax increase upon beer. Fl -tSs -
In January, 1884,. the City of Mime
apolis had .l,l34, applicants for public
aid. II took nearly eight months of
this year to bring the total up to the
number reached in one month in 1899.
OF the l47 cases that were helped
through the entire year of 1897, Al
have dropped off since Jan. l.
The sawmill of Youmans Bros. &
Hodgins at Winona has closed down
for the season, owing to the difficulty
experienced in getting logs, on account
of the low water in the river The cut
for the season is estimated at about 49,.
Oo0, 900 feet, some 100000 feet less
than last year. All the other sawmilIs
here will run we'll on into the fall.
= Secretary Lucien T. Troutman of the
St Cloud. Muruat Building and Loan
association has admitted the embezzle-
ment of large amount of the funds of
the association. He acknowledges hav.
ing appropriated sum approxima ating
3l3, 900, but disputes the correctness of
charges Involving about $4,00o,. which
the expert has carried into his account.
Governor Clough has concluded ar.
rangements with the Omaha road for
the conveyan of the sick Minnesota
soldiers from Chickamauga and other
points to this state. The governor de-
cided that he would not make the trip.
hr1t "a thn 1,1 ~1o -
charge of his private secretary, Colonel
Hartley. The latter has started for
Chickamauga.
Fire which started in E. p Watson's
barn, two miles east of Morris, de-
stroyed the barn, granary, 800 tons of
hay, 1900 bushels of grain and II head
of horses. Mr.. Watson is one of the
board of managers of the state fair and
was at the state fair grounds. There
being no men about the place, Mrs.
Watson was seriously burned trying to
free the horses and stock.
The D. S. B. Johnston Land Mort
gage company of St. Paul has pur.
chased from the Northern Pacific Rail.
way company 480, 900 acres, making it
the largest transaction of the kind that
has ever taken place in the Northwest.
The lands lie in Otter Tail, Becker,
Clay and Norman counties in : Mime
sofa. and in the eastern part of North
Dakota, being almost wholly within
the Red river and James river valleys.
Henry Askegaard. the l1.year.old
son of David Askegaard, was smoth-
cred in a wheat bin in his fathers ele.
vator at Comstock. Henry and Edwin
.Halland, son OF Mr., Askegaard's part.
ner, climbed up the ladder on the out.
side Of the elevator and crawled
through a window to play in one of
the wheat bins While they were
there the spout opened to load out
car and the boys were carried down
with the wheat. Young Halland man.
aged to escape and tried to rescue his
ohum, but could not.
~, FAULT OF THE DEPUTY.