Mower County transcript., 1899-08-09
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

: The Howe Lumber company will re-.
build its large mill at Tower.
The invalided Minnesota soldiers at
San Francisco are reported as doing
nicely.
Archbishop Ireland has arrived at st.
Paul after an absence of several mon tbs
abroad.
State fair managers are having trou-
bic to find adequate space for all the
exhibitors.
Albert Berg, secretary Of state, and
Mrs. Lillian DAILY were married at the
brides home in st. Paul.
The Omaha road has paid into the
state treasury $6l .OS2. 50 as their gross
earnings tax for the first six months of
1899.
Farmers will camp on the state fair
grounds again this year. There was
shortage of tents last year on account of
the Spanish war.
Duluth jobbers propose that the con-
templated national park Of Minnesota
be located in Lake and Cook counties
and Isle Royale.
A crop authority places Minnesota's
wheat crop for this year at little over
$4,000, 900 bushels-nearly 100000 0UO
less than last year.
1t is stated that ex-State Grain In
spector Clausen of Minnesota has &C
cepted the position offered him by the
Cincinnati board of trade.
c. B. Hersey. 20 years of age, son of
Colonel R. L. Hersey, a prominent cap
italist of St. Paul. was drowned while
fishing at Lake Nebagamon, Wis
Minneapolis women have started a
movement to employ oolored servant
girls. Quite number will be brought
from the South within a few days.
Dairy butter and fresh eggs are ex-
tremely scarce articles In Minnesota at
present. The demand is far in excess
of the supply, even though high prices
are being paid.
The Golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
o. O. jacobson has just been celebrated
at Ada. Two purses of gold were pre-
sented to the old couple, one by their
children and the other by church con-
gregation-
Ed Pantsar, a Finnish employe of the
Cloquet Lumber company, had his head
nearly split in two while crawling un-
der trimmer table and striking his
head against live saw. His recovery
is doubtful.
The geological exhibit at Como Park,
st. Paul, is to be added TO by a dona.
ton from J. J. Hill of two zebus and
two goats. The first mentioned ami.
mails are rarely seen outside of men,
agerie or geological garden, and will in.
crease the attration at the park.
The Iowa, Minnesota and Northwest
ern has amended it's articles of incor-
poration so as to increase its capital
stock from $2Oo. coo to 6, 500, 900. The
additional capita is for the purpose of
extending the road in northwesterly
direction into Minnesota, via Keister.
In Faribault county.
Smallpox has broken out in the vii
1age of Round Lake, 10 miles north of
Worthington. 1t is reported that the
whole town has been Quarantined b.,
Secretary Bracken Of the state board of
health A daughter of DR.. Little died
Monday and the doctor himself has
mild fNpx, 1$ %ha
A. A. Hansen of Minneapolis, known
in wheeling circles everywhere as
''Rainmaker" Hansen, or the "Old
Man." holds the 1,000+mile cycle road
record of the world. lowering that made
by T. A. Wage of England, by IL hours
and IS minutes. Hansen's actual rid
ing time was about 73 hours.
In his annual report just made public.
Chief Wilkie Of the secret service says
the amount of counterfeit money made
and captured last year amounts to $780,
467. The total arrests made numbered
679. OF this number nine were arrested
in Minnesota, five in Wisconsin. three
in Iowa and one in South Dakota.
The state capitol commission h as au-
thorized Architect Gilbert to confer
with the congressional delegation with
q view to securing several cannon taken
from the Spanish during the late war to
ornament the approaches to the new
state structure. Mr.. Gilbert suggested
the idea to the commission and it met
with hearty favor.
The annual report on land patents fo1
the fiscal year ending July 81 shows
total of 934 patents covering 87,635. IS
acres belonging to the various state
funds and institutions. For 1897 the
number of patents issued was 1894, and
for 1893, 800. These patents are not is-
sued when this land is first purchased
but when 1t is fully paid for.
! F. II. Peavey & Co. have just com
pleted the purchase Of the line Of eleva-
tors of the Minnesota and Dakota COM
pany. The system consists of about 5O
elevators situated along the line of the
Great Northern, Northern Pacific and
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