Mower County transcript., 1899-11-01
NEWS IN. MINNESOTA

elected president of the Inland Lakes
Yachting association.
The American Public Health associa-
ton holds its eth annual session in
Minneapolis Nov. l, 2 and 8.
The Swift & Go. packing plant at
South St. Paul is to be nearly doubled,
involving an outlay Of 100000.
The constitutionality of the law gov
erning the distribution Of the state
school fund is called in question.
Joe King. on trial at Carlton, &C
cused Of having murdered Gus Berg
near Mahlowa, has been acquitted.
Because of the unjust French tariff
the Minneapolis -four millers will not
have exhibits at the Paris exposition.
Among the passengers who arrived
Sunday on the steamer Amsterdam was
Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota.
Minnesota State University and Grin
nell played tie game of football Sat.
urday at Minneapolis. The score was
s to S.
A steel shipbuilding plant is to be
established at Collingwood, Ont, with
the assistance of Captain McDougall of
Duluth.
A movement has been started to OBJ
tain the pardon of the Fifteenth Minne-
sofa regiment who were sentenced to
Imprisonment for mutiny.
The state supreme court has upheld
the Grindeland law which requires
commission merchants to take out Ii.
censes, give bonds and make reports of
sales.
The supreme court has made a ruling
that an oral contract made by school
teacher with the board of trustees of
school district to teach school is invalid
and no recovery can be had for services
performed Hereunder
According to the insurance commits
sioner's report the amount of insurance
written in Minnesota in 1898 increased
8 per cent over the amount written in
1897, from $342.000 to 1857, 900. The
average rate decreased notably, from
1291a to l,O4. Two years ago the aver
age rate was 1.46.
Marion Fink, for whose whereabouts
query was recently received by Mayor
Kiefer of St. Paul, was found at Du-
luth. Fink is wanted as the heir to a
fortune left him by his father at Ober-
ammergau, Bavaria. He is employed
as blacksmith by the Northwestern
Manufacturing company of that city.
George II. Hayes, since the beginning
chief clerk of the state reformatory at
St. Cloud,,yhas been notified of his dis
missal by Superintendent Houlton. He
will remain q week and instruct his
successor, Thomas HELLER. Hayes dis
missal is the result of the unsuccessful
effort some months ago to oust Houlton
and he is accused of disloyalty.
The Mahoning mine, at Hibbing,
Mesaba range, has closed down for the
season with total shipment of 750, 1000
tons. This makes over 1900, 900 tons
for this mine since the spring Of 1895.
when it was first opened. The Fayal
mine, Mesaba range, will close the sea-
son with shipment of over 1000, 900
tons, and will probably lead all mines
of the Lake Luperior country. It is a
property of the Federal Steel company.
DR.. Franklin Staples, president of the
state board of health, announces strin-
gent set of rules adopted by the board
concerning quarantine and other pre-
ventive measures to guard against
smallpox where it has broken out in
towns along the Southern Minnesota
railroad. The rules provide for the
strict quarantine of all smallpox pa
tients, such quarantine to continue not
less than four weeks from the appear
ance of the disease.
The state bureau of labor has COM
piled statistics Of accident reports for
the first nine months of 1899. There
been 495 reported. 26 in January and an
increasing number every month until
it was SO in September, three-fold in
crease. Deputy Commissioner Olson
does not know how to account for it
unless it is prosperity" or else more
thorough work by the inspectors.
Among the accidents were 28 fatalities
and II in which limbs were lost.
Peter M. Gideon, one of the best
known characters in Southern Minne-
sofa, is dead. He was born in Cham
paign county, Ohio, in 1920, and resided
there until 1841, when he removed to
Clinton, Ills. From Clinton he came
in 1853 to Excelsior, there being at that
time only about five or six white fam.
lilies around Lake Minnetonka. The
following year he began experiments
and Investigations in fruit growing, and
has since done more than any other
man in the Northwest to advance the
cultivation of apples and other fruits.
He was the originator of the Wealthy
apple, which he named after his wife
Wealthy Hall, whom he married ir
1849. In 1878, when the state estab.
lished an experimental fruit farm, he
was made superintendent and contin
ued in that capacity for several years.
| WILL QUIT THE BUSINESS.