Mower County transcript., 1899-10-25
NEWS IN MINNESOTA:

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Minneapolis telephone girls will form
1 union. -: -.
Several cases Of scarlet fever have oc-
Cured at Buffalo.
! The Minnesota Federation of Women's
clubs will meet next at Duluth.
St. Paups annual Charity Ball will be
given Nov. II at the Masonic temple.
Minnesota university defeated Ames
Qa.) college to 0 in Saturdays football
game.
! q. II. Christian Of Minneapolis, who
sold out his holdings to the -four trust,
will re-enter the business and put up a
new mill.
J. Z. Mcbride, Saltwater convict,
has made confession to four murders
and a large number of burglaries in
other states.
The Anderson law taxing railroad
lands has been affirmed by the supreme
court as applied to the Duluth and Iron
Range grant.
Thursday to Sunday of this week the
Christian Endeavor societies of Mime
sofa will hold their annual convention
at St. Cloud.
The National Live Stock Exchange
which held two days meeting in St.
Paul, has adjourned. Indianapolis was
chosen as the next convention city.
Congressman Eddy is indignant be.
cause the secretary of the interior ig-
nores the Minnesota delegation in his
conduct of tho Indian affairs of the
! state.
The 18th annual meeting of the
Southern Minnesota Teachers associa-
tion will be held in the state normal
school building. Mankato, on Friday
and Saturday, Nov. 10 and II.
An order has been issued discontinue
ing the postoffice at Antrim, Watonwan
county; mail to South Branch. Also
discontinuing the postofice at Burchard
Lyon county; mail to Balaton.
Through the efforts of the Duluth
Evening Herald, Andrew Carnegie has
| offered to donate $50, 900 to the city of
Duluth to erect building for the free
public library, conditioned upon sat-
isfactory site being provided by the city.
William Dockery of Minneapolis, bet
ter known as billie" Dockery, has been
sentenced to FIVE years in the peniten-
tiary at Sioux Falls and fined 81 ,00u bv
Judge Amidon at Fargo. He was con.
vieted Of robbing the postofice at
Edgeley. <es1Ssak',n nse!SsX7s=s~->.--
W. H. Eichman is arranging series
of concert engagements for the famous
| Thirteenth regiment band throughout
the state. The fame of the band pre-
ceded the arrival of the organization.
and while it was quartered at San Fran
cisco fattering offers were make by
various managers in the larger cities.
At Fergus Falls the Northern Pacific
Railway company has instituted Is
suits in the district court to secure title
to lands held by farmers in various
parts of Ottertail county. A great deal
of uneasiness is felt, as it is feared that
these are only the first of large num-
Der of suits which the company is about
to institute.
If congress grants the requests of the
chief engineer of the war department
$3.50. 900 will be spent next year on i'm
provement of the upper waters of the
Mississippi between St. Paul and its
source, and an even million will go into
wing dams, channel corrections, etc.,
from the point where the Mississippi is
joined by the Missouri to St. Paul.
At Minneapolis George Besser was
convicted of selling butter containing
boric acid. The evidence showed that
he had used the acid as an embalming
fluid in order to preserve intact during
the heated season, and realize profit
when prices went up in the fall. He
was fined $25 on each of two charges,
and when the costs were added, was
out just $50.
Fires have been lighted in the blast
furnace Of the Duluth Furnace COM
pany. During the week the first metal
will be run and steady work COM
menced. The furnace is owned by j.
N. Thomas, late of the Thomas Iron
company of Niles, O., who last spring
sold out his interests there to the Ma
tional Steel company for $500, 1000, and
Immediately bought the Duluth fur
mace from the bondholders for half its
value.
Train loads of beets have been deliv-
cred at the Minnesota Sugar Colnpany's
factory at st. Louis park at such q rate
that the company has been compelled
to ask that no more be shipped till
storage room can be provided for them.
The rush comes from the fact that the
farmers have gathered their crop and
are anxious to turn them into cash at
the earliest possible time. The manager
of the company is of the opinion that
tho output of the factory this year will
reach 5000, 900 pounds.
MINNESOTA RAILROADS,
Earnings Over Thirty.one Millions, Half
| Of Which Was Spent In Operation.
ST. PAUL. Oct 25-Annual renOrts