Mower County transcript., 1900-05-09
NEWS n EESOFA

s10 that city. e: :
train Of 20 cars Of. threshing ma
sefnes were shipped from Minneapolis
- Texas last week.. -. - =.
}. according TO . Washington speciai 20
The Pioneer Press ex-GovernoraNcG ill
win be tho next postmaster Of st. Paul.
William p Brown. :. president Of the
Brown Commission company Of Mime
apohs and well known grain man and
pioneer settler. ID dead. aged 7oyears.
At the request Of Senator Nelson the
bill reducing the salary of Chippewa
Commissioner Oar Hall and discontinu.
ing his Office Oct. next has passed tho
senate.
The Walter A. Wood harvester works
at st. Paul. for some years in the hands
Of receiver. have been purchased BY q
syndicate and will be operated on
large SCALE
The committee on public lands has
ordered favorable report on Senator
Nelson's bill for the relief Of settlers on
lands within the grant Of tho Northern
Pacific road.
Governor Roosevelt of New York has
accepted an invitation to be q guest Of
honor at the national convention Of Re.
publican clubs to be held at St. Pau;
July II, l8 and 10.
Miss Kate Flannery, q teacher at
Section s school two miles south of
Waverly, was killed in q runaway acci-
dent. She was thrown from the car.
riage and her neck broken. 4
The forest fires raging along Snake
river and other streams tributary to the
St. Croix have done considerable dam.
age to Saltwater lumbermen.~ Consid.
erable standing pine has been damaged.
There is lively rate war on between
the Lake Michigan. and Lake Superior
Transportation company and the Du-
luth, South Shore and Atlantic road for
the eastbound business out of Duluth
for the copper country.
Superintendent Putnam of the St.
Cloud car shops has received an order
to build over 500 combination stock and
box cars int $4,000 pounds capacity
box cars. 1t is large cp,er and will
give employment to many men all sum
mer.
Wheat shipments from Duluth are
enormous, mostly to Buffalo, but with
considerable share direct to Canadian
outports. Fridays shipments Of all
grains were nearly 100000 bushels,
Of which more than 1000, 900 were
wheat. a:t,; E.iki is'.S*s &.a7 l&s:@ = "a :
Fifteen men employed on the Mary
Jane, which is doing government work
at Winona, struck for an advance in
wages and when this was not granted
they walked off the boat and refused to
return. The boat later on got on a small
crew and pulled out
The missing: treasurer of Carver
county, Gerhard Bongaard, is under ar.
rest at Olds, N. w. f., and will be
brought back to: Minnesota. Bongaard.
who is . defaulter to the extent of sew
eral thousand dollars, has been missing
since early in February:. i:
William Rablof met . horrible death
at the Staples Alice mill at Saltwater.
He was employed on the edger and
splinter five feet in length was hurled
with such force that it passed through
his neck. Others went through his
arm and lacerated his face.
Lake fishermen say that in spite of
the millions of trout and whitefsh fry
planted in Lake Superior yearly, the
supply seems to be growing less. This.
season they are having poorer luck than
ever. The annual catch handled at Du.
luth amounts to not far from $500, 900.
Over 800 men are now employed in
the quarry at Sandstone and about 100
are at work in Rings quarry at Ban
ming, two miles north. The unusual
demand for building stone and paving
is the cause Of the rush Of work. The
wages of the men are the highest paid
for years: =
Judge Moore of Duluth has fled a
petition with the commission provided
by law, signed by IS per cent of the
legal voters of St. Louis county, asking
that division of St.. Louis county be
made, and that the range be cut off
from the southern section of the county
and be known as "1ron county,
Henry Bordewich Of Minnesota has
been nominated for consul general at
Christtania, Norway. Mr.. Bordewich
is now consul at that place. His pro-
motion was provided for in the diplo-
matte appropriation bill recently ap-
proved by the president. The promo
ton carries an increase in salary.
Two children Of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Sandusky Of Gilman we're found dead
in the woooe Friday, the sapposition
being that their death was due to eating
poisonous berries. The sisters, Emelia
and Martha, accompanied by their
brother, went berTying. Toward night
the boy returned, complaining Of severe
pains in his stomach. A search re-
suited in the finding of the bodies near
their home.
Sparks from passing locomotive set
fire to the sheep yards on the farm of
+. e Woodward, a mile and half
~uvook of T Tor~1ou Tho 4ornoo ru;ol~1.