Mower County transcript., 1901-05-08
NEWS in MI NNESOTA
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Fire af Mora caused a. loss If 416.

Paul contractor, is dead. ~ 80 - =
James Mackey, prominent busi-
ness man of Saltwater. is dead. .'"-.
!, Rev. James A. Fitzpatrick, pastor Of
St.. Stephens Catholic church, Mime
apolis, is dead. -
The Younger brothers have filed an
application for parole with the state
board of prison managers:
The summer schedule for coal is on
at Duluth and prices have dropped
from SO to Is cents ton.
The warm weather of the past week
was unprecedented in the annals of st.
Paul's weather bureau for this time
Of year.
Jacob Larstad, 80 years old, was run
down and instantly killed by Min
neapolis and St. Louis train at st.
Paul Monday.
The state board of health has dis
covered III cases of smallpox in four
townships in Lac qui Parle. and Big
Stone counties.
The death rate in typhoid fever at
Minneapolis during the month of April
was about IS per cent. There were
81 cases of the fever reported and 21
of these were fatal.
Secretary Jackson's semi-annual re-
port for the state corrections and
charities board shows that criminals
are growing less in the state, while
pauperism increases.
At the request of J. w. Dreger and
H. w. Goetzinger Governor Van SAINT
has appointed Norman Fetter Of ST.
Paul the third member of the state
board of arbitration.
The report that the Nebish and Red
Lake Logging railroad had been sold
to the Northern Pacific is true. The
deal has been made, but does not take
effect for seven years.
More than 100 cars loaded with logs
from Bemidji arrived at Saltwater
Monday for William Kaiser, the Mus
catine Iumberman, who has entered
into a large deal for Bemidji logs.
Z: Peter Clause of Wabasha, this state,
10 years old, was drowned in the Mis-
sissippi river at La Crosse by the cap
sizing of a rowboat, in which he and
four companions were crossing the
river.
Anton Imholte, a prominent and
wealthy farmer of Clear Lake, Stearns
county, has gone insane over the death
of his three children from diphtheria,
the deaths all occurring within
a week.
John D. Rockefeller has subscribed
1000 toward the construction of the
new ST.. Luke's hospital at Duluth.
Mr.. Rockefeller's subscriptions to Du-
luth charities, etc., have amounted to
about $4,000.
G. P. Coffin of Chicago, who has
been secretary and treasurer of the
Minnesota Iron company and Duluth
and Iron Range Railroad company, has
been, elected president of the Mime
sofa Iron company. ...
= The saw mill of the Tower Lumber
company has resumed for the year and
will run IL months. It is the last of
the mills Oh the Vermil1ion range to
start up, and there are now four mills
at work along that range.
Isanti county farmers will try the
experiment of raising sugar beets.
Thirteen hundred pounds of seed have
been received at Cambridge, while
Isanti has received 200 pounds and 100
pounds has been delivered at Braham
The directors of the Winona Street
Fair association met last week and dis.
cussed plans for the street fair to be
held in September. A number Of COM
mittees were appointed, and the work
of preparation will be actively pushed.
The contractors on the Mississippi
and. International railroad have put
on day and night crews of men, with
steam shovels. They expect to get
the track laid from Bemidji to Black
Duck, distance of 29 miles, within a
month.
w. J. Footner, vice president and
general manager of the Great North
ern Express company, died of apoplexy
at st. Paul Saturday. Mr.. Footner
was apparently in good health the pre-
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ing the evening.
Quarantine regulations have been
established at st. Thomas college, st.
Paul, as result of several mild cases
of diphtheria. The disease has been
traced to domestic employed at the
college. Three students have been re-
moved to the hospital.
The jury in the case of Bertha
Schilling, on trial at Minneapolis for
the murder of Hazel Murphy, brought
in verdict of guilty of manslaughter
in the second degree after being out
just an hour and forty minutes. The
prisoner wept bitterly when the YER
dict was read. ~
Charles A. Morey of Winona, senior
member of the state board of control,
fell down-a fight of, stairs. in the state
capitol building. ST.. Paul, and sus.:
tanned injuries of most serious ma
tture. He was removed to st. Joseph's
hospital, but the exact nature of his
Injuries cannot be determined: EIis