Mower County transcript., 1902-12-24
NEWS IN N \ NNESOT.A

NEWS IN me- NlNESOTA
Richard Marvin, pioneer Of. st.
Paul, is. dead. = r ::
{: Kinks -four mill at Fergus Falls has
been destroyed by fire. :.
I Mrs D. O'Halloran, one of the old
est settlers of st. Paul, is dead. :
A seven-foot vein of anthracite coal
has been struck on the farm of Mr..
Storer near Barnesvflle: : )
William g. Jones, resident of Min
nesota since 1852, died last week at
his home in Golden Valley.
i Minnesota's total vote in the late
election was 276,071. Van SAINTS ma
5ority over Rosing was 56,527.
John H. Hullsiek, one of the pio-
neer produce commission merchants of
st. Paul, is lying at the point Of death.
Mrs. Rose Bouland, one of the old
est, If not the very Oldest woman In
Minneapolis, is dead, aged ninety
eight.
Mrs. F. w. Hankey, Western writ
or of some note, whose pen name was
Marie Winslow, died last week at
Hamline.
Charles D. Gilf1lan, one of the Oldest,
most prominent and distinguished citi~
zens of Minnesota, died suddenly at
! st. Paul last week.
Insurance Commissioner Dearth has
asked for a receivership for the Fidel-
ity Mutual Hail Insurance company
of Winnebago City.
The Minneapolis fire department will
make an effort with the new city coun-
ell, which takes charge next month, to
| get raise of per cent in salaries.
Captain E. Freestone, one of the
most prominent workers in the Society
of Christian Crusaders in this country,
died at Winona after a weeks illness.
Secretary of War Root has agreed
to recommend the appropriation of
$116, 900 for the purchase of 844 acres
Of land to add to the Fort Smelling res
ervation.
The four-story warehouse occupied
by the w. S. Mott company of Mime
:apolis was completely gutted by fire
Saturday morning. The loss will
amount to $4,000.
Fred Brude, farmer of Lake Hans
ka, while repairing a windmill, was
caught in the machinery, by his duck
| coat, and died of strangulation before
help could reach him.
Eight miles have this year been, add
ed to- the Minneapolis sewer system,
at cost of $120,000. The city has now
16912 miles of sewer, for which ST.
100000 has been expended.
; Public Examiner ST. johnson, in
| his biennial report, asks for consider
able increase in the force of assistants
allowed the department, in order that
fhe may perform adequately the many
duties of the Office.
| The state canvassing board has de-
cided that the proposition to create
and organize Clearwater county; in
Beltrami, and Columbia and Nelson
counties in Polk county, has received
a majority Of the votes cast.
Alger, Smith & Co. and the Red Cliff
Lumber company have. purchased the
north shore pine, hitherto owned by
Thomas Bardon of Ashland and Fred
erick Weyerbaeser of st. Paul,
amounting to 100,000,000 feet.
Incorporation has been granted at
Ottawa, Ont, to the German-Ameri-
can Land company with a capital
stock of $500,000 to acquire land and
place settlers thereon. The incorpo-
rators are all Minnesota men.
Paul LeMay, who is held for the
murder of Girls Knudsen at Blackduck
on the night of Nov. 26, has been
bound over to the grand jury, charged
with assault, and has been committed
to the county Jail at Bemidji to await
his trial in March.
An elevated electric railway con-
Meeting St. Paul and Minneapolis and
eventually complete elevated rapid
transit system in both cities is the
project of a syndicate which will ask
the legislature at the coming session
for thirty-year franchise.
The labor organizations of the state
have a membership of 28,338, an in
crease of 12,958.in the past two years.
These figures are shown in Labor Com
missioner O'DonnelPs report. He finds
that the new organizations number
125, and these brought 5000 members.
Judge Cray, at Mankato, denied
the motion for new trial in the case
of D. G. Robinson, convicted of for
gerry in the second degree, and SEN
fenced him to Saltwater penitentiary
for four years and ten months. Robin
son made a sensational talk in court,
not asking for leniency, but for JUS
tice.
The total revenue which St. Paul
will get from saloon licenses this year
will be $328,000, which is $4,000 more
than the amount estimated at the be-
ginning of the year. License Inspector
Jessrang believes that at least twenty
of the 328 saloons in st. Paul VIII go
out of business when their licenses ex-
pire.
Officers raided the counterfeiting
plant of Andrew Schroeder near Maple
Grove: A complete counterfeiter's
outfit, including three plaster of paris
molds for dollars, composition for max