Mower County transcript., 1902-12-31
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

! . The Park Rapids hospital has bee1
! destroyed by fire.
The new Metropolitan Opera Hous
at Duluth has been opened to the pub
! Ac.
Two persons were killed in wreck
on the Northern Pacific near St.
Cloud.
J. William H. Garlock, for many years
i, prominent figure in Winona banking
and financial circles. is dead.
The next annual meeting of the Min
nesota Editorial association will be
held in St. Paul, probably in February
Thieves broke into the residence o1
Mrs. Mary Lewis of Minneapolis and
stole $21 in cash and $3.50 worth OF
jewelry.
During the present year over 1,OO0
homes have gone, up in Minneapolis,
the largest record since 1890. The
number that year was 1,038. ::
Frederick Weyerhaeuser, the, pio-
neer lumber king of the Northwest and
one of the richest men in the Twin
Cities, is reported to be critically Ill
at his home in St. Paul.
Every employe of the First Ma
tional bank of st. Paul received as a
Christmas gift per cent of his years
salary. The offering came as a: sur
prise to the men who work in the bank.
St. Paul attorneys will introduce a
bill into the next legislature making
it unlawful for anyone to make an as
signment of future wages. The meas
ure will be aimed at the salary loan
companies.
A Great Northern passenger train,
heavily loaded with passengers, col
lided with the rear end Of freight
train at Litchfield, completely demol-
ishing the cabOOse and one car filled
with flour.
Former Superintendent of Police
Fred w. Ames of Minneapolis has ap-
pealed for a new trial. Ames is now
years and six months for having ac-
cepted Z bribe.
One day last week the Pillsbury-
Washburn Flour Mills company of
Minneapolis shipped to New York city
via the Chicago and Northwestern rail-
way train of thirty-seven cars, carry
ing 1000 barrels of -four.
According to State Superintendent
Olsen the per capita cost for pupils
in the common schools of Minnesota
for 1902 was only STOP. There are
only four states with the high educa-
tional standard of Minnesota that have
a lower rate.
The Denver police have arrested one
Carl Hicks on suspicion of being the
murderer of Policeman Mayer at st.
Paul on the morning of Feb. l, last.
The murderer was one of the three
burglars who had been interrupted in
their work by Mayer.
Louis Corriveau, who slew James
Alain in a saloon brawl at Knife River
Oct. II, last, and who was recently con-
victed of murder in the first degree,
has been sentenced to be hanged. The
men had been drinking and quarrelled
over mere trifle.
The Dwight flour mills at Crookston,
owned by the Dwight M. Baldwin Mill
ing company, burned last week. The
elevator adjoining, with capacity OF
10000 bushels, was also burned. The
loss is $4,000, including $50 barrels OF
-four and 1000 bushels of wheat.
The Twin Cities hold the American
record as snuff consuming center ac-
cording to the trade journals. It is
said that of the total production of 49,
100000 pounds a year for home use,
Minnesota consumes more than 2,OOO,-
900 pounds, with the Twin Cities as a
distributing center.
Duluth is to have one of the largest
match manufactures in the country.
It will be known as the Union Match
company and will be outside the match
trust. The new company is capitalized
at $1,00O,000, and the money invested
will come from Duluth, Chippewa
Falls, Wis, and Chicago men.
George Plydell, aged fifty-five years,
with his arms full of Christmas pres
ents for friends and relatives, fell from
exhaustion within five feet of his
home at Duluth and froze to death.
Plydell lived all alone in shack near
the harbor front, where he conducted
confectionery and cigar store.
Warden Wolfer of the state peni-
tentiary is having considerable trouble
to find room for the number of new
arrivals that have been swelling the
list of inmates lately. He has been
compelled to use the hospital as far
as possible for a itoinitory and several
trusty prisoners have been Quartered
on cots.
At Crookston George Bundahl, a la.
borer. thirtyeight years Of age, shot
and instantly killed Caroline A. Noen,
aged nineteen, and, tuInic g the gun On
himself, sent two bullets into his
brain0 The circumstances surrounding
the tragedy point to the theory that
the shooting was the result Of a sweet
hearts quarrel.
Stealing his mothers rings and
pawning them in order to raise sufIi-
cient money to buy a marriage IL
cense, Patrick Faltice, sixteen years
old, of Minneapolis, ran away from his
home on Wednesday of last week and
on Christmas eve was married in St.
Paul to Mary Casey. His bride is
younger than he.
The state railroad commission has
announced that in the near future a
reduction would be made in grain in.