Mower County transcript., 1902-05-07
NEWS in MINNESOTA

/ NEWS in MINNESOTA
Congressman Eddy announces that
he Is not candidate for denomination.
Minnesota butter output last year
was los 500, 900 pounds, worth $23,
900.
Andrew J. Nicholson, q pioneer set
tier OF Madelia, is dead. He was q
veteran OF the Civil war. ..~.,-.
william Henry of Decoria township,
Blue Earth county, claims a share in
the $S.O00.000 Cronkhite estate in Hol-
land.
Jacob s. Thoreson, q grain buyer Of
Dawson, accidentally fell from q spout
ing, attached to the elevator, and died
an hour later.
The Mankato and st. Peter trolley
line has been abandoned. Business
men Of the latter place were opposed
to its construction.
Kirk mill dam, which supplies the
power for the Fergus Falls waterworks
system, went out and the city is with
out water supply.
liest settlers, is dead. He was a mem
Der of the Seventh Maine regiment
during the Civil war.
In a fit of insanity John Hallin of
Maple Grove, 1santi county, killed
horse that did not belong to him by
beheading it with borrowed axe.
H. M. Wilson, a saloonkeeper of Fo-
ley, is at the hospital suffering from
blood poisoning. He was bitten on the
thumb by man, and will lose his arm.
Edward Copeland, 3-year-old Du-
luth boy, fell four stories from a fire
escape, striking on his head in a pile
of brick and escaped without serious
injury.
In the district court at Redwood
Falls Fred Hauert secured a verdict
of $4,000 against John G. Smith for
alternating the affections of Mrs.
Hauert.
J. F. Jacobson of Lac Qui Parle
county has authorized the announce
ment that he will be a candidate for
auditor before the Republican state
convention.
John Friedner' of Strout, Meeker
county, has been awarded the Van
SAINT gold medal representing the
championship of the state in butter
making for the past year.
The state board of control has de-
cided to readvertise for bids on the
proposed addition to the Moorhead
normal school. The legislature made
an appropriation Of $4,000.
Engineer Ralph Bruce was killed
and a number of freight cars and To-
comotive were damaged in a wreck on
the main line of the 500 road, four
miles from Camden Place, Hennepin
county.
A. B. Robbins, surveyor general of
logs and lumber for the Minneapolis
district, estimates that the log cut for
less than last year. The cut last year
was 800,000,0O0 feet.
Scarlet fever has broken out in q vir-
ulent type at Hinckley and the schools
have been closed for two weeks. A
close quarantine will now be kept on
all cases in the hope that the disease
will be stamped out.
Sarah c. Barton, aged 70, wife Of
DR.. P. Barton, died at Inver Grove last
week after an illness lasting nearly q
year. Mrs. Barton was among the
earliest settlers in Inver Grove, having
resided there for 48 years.
Teachers in the public schools of
Minnesota are getting better salaries
than they did last year and better than
they have ever received in this state,
according to the report of the state de-
partment of public instruction.
IN $n}1
In Duluth at the present time. They
include the tug firemen. longshoremen,
the cooks and walters, and the iron
molders. The cooks and walters de-
mand an increase Of 81 per week.
Gideon s. Ives of st. Peter has &C.
cured from the supreme court a writ
Of certiorari in the name of John Utik
and others Of Polk county, returnable
to the court May %, to test the con-
stitutionality Of the drainage law of
1901.
E. d. Nelson, president of the First
National bank Of Ironwood, Mich, to-
gether with several bank presidents
and cashiers throughout Wisconsin
and Michigan, will establish a bank in
Duluth, which will be capitalized at
$500, 1000.
In the neighborhood of 600 st. Paul
laborers are on q strike. The unions
involved are the steamftters, the
steamfitters' helpers, the molders, the
machine foundrymen, the coopers, the
leather workers, the hosting engineers
and the carpenters.
For the week just ended the clearings
of Minneapolis banks were $11,974,-
1851, an increase of $3,203, ,390.40 over
the corresponding week last year. For
the month of April clearings show an
increase Of nearly SIC, 0,000. 900 over the
same month last year. ".:'
Henry Schenck, a farmer Is years
old, residing near Willmar, has insti-
tuted a damage suit against Mrs.
Amanda Hoglund, q widow with fam,
lily OF eight children, who, he says. re-
fused to marry him after all prepare.
tions for the wedding day were made.
! T. H. Shevlin and Hovey C.. Clarke