Mower County transcript., 1903-12-23
NEWS NJ Z n NE6OTA
EVENTS OF ThEtWEEi<sTtiRouGti.
$: i. OUT THE STATE. .,.


accidents in St.sPaul.: lse.IS:: .st.s ii, asx:
/ William Fl. Grimshaw Has Seex.,: re.
appointed United States naatsfAl = tor
Minnesota. II, - fI'e>.ss :. )
Experts are making an exalniaatiSa
of the extent OF the gold bearing rGSciz
deposits discovered by Olaf Johnson
near Swanville, some time ago. ,5r5, ::;s
Another big diamond robbery is res
ported at Minneapolis. The residence
of George W. Sherer was entered and
IJewelry valued at over $1,000 taken.
DR.. NJ. B. Cullom, chairman Of the
Democratic congressional committee.
has been nominated for mayor of Du-
luth to oppose T. w. Hugo, the present
incumbent. . J, -. ;.. ~ -,
| The house committee on military at
fairs has incorporated an item in the
military appropriation bill making
available $4,000 for the construction
of a hospital at Fort Smelling.
G. j. Ertz. a st. Paul commission
man, pleaded guilty in the Ramsey
county district court to having ten
saddles of venison in his possession
illegally and paid a fine Of $500.
Casper Ernst, the St. Paul banker
convicted of forgery and grand lar
ceny and sentenced to serve ten years
in the penitentiary, has been taken to
Saltwater and turned over to Warden
Wolfer.
f. X. Slater of Fairmont and Hans
r. Sondergaard of Litchfield have
been appointed butter experts of the
oko +@ lo;u ~
succeed B. D. White of st. Paul and
Samuel Haugdahl of ST.. Peter, who
have resigned.
Murder in the second degree was the
verdict returned by the jury in the
trial of William Coddington at Grand
Rapids, charged with killing Henry
Kehring. Coddington's plea was self
defense and his counsel will make a
motion for new trial.
far this year have amounted to 3d.
427, ,050, an increase of nearly $1,0OO,-
900 over 1902. Fully 5000 new homes
have been built, about half of this
number for renting purposes, the 9TH
ers being occupied by owners.
Thomas May, who was recently in
dicted by the Wright county, grand
jury on charge of killing his uncle,
Martin May, pleaded guilty to murder
in the second degree at Buffalo and
was sentenced to life Imprisonment
in the state penitentiary at Saltwater
Jack Frost got in his work on 100
carloads of apples shipped from West
ern New York to the Twin Cities and
when the; shipment: reached Minneap-
oils the apples: were so badly frozen
that they We're unfit for use. The en-
tire consignment, valued at $4,000,
will prove a loss: II go: = =:
. The iron ore shipments during 1868
from the entire Lake Superior region
reached the total that was predicted
by conservative men, Some placed
the figures higher than this, but the
we'll informed looked tor the total to
be around 24.000,O00 tons, and it runs
IA little more than that. f ~
George Besser and Fred. 0. Tilton,
Minneapolis commissions men arrested
by Game Warden Fullerton for pur-
chasing contraband game, were indict-
ed by the grand jury and arraigned
in court Friday. Both pleaded not
guilty, with the privilege of changing
their plea later. The total fine in
their case would amount to $4,000.
The government is making a special
analysis of the streams of Northern
Minnesota and particularly of the iron
ranges to ascertain if they contain
any mineral or other ingredients help
full or prejudictal to health. Bacteri-
ologist Dale is in charge of the work
and it is said to be the first work of
the Iind ever undertaken by the gov
ernment
Joe Cohen of Minneapolis, the much
indicted Ames lieutenant, who is al
legged to have been the collector of
graft" is to go free. Judge Simpson
has nolled the last of the fourteen in,
dictments that have been found
against him, sustaining the demurrer
that evidence he had voluntarily given
before the grand jury was being used
against him.
twenty-five persons narrowly es
capped with their lives in a fire which
attacked the st. Charles hotel, Min.
neapolis, early Sunday morning AL
though there was a panic and half
dressed terrified men ran about the
building seeking a means of exit the
| firemen succeeded in rescuing every
| person in the hotel. The property loss
is only $1,000.
| The members of the South Haven
gang of bandits, Frank Moran, Ed
Rice, James Desmond. James Martin
land Tom Barns. who; We're taken tc
the Hennepin county Jail for safekeep
ing and, made repeated efforts to es
cape, while there. pleaded guilty al
Buffalo to assault in the first degree
and were Sentenced to eight years
and half each in the penitentiary. .
| The state supreme court has. denied
a new trial to Charles, and Henry Mel
son. two brothers. who with William
Sutton. murdered Fl. H. Krier, an
Owatonna saloonkeeper. on April Is
Sutton" turned states evidence anl
was; sentenced to prison for life. The
Nelson ;brct hers. We're convicted and
(sentence:! 70 Tn2tr. 1''@nf will he ex
ecn'r' at a Gar@ to he set by the GOV
erno".
John +. Hastings. general superin
tendent of the Chicago Burlington an(
Northern before its consolidation witt
the Chicago, burlington and Quincy