Mower County transcript., 1903-11-18
| NEWS IN Nj q M NES0 0TA

Christian Dittman, seventyseight
years old. who has lived In st. Paul
since 1854, is dead
IWo holdups in which the highway
men secured about $4OO occurred ii
Minneapolis one night last. week
Fire at Climax, a small town near
Crookston, destroyed a dozen j bust
ness houses, causing loss of $45,-
600. s5 :.
Peter Bruemner Of Slayton, aged
seventy, because of a slight family
misunderstanding, walked four miles
to grove and hanged himself.
James Sweeney, who has been a
resident of Minnesota for the past
fifty years, is dead at his home on
the Dodd road near st. Paul, aged
eighty-five.
The plumbers license law has been
declared unconstitutional by su-
preme court decision. This is a re-
versal of the decision of the Ramsey
county district court holding the law
valid.
John Ecklund, a farmer living two
miles east OF Rush City, was killed
While hauling load of lumber from
Brahan. The remains were found in
the road and the exact cause of death
is not known. ....~.
The number of men sent to the
pineries from Saltwater this fall: is
largely below that of previous years
and loggers: say the log cut. on the
st. Croix and it's tributaries will be
materially reduced the coming winter
A Great Northern cattle train struck
a defective switch near Elk River
while going forty miles an hour: and
the, entire train was wrecked, killing
fifty head of cattle and causing a
stampede OF those which the accident
liberated. :g~ .,*
Walter J. Stewart, evangelist. mis-
sion singer, alleged bigamist, ex-con-
vict and thief, has been sentenced in
Hennepin county to state prison for
ten years: He pleaded guilty to steal
ing $3.50 worth of diamonds from E.
c.. Warner.
John Gardner. residing -four miles
east of Chatfeld, was found dead in
his field with his clothes burned off.
He was burning brush and it is sup
posed that he fell in a fit, to- which
disease he was subject, and was
burned to death
Daniel Getty, a resident of Mime
sofa since 1847, is dead at his home
IN White Bear. He settled at White
Bear when he first came to Minnesota,
and has resided there ever since. He
has been prominent in village. affairs
for half century,
Mrs Minnie Howard threw carbolic
| acid in the face of her husband,
George Howard, after family quarrel
at St. Cloud. At an examination into
her sanity in the probate court the
| medical commission decided that the
woman was not insane.
Under Instructions from the heads
Of the United States Steel corporation
the officials of the Duluth and Iron
! Range road have commenced to lay
| OF large per cent OF their employees
and have also cut down the hours OF
the working day to nine.
| A large party of miners, composed
! OF 100 Austrians and eighty-one Ital
| lansS and sPolanders,s have left the iron
ranges for their European homes. The
travellers g. have all accumulated con
| siderable money, and are going ihome
tosenjoy the fruits of their labors. j,
| After firing shot through arwindow
at former sweetheart who had re
jected his proposals of marriage John
Ewald of St. Paul, the disappointed
| lover, ran to the rear of the house
and, thinking that he had killed the
young woman, fired a bullet from his
| revolver into his head. He died in
stantly. :~
Miss Minnie Peel Of :Winton. q
small village near Two Harbors, com
mitted suicide by drowning herself in
Fall lake. She was sixteen years OF
| age and was employed in q boarding
house up to the time Of the tragedy
Dependency over love affairs and
family troubles seem to be the cause
| Of her rash act. ~ j. .."..: :
! One man was murdered and three
seriously injured by highwaymen on
a Great Northern freight train near
Maple Plain, who, at the point of re-
volvers, held up a group of steel work
ers headed for Minneapolis and forced
| them to jump, one by one, from the
l "a why "AASn "0S ulOS1A6 ~ LAC 1dLe
Of twenty-five miles an hour. ->.
Charges of municipal graft and cor
ruption have been filed against Mayor
John F. Brandt of East Grand Forks
by the Municipal Reform league. The
| charges specify bribery, open viola
| tion of city ordinances, the collection
of t'hush money" from illegal resorts
negligence, failure to perform his du.
ties and corrupt personal conduct.
! An order has been issued by Gen.
! eral Manager S. c. .Stickney of the
Great Western transferring the motive
power department from ST. Paul to
Oelwein, Ia. The department is sched-
| uled to move at once, but it is possi.
BILE that the transfer will not be made,
as the employees have refused to re.
main with the company if obliged to
live in the Iowa village. .<....z. /:
Peter, O. Elliott, suspected of hav.
ing designs on the life of President
Roosevelt and who was recently un-
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