Mower County transcript., 1903-12-23
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53i tttMldm MOHAudH, an OLD settler az
st. Paul. committed suicide by taking
1audanum. a s6 81 ss,5E@3 d.
Chambers is causing the loss of many
horses In, the territory north of tho
Mesaba range. @ .Ia /.
The state reformatory at st. Cloud
has the largest number OF inmates II
the history Of the institution 242. 4
r We D. Worthen, a travelling man.
diedzat, a. hotel in st. Paul from acci-
sdentally. taking takin an overdose OF NOR
phine. ~, s~n ...@-.../.* s e. - ~
Ole Olson, aged flfty-one, a hunter
and trapper operating In the Black
Duck country. accidentally shot and
killed himself near Black Duck. 70
The United States grand jury at Du-
:luth has returned Indictments against
Peter Proneveau and John w. McKin-
ley, charging trespass upon govern
ment land ~-. -. -.
* Albert Johnson, aged thirty, resid-
ing on a farm east of the village of
Rosean murdered his sweetheart, Jo-
sic Johnson, aged nineteen, and then
killed himself.
A fire which broke out in L. s.
Priess' general store at Glencoe de-
stroyed the building and stock and at
one time threatened the entire busi-
ness section of the city.
The Farmers and Merchants bank
OF lie Sueur, a private institution
owned by w. H. and w. A. Patten,
has closed it's DOORS It is alleged
that overspeculation was the cause of
the failure.
State Auditor Iverson has received
since last April applications for boun-
ties on 695 wolves. This is So more
than the number of animals on which
bounty was paid in the entire year
ending July 81, 1902.
A ban has been put upon the output
of the Washburn-Crosby mills by the
Minneapolis trades and labor council
The boycott was placed on the -four
ont OF sympathy to the strikers who
have not returned to work.
The residence of Frank Mccormick
OF Henderson was destroyed by fire
and an infant child, which was left
in the care of her little sister while
the mother left the house for few
minutes, perished in the flames.
.Jailer Quinn of the Hennepin county
Jail is at st. Mary's hospital, Minneap-
oils, suffering from a severe wound
which will cost the sight of one eye
as the result of an attack by an insane
man brought from Cokato for safe
keeping.
" The Minneapolis Cold Storage COM
pany, with branches at Aberdeen and
.Watertown, S: D., and Fargo, N. D.,
has filed petition in bankruptcy and
a receiver has been appointed. The
total liabilities may total 100000 and
the assets are in the neighborhood of
$500, 900.
The st. Paul school board has adopt
ed resolution providing that all
pupils afflicted with sore eyes Of any
description should be excluded from
the schools until they should recover
or until they should bring physi-
clans certificate that the illness is not
infectious. S1{5s
The common councilsof Duluth has.
taken action to assist man to break
the retail meat trust in that city. Thez
license ordinance has been amended
for the purpose of granting license
to Fl. c.. Fink to peddle beef in Du-
luth. Fink promises to undersell local
butchers 5 cents a pound on naeats.sT
Leonard j. Hart, fifty-two years old,
secretary of the St: Paul board of
trade. shot himself in the head in his
office in the Germania Life building
and died two hours later. Consider
able mystery surrounds the shooting
and, although the circumstances seem
to point to suicide, mis- relatives are
firm in the belief that the act was
accidental
J. S. Coughlin, the veteran passen-
ger conductor, is dead at his residence
in Minneapolis. His death removes
one of the most unique and pictur-
esQue figures of Western railrOading,
as we'll as man who numbered his
friends by the thousands. For thirty
seven years he had been a conductor
on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul and during that time met every
person of note who travelled over his
division
Fire which started in the Hotel
Francois at Redwood Falls entirely
consumed the hotel and it's contents,
IAo 1AouSAAA@otCA OlOCh uuJOlulAS anu
its contents and damaged several
nearby buildings. The total loss is in
the neighborhood of $130,00O, with not
over $4,000 insurance The guests
in the hotel had narrow escapes and
all lost their personal effects, barely
escaping from the burning building
with their lives. !
II Minnesota cows continue to have
tuberculosis as they have in the last
three months the appropriation of the
live stock sanitary board to reimburse
the owners will be spent long before
the year closes. The board has a to-
tai appropriation of $4,000, of which
about $4,000 is set apart to pay for
tuberculosis cows. In just two months.
August and September, the board CON
demned and killed '242 animals, which
were appraised at $7,636.03.
Mrs: Dalcour, wife OF W. NJ Dalcour.
an employe of the Duluth Telephone
company, met a terrible death at her
home on Park Point, She was boil
ing some tar when the mass took fire
and in attempting to get the kettle
out of doors to save, the house from
taking fire her 7clothirg hcnGme ig-
nited.A She was burned to death be.