Mower County transcript., 1903-10-07

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the year passed over st. Paul Friday
night The rainfall was exceptionally
heavy the government record showing
two inches. S. 5.3 /:@sS5 i n
If. The opening gun in the guberna-
torial contest was fired at Cokato last
week by Frank M: Eddy, who an
nounced his candidacy and outlined
his platform. Mum SSa i5' - J r. Z
Z E.. H. Johnson, one of Kensington's
Oldest and most prominent citizens, is
dead He was postmaster for thirteen
years and had occupied many other,
positions of trust. .%!ses.%5 ..,r},<...4
Alice Pauer, eight months old, died
at the st. Paul city hospital last week
as the result of a peanut shell which
was swallowed and lodged in the
windpipe three weeks ago.
William Leubitz, a farmer living
north Of Perham, died in his carriage
on the way to that city. He was suffer
ing from cancer and his family were
taking him to the hospital for an
operation. }-r-,~
Emil Grams, who shot his wife to
death at Eagle Lake recently, took
the law into his own hands and
hanged himself in the county Jail at
MankatO, using a twisted sheet for
that purpose. =,
Mrs. Vet Borders, her daughter,
Alice Hurd, aged eighteen, who was
married short time ago, and two lit
tie girls of Mrs. Borders, were drowned
near Brainerd Friday night while at
tempting to ford a stream.
Harry Jacobs, seventeen years old,
was almost instantly killed by an in
terurban car at st. Paul Thursday,
He was crossing the tracks on a 81
cycle and in attempting to dodge one
car was struck by another
Oscar Osborn and James Holmes,
painters employed in decorating the
agricultural hall at the state fair
grounds, Hamline, fell sixty feet from
a scaffold to- the cement. floor and
both were probably fatally hurt.
There. are twenty cases Of typhoid
fever in the city of Crookston and the
malady is on the increase. While
there have been no fatalities the
health Off GERS are on the look out and
every effort will be put forth to stamp
out the disease. .~ ." Ill.,,
"AoSopACO .IAC oil Inc L1Cu IcC0uk1y
tied up the feet of the United States
Steel corporation shipments Of iron
ore from the head flake Superior
up to Oct. show an increase of many
thousand tons over those of the CORE
spending time last year.. x -. 9.
The state law providing that every
journeyman plumber must have per-
nit from the state before he can work
at his trade in cities of more than
10000 inhabitants has been declared
constitutional by Judge Kelly in the
Ramsey county district court.
Fred N Van Duzee, managing editor
of the. Winona Evening Republican
and Herald, is dead. Mr.. Van Duzee
was one of the best known newspa-
per men in the state and was the rep.
resentative of Twin City papers in
Washington for several years.
John Thompson, is dead at Albert
Lea just three weeks after the death
Of his wife. He was almost eighty
years OF, age and had lived there
about quarter of century Mr.
Thompson represented Waseca county
in the state legislature two terms '#
The state board of equalization has
completed the equalizing of personal
property I assessments, after adding
during the entire session approximate
lily <$12,275,0O0 to the assessed valua-
ton as returned by the counties, max
ing total valuation of $156,275,OOO, y
! Duluth was visited by a +, terrific
storm Saturday evening which did
considerable damage in the way of
blowing off the roofs Of houses in the
west end and in West Duluth. The
harbor, where number of boats were
tat anchor suffered, many boats being
driven violently against docks. 81.
Two sons Of Stephen Mates of St,
Cloud, aged nine and twelve, were
killed, Saturday afternoon. They were
playing under a string Of fiat cars
when other cars were backed down up
on them. II The head of one was sever
| ed and a leg of the other was cut of.
both We're dead when found by men
lreturning from work. at the car shops.
IL McMichael, who has been divi-
1sion perintendent Of the Western
Union with jurisdi iction over Mime
Issota. the akotas and other North
twestern states for the last twenty
1.-TWO years, has resigned to accept the
jposition OF general manager OF the
lGreat North Western telegraph com
Ipany Of 5Canad .. with headqu at
Toronto. IS
Statistics comp piled by Labor Com
Imissione ohm 20 Donnefl show that
ixty-tWo h persons 4 employed 4 In fac.
ltories and shops were killed by acci-
Idents in Minnesota since Oct. /, 81 / 902,
land that d 764 accid dents Of 81 more 81
Hess serious eharac cter occurred in$ that
oeriod This IS the largest numbe Sof
ldeaths from ccidents ever rep orted sin
q like period:
Executive Agent Flllerton of u the
game and fish conn sion received at
ST. Paul 900 ducks, weighing 900
pounds from Jack ckson, this state,
where they were seized by game war
Idens from fiveI wagons headed from
llILakefeld ITO Iowa Tor shipm ment The
Iducks were placed in cold torage and
j viii be distributed among the charitas
AbIe institutio ions of the stat