Mower County transcript., 1903-01-28
NEWS IN MINNESO OTA
Fire at Hamline Saturday destroyed

discovered in the Duluth land district.
Westminster chapel, one Of the best
known churches in London, has decid.
ed to invite the Rev. Samuel G. Smith
of St. Paul to fill the pulpit.
Governor Van SAINT and the members
of the state commission inspected Min.
nesota's site at the Louisiana Purchase
exposition grounds last week. .=''
:. Gustave Malmquist, foreman in the
employ of the St. Paul street railway,
was killed by being crushed between
two cars while making a coupling.
There are 153 cases of smallpox re-
ported in the state for the week ending
JAM 19, or little more than half as
many as there were for the preceding
week.
w. G.. Dallas, a. travelling man re-
siding at Franklin, Pa, died at the res
idence of his brother-in-law in st. Paul
as the result of the extraction of two
front teeth.
There are now 4S4 students at the
more than last year. The attendance
three years.
A town to be called Pittsburg has
been plated at the head of Rice lake,
on the line of the Duluth. Virginia and
Rainy Lake road, some twelve miles
north of Virginia.
=, Albert Green, farmer of Wrenshall,
has been convicted of perjury in the
;district court at Duluth for having
sworn falsely to the clerk of court when
he applied for license to wed.
Nels Anderson, laborer, formerly an
inmate of the Rochester insane asylum,
committed suicide late Thursday In
dSt. Paul. He was in constant fear
of being sent back to the asylum.
! At a special election held in Moor
head for the purpose of granting
franchise to a street railway company
TO operate in this city, the measure
carried by an overwhelming majority.
Senator Clapp, from the senate COM
mittee on Indian affairs, has reported
the bill carrying into effect the agree
ment for the cession of lands belonging
to the Red Lake Indian reservation in
Minnesota.
Michael Cosgrove of Melrose, aged
seventy-three, an old veteran and
member of the c. A. r., fell from the
top of the stairway in his dwelling
house His skull was fractured and he
died instantly
At the annual meeting last week the
board of managers for the state fair
voted to ask the legislature for $780,
600 for an amphitheater at the fair
grounds and $4,000 for a manufac-
lures building.
Forty-five signatures have been Sc
Cured at Redwood Falls to paper
'pledging the signers to join a militia
company to be organized in that city.
The intention is to apply for admis-
sion to the national guard.
Thomas Wilson, St. Paul; A. E.
Rice, Willmar; William M. Liggett
Benson, and Elmer E. Adams, Fergus
Falls, the four regents of the univer.
sity whose terms expire this month
have been reappointed by Governor
Wan SAINT.
The state treasurer has received
from the Northwestern Telephone Elk
change company check for SIS, 5,OO2.90
being the 8 per cent gross earnings
taxes on the business of the company
for 1902. In 1901 the company paic
a tax of s23,332
Mrs. Jennie Ward, wife Of a mer
chant of Buffalo, this state, while suf
fering from temporary alteration O.
mind, jumped from the second story
window of St. Joseph hospital, st
Paul. and sustained injuries which
later caused her death.
Joseph Finn of St. Paul, brakeman
ON the Chicago Great Western road
fell under a freight train at MinneapC
lis Thursday night and had both leg
cut off below the knee. He was taken t.
the Swedish hospital where he died a
o'clock Friday morning.
A murder has resulted from saloo
brawl at Hibbing a few days age
Mike Mournin and John Witlets qual
relied and the former shot the latte
with a revolver. Witlets died sewers
days later and Mournin is in custod
to await the action of the grand jur!
w. H. H. Day, prominent Minneal
oils lumberman, was killed in Wrec
on the Great Western at South Free
port, ILL.,, last week. Several oths
we'll known business men of MinreapI
lis were bruised or scalded by the e
Gaming steam. None of these were s.
riously injured.
Experienced iron men have pu
chased interests in property at Hig
land where iron ore was first disco
cred last fall, and the outlook seen
very good for a new range. A 10y
grade ore has been found at dept
of six feet, and it is expected will /
much better deeper down.
The Pillsbury- Washburn Millir
company has received a cable ord
from Manila for the immediate shi
ment to the metropolis of the Phil
pines of 1000 barrels of -four Th
order is the first that has ever been I
ceived in Minneapolis for -four to
shipped direct to the new possession
Michael Mackey, charged with Sc
ond degree murder, was acquitted
a jury in the district court at Dulut
His victim was Charles Riley, wi
whom he quarreled in a saloon at Oh
. holm, Dec %. Riley was known as
L desperate character: and at the IT,
1t was brought out that he frequent
: had made threats to kill Mackey. "
@.., At a meeting Of stockmen residi
along the lines Of the 500 and Gre