Mower County transcript., 1903-01-14
NEWS in MIN NESOT.A

NEWS in N INNESO OTA
Captain Swan Walton, for thirty
years member Of the Minneapolis
police department, is dead.
Alexandria is suffering from q, severe.
epidemic of smallpox. It is said the
disease exists in sixty-five families.
Philip scheig, the oldest barber in
Minnesota, for many years proprietor
OF the Nicollet House shop in Mime
apolis, is dead. >.z..S I.
According to a decision of the state
supreme court bequest for masses
and education of priests is trust not
authorized by law S. - ~
The total number of deaths in St.
Paul In 1902 was 1,6O6, making the
death rate 9.45, the lowest of city of
it's size in the world. ...- -,
The state smallpox report for the
past week shows 1T cases, against 152
last week. The heaviest outbreaks
are reported in Otter Tail county.
Duluth is now in the throes of an an
thracite coal famine. Local dealers
have announced that not a ton of it
will now be sold for less than $3.50.
Miss Perry Wilson, for many years
secretary and treasurer of the st. Paul
Street Railway company, committed
suicide at Long Beach, CAL, because of
ill health.
"A stranger worked forged check
for $4,000 through the First National
bank OF Duluth. A Pinkerton detective
is pursuing the man eastward through
the copper country.
William Miessner, young man
twenty-four years of age, was instantly
killed near Douglass while attempting
to jump from moving gravel train on
the Chicago Great Western railway.
Governor Van SAINT has named Theo
dore L.. Hays of Minneapolis, J. M.
Underwood of Lake City and Conde
Hamlin of St. Paul as the Louisiana
exposition commissioners for Mime
sofa.
While two desperadoes were robbing
a Minneapolis saloon detectives ap-
peared on the scene and the rubbers!
fled. The officers gave chase and one
OF the men was shot in the leg and
captured.
James Laton Robinson, resident
of Hennepin county for thirty years,
died last week at Los Angeles. He
was seventy-six years old. Mr.. Robin.
son left Minneapolis three weeks ago
in failing health.
Love crazed and respondent Emil
Johnson of Virginia murdered Miss
ri.
marry him. He then shot himself in
the head three times, and though still
alive he cannot live.
Convicted five times before of coun.
terfeiting Albert L. Morey is again in
the custody of the Minneapolis police
on the same charge. Morey is sixty
five years old and looks nearly ten
years older.
Ole Johnson and two other farmers,
living near Dumont, were found dead
in snowdrift by the railroad track a
mile north of Dumont It is supposed
they were lost in the storm or killed
by freight train.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of the Minneapolis district
court in sentencing Detective N. w.
King to the penitentiary for three
years. King was one of Mayor Ames'
best known appointees.
Representative John Taylor of LIE
Sueur answered the initial roll call of
the house of representatives but>has
not been there since, and his col.
leagues fear he will not be there again.
He is suffering from cancer.
The jury in the case of the state
against Frank W. Bell, on trial at Aus
tin for shooting and killing Nels S.
Green at Elkton, Sept. II, has returned
a verdict Of manslaughter in the first
degree, with recommendation for
mercy.
The flour barrel makers have noti
lied the five Minneapolis barrel shops
that they are expected to run only
eight hours a day hereafter. The coop.
ers' union has made this demand. The
owners do lot seem to be worried at
the request.
State Treasurer Block has filed a.
bond in the sum of 100000, with thir.
ty-one sureties, each qualifying in
amounts from $4,000 to $4,000. He re.
jected the overtures of the surety
bonding companies whose charges he
regarded as unreasonable.
The war department has decided that
Fort Smelling shall have $4,000 of
the $5OO,000 voted by congress for
amusements in the army. This will
be used in the construction of a post
exchange, gymnasium, reading room,
lunch and amusement room.
Cole Younger has made another an
plication to the state board of pardons
for full pardon. He has been on pa.
role from the state prison for a yea1
and half. The terms of parole for.
bid him to leave the state or to exer
else many other rights of citizenship
Minnesota ranks first among the
states in the production of spring
wheat during 1902, according to a gov
eminent report. For that year Mime
sofa had an acreage of 5,737,5S3 devot-
ed to spring wheat, and the yield was
79,752,404 bushels, valued at $48,648,-
$685..
r. B. Whiteside of Duluth has Sc.
cured an option from the Mesaba Iron
company, of which Hon. Alexander