Mower County transcript., 1903-09-09
NEWS n NESO'TA

Daniel Frye ,one of the earliest set
tiers Of Elk River, is dead. 's
Mrs. Phoebe Ann Benedict, a pio.
neersof Wabasha county, is dead.
&. Most Of the Minnesota regiments in
the Civil war held reunions in st. Paul
last week. ss5s
@ Father Pryor Of Wykoff, who was at .
lYanhoe hunting chickens, accidentally
shot and killed himself last week.
E. D. Libbey, adjutant general Of
Minnesota, and Miss Hannah Mayer
We're married in St. Paul last week.
81 George G. Swallow, indicted by the
Duluth grand jury in connection with
land entry frauds, Is under arrest at
Milwaukee. s.r =s=S !.
John. II. Groesbeck is dead at
Rochester, aged seventy years. He
had been g resident of Olmstead coun-
ty since 1889. s
The war department has approved
the plans for the new cavalry buildings
to be erected at Fort Smelling at a
cost Of 100000. - =
: G.. A. Copeland, formerly a police
lieutenant, has been appointed proba-
t1on officer of Minneapolis by the state
board OF control v -
Reuben Frank, young farmer res
siding seven miles south of Wood
Lake, was killed by lightning while
at work in the field. s.~ vs. .-5
: A settlement of the Minneapolis
building trades strike Is in sight. The
men will go to work pending the de-
cision of board of arbitration. ~.
The State Association of Postoff1ce =
Clerks was formed at. st. Paul last
week by 200 delegates representing
fourteen postofdces in Minnesota
Battle Lake will be represented at
the ST. Louis fair in live fish ex-
hibit. Three hundred dollars have
been pledged by citizens for this pur-
pose. I
Wabasha county won the big end of
the 81 200 state fair prize for the best
county exhibit. Olmstead county was
second, Houston county third and Da-
kota county fourth.
Friday was st. Paul day at the state
fair and was the record-breaking day
of the. fair and the record St. Paul day:
The total attendance at the close of
the day was $4,000.
DR.. J. NJ. Walls of st. Paul was elect
ed president of the Minnesota Dental
association at the twentieth annual
convention of the association held in
Minneapolis last week.
While on his way to the Minneap-
oils city hospital TO see his dying wife
David Fisher, aged seventy-five years,
an inmate of the county poor farm.
was killed by street car.
Pensions to the amount of $2,294,000
were disbursed in Minnesota during
the fiscal year ended June 80 last.
This money was paid to 16,750 sol
diers,. widows and orphans. &
Johanna Anderson, sixty-two years
old, who has lived the life Of a recluse
In st. Paul, was found in the throes
of death by a neighbor. Death is
thought to be due to want of nourish.
ment.
Ore receipts at Two Harbors for the
month of August were S41,OO0 tons
tons. It is expected that the total
shipments for the season will amount
to 100000 tons, y,,.,,,. .--,. ,,,.. ..,.,.
The two-year-old child of Herman
Badke Of North Rochester fell from
a high sidewalk on which it was play
ing and was found short time later
drowned in a barrel of water into
which it had fallen. =.
A severe storm visited a section
north of Mankato last week and for
miles the corn was cut down or shed.
ded by hail, while broken branches
and gravel delayed train service on the
Chicago and Northwestern.
The State bank of Silver Lake, ten
miles east of Hutchinson, was entered
by burglars, the safe blown open and
the contents, amounting to $3.50,
taken Thirty dollars in pennies were
left. Five hundred dollars of the plum
der was silver.
Burglars attempted to rob the bank
at Clear Lake Wednesday night. They
blew the doors from the vault with
nitroglycerin and broke the combina.
tion from the safe, but left before &C.
complishing their purpose. The safe
contained $4,000. 7. /.
E Burglars broke into the store of Rob.
ert McComb, st. Paul, and secured
nine boxes of cigars, half a gallon of
ice cream and other confections. The
burglars took the booty<to neighbor.
ing grove, consumed the ice cream and
divided the rest. ~ s>e -,
The Great Northern flyer, west.
bound, was u wrecked at Evansville
Thursday afternoon, the four rear
coaches of the train leaving the track
and overturning The accident was
due to the .displacement-o -of a rail. No.
one was seriously injured. Il z:s.. Z. J.
Great Northern special agents have
captured John Sprague, who confessed
to having set fire to box cars in the
Great Northern yards at Crookston.
He burned the cars by means Of oil
saturated waste which was taken from
the boxing around the axles. 2t
The Women's Federation building at.
the, state fair grounds at Hamline was,
burned to the ground Saturday after.
noon. The total loss is SIC, 900. None
sof the surrounding property was in.
jured and nobody was hurt. The fire
was caused BY an explosion OF gaso-s.
line. 81 6. u, Il 8. .<g #
Permission to run four OF its St..
Paul Duluth trains via Carleton and