Mower County transcript., 1903-03-04
NEWS nl ES0 0Tl

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Jacob Mannheimer. prominent IN st.
Paul business circles. is dead. III.
James L. Holman. resident Of st.
Paul for forty-six years. is dead.
William Wyman, well known among
stockmen of the Northwest, is dead
at st. Anthony Park
Retail hardware dealers Of the state.
met In Minneapolis last week. Sew.
eral hundred delegates were present.
Fire at South st. Paul damaged the
Swift & Co. packing plant and for
time threatened the entire stock
yards. :5@, = ~, ~ RI
Chandler W. Kibbie, prominent In
fire insurance circles in the Northwest
for many years, died suddenly at his
home In Minneapolis. ! :.
The state railroad commission has
ordered q reduction in the Great
Northern coal rates from Minneapolis
and Duluth to Litchfield.
Rev. Father Henry McGolrick,
brother of Bishop McGolrick of the
Duluth diocese, is dead at Duluth of
q complication of diseases.
Jean. M. Lichtenberger, founder of
the Young Women's Friendly asso-
citation and. philanthropist to whom
St. Paul Is greatly indebted, is dead
Of appendicitis.
Colonel G. R. Wilkinson Of St. Paul
has been elected grand scribe of the
grand encampment of the Patriarchal
branch of the Odd Fellows of Mime
sofa, defeating several candidates.
Arthur Pringle of the st. Paul Gen.
of the Northwestern intercollegiate
association at a special meeting of the
schools of the Twin Cities and Still
water held at Minneapolis.
Humiliated on account of the arrest
of her brother-in-law, Clara Litinsky,
a Jewish girl of sixteen years, COM
mitted suicide at Minneapolis by
drinking the contents Of two two
ounce bottles of carbolic acid.
Plans for the erection~of $1,000,-
900 hospital for st. Paul are rapidly
taking definite shape. The general
committee having the project in
charge has issued a lengthy appeal
to the citizens of the Northwest.
During the season just closed the
Minnesota Sugar company at st. Louis
Park made 6,732,20S pounds of sugar
out of 70,000,000 of sugar, beets. The
beets were supplied by 1000 farmers,
who received an aggregate amount of
$192,527.
Ex-Mayor A. A. Ames of Minneap-
oils: is still at the home of his brother
in-law, Rev. c. H. Chaplin, at Han
cock, N. H., and 1t is said his health
is greatly improved. It is expected
that he will leave for Minneapolis on
Thursday next, !.
The supreme court has filed an order
denying the second application for a
rehearing in > the Shannahan case
wherein the will of a deceased priest
was. declared void because, it placed
in trust $4,000 to be- used in finan'
cial aid to students for the priesthood
Alexander Jamison, the father OF
Robert Jamison, formerly Judge Of the
district court at Minneapolis and at
present secretary to Governor Van
SAINT, died at his home. in. Red Wing
Thursday. He was seventy-eight years
Of age and a pioneer resident Of the
state. .-, !: =. 7~.z ;:
Fire at Brainerd destroyed the
house of August Schultz and two Of
his children were suffocated. One was
about eight months old and the othel
about two years old. The parents left
the two children in the care Of al
older daughter and went to mas
querade ball.
1t is estimated that the cut of logs
in Aitkin county this season will
reach 100,000,OO0 feet. The logs are
of good, average quality. So much
water is being held back by the gov
ernment dams that there is likely tx
be too much water for driving, rather
than too little.
One of the largest hunting and game
reserves in the world will be estab
lished in the peninsula Of Northern
Michigan by Minnesota capitalists. Il
will be planned on the same principles
as the great hunting preserves of Eu
rope and when complete will be as
we'll protected.
The millwrights of Minneapolis have
decided to boycott the flour mills
When the mill employees requested
the inauguration of the eight-hour day
the millwrights did not join will
them in the demand. Later the mill
wrights struck for shorter hours, bu'
did not secure them.
The Consolidated Milling company
of Minneapolis will overhaul all it!
properties in that city and will in
crease the capacity Of the STANDARD
mill from $500 barrels a day to $500
barrels. The increase will give tn,
Consolidated company a maximum
capacity Of 10000 barrels.
More than the usual number of In
dians are in camp on the Trempea
leau bottoms this winter. They al
appear to be prosperous and wea
citizens clothes. They are making
fair revenue trapping and hunting
Skunk skins bring all the way from
$1.25 to $3.50, while muskrats ar
worth 30 cents apiece.
The Great Northern did very sal
isfactory business in Minnesota las
year. The company has reported t.
the state auditor on gross earning
for 1902 of $18,5O6,194.87 For 100
they were but $14,870,545 40, an II
crease in one year of 1866, 5,647.4i
The taxes paid on these earnings wer
1856, 5,185.84, as against $446,116.42 i