Mower County transcript., 1903-10-14
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Joseph L. Cater, one OF the early
settlers and organizers Of Mile Laos
county, is dead. He came to Mime
scta in 1855. s...s .3s. 81
Ernest Loft Of Two Harbors, boy
seven years old, while crossing the
Little Fork river on log, fell in and
was drowned.
The appeal of former Mayor A. "a.
Ames of Minneapolis will be taken up
for consideration by the state supreme
court on Dec. "a. +.
Wenzel Heubel, butcher. commit
ted suicide by drinking carbolic acid
at St. Paul Friday. Dependency is
given as the cause of the deed.
Two children of Philip La Motto of
ST. Paul are dead as the result of a
gasoline explosion. The mother is so
badly burned that she may not re-
cover.
Hog cholera in it's worst form has
made it's appearance in the vicinity
of Candy. Hogs are dying by the
hundreds and the disease seems to be
spreading. --. :.
twenty-five new elevators have gone
into commission in Minnesota since
Sept. 49, A line of thirty elevators
will be erected on the 500 extension
from Glenwood
The Duluth and Iron Range, which
last year paid dividend of 60 per
cent, aggregating $1,800,000, will pay
no dividend this year, but will allow
Its surplus to accumulate.
The total enrolment at the univer-
sity, including the agricultural college,
numbers 3,613 up to date and Regis
trar Johnson predicts that it will
reach $500 before the end of the term
United States Senator Moses E..
Clapp stopped a runaway horse at St.
Paul Friday and narrowly escaped Sc
rious injury. He was dragged some
distance and received badly bruised
knee.
While riding on top of a Northern
Pacific box car Leonard G. Dale Of
Walkerton, Ind, was shot and fatally
injured by holdup men near North
town Junction, just outside of Mime
apolis.
A meeting of farmers from all parts
of the state was held in st. Paul last
week and a branch of the Farmers
Cooperative Exchange organized" G.
G. Jackson of Buckman was elected
president.
P. H. Brockway, manager of the St..
Charles Furniture company, who was
injured in the recent tornado at that
place, is dead, making the ninth VIC
tim. All the others injured, it is as
sured, will now recover.
Mrs. M E. Jewett drove a. thief
from her home in Minneapolis Friday
evening by sending a, bullet flying
past his ehead as he was attempting
to raise window to get into the
house. The would-be burglar fed.
Jackson E. Bushnell, a rural mail
carrier of Jackson, was arrested by
Colonel T. D. Sheehan, United States
marshal, on the charge of embezzling
money which people intrusted to him
to send by means of money orders.
A company has been incorporated
at Crookston to be known as the
Northern Townsite company. It was
capitalized at $4,000 and will exploit
the new towns along the Thief River
Falls extension of the Great Northern
to Roseau.
andria, tried to shoot his wife during
a fit of insanity. He grabbed shot
gun, but the hired man stepped in an
shot him to save the woman. Swan
son was temporarily insane some time
ago, but recovered.
DR.. A. A. Ames' appeal from the
Hennepin county district court, in
which he was sentenced to the state
penitentiary for six years on the
charge of receiving a bribe from wo-
men, will be argued before the su-
preme court Dec. "a.
If the Minneapolis school board re-
fuses to pay the $4,000 water rental
which has been delinquent for three
years the waterworks department will
turn off the water on Oct. Is and all
buildings which do not possess wells
will be inconvenienced thereby.
Ernest 3. Johnson, bookkeeper for
the Commercial Banking company of
Duluth, who was indicted on the
charge of embezzling $48,500 of the
banks funds, pleaded guilty of forgery
in the third degree and was sentenced
to the st. Cloud reformatory on the
indeterminate plan.
Joseph O'Brien, the man who did
some promiscuous shooting on the
streets of Minneapolis about two
months ago, has been declared not
guilty by the jury in the case because
at the time of the commission of the
crime charged in the indictment the
defendant was crazy.
State agricultural lands, approx.
mately 10000 acres, from which the
state will realize more than $500 900.
will. be offered for sale by State Au-
ditor S. G. Iverson the latter half of
November in Otter TAIL Becker, Wa
dena, Grow Wing, Morrison, Stearns
and Mile Laos counties
Five hundred men, employees of the
Minnesota Iron company, are out of
work through the closing down indefi-
nitely of the Soudan mine near Tower.
This is the first of the Steel corpora
tion's mines in Minnesota to cease