Mower County transcript., 1903-12-23
NE VS. In NJ ESO SOI,A
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH,
OUT THE STATE.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK THRo Rou0ta-
OUT THE STATE.
8. 9. Andrist. president of the sc.
Paul Retail Grocers' association, IL
dead aftor IN illness e ave days from
appendicitis. S s = .--;.>>2 -, a. q. /
Otto Grimm and 4 Pullman were
buried Dy the cavedn Of : sand hank At
Young America. Grimm vas killed
and Feltman slightly hurt &.
Rev. J. a. Tuttle, foe many years
pastor Of the Church of The Redoemer,
Minneapolis. - dead IN New York
city, aged sevsoty.ndne years.
A donation Of $4,000. much in the
nature OF q Christmas gift, has been
made BY Andrew Carnegie to Norris
for tho purpose Of building . public
library. 'a
Custom duties .aggregating $9oG. 90"
were collected III Minnesota du.i!~"
the fiscal year 1909. OF this amour
$442,22G were collected in St. P;.u
$42S. .259 at Minneapolis and $35,24c {!
Duluth.
The St. Anthony Furniture comDa
of st. Paul. with capital OF $15Ci:''
has decided to discontinue businec
This concern was organized July
1902. but has not enjoyed a profitab
business.
At Duluth William Rainbow,
sailor on the big steamer Sonona T.
through an open hatch and was j
stantly killed, his head being crush,
by coming in contact with the flo
twenty-eight feet below the deck
Franklin Stimson, for twenty yea"
resident Of Duluth and for numbe
of years engineer of the Mesaba bloc:
committed suicide by taking ch.o
form. It is supposed that he was &C.
spCndent as a result of i'll health.
A riding hall for the use OF the
squadron of cavalry which will conc
to Fort Smelling next spring will Ee
erected next year. The building VIII
cover almost city block 1t will hc
of brick and steel and will cost $S1,>
000
Henry Mayhem, one of the pioneer
residents Of Minnesota and one of the
first white settlers in Cook county.
where for nearly thirty years he has
been a resident of Grand Marais is
critically i'll at St. Luke's hospital,
Duluth. -:
The complete figures for the ore
shipments from Minnesota for 1908
show decrease OF S79,397 gross tons
for the season as compared with those
for 1902. The grand total for the sea-
son is 14,547.7O6 tons; a year ago it
was 15,427, JOB tons. -:
The St. Charles relief COMMITTEES
has completed it's work and made it's
fna! report. The total sum of $12,0
was collected Tor the relief of the tor
nado sufferers and distributed whore
the members of the committee thought
it would do the most good.
The voting machines used by the
st. Paul Commercial club at it's annual
election proved eminently satisfactory
and the results were known a few min
utes after the polls closed. Theodore
+. Smith was reelected president
unanimously, having no opposition
Besides having expended SAT 900 in
permanent improvements the Mime
sofa State Agricultural society has a
cash balance of $60.87222 profits from
the state fair of this year, according
to the report of the state auditing
board just submitted to Governor Van
SAINT
The comptroller of the currency has
made public the report on the .condi-
tion of the national banks of Mime
sofa, exclusive of the Twin Cities. at
the close of business Nov. H. Copl-
pared with the corresponding state
ment of year ago it is noted that the
resources of the Minnesota banks have
been increased about $9,000000, now
aggregating s60,027 900. -.
It has been learned at Duluth that
notices are being prepared to en-
ployes in the employ of. the Steel cor
poration of reduction in salaries
Clerks have been busy with the pay
rolls for days classifying the employees
as to income. The expected reduc-
tions will range from to 25 per cent.
1t is expected they will be effective
Jan. 1. Several thousand men will be
affected
Ninety or more of the patients at
the Fergus Falls hospital for the in
sane have been very seriously i'll from
eating corned beef. All Of the inmates
of the hospital, including the attend
ants, ate of the meat, it is said, but
only portion Of them were affected.
This is explained on the theory that
the outer portions of the meat were
poisoned by contact with the vessel
in which it was boiled and the inner
part was not contaminated:
!. The great wilderness to the north of
Duluth holds another. mystery involv-
ing the fate of two Duluth men, well
known mineral prospectors and timber
cruisers, Patrick LAWN and Patrick
Mccoy. TneN, LETT Duluth the first
week in August, expecting to be- gone
fifty or sixty days. Twice that period
has elapsed and no word has been re-
ceived from them. Their friends say
that. they undoubtedly met. death on
the Pic river, a -. treacherous stream
which flows into Lake Superior east
of Port Arthur. .z.s!t + Z. i ~. =. ss,.. .*s
A Minneapolis syndicate, represent
ed by r. W.:Backus, w, 81. ss.Brookssand
Th,on,as:H aSherlin, has Secured con-
81 b1 oh