Mower County transcript., 1903-03-18
NEWS Tn MI Il \ ES ()TA

A. sl1-loot ssll11loot vein OF good coal has
been found between Rollag and Barnes.
vile. 80 - 88
A.. w. Puntius Of. Minnesota has
been appointed a student Interpreter
at Peking. g, E&#s..sH- 8. 80 80 ->*-..
Miss Katherine ,Clapp, daughter Of
Senator Ciapp, is dead at St. Paul.
aged twenty-three years. 4 @2 }.
Charles Wilson, for many years a
merchant in Red Wing and one of the
pioneers OF Goodhue county, is dead.
Samuel D.. Cargi1l, prominent mem
Der OF the Minneapolis chamber of
commerce, is dead at West Baden, Ind.
Bemidii business men have organ.
lzed a Commercial club to work for the
upbulldlng and advancement of the
town. -
Three children in the R. H. Rich.
ards family, living about mile west
OF Herman, died from grip inside Of
four days. ..@ -. =
twenty-five loaded freight cars
were wrecked in collision on the
Omaha near Blue Earth. The damage
Is estimated at $4,000. $500.
The number of deaths in Minneap.
Oils during February was 233, as
against 1S4 a year ago. Pneumonia
was the cause of forty-one.
Burglars entered the Bank of Ka-
sofa early Thursday morning and by
the use OF nitroglycerin blew open the
safe and secured $500 in silver. !:
Admiral w. S. schley, who i, to pay
visit: to the Northwest during his
tour to the Pacific coast, is expected
to reach the Twin Cities on April z.
Captain Abraham Looney, one of the
oldest steamboat captains; and pilots
on the Upper Mississippi, is dead at
his home in Dakota, Winona county.
The Duluth Match company since
its absorption of the Union Match
company of Chicago: is busily> prepar-
Ing. for the manufacture of matches
on q large scale. .->.: =. ~
Register Peterson of the Grookston
land office is authority for the state
ment that 1t will be at least a year
before the 100000 acres in the Red
Lake reservation will be thrown open
for settlement.
William E. Lee of Long Prairie, for.
merly a member of the. state board of
control, has been selected as successor
to W.. G. Sawyer, resigned, as a men,
per OF the board of managers of the
Minnesota state fair.
Frank Fridley, leading citizen Of
Becker, this state, died in Chicago OF
pneumonia. Mr.. Fridley was engaged
In stock raising and went to Chicago
with several, carloads of cattle few
days previous to his death.
The Painters union of MINNEAPOLIS
has adopted new scale calling for
S1s cents an hour and a day of eight
hours. The scale was submitted to
the bosses and contractors some time
ago and has been agreed to.
A great Finnish colony is planned
tor Aitkin county, in the northern por.
tion of the state. Rev. John Faulkner
OF Chicago, pastor of one of the large
Finnish churches of that city, is at
the head of the movement.
The difficulties between Coopers'
union No. % and the Minneapolis
Cooperage company have been settled
and the men, who have been out on
strike for about three weeks, returned
to work Thursday morning.
The Washburn-C Crosby company Of
Minneapolis made one shipment last
week to Australia of fifty-six cars of
flour. Each car was loaded with 440
barrels and was shipped via Seattle
over the Great Northern railway.
The 300-barrel frame flour mill of
the Elk River Milling company has
been destroyed by fire. The fire was
past control when discovered and
nothing could be saved from the office
or mill. The loss is placed at $4,000.
All loggers on the Upper St. Croix
and tributaries have broken camp: and
preparations are being made for an
immediate log drive. The warm
weather has caused the total disap-
pearance of the snow and the streams
are all full.
The thirty-seventh annual encamp.
ment Of the Department of Minnesota,
Grand Army of the Republic, was held
in st. Paul last week. Over 400 dele
gates were. in attendance. Captain
1saacs Ii. oMahan of st. Paul was elect
ed commander.
The large Great Northern railroad
bridge across Kettle river at Sandstone
is being replaced by a steel one. The
bridge is 1877 feet high. and over one.
eighth Of mile long. The engineers
will make the change and not delay
9 single train beyond schedule time.
=, The United States Steel corporation
fts~ erecting two Very large, ore crush.
ling plants It. shipping ports,s one at:
Two Harhors and the other at Esca-
naba. Both will. be- in. readiness this
summer and both will crush*ore that
has in the: past been handled in: the
Two xmen have been murdered in the
Hibbing district recently, John Tan
ko, an Austrian miner, IS under arrest
at Chisholm charged with the murder
of George sBollich, another miner, and
two men are under arrest at: Hibbing
suspected Of the murder Of an; sintoxi-
Gated miner named Eric Matson, near
the Penobscat mine * .;:: = = :. IS s
ut 3is the purpose @of Land, Commits.
sioner Richards to begin the, sale: OF
timber on the Chippewa reservations
In Minnesota in time ito permit OF log.
ging operations next winter judging