Mower County transcript., 1903-05-20
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
Glenville has fixed liquor licenses

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Isaac /. Lewis, aged seventy-eight
years, a pioneer of Minneapolis. is
dead at Pasadena, Cal.
Several Hamline students were Sc
verely Injured in a fierce class fight
between freshmen and sophomores.
John S. Woodbury., eighty years of
age, was gored to death by bull in
a barn on Cedar Lake road, near Min
neapolis.
Albert Peterson of st. Paul, a pas
senger on the Northern Pacific, fell
from the train at Jocko, Mont, and
was killed.
Governor Van SAINT has issued a
proclamation requesting the general
observance of Saturday, May 80, as
Memorial day.
Frank Verdosa and Merton Will.
Jams, employed as laborers at the St.
Paul Gas company's plant, we're Sc
riously burned in a gas explosion.
D. G. Wells, eighty-seven years of
age, is dead at Monticello. He was
one of the pioneers of the state and
had lived in Wright county about fifty
years.
Minnesota educators occupy prori-
nent position on the programme of
the National Educational association,
which convenes in Boston the week of
July 6. "&s l%,a.sSs
The Clark-Jackson Lumber company
Of Duluth has secured contract from
the Hines Lumber company of Chi
cago to saw 100000 feet of lumber
this season. &%
William H. Johnson, superintendent
Of the poor during the Ames admins.
tration. has been found guilty by a
jury of fSmisa appro priating $3.50 Of Min
neapolis city funds.
Eighty union duarrymen of Min
nearolis are on strike. The men are
out for a nine-hour day at the same
wages they were receiving under the
tenehour day system.
W. D. Ellsworth, the defaulting post.
master At Eveleth, has been SEN
fenced tqhfteen months imprisonment
at Saltwater ands to pay fine equal
to the 5defa1cation, $7,163.
The Cook County Mining and Land
company has. filed articles of incor-
poration in St.SPaul, with capitaliza-
tion Of $500,0O0. The company owns
500 acres of land in Cook county.
Benjamin J. Taylor, a pioneer resi-
dent of Goodhue county, died at his
home in Featherstone of cancer Of the
liver He was born in Ontario, Can,
and was about sixty-lve years old.
John Watt, one of the best known
citizens Of Long Prairie, is dead, aged
sixty-one. He represented that dis
trict in the legislature and served his
county as register of deeds for six
years.
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Jaeger, living
on the Pleasant lake road near St..
Cloud, are the parents Of triplets. Two
Of the newcomers are girls and the
third is a lusty boy. All are in per-
feet health.
All drills at work for the Great
Northern road on the Eastern Vermil-
lion have been pulled out. Others are
going in in the same country, how
ever, and work will probably continue
there some time
; I; General John B. Sanborn has been
elected by the executive council of
the Minnesota Historical society as
president of the organization to serve
out the unexpired term of Alexander
Ramsey, deceased.
Samuel E. Middleton, cashier of the
United States treasury under the ad-
ministration of Abraham Lincoln,
died suddenly at St. Paul last week.
He formerly was we'll known busi-
ness man of st. Paul, but recently re-
sided in Duluth.
Rev. E. G. Clemens of the First
Methodist church of Anoka has been
named as presiding elder Of the Du-
luth district to succeed DR.. Robert
Forbes of Duluth, who has been elect
ed assistant secretary Of the general
Methodist conference.
The state public examiners de.
partment has authorized the following
state banks to begin business: Os-
trander State bank, capital stock, $10,-
900; Forest Lake State bank, capital
stock, $4,000, and First State bank,
of Moorhead, capital stock, $4,000.
Vernon A. Wright of Fergus Falls
has decided to erect a suitable monu-
ment to the memory Of his father, the
late George B. Wright, and to this end
purposes to build a commodious gen.
eral hospital in that city. He has Of
fered to donate $4,000 and a. free site.
The University of Minnesota has
taken first place in the intercollegiate
strength contest, with a total of 77,722.
Columbia is second, with 1882, and
Harvard third. The Gophers also won
the Western basketball championship
and the Western intercollegiate gym
nastic championship.
E. H. Chase, a farmer living seven
miles east of Stewartville, was
drowned, together with his team,
while trying to ford Root river. He
had been to town and was only about
a mile from his home when the acci-
dent happened. The river is the high
@est that 1t ever was at this time of
year.
/ Disguised with life, which was rem
4dered miserable by dysentery con-
'tracted five years ago at Macon, Ca,
while in the service of his country as
a member Of the Fffteentha Mime.
sofa volunteers, Arthur E: Keller shot
himself at his home in st. Paul and
died at the city hospital several hours
elater