Mower County transcript., 1903-06-03

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r. G. Bowman, cartoonist on the
Minneapolis Tribune, committed sui
eide, at his home n that city by inhal-
ing illuminating gas. VIZ - g.. g. =
Six thousand four hundred and
eighty dozen eggs were shipped from
Houston and vicinity to Eastern mar
kets during the past week. =. a
Fire at Ruthton destroyed the large
livery barn of Gilbertson & Peterson,
together with twenty five head Of
horses and a small quantity Of feed. =
Mrs. Francis Robson is dead at
wood Lake after prolonged suffering.
She was seventy-ive years old and
one of the first settlers in Yellow
Medicine county. :....
The new game and fish commission
has organized and decided to begin
work as soon as possible on the new
fish hatchery at .Glenwood and on the
improvements at the old hatchery.
Three mammonth steel elevators,
with a storage capacity of approx.
mately 100000 bushels of wheat and
estimated to cost $750,000, are to be
built in Duluth within the next year.
Nineteen Of the twenty-five -four
mills in Minneapolis are now operat-
ing. The output of the mills last week
was 32S,715 barrels, which was 5000
barrels more than the product of the
preceding week.
Representative Buckman has for.
mally recommended the appointment
OF J. D. Jones of Long Prairie and
Egbert S. Oakley of Buffalo for regis
ter and receiver, respectively, at the
new land Office at Cass Lake. -
The state board of health has an
nounced that ia cases of smallpox,
with four deaths, had been reported
during the week ending May 25. The
report, for the week ending May 1S
showed ia cases and eight deaths.
State Auditor Iverson announces
that the states outstanding loans
from the permanent school fund aggre.
gate nearly $2,000,00O. The money is
loaned to 1900 different borrowers,
including counties, Cities. villages and
townships. -. H..
g William Martin, aged ten years,
was shot and almost instantly killed
~ A~oA5 OIL ~. 41O cAu oil OluCl
brother took a revolver from thei1
uncle's trunk. A bullet in the region
of the heart was the result Of fooling
with the gun y. ..aa.s, = it.. Z, ~
Governor Van SAINT has appointed r.
E. Patterson of Duluth boiler inspector
for the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty.
first districts; Fred Frs Of Redwood
Falls for the Twenty-fifth district, and
John c. Johnson of Glenwood for the
Sixty first district. . . : ~,
Albert Engquist was instantly killed
at the Atwood B mill, saltwater,
where he was helping to unload logs
from cars. A log rolled upon him
and fractured his skull and broke all
his ribs on his left side. He5was about
twenty-five years iof age. -. ....a:
! A burglary which required a dray
to cart away the stolen goods took
place in the middle Of the business
section of .Winona. The packing es.
5tablishment of Stanke Bros. was en-.
tered about midnight and ten fifty.
pound cans of lard stolen. 5%s..'
Simon Erickson was killed by a
passenger train about three miles
west of Wood Lake. He was on his
way home from Hanley Falls and had
nearly reached his destination when
it is supposed he became tired and
sat down on the track to rest. @
eighteenth annual encampment
OF the Northwestern district G. A. r.,
department. Of Minnesota, will be held
at 5Annandale June "a, Is and rs.
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Mile Laos, Pope, Sherburne, Stearns,
Stevens and Wright counties consti.
tute the district. .3sl. sso = LIZ: .; i.
( The supreme court has decided. that
the, Northern Pacific must comply
with the order Of the railroad and
warehouse commission to open the
Twentieth avenue station at Duluth
and run it's trains via that station in.
stead of going from the Duluth Union
depot directly to West Superior.
2i Over eighteen: Minneapolis robber.
les and similar crimes have # been
cleared up by the confession Of Joseph
Hencir, arrested on, suspicion OF hav-
Ing robbed Huhn S drug store in that
city. Hencir is a country boy who
was sent to Minneapolis to attend
school. He imp icates James Der
mody, q chum. 3gs55
St The MINES ota Sugar company will
fight to recover from the state $19,975
bounty under the sugar bounty Law
which has been declared unconstitu-
ftfona1- by the attorney general The
company has petitione q the state su-
spreme court to SSiss sues a .Writ sof GER
Btiorari requiring State. Audito Iver-
son to prod luce in court all the records
3of the state auditor relating to the
claim of the company for the bounty
under the law OF 189 5.
The Presbyt general assembly
5at# Los Angeles has disposed OF the
Rev. Louis Richter case Sc the synod
OF Minnesota This case has CAUSED
much interest in Presbyt terian circles.
Rev. Richter was charged with having
acted as agent for breWer1es Iii the
sdistribution OF literature and was sus.-
pended by his synod and forbidde
the practice of clerical duties 1T was
further charged that he soug aid
from sal loon men and breweries IN the
raising OF . fund to prosecute his case
before the ASSEMBLY y.i II he commit ittea