Mower County transcript., 1903-07-01
NEWS IN MIN NES() ()Ti7A

Mss. Il III III
Case of Duluth has been elect.
ed#presid dent 8of the American water.
works association.
Four hundred q marriages q occI,1rr.ed t.Il,,.sd
in Minneapolis during the month 81
June, breaking all previous records
Three persons were injured ana Two
dwelling houses badly damaged as a
result OF the explosion of a lamp in
the rooms occupied by M. E. Munson
of Minneapolis. # 55s s
za Miss Hilda Sneve and Miss I,izziH
Hanson were drowned ins Pe can sIa IA
near Rollag while bathing. Miss SneVqe
was to havegbeens Z married the dav fol.
lowing her tragic death. ,.5.-S 90
] John Carrington, 'semployed at the
new state capitol at st. Paul, was al
most instantly killed by falling through
IAN alrshaft opening On the second HOO
TO the main floor, a distance 81 seventy
sfeet. 4 S5.SS& .sgs j
G. X.AWarnar, formers s.a % aWsalthy
resident Of MIN eapolis sdied at his
home at Los Angeles, Cal, Thursday
'aged1 seventy ty-sixf years. sIe was at
, one timeainterested insthe Mesaba iron
Over half the counties in the state
have thus far rendered their, tax state
ments to the state auditor, and the
amounts, in every case, will average
16 per cent increase over the amounts
Of last! year. .:t - y So
Charles and Henry Nelson of owa
tonna, convicted Of the murder OF
Harry n. Krier, April Is, were sen.
fenced 20 the death penalty by Judge
,Ruckham in the district court Wednes.
day afternoon. r. '~,i y :. ,.s.sS3r
r. Nathaniel Case Rail, aged sixty-sixt
for twenty-three years resident OF
Rail Prairie, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart
with Winchester. Dependency over
lingering illness was the cause. - :
Judge Lochren, in the federal cour,
at St. Paul. granted temporary in
junction restraining the members oil
the Longshoremen' union from in any
manner interfering with the nonunion
workmen employed on the six North
ern PACIFIC docks in Duluth. I.,>
Graham & Horne and McKellar Bros
of Fort William, Ont, have disposed
of mining properties on the Atikokan
iron range ito the Atikokan Mining
com panys for s16o,000. R.a M. Hunter
8Of sDuluJh, ! repres senting& the mining
company, closed the dear Thursday
with the owners. ...
AS result OF compromise agree.
and the state railroad> and warehouse
commission q reduction of 10 per cent
in. coal rates and Is per cent in lum.
ber rates between points in Minnesota
will be. made Immediately by all the
roads operating in the state >7re' p
" s. &c. fIverson, state auditor, has
leased to the Quodenaw DEVELOPMENT
company of Duluth a section of stat.
land in Aitkin county. for the purpose
of mining COAL, The lease is for fifty
years and is the first executed by the
state for coal mining purposes. The
state will get a royalty Of 711a cents a
ton. sa't II IT, "a; ;J.,'. <s.::.:; : 5s
The largest deed ever filed in the
Duluth registers office was filed last
Wednesday, conveying valuable timber
holdings belonging to Justin Went.
worth and wife Of Bay City, Mich.
and George K. Wentworth and wife OF
Chicago, to the Johnson. Wentworth
Lumber company, The consideration
was $525,000. = :, u 80: g
The thirty-frst annual session OF
the grand lodge of Odd Fellows of Min
nesota was held in st. Paul last week
An amendment to reduce the admis
sion and degree fees of the order was
overwhelmingly defeated, and the same
fate was meted out to an amendment
| to change the time Of meeting of the
| grand lodge.
| Theodore S. Borden, a snake charm
er, is in the st. Paul city hospital in a
serious condition and may die as the
result of snake bite. He was trying
| to extract the fangs from rattlel
| when the reptile bit him on the finger
He paid little attention to the injury
| until it became quite painful. His
| body is badly swollen,
| Martin Johnson, who appeared at In
| yer Grove abaut week ago with con
siderable money, was found in barn
there unconscious from injuries, and
he died few hours later while being
taken to South St. Paul. 1t is thought
| that he was robbed and murdered
Several OF his ribs were broken an6
it is believed that he was kicked tC
death 80 Z ~ II .sl>'.H ..s,s Il i
Coal receipts for Duluth so far dur
ing the present lake shipping season
aggregate 100000 tons, which is. fa1
in excess Of the amount ever before
received at the Head Of the Lakes fol
a corresponding period. Another feel
of coal laden vessels is on the way
and it is expected that there will be 9
blockade at the docks before they car
unload. a5..5s 5..5s VI " # ~ =. -
After nursing the belief for many
/ years that it held undisputed title. tt
Minnesota mining property wortl
many millions the Clark Iron company
has just. made settlement with fthe
! heirs to the estate of former owner
by paying over 100000. The com
pany had purchased a quitclaim deee
from John M. Rogers, but it turned
out he was not the rightful owner.
1 4 Through the close work of State Au