Mower County transcript., 1904-05-11
NEWS IN :MINNESOT
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE,

Garment workers of Minneapolis
have started cooperative factory.
julius Goldsmith, treasurer of the
STATE Savings bank of st. Paul, is
dead.
FIRE at Montevideo destroyed five
business houses, causing a loss of
100000.
Andrew w. Swanson, fifty-four years
OF age, suicided by taking strychnine
at st. Paul
Baled hay is being shipped into Per-
ham from Nebraska and selling at SIS
a ton-the highest price ever known
there
| Frank White, who fatally wounded
Jerome z. Manage at Duluth. has
! been indicted for murder in the first
degree.
! John. E. Beckman of Avery, Wis,
died at Bethesda hospital, St. Paul,
OF blood poisoning resulting from the
| bite of fish.
Several additional deaths from
smallpox have occurred in Minneapo-
lis: making fifteen fatalities since the
epidemic began
| The Republican convention to name
state ticket will be held in St. Paul
June 80. Senator Clapp will be tem-
porary chairman.
John F.. Hearn, St. Paul attorney,
prominent in his profession and we'll
known in Democratic circles through
out the state, is dead.
| George P. Jones, representing the
University Of Minnesota, won first
place in the Northern Oratorical league
contest at Ann Arbor, Mich.
| The -four mills of Minneapolis are
closed down again for an indefinite
period. Lack of shipping orders is
given as the cause of the shutdown.
Mrs. Alexander Ericsson, wife of a
farmer residing six miles from Duluth,
rescued her six children from death in
fire which destroyed their home
! Gladys Lee, four years old, was
crushed to death under a pile of
| planks, which fell on her from a.
building being constructed at Mime
| apolis.
James O'Rrien was killed by coming
| in contact with live wire in the base
ment OF saloon at Minneapolis while
| seeking to discover the origin of a
fire there
Two eighteen-year-old girls, Lizzie
| Thielen of St. Paul and Lizzie Bauer
OF Eden Valley. were drowned while
| boat riding in the Minnesota river at
| Shakopee. Their boat upset.
Adelaide Henle, a three-year-old
| daughter of Joseph Henle a St. Paul
| harnessmaker, was struck by Fort
Smelling car while playing tag and was
run over and instantly killed.
Captain James A. Campbell, General
Sheridan's famous scout during the
Civil war and later on the staff of
General Brooke in the Spanish-Amer-
lean war, is dead at Fort Smelling.
| After having strategetically eluded a
| vicious bull dog a burglar deliberately
chopped his way into the residence Of
Frank Plumbly at Minneapolis and
made away with $100 worth of prop.
erty.
Fire at st. Paul destroyed the four
story factory of the United States
Bedding company and an adjoining
| residence, causing a loss of $4,000.
Police Officer Raverty saved six chill
dren from the burning house.
| Karl Jahr, we'll known Twin City
man, has been shot in Alaska by In
! dians. Mr.. Jahr was we'll known in
the Northwest, having Travelled for
Griggs, Cooper e. Co. of st. Paul and
the Kildahl Fish company of Minneap-
oils.
! Approximately S5,O00,o0o feet of tim
ber have been cut on state lands in
Minnesota in the logging season just
| 6rq vino t0 f1Cco op1 ct I,
realized from the sales more than
$500,0o0 Practically all of this will
go to the permanent school fund and
will swell that fund to $16,000,00O
! Edwin Benson son of T. H. Benson
of Appleton, was killed by lightning
while standing under tree for shelter
! from severe thunder storm. His
companion, Marian Hayes, was badly
shocked. but will recover. Benson was
a member of the junior class at the
Appleton high school and was highly
popular.
| DR.. Joseph y. Titcomb, aged forty
five years, prominent oculist of Du-
! luth, is dead Of pneumonia Dr. Tit
comb was prominent Mason and was
high priest of keystone chapter of
! Royal Arch Masons of Duluth. He
I caught cold while attending the
Knights. Templars exercises in St. Paul
recently and developed pneumonia.
Julius II. Block, state treasurer, is
defendant in suit filed in the district
| court of Ramsey county by Barnett 4
| Errett, land agents and real estate
brokers, who allege that by unfair busi-.
| ness methods Mr.. Block prevented
| them from getting. commission on a
land transaction which Justly should
have been paid to them They place
| their damages at $7,775.
Salaries of postmasters in Minnesota
have been ordered increased, to take
effect July ]. as follows: Biwabik,
81 900 to $l,100; Cambridge, $1,000 to
81 400; Cannon Falls, $1,000 to 81 800;
| Cass Lake, $1,400 to 81, 800; Chaska,
$1,000 to .s1,1O0 The salary of the
postmaster at Breckenridge has been
| reduced from 81 700 to $1,000; at Can
by from 800 to $1,000
Officials of the Crookston land office
are daily receiving scores Of inquiries
regarding the opening of the Chippewa
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