Mower County transcript., 1904-09-21
NEWS U IN MINNESOTA
!. EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE

Vt. = OUT THE STATE.
The twenty y-seventh meeting Of the
American Institute OF Mining Engi-
neers was held at Duluth last week.
The state board of health is investi-
eating numerous typhoid fever out
breaks in the smaller cities of the
state.
IS. v. Harris, for fifteen years head
clerk at the Ryan hotel, st. Paul, is
dead after brief illness, aged sixty
years.
Three brothers were injured, one of
them, Charles sMcArdle, seriously, at
st. Paul Friday by street car strik-
ing the wagon in which they were rid
ing.
Henry H. Biddell of Minneapolis,
fireman on the Minneapolis and st..
Louis road, fell from his engine in the
Minnesota transfer yards and was
crushed beneath the wheels of q
freight train. ~sa.~."'@"~a.,
The establishment of six-foot chan
mel in the Mississippi river from ST.:
Paul to st. Louis will probably be one
OF the provisions of the rivers and ,har-
bors bill presented at the next ses-
sion of congress-
One man will lose a leg and Pro-
lessor James an eye as the result of
an explosion of an eight-pound powder
tube in the bicycle factory of Nelson
Bros. at Aitkin. The building was
completely wrecked.
Final figures for the state fair re-
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$4,000 as compared with 1903 re-
celpts. The receipts were $190.561,
exclusive Of railroad ticket sales,
which will amount to over $4,000.
While shooting at a target with a
rifle Ward Cosgrove. the seventeen
year-old son of President G. N. Co.'S
grove of the State Agricultural society,
was accidentally shot in the back by q
companion. His condition is critical.
The Minneapolis police have arrest
ed Ray Sellers, we'll known local
gambler, whom they accused of hold
ing up and robbing the Ashmore gam
bling roons and shooting and seriously
wounding Patrolman James Nolan
when tho latter appeared on the scene.
There has been another advance in
SAO RAAI0 VI CAdA1 dL Wlu
and they now bring SIS a ton as
against $12 short time ago. The rea-
son for this is that the supply is
diminishing owing to the beds being
so thoroughly worked further down the
river.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians OF
Minnesota, in session at Saltwater,
elected the following officers: J. J.
Regan, St. Paul, president; Patrick
Kinney, Mankato, vice president;
Thomas Conley, Minneapolis, secre.
tary, John Flood, Duluth, treasurer;
Rev. Michael O'Brien, Graceville, chap.
lain.
From the reports which have been
filed with the state railway and ware
house commission both the Minneap
oils and St. Louis and the Iowa Cen
trail roads have decrease in business
for the past year, the former showing
a deficit of s103,291 and the Central
$S8,219.
DIR. S. H. Ward, secretary of the
state sanitary board, has returned tc
st. Paul from a trip to Blue Earth
county from which rumors had been
sent out that mango was prevalent
among some herds Of cattle. Dr. Ward
reports that it was only scare, as the
disease is nothing more than ring
worm.
Archbishop Ireland held a confer
ence Thursday evening with a group
of prominent Catholics of Minneapolis
selecting the members of an executive
committee which will begin work OF
gathering funds and starting construc.
tion on the pro-cathedral, which is to
cost $350,000 and will undoubtedly be
one of the Mill City's handsomest
places Of worship.
The factory of the st. Paul Sash,
Door and Lumber company was de-
stroyed by fire which originated in a
mysterious manner in the basement
The loss caused by the blaze is esti
mated at $123, 900, only $4,000 of which
is covered by insurance. Although
several workmen were in danger OF
cremation at one time all of them man.
aged to escape without serious injury.
Threatening the lives of scores OF
persons a huge gray timber wolf was
killed in the Minneapolis Union depot
yards by William Hines, with coupling
pins for weapons. The animal fol
lowed passenger train into the shed,
but was not noticed until it was scurry.
ing among the women and children
Hines chased the wolf: and finally
struck it on the head with coupling
pin and killed it.
There have been new developments
In the case of the Dahls, father and
daughter, who were murdered last
spring at Quiring, Beltrami county,
but the authorities will not divulge
the nature of the new evidence they
have secured. From man who is
prominently interested in the case it
is learned, however, that suspicion is
directed against several Indians who
were working on log drive at the
mouth of the Cormant river at the
time of the murder
Bridget Shanahan, young Irish girl
who came all the way from the EN-
erald Isle to contest the will of her
uncle, the late Father Shanahan of
Caledonia, has been given a favorable
decision in the Ramsey county dis
trict court. BY the terms of Father
Shanahan's will the estate was TO be