Mower County transcript., 1904-06-15
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
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Carl Lindberg, aged nine, was run
over and killed at st. Paul by wagon
heavily loaded with lumber. .:->.
A woman pickpocket secured $1,000
from the coat OF L. F. Will of Mime
apolis in that city and escaped after a
lively chase. 0.,.,.~..--.
William j.. Geer, ,4who left St. Paul;
twenty eight months ago to walk
around the world to decide a wager,
has reached Winona on his return trip.
; William Fl. Allen, a mail carrier,
pleaded guilty at St. Paul to-. the,
charge of robbing the mails and was
sentenced to one year in the peniten-
tiary.
Over 500 delegates and 400 ministers
attended the fifteenth annual conven-
tion of the United Norwegian Lutheran
church of America at Albert Lea last
week. .-,~ ,.4,. e..
W. w. P. Mcconnell, state dairy and
food commissioner, believes that dairy
cows, in order to give good supply
of milk, should be curried and combed
at least once day.
John Wall, a we'll known deputy
sheriff of Hennepin county, was run
down by an unknown automobilist at
Minneapolis and received injuries
| which may prove fatal.
Edward Hankins, aged eighteen, a
prisoner in the Minneapolis work
house, met death in the Mississippi
| river by drowning while making a
desperate attempt to. escape.
Herbert L. Williams of Minneapolis,
formerly postal clerk, has received
news that verdict of $4,000 against
the Great Northern has been awarded
| him for injuries received in a wreck
| near Spokane, Wash.
The three Minnesota students who
took the examination for the Cecil
Rhodes scholarship, held at the state
university April 13, passed. President
Northrop will select the one student
entitled to the scholarship.
Despondent because he was unable
to obtain work in Minneapolis Walter
Saltdal of Dalton, this state, drank
| several ounces OF carbolic acid in
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died few minutes later at the city
hospital.
John Clark, for dozen years promi-
| nent in Southern Minnesota political
| and business circles while resident
| Of Window, died suddenly in Mime
apolis while taking spin in his auto.
! mobile. He had been a resident of the
Mill City since 1890.
John F. Murphy, a st. Paul carpen'
ter, committed suicide in decidedly
| spectacular manner last week by put
| ting bullet through his heart in the
| presence of number of relatives and
friends. Grief over the death of an
| only child is the supposed cause.
George Bishop, a railway brakem
of Duluth, shot and killed Miss Laur:
Lee of Superior at the home of the lat
| ter and then turned the weapon on
and Miss Lee had been lovers for
years, but had become separated.
DIR. A. A. Holcomb, an attache of the
bureau of animal industry, United
| States department of agriculture, is
now in Minnesota for the purpose of
| an extensive investigation of contag'
! ious diseases of horses and cattle
! which prevail in this part of the coun.
| try.
N. O. Dahl of Crookston and his
daughter Aagot, eighteen years old,
are believed to have been murdered
| the last part of April on their claim
| near Quiring postofice, which is not
far from Bemidji. A searching party
! is looking for the bodies. Robbery is
the alleged motive.
The new rule regarding the pensions
| of the inmates of the soldiers home
! will make it necessary for the home
authorities to drop about fifty of the
| veterans. It is asserted that the in
| come of the home will be reduced to
the extent of $1,000 and upon this basis
| only about $40 men can be cared for.
There are at present 800 men at the
home.
Many new firms engaged in indus
tries of all kinds are being formed in
| all sections of the state. The incorpo-
ration fees collected by the secretary
Of state amount to nearly $4,000 a
| month and if new corporations con.
| tinue to be formed in as large numbers
| in the next seven months as they have
in the last five 1904 will be record
! breaker.
A Minneapolis and st. Louis excur'
| sion train, returning from Carver with
zoo St.. Paul people on board, was
| wrecked in the Union depot yards in
Minneapolis Sunday night and num-
ber of people injured, though none fa'
tally. The wreck occurred on sharp
curve and the fact that the train was
| moving slowly undoubtedly saved
many lives.
Rev. j. H. Dobbyn, an Episcopal
| minister of St. Pauls church, Dickin'
son. N. D., arrested in St. Paul for
| unnatural conduct toward Charles Bon.
! nello, aged fourteen, has been sent to
| the workhOuse for three months The
| felonious charge against Rev. Dobbyn
| was changed to disorderly conduct to
| avoid public trial of the case. He
entered plea Of guilty.
Governor Van SAINT, his staff and
more than 300 members of the Mime
| sofa Editorial association assembled
at the Minnesota building at the st.
| I.o'=is exposition and f. Hlauv dedi-
ca *: that .St,nclaIt: ~. the' H1,r:a's fair.
The ceremonies We're eonducted under