Mower County transcript., 1904-02-03
|. NEWS IN NJ MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF THEsWtE,Ek iTHRo ou GIL.
ouT&THE STATE. s.s

Fire Tire has destroyed the principal
building OF the group that forms the
state public. school for INDECENT chill
adreD1 at OWatonna and caused loss
of $65 1000 c.~ ~.--.. st ..t.
Antonia Calderone, the confessed
slayer Of Salvatore Battalia at Min
neapollsz three months ago. has been
found guilty of manslaughter in the
first. degree.
81 Elmer Lund, twenty years old, was
struck by Great Northern train al
Atwster and was instantly y killed. His
team was also killed and the sleigh
was smashed to fragments. q: 49,.
The residence of Frank Huffman at
Cass Lake was destroyed: by fire and
TWO OF his children, one a three-year
old boy and the other a girl six
months old, perished in the flames.
L. w. Powell, who has been assist
ant to the president of the Oliver Min
ing company, has been appointed. vice
president of the Pittsburg Steamship
company, with headquarters in Du.
luth.
Charles and Henry Nelson, under
sentence of death for the murder of
Henry Krier of Owatonna, will not go
to the gallows The board of pardons
has commuted their sentence to i'm.
prisonment for life
William McMann, a brakeman for
the Great Northern road, was killed
near Hibbing. He fell off the foot
board of the engine while the crew
was making flying switches and was
torn to pieces by the wheels. :. w.:
e. G.. NJ Rand has recovered a yer.
dict of $500 in the Ramsey county
district court: against Russell Sage in
a suit for $4,000 alleged due: for
services in connaction with. the dis.
posal OF Minnesota land held by Sage.
After once making her escape from
her house, which was on fire, Mrs.
Jacob Gardner of Victoria, seven miles
west of Excelsior. rushed back into
the building to save $3.50 that had
been left behind and perished in the
flames
Chester d. Shattuck, an old time en-.
gineer on the Milwaukee road was
run down and killed in the Milwaukee
yards at Minneapolis. He had been
in the employ of the Milwaukee road
over thirty years and was sixty years
of age
After crawling half a mile on his
hands and knees to reach his home,
where his half starved family awaited
his return, John Arendt, an aged
Woodcutter of Riverside Park, neal
Duluth, died as a result of cold and
exposure.
Mrs. Dora Schunard of Cass Lake
was shot and probably fatally wound.
ed by her husband. Schunard became
jealous and fired three shots at his
wife, all Of which took effect in the
stomach. 1t is thought that she can.
not survive.
Joe Prout. William Welton and
Fritz Hankersin were hauled with a
rope up through smoke and flames
from the second level Of the Elizabeth
mine at EIibbing, Barely escaping
death by fire which had burned away
the shaft ladder
Six Minneapolis -four mills closed
down Saturday night, making a total
of ten Of the larger mills which are
out Of commission. Millers say the
closing is due to the fact that buyers
are little slow to adjust their views
to the changed conditions in the mar.
ket.
E. E. Secog of Buffalo Center, Ia
| and A. E. Mundson of FELTON,, this
state, have been held to the Clay
county grand jury in $4,000 bonds on
the charge Of receiving deposits in an
! insolvent bank. The men were, re
spectively, president and cashier oil
the Clay County bank of FELTON,, which
| closed recently. .n
| According to the informal opinion
of the corporation attorney of ST.
! Paul there is no voting machine in
| existence which can be used at the
spring election in that city. The Law
provides that all votes shall be regis
tered numerically and there is no ma
chine invented which comes within
the regulations.
! A heavy mixed freight train, NOV
ing south toward Two Harbors on the
old line over Waldo hill, on the Du
luth and Iron Range road, ran away
and was reduced to kindling wood
The train crew escaped injury but haC
| an exciting experience. The engine
and twenty five cars are mass o.
broken and twisted wood and iron.
Through a decision of the commits
sioner of the general land office, sus
tanning a former one by the registe
and receiver of the Duluth land Office
Daniel Campbell, after several years
litigation, is given full title to home
stead in Northern Itasca county, sai(
to be valued at approximately $100,
900. and the contest of the claim insti
tuted by Charles Keith is dismissed.
| w. e. Sassler of Bemidji, state tim
Der and land inspector, is at Itasc:
park investigating the reported steal
ing of state timber from lands there
Mr.. Sassler was notified that ever!
stick Of pine on a government fort!
at the park had been cleaned up by :
contractor for one of the large lum
ber companies. In the event that thu
charges are found to Ibe true prosecu
ton will. follow and the timber GU
will be seized at the landing ri:
Boys skating on the river at Fertil'
found the dead body of Ole *Pedersol
under the trestle work on the ice
Both Of Pederson's legs and his bacl
! were broken by the fall from the higl
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