Mower County transcript., 1904-03-09
NEWS in l|.] INN ES ora i!
EVENTS OF TIL E WEEK THROUGH.
ouTsTHE STATE.

Two Years, one Utilize mOSC prominent
practitioners in Duluth, is dead. ss5
w. J. Bishopp, an old resident OF
Minneapolis and for a number ofsyears
engaged in the real estate business,
is dead. Il ss 81 IS. ssS4ss. ssss 49,
Robert Schulska, arrested at.sssputh
st. Paul on the charge OF stealing
sheep, committed suicide in his cell,
using a strap or belt s*=5,
The thirty-fourth. annual meeting Of
Minnesota Odd Fellows was held In
Minneapolis last week. Two hundred
delegates were present. szss
Wisconsin capitalists are interested
in project to build an immense pa
per plant at Fond du Lac, this state,
thirteen miles west Of Duluth. 81 s: / 4 81 81
Mail Carrier G. A. Harris was found
by trappers in a, slowdrift between
Drummond and Two Harbors so badly
frozen that he may lose his hands and
feet. -~ " - )"
King Solomon, the colored fortune
teller who has been on trial at Mime
apolis on. the charge of shooting his
wife with intent to KILL has been ac-
quilted.
Three men, masked and armed with
reyolvers, held up Charles Larson,
night clerk in the Salvation Army
lodgingroom in Minneapolis; securing
$3l from Larson and 81 from the till.
William Smith, who kept a general
store in South st. Paul, committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the
head when Officer Robertson went to
arrest him on a charge Of indecency.
During February there were seven
teen deaths from typhoid fever in Min
| neapolis, as against two for the same
| month a. year ago, according to- the
monthly report of the health depart
| ment.
II. A. Durand,> postmaster at New
port, a suburb of st. Paul, was held up
and robbed last week for the eighth
time in four years. The robbery was
| committed by two masked men, who
got away with $101.5e.
Because the parents of her affanced
husband would not consent to their
| marriage Miss Faith Miller, a pretty
young woman of twenty-five years Hv-
ing in Minneapolis, committed suicide
on the street by taking strychnine.
Receipts at the United States land
Office in Duluth for the month of Feb
| ruary amounted to 81, ,7T1.74. = The
sale OF public lands amounted to over
$4,000 acres. There is much activity
| in the taking up of lands for home
stead and timber and stone entries:
Representative Tawney in all prob.
ability will represent Minnesota on the
congressional committee during the
next two years. The place is. now
held by former: Representative Heat
wole, who succeeded Representative
Eddy on the committee. - g.
Rev. Tawren Armsby.. is dead. at
Council Grove, Kan, aged eighty
eight. He was chaplain Of the Eighth
Minnesota volunteer regiment that
saw a greater variety of service and
country than any regiment in the Civil
war, fighting the Sioux in Montana
and the Northwest before going to the
Gulf and the Atlantic. 2,., WI
Judge Charles A. Willard, associate
justice of the supreme court Of the
Philippine islands, has rendered his
resignation to take effect April /, and
will sail for the United States on
April 2. Judge Willard was promi
nent Minneapolis lawyer at the time
he was appointed to the supreme
bench of the Philippines.
Rev. Patrick Danehy, we'll known
| in Catholic circles in this state, is
dead in Minneapolis after a prolonged
illness with typhoid fever. Father
| Danehy was a young man of high
character at one time connected with
st. Paul's seminary. At the time Of
his death he was rector of St Ste
phen's church, Minneapolis. .~~a@
The Le Sueur County bank, a pri
vate institution owned by Livingston
Quackenbush, has closed it's doors
Want of confidence on the part of the
depositors, caused by the failure OF
the Farmers and Merchants bank last
fall, caused a gradual withdrawal OF
deposits to such an extent that the pro
prietor was unable longer to continue
business. ~. :
The jury in the case of Edward
Raymond, on trial at Caledonia. fol
burglary of the Spring Grove bank
Oct. II, 1903, brought in a verdict OF
guilty. James Murphy and Otto Kel
Ter, accomplices of Raymond, with.
drew their plea of not guilty and en-
tered plea of guilty. Judge Kingsley
sentenced each to -five years at hard
labor In the penitentiary. @szz r.
Poisonous coloring matter in candy
>is believed to have caused the death
of Merton Ady, a ,tWo-year-old child
who died at the home of his parents
in Decoris, Blue Earth county, recent,
| ". The state dairy and: food depart
ment now has samples of the candy
and of similar goods from the store
where it was obtained and will sub.
ject them to close analysis.
Seventy sGuatters from the Twin
Cities and other towns III Minnesota
who have taken llp the greater portion
of an unsurveyed township in Itasca
county, have formed the Northern Nj n.
nesota Log and 1i.n:1.: Company for
the purpose of marketing aleir pine
! direct, without h7vi:sg 10 contribute
to the ini@dies.s,: ts q n &, &:
put IN 2 s:a,s :;;;''!. ;l t:;e ha 4 iiftfi3eI
and dispose of# ii ih:ii.f, css;,e5.s market,
Thirty union plumbers $ N Duluth,
being the employees OF all exceptStWo
shops, are cut on a strike for the rea-
son that the master plumbers have
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