Mower County transcript., 1904-01-13
NEWS n E ' IN MINNESOl,,A i. Ola,
EVENTS OF The WEEK THROUGH
aoUT The STATE. ..5

J. J. McCardy. of St.. Paul has been
appointed auditor of the postoffice de.
partment. >r r +
Mrs. D. II. Fridley, who arrived in
Minnesota in 124S from Galena. ILL.,. is
dead at St. Paul.
The receipts of the Duluth postofice
Tor 1903 were $176,398.S7, as compared
with $154,544.79 in 1902, an increase of
$21 ,854OS.
Charles Rupp, wanted by Duluth off,
clals on the charge of forgery, com
mltted suicide in that city by taking
, strychnine.
Harldey Moran, aged fourteen, es.
capped from rapidly moving train
while being taken from MINNEAPOLIS to
the Red Wing state training school.
Edward Mann's horse and cart were
struck by train nine miles from Man
kato and the horse killed and rig de-
mollshed. Mann was only slightly
p, bruised.
Fifteen hundred St. Paul business
men attended a reception at the Com
mercial club in honor of Howard El-
liott, the recently elected president of
the Northern Pacific.
DR.. Chauncey Hobart, for nearly sew
enty years an ordained minister in the
Methodist church, is dead at Red Wing
after weeks illness of pneumonia.
Robert G. Dunn has made an an
nouncement of his candidacy for the
office OF governor at public reception
rendered him at Princeton, his home
town.
The entire force of the accounting
department Of the Pittsburg Steam
ship company at Duluth has been noti-
lied that it's services will not be need
ed after Feb. l.
st. Pauls death rate during 1908
was S.91 for each 1000 inhabitants.
This is reduction of "a under the
record for 1902 and is less than the
record of 1901 by go and of 1900 by
~
Patrick Kelly of Mankato, who at
the time he was taken sick three
weeks ago was undoubtedly the oldest
active policeman in the world, is dead
of pneumonia at the age of ninety
seven.
Burglars blew the safe in the depot
at Scanlon, used jointly by the North
ern Pacific and Great Northern rail-
roads. Two charges of nitroglycerin
were used. The robbers secured $3.50
in cash.
State Oil Inspector F. G. Warner has
filed his annual report for the year,
showing receipts of $31, 1,1O4 and dis
bursements of 29,56016, making the
receipts $2,143.S4 in excess of the cost
of inspection.
Aa1@~1irr }1 +o%ir 1@l L1r
the state labor bureau the average
drug clerk of the state works eleven
and one-half hours a day for seven
days in the week and is paid the sum
Of $H7.67 month.
David F. Lews, who came to Mime
sofa oyer forty years ago, died at his
home on a farm near South Bend,
Blue Earth county, of a complication
of ailments brought on by the grip and
old age. He was eighty-four years old.
DR.. A. B. Ancker, for twenty-one
years general superintendent of the
city and county hospital at St. Paul,
has rendered his resignation to the
board of control. He has accepted
the position of superintendent of the
Presbyterian hospital in Chicago.
IlCV. a. l. dIuO1oA1, pooIOA VI ~ OIdA-
fslaus church OF Winona, is being ia
vorably mentioned to succeed Bishop
Messmer of Green Bay, Wis. The
Poles of the Green Bay and Milwaukee
diocese are unanimous in their choice
of Father Pacholski for the bishopric.
The schedules of Casper ]. Ernst,
the St. Paul capitalist sent to the peni-
tentiary for forgery, will be filed by
Receiver Ware within few days. The
scheduled liabilities will aggregate
about $15O,000, although doubtless
many claims will never be heard from.
C. C. King, a pioneer merchant Of
St. Paul, who had lived in that city
since 1854, is dead after lingering
Illness. He was a member of the Pio-
neer Guards and participated in the
war against the Sioux Indians in 1862,
acting as colonel of one of the regi-
ments.
Henry Harms, Henry Mattfeld and
E. C. Hartley of Carver county have
purchased from the Boston and Duluth
Farm Land company 4,8O0 acres Of
! land in Carlton county, fifty miles west
of Duluth, for $4,000. They will es-
tablish a colony of Germans from Car
yer county on the lands next spring.
! Two children of Rohrus Symanietz,
living at St. Anna, twenty miles west
, OF st. Cloud, have been burned to
death. They were left alone in the
house while the mother was at church.
The father, working at the barn, res
cued them, but they died in a short
time. They were playing with the
fire in the stove.
After being out three and one-half
hours the jury in the case of the state
Of Minnesota against Edwards, Wood
& Co., on trial at Duluth, returned a
verdict of guilty. The firm was charged
with failing to make true return with
in twenty-four hours on the sale OF
the consignment of fax shipped. to
them JAN IA, 1908, by Victor Carlson
of Hallock, MINI.
James Van Vert, postmaster at
White Earth, was bound over to the
United States district court by Com
missioner Rasmussen at Moorhead.
Van Vert is alleged to be short in his
accounts with the government $421.7S
and he claims he has been robbed.
Inspector Morris discovered the short
age and the arrest was made by Dep