Mower County transcript., 1904-07-27
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EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

'io" tAe DeSI uguTeS ODta1nable the
Northwest will raise only about half q
crop Of flax this fall.
William Drake, aged twelve. injured
by the explosion of toy pistol in Min.
neapolis July 4, is dead.
Conde Hamlin of st. Paul has been
| chosen chairman of the Republican
! state central committee.
Fl. P. Bend of the Town and Country
| club of St. Paul won the state golf
championship at Winona last week.
The body of man supposed to be
y. r.. refers was taken from the Mis-
sissippi river at St. Paul Thursday.
Belle Gagnon of Duluth committed
suicide in resort at West Superior
! Friday. The girl was only seventeen
years Of age.
! Rev. William Bingham Ayres, who
has just assumed the pastorate of AS
bury Methodist Episcopal church at
Duluth, is graduate from the stage.
Harry Nelson, a seventeen-year-old
lad living on farm near Forest Lake,
has been arrested, charged with a
double attempt at wrecking a North
ern Pacific train.
John Haley, aged forty-five, black.
smith in the employ of the Great
Northern shops at st. Paul, was killed
near the Como avenue or .ssing while
on his way to work.
Ellsworth Johnson, en- employe of
the st. Anthony Furniture company,
was drowned in the Mississippi river
| near the government dam on Meeker
island while bathing.
Governor Van SAINT has proclaimed
| a reward of $500 for the arrest and
| conviction of persons who murdered
| N. O. Dahl and his daughter, Agnes,
near Blackjack last spring.
The supreme court of Minnesota. in
a decision written by Justice Lovely,
! aft1rms the district court of Ramsey
county upholding the validity of the
| so.called Smoke ordnance of St.
| Paul.
| The postoftice at Royalton was bur-
! glarized Thursday night. The safe
was blown open by dynamite, nearly
wrecking the whole building, and the
thieves secured $500 worth of stamps
and 500 in currency.
| While being taken back to the state
! prison J. B. Williams, parole break
er, escaped from the custody of State
Agent Barncard by jumping through
the window in the lavatory at the Mer-
chants hotel, st. Paul.
The heaviest homeseekers' move.
ment OF this summer passed through
St. Paul Wednesday of last week on
Its way to various points in Minnesota
and North Dakota. Railroad men es.
timated the number at not less than
5000.
E. w. Crane, county attorney OF
Grow Wing county, was examined in
the probate court at Brainerd Thurs.
day and ordered by Judge Sanborn
committed to the Fergus Falls hos.
pital for the insane.
| Judge Quinn at Glencoe has grant
ed new trial to H. Burton Strait,
who was found guilty of receiving a
deposit in the Scott county bank at
Jordan, of which he was president
when the bank was insolvent.
Jessie Sharley, a young woman
jumped from the Plymouth avenue
bridge at Minneapolis in an effort to
commit suicide. She was picked up
by men working on the boom and TAX
en- to the city hospital She will re-
! cover.
Believing that a bottle which he had
picked up in vacant shack forty
miles north of Deer River contained
whisky, William Walker, a woodsman
drained it to the dregs. The contents
of the vial contained carbolic acid and
he died almost Immediately
John Covell, farmer and an old
resident of White Bear, was killed by
a fall Friday afternoon. Covell was
on top of a load of hay. The horses
started suddenly and he was thrown
to the ground, striking on his head.
Death resulted from broken neck.
Minnesota's extensive stock raising
Industries will be exemplified at the
st. Louis exposition by 16 carloads OF
live stock, which will include 96 cattle
81 horses, 40 hogs and 40 sheep. This
was settled last week at a conference
between members of the Minnesota
Live Stock association and Messrs
Conde Hamlin and J. M. Underwood
OF the Minnesota board of managers
of the worlds fair.
The executive committee of the Min
nesota immigration association met in
st. Paul last week and elected the fol
lowing officers: John w. Willis, St.
Paul, president; M. J. Donnelly, St.
Paul, secretary; G. P. Stine, st. Paul
treasurer; w. @. Nye, Minneapolis, au
ditor. The constitution provides TO,
q vice president in each county, and il
is planned to have local societies
throughout the state.
The nineteenth annual banquet o1
the Last Mans club, organized in 1887
by the survivors Of Company B, First
Minnesota volunteers, was held last
week at the Sawyer House, saltwater
The club, as originally organized, had
twenty-seven members and since thai
time some seven or eight of the orig
1nal members have died. Banquete
are held on the anniversary of the
First Battle of Bull Run.
The falling meteorite which attract
ed attention at many points in the
state last week has been found by 8
searching party in the heavy timber
strips on the farm of J. A. Tale, foul
and one-half miles northeast Of Ken
yon: 1t Is of q dark blue color, with
highly ribboned black lines and red
dish brown spots. 1t appears solidly