Mower County transcript., 1904-06-22
NEWS IN MINNEES|O))T / S ))]l1.
EVENTS OF THE WEEk. THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

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Eighty-one students graduated from
the Winona normal school last week.
Minnesota Maccabees have again
elected /. N. Chellew of st. Paul state
commander. - ...fs..s A. +
Frank Eppel of St. Paul committed
suicide with carbolic acid because his
sweetheart rejected him. r.:
| Charles Lundahl, an ironworker,
was killed at St. Paul by falling from
the roof of six-story building.
The third annual convention. of the
Minnesota State Music Teachers as
sociation was held in Duluth last week.
| Fred McKune, prominent farmer
county, is dead at his home four miles
south of Morristown.
| The state forestry board has set
aside 10000 acres of government land
near Ely and it will probably be used
as game and fish preserve.
Mrs. Mary Lochowitzer, seventy
years old, drank carbolic acid at St..
Paul and died in the police ambulance
en- route to the city hospital.
Half a dozen wealthy residents Of
the Twin Cities have subscribed $780,
900 toward the proposed $500,00O en-
! dOWment for Manchester college,
At Owatonna Joe Lewis pleaded
guilty to murder. He killed Louis Mo-
berg in a Rock Island box car last
April. A life sentence was given
Lewis.
| Herman Blenker of Albany, Stearns
county, a wealthy farmer, aged sixty,
was killed in runaway caused by an
automobile owned and driven by a
Minneapolis man.
| John Adank, farmer of Buffalo
county, while on his way home from
Waumandee on a load of lumber, fell
from his wagon. The rear wheel,
which was locked, passed over his
head, killing him instantly.
Andrew Lund, an employe of the
Crookston saw mill, was almost in.
stantly killed while working at an
| edger. A board which caught in the
machinery few back, striking him in
the chest and crushing in the abdom-
inal cavity.
| DR.. J. H. Dunn, physician and sur
geon of Minneapolis, was found dead
in his room at the Southern hotel, st.
Louis. Heart disease is supposed to
have caused death. DR.. Dunn was at.
tending the sessions of the American
Surgical association. J.:
! DR.. Bracken, secretary of the state
board of health has received word
from st. Louis that he has been ap.
pointed secretary of the public health
section of the International Congress
| of Arts and Science. The section will
hold congress at the exposition dur.
| ing the summer.
The Washburn-Crosby company Of
Minneapolis has extended it's opera
tions to include st. Louis by leasing
for five years, with an option to pur.
chase, the Victoria mills lin that city
together with the elevator property
connected. The Victoria mills have q
daily capacity of 1,500 barrels.
| DR.. A. A. Ames, former mayor o1
Minneapolis, is growing, weaker and
physicians fear that unless there is a
sudden change for the better there
will be but little hope for his recovery
The doctor is unable to take nourish
ment and while he may live for few
days his friends expect his death al
any time
The state Prohibition party met al
F! Minneapolis last week and named the
following ticket: Governor, G. w
| Dorset, Minneapolis; lieutenant gov
ernor, J. F. Heiberg, Twin Valley; IT
| torney general, L. J. Won Fossen; sec
retary of state, H. A. Rigg; treasurer
Delbert u. Wells; auditor, F. r: Nc
Manigle. -
The State Federation of Labor, ir
session at New Ulm, elected the fol
lowing officers for the ensuing year
President, H. L. Dix, Minneapolis;
first vice president, Garfield E. Nor
rison, Mankato; second, r. c. Kutz
Brainerd; third, Miss Augusta Sey
fried, st. Paul; secretary, w. E. Nc
Even, Duluth. Brainerd was choser
as the next convention city.
Organization of a permanent immi
grafton commission to be made uI
from the commercial clubs and com
mercial bodies of the state and legis
lation to establish as a part of the
| state government a bureau of imml
grafton are two projects which were
recommended to the state immigra
tion convention at St. Paul last week
and favorably received by that body.
Russell Sage has been defeated in
his suit in the state supreme cour1
for title to the property in Swift coun
ty occupied by Michael Rudnick. This
suit, although in itself involving only
the ownership of one farm, is cele
brated and generally interesting case
for upon it has depended the title right
to the entire land grant of the ole
Hastings and Dakota railway, to which
Russell Sage succeeded.
A dispatch from Reaburn, Man., con
firms the reported drowning of Johr
c. Knox of Jackson, this state, anc
John Crawford of Lakefeld, this state
at Shoal lake. They started out fol
an island and when a mile from shore
heavy sea capsized the boat. Owing
to the coldness of the water the two
victims we're unable to stand the ex
posure and were swept from the bot
tom of the boat by the waves.
Fire has almost wiped out the little
village of Altura, near Winona, or
the Chicago Great Western road. The
flames started in the large implement
warehouse OF e. F. Simon and spread