Mower County transcript., 1904-08-24
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE. .. :

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George G. Foster, well known turf.
at St. Paul,
Captain William w. Murphy, who
led the posse that captured the Young
er brothers. is dead at Madelia. =
Howard Condor, aged fifteen, was
killed al Minneapolis by falling sew
enty feet from the top OF an oil tank.
The body of Mrs. Jessie Schriner of
Minneapolis was found in thirty feet
of water at Lake Harriet. She had
committed suicide. ~:
Representative N w. Benson, a
member Of the last Minnesota house
of representative and a prominent
banker, is dead at Clinton
Valentine He1gel, a Winona mail
carrier, is dead after an illness of one
week as a result of having a tooth
pulled, causing blood poisoning.
Wolves have become so numerous
and destructive on some of the farms
near Rochester that reward Of IS
for each wolf has been offered in adj.
ton to the usual bounty.
Andrew E. BOen, merchant of Fer
gus Falls and brother of ex-Congress-
man Boen, was found dead in the out
skirts of that city. His buggy had up-
set and his neck was broken.
Because his partner, John Strand.
wanted to eat meals in their restau-
rant without paying for. them, John.
Thornverg has petitioned the Mime
apolis district court for the appoint
ment of a receiver to wind up the
partnership.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Hillmer, both
over seventy years of age, were found
dead in their. home at Minneapolis
Thursday afternoon. It is believed
that Mrs. Hil1mer died from natural
causes and the shock of her death
had fatal effect upon her husband.
Thomas H. shevlin, the millionaire
lumberman of Minneapolis, has won
the suit brought by his brother, Edwin
c., to have the transfer of certain
stocks set aside on the ground that
the transaction was made under mis-
representations and fraud on the part
of Thomas H.
While preparing for the funeral Of
Miss Anna Larson, who dropped dead
at Rush City the previous day, the
mother, Mrs. L. A. Larson, fell down a
flight of stairs, breaking her neck, and
dying instantly. Mrs. Larson was
sixty years old and leaves family of
grown children.
Jacob Hoffman. St. Paul balloon
list, was drowned in Lake Alice. Fer
gus Falls, Thursday night. He made
a balloon ascension and on coming
down in the parachute fell into the
lake. He became entangled in the
weeds and drowned before assistance
could reach him.
The Home Protective league has be-
gun war on saloons in Minneapolis,
having caused the arrest of proprie-
tors of ten saloons on the charge of
violating the state law requiring sa-
looms to be closed Sundays and also
accuses those under arrest with con-
Quoting winerooms
The dead body of an unknown man
was found beside the Northern Pacific
track about a mile east of St. Cloud
He had been shot in the corner of the
left eye with bullet of large caliber
and the position of the body when
found seemed to indicate that he had
been shot and thrown from train.
DR.. A. J. Lambert of Des Moines,
Ia, has, during the past week, been
examining the north shore Of Lake
Superior, between Duluth and Port
Arthur, with view to selecting a site
for a combination summer hotel and
sanitarium. A company of prominent
Iowa physicians is behind the project.
No further move will be taken to
save William Chounard, sentenced to
be hung on Aug. 80 at Walker for the
murder of his wife at Cass Lake last
winter. Attorney A. T. Larson, who
appeared for Chounard on the trial,
states that he has gone over the rec
ord carefully and has found no error
appeal will be taken.
The steering wheel of the steam
frigate Minnesota, which has been
shipped from Washington to the State
Historical society, will be mounted in
conspicuous place in the new capitol.
The frigate was dismantled several
years ago and at the last session of
congress bill was passed making
the Minnesota Historical society the
custodian of the Wheel
The body of Miss Aagot Dahl, who,
together with her father, disappeared
from their claim near Quiring in April,
has been found by Tom Dooher, a
neighbor, while making hay. The
body was found in a brush heap a
mile and half from her claim and in
a badly decomposed condition, which
would indicate that the remains had
been there since the mysterious disap-
pearance five months ago.
The members of the Minnesota stat
ute revision commission are rushing
work on the new code so that it will
be ready for the next legislature. The
document will be complete revision
of all state statutes and will be pre-
sented to the legislature in the form
of bill. If the bill is passed the laws
of the state W i'll be embraced in a sin.
gle code instead of in thousands of
conflicting, intellapping and incom.
plete statutes.
a strange freak of lightning is re-
Ported in the to";n ,>f carlisle. Otter
Tai! fnr.tv. lie t.;:i:.e of Alexander
Ralb:idge YVES st :ut.I and the bolt
came down the chimney. 1t followed
a wire from the srovepipe to the wall
and, glanciDg. struck Mrs Balbridge.