Mower County transcript., 1904-04-27
\ NEWS |: IN MlINNESOT
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

st. Paul, made vain attempt to res
cue his horses from his burning barn
and was seriously burned. !
The jury in the Krause murder case,
at Worthington brought in verdict
of not guilty. Mrs. Krause was charged
with killing her husband.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
bank at Underwood, ten miles east of
Fergus Falls. but were frightened
away before they could secure any,
thing.
H. w. Fields, for twenty-five years
q conductor on the Chicago and North
western railroad, died suddenly at
Minneapolis, He suffered an epileptic
stroke.
DR.. c. p. Art of st. Paul, charged
with causing the death of Esther Gill
by An illegal operation. was found not
guilty by a jury in the Ramsey county
district court.
There is very little likelihood of the
national guard going to the worlds
fair, as promised by Governor Van
SAINT year ago. The cost, about $780,
600, is too great.
Otto Miller, a Burlington fireman,
was thrown under his engine in the
yards near the Union depot, st. Paul,
and Injured so badly that he died from
the effects about one hour afterward.
A railroad car of foreign company
sent into this state with freight to be
delivered here cannot be attached in
Minnesota, according to a decision
handed down by the state supreme
court
Mrs. Margaret Hanscom died of or
ganic heart trouble at Des Moines,
Ia, Friday. She was pioneer Min
nesota woman, having organized the
first district school in Hennepin
county.
A strike occurred at the Pioneer
and Chandler. mines at Ely Thursday.
Eight hundred men are affected. They
are dissatisfied with Superintendent
Charles Trezona and demanded that
he leave town on penalty of death.
After he had been arrested and re-
leased on charge of beating his wife
Peter Engh, prosperous farmer who
resided near st. Hilare, hung himself
to a tree near his house. His body
was found by persons passing on the
highway.
Arthur l.. Dickinson, postmaster at
Lyman, Otter Tail county, was brought
to Fergus Falls Saturday to answer to
the charge of opening and OBTAINING q
letter addressed to l.. R. Randolph. He
gave bonds for his appearance in fed
eral court.
Two Easter funerals are held re-
sponsible for seventeen cases of small
al, in
apolis and three of these have resulted
In death. Gatherings at the funerals
made it easy for the communication
Of the epidemic.
The disease that has been killing
horses northwest of Sank Center shows
no signs of abatement. J. Korte lost
four horses and the rest of his ami
mails were sick. The disease does not
yield to treatment and is evidently of
4 contagious character.
Frederick Forster, one of the oldest
residents of New Ulm, is dead at the
age of eighty-six Mr.. Forster was
born in Germany and educated for the
profession of teacher. He came to
this country in early manhood and set
tied in New Ulm in 1853.
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purchased from the Canadian Northern
road all Of the town sites on that line
between Port Arthur and Edmonton.
The number of town sites involved is
said to be 200. The monetary consid-
Grafton Is said to approximate $1,00Q,-
900.
Samuel H. Folsom, who died in Min
neapolis Friday from congestion of the
lungs at the age of eighty years, was
enc of thu" first principals of the public
schools Of Minneapolis. He was prin-
cipal from 1857 till 1860 and from 1860
until 1890 he kept private school in
that city.
Chief Bemidji, the Oldest and one OF
the best known Indian chieftains OF
the Northwest, died at Cass Lake, aged
eiEhty-five years. He participated in
many famous hatt1es and volumes
have been written concerning him.
The town OF Bemidji was named after
the chief. >
An inquest was held at Fergus Falls
ever the remains of Frank Smith.
schoolboy who took out a $4,000 life
insurance policy in his mothers favor
and died shortly afterwArd. The jury
found that death was due to Aconite
poison Administered by some person
unknown.
Lieutenant Peter HaEenson Of Com
pany A, Third regiment Minnesota
national guard, died last week in Du-
luth as a result Of illness contracted
during his service at ChickamAuga
Park during the Spanish-American
war. He was taken sick there and has
not been in good health since.
w. e. .Noxen, the we'll known MIN
neapolis lawyer, was drowned in Echo
bay, New Rochelle, n. Y, Saturday:
Mr.. Noxon was being entertained
aboard the yacht Of his brother,
Charles Noxon, and fell overheard and
sank before a boat could be lowered
to rescue him. Mr. NoXon was suffer-
ing from partial paralysis and had
been: in Porto Rico all winter to re-
gain his health. ~ -
Charles Perry, the Oldest settler IN
Ramsey county and perhaps in the
state, died at Lake Johanna, Mounds.
View, Saturday, at the age OF eighty
eight. His second wife, seventy-seven
years old, survives him. MI. Perry, a
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