Mower County transcript., 1904-06-29
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EVENTS OF TIL WEEK THRoueH.
ouT*THE STATE.
Paul Sl1fe, eighteen years old, was
drowned in the Mississippi river at
Minneapolis while in bathing Sunday
James "A. Neff, an aged man, was
Killed by a street Ger at st. Paul Sun
day ana ! MS wife was seriously injured
The plant Of the Northern Cooper.
age company at ST. Paul has been to-
tally destroyed by fire, causing loss
of s50.oo0. =. -. =. : ~ - -. -.
Farmers at Ronneby, Benton county,
nave formed cooperative associa-
tion and purchased the creamery in
that village. s::s:''&., - -
Richard l.. Guphill of Aitkin, this
state, won the Grand American tronhv
In the national shooting tournament at
Indianapolis.
Nlnety-one members of the First
Minnesota volunteers held their thirty
eighth annual reunion at the soldiers
home last week
Winona is to have a mailing plant
with capacity of 100000 bushels.
1t is hoped to begin construction at
once and to handle this years crop.
The Sons of Veterans of Minnesota
closed three days session at Spring
Park, Lake Minnetonka. by electir:=,
George Z. Drake of St. Paul co1aman-
der.
W. Ware, janitor of the Bryant
school at Minneapolis, threw himself
under street car and his life was in
stantly crushed out, the wheels pass-
ing over the middle of his body.
Congressman John Lind announces
that his determination to retire fron,
politics is irrevocable and that he will
not consent to stand as a candidate
TOR reelection at the coming fall elec-
tion.
A full grown bull moose ran through
the business portion of Duluth one
morning last week. The animal swan
over from the Wisconsin shore. It
made its way to the woods behind the
city unmolested.
Smallpox is on the decrease in Min
nesota, only twenty-seven new cases
having been reported to the state
health board last week. OF these nine
cases were in the family Of farmer
at Grass Lake, Kanabec county.
The Northwestern road is engaged
IN draining Telegraph Pole slough
near Tracy, by which 5000 acres will
be reclaimed for the farmers. The
road is putting in the main drain and
the Farmers must put in the connecting
drains.
John J. Bjorken. carpenter, met a
horrible death under the wheels of a
big double truck street car in the
heart of the Duluth business district.
He is victim of the practice of rid
ing bicycle between the tracks of
the street railway company.
Although knocked down and tram
pied under the feet of an excited team
of horses Edwin Race, aged ten years,
OF Minneapolis, dragged his younger
sister from out of harms way and
saved her life. The boy sustained a
broken collar bone, but will recover.
The closing sessions of the central
conference of Congregational and Un-
ion churches of Minnesota were held
at Alexandria Thursday Resolutions
were adopted in favor of the organic
union of the Congregational, Methodist
Protestant and United Brethren
churches.
Fred Behnke of the town of Edna,
Otter Tail county, was recently se-i-
ously injured by the sweep of stump
puller and has since died from the ef-
feet of his injuries. Both OF his legs
were broken and he was hurt inter-
nally. He was a prosperous farmer
and leaves family.
All the lake ships engaged in ore
traffic are moving freely, summe:
schedules are on. with the ore hauling
railroads, all mines are operating and
the business of the year in the Lake
Superior mining region is in full swing
at last as a result of the calling off OF
the Great. Lakes strike.
DIR. A. A. Ames of Minneapolis con-
t1nues to improve and his physician
believes that he is on the road to re-
covery. The vitality of the patient is
low and as soon as his stomach is in
condition to retain food in sufficient
quantity it is expected that he will
soon recover completely.
After twenty years of railroad serv-
ice without mishap William J.. Foley,
yard foreman at the Union station,
Minneapolis, stepped in front of pas
senger train Saturday and was fatally
injured. An ambulance was summoned
and the injured man was taken to St..
Mary's hospital, where he died shortly
after.
The night train from St. Paul to
Duluth ran over Oscar Erickson at
Isanti, completely severing the head
from the body. The presumption is
that Erickson had gone to sleep either
under or near the station platform and
the moving of the train awakened him
and in his stupefied condition he at
tempted to crawl out of harms way.
Port Arthur (Can) business men
have. during the past week, visited
the towns bordering on the rorth
shore of Lake Superior for the pur-
pose of establishing a. telephone sys-
TEN between Port Arthur and Duluth.
The entire length of the line will be
1876 miles. The company will be in
corporated under the laws of Mime
sofa "ff~' 80 = Eees'. : ~E% .s~l ss@ -.