Mower County transcript., 1904-06-08
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
svENTs or THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE. s:a.. Esa ": v

AI46AA6I, Ids USGu VlCLlul1Z0u u Lie tune
Of $4,000 on a confidence game.
Mrs. "A. M. woodward Of Minneap-
oils is dead from injuries sustained
from the closing of folding bed.
: The annual session of the Minnesota
State Educational association will be
held in St. Paul during the Christmas
holidays.
Nearly $1,ooo,00o was paid to bene-
hciaries in Minneapolis in 1903 by the
several life insurance companies doing
business there.
For malfeasance in Office Governor
Van SAINT has ordered the removal of
Greely E. Carr, county attorney OF
Marshall county.
Nicholas Young of Shakopee was
killed by an eastbound passenger train
at Sleepy Eye. He was walking on the
track when struck.
Judge E. T. Wilder, a pioneer of Red
Wing and we'll known to the bar men,
bers of Minnesota, died at his home in
Red Wing Friday at the age of ninety
years.
Willie Dees, twelve years old, was
crushed to death at St. Paul under the
wheels of an. eastbound Rock Island
passenger engine while alighting from
freight train.
Five hundred miners employed by
the Drake & Stratton company at
Eveleth went on strike last week be-
cause their wages were cut from $1.75
to S1.60 per day.
Cora NJ Jackson, daughter of S.
Jackson, one of the old residents OF
ROyalton, committed suicide by taking
poison. Disappointment in love af-
fair is believed to be back of the deed,
Eighty-four graduates of the law de-
partment of the state university, the
largest class in a number of years. ap-
peared before the supreme court Fri
day and were admitted to practice law
In this state.
Governor Van SAINT has proclaimed
Tuesday, June IA, as Flag day and
recommends that the day be observed
by all citizens of Minnesota. 1t is
suggested that exercises of a patriot"
nature be held in all the schools of the
state on that day.
W. H. Elsinger Of St. Paul and 9th
ers are to erect $4,000 rescue home
for women On land to be purchased
for the purpose somewhere between
Minneapolis and st. Paul The home
will be operated under the auspices o.
the Salvation Army.
Two tracts of land selected under
the swamp land grant law, containing
respectively 10,623 acres in the Cass
Lake district and 29,992 acres in the
Duluth district, have been ordered
patented to the state of Minnesota by
the secretary Of the interior.
Mic Reinart, nineteen years old, was
suffocated in a bin of wheat screen
ings at Elevator X, Minneapolis. He
descended into the bin to clear the
spout and sudden rush of screenings
caused him to lose his hold on the lad
der. He fell into the bin and was
suffocated.
= The state board of control has pur-
chased large tract of land near
Leech lake on which the sanitorium
for consumptives provided for by the
last legislature will be located. The
board is negotiating for more land am.
ultimately plans to have approximately
600 acres.
The safe in the postoffice at Virginia
was blown to pieces one night last
week and robbed of it's contents. Not
only that, but the mail pouches in the
Office were rified by the thieves, evi-
IDENTIFY in cearch of valuables The
stamps in the drawer and the few pen
MES there were also taken.
Colonel c. A. Smith of Minneapolis
has donated 100,000,000 feet of timber
to Bethany college of Lindsborg, Kan
The timber thus donated is not to be
sold until it yields 100000. Colonel
Smith asks that the college authori.
ties, the alumni and students try to
raise an equal sum by Jan. l, 1906.
Elk River has won the Sherburne
county seat removal proceeding insti'
tuted by citizens at Becker. Enough
voters signed a remOnstrance to de-
feat the holding of special election.
1t was a hotly contested affair, requir'
ing fOur-day session of the county
commissioners to settle the matter
Ray w. Harrison of the general mer.
chandising firm of Davis & Harrison
was shot and probably fatally wounded
by Miss Media Main in the hotel at
Donnelly. After shooting Harrison
MISS Maliu tuINCu luS FOVOlF0I 0A uS1'
self. death resulting instantly. The
girls deed is thought to be due to
insanity.
| The district grand jury at st. James
has returned two indictments against
Banker NJ. K. Armstrong, charging
that he accepted money when he knew
himself to be insolvent. His trial has
been postponed to the October term
of court on afidavits from his physi'
clan and attorney that he was not in
a physical condition to stand trial at
this time.
In an attempt of two military pris'
cners to escape by throwing their
guard from the Fort Smelling bridge
Tony G. Wisch, convict, was shot
and killed by Private Edward Kennedy
of F company, Twenty first infantry.
IT, ~~scu'+ rc,, The cu""! no~n"red
Eear tie fort en- d' Nc - re while
the prisoners We're beio& hrougSt ha X
! to the fort after break fo- liberty by
Wisch. g.
To enable the ,millers of st. Paul
and Minneapolis to move between s10,-
900 and $4,000 tons of -four collected
a. fho va ri011c lake nOrtS in GYDectA.