Mower County transcript., 1904-09-07
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
..... OUT THE STATE.

AAu5O OOAAeOus SUI VI 0LdL0 senator
G. H. johnson of st. Peter, was killed
at Wentworth in railroad accident
Frank Warner of Cannon Falls was
seriously, II not fatally, hurt by being
run down by an interurSan car in Min
neapolis.
The saltwater prison is running all
its binder twine spindles at full ca
pactty in order to increase the output
next year.
Oscar Colrud of Rosholt, Wis, was
run down by street car at St. Paul
and instantly killed. He was cut in
two by the wheels.
The total receipts of grain at Min
neapolis for the crop year ending Aug.
81 were 5,903, 100 bushels. against
131,084,63 bushels in 1903.
Public Examiner Sam T. Johnson
has filed on the Republican ticket as
q candidate for the nomination for
city treasurer Of Minneapolis.
n. c. Madsen has been appointed
assignee Of Ansgar college at Hutch
inson and will have charge Of the
closing up the affairs Of that institu-
ton.
Rain greatly interfeTed with the at
tendance at the state fair last week.
The total number of visitors reached
III, ,53S, as compared with 236.243 last
year.
OF the 26,5t0 men enrolled in the
Minnesota regiments for the Civil war
only 1900 in all assembled in St. Paul
last week for tho annual regimental
reunions.
Twelve thousand dollars has been
raised for the relief Of the storm suf-
ferers at Waconia and st. Louis Park
and OF this amount Minneapolis has
raised $4,000.
Joseph Shapiro, aged three and a
half years, who was Kicked in the
head b. horse at st. Paul Aug. 18,
Is dead from concussion of the brain
caused by that injury.
Jumbo. who was as far as known
the largest dog in the world, Is dead at
Park Rapids. He was of the st. Ber-
nard breed, seven years old and
weighed at his best S05 pounds.
Lulu Anderson, the two-year-old
daughter of G. w. Anderson Of Min
neapolis, died OF strangulation as the
result Of swallowing a small screw
with which she had been playing.
James T. Phelps, the oldest passen-
ger conductor on the Milwaukee road,
who for many years has run into the
Twin Cities, has been appointed su-
perintendent of the Minneapolis Un-
lon Railway company.
The tenth anniversary OF the Hinck.
ley fire was observed at Hinckley
Thursday with memorial exercises.
Many outsiders were present. Ad-
dresses were made by Senator Knute
Nelson, R. c.. Saunders of Pine City
and others.
Andrew Carlson, a stranger in St.
Paul, was found dead in his room. He
had committed suicide by turning on
the gas. He had been in the city but
four days, coming from Dallas, Tex.
In search of work, which he seemed
unable to find.
A. G. Dohm. a young married man
and brother of DR.. Charles Dohm,
deliberately committed suicide at St.
Paul by throwing himself in front of
an interurban car. The body was ter.
ribly mangled. Dohm was an epileptic
and was gradually losing his mind.
Minneapolis has become naval re-
cruiting headquarters for the sub
stations III Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ne
braska and the Dakotas. All recruits
enlisted in these five states will be
taken to Minneapolis and made up
into parties for distribution to naval
receiving ships.
Returns on the examinations held
by the county superintendent of
schools for Hennepin county, at which
prospective teachers qualified, show
that only about half of the 225 who
took the examination succeeded. Only
20 per cent of the applicants secured
first grade certificates.
An eastbound freight train on the
Great Northern ran into the rear end
Of another freight train near Clear
Lake. resulting In demolish1ng the way
car and several cars on No. $50 and
derailing the engine of No. 555 and
nine cars, consisting of wheat and
merchandise, which caught on fire
and burned.
Grant Riggle, editor of the Madelia
Tribune, was found dead in his room
at the Golden West hotel, Minneap-
oils, under circumstances that indicate
that the man committed suicide with
an overdose OF morphine. Riggle was
in poor health and his visit to Mime
apolis was to secure treatment for
tuberculosis.
Plans for the new carshops Of the
Twin City Rapid Transit company at
University and Smelling avenues, st.
Paul, have been completed. Eight
acres will be covered by the buildings.
The largest single building will be the
new carhouse, which will cost $175,O00
or 100000 and cover three and two.
tenths acres.
Olmsted county took high honors in
the award of the judges Of the state
fair in the contest of counties for the
best exhibits. Not only did it win
first place in the contest on the high
est score ever made in a Minnesota
fair, 1887 out OF possible 1900, but
it also took first place for taste, design
and arrangement.
Two hundred and eighty persons
have filed for Office in Hennepin coun-
ty. Every office to be filled has one
or more Republican candidates and in
some instances more than a dozen Re-
publicans have filed for the same