Mower County transcript., 1904-08-31
NEWS n MINNESOTA


10 dead.
Governor Van SAINT and State Audi.
tor 1verson last week inspected state
mining properties on the Mssaba
range.
The body of Albert Jack, eight years
OF age, who disappeared from his
home in St. Paul more than a week
ago, has been found floating in the
river near the high bridge.
While shoveling dirt between tracks
In the st. Paul railroad yards John
Nelson, section hand employed by
the Milwaukee road, was killed by the
engine of an incoming Burlington pas
senger train.
George E. Favor, a member of the
Cooperative Barrel Manufacturing
company of Minneapolis, committed
suicide at his home in that city Friday
by shooting himself in the mouth with
| a revolver while despondent.
The death list at Waconia as the re-
| suit of the tornado of Aug. 90 has
! reached five and four of the twenty
three injured are in a critical condi-
: ton. Many families are destitute and
an appeal for aid has been issued.
Captain Frank A. Peterson of the
Minneapolis fire department commit
ted suicide by drinking carbolic acid.
His mind was deranged by continued
brooding over losses in the recent
spectacular rise of wheat and on horse
racing
At coroner's inquest held over the
body Of Carl Pavelka, the Austrian
camp foreman who was murdered on
Aug. near Woodland, a suburb of
Duluth, Frank Skerlec, companion
with whom he was last seen, was held
to be the man responsible for the
crime.
Thomas Gates McAllister, long
time resident of St.. Paul and we'll
known throughout the Northwest as
railroad man, is dead, aged sixty
years. He had been in the employ Of
the st. Paul and Duluth and Northern
Pacific railroads for twenty-three
,, years.
Plans to establish q hospital in the
state for demented persons who ~
not so seriously afflicted as to be
| proper subjects for commitment to an
insane hospital will be discussed at a
| meeting of the probate Judges of the
state to be held in St. Paul Sept. 1
| and 2.
Major Joshua H. Marshall capital
| 1st, who has lived in Minneapolis for
the past twelve years, was stricken by
! an attack of heart trouble as he was
eating supper and died a minute after
he had reached the city hospital. Ma
jor Marshall was seventy-four years
| of age.
Owen B. Vail, said to be at one time
one of the most notorious counterfeit
ers in the country, who recently ap-
| peared in Minneapolis at the head of a
religious organization known as tho
Christian Volunteer Warriors, has
been ordered out of the Mill City by
the police.
The sale of the lands of the ceded
portion of the Red Lake Indian reser-
walton will be resumed in Crookston
on Oct. 8 next. The original sale was
held at Thief River Falls in June. but
the attendance was disappointing and
not more than One-third of the land
was disposed of.
| Harold Kincaid of Oshkosh, Wis.
and Guy Cotton, supposed to be from
Madison, Wis.,, were run down by a
| Great Northern lake train near Cedar
Lake, a suburb OF Minneapolis. Cot
ton was instantly killed and Kincaid
died at the city hospital shortly after
being brought to Minneapolis.
The state banking business of Min
nesota is in f1ourishing condition,
according to report issued by Public
Examiner S. T. Johnson. The number
OF state banks has increased from POS
on April 80, 1901, to 326 on July 16,
| 1904, and during the last year the re-
| sources of these banks have increased
| $2,123, ,705.90.
| Despite the fact that the season is
| regarded as dull in the iron trade the
state will realize more than formerly
from it's six working iron mines on the
iron range. About 100000 tons will be
taken out in excess of last years
product and the state school fund will
realize in the ne1ghborhood of 100000
| in royalties on 35O,000 tons of ore.
The residence of w. w. Stoppe,
near Granite Falls, was destroyed by
fire one night last week. Mr.. and Mrs.
Stoppe owe their lives to dog, which
aroused Mr.. Stoppe by biting him and
he and his wife had barely time to get
OuI VI IAC Du1 A1u6 Uu1lUlUS WITHOUT
putting on their clothing. After
awakening them the dog lost his life
in the fire.
The members of the state board of
control have returned from Walker,
! where they went to make preliminary
arrangements to establish the state
sanatorium for persons affected by tu-
berculosis. The available funds amount
only to $4,000 and the present work
will consist entirely Of the erection of
temporary buildings which in time
will become minor parts of large
institution. Sites for these structures
were selected by the board and it is
intended that work shall begin at
once. The tract recently purchased
by the board of control for the location
of this sanatorium is 800 acres in area,
on the shore of Leech lake and about
three miles from Walker 1t has high
altitude and is well covered with
standing pine.
TO ENLARGE FORT SMELLING.
Government Appraisers File Report Of
al ~&