Mower County transcript., 1904-03-30
NEWS IN MINNESO
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THRouoH.
OUT THE STATE.

Ianesboro is to have canning fac
tory, the largest in Minnesota. The |
capacity will be 100000 cans per day.
One hundred bindery girls In St.
Paul have struck because their en- !
ployers refuse to recognize the union.
The evicted squatters on Cass Lake
Indian reservation lands will at once
appeal to President Roosevelt to Sc
cure what they term their rights. *e. !
The state board of control ,has.abol-
lshed the Office of supervisor of cook
ing in state institutions. Mrs. Mary
B. James Of Minneapolis has held this
position. 7 S@ :%S%">f
Having failed to reach a rate agree
ment with the Minneapolis General
Electric company the Minneapolis Re
tailers' association intends to establish
it's own electric light plant.
Perry Boggs, lineman employed
by the Twin City Rapid Transit CON-
pany' in St Paul, has fallen heir to
$4,000 in cash and valuable orange
grove near Los Angeles, Cal.
Bemidji, chief of the Cass Lake
Chippewas and friend of the whites,
is dying at his cabin near Rice Lake,
He is over eighty years of age.
Frank Brown, formerly scenic art
ist of Minneapolis, shot and killed his
wife at their home in Roslindale.
Mass. He then shot himself behind
the right ear and is in a critical condi-
ton.
Charles A. Harris, the Drummond
mail carrier who was so badly frozen
during the blizzard Of March 2, will
lose both his feet and his hands. His
feet were amputated last week and his
hands will soon. follow.
Milton r. Tyler, since it's creation
secretary Of the Minnesota statute re-
vision commission, has been elected
by the supreme court bench to succeed
the late Hiram F. Stevens as a mem
ber of the commission.
The largest class in the history of
the Minnesota state agricultural col
lege graduated last week. Ninety-one
students, many of them young women
received diplomas certifying that they
had completed their three years
course.
After having been married since be-
fore the Civil war and then divorced
for the past seven years Otto Peter
son, an aged veteran of ninety-four
years, and PHILIPPINE Peterson, aged
sixty-four, we're married at Minneap-
oils last week.
Charles S. Fee, who has been general
passenger agent of the Northern Pa
cific during the past twenty-one years,
has left st. Paul for San Francisco,
where he will assume his new duties
as passenger traffic manager of the
Southern Pacific.
Stephen Lamm, Mankato's wealth
lest citizen, president of the First Ma
tional bank and connected with other
institutions, is dead after long i'll
ness. Mr.. Lamm was born in Ger
many in 1927 and has been a resident
of Mankato since 1856.
Herbert Wink, a nine-year-old Min
neapolis boy. dropped dead while play.
ing in the yard with some young
friends He had just recovered from
a severe attack of typhoid pneumonia
and the coroner believes death due to
heart affection caused by the recent
illness.
A jury at Worthington, after being
out for nearly forty-eight hours, re.
turned a verdict of disagreement in
the case of Mrs. Tomke Krause, who
was indicted the latter part of Febru-
ary for the alleged murder of her hus-
band, Anthony Krause, Jan. 7, in the
village of Adrian.
Billy Edwards, who took prominent
part in the Minneapolis police scandal,
has been sentenced at Duluth to an
indeterminate term in the state re-
formatory, being convicted on an in
dictment charging him with working
confidence game upon farmer in
that city over year ago.
The jury in the Snow murder case
at Little Falls returned a verdict Of
murder in the second degree. The
crime for which Charles Snow was
convicted was committed in Parker,
Morrison county, on Dec. %, when
Snow killed his cousin, William J.
Snow, with Winchester rife.
There are 800 rural mail delivery
routes in operation throughout Mime
sofa at present, which is exactely 200
more than there we're a year ago. All
the payments to the carriers are made
from the St. Paul postofhce and the
uiOuCu1y PAS AOAA AOV 1AuOuACb ~ uOA .
than $4,000, as compared with $50 900
in March, 1903.
While an auctioneer was bidding up
prices at public sale at New Auburn
and IN the midst of the many persons
congregated there Mitch Dibb, a pio-
neer settler of that place, suddenly
drew a revolver and shot himself
through the head. Several persons
saw his action, but none was close
enough to prevent it.
l. The claimants to the thirty -six-acre
tract of valuable mineral land on the
Mesaba range. near Virginia, which
was recently awarded to the state of
Minnesota by W. A. Richards, COM
missioner of the general land office,
have appealed from the commission
er's decision to Mr.. Hitchcock, secre-
tary of the interior, and Minnesota is
given thirty days to file an answer.
Secretary Hitchcock has decided
against the settlers IN = +hern Min
nesotA, who war ter tho r~rhod If So
lecting swamp lands changed. These
settlers claimed that the field notes of
the government were wrong and that
the state had been awarded lands to
which It was not entitled under the