Mower County transcript., 1904-03-16
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

resident of Minnesota since 1854, is
dead at Minneapolis. T."
Ermer Wilson, employed by the c.
A. Smith company, was instantly killed
at Minneapolis while thawing dyna-
mite. T
Robbers blew open the safe in John
Thurston's general store at Garden
City and obtained $50 and three
checks.
In fit Of jealous rage Mrs. w. j.
Burns shot and wounded her husband
in his saloon at st. Paul. Burns will
recover.
The funeral of Rev. Father Danehy
of Minneapolis was largely attended.
Archbishop Ireland preached the fu-
neral sermon.
Former State Senator Hiram F. Ste-
vens is dead at st. Paul. Mr.. Stevens
was one of the most prominent law
yers in Minnesota.
A clubhouse, modern in every par
in st. Paul this summer by the United
Commercial Travellers Of America.
]. NJ. Burke, a young man of about
thirty-two years Of age, committed
suicide at st. Paul by taking strych-
nine. No cause is known for the act.
Jessie, the three-year-ol daughter
of Herbert Clark, hotelkeeper at ST.
Paul Park, is dead from the effects of
burns received by the upsetting of a
lamp.
Officials of the state dairy and food
department predict that about thirty
five new creameries will be established
in Minnesota this year, making the
total number in the state $50.
Ignorance of the result of blowing
BILE for the death of J. F.. Wall Of
Everett, WASH, lumberman, about
fifty years of age, at the Great North
ern hotel, st. Paul.
Mrs. Staples, wife Of Charles E. Sta
pies of the state railroad and ware
house commission, is dead at their
home on the Dodd road near St. Paul
of heart disease, from which she has
suffered for eighteen years.
A delegation of Minneapolis attor-
neys has urged upon the governor the
advisability of appointing John w.
Arctander a member of the commits
sion appointed to revise the statutes
to succeed Hiram F. Stevens of st.
Paul, who died few days ago.
DR.. Charles P. Artz Of St. Paul is
accused by the Ramsey county grand
jury of causing the death of Esther
Goell by means of criminal opera
ton. He was arraigned in the dis
trict court late Friday afternoon,
pleaded not guilty and was released
on $4,000 bail.
Charles Johnson, aged sixty-fve
years, died in Minneapolis last week
of starvation. He had become infirm
through old age and a slight attack of
paralysis and was unable to work
cept occasionally and too proud to b,
or let his piteous condition be know
to the authorities. j.
While eatings plum puddngo,P,
Schom of Ruthton swallowed his false
teeth. He was taken to st. Paul,
where he died from blood poisoning
resulting from an operation to remove
the teeth from his stomach. Schom,
who was forty-five years of age, was
a prosperous farmer
Imagining himself pursued by a mob
intent on lynching him R. C. Dicker-
son, colOred porter, went violently
insane at the Union depot, St. Paul.
Dickerson has been reading the news
paper accounts Of the race riots in
Ohio and Southern states and became
so wrought up that he lost his reason.
Two masked men entered w. H.
HenZel's residence in St. Paul during
his absence and, after beating and
pounding his wife until she became
unconscious in a vain effort to get her
to tell the combination of the safe
containing valuable silverware and
money, were forced to content them
selves with little silverware and 81.
At secret meeting of promoters at
Mankato last week it was definitely
decided to begin the construction of
the Minnesota Central railway from
Mankato as southern terminus on
April I. The towns on the line from
Mankato north will include Nicollet.
New Sweden, Gaylord, New Auburn.
Hutchinson, Greenleaf, Litchtield, For:
est River, Watkins and St. Cloud.
twenty-five farmers interested ir
the Minnesota Farmers Exchange met
at the state capitol Thursday and
adopted constitution and bylaws and
articles of incorporation, which will
soon be filed with the secretary of
state. The capital stock of the ex-
change will be divided into $4,000
shares. $40 share. The limit of in
debtedness is fixed at so per cent of
the stock issued.
Robert Williams, a farmland near
Fairmont, attacked with a pocketknife
and fatally wounded his employer.
William Plumhoff, made a desperate
attempt to murder Mrs. Plumhoff and
her infant child and then DISCHARGED
a gun against his own head with in
stant fatal effect. There is little chance
of Plumhoff's recovery, as he had
nearly bled to death before he was
discovered hv rej h &C.
With =r'u:>lG! - thou !. s.u..~ ~ezs end
cOnsjderG: .t':I e. 4 e. ~ Pine
Island made hic arrar rgeuc~ts set his
business in order aal then committed
suicide in fit of dependency. His
will was found on his desk and the
combination TO his safe. His books
were posted and accounts closed uo