Mower County transcript., 1904-08-17
NE lVS in . MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE. Y

| ooOoCpA I1dAey, d. veteran arC0lLeCC OF
Minneapolis, is dead.
The total assessed valuation of Min
peapolis is $135 100000. . .r-.
James Mack was run down by a
Northern Pacific train at Minneapolis
and suffered the loss of both legs.
! John Knight, seventeen years of age,
was drowned in Cedar lake at Mime
| apolis while swimming with some COM
panions.
J. w. Dreger of Minneapolis was
elected president of the Interstate
Sheriffs' association at their annual
convention at st. Louis
! John ArnesOn, five years old, was
run over by a Great Northern switch
engine at Carman and was instntly
killed.. His body was cut in two.
| George Kimmel, seven years old,
;; was ground to death Vnder freight
train at the Toronto street crossing
of the Milwaukee road at st. Paul.
Pending a more certain outlook as
to the flour demand and the price OF
cash wheat all but five of the Minneap.
oils -four mills have shut down indef"
nitely.
John Pleva, aged fifteen, died at the
| Minneapolis city hospital last week.
the victim of revolver bullet in his
head, accidentally fired by Glynn Phil.
1pps, twelve years old.
! P. A. Ewart, assistant attorney gen.
eral, has made a. ruling in reply to
the secretary of state that the So
cialist or Public Ownership" party
will have to get it's nominees on the
ticket by petition. y
A fire which gutted the Printers
Exchange in Minneapolis Friday night
caused a total loss of $4,000 and seri-
| GUS injury to six firemen, among whom
was Assistant Chief Kehoe. One OF
the hremen will probably die.
The Bank of Hazel Run, Yellow
Medicine county, was robbed of $4,000.
the contents Of a burglar proof" safe.
at midnight Thursday. The robbers
used dynamite and wrecked the bank
building. They made their escape.
The Great Western Cycle company's
store, 612 First avenue southeast, Min
| neapolis, was entered by burglars
Thursday evening for the twentieth
! time in three years. A number of re-
volvers and much fishing tackle were
stolen.
The barn of G. Gesche, in the town
ship Of COrdova, near Waterville, was
struck by lightning and burned with
all it's contents, including four head of
horses. Mr.. Gesche was seriously in
jured in trying to save one of the
horses.
James Taylor, sixty-six years old.
was struck by a Milwaukee train at
the junction of Nineteenth avenue
south and Twenty-fifth street, Mime
apolis, sustaining injuries from which
he died at the city hospital short
time later.
At the last meeting of the board of
the soldiers home the matter of ex-
cluding veterans from the home who
were receiving a pension of $12 or
more month was discussed and the
members favored the plan in order to
| cut down expenses.
James KOnkle, a resident of Mime
sofa in the territorial days, was found
dead in chair at his home in st. Paul.
Death is thought to have been caused
by heart failure, induced by chill,
which seized the octogenarian after
he had taken an ice cold drink.
William Gruble and Albert Hiclm
Pauls Catholic church at Sank Center,
l20 feet from the ground, when the
| scafold suddenly gave away. BY the
merest chance they caught on the stag
ing eight feet below and thus saved
| themselves.
A single check for $4,000 which
| passed through the Minneapolis clear
inghouse Saturday marked the final
transaction in the greatest and most
successful speculative campaign in the
history of the Northwest, a campaign
in which three Minneapolis men took
out of the wheat market profits of not
less than $1,000,000.
William Norton, son Of Conrad Nor
ton of Arlington, committed suicide by
hanging in his fathers barn. He was
twenty-five and left home about a year
ago, enlisting in the army. Since then
the parents had no knowledge of his
whereabouts until his mother discov-
cred his body hanging in the barn. 1t
is believed he was insane.
Miss Mamie Johnson of South st.
Paul met with a. very peculiar acci-
dent, the result of which, it is feared,
will be the total loss OF the sight of one
of her eyes, AS Miss Johnson. was
walking along st. Paul street a man
passing in buggy threw away cigar
stub, the lighted end of which struck
Miss Johnson in the eye and some OF
the sparks and ashes penetrated be-
yond the eyelids.
The state board of equalization,
which will convene at the capitol Sept.
g., will have to add approximately
| $8,000,000 to the personal property as
sessment to bring it up to the same
figure as fixed by the board last year,
If the counties yet: to report show the
same percentage of falling off in val
| uation as the thirty-two counties that
have already sent their abstracts to
the state auditor ~:A
Believing that there ;. is very little
demand for farmhands in Minnesota
and the Northwest Labor Commis-
: sioner John O'Donnell has abandoned
the plan; proposed some time ago of
establishing q free employment bureau
in the Twin Cities. Mr.. O'Donnell has
received information from a large num-
ber of bankers and business men
throughout the state that there is not
the customary dearth sof farmhands
this year. T.
In response to q bid which will
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