Mower County transcript., 1904-07-20
NEWS in MIN NESO " A
EVENTS OF THEWEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

A four-year-old son of r. H. Russell
of Stewartville is dead from poisoning
caused by eating the heads off of
matches.
A Carrie Nation raid was made on
a blind pig at Ten Mile Lake, south of
Fergus Falls, about forty women par
ticipating.
A negro accused of attempted as.
sault on an eleven-year-old white girl
narrowly escaped lynching at the
hands of Minneapolis mob.
With eight companions standing
near him Andrew Larson, a young man
OF twenty-five years, drowned in the
Mississippi river at Minneapolis
Monsignor Satolli of Rome, cardinal
archbishop of the Holy Roman church,
was the guest of Archbishop Ireland
of st. Paul several days last week.
The new city directory of Albert
Lea is out and, using G multiple of
2, the city has population of 6,532,
or using 27@ the number is 8,165, there
being 1896 names.
The St. Paul city directory for 1904
has just been issued and shows that
the Capital City has a population OF
191 ,2S7, an increase of 1888 during the
year ending June 80.
The new gas works of the Zenith
Furnace company of Duluth will be.
gin furnishing gas next week. A
price of 35 cents net on all gas used
for heating houses is expected.
The crop report for the territory
west of Winona along the Minnesota
and Dakota divisions of the Northwest.
ern railway, just issued, indicates that
there will be banner crop this year.
Charles f. Fay, eldest son of Mar
Gus L. Fay, mayor of Virginia and
millionaire mine owner, is dead of spi-
nal meningitis. Young Mr. Fay was
one of the best known mining men
on the Minnesota ranges.
Only fourteen new cases of small.
pox, three Of which we're in Minneap-
oils, have been reported in Minnesota
for the week ending July II. This
is a light showing, but midsummer
is the time when the disease spreads
the least
Violent deaths and accidents appear
to be on the decrease on Minnesota
railroads. In 1903 II railroad en-
ployes were killed and 1885 injured,
while for the year ending June 80,
1904, there have been only IS killed
and 763 injured.
The state pardon board has denied
the petition to commute to life i'm.
prisonment the death sentence i'm.
posed on William Chounard by the
district court of Cass county on April
IA, 1904, for the murder of his com
mon-law wife.
Articles OF incorporation of new
railroad, the Minneapolis and Rainy
River have been filed with the sec.
retary of state. The road will extend
from Minneapolis through Hennenin,
Ramsey, Anoka, Isanti, Kanahec,
Mile Laos, Aitl1in, Crow Wing and
Cass counties.
AS feature of the Minnesota ex.
hibit at the St. Louis exposition W.
T. Mcconnell of the state dairy and
food department has arranged with
number of Minneapolis millers for a
supply of -four, which will be made
into bread and given away with de-
Hc1ous Minnesota butter at the fair
Deliberately throwing him;elf in
front of train an unknown man
about twenty-five years old was run
over and instantly killed on the North
ern Pacific road near North Town
Junction, just outside of Minneapolis
The head and left arm were complete
ly severed and the body was ter.
ribly mutilated.
Spurred to desperation by the sight
of his wife talking and drinking beet
with another man Edward E. Hcrr, a
variety performer, fred three shots
from a revolver at the woman in the
Empire theater, St. Paul, and severely
wounded her. Herr then turned the
revolver against himself, but his
wound is not fatal.
Lloyd l.. Schigley, aged nineteen
years, an emplOye of the Duluth
Telephone company, was killed by
electricity while at work on pole
repairing the wires. He accidentally
placed his hands on barred electric
light transformer. Twenty-three hun
dred volts passed through his body and
he was killed instantly.
Thrown out of work by the strike
of the butchers at Swift & Co.'s South
St. Paul plant and still further dis
couraged by the belief that his home
relations would be disturbed by the
marriage of his sister set for the fol-
lowing day, George Godbout, st. Paul
lad of eighteen years. took his own life
by drinking carbolic acid.
William l. Stine, who was chief
clerk and private secretary to the late
W. A. Scott in the Office of the general
manager of the Omaha and remained
in the same position when Mr.. Scott
died about year ago and was sue
ceeded by A. w. Trenholm, is under
arrest in st. Paul, charged with having
stolen $4,000 of bonds which were the
private property of Mr.. Scott.
A bold Jail delivery, during which
three masked men liberated a pick.
pocket named Kelly, occurred at White
Bear one night last week. Charles
Sandahl, night watchman at the Jail,
was held up at the point of revolvers
by three men, who took his keys from
him, liberated Kelly and then, wrap
ping shirt around Sandahl's head,
placed him in the prisoners cell.