Mower County transcript., 1904-11-23
NEWS I'm .Il MINN Y 4 NlEsoTA| 4
EVENTS orTHE wEe< rHHouoH;
T OUT THE STATE.

The Afth trial of Dr.. A. A. Ames viii
be called Nov Is. <~~>z
Rev. Bradley Phillips is dead at Min
neapoiis in his eighty-seventh year.
John Draper was saadbagged by
two men near Murdock and robbed Of
$40. ~. 10 -
Nels Peterson, a Harvest hand, was
shot and severely injured BY highway
men in Minneapolis
Detective Thomas Il. Haggerty OF
the st. Paul police force was drowned
1t Heron lake while hunting ducks.
The greater part Of $4,000 acres Of
school lands and other state lands
were sold at auction at Aitldn last
week. -
Fireman Orcott, who served in Com
pany I, First Minnesota volunteers,
through the Civil war, is dead at Min
neapolis.
Walter ]. Burton, I prominent bank
or of Wheaton, this state, was acci-
dentally shot and probably fatally
wounded at Lakota, n. d.
J. J. McGregOr, former member OF
the legislature and one OF the; promi-
nent men in Benton county, is dead Of
apopleky. He was sixty years OF age.
Henry Doerr, young farmer resid-
ing near Arlington, while engaged in
shredding corn caught his arm in the
machine and It was torn off at the
elbow.
The quarterly report OF the adjutant
general Of the war department, just
issued, shows that Minnesota contrib
uted $50 recruits Of the 1904 enlisted
throughout the country.
Herman W. Gehrmaan, q woodsawer,
was found dead in 4 shed 1T St. Paul
Coroner Miller decided that death was
due to exposure. 0ehrmann was pen
nilsss and In poor health. ),
The secretary Of the Interior has
rendered decision affecting tho rights
az q considerable number OF Minnesota
people who made timber and stone en-
tries two years ago in Oregon.
The w. H. Walker Milling COM
2any's mill, elevator and hour ware
house at Alden have beeo destroyed
by fre. LOSS is estimated at $4,000.
partially covered by insurance.
Fifteen cars were wrecked Ia . COL
Asiou On the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul road under the high bridge.
st. Paul, three Of the cars being hurled
ovsr seventy foot embankment.
George T. Simpson, 1T present coun-
ty attorney for Winona county, has
been rendered the position at first as
sistant attorney general under E. T.
Young and has accepted the position.
Ira B. Mills Of Minnesota was chos-
en- president Of the National Associa-
tion of Railroad Commissioners at the
final session of the sixteenth conven-
tion OF that body at Birmingham, Ala.
Governor Van SAINT has appointed
E. F. Waite and E. L. Smith judges
Of the municipal court of Hennepin
county to succeed Judges Holt and
| dickinson, elected to the district
bench.
In district court at Fergus Falls
Olaf Holstrom, a wheat buyer of Par
ker Prairie, was indicted On charge
| of embezzling $500. He pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to three years at
| Saltwater.
Timothy E. Byrnes of Minneapolis,
! president of the League Of Republican
| Clubs, has been appointed assistant to
Charles S. Mellen, president of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad company.
Chicago police have arrested T. C.
J. Winthers, who is wanted in New
Richland, this state, for the alleged
embezzlement of $4,000 from the Lam
bert Lumber company of that place,
Of which he was an employe.
H. A. Carlson, young man who has
been employed at the insane hospital
| at Fergus Falls for several years past
| and has more recently been engaged
in the grocery business at Battle Lake,
was accidentally killed while hunting
! ducks. ..~, - t".,..~
Sanford O. Brooks, aged ffty-fve,
for many years. general freight, agent
| of the, Chicago Great Western railroad
at St. Paul and until recently general
freight agent of the Pere Marquette,
is dead at Chicago after a protracted
Illness. .'~E
! Ernest Kent, telegraph operator
employed by the Western Union at Du'
luth, was shot in the woods near Alborn
evidently by 4 hunter who ,mistook
him for deer and died four hours
later On Misabe train while being
taken to Duluth.
A perfect epidemic of school teach:
ers' designations has seized Minneap.
oils. According to report ninety-fve
| school ma 'ams have rendered their
designations, to take effect at the
! Christmas holidays. Too hard work
Is the cause of the dissatisfaction.
Appropriations for the state normal
schools aggregating $453,4S5 are rec:
commended by the biennial report sub
mitted to Governor Van SAINT by Alvah
Eastman, president of the normal
school board The board asks tor
! $258,235 for the fiscal year of 1906
and $195,250 for la067.
| r. Sing, one of lle four Minnea polls
Cinnamon accused OF mistreating