Mower County transcript., 1904-11-09
NEWS IN N IN NEsOTA
syENTs or THE WEEK .THRo oUeH.
OUT THE STATE.

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OUT THE STATE.
The Minneapolis police department
broke the record of arrests last month
by making over 500 arrests. ya
Mayor J. c.. Haynes Of Minneapolis
was accidentally thrown out Of an au-
tomobile and had rib broken. g.
II. Danielson Of Minneapolis VS. dead
1t Thief River Falls as the result of q
bullet wound received while, resisting
arrest.
Andrew Bordetzky was found dead
by neighbor in his hut at Rochester.
When discovered cat was holding
high carnival over the remains.
In rearend collision between
Milwaukee freight and cattle train at
st. Paul twelve cars were smashed and
Engineer Hanft was slightly injured.
Mrs. William Bell Of West St. Paul
was run down by q Rock Island train
at the Robert street crossing and died
in the city hospital several hours
later.
= Bert Peterson of Watervi1le, mar
some person in a Halloween crowd:
The bullet has not, been located and
his condition is critical.
Colonel A. M. Flagg, who until a
few weeks ago was editor Of the Du-
luth NewsTribune, committed suicide
by drowning. Colonel Flagg had been
in ill health for several months past.
Clara johnson, aged thirty years,
living three miless north of Morris,
committed suicide by hanging herself
In barn. Family trouble was the
cause. Miss Johnson was ,stenog-
rapher. .......:
Gustav J. Heinrich, treasurer and
general manager Of the Minneapolis
Brewing company and for many years
. prominent business man Of that city,
Is dead Of Brights disease. aged forty
three years.
Alfred o. Hammerberg is under ar
rest at Two Harbors charged with
having murdered companion named
August Bloom near Highland Oct. l.
He was arrested at Hibbing and de.
nies the charge.
Carl Knuts Henry Schuper, who has
the appearance Of being a scion Of an
aristocratic Swedish family, was found
dead in his room at Minneapolis: Sun
day. He is thought to have suicided
by taking morphine.
The Duluth~ and Iron Range read, q
United States Steel corporation prop
erty, has decided on new improvements
for Two Harbors, it's ore shipping port,
that will cost upward of 100000 and
which will be made within the next
nine months.
B. A. Stocks, eighty-seven years old,
living with his daughter at St. Paul,
wandered from his home Halloween
and was found exhausted the follow
ing morning in a grove nearby. He
died Two days later without recovering
consciousness.
Chief Louis Moosbrugger of the St.
Cloud fire department and Lineman
Robert HUM, also of the department,
were seriously and perhaps fatally in.
tured by the breaking of a telephone
pole upon which they were stringing
wires of the fire alarm system.
Word has been received from .Rut.
ledge, twelve miles from St. Cloud, to
the effect that wolves are. becoming
numerous and even dangerous around
there. Three or four farmers have
been attacked in the open road by the
brutes and have had hard fights with
them.
Sheriff Sullivan of Crookston has re-
turned from Rhode Island accompanied
by Joseph Guilmette, who will be tried
in the next term of the Polk county
district court on the charge of murder
ing Joseph Monegan,' former COM
panion of his, near Mentor, this state,
In October
State Auditor Iverson has received
q check from Warden Wolfer of the
state penitentiary for 100000, repre-
senting the twine receipts for October.
This brings the receipts for the year
up:to 100000 and it is expected that
the present month will add another
100000 to the total.s ..-,~~-
Louis Eliason, a fireman on the west
division of the Milwaukee road, was
instantly killed by jumping from an
engine going down the hill west of
Ortonville at full speed. The eccentric
on the eng1I broke and, believing the
engine unmanageable, Mr.: Eliason.
jumped to: save his, life. -" - -
Twenty-one laborers were arrested
at Duluth Friday on Information from
Minneapolis charging them with de,
frauding an employer. - 1t is; charged
that the men stipulated to work in a
camp near Duluth and upon reaching
the scene of employment. refused to
carry out the agreement and left: =.
The largest price ever paid for a
state mineral lease In .Minnesota was
received last week, by State Auditor
Iverson. J. H. !Gruber of St. Paul, with
three others as rivals, bid $1.500 for
what is known as the south half of
1-5s-49, located IN st. Louis county,
and the prize was knocked down at
that figure.
Olaf Holmgren, an elevator agent at
Parkers Prairie, has been committed
to the county Jail at Fergus Falls on.
charge of grand larceny. 1t is claimed
that there is shortage Of S5l8 In his
accounts. Aftersa hearing before JUS
tice Cowing he was bound over to the
grand jury, bail to be fixed by the dis
l'trict court.
A warrant on an embezzlement
charge has been sworn out5 for Sthe
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