Mower County transcript., 1904-11-30
NEWS 1N MIN J / NESO OTA
EVENTS OF TIE WEEK THRouol+
E: EST. E. OUT THE STATE.

- N01AAOAu Will, Olc VI Iuo - p1OuoSI
florists of Minneapolis. is dead.
Twenty-three feet on Nicollet ave.
nue., Minneapolis, has just been sold
for $55,000. :-.' =.
An Italian named Tamo, a resident
Of Minneapolis, was run down by a
work train at Cokato and instantly
killed. 49,.
| The appointment of Leonard A..
Rcsing OF Cannon Falls to position
on the board of control has been an
! nounced by Governor-elect Johnson.
DR.. i. J. Brabec, we'll known ply
E1clan OF Perham, has been indicted
by the grand jury at Fergus Falls on
! the charge of desecrating an Indian
grave.
| George Elmquist was accidentally
shot by his brother, Reuben, at Marine
while they, with several other boys,
were at target practice. The wound
Is serious.
| While the office OF the Omaha sta
ton at st. James was left unguarded
for moment at night thief entered,
pried off the money drawer and carried
ut away. It contained about $40.
Mrs. Anna Johnson Of Duluth lespea
into Lake Superior. Her husband, O.
! II. Johnson, rescued her, and she later
was adjudged insane and was cim-
mitted to the Fergus Falls insane hos
pital
| May Mead, nineteen-year-old girl
known in st. Paul resorts as Grace
Livingstone, died in the police ambu-
lance on the way to the city hospital
from an overdose of morphine She
! had quarrelled with her lover.
Bemidji was visited by the most dis
astrous fire in its history last week
It broke out in the Swedeback block
and entailed loss of $4,000. The
fire started in the basement from boil
ers and spread rapidly through the
structure.
Miners in the employ OF the Kill
lorin- -Philbin stripping operations at
| Chisholm to the number OF 125 laid
down their shovels and refused to
work longer unless they were granted
increase in pay from SITS to 81. The
advance was denied. I"
| Bscause his sweetheart, Mrs. J. e.
Gordon, wast paying more attention
to his friend, William Daley than he
thought to be absolutely necessary,
old, committed suicide by drinking
carbolic acid at Minneapolis
William j. Carver, a .laboring man
forty-nine years Of age. "as found
dead in the rear of a. saie.on at st.
Paul. Death from apoplex:5* was the
verdict given by the deputy coroner.
The man had been drunk for two days
and when found he had been dead; for
hours. s. -
1 The large barn belonging to P. O.
Il1augen, town of Stony Run, was burn
ed to the ground and nineteen head
of. horses and eleven head Of cattle
perished in the flames. He also lost
I 900 bushels of oats and lot of 9TH
er property. He estimates his loss
at $500. -
| The two men who held up q freight
train at MinneOpa Falls last, July and
robbed travelling man named &. P.
LEM, We're convicted of robbery in the
first degree at Mankato. Charles San
ders goes to Saltwater for fourteen
years and eleven months and nThomas
Murray for twelve years and" eleven
months 4
The Starch Land and Live Stock
company of Des Moines, Ia, has pur-
chased 5000 acres of land in the north
western part of Hubbard county. The
company Immediately will fence $500
acres of the tract, will build large
farm buildings and will stock it with
fancy cattle, blooded sheep and An
CORA goats.
| Miss Ella A. Foote is dead at St.
Barnabas' hospital in Minneapolis aft;
er an illness of several weeks. Miss
Foote was one Of the leading kinder
gartners OF Minneapolis and opened
the first kindergarten under the au-
spices Of the public school in the Sher-
man school, where she taught until
her strength failed her.
Lester, the twelve-year-old sol Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Sheratt Of Like
| Itasca, met with a peculiar accident
while driving on the road between the
schoolhouse and his home. He was
thrown from the wagon by the; dash.
boards collapse, and the front, wheel
of the vehicle passed over his body,
causing almost instant death.
Fire at Minneapolis destroyed the
| old Hill building, owned by President
J. J. Hill of the Great Northern rail
road, and occupied by three firms, in
| curing a total loss of 100000. The
Kellogg, Mckay, Cameron company
lose $4,000; Wyman-Partridge, whole.
sale dry goods, $4,000; National Nov
city company, $4,000; building, s20,
I 00N
Daniel and Alvin Hall, brothers, of
Manchester township, near Albert Lea,
became Victims of the deadly shred
der within a short space of time, Dan
iel got his right hand into the shred
| der and lost his index finger His
| brother Alvin then took his place and
| in a few minutes his right hand was
in the cogs and his middle finger and
part OF another were torn away.
Seventy-fiye prominent business
men of Minneapolis met with the
! members of the flernspin county
house and senate delegations at din:
| ner given at the Nix oiiet hotel Satur-
day night and enthusiastically in
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! ate. Y .,!t,i II l. ~ c5cd by Noses
E. Clapp OIL. March 4 Of I2xt year, l.
| "A destructive fire. visited South
Saltwater last week. It started in the
| kitchen Of the South Saltwater hotel,