Mower County transcript., 1905-08-23
NEWS in MI NNEsOTI''A! / i /!
FFt.".z .
EVENTS OF 4 WEEK THROUGH
OUT THE STATE,

w. P. Jewett, q prominent Mime.
sofa pioneer. is dead at St. Paul,
Carbolic acid taken with suicidal in.
tent caused the death of Gust Swan.
son at Minneapolis.
Mrs. Godfrey label, an old resident
OF the town Of Alton, WASHINGTON
county, is dead, aged eighty-seven
years.
w. J. Loeb, private secretary to
President Roosevelt, spent Saturday
In st. Paul on his return from q
months sojourn in Yellowstone park.
Official figures completed by the
state census bureau give Minnesota q
total OF 1,9S4,453 inhabitants: The
count by the federal bureau in 1900
gave Minnesota 1,751,394.
The Home Protective league of Min.
neapolls has inaugurated a wholesale
crusade against saloonkeepers who
have been keeping their places of
business open on Sunday.
Lester B. Elwood of Minneano]is
has been appointed a member of the
state board of equalization by Gov.
ernor johnson to succeed Titus Ma.
reck OF the same city, who resigned.
Alfred A. Buck, former cashier of
the Mapleton State bank, who was re-
Gently brought to Mankato from the
; Isle OF Pines charged with embezzle-
ment, has been released on $4,000
bail.
Eugene M. Pike of Minneapolis is
dead as the result of a mosquito bite
received at lake resort. He was a
we'll known retail druggist and had
resided in Minneapolis for over TWEEN,
ty years.
BY vote of 4 to l the state board
OF investment refused to pass resolu-
ton providing for the sale of $2,145,.
0OO worth of Virginia state bonds, as
proposed by State Treasurer Julius
Fl. Block.
Rev. C. Lindell, pastor of the Swed.
1sh Lutheran church at Vasa fell dead
In q drug store at Red Wing while on
his way to Chicago to attend the fu.
neral of his daughter, who had died
in New Mexico OF consumption
At a meeting of the state timber
board it was decided to hold a sale
OF state timber at the capitol in ST.
Paul, Oct. II, at 10 a. m. All such
state timber as seems in danger OF
destruction will be offered for sale.
The city council of Fergus Falls has
decided to call special election to
vote ON the question of issuing bonds
to the extent of $4,000, or so much
thereof as may be necessary to buy
the present waterworks plant or con-
struct new city system.
Mrs. Emily Hortenbach, ffty-one
years old, wife of Robert e. Horten-
bach, proprietor of Minneapolis
creamery, while laboring under the
. delusion that some one was seeking
her life and was about to kill her,
took fatal potion of carbolic acid.
Edward II. Selle, bookkeeper in the
German bank of Freeport, Ill.,, arrive d
at the Merchants hotel in St. Paul
last week after a walk of 32S miles.
His walk was taken purely as a vaca-
tion outing. During the tour, whic h
took him ten days, he made an aver
age of thirty-two miles a day.
Work on the Red River Lumber
company's logging railroad runnin g
into the dense pines northwest Of
Akeley is being rapidly pushed by a
large crew of men. The company is
also building several sets of camps
1t is estimated that about 100000 500
feet of timber will be reached by i'le
new line.
About 200 veterans from Minnecl ia
will attend the thirty-ninth national
encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic, which will be held at
Denver the week beginning Sept. T..
Besides the soldiers there will be
their relatives, which will make nearly
grand reunion.
It is probable that the state board
of control will soon make a general
revision of salaries of employees at the
state institutions. The present pay
roll was arranged two or three years
dSO dAu ~ Ald1y CACCpAIOAo udVS UCCA
made in individual instances since
that time that a general revision is
thought necessary.
Sylvester Milton, son of Mrs. NJ.
Milton of Winona, met a shocking
death at the Biesanz stone quarry at
Minnesota City. He had been set to
work pulling up slack ropes in the
derrick when one of the ropes caught
and he was jerked up into the air
nearly fifty feet, falling on his head
aud fracturing his skull.
On the ground that the machinery
of the state should not be utilized to
collect a debt Governor Johnson has
revoked his warrant for the extradi-
ton of Oscar E., Serum from Winona,
this state, to Grand Rapids, Mich,
where he is wanted on q charge of
removing furniture from the state
which he had purchased on the in
stallment plan.
The state is not entitled to interest
on delinquent taxes collected from