Mower County transcript., 1905-11-01

sgf4 snow 10 Ia 8QepIn or three inches fell
at st. Paul and vicinity Sunday, being
the first snow storm Of the season. s
The nineteenth annual meeting Of
the Southern Minnesota Teachers as
sociation was held at Mankato last
week. Fully 300 teachers were pres
ent. ss. IN. s f S355 IS & & &f
Ten heavily loaded cars were ditched
and demolished in a freight wreck on
the Northern Pacific.nea Fergus Falls.
No one was hurt but traffic was sus-
pended. \. x T5<s'#* v III
The announcement is made that Sen.
ator 3. B. Hawkins of Biwabik, st.
Louis county, will be in the race for
the Republican nomination for lieuten-
ant governor. r.. %<ss =. 49,. .. .!E.s
A pair OF Strong arm robbers held
up John Watson at o'clock in the
evening within half a block of the
West hotel, Minneapolis, and took all
Of his money. - 5.~. -,- :
A lone highwayman attempted to
hold up the saloon of John Westerdahl
at Minneapolis last week, but was
frightened away by the bartender,
John Alsta, with hammer.
Minneapolis millers have shipped
2,011, ,523 barrels of flour since Sept.
25, which is an average of 1896 for
each business day and the high record
for any equally long period
A score of hogs and steers were
killed in a wreck in the Great North
ern yards at St. Paul and seven stock
cars were piled in heap. The wreck
was due to the breaking of a coupling.
John Hoiien of Dennison, Goodhue
county, thirty years old, was
run down and killed by Great West
ern train near Randolph. The mans
mangled body was found by section
hand.
A movement is on foot to array the
powerful interests of the Minneapolis
chamber of commerce in opposition to
the Esch-Townsend bill for the regula-
tion Of freight rates by the federal
government
Edward Bennett. a clerk in the. EN-
ploy OF the Northern Pacific Express
company at St. Paul, has been arrested
for attempting to influence a juror in a
suit for damages against the St. Paul
City Railway company.
Broken in health and mind through
grief at the death of his only daughter
Robert G. Agnew, long time resident
OF Minneapolis, committed suicide
some time Thursday evening or night
by hanging himself from a rafter in a
vacant barn. j.. -.
A man named Amundson was run
over by an engine and Instantly killed
while working with a threshing crew
on farm near Gary. He was stretch
ing the belt, when it broke and the
engine ran backward, the drivewheeis
passing over his body.
The state board of control has
awarded contracts for 1926 barrels Of
-four, the total supply for state insttr-
tions for the nine months which will
end July l., 1906. The exact cc9trcc t
price Is not made public, but it is sp.
proximately 81 per barrel.
NV VI AoA OCuuOCu Wlll t'lOUIt!iN re-
move from Office Sheriff Charles *.
Erickson of Roseau count as The re.
suit of charges preferred by the sher-
ifs father, Eric Erickson. Erickson
charges his son, the sheriff, with being
an habitual drunkard and is frequently
1ncapacitated for work for several days
at time.
The state fair management has set.
tied with Frank Sebenthal of Eau
Claire, Wis, who was badly hurt by
falling from Ferris wheel, by paying
him $4,000 in full settlement of all
claims both for his own injuries and
1or the death of Mrs. Sebenthal, who
was killed. Sebenthal has recovered
from his injuries.
According to figures compiled by the
state census bureau half the people
living In st. Paul are natives of the
state. Twenty-eight and four-f1fths per
cent are foreign born. The remainder,
Fl 1-5 per cent, were born in some
other state of the Union. The figures
for Minneapolis are 90 1-3 per cent for
eign, Al 1-3 per cent are natives of the
state and rs Is of some other state.
Peter August Eklund, who was re.
Gently arrested in London on his con.
fession that he had embezzled $11 900
from the Clay County Land company,
will not be allowed to go unpublished.
Governor Johnson has notified Elihu
Root, secretary of state, that the Clay
county officials are ready to proceed
against Eklund and wished him held.
County Auditor Eid, who claims he is
out $500 through Eklunds misdeeds,
has sworn to the complaint
E. S. Cary, attorney for C. D. Craw-
ford, the Elk River boxcar murderer
condemned to death and refused new
trial by the state supreme court, has
announced that he will ask the racdon
board Tor a communication of sentence
for the condemned man. The pardon
board does. not meet regularly, how