Mower County transcript., 1905-08-30
NEWS IN MINNESOTA |
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.


Lyon OF minneapolis, was drowned
while wadlng in Bush lake, near the
Mill City.
More than $500,O00 will be spent bv
the city Of Minneapolis during the
year 1906 for new paving, sewers.
curbs and other street improvements
Joseph spiska, aged thirty-eight.
was run over and killed while at-
tempting to board train on the Mil
waukee road in the yards at Minnean.
oils.
John Lundahl, foreman of a crew of
laborers at work near the east end of
the Tenth avenue bridge at Minnean-
oils, was killed by the collapse of a
derrick.
DR.. George R. Koch, the New Ulm
dentist who was acquitted after three
trials of a charge Of killing DR.. J.. A.
Gebhardt, has located permanently in
Minneapolis.
Frank A. Johnston. the bachelor cap-
1talist OF Winona, who has been a
familiar ngure on the streets of that
city for a number of years, is dead,
aged seventy years.
Mlnnesota's population is 1,979,304.
according to the official census figures
announced by George F. Wright. su-
pervisor of the census. This is a gain
Of 22S.410 since 1900.
County Auditor Weaver of Blue
Earth county has forwarded to Brown
county the expense account of the
third Koch trial, which foots up. ex-
elusive of attorney hire, to $4,654.5o.
The date for opening of bids for the
purchase of timber on the White
Earth Indian reservation in this state
has been changed from Sept. to Oct.
to give more time to bidders for
inspection.
Victor Sperra, prominent farmer
living three miles south of Good Thun-
der, was found dead in bed. Death
was due to heart trouble. He was
hfty-nine years old and had lived in
Blue Earth county for thirty years.
Excitement prevails in Lockhart
over the discovery of what appears to
be crude oil floating on pools of water.
AS some coal has been found along
the banks of the Wild Rice river it is
not unlikely that oil will be discovered
in paying quantities.
Labor Commissioner Williams re-
port on child labor is but the opening
gun in q crusade against that class of
labor. AS soon as school begins an
active campaign will be waged, espe-
cially in St. Paul, where the increase
In child labor is alarming.
The state census bureau has an.
nounced the sex classification for Hen
nepin county and it shows 156,535
males to 1921 females, the total
population being 292,806. Ramsey
county has 110,022 males to 96,307
females, total of 206,330.
William Johnson and John Giroux,
both young men, were shot by B. Con-
molly, proprietor Of saloon at St.
Paul, while making an alleged at
tempt to burglarize the saloon. John
son was shot in the calf of the leg
and G1roux was shot in the leg.
The bureau OF plant industry OF the
department of agriculture has en-
ployed E. M. Freeman of the Univer-
sity Of Minnesota to devote his entire
time to the study of rusts of the
cereal crops and grasses. Mr.. Free
man will have his headquarters in
Washington.
George Roberts of Milwaukee lies
at st. Luke's hospital in Duluth with
a fractured skull, the blow being in
ficted by two highwGymen, who at
tackled him on lonely street. He
will probably die. There is no clue
to his assailants, who made of after
robbing him.
Alvin w. Stowell, postmaster at
Lake Alice, has been arrested on the
charge of padding cancellations and
falsifying returns. At his hearing at
Walker bonds were fixed at $500, in
default of which he was taken to the
st. Louis county Jail to await trial
next January.
The secretary of the interior has
ordered the withdrawal from entry of
all the unappropriated public land in
eleven townships in Northern Mime
sofa. The withdrawal is made in the
interest of forest reserve, which is
to be created Immediately north of
the Lake Superior reserve.
The Northwestern League of Munic-
ipalities will convene in Minneapolis
on Sept. rs, q and 28, when from 300
to 500 city officials from all over the
Northwest will convene and discuss
taxation, sewage, street lighting, paw
ing and the score or more kindred
subjects of general interest among
their number
Ole Moen, prominent and wealthy
farmer of the eastern end of Polk
county, was found half mile south
of his farmhouse in grove, his body
blackened and life departed. The case
is mystery to the authorities and it
has not been determined whether foul
play, accident or suicide is RESPONSE
BILE for the mans DEATH
financial statement inst fasned NV