Mower County transcript., 1905-04-12

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EVENTS OF. Is WEEK ROUGH
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st, Paul's city council has started a
for lower telephone rates.
Mrs. Mary F. Slough, a resident of
Minneapolis since 1S49, is dead at the
age Of ninety-three.
Sam T. Johnson, former state, pub
lie examiner, is seriously ill at his
home in Minneapolis. *NFsS3 @@''
Richard Hazard, one of the pio-
neer settlers of st. Paul, is. dead,
aged eighty-four years.. -. -
ALBERT Johnson; an old and wealthy
resident of Minneapolis, is dead. He
was seventy-three years of age.
Warren Anderson, four years old,
was killed by a street car at Mime
,apolis while playing in the street.
: ). A. stF. Anderson, seventy-four years
Of age and deaf, was run down and
killed by train at Minneapolis.
The public schools of Butterfeld,
seven miles west of st. James, have
been closed on account of smallpox.
Fred Conroy of Minneapolis, fifteen
years old, while on his way home,
was run down and killed by a street
car. -:
Saltwater retail butchers have be-
gun a movement looking to the es-
tablishment of an independent packing
plant.
Fire at White Bear destroyed S.
Berglund & Co.'s lumber mill and
extensive yard, causing a loss O.!
$4,000.
Joe Miller, a Northern Pacific brake
man, is under arrest at MinneaHc1is
charged with robbing freight cars in
transit.
Frederick Myers, aged sixty, co.n-
mitted suicide at Minneapolis because
he had lost his position as a street
laborer.
Nonunion plumbers are pouring i,to
Minneapolis and the fight between the
master plumbers and the journeymcn
is more bitter than ever.
Henry Fowler, secretary of the Cal
umet Life Insurance company of Chi
cago, died suddenly at the Merchants
hotel, st. Paul, from heart failure
Fred West, sausag agemaker, cut his
throat with a razor in room at the
Fischer hotel, South st. Paul. West
had been on drunk for several days.
Thomas G. Alden, a resident Of St.
Cloud since 1856, at one time sheriff
of Stearns county and for years a
justice of peace, is dead, aged sew
enty-nine years.
The St. Paul Gas Light compaa; =
will lay ten miles of new mains dur
ing the coming summer The mains
will be extensions Of the present sys-
tenn in all directions.
The locks on two doors and two
padlocks on the cetfs in the jail at
Benson were blown off by dynamite
Friday night and D. V. Jennings, an
inmate, made his escape. Outside par
ties did the work.
A jury in the district court at Du.
luth awarded Henry c. Richardson
colored, Judgment in the sum of $21
against r. j. Cook, a restaurant kee2.
er, because a waitress in the latte1'G
employ refused to serve Richardson
to a meal.
Engineer Robert Murray of St. Paul
was killed near Gushing in head-on
collision between the westbound
Northern Pacific express and freight
train. All the enginemen but Murray
jumped, but he stuck to his post and
was killed.
DR.. w. H. Pratt. the city health
officer, reports to the city council
that saltwater is the healthiest city
in the state, the death rate being 8.5
or 4 less rate by three to the thou
sand than in eight of the large cities
Of the state.
New train service on the Green
bush extension, north of Thief River
Falls, MINI :, has: been established by
the Great Northern road. The exten-
sion opens up a new district of great
fertility, the settlement of which be-
gan fully twenty years ago.
In the tenth biennial report of for
mer Dairy and Food COMMISSIONS
Mcconnell, just made public, it is
shown that in two years Minnesota
creameries paid patrons the sum OF
$12,9S8,6S2.21. The time covered is
from Aug. i, 1902, to Aug. 1, 1904.
The Minnesota State Bar associa-
tion, at it's annual meeting in St. Paul
last week, elected A. G. Wilkinson Of
Crookston president, R. G. Brown of
Minneapolis vice president, Charles
w. Farnham of St. Paul secretary
and James D. Scherer of Minneapolis
treasurer.
Governor Johnson has signed the
bill which provides for the taking of
the fifth decennial census of Mime
sofa and Secretary of State Hanson