Mower County transcript., 1906-01-24
Thursday, Jan. 18.

thursday, jail. 10.
\ The Tri-State Grain and Stockgrow-
ers convention is being held at Fargo,
N. D. -
Hugh S. I'uohy, the Oldest clerk in
the treasury department at Washing
ton, 10 dead. He had been in the
treasury forty-four years.
:: It is announced that the exports of
Germany to the United States during
the year Of 1905 amounted to 1925
724,321, an increase of $14,4s4 ,096.
The engineers and firemen on the
Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio
systems, it is reported. are dissatis.
fed with their pay. 1t is said they
are preparing to ask for an increase
Joseph Brennan, an actor, was shot
and probably fatally wounded at Chi
~cago in quarrel with Michael ].
Walsh also an actor. Walsh s11rren.
dered to the police. He says. he acted
in self-defense.
Friday, Jan. 19.
a. DR.. Swan NJ. Burnett, a noted ocu-
list of Washing ton and the former
husband OF Mrs. Frances HQdgson
Burnett, the anthoress, died suddenly
of heart disease. :>as4,a ..sass sa,a =!
The directors of the Amalgamated
Copper company have declared a
quarterly dividend OF ~ per cent
The two previous quarterly dividends
were of Ia per cent each. =
The Christian home for orphans OF
Council Bluffs, Ia, has received s45:
900 in cash as the proceeds Of Il be-
quest made several years ago by Mrs
Mary E. Robinson of Sheboygan, Wis
49, Mrs. Elizabeth Aiken, eighty-nine
years old, famous nurse in the Civ;
war and Familiarity known to GraA.'
Army veterans throughout the count::,
as Aunt Lizzie," is dead at Chicag 60
l.. Eighty volumes containing the sis.
natures, of American women who ,'+
Sire to, see Senator: Reed Smoot %:
Utah ousted~ from the United States
senate will be sent to Washington
from New York this week.
- Saturday, Jan. 20. -,
R. B. Kieren, who held the world s
swimming championship. is dead in
Australia. ~,.>| H. r
Rev. l.. G. Atkinson, D. D., president
of Cannon. Methodist Episcopal The
illogical seminary of Atlanta. Ca; is
dead >, 4&:S.
Il General Bartolome Mitre, former
president of the Argentine Republic
Is dead at Buenos Ayres Genera
Mitre was eighty-three years Old.
The senate committee on territorie:
has ordered q. favorable report on
Senator Nelson's bill providing for 4
delegate in congress from Alaska.
That Viola Allen, the actress, ha;
been the wife of Peter Duryea. a well
known horse owner since last August
has just became known. MR.. Duryea
and Miss Allen were married at Louis.
Vile, Ky, Aug. 16 last. y S*
+. r. ..z. WI .1:s Mondsy,%Jan: 22.
The last of the six bodies .,n:~i~1 wv
the snowslide al Alta Uta;l. i:,i<!l>
night, has been recovered 4
"a: Sir John Percy Miller, bart, forty
one years old, who was well known in
racing and military circles. is dead in
/ Lond on. ( ss SIS. .s b.
n Harvey B. Hurd, for many years a
prominent attorney of Chicago ard
the author of number of legal text
books. is dead. !. .5..G... G....
Mrs John W. Cook is dead and four
other persons are injured as.the. result
of an explosion Of acetYline gas at tAe
Cook home near. r RichE1ond, Ind.
It is said that the schedules win be
80 arranged that there will be no
champ pipnship in the future amons
iootbal teams Of the Middle West. 4
Jospeh sitnian lis dead at. Greens
burg, 7, as q result OF injuries said
I 20 have been received at the hands oi
shazers at Jefferson Military college at
Natchez, Miss.