Mower County transcript., 1906-10-31
NEWS IN MINNESO a
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
&. OUT THE STATE. #

] M. Plouf, eighty years of age, was
brutally assaulted and robbed in front
Df his own residence in Minneapolis.
.Leech Lake Indians Saturday re-
teived their annual payment from the
government, the total aggregating
e125,o0o.
Mike and Joe Cantillon have pur-
chased the Minneapolis baseball team.
The price paid is said to be in the
neighborhood of $4,000.
Frank A. Johnson, aged sixteen,
was hit by street car at Minneapolis
land sustained fractured skull His
Injuries are considered fatal.
| Thomas Welch, sixty-three years
old, was killed by train at the rail-
road crossing in Minneapolis where
he had for years been fagman.
A ten-pound daughter has been born
to Mrs. Kataro Nakahara at the St.
Paul city hospital. It is the first Japa-
nese baby ever born in St. Paul.
John c. Ryan, aged sixty-one, st.
Paul blacksmith, was run down by
street car at Minneapolis and sus-
tained injuries which resulted in death
several hours later.
John e. Layne. contractor, tried at
Minneapolis for manslaughter for
causing the death of Henry Steven
son, another contractor, during quar-
rel, has been acquitted.
While hunting at Long lake, near
Grove City, Anton Swanson and Carl
Rosander were tipped into the lake
and the latter was drowned. Swan
son managed to cling to the boat and
was rescued.
A genuine epidemic Of swamp fever
is reported to have broken out among
the horses in the town of Meadows,
fifteen miles west of Fergus Falls.
Eleven of the animals have died and a
great many are sick.
Sun Lee, Chinese laundryman, was
robbed of $115 in Minneapolis Friday
night. Lee left the laundry to deliver
a package and on returning found a
man rifling his trunk. The latter
jumped through window and es-
capped.
One of the most daring burglaries
of the season at Minneapolis occurred
Thursday night when Williams cigar
stand, on the ground floor of the city
hall, not more than fifty feet from po-
lice headquarters, was broken into
and looted.
Six horses and three mules were
shot on the farm of Gibson Bros, just
north of St. James, by the state au-
thorities. The animals were affected
with glanders This is the first case
of glanders in Watonwan~ county in
some years.
W. P. Mason, promoter for the Min
neapolis, Rochester and Dubuque Trac-
tion company, is in Chatfield with a
corps of engineers and surveyors. Mr..
Mason says that there is no doubt that
electric cars will be running through
Chatfeld next summer.
An ore train on the Duluth and Iron
Range at Mile Post As ran over and
killed Frank Lord, an old time woods
man in the employ of Abner Smith. It
is said that Lord undertook to save a
dog from being run over and sacrificed
his own life in the attempt.
Hog cholera has again made an ap-
pearance in WatonWan county and is
| literally reaping down the hogs. 1t
| first made it's appearance near Ma
della and in the short space of two or
three days brought loss Of about
| $4,000 to the farmers Of that CON-
munity. ',.srs*~='sFss:est.>~
DR.. Henry Dixon Jones, formerly
rector Of the Church Of the Messiah,
st. Paul, died suddenly in Portland,
Ore When his wife awoke in the
morning she found him dead in bed.
A physician was summoned and pro-
nounced the cause of death as heart
failure.
John Roehl, carpenter, was killed
! by rapidly moving car at Minneap-
oils. A heavy rain was falling at the
time, which obscured the motoneer's
| vision. Roehl was very deaf and did
not hear the car approaching. His
skull was fractured and he died within
! two hours.
An increase of $S,000,000 over the
! returns of the county boards and an
increase of nearly &20,000,000 over the
! values fixed on personal property by
the state board last year are shown by
the completed figures on the increases
| and decreases ordered by the state
1 board Of equalization this year. The
total value aa determined by the board
is $1s9, 49, ,270. ~ -
! Joseph Smith, whose home is In
Chicago, met warm reception on his
arrival in Minneapolis last week. No
sooner had he stepped of the train at
the Union station than he was robbed
of $13 and while walking to a police
station in company with young man
who had volunteered to show him the
way the guide turned traitor and took
| the rest Of his money.
Believing that Lemuel Hill, an aged
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