Mower County transcript., 1906-10-03
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EVENTS OF EEK TllRo Ugh
UTsTliE s TAI
Official returnsa shoN that Congress-
man cCleary was renominate In the
Second district BY d mai ajority OF s32s
After five years as a EVE town the
sWillnaar city council has granted y rs
censes to four saloons he license
was fixed at 81 500 a year 1s=
Charles Jackson, colored, aged sixty B
one, was found dead IN his cell in the !.
Saltwater prison. early Friday morn
ing. Heart disease was the cause.
Assessed valuation Of stocks Of
wholesale merchants in Minneapolis
was reduced 10 per cent, or $472,429,
by thestate board of equalization. SIS
The Minneapolis chamber of: COM
merce has decided to establish "ealp'
board, or special market, for the pur-
chase and sale Of grain ITO arrive, Z, $.<E'
T. Harry Gruber, clerk in the employ
of August Berg, a Minneapolis grocer,
is missing; also $210 in cash that %Gru,,
ber was given to deposit in the bank.
G.. a." Lindbergh''s majority over4:C.s
B: Buckman in the Sixth congressional
district was 1,311, several hundred
more than supposed from the early re-
turns. - y =
l. Tom Halverson, sixty years old, a
patient at the Walker hospital, cut his
throat, death resulting instantaneously
He was: suffering from chronic rheu-5
matism * .,.-.- ~.s.
William Lee, pioneer merchant of
st. Paul and for four years postmas-@
ter, is seriously i'll at his home CT
heart trouble Mr.. Lee is eighty-four
years old.
The official count shows that Mayor
Jones was renominated for that posi-
tion by Minneapolis Republicans by a
majority of 500, the vote standing
Jones 17,4S5, Williams 1886. 81
Attorney General Young has decided
to force, the issue of the right of the
state to assess for taxation the intangi-
BILE property and the Minnesota fran
ch1ses OF foreign corporations.
Ernest Boesch, eighteen years old,
was killed at Granada by being crushed
under wagon On which he was rid
Ing and which upset. He was en-
ployed in driving for threshing out
At.
John NJ. Gilman, one of the oldest
and most distinguished lawyers in St.
Paul, died at St. Joseph's hospital as
the result of fall sustained a day or'
two before. He was eishty-three years
Of age.
The state board of equalization has
fixed valuation on all the property
OF the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany in Minnesota at $1,25O,oOO. This
is an increase of $250,000 over that
fixed by the state board year ago.
Hans Fredrickson, eighty-one years
old, who lived with his wife on a farm
near Santiago, Sherburne county, was
found dead on his knees by the side
of his bed. Around his neck was a
rope, the other end of which was tied
to an overhead beam.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to rob the State bank at Carlos, seven
miles north of Alexandria. The oper-
ators cut through brick wall into the
vault and used nitroglycerin on the
safe. The door to the safe was only
partially destroyed. No money was
secured.
The Minnesota Shippers and Receiv-
ers' association, the organization
which has been carrying on the fight
for reduced railroad rates, is going
into politics this fall to the extent of
putting candidates on record as TO
their stand on the railroad question
and allied subjects.
The local committee in charge of
arrangements for the convention of
the Upper Mississippi River Improve
ment association to be held in Mime
apolis Oct 9 and 10 has received &C.
certances from large number of the
members of congress and other men
of prominence who have been invited
to attend.
It is apparent that Rock county will
be swept clean of it's hogs before win
ter sets in by hog cholera, which de-
veloped about month ago. The loss
thus far has been frightfully heavy, it
being conservatively estimated that
between 5000 and 5000 hogs have
died and that the financial loss ex-
ceeds $4,000.
Iron mine properties have been
boosted Is per cent by the state board
of equalization. This means ralse
of $10,000,000 over the figures returned
by the county boards and $30,0O0,000
over the assessment values placed on
the properties last year. The valua-
tion of the. properties now will be
about s72,ooQ,ooo. .. >: Il
The state authorities have deter
mined tn ascnrtain tn a nonnd inst