Mower County transcript., 1906-03-28
] NEWS N ES l)IA'
1VENfs Ko3,aeftsif1s'
OF il THE STATE.

OUT THE TATE sS
Alfred scheffer a prominent st.
1 Paul business man. IS dead, aged forty.
six. sss8 s 5Sa
Louis SchiEing, city clerk Of New
IIlm Tor twenty years, is dead, aged
seventy one years. sssss sssi
dozen cases of smallpox have
1 been found at Eagle Lake small VIII
i t1age just outside Mankato ~ ~; I5ss.
Hamline university is to have a
i 100000 Carnegie library as seon as it
raises an endowment Of sac, 900 for its
maintenance. U.
W. Connolly q merchant of Ben:
son, was found dead in his bed in the
Grand Central hotel In st. Paul from
accidental gas poisoning. &.
William Priebe, twenty-one years
old, living one mile north Of High
wood. a st. Paul suburb, was killed
instantly by a falling tree Iz.
I H. G. Coykendall, for more than
! twenty years a resident of Merriam
Park, ST.. Paul, and one of the veteran
railroad builders Of the Northwest; is
Edead. 81. ~ : s5.: ,..z 3
! Charles A. Elmendorf, for ten years
Twin City manager Of the W.. W. KIM
ball Piano company and one of the
most prominent: piano men of the
Northwest, is dead at Minneapolis. ES:%
Erin Dunlap, a pioneer of Minnesota,
is dead at Duluth at the age Of sixty.
six. He served throughout the Civil
war as orderly sergeant Of CenapahY
Of the Forty-third volunteer infantry.
Charles Peterson, switchman in
the employ of the Northern iRacife
Railroad company, Slipped and fell un-
der a switch engine Sunday at Min
neapolis and was run over and killed.
| A bill has been introduced by Rep
resentative Fletcher providing for the
erection at Fort Smelling of an armory
and arsenal, the plant to manufacture
and supply small arms to the troops
in the Northwest. as
Henry w. Wheeler, a wealthy real
estate owner of Duluth, Is dead at the
age of eighty-fve. He had been a resi-
dent of Duluth for fifty-one years and
was closely identified with the early
growth Of the city.
By the will Of the late BARNARD
Meyer of Mankato, who died during
the winter at the age of ninety-seven
years, all OF HIS property, with small
l lIAwoAnfinvo xS.S11 to %ho
olic institutions. in that city.
Suit has>been brought by, the state,
against the Western Union Telegraph
company to recover the balance al
legged to bs due on the taxes for the
yssrs 1901. 1902, 1903 and 1904,
amounting in the aggregate to tas,-
ss1.39. -" .>~- =. ! aeS'
L At 4 meeting OF the Minneapolis
Team Owners union,it was decided to
faises the scale for teams for: the Yearl
laser. The rates will be 800 per.
month for sprint king carts and gar
lbags wagons and so cents an hour ssSs4
day work. -: ..~.,.,>: '''..>*. r
Representatives Stevens, Volstead
and Davis appeared before the house
committee on claims last week and
made arguments in support of the
claim OF Minnesota for reimbursement
for expenses, incurred in connection
With Indian uprisings in the state:
A note of iss.ls was flled with the
saeTk of the Hsnnepin: county district
seurt Saturday In the case of Grace:
Hayward Ferris against Richard Fer
ris. the we'll known actor. The plead
ings have not been filed and the attor-:
neys refuse to make pubIte the grta1nds
tor the divorce prayed for. - -
The Great Northern and the North
ern Pacific have made an agreement
whereby they willsuse Jointly their
tracks on the east side OF the MIssis-
sippi between St. Paul and st, Cloud.
This will give the roads double track
service befween the two points. Tor
the two tracks are parallel all the way
A four -Jear-old son of Emit Asp Of
South Sti1lwatek was burned to death
and the frame dwelling of the family
burned to the ground late Thursday
afternoon. The boys mother was sc.
yerely burned about the face and her
hair was burned OF In an attempt to
enter the door Of the flaming building
to rescue the child. = = '.7f'.s>
Articles OF incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state by the:
Willmar Peat~~Fuel company, which
was organized in W1illmar last week,
with a capital STOCK OF $4,000. The
com .oany is making pr aa-7aTatlons to
erect a factory near t-A peat hogs.
about two miles south q. WTillrnar, for
the f2es CT reca. 49,
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:sss.>s The City Election: ! *.::. ::=s-:,