Mower County transcript., 1906-01-17
NEWS j n IS 9 4
!, EVENTS Or WEEK Tt5Ro UGH.
OUT THE STATE.

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..5 Big Eagle, chief ofNthe Sioux natioa.
died last week at his home near Gran
ite Falls. s*s -. ~ 81 ...7 .=
G. n. Cosgroye of LIE, sueur has been
reelected president of. the State Agri-
cultural society T. ~,.@ a.
u DR.. Charles F. McClumpha, head Of
/ the English department of the state
university, has resigned. I'll
Gerhard Wettle, aged : seventy, a
rich farmer residing near Frazee.
committed suicide by hanging. III
r Charles Newton Ruble, son of one
OF the founders Of the city of Albert
Lea, is dead. He was tifty-three wears
of age. = ~ ,- X n:
+ Hon. c. NJ. Sprague of Sauk Center
announces himself a candidate for the
Republican nomination for lieutenant
governor. :.
Moses K. Armstrong, at one: time
speaker of thevterritorial legislature Of
Dakota, is dead at Albert Lea, aged
seventy-three years. ~
John r. Mitchell, president Of the
Winona Deposit bank. and his asso:
c1ate have purchased control of the
Capital bank OF St. Paul.
A highwayman held up the drug
store of Burke Bros.-at Minneapolis,
securing $50 in cash, gold watch
and $40 worth of stamps.
Evan D. Jones, a prominent citizen
and retired business man of Mankato,
dropped dead on the street from heart
failure. He was seventy one years old
Former Municipal Judge Nathaniel
A. Gearheart is dead at Duluth OF
Brights disease. He was sixty.four
years OF age and resided in Duluth
since 1887.
Twenty-eight out Of the seventy-two
employees of the st. Paul water board
were given boosts in their pay as a
New Years present. The aggregate
increase amounts to $2,400.
James R. Bennett, city attorney of
st. Cloud and one of the most prom.
inent lawyers of that part of the state
has disappeared and" nothing has he,u
heard from him for more than a week
While carrying a log of wood across
Grow river on the ice P. Dahlin, a
farmer residing near Cokato, slipped
and fell, striking on his head and
fracturing his skull. Death soon re.
suited.
After an eventful life that spanned
ninety-seven years Mrs. Julia Stilley
Smith, wife of former Minnes2ra
state senator, died at Kettle Falls
Wash. The remains were brought tc
Mankato for interment.
Steps are being taken at Washingto-
to have meeting of the Minnesota
delegation in the near future relative
to the various plans that have been
proposed for draining the lands in the
| northern part of the stste.-
Thirty surviving members of th<
engineering crews that built the North
| ern Pacific road westward from ii:
| Twin Cities to the coast in the earl:
| seventies were present at reunion
held in Minneapolis last week.
! There is a movement on foot to crc
! ate a new county out Of the siytcc1
unorganized townships in the eastern
end OF Norman county, now in r.:
! White Earth Indian reservation. For:
reservation townships in ,Clearwata'
county may also be included.
Carl Bye, freight checker at th<
Minnesota transfer yards, was in
stantly killed by the falling of ;
heavy safe which was being trans
ferred from one car to another. !
| crew of men was at work transfeIrin:
the freight and Bye was assisting.
George w. Cooley, county surye:o
of Hennepin county, has been elev,el
to the new Office Of state engineer i:2t
secretary OF the state highway com
mission. Mr.. Cooley is father Of lh<
State Good Roads association and sur
renders a position worth $4,000 a veal
to take the present one.
The sale of the Duluth, St. Cloud
Glencoe and Mankato road to E. L.
! Tobie & Co. of New York has beer
completed and the purchase none!
paid over. a meeting of the new com
pany will be- held in Chicago in few
days, when the new board of director:
and officers will be chosen.
Two young men engaged in figh1
at billiard room at Duluth and Mich
olas Loallella, aged sixty years, sep
arated them with considerable effort
The aged man three minutes later was
dead, the exertion and excitement
proving too much for him. He tot
tered away from the late combatants
and dropped dead.
The freight movement from Duluth
Superior harbor during 1905 was 22,
676,145 net tons, of a total value OF
! $196, ,584. This is an increase OF
36h per cent over the receipts and
shipments in 1904 and the increase in
valuation is more than $3S,000,G00
The increase in net freight tons for
the barber last year was G9.6 per cent
!; over 1880.
Duluth was unanimously chosen a