Mower County transcript., 1906-01-03
NE q ] \ S s n ES OTA
VENTS OF WEEK THRoUGti.
zz OUT THE STATE.

During the year 1905 nearly 800 per.
sons died of consump mption in Minneap.
oils. e i 81. ~
The building permits at st. Paul for
1905 exceeded those Of 1904 by So:
/ 100000. e. %. a =
n. Mrs. J. =. Spenard, aged thirty:
seven, 3 committed suicide at Duluth
,byahanging. Il j. ..z@
e. Charles w. Jellison, well known
resident Of Saltwater for more than
fifty years, is dead. >.> .".: .s2-..-
The lumber cut of 1905 for the Min.
) neapolis district will be. about 1e, ,G09,
0005fee below that of last year, ~
@ Mrs, Josephine Bruski, aged eighty.
five years, dropped dead on. the stree,
at Winona while on her way to churc h
Z Henry Hanke has been elected treas
urer of Hennepin county to serve out
the late Colonel C. w. Johnson's unex.
pired term. .,5
= Granville Pearson, one of the pionee,,
residents Of Goodhue county, is dea l
He served several terms in the state
+ legislature and was prominent. par
ticularly in Swedish circles.
John R. Martin, until two weeks a~c
a collector for the Minneapolis Milk
company, is under arrest in Chicasc
on the \charge of embezzling $1,000
from the Minneapolis concern.
Lizzie Stephenson, who was EN-
ployed as maid in the women's ward
at st. Lukc's hospital in St. Paul, was
instantly killed while trying to operate
the freight elevator at the hospital.
The executive committee of the
American Par association met at Chi
cago last week and decided to ho:l
the next annual meeting of the assc
F. citation in St. Paul the last week in
August
Friends Of Congressman James A
TaWney rendered him a Reception anG
banquet at Winona in appreciation O!
his appointment as chairman of the
appropriations committee of the house
Of representatives. 4
An old man who refused to give his
name but said that his home is now ii
Wisconsin called on Mrs. P. F. Boysen
OF Winona last week and gave her s.
which he said would pay board bi!
he jumped thirty years ago. -
The Northwestern Telephone com
pany has reported to the state auditor
gross earnings in Minnesota for the
year ending Nov. 80 of $1,032, ,492. Sc
The company pays per cent tax o.
this, amounting to $30,974.77.
At the town of Corliss, Otter Tai
county, a little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Bohlke fell into a pail /ol
boiling wafer which the mother had
left On the floor. The child lived to:
about three hours after the accident
and suffered untold agony.
The state railroad and warehouse
commission Of Minnesota is to begin
a systematic investigation of all rail
road companies doing business in Min
nesota with a view to determining
whether any rebates or special favor.
of any kind have been granted to ship
pers.
The date for the hanging of William
Williams, the ST. Paul murderer, viii.
not be fixed by Governor Johnson uni
after the meeting of the state pardon
board Jan. 9. An appeal is being pre-
pared by Williams attorneys for 8
communication of sentence and this will
be filed with the board within a day
or two.
J. W. & F. T.. Peterson, importers
and dealers in blooded stations, 10
Gated near Litchfeld, suffered a heav,
loss by fire. Their big barn, valued a;
< 81 900, was burned to the ground anG
: stations valued at $500 were ere
; mated, together with a few cattle, be
: sides 1000 bushels of grain and sixty
tons of hay. ~ ..
Leon J. Rafdal, who has been on
trial at Brainerd charged with man
= Slaughter in the first degree, was
!. found not guilty, by jury. Rafidai
was charged with having caused the
death OF It'd: Merrill, an oldG sofdie,
Of. Todd county, who got into an alter
7: cation with the defendant in a saloon
" Nov. IS over, a, drink. !. i.
+ Superintendent Frank LIZ Randall OF
the state reformatory at st. Cloud has
been, granted an indefinite leave of alb
sence:by the state board2of control or
account of con1pleteS nervous break
downl].which shehas, suffered. Miriam
dali has gone. to Florida and will be
sabsent from the, state for: several
+ months until he has recovered his
health. 49, ''::.Hz.>}=, d
Livingston Quackenbush, the L
Sueur banker WHO was convicted re-
Gently of receiving deposits in his bank
when it was insolvent, applied for a
new trial at lie Sueur Center before
Judge Morrison. The latter denied the
motion and sentenced Quackenbush to
Saltwater for four years: The defend
ant gave notice of an appeal to the
supreme |oI~t and was released C.: