Mower County transcript., 1906-10-24
NEWS TN Nc NNESOT'l[A
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH
OUT THE STATE.

I II. J.SMendennall, a president of Min
neapolis since 1856, is. dead, -.
Mrs. Marie Langford Spencer a pio-
neer resident Of st. Paul, is dead, aged
/ seventy-seven.
Edward Mcdonald, thirteen years
old, was run into and killed by q
street car at Minneapolis, IS
The National Association of Fire
Insurance Agents will hold it's 1907
annual meeting in St., Paul.
Hiram Luce, sixty.seven years old,
a resident of Rochester for forty-eight
years, was found dead in bed:' T.:
d. c.. Calhoun, one of the best
known attorneys in Stearns county,
is dead at st. Cloud, aged >f1fty-five.
Florence Murphy, aged nine, is dead
at St.: Paul as the result of injuries
sustained while playing near bon
fire.
Mary Kuester, seven years old, fell
from the viaduct crossing the North
ern Pacific railroad tracks at St: Paul
and was fatally injured. -.:.-
Alfonso Gooding, popularity called
the grand old man of Rochester," is
dead in that city Of diabetes at the
age of seventy-seven years.
Cracksmen entered the store Of Hall
Bros. at Burtrum, west of Little Falls,
and blew the door off the safe, secur-
ing about $50 in cash and notes.
Thomas A. Floody has been given
a verdict of $4,000 in the Ramsey
county district court against the
Omaha road for the loss of a leg.
Frank Happier, aged thirty-one, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Christian Happier,
residing few miles south of Still
water, met death in a runaway acci-
dent.
According to commission men the
prices of eggs this season are bound
to rise higher than ever and the an
nual boosting of prices will break all
records.
Patrick May, aged sixty-three, night
elevator operator at the Pioneer Press
building, st. Paul, committed suicide
by shooting. Ill health is the sup.
posed cause.
Duluth's population, according to
the new city directory's estimate, is
80,305, as compared with 1922 year
ago at this time, gain of 5,041 in
twelve months.
The survey of the Duluth, Rainy
Lake and Winnipeg, formerly known
as the Duluth, Virginia and Rainy
Lake railroad, has been completed
into Duluth. It follows almost an air
line between Duluth and Virginia.
Wholesale naturalization frauds
practiced in the Hennepin county dis.
trict court for political purposes are
alleged to have been discovered All
I evidence has been turned over to the
federal authorities and thorough in.
vestigation is under way
Henry Hines, a negro resident Of
Minneapolis, last week killed three
full grown timber wolves with club
in the Shevlin-Carpenter lumber yard
in the center of the Mill City's manu-
featuring district. He collected $3.50
from the city clerk for his trouble.
The baby daughter of Mrs. Stella
Brennan of Minneapolis, who is serv.
ing life term in Saltwater prison
for the murder of her stepchildren.
has left the prison in charge of Mrs.
Owens Of Pearl, Mich, the mother Of
Mrs. Brennan, who has agreed to
bring up the child.
A meeting of the business men OF
Roseau, Badger, Greenbush and other
nearby towns has been called to dis.
cuss ways and means to raise money
to finance an electric railway which it
is proposed to build from Roseau to
Karlstad, a station on the Winnipeg
line. The distance is about forty
miles.
The United States Steel corporation
has eight prospecting drills at work
on the Guyana range within three
miles of Brainerd and also at Rabbit
Lake, on the same range Two leases
are reported from the town of Klon.
dixie, guaranteeing 10 cents a ton roy:
atty on an output of not less than
10000 tons year.
The supreme court holds that no.
tice from the parents to. the saloon.
keeper is not. necessary in order to
make it n1isdemearor for him to sell
liquor to minors, although there is a
provision to that effect in the new
code and although the general prohibi.
tion against the sale OF liquors carries
with it no express penalties.
An opinion by the state supreme
court af1rms the order Of the Ramsey
county court awarding Edward Parker
$50 for his dog, which was killed by
street car at st. Paul last spring.
the opinion the court says. that ev
dence was given to show that NO
tempt was made to check the spec
of the car or to give signal by whisY
tie or bell.
The United States district attorney,