Mower County transcript., 1906-10-10
NEWS TN MINI N]ESO!TAl.. A.
|EvENTs OF "A WEEK THROUGH.
y OUT THE STATE.

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Mrs. Thomas Reynolds, twenty-four
years old, ended her life with revol-
YER at ST. Paul while suffering from
melancholfa. ..nshf
| In round numbers Hennepin county
has on record over 5000. divorce de-
crees which have been granted within
the past twenty years.
The receipts at the st. Paul post
office for September were $80,21020,
as against $69,59S54 for September,
1906, gain Of $10,620.66.
An increase of $26,61O,792 over the
I returns of the county boards has been
made by the state board of equaliza-
tion on the real estate of the state.
The Minnesota university football
team will meet its first opponent OF
, the year Oct a., when the heavy
Ames Qa.) team will play at Mime.
apolis.
Ninety-eight persons lost their lives
In Minnesota's iron mines during the
year ending June 80, 1905, according
to the first annual report of Mine In
spector w. H. Harvey.
The state board of equalization
wound up it's 1906 session by adding
32,477,154 to the assessments of five
public service corporations of Mime
apolis, St. Paul and Duluth.
The "lid' is on at Owatonna with a
vengeance. 1t not only affects saloons
and other places of business but
youths under eighteen are warned that
cigarette smoking will result in their
prosecution.
John Mingo, blacksmith, was
found dead in the barber shop of H.
G. Dege, st. Paul. He had adjusted
cord to the top of door, made loop
at the other end of the string and
strangled himself.
Colonel Roscoe F. Hersey, for near
ly forty years resident of Minnesota,
died suddenly in Bangor, Me. Colonel
Hersey left st. Paul in July for Ban
gor on business trip and his return
was looked for at any time.
| Hearing his dog making a big noise
in the brush the other evening Oluf
Omild, living near Erie, went out and
fred a couple of shots in the direc-
tion from his Winchester. Next morn
ing he found that he had killed a 900
pound black bear.
At present there are in the Henne-
pin county Jail nine homicide cases,
all of which are to be tried in this
term of court. This is a record which
has never before been equaled in the
part Of the country.
Charles Baum Of West Duluth,
twelve years of age, was run over by a
street car and killed. He was riding
with another boy on delivery wagon
when the car and wagon came into
collision and Baum was thlown out
and fell under the wheels of the car.
Minnesota taxpayers are to be let
off easy during 1907, as they will be
| required to raise only $2,247,5OO to
keep the ship of state in deep water,
which is almost $250,000 less than the
revenue tax of last year. The levy
will be 27S mills, as against 2.O3 mills
last Year.
l. The last thing the state board of
equalization did before adioururI>nt
was to place an additional as:c ssiD NJ t
of $4,000 each on the Aascci'" i
Press franchises owned by the Mi2ne-
apolis Tribune, the minneapolis JoHr-
nal, the St. Paul Pioneer Press and
the St. Paul Dispatch.
The ST. Paul school board has
amended the rules SO as to give the
principal of each school permission 10
inf1ict corporal punishment when other
means fail, provided the principal has
the written permission of the parent
or guardian, and also with the pro-
vision that each case shall be report
ed to the superintendent.
Henry Sussman, accused of the kill
ing of his wife at the Glenwood hotel
in Minneapolis, has been indicted Ey
the Hennepin county grand jury on a
charge of murder in the first Degree
He was taken before Judge Holt in
the criminal branch of the district
court and entered plea of not guilty.
His case was set for Oct. II.
An increase of 5000 in the number
of pupils entitled to apportionment is
noted in the summary of the returns
by the county superintendents to the
state superintendent. For the school
year closing July 81, 1905, there were
in this statez37S,246 children attending
school at least forty days and the pre-
vioUs Year there. were 375,166.
The biennial report of Warden
Wolfer of the Minnesota state prison,
just issued, shows that the net profit
of the prison tWine plant for Two years
was $40e,452.S7. The state 1ro:1 ,fac-
tured nearly 25,0Qo,00 ponds of
I twine in two years. Warden Wo1:er
says the profits Of the prison for two
years exceeded actual expenses in the
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