Mower County transcript., 1907-03-13
NEWS IN MIN NES()TA
EVENTS OF 4 WEEK THROUGH
OUT THE STATE.

hlILSOn county, Is dead.
S. s. Drake. an old settler and prom
1nent business man Of Echo, dropped
dead while standing in the door Of his
harness shop. ssa1
Secretary Of War Taft has definitely
accepted the invitation to deliver the.
commencement day oration at Mime
sofa university June 13.
Mrs. Herman Leudtke, aged seventy
eight, committed suicide by drinking
carbolic acid while standing beside
the grave of her husband in Crystal
Lake cemetery, Minneapolis.
William Magnivny, secretary of the
Sioux City Stock Yards company, has
been appointed president Of the South
st. Paul Stock Yards company to sue
ceed the late General M. D. Flower.
Plans for reconstruction Of the
West hotel at Minneapolis are now in
preparation and the extent of the
work projected may be inferred from
the estimated cost, which is $4,000
Joseph Burial committed suicide at
the Steele county poor farm at Owa-
tonna by hanging. Burial was about
seventy-six years old and had been an
inmate of the poorhouse for some
years.
The three-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Keuthe of Pickerel
Lake, near Albert Lea, accidentally
got hold of some medicine prepared
for her mother and ate part OF it and
died in great agony before antidotes
could be administered. -.
BY decision of the state supreme
court the firm of j. E. Wells & Co. OF
Minneapolis is estOpped from posting
in its place of business any quota
tions originating ON the floor of the
Minneapolis chamber of commerce.
The firm is not member of the cham
ber
Thomas Foley, vice president of
Foley Bros. & Kelly, wholesale gro
GERS of ST. Paul, known throughout
the Northwest and over Canada from
Quebec to Vancouver as member OF
the firm of Foley Bros, railroad con-
tractors, is dead at st. Paul, aged
siXty-six
The Mankato city council has passed
resolution limiting the number OF
saloons to twenty-eight, the number
now existing. Several years ago
there were thirty-three saloons VITA
the. same license fee, $1,000, but while
all other lines of business have in
creased this one has fallen off.
Construction On the extension of
the Minnesota and International from
Big Falls to International Falls is be,
ing pushed and it is estimated by
those in. position to know that 80
per cent of the grading will be COM.
pleted by March 20. The prospect is
that trains will be running over the
road by July 4.
While his mother was sWaeDing
snow off the porch not twenty feet
distant from her child little Albert
Rinehart, the fourteen-months-ol sou
of Albert Rinehart of Minneapolis
took several pills containing bella
donna and strychnine. The dose
proved fatal despite the efforts of tho
Iamlly physician.
Walter Murphy, nineteen years DID,
was accidentally killed while at work
on farm near Pipesto:le. The acci
dent was the result of the breaking
of a tumbling rod which connected a
feed mill with the power. A piece CT
the rod was hurled through the aii'
and struck young Murphy on tae
head, crushing his skull.
The thirty-two railroads operating
in Minnesota will pay into the state
treasury in taxes for 1906 the sum OF
$780, O,881.14, an increase of S374,-
204.20 over 1905. The total gross earn.
ings for the roads in 1906 was $751;
741, 1,S48.03, while the total earnings III
1905 were $75,391, ,924.S3, making an
increase for 1906 of s9,249, ,92s.20.
Sewage in the artesian well which
supplies the whole school with water
for both drinking and cooking is the
cause of the mysterious malady which
has been epidemic at the state agric i.
tural school at st. Anthony Park >f3r
the last three weeks to such an extent
as almost to bring work to standsti?l
The source of the trouble has been
located by the state board Of heat.
w. l.. Hixon and H. b. Hance OF
Mankato have returned from the Easf
where they arranged for the financing
of the Mankato Traction company,
which is to be organized this month
to build an electric street RAILWAY in
that city. Chicago and Milwaukee cap:
italists have agreed to carry the con
struction of the read through pro.
vided that about $4,000 in preferred
stock is placed among the citizens OF
Mankato.
P M. Ringdahl, chairman Of the
state board Of control, has fled
charges CT malfeasance in office
against Sheriff Alexander 3. Biddell
4 of Cass county Mr. hinSdahl alleges
in his complaint that Sheriff Biddel]
!. made false reports CT expenses in.
! Cured while in the performance oi
I his duties in removing prisoners from
+ Walker, Cass county. to the reforma.