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km p.r- !h %.• wrr 3 '•A 5\ •tj" ij'.'jfu-.yl" \i": A NEW RURAL NOVEL Will Deal with Life in Indiana in MexicaA War Time. Booth Tarlclnytton, Noted Hootier Author, la Now rutting Finish ing l'oncbci to It—About to Become a Benedict. Booth Tarkington, of Indianapolis, the well-known author and playwright, is completing the concluding chapters ?f another Indiana ^novel. The new book will make its appear ance in time, the author's friends as sert, to answer a double purpose. It will .come not only at an opportune -time for the publishers, but will not be amiss in assisting the author in furthering his political ambitions. For Booth Tarkington, the author, jexpects to become Booth Tarkington, the politician. Then, in addition, there is a strong rumor going the rounds that Booth Tarkington, the bachelor,,is about to become Booth Tarkington, the bene dict. Mr. Tarkington, however, does not admit this assertion. He will not ij. countenance the rumor. Neither does Mr. Tarkington's family, unless, in truth, the author's mother be except ed. She has been quoted as admitting that the author and the young woman whose name has been linked with that of Mr. Tarkington by the gossips like each other—nothing more. Yet an intimate friend of the Indiana author said only a day or two ago: "Mr. Tarkington is working on the last novel he will write before he is mar ried." "However," as Mr. Tarkington, him self, says, "the rumor does not affect the novel now in hand." As in his first success, says the Chi cago American, the author will return to Indiana for the plot of his story. It will be laid in the city of Terre Haute, where, by the way, the author's father met, wooed and married the au thor's mother, and it will deal almost exclusively with bits of Indiana char acter. Mr. Tarkington considers it his most pretentious and most success ful effort. The book has not 3*et been named— the author insisting on one title, the BOOTH TARKINGTON. Noted Indiana Author Soon to Become a Benedict.) publishers suggesting another and the author's friends advancing a third. It will be a romance dealing with life in Indiana, in the vicinity of Terre Haute during the time of the Mexican war, and it will convey not a few of its in cidents to the famous Catholic school near Terre Haute, "St. Marys of the Woods." The book, however, Mr. Tarkington insists, will not be classed as a historical romance. This he says in the face of anticipating critics who have endeavored to predict the char acter of the work. The love story is delicately woven round the lives of a girl studying at the Catholic institution and a young man of the clear-brained, horny-handed class peculiar to the early period of Indiana's history. Mr. Tarkington said: "I will doubt less hear more from my friend at Seattle now. Shortly after the pro duction of 'The Gentleman from In diana' friends of mine residing in Seat tle, Wash., sent word to me that a certain resident of that city was parading under the name of Booth -Tarkington, claiming to have written my book. He was buying copies right and left and sending them to his friends with a neat little picture of himself and a card saying that this was his first venture into literature and he wanted their criticism. My friends desired to know whether I would have them expose him or not. It seems that he also claimed that while he had writ _ten the book I was reaping the golden benefits in the shape of royalties. It did not take me long to decide what to do. I wrote them to encourage him in his 'pipe dream,' explaining at the same time that every copy he bought was putting that much more money in my pocket. I needed the money. "This latest effort of mine is in some respects a more elaborate one than any of the others preceding. At least I have worked harder on it. Of course, I cannot say what success it will meet with—in fact, there are as yet several incomplete chapters. "I have endeavored in my book, nameless as yet, to combine romance and character delineation. At the time of which I have written the farm ers and townspeople were of such a character as to attract the most fas tidious student. I have also endeav ored not to become historical, and I think I have succeeded to a pertain ex tent. The life of the story will, rest in the hands of the people in a very short time." American Coal for Germany. The United States will supply Stettin, Germany, with 125,000 tons jf steam coal under yearly contract. HONOR FOR CttlCAGOAN. Robert 8. McCormick, Envoy to im« trim-Hungary, Soon to Be Made an Ambaaaador. With the elevation of the legation of Austria-Hungary to an embassy Robert S. McCormick, the present minister of the United States to Austria-Hungary, will be raised to the rank of ambassador, will assume privileges never before granted to an American minister to that coun try and will have his salary raised from $12,000 to $17,000 a year. Mr. McCorifiick is a Chicago man and before he was given his appoint ment as minister at Vienna he lived in that city many years. He has a large circle of friends in Chicago, I ROBERT S. M'CORMICK. (Minister of the United States at Vienna, Austria.) and a number of wealthy and distin guished relatives. The staff of an ambassador is much the same as that of a legation, but there are more privileges and great er distinctions. An ambassador is called upon to do a great deal more entertaining than a minister, and is required to make a greater show of splendor and magnificence. The rank is much higher and the recognition is more courtly and official. The elevation of the Austria-Hun garian legation to the United States to an embassy is an important diplo matic move on the part of Austria Hungary and marks an important epoch in the relations of the two countries. The fact that therfc has never been an embassy is generally supposed to have been due to a cool ness on the part of Austria-Hungary to the United States on account of a disturbance in this country in which a mob of Hungarians was roughly handled. The action of the Austria Hungarian government in appointing its minister, Ladislaus Hengelmuller von Hengelvar, to the rank of an ambassador, is taken in this country as an indication that the government wishes all former breaches to be healed and a spirit of cordiality es tablished. Mr. McCormick is very popular in Vienna, and it is rumored that he has had more than a little to do with the recent action of the Aus tria-Hungarian government in elevat ing its legation to an embassy. The initiative in the matter was taken by Austria-Hungary's' foreign minis ter, Count Goluchowski, and as it is the custom in diplomatic relations to always respond to such an eleva tion by a similar one in this coun try, Mr. McCormick will be made am bassador as soon as Air. Hengel muller is officially recognized as such in this country. VASE FOR PRINCESS. Rare Work of Art Presented to Prince Henry's Wife liy the Ger man Ladles of Cliteasro. A handsome silver vase, two feet high, with a gold lining, was the pres ent which the wives of the members of the Germania club of Chicago made to Princess Irene, wife of Prince Henry, through the courtesies of the prince while in that city. After it has been admired for a few days at the Ger mania club it will be packed up and VASE FOR PRINCESS IRENE. (Presented to Prince Henry's Wife by Chfe cago Ladies..) sent to Berlin in time to reach there when the prince arrives, so that it can be given by him at once to the princess. The presentation was made duriiigthe reception at the Germania club imme diately following the luncheon which/ the men of the club had given the prince. The vase has on one side a fig ure of Aurora in relief. She stands, or rather floats, in the rays of the rising sun, with ribbons streaming from her hands. Morning glories are the flow ers which complete the decoration on that side of the vase. A rooster is the decoration on the opposite side. The present was not offered until after per mission had been received from Prince Henry, and the cost was contributed by the women of the reception committee and others. MINNESOTA NEWS. Available for Forestry. Gen. C. C. Andrews gives some inter esting figures regarding lands in the Btate which can be successfully planted with trees. lie says: "There are in central and northern Minnesota, in scattered localities, 3,* 000,000 acres of land which is too hilly, too rocky or too sandy for agriculture, but on which pine forest, when in nor mal condition, will annually and per petually yield 225 feet board measure per acre. This would be an annual crop for the whole 3,000,000 acres of 075,000,000 feet, which would now have the average net value, standing, of 84 per 1,000 feet, or in all, $2,800,000 a revenue equal to nearly 3 per cent on a capital of $100,000,000, the value of the forest. The forest, besides many other indirect benefits,, such as beauty of landscape, water supply and the like, would give employment to 50,000 work men and support a population of a quarter of a million people. A part of these 3,000,000 acres of waste land belongs to the United States, which would doubtless grant them to our state as soon as selected by the Geological Survey—which it can do without any. new legislation. The other part belongs to private individu als from whom the state would have to buy the lands. National Editorial Association. Regarding the expense to the Na tional Editorial Association at Hot Springs, Mr. Joseph Leicht announces that the trip from St. Louis to Hot Springs will be paid for in advertising and the fare per berth is $3.00 with' pass for return. Hotef'rates $2.50 per day, but cheaper accommodations can be secured. The business men of Hot Springs will do everything to make pleasant, and a trip to the Charleston Exposition may be taken. Anybody intending to go on this trip should re port at once and send $6.25 for him self and $2.00 for his l^uly to Irwing Todd of Hastings Gazette or Joseph Leicht of the Westlicker Herald, Wi- Tobacco for the Wards. The state board of control has under advisement a plan for manufacturing tobacco for the use of inmates of state institutions. Every quarter the state buys two tons of plug chewing tobacco and half a ton of smoking tobacco. It is furnished to inmates of the state prison, insane hospitals and asylums, and the school for the feeble-minded. The intention is to manufacture the tobacco at Stillwater for the use of all the institutions. If this can be done without paying the revenue tax, the board of control will undertake it. It is thought that the tax would not be imposed, as no tobacco will be sold, but the question is being investigated. Ilorse Thieves. Horse thieves are operating south of St. Paul, and some 'valuable horses have been stolen. Recently three good draft animals were taken from the barns of farmers in the' vicinity of Rosemount and St. Paul Park and no trace of them has been found. At Levi Butler's place, near St. Paul park, the thieves selected a fine Nor man mare weighing 1,400 pounds from five, other beasts, and took half of a double harness. They went to T. E. Woodward's farm near by and appropriated a buggy, to which they hitched the animal and drove away. The theft occurred early in the night. Milling. The census statistics show that Minnesota easily holds the lead of all the states in the flour milling indus try. New York—the Empire state stands next in amount of capital in vested, and is less than a million dol lars behind Minnesota in this item but is is noticeable that in value of product Minnesota is nearly double, the figures being $42,796,340 for New York, and $S3,877,709 for Minnesota. Contract Let. The state drainage commission let a contract for the construction of the Grand Marias drainage ditch in Polk county. The ditch is one-half mile long and connects the Grand Marias with the Red river. For some years the mouth of the Grand Marias has been choked with sand, and the water to a depth of six feet extends back for half a mile, and soon become stagnant and pest breeding. Capitol Work. The state capitol commission has advertised for bids for interior work on the new capitol, which will be opened at various times, as follows: Painting and ornamental iron work, May 6 woodwork, painting and glaz ing," June 3 hardware, July 1 inte rior stones and marble work, Oct. 7. The total cost of these items will be several hundred thousand dollars. News In Brief. Peter Morton, of Winthrop, was thrown from his horse and five ribs and his shoulder fractured. The first election at Scanlon result ed: Chairman. E. N. Rogers trustees, William Dunlap, Joseph Dugay and T. G. Fasreen. Rosa Brown, 6 years old, was fatally burned while playing near a pile of burning rubbish at Le Sueur. Frank Willies and Louis Eder were candidates for alderman in North Man kato, on opposition tickets, and both received the same number of votes. To decide the tie, they engaged in a game of euchre. Willies won. Near Le Sueur dogs killed ten sheep for the Cosgrove company. The announcement of the filing of a $2,000,000 trust deed running from the Duluth, Virginia & Rainy Lake road to the Minnesota Loan and Trust company is the final step ia the mak ing of arijangements for the construc tion of a railroad through to the in ternational boundary. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. For the Week Endlnir march 24. Peter Lnverdure, aged 111 years, died at Great Falia, Mont. Cambridge defeated Oxford In the flfty nlnth annual boat race on the Thames. John Henry Peavy, a negro, waB hanged at Vienna, Ga., for the murder of Jesse Ford. Achilles I., known as king of Patagonia, died in Paris, leaving his throne to an un known. The state institution for the deaf and dumb at Jackson, Miss,, has been destroyed by lire. A London paper predicts civil war in Ire land as a result of the United Irish league agitation. W. J. Bryan celebrated his forty-second birthday by moving to his farm near Lin coln, Neb. The senate Philippine committee has de cided upon a distinct coinage system for the islands. A Jury declared Stewart Fife not guilty of the murder of Banker Richardson at St. Joseph, Mo. The special session of the Colorado1legis lature adjourned after the passage of the revenue bill. Republicans •of the Ninth Indiana dis trict have renominated Charles B. Landis for congress. James Hatlield, of the famous Kentucky family of feudists, was' killed in a fight at North Bend. O. Green W. Pritchard was killed and John Below, a farmer, fatally wounded in a duel at Corydon, Ky. The Virginia constitutional convention has practically agreed upon a plan to dis franchise negroes. Two little children of John Bergue, ot Mound Lake, Minn., fell through the ice and were drowned. Thomas E. Burns, an old-time famous ball player, died suddenly of heart disease at Jersey City, N. J. The civil tribunal at Paris has approved the cession of the Panama canal property to the United States. The Missouri supreme court rendered a decision upholding the right of labor men to enforce the boycott. Thirty rioters were killed by Russian troops in an attempt to release imprisoned strike leaders at Batoum. George Carter (colored) was hanged at Moundsvllle, W. Va., for the murder of Vir ginia Whistler, also colored. An avalanche overwhelmed a Japanese reflnery, crushing the building and start ing a fire, and 2(W lives were lost. Four negroes were killed and one fa tally beaten by white men at Madrid Bend, Ky., for stealing chickens. Santos-Dumont will visit St. Louis to se lect a fair site for a balloon shed in con nection with the airship contests. John Woodward, the negro murderer of Leonard Calvitt, a white planter, was lynched by a mob at VIdalia. La. Mrs. Betsy Bailey, an aged woman of Maju6keta, la., was burned to death, her clothing catching fire from a stove. The barge Hamilton was wrecked off Newport News and Capt. Shoemaker and his crew of four men were drowned. Congressman Henry Gibson, of the Sec ond Tennessee district, was renominated for his fifth term by the republicans. Judge Russell Smith Taft, aged G7 years, chief justice of the supreme court, of Ver mont, died at his home in Burlington. Jerome Magee, of the University of Chi cago track team, went 11 feet 5 inches in a pole vault, breaking the indoor record. Two persons were killed, ten hurt, and much mail was lost In a wreck on the Southern railway near Charlottesville. Va. German manufactures may be excluded from the United States In retaliation for the exclusion of American meats by Ger many. The world's sugar production In 1900, ac cording to a treasury bulletin, was 8,800, 000 tons. Beets furnished 67 percent, of the supply. Justice Mayer, of New York, set free Miss Florence Burns, saying there was no evidence connecting her with the death of Walter Brooks. Prince Adalbert, third son of Emperor William of Germany, is to visit the United States in April as a cadet aboard the train ing ship Charlotte. Five hundred German, Austrian and Rus sian emigrants, disappointed with condi tions in the United States, have returned to their former homes. Navigation on the great lakes will open April 1, upon which date insurance on hulls and cargoes is obtainable, the earliest of any season' on record. Stanislas La Croix, who murdered his wife and an old man named Thomps, who was endeavoring to protect her, was hanged at Hull, Quebec. A strike of 35,000 miners in Virginia and West Virginia is expected if operators re fuse the request of the national officers of the miners for a conference. The weekly trade review notes numerous evidences of further improvements In markets, with vigorous domestic demand and gain in foreign bus-iness. The Harrlman interests are said to have secured control of the Rock Island rail road through purchase of the Moore and the Leeds and Reid holdings. Battle-scarred and depleted in ranks, the first and third bataltons of the Twentieth regiment arrived at Fort Sheridan after three years' campaign In the Philippines. Josie Mansfield, who was the cause of the famous Stokes-Fisk tragedy In New York 30 vears ago, has disappeared from her home in Paris. She may be in this country. Commodore Howell, of the navy, has perfected a method of transforming soft coal Into a smokeless product. The coal is reduced to powder and made Into bricks. THE MARKETS. WEW- New York, March 24. LIVE STOCK—Steers $8 lu 7 00 Hogs 6 70 6 7j Sheep 4 00 5 73 FLOUR—Winter Straights., 3 75 3 SO Will''AT—May 7S%@ 79$ July 79 CORN—May MM September 5.,^ OATS 51 6'J RYK -No. 2 63 (fi O-i1/* Bl'TTER—Creamery 22 Sv SO Factory IS (J 22 CHEESK 1-' (i EGGS 10 16' CHICAGO. CATTLE—Prime Beeves 7 00 7 35 Texas Steers 4 50 fi. 6 30 Common to Rough 4 40 (a 5 Z0 Feeders 4 40 5 40 Bulls 2 CO (i 5 00 HOGS—Light 6.05 It 6 45 Heavy Mixed 25 (!/. fi d0 SHEEP 4 25 (7 5 K» Bl'TTER—Creamery 20 27Vi Dairy 20 ft 25 EGGS—Fresh 14 ?i 14% POTATOES—(per bu.) 6S Hit So MESS PORK—May 15 55Vi7il5 70 T,ARD—May 0 45 fw 9 50 RIBS—May 8 55 8 CO GRAlN-»Wheat, May 71%ffi 73 Corn, May 5SVf»® 694i Oats, May A Rye. No. 2 Cash. VWfi 4?^ r,oiy^di: KB'/i Barley, Fair to Good 62 64% MILWAUKEE. GRAIN—Wheat. May $ 72 ?i 72«,i Oats, No. 2 White 44 44',i Rye. No. 1 59 Barley, No. 2 65 65% KANSAS CITY. GRAIN—Wheat, May $ 68 Corn, May S1* t!v RSVi Oats, No. 2 White 4iVstf? 46 Rve, No. 2 60 COVi ST. LOUIS. CATTLE—Beef Steers $3 00 it 6 75 Texas Steers 4 ft') (a 6 30 HOGS—Packers' 20 frf, 40 Butchers' 6 25 fl 6 60 SHEEP—Natives J. 50 Ti 5 50 OMAHA. CATTLE—Native Steers $4 50 fi 00 Cows and Heifers 3 50 (?i 5 50 Stackers and Feeders 0 4 75 HOGS—Mixed 6 20 @6 30 THE TRADE OF THE ORIENT. And What It Mean* for Minnesota and tha Whole Northwest. Mr. J. J. Hill was recently reported by the New York Journal of Commerce as having said that the two mammoth ships he la building for the Asiatic trade could be operated in successful competition with foreign ships In spite of the higher wages paid to American seamen if otfr navigation laws permitted a better selec tion and control of crews. The reason for this confidence is plain. It is because he has applied to the construction of his vessels the same principles which have made the "Hill methods" of organising transportation famous as one of the great money-saving Inventions of the age —the simple principle that the bigger the tralnload the less the cost of hauling It per ton per mile. He has made his ships bigger than any now afloat in the expec tation that they will carry full cargoes and that It will cost but little more to operate them thus filled than smaller ships carrying a fraction of the tonnage. These ships will carry cargoes at much lower freight rates than have heretofore fn trevalled, and are, therefore, the pioneers the development of the Asiatic trade which will eventually require a larger fleet of similar ships. But to fill even these for regular trips will require the massing at the Pacific ports where they are to be loaded of a much larger volume of exports to Asia than has heretofore been offered. The traffic of the Great Northern alone would not suffice to sus tain them. These ships are a constitu ent part of the arrangements whereby the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington systems are to be operated in harmony, and subsidiary to the same general end. The momentous significance of these arrangements can only be appreciated when it is under stood that their purpose Is to make these two great transcontinental railroads the chief highway of the commerce of this country and of the world with Asia. It 1s to carry out in the whole vast field of Intercontinental traffic the same principle of concentration which Mr. HUI applies to his carloads and his ship's cargoes—to so Increase the tonnage volume by concentration on this Northern route as to reduce Its cost by land and sea, and thus—following the law that commerce always flows (Hong the lines of least resistance—turn Into this cheaper channel on the shorter lines of latitude the main stream of the commerce of the world. The full car load Is thus the unit of power in a gigantic scheme of commer cial concentration which will pour a new and more abounding flood of commercial and industrial energy into the six states which it has been recently sought to array against It. The lawyers and politicians who have been frettlsg and fuming about the sup posed effects of the so-called merger on focal freight rates have been oblivious to the grandeur and potential beneflclence of the economic forces called Into play by this scheme, and which will insure a much greater reduction of local and transcon tinental freight rates as a necessary con sequence of an immensely increased volume of traffic than would otherwise be possible. Our local statesmen are not to b# blamed for the narrow local view they have taken of this question, or for their Inability to take In the broad horizon of Its world-wide relations. For but few who have not studied the question have anv conception of the enormous trade with the Orient which lies withlii the grasp of American enterprise, but which for lack of an effective organization of our commercial power we have hereto fore permitted other nations, and chiefly Great Britain, to appropriate. For the seven years ending with and inclusive of 1898 not an American steamship entered a Philippine port. Since the treaty of peace we have done better, but the major part of that traffic is still borne In English vessels. In the fifty-two years from 184S to 1900 inclusive the United StateB lost in their traffic with the Philippines over $275,000,000 in trade balances against us, or enough to have paid all the expenses of the Spanish war. And this does not take into account the Philippine goods carried to English or German ports and transhipped to this country. In twenty years the United States has heretofore paid out over the counters of London, Berlin and Paris over a billion and a half of gold due Asiatic nations for trade balances. If this amount of money had been saved to the American people It would have bought out the steel trust and the Northern Securities company at their capitalized figures. In the ten years ending June 30, 1900, we have lost $120, 000,000 In Chinese trade alone, exclusive of the trade of Hongong, which is a warehouse for all China, under British auspices. And our ships have not carried 1 per cent of the foreign trade of China or of the port Of Hongkong. The latest accessible tables of the treasury depart ment concerning our sea trade show that of our imports from Asia in 1899, $74, 000,000 came by way of the Atlantic ports and only $32,600,000 from the Pacific ports. Of our exports, $29,600,000 went from Atlantic ports and only $18,700,000 by way of Pacific coast ports, which means that 65 per cent of our trans-Pacific trade does not come to us by the way ot the Pacific at all. but rather by the way of European ports, being transhipped at Liverpool and Hamburg for New York or Philadelphia. The total trade of China in 1899 was $121,600,000. Only $17,000,000 of this was Carried in American bottoms. Yet jne line of steamships like that projected by Mr. Hill would very soon double that total and would put into Manila, Shanghai, Hongkong, and other Chinese and Japanese ports agents for American trade that would soon make themselves felt in the Interest of our manufacturers. The current of commer cial exchanges thus established between the United States and the Orient would grow and widen until it drew into its swelling tide the tributary streams of every state in the Union and of every country in the world. All along the course of this great highway of the world's com merce this broad and deep current will set In motion the wheels of commercial and Industrial activity. But it is mainly in Minnesota, whose chief cities, standing at the head of the great Interior lines of water transit, are the terminal head quarters and gateways of these great systems of transcontinental railway, that its Influence will be felt In making them far greater martB of trade than If they depended on the narrower ?ange or trib utary country around them. It will tend to make them the emporia for the distri bution of the products of the Orient through the Mississippi valley. It will lift these cities and this state to a com manding position among the Interior states and cities of the continent. When the lawyers and politicians get to thinking about this matter in Its larg er relations they will probably come to the conclusion that there Is something besides a question of local politics in this matter of the so-called merger— that It does not mean, as they Imagine, the extinction of competition, but such a marshaling of commercial forces and such an organized concentration of com mercial power as will enable this great system of transporatlon traversing the northern belt of the temperate zone, which nature has marked as the chief path of commerce throughout the world, to enter Into successful competition with the rival systems which are endeavoring to attract this great tide of transmun dane commerce to more southern lati tudes, and that, whatever technical ob jections the lawyers may find or fancy they find in "the mint and cummin" of the statutes, it is in conformity with that great economic law, to wnlch all statutes must ultimately yield the.right of way, that through concentration lies the only road to the highest economic efficiency—to lower costs and lower •rice*—St. Paul Pioneer Press. PERTINENT REMARKS. Memory is a convenient storehouse for things to be forgotten.—Town Top ics. The way to get rid of some men is to loan them a little money.—Washington (Ia.) Democrat. He is a wise father who knows his own child was as much at fault as the other man's.—Chicago Record-Hcrald. When a man's kin take him one side tor a quiet talk, his wife is convinced ihat they want to borrow his money.— Atchison Globe. -if ROUND ABOUT THE STATE. Dr. R. E. Cutts, a physician of Min neapolis, died while sitting in his bug §ry. Jasper raises the liquor license from $800 to $1,000. There wiil bo three saloons. The Era Grain company's elevator and the railroad station at Elmore were burned. The proposition to bond the county for $50,000 to build a courthouse in Bemidji carried. Mrs. James Harris of West Duluth, suffering from brain trouble, attempt ed to kill her husband. Some one stole the horse belonging to Bev. W. B. Riley of the First Bap tist church of Minneapolis. Mistaking carbolic acid for the nerve tonic, Mrs. A. W. Linton, of Minneapolis, burned her, mouth and, lips severely. Herman Kelm, injured by falling into a vat at the North Star brewery St. Paul, died at the city hospital. He was 32 years old. C. W. Miller of Winona has com pleted shearing 22,000 sheep. He has now 120,000 pounds of wool waiting for a higher price. Game Warden Dan Walker, of Alex andria, swooped down upon alleged illegal fishermen on Osalcis lake. Sev en or more were caught. Frank Fulton was crushed beneath a horse, which fell backward upon him at Winona. His injuries consibt of several fractured ribs. The Primary election in St. Paul re sulted in the choice or Robert A. Smith for mayor by the democrats, and F. B. Doran by the republicans. L. A. Rosing, chairman of the Min nesota state central committee, has been selected as the Minnesota mem ber of the democratic congressional committee. William Moore and Mike Lawler, charged with attempting to wreck an Eastern Minnesota train near Nago nab, have been bound over to the grand jury. One of the largest, and it is prom ised to be the best, convention of col ored people ever held will be enter tained by Minneapolis and St. Paul next July. Gillis McGill, a brakeman employed at Knife River, had both legs cut off near the ankles. He was brought to the Sewell hospital at Two Harbors, where he died. The board of directors of the state Odd Fellows' home re-elected Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Miller superintendent and matron for the ensuing year, with an increase of salary. E. A. Faust of Zumbrota has asked the police of Minneapolis to search for his brother, who has been missing for several days. The missing man is a baker. His wife is seriously ill. Minneapolis firms engaged in ele vator construction have never had the inquiry for plans and estimates on various types of elevators they are re ceiving this spring. Indications are that this season will be the busiest local elevator construction firms have ever had. The plans of the Minnesota Midland Electric company, as outlined to the railroad and warehouse commission, are to build east from Little Falls to the shore of Mille Lacs, a distance of about thirty-five miles. If this line proves successful, it is intended to build branches in various directions. The residence of County Superin tendent of Schools D. C. McKenzie, which was located on Mlnnetonka boulevard, was destroyed by fire. The fire started in the roof near the chim ney. The news that people claiming to be Minnesota heirs would go after the estate of several million dollars left by the late Leonard Case is laughed at by the recognized legal heirs and beneficiaries in Cleveland. LeonarTI Case left the bulk of his fortune to the Case school of applied science. Lee G. Smith and Grace A. Howell were married in Minneapolis. The wedding took place under the most unusual and tragic circumstances, and was performed beside the casket in which the groom's mother, Mrs. A. F. Smith, lay. The district court of Hennepin county will be called upon soon to determine when real estate becomes railroad property nnd exempt from general taxes, under the gross earn ings tax law. E. J. North, who lost his position at the state training school because of alleged cruelty to the boys in his charge, has been succeeded by E. F. Sullivan of Faribault as manager of cottage No. 1 and bandmaster. The Washburn-Crosby Flour Milling company has received information from Washington that no trouble will be encountered by them in securing permission for the bonding of mill E, for the purpose of grinding Canadian wheat. State Insurance Commissioner Dearth has issued a report relative to insurance companies for 1901. The re port does not cover fire insurance companies. The year was a prosper ous one. Legal reserve life insurance companies wrote $25,435,186 of insur ance, an increase qt $4,575,381. In dustrial risks were $2,943,482, a de crease of $307,312. Herman Quist of Minneapolis, eight years old, drank a quantity of con centrated lye solution. The terrible burns in his mouth and throat will probably permanently affect his voice. J. J. Kendlen, an old, one armed man whose home is at Worthington, Minn., attempted to jump off the high stone wall in the rear of the old Min nesota hotel, First avenue S and First street, Minneapolis, to the railroad tracks below, a distance of 80 feet, but was prevented from doing so by Officer Ford, who had been watching him, and regarded his actions as sus picious. •'5 "lit 'III •i 'u'.li :'3 •ri •M .^r