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SUMMARY OFA
WEEK'S EVENTS
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
AT HOME AN ABROAD I N
CONDENSED FORM.
THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST
Progress of Hostilities Between Rus
sia and Japan—Doings at Wash
ington—Items of Interest from
All Over the Wcrld.
TH E CHICAGO STRIKE.
One man was shot to death, several
others tatally wounded and scoies m
vred by missiles in fierce riots which
occurred in all parts ot Chicago. The
Employers' association imported 1,390
nonunion men. mostly negroes, trom St
Louis. Members of the First regiment,
Illinois guard, are under orders to b^
ready for service at a moment's no
tice.
fudge Kohlsaat, of the federal circuit
court in Chicago, issued an order en
joining the strikers and their sympa
thizers from interfering in any way
•with the property or employes of the
Employers' Teaming company.
The Chicago Federation o£ Labor ap
peals to President Roosevelt, Gov. De
epen and Mayor Dunne not to furnish
federal troops, state soldiers or police
without first investigating the team
ster's strike.
President Roosevelt has agreed to give
the Chicago striking teamsters an op
portunity to present their petition when
he reaches- that cijy on May 10. The
president cannot give consideration to
the petition until be reaches Washing
ton.
RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.
Two Russian forces on the night of
April 29 simultaneously attacked the
Japanese near the town of Tunghu
siang, driving them from five con
secutive positions and occupying
Tunghusiang.
Count O'Kuma estimates the numbei
of wounded and sick Japanese as a re
sult of the war at 200,000 to 300,000, and
the number of killed or who died of dis
ease at 60.000.
Japanese capture of Likwanpau dur
ing battle of Mukden described as
among greatest feat of arms in history:
Japs surrounded by four times their
number lost 4.106 men Russians lost
more than 8.000.
Tokio report says President Roose
velt is endeavoring to effect peace.
Oyama is expected to besiege Vladi
vostok and deprive the Russian fleet
at a base before it reaches that port.
Rojestvenskv's fleet is located at
Port Deit, near Kamranh bay, where
he is getting supplies from Saigon.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The receiver ousted Frank G. Bige
Jow. defaulting Milwaukee banker, from
his palatial home.
Fred Vogel, Jr.. has been made
president of Milwaukee's First Na
tional bank, to succeed defaulter Bige
)ow.
Henry G. Goll, the former assistant
cashier of the First National bank, of
Milwaukee, Wis., charged with embez
zlement, was arrested in Chicago and
taken back to Milwaukee.
The Krupps' immense contracts,
partly for the rearmament of the Ger
man artillery and partly for Russian.
Japanese and Turkish orders, have re
quired the company to increase the
number of workmen from about 24,000
to more than 30,000.
Mamie Van Ranst, a daughter of the
late C. W. Van Ranst, a publisher of
New York, was found dead in her
apartments. A shoe string was tied
tightly about her npek. She had com
mitted suicide.
Three persons were killed and six
injured, none fatally, by the collapse
of a three-story building during a flrce
gale at Omaha, Neb.
President Alexander of the Equitable
society resigned as trustee of the stock
left to James H. Hyde.
The grand jury in Chicago in
twelve labor officials on charge of con
spiracy in 'connection with the strike.
Thirteen miners were entombed and
probably killed by an explosion in the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Coal com
pany's mine No. 19, four miles west of
Wilburton, Okla.
A double header fast freight train
on the Santa Fe railroad struck
washout near Gilman siding, 125 miles
north of Beamont, Tex., overturning
both engines and piling live stock in
the ditch. Two men were killed.
Four men committed suicide in Chi
cago after quarrols with their wives.
Fire destroyed an entire block of
buildings at Ettabena, Miss, the loss
aggregating $75,000.
Mae Woods sued President Roose
velt's private secretary and others for
conspiracy to prevent her from pub
lishing Senator T. C. Piatt's love et
ters.
Contest proceedings have been pre
pared by Judge John A. Talty, defeated
.republican candidate for mayor of St.
Louis, against Mayor Rolla Wells.
Richard Canfleld and other gamblers
driven from New York are said to have
formed a syndicate to establish a 13,000,
'000 Monte Carlo In Cuba.
Several hundred square miles of
range In Valley county, Montana, have
been devastated by prairie tires. Many
stockmen have lost all their range and
ranch buildings.
A. B. Spear, cashier of the closed
Citizens' bank of Oberlin, O., in the
United States district court in Cleve
land entered a plea of guilty to one
count of the indictment, charging him
with making false entries in the bank's
books. Judge Tayler at once sentenced
Spear to seven years' imprisonment in
the Ohio penitentiary.
E. J. Smiley, secretary of the Kan
sas Grain Dealers' association, was
placed in jail at La Crosse. Kan., to
serve a 90 days' sentence of the United
States supreme court, for violation of
the anti-trust law.
Anthony Kaminsky has been given a
judgment for $2,000 against the Grand
Lodge, Knights of the Modern Macca
bees, in the circuit court iu Detroit,
Mich., for injuries which he alleged
he sustained while being initiated into
the organization.
Eugene V. Debs confirms the report
that he is to head the industrial union,
a new labor organization which will be
launched soon in Chicago. The or
ganization will be a rival of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor.
Col. Thomas B. Davis, aged 77.
brother of Henry G. Davis, was nomi
nated for congress py acclamation at
the democratic convention at Keyser
W. Vs.
Vice President Gomez, who is acting
president of Venezuela during the ab
sence of President Castro, has released
24 political prisoners.
Former Gov. Yates of Illinois has pe
titioned a Kentucky court to transfer
the Caleb Powers murder case to the
federal bar on the ground that the
state denies justice.
The senate committee on interstate
commerce opposes giving the inter
state commerce commission power to
inmate rates.
Dr Wesley R. Wales, formei ly presi
dent ot the First xtional bank ot Cape
May City, N. J., who has been arrested
in Philadelphia, was taken to Trenton.
N. and committed to jail to await
trial on a charge of diverting $10 000 of
the bank's funds.
Piesidents of the world's great rail
roads attended the opening of the
American railway appliances exhibit in
Washington.
A "Good Roads Special" left Chicago
over the Burlington railroad on an edu
cational tour leading to Portland.
Secret investigation of the .tobacco
trust is being made by special agents
sent out by Commissioner Garfield of
the bureau of corporations.
Celebration of Constitution day in
Poland developed murders and riots in
Warsaw and Lodz. Troops fired on
crowds with fatal effect.
The jury in the case of Nan Patter
son at New York reported there was
no hope of reaching an agreement, and
it was discharged by Recorder Goff.
Chauncey Dewey, the millionaire
ranchman of Kansas, and his cowboys,
charged with killing two members of
the Berry family, have been dismissed
by the court without trial.
Mayor Dunne declares that for'f 50,000,
000 Chicago can obtain possession of tk:
street railway lines.
The Middleton bank in Waverly, Mo.,
has failed for $30,000. The cashier. E. H.
Lewis, is accused of disappearing with
$30,000 of the funds.
The May day death roll in Warsaw to
taled 62, including ten persons who died
in-the hospitals. Probably 200 were
wounded.
C. G. Elliott, has been detailed by the
department of agriculture to investigate
conditions and devise plans for the rec
lamation of the hundreds of thousands
of acres of swamp land in the Kankakee
river valley, in northwestern Indiana
and northeastern llinois.
James J. Jeffries, champion heavy
weight pugilist, will retire from the prize
ring and from the stage, and go into
business with his brother Jack, in Cali
fornia, according to a statement made
by him in Cincinnati.
On the request of the San Francisco
police. Edward J. Smith, a San Fran
cisco tax collector, who is said to be want
ed to answer a charge of embezzling
some $62,000, was arrested at the union
station in St. Louis.
The Illinois house passed the Church
gas "regulator" bill giving municpali
ties of the state power to fix the price
of gas and electricity, with a three-year
limit on the price when once fixed.
A sugar beet factory at St. Louis Park,
a suburb several miles west of Minneap
olis, Minn., was entirely destroyed by
fire. The plant, it is said, represents an
investment of $250,000.
Robbers blew open the safe of a pri
vate bank at Gilbertsville, N. Y.. and
made good their escape with booty esti
mated at between $5,000 and $10,000.
Charles Edward Speer, president of
the First national bank of Pittsburg,
Pa., is dead.
Importations to the port of New York
during the month of April show an in
crease of nearly $10,000,000 over the cor
responding month of last year. The
whole value of importations during
April was $60,464,603.
Railroad men testifying before the
senate committee on interstate com
merce declare the present law adequate
and that rebates are or can be prevented
under the existing statutes.
The interstate commerce commission
has secured a federal court injunction
in Chicago to compel western railroads
to obey its ruling in the livestock
rate case.
T. M. Howell, a former newspaper
man, arrived in Denver with rich sam
ples of ore found near Yellow Jacket
creek, Idaho. One piece of float as
sayed $72,900 gold a ton.
In a head-on collision between two
trolley cars on the Detroit, Monroe
& Toledo Shore line, near Newport,
Mich., H. W. Wheeler, aged 25, of
Cedar Rapids, was killed and a dozen
persons were injured.
H. C. Frick, chairman of the direc
tors committee investigating the Equi
table Life Assurance society, has writ
ten a letter to the policy holders assur
ing them that the interest of every pol
icy holder is absolutely safe.
George Mahen, living in St. Paul,
Minn., shot his wife, Hattie, three times
through the heart, killing her instantly,
and then shot himself fatally.
By an explosion in a mine near Du
bois, Pa., 12 men were killed and one
had both legs and arms broken.
Germany regards notice as having
been glVen America of the end of the
tariff agreement.
The gold standard went into opera
tion in Mexico without the slightest jar
or disturbance in business circles.
No tips can be given in Wisconsin.
The anti-graft bill recently passed by
the legislature has been signed by Gov.
La Follette and no gratuities of any kind
can be given to employes of any firm by
outsiders without danger of arrest and
fine.
G. M. Leflingwell, of Evanston. leaves
a woman worth $500,000, is sued for di
vorce by another and for breach of
promise by a third.
Treasury experts fear government
deficit this fiscal year will be $30,000,
000.
Announced that gift of $500,000 stu
dent hall to Columbia was made by
member of class of '05.
Ambassador McCormick presented
his credentials to President Loubet. of
France, at Elysee palace.
New railways building through Eu
rope, Asia and Africa will permit of a
direct journey from England to Khar
tum and open up much historic terri
tory.
United Shoe Machinery corporation
is incorporated in the state of New Jer
sey for $50,000,000.
Prices of meat rise high in Germany
and people clamor for foreign products
now prohibited.
Fire in the plant of the Fagan iron
works in Jersey City destroyed the new
er portions of the plant. Loss. $100,000.
While removing an old cistern wall
trom an excavation at Fort Madison,
la., Contractor James J. Malley discov
ered in the debris bags containing $11.
500 in gold and two small casks of wine.
Franklin Havens, secretary of the Al
bany, N. Y., board of fire insurance un
derwriters, was shot by Miss Julia
Craver. a clerk in his employ, in his
office, and died soon afterward. Miss
Crater claims the shooting was acci
dental.
Mrs. Lucia Ames-Mead, of Boston, tho
chairman of the peace department ot
the National Council of Women, has
sent out letters to the 22 national or
ganizations affiliated with the council,
requesting them to arrange peace meet
ings on May 18, the anniversary of the
opening of The Hague conference
Commodore Somerville Nicholson, U.
S. N., retired, died in Washington, aged
83 years. He was navigating officer of*
Commodore Perry's flagship on the
expedition to Japan in the fifties,
and was present at the signing of the
American treaty with that country.
Fire at the works of the Household
Sewing Machine company in Provi
dence, R. I. entailed a loss of between
$150,000 and $175,000.
Allen Shelden, a well-known capital
ist arid former business partner of Zach
ariah Chandler, died at his residence in
Detroit, Mich., after an illness of sev
eral weeks. He was 73 years of age.
John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia,
has given $100,000 for Young Men'".
Christian association buildings at
Pekin, Seoul and Kyoto.
A movement to merge the companies
engaged in the manufacture of street
railway cars of the entire country is in
progress. It is planned to have one cor
poration with a capital of about $50,.
000,000.
The Orange Grove flouring mills oi
the C. A. Gambrill Manufacturing com
pany, valued at $200,000, on the Balti
more & Ohio railroad, ten miles from
Baltimore, have been totally destroyed
by fire.
Philadelphia, near bankruptcy, pro
poses to lease its city gas plant to the
United Gas Improvement company for
75 years for $25,000,000.
Trustees of Columbia university an
nounce a gift of $500,000 from an anony
mous donor for erecting and equipping a
hall for undergraduates.
Arrangements for meeting oi the Pres
byterian general assembly at Winona
Lake, Ind., on May 18, are completed.
James H. Hyde asked the court for
permission to carry out the new plan to
mutual ize the Equitable Life.
Doctors in New York examined Dr.
Harper and say his cancer is rapidly dis
appearing.
The public debt, according to a state
ment at the close of business April 30. is
$997 217,941, an increase for the month of
$8,593,384.
Postmaster Cortelyou, according to an
apparently well founded report, has been
asked to become president of the Equita
ble Life Assurance society.
Two horses attached to a plow were
instantly killed by a bolt of lightning and
the owner, William Dumby, rendered un
conscious near Sterling, 111.
Frederick Mouden accidentally killed
his six-year-old sister, Ada, with a ma
nure fork near Seatonville, 111. The child
ran into the fork and the tines penetrat
ed the skull.
The czar's Easter ukase remitted
$35,000,000 peasant taxes took seals
from altars of the old faith, and made
religion free to all but Jews.
William Plank inton, the Million
aire packer of Milwaukee, is dead.
Secretary Taft has ordered Minister
Bowen to come to Washington and has
named W. W. Russell as his substi
tute.
Laredo, Tex., was swept by a tor
nado which killed twenty-one persons
and demolished hundreds of houses.
Two men were instantly killed by
the explosion of a tank in the electric
light plant at the Broad street station
of the Pennsylvania railroad in .Phila
delphia.
Captain A. Raibourn, twenty-ninth
infantry, U. S. A., committed suicide
at Fort Douglas, Utah, after making a
murderous assault on Lieutenant Wil
liam H. Point, also of the twenty
ninth infantry. Point was shot twice
by his superior officer.
Thomas Gahan, prominent as a Chi
cago democratic leader, died suddenly.
Gen. Ballington Booth of the Volun
teers of America tells of an offer of 90,000
acres of productive land in the south if
the Volunteers will advertise the state.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee died in Washing
ton from apoplexy. He was stricken
while on board a train.
President Roosevelt and party attend
ed church near'Glenwood Springs, Col.,
in clothes used in hunting, no other
garb being available. After the sermon,
the president delivered a short address.
Germany's threat of tariff war with
the United States fails to alarm the ad
ministration at Washington. Congress
is expected to supply the president with
a retaliatory weapon.
Attorneys for Nan Patterson decided
to submit no defense on the contention
that the state had failed to make out
any case against the defendant. A mo
tion to dismiss the indictment was de
nied.
STRIK
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LESS RIOTING OCCURS IN THE
BUSINESS SECTION BUT
ASSAULTS CONTINUE.
Deputy Sheriffs are Instructed to be
Careful about Shooting but no
not to Temporize at all with the
Strikers.
Chicago, May 6.—Fifteen wagons
were sent out yesterday by the large
department stores and all of them
made deliviries without interruption.
On each of the wagons rode two
deputy sheriffs.
It was the success of this attempt at
delivering goods that prompted the
stores to determine to send today prac
tically their full force of wagons.
Either cause of the threatened ap
pearance of the troops or because of
the addition to the police fores in the
shape of deputy sheriffs, there was
much less rioting and fighting in the
downtown streets esterday than on
any day this week.
The wagons of the express compa
nies, each one of which carried a guard
armed with a Winchester rifle or
double-barreled shotgun, went to and
from between the depots and express
offices without interruption, other than
that of an occasional stone
thrown from the sidewalk, or some
other missile hurled from a window.
There was little of this, however, and
the wagons were practically unmo
lested.
An order was issued early in the dav
by Chief of Police O'Neill, directing
that all persons should be prevented
from following up wagons as they went
through the streets, had muer to do
with the absence of rioting.
DYNAMITE.
A Explosion Wreck Home of Joh
Hunte Near the Village
of Bridgman.
St. Cloud, Minn May 6.—A a
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from Foreston, Milaca count}, •*_»
the home of James Hunter, onc-nalf
mile from Bridgman. was ra/ad by a
dynamite explosion Thursday, as a re
sult of which Mrs. Hunter and her
two children, one a little girl of three
and the other an infant of four
months, were instantly killed and an
other boy fatally injured. The acci
dent was the result of wai nrn dyna
mite in his stove.
Hunter had purchased a quantity of
dynamite for stump blowing pm poses
and unbeknown to his wife had placed
several sticks in the stove to warm.
Something, meantime, had called him
to town, and he went away, forgetting
to tell his wife or children that he had
placed something in the stove.
Mrs. Hunter was working in the
kitchen and the ehildrcn were playing
around the stove when suddenly an
explosion occurred.
Mrs. Hunter and the two' 'smaller
children were blown to atoms and por
tions of their clothing and limbs were
found manv rods away.
A Awful Death.
Park River, N. D., May 6.—John
Bergerson, a farmer living in Latona
township, west'of here, died from aw
ful burns while trying to save bis
horses from his burning barn He
went out to his barn to feed his horses.
He hung his lantern to a rafter but it
fell, setting the barn on fire. Borger
son succeeded in saving two of them,
but in trying to get the third out his
clothes caught fire. He suffered ter
rible agony and died a few hours af
terward. Bergerson was a bachelor
about 6.% years of a^e, an old resident,
and a man of many good qualities.
Guilty.
Anoka, Minn., May ." —Kalderwit is
guilty of murder in the second degree,
and the man who killed little Freddie
King, the night of Nov. 22 will repeat
his crime in the state prison at Still
water.
The crime of which Kalderwit was
convicted was the murder of Freddie
King, a nine-year-old boy, while hold
ing up the Mingo saloon at Columbia
Heights the night of Nov. '."?.
Crowe Gives Up.
Omaha, May 6 —Pat Crowe, alleg-ed
kidnaper of Eddie Cudahy, son ...' tie
millionaire packer of Omaha, anci tor
whose arrest rewards aggregating $30.
000 have at different times been of
fered, walked into the office of the
World-Herald yesterday, accompanied
by Thomas O'Brien, proprietor of the
Henshaw hotel of this city.
Tornado.
Fort-Worth, TexaB, May (5.—Several
small towns in Oklahoma and Indian
teritory are in ruins, four persons are
dead are many are injurrd, due to a
tornado which passed ouer the tcrito
ries last night.
The tornado was followed by exces
sive rain and hail.
Cyclone Hits Village.
Worthington, Minn., May 0 —A cy
clone passed through the villlage of
Hound Lake. Although only about
ten feet in width, it swept everything
in its path. Four homes were destroyed
besides a blacksmith shop end several
barns.
One woman, Mrs. Meyers, was
blown across the street and danger
ously injured and probably will die.
The storm caught Frank Horton's
large blacksmith shop and demolished
it, crossed the street near the, livery
barn and destroyed Meyer's building.
Scholars Defeat Police.
Crookston, Minn., May C.—The en
tire police force was called out last
evening to quell a fight "among classes
of the Crookston high school which
originated over the burning of the
•ophpmore class of an effigy of Cesar.
The juniors and sophs clashed over the
affair and the seniors interferred, the
class scrimmage making a row which
awoke the echoes of th£ city and
brought people out of their homes in
fear1 of a race riot.
There was a fierce battle for a short
time.
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short Items Showing What has Hap
pened Throughout Confines
of North Star State.
State inspection of hay is a diffl*
cult task.
Macalester defeats St. Olaf at base
ball 7 to 1.
C. H. Warren of Aitkin is appoint*
ed state immigration agent.
Mrs. John Keller of St. Paul dies
from effect of bullet wounds.
The bankers of the Ninth district
held a successful meeting in Moor
hcad.
The city council of St. Paul appor
tions $35,000 to be expended for good
roads.
The state board of health decides
to establish a branch laboratory in
Duluth*
The state game and fish commis
sion believes it has pot hunters on
the hip.
The state is likely to start the next
fiscal year with a deficit of nearly
$1,000,000.
The Burlington and Northern Pa
cific will run a good roads special
to the coast.
The legislature made no provision
for maintaining the sanatorium for
consumpthes.
Vincent Seietl, a painter, drops
dead while calling at the home of
acquaintances.
Three constitutional amendments
will be submitted to the Minnesota
voters next year.
The legislators imposed much ex
a work on the state railway and
warehouse commission.
The state food department finds
Minnesota butcher shops and grocery
stores in sanitary condition.
The warehouse of M. Graus at
Hastings was burned last night. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
Nellie Palmer is appointed post
mistress at Oskawa, Nicollet county,
in place of Frank McOnat, resigned.
The Minneapolis banlc clearings in
one day were $4,072,057.97, which was
tne best single business day in some
time.
The report of the labor commis
sioner records 199 accidents in Min
nesota factories during the last three
months.
The Virginia «fc Rainy Lake com
pany, capitalized at $2,000,000, filed
articles of incorporation with the sec
retary of state.
Roscoe Haskeld, a transient, while
under the influence of liquor, com
pletely wrecked the home of Mrs.
Dustin of Winona.
I is found that the permanent, as
well as the temporary journals of
the legislature, make the code take
effect March 1, 1905.
J?ive applications for pardons or
commutations of sentences were de
nied by the state board of pardons
at a special meeting.
The American Medico Psychologi
cal association in session at San An
tonio, Texas, has selected St. Paul as
the next meeting place.
Ruth Bakkan, of Duluth, aged 5j4
years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. I.
Bakkan, was fatally burned while
playing about a bonfire.
The faculty of Concordia college at
Moorhead has found it necessary. to
provide more room. A new main
building will be erected.
As the result of a raid of the Moor
head police seven boys are now con
fined in the Moorhead jail charged
with disturbing the peace.
Col. H. Graves of Duluth, the
newly appointed minister to Norway
and Sweden, and Alice Kinney Tripp
were married at Philadelphia.
Edward Claggett withdraws his
name after Gov. Johnson had pro
tested against selecting him as su
perintendent of the new capitol.
The Japanese government has ap
parently closed its orders for Amer
ican flour, which they have been buy
ing in immense quantities for several
weeks.
Instruction in domestic science is
likely to be made a prominent and
essential feature of the course of
study in the" various normal schools
of Minnesota.
Dr. C. W. Van Damme of Minne
apolis, who has been on trial before
Judge Simpson of the district court
on the charge of criminal malprac
tice, was found guilty.
Samuel S. Norman, Waverly hotel,
salesman for the Daniels Linseed Oi)
company of St. Paul, fell down a
stairway at the Grill restaurant, Min
neapolis, and was killed.
S. P. Barney, an attorney and one
of the prominent and wealthy resi
dents of Mankato, died following an
operation Monday for cancer. He
was one of the earliest residents of
Mankato.
Through the efforts of the Hen
ning Industrial association, Hcnning
is to have a $15,000 starch factory.
In consideration of a bonus of $3,500
R» L. Hall of Anoka has agreed to es
tablish the industry there.
A freight train on the North-West
ern ran into a flock of 100 spring
iambs, which had escaped from the
sheep sheds of C. W. Miller, a few
miles west of Winona. Almost every
lamb in the entire flock was killed.
Judge Lewis of the Ramsey county
district court appointed P. J. Mc
Laughlin receiver of the Equitable
and the Mercantile Fire Insurance
companies of 'St. Paul, which were
declared insolvent by Insurance Com
missioner 6'Brien. Mr. McLaughlin**
bond was fixed at $10,000.
Gov. John A. Johnson nearly col
lapsed from the strain of his official
duties. While in the midst of work
In his private office at the capitdl
yesterday afternoon he was attacked
with a severe headache and sinking
spell, and had to seek rest «n a
ooucn.
Alma Salvig, who was for a time
enable to speak after a fall at
Minneapolis roller skating rink, has
now fully recovered her power of
vpteeh, but ia still suffering from
the severe nervous shock she re
ceived, and her physicians have reo
emmended complete rest.
A campaign to secure the enforce
ment of the law providing that build*
lngs of three or more stories In
which labor is employed shall be
•quipped with fire escapes is about
to bo started by W. H. Williams of
Minneapolis, state labor ootnmis*
HEW
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Defective Eyesight.
S Paul.—Reports received by the
state board of health indicate that
there are 60,000 to 70,003 pupils in the
public schools of Minnesota who have
defective eyesight, and that less than
10 per cent of these wear glasses or are
taking any treatment to improve their
eyesight
This condition is all the more re
markable when it is known that ow
ing to the nature of the test applied
by the teachers, only the more serious
defects are discovered. If the pupils'
eyes were examined by oculists the
number showing defective eyesight, it
is believed, would be much larger.
The reports received by the state
board of health show that 10 to lr per
cent of the pupils examined have de
fective sight. In many cities the per
centage is much greater. For in
stance, in the public school at Tower,
of 290 pupils examined, 86 had defect
eyesight. In Sauk Rapids 43 had de
fective sight of of 200. In Red Wing
the percentage of defective eyes was
about 20 the figures being 196 and
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N More Mineral Leases.
No mining leases to operate in
the beds of meandered lakes
will be issued by State Aulitor S. G.
Iverson for at least two years. The
recent legislature refused to piss a
law expressly authorizing the state
auditor to lease beds of lakes, and in
the absence of authority from the leg
islature the state auditor will issue no
such leases.
Scores of applications for leases cov
ering the beds of most of the lakes in
the vicinity of the iron range have
been filed with the state auditor. Two
years ago he issued prospecting leases
on a portion of the bed of Long lake
in S Louis county, town 58, range 20,
in accordance with an opinion tiled by
Former Attorney General \V. B. Doug
las, who held that the state owned the
land and that it should exercise its
ownership.
Irrigation.
Minnesota and North Dakota are
taking steps to catch a good
share of the immigration that is being
directed toward the northwest province
of Canada. The legislatures in both
states appropriated large sums for the
purpose of advertising their agricult
ural, commercial and educational ad
vantages
In Minnesota annual appropriation
is $15,003, and will be expanded by
State Auditor Iverson, wrho is ex-officio
land commissioner. Mr. Iverson is
given authority to advertise the ad
vantages of Minnesota lands within
and without the state and to prepare
such literature and statistics explain
ing the resources of the state as he may
deem advisable.
Plowin by Steam,
Crookston.—With the arrival of a
carload of improved steam plow ma
chinery, including wide-tire traction
engines of improved design and great
power, a movement has been started
in the Minnesota Red river valley
which will, in time, disturb the useful
ness of the horse as a means of turning
over the virgin sod.
Heretofore farmers have been skep
tical of the value of steam power as an
agent for plowing, but recent tests
have turned out so satisfactory and
the saving over old methods has been
so apparent that they understand the
benefit which is derived from the steam
system, both from a monetary stand
point and the quality of the work
don*.
The steam plow outfit which reached
here consists of thirty-tive-horsepower
engines with tires nearly three feet
wide. The wide tires are made neces
sary because of the unstable character
of the field, which would almost bury
an engine of the ordinary type. The
plow proper contains sixteen 16-inch
shares and at each trip across a twt^
mile field six acres of ground is turned
over. The two-mile stretches can be
covered by the machine in an hour
making the result for the day's work
of twelve hours 144 acres, or three
weeks' work for one man with team.
India Allotment.
White Earth —The reallotment of
of additional land to Indians under the
Steenerson land bill closed here. The
allotment of land will resume again on
Monday, May 13 About 1,000 allot
ments have been issued.
Most of the logging camp matters
connected with the cutting of dead
and fallen timber on the reservation
during the last winter have been set
tled. The result to both loggers, and
purchasers was, on the average very
satisfactory. A total of about $100,000
was paid out
News Notes.
The state officials puf into effect the
new accounting system provided for
by the recent legislature.
Burglars carried away between 8400
and 9509 worth of goods from the de
partment store of L. Wineberg,
Minneapolis.
Ed McDonald, a young man of Wi
nona,lies in a critical condition as a re
sult of a knife wound received in a
mix-up on the lake bridge.
Olaf Dahlberg, of Cambridge, was
found dead in his bed at the Pauly
house on Bridge square, Minneapolis,
and the indications point strongly to
suicide by gass poisoning.
Jogn Boehlke, a farmer living near
Mankato, who has been suffering from
slight mental trouble for several
years, became vioently insane, and
with an ax drove his wife and children
from the house, threatening to kill
them.
The Elk laundry, Minnesota street,
near Ninth, St. Paul, was entered by
burglars, Who blew open the safe and
took $75 in cash.
United States Indian Agent Simon
Michelot commenced the allotment of
land to the White Earth Chippewa
Indians under the Steenerson addition
al allotment
Ten thousand dollars will be spent
in opening for navigation places in
Minnetonka which have long been too
shallow to permit the big boats to
travel there.
Thomas Lang, janitor of the Wash
ington high school building at Le
Sueur, was severely injured by being
caught In the engine that runs the ven
tilating fans. He will bo crippled for
I life.
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Qosslp From
Scandinavia.
Principal Events That Have Oc
curred in the Old Countries
Within a Week or So.
DENMARK
King Christian has created two new
posts, those of military and naval di
rectors. He has appointed Col. Ze
dorf to be director of the ministry of
war and Commander Kofoed Hansen
to be director of the marine ministry.
Ever since the new cabinet was ap
pointed Premier Christensen had acted
as minister of war and minister of ma
rine.
J. L. Hansen, a lawyer at Kolding,
was appointed by the king*.to succeed
"Old Thyggeson" as member of the
landsting. The new member is 57
years old. He served 62 days in the
folketing in 1887, and is a leading Left
ist
Six hundred Danes have signed an
appeal to the people to organize an
anti-military party.
The Danish bicycle insurance com
pany has paid out $23,000 to Copen
hagen policy holders whose wheels
were stolen.
The jubilee edition of Hans Christian
Andersen's fairy tales is the greatest
success scored by any Scandinavian
publisher, over 80,000 subscribers hav
ing sent in their names, and the total
will no doubt exceed 100 000 The
work will appear in thirty weekly in
stallments, the total cost of which will
be only 81 cents This proves the im
mense popularity of Andersen's writ
ings 100 years after his death.
FINLAND
The labor and temperance unions of
nelsmgfors paraded the streets April
14 in favor of general suffrage. About
10,000 persons participated in the dem
onstration. The inscriptions on the
banners stated that general suffrage
alone can properly advance the devel
opment of the country, and this reform
was demanded, not as a gift, but as a
right.
Two counts named Creutz. who were
expelled from Finland, have been per
mitted to return.
The deeds of violence committed in
the interior of Russia are verj* often
aimed at the rich land-owners. Many
of these, in order to escape from a life
of constant terror, are going to Finland
with their families. They will spend
the summer in that country, and the
farmers of Finland are actually bene
fitted by the bloody commotions in
Russia
At Kukkola two eccentric sisters
have been separated by the death of
one of them. Their names were Eva
and Sara When Sara died Eva want
ed to keep her dead body in the house
indefinitely, and it had to be taken
away by main force. The sisters
claimed with a certain pride that they
had not taken a bath for fifty years.
Another peculiarity about their mode
of living was that they never used
bread. They raised several barrels of
grain every year. But they roasted
the grain, ground it, and made it into
mush, which was their only food.
They kept several cows and sheep, for
which they cared with great tender
ness. When some one brought bread
into the house they would divide it
among their animals, but they did not
taste it themselves.
SWEDEN
Prof. Yngve Sjcstedt and Gunnar
Sandberg are going to German East
Africa to pursue zoological lesearches.
The German authorities will provide
carriers from the shore to the interior,
and the Swedish scientists are to enjoy
he hospitality of the Germans at
Moschi, a military station.
Several curious remedies have been
suggested for a settlement of the union
trouble on thcSeandinavian peninsula.
Here is a sample: Let the king live
one year in Sweden and one year in
Xorwaj'. When he i*esides in Norway
the Norwegian minister of state shall
act as minister of foreign affairs for
the two countries, and when he re
sides in Sweden the Swedish minister
shall do the same. The most curious
part of this plan is that children born
of royal blood in Sweden shall be
Swedish princes or princesses, and
those born in Norway shall be Norwe
gian princes and princesses. By this
arrangement the ruler would some
times happen to be Norwegian and
sometimes a Swede. The beauty of
this scheme must be sought in the fact
that its craziness makes all parties
laugh in spite of the seriousness os? the
situation.
Navigation was opened April 15 on
the Trollhatte canal.
The municipal court of Sundsvall
ordered Captain Palmqvist, of the Sal
vation army, to leave the quarters of
the local corps, and he moved out at
once. This shows the radical nature
of the seism in the army.
General Axel Rappe, the head of the
general staff, has reported to the min
ister of war that he cannot find suffi
cient strategical reasons for trans
ferring a regiment of cavalry to Norr
land.
Representatives from sixteen yacht
vclubs
held a meeting in Stockholm and
organized a national association. After
an animated discussion it was resolved
that the association shall drop the
spelling "yacht' and return to the old
Swedish spelling, a The former
spelling came to England by way of
Holland.
The Swedish newspapers advise
Swedish investors to take out patents
on their inventions in Japan. So far
the Swedish investors have generally
neglected to do this, and the Japanese
have often been quick to take advant
age of their negligence.
The chapters of all the dioceses of
Sweden have expressed themselves on
the question of giving the school teach
ers a chance to exert influence upon
the actions of the school boards. The
opinions vary a great deal, but most
of the chapters admit that the knowl
edge and experience of the teachers
should be utilised by the school boards.
One chapter, that of Linkoping, ar
gues that it is a questionable principle
to grant those who are to be ruled a
place among those who are to rule.
"Scabs" and persons supposed to bo
"scabs" have been much troubled by
strikers in Stoolchblm.
JJ
The city of Sundsvall will run an
employment of&ce as a branch of the
city administration.
A deputation from the Swedish
Housebuilders union called on the min
ister of finance and requested him to
advocate legislation for the protection
of men employed in the building trades.
The deputation was cordially received,
and the minister of finance promised
to refer the matter to the proper nke
dag committee.
The city council of Sundsvall appro
priated $27,000 for military defences of
the harbor.
After a six weeks' labor contest, all
the laborers employed in the building
trades in Malmo were locked out on
April 17. About 2,000 men were
thrown out of work.
It is said that the Kristianstad and
Solvesborg railway is to be sold for
$800,000 to the Central Blekinge rail
way company.
An anonymous philanthropist bae
donated $2,700 to the Swedish society
for combatting tuberculosis.
Five farm-steads in Tjusby, Gards
losa parish, were swept by fire in the
night, and about 30 horses and cows.
were burned to death.
NORWAY.
The Norwegian government has ar
ranged with a Paris, syndicate for a
3J£ per cent loan of $8,000,000, subject
to the approval of the storting. The
money is being obtained to strengthen
the state reserve fund.
Mayor Jakob Pettersson of Soder
telje and G. von Koch, a Stockholm
journalist, are visiting several Norwe
gian cities to study their arrangements
for taking care of the poor.
Several Norwegian steamer^, have
been sold to Japan during the la&i fetn
months
The controversy about the owner
ship of the Oscoerg Viking sh ha«
been settled in a "satisfactory manne:
It was agreed that the famous re ic
onght to be preserved at the museum
of the university, but the necessary
funds were lacking. lhe dtifieuity
was removed by the generosity of a
few publit-spirited men. Fnt/5 Tre
schow of Fritzohus contributed S3.000
the Ringnes brewery $1,300, a few
others $500, and the city council of
Kristiania is expected to appropriate
$2,700. making it possible for the uni
versity not only to obtain possession of
the remains of the ship, but also to
reconstruct and take proper care of it
Col. Heftye, of the Norwegian army,
was politely permitted to see the new
fortifications at Boden Some Swed
ish newspapers are inclined to think
that this courteousnesi was almost too
much of a good thing.
It is openly stated in the press that
the target practice in the coast de
fenses is by no means what it ought
to be.
Adolf Beck, the Norwegian who was
unjustly punished in England, has had
his case fully discussed in a pamphlet
which he has published and distrib
uted among the members of parlia
ment
A large and rich vein of copper ore
has been found at Rostvang, Tonset.
Nordmore nad spring weather for
about one month. But snow began to
fall about the 10th of April, and a few
days later the snow was two feet deep
close to the sea, and still deeper in the
mountains.
The death of Mr. Thyggesen. the
oldest member of the Danish rigsdag,
at the age of 99 years, has called at
tention to the peculiarities of his
father, who was a Norwegian. At an
art auction in Paris the elder Thygge
sen bought a painting by Van Huysum.
for which Napoleon the Great was a
bidder, and the painting was taken to
Norway, but was bought for the Cop
enhagen royal collection in 1S41 Hen
rik Wergeland wrote one of his famous
poems about this painting, which rep
resents flowers. It is said that Thyg
gesen and his family made a trip to
Rome, using their o« horses, which
wore silver shoes. This may not be
true, but it is known that the man was
fond of pomp and show.
The storting sanctioned -the state
loan of S10,000,000 unanimously recom
mended by the finance committee, thus
ensuring a military reserve fund in the
event of it becoming necessary for
Norway to provide for her own de
fense. There were only four dissent
ing votes.
The city council of Kristiania passed
a very important vote on the street
railway question at the close of a hot
night session, which lasted until 4
o'clock in the morning. The resolu
tion, which was carried by a vote of 4^
(the Rightists) to 37 (the Leftists and
the Socialists), provides that the lines
operated by the private street car com
pany shall be kept by the company to
the year 1924, and that the lines oper
ated by the city since 1S97 shall be
rented by the company. This is a de
cided setback to the Socialistic propa
gand a
T*ae snow was in excellent condition
for ski sport on the llallingdal and
Valdres mountains about the middle
of April.
The total catch of codfish from the
beginning of the winter season to
April 13 was 29.000,000 fish, as com
pared with 25,000,000 for the corre
sponding period in 1901.
The storting promptly voted Prince
Gustav Adolf, the heir apparent to the
thrones of .Norway and Sweden, an
appanage of $13,300 a year. This is
looked upon as a handsome amount
under the circumstances. But it must
be borne in mind that after the mar
riage of Prince Gustav Adolf and Prin
cess Margaret they are going to reside
in Kristiania. The young couple will
receive $27,000 a year from Sweden.
Several members of the Norwegian
storting spent the Easter vacation in
Stockholm. They were members of
the delegation that visited the French
chamber of deputies last year.
The total amount sent by postal
money orders from America to Nor
way in 1904 exceeded the cash remit
ted by the same means in the opposite
direction to the amount of $1,342,000.
Norway has imported 500,000 bush
els of potatoes by way of Kristiania
alone since last fall, and considerable
quantities must be imported yet before
the new crop reaches the market
When the potato crop is good Norway
exports thousands of bushels.
Albert Luade, a lay preacher, has
been permitted to preach in the Luth
eran state churches of Kristiania,
though ho is a Baptist
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