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SUMMARY OF A
WEEK'S EVENTS
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
AT HOKE TOLD IN CON
DENSED FORM.
LATE FOREIGN DISPATCHES
Interesting Items of New* Gathered
from All Parts of the Globe and
Outlined In the Briefest Manner
Possible.
UPRISING I N RUSSIA.
Emperor Nicholas issued a manifesto
giving to the Russian people civil lib
erty, the inviolability of person, free
dom of conscience, speech and assem
bly, extended suffrage and a represen
tative law-making body. To carry out
these reforms Count Witte was named
as premier-president. Disorders con
tinue throughout the empire, but In St.
Petersburg and Moscow there are signs
of a weakening of the strike.
All Russia celebrates the granting of
a constitution, but the situation is seri
ous in many places, where troops and
people clash, many being killed and in
jured. A bloody revolution menaces
the empire, the people being outspoken
in their disappointment over their
newly found-liberty. Odessa, Warsaw,
Lodz and other cities were scenes of
not and bloodshed. The press of the
leading European capitals is skeptical
of the"•* genuineness of reforms, but
places much reliance on Witte.
Disorders are renewed in Russia de
spite the czar's manifesto. Over 100
were slain at Odessa during a day of
fighting. Twenty were killed at War
saw and political prisoners were set
free.',
Arbitrary rule in Finland Is ended.
St. Petersburg ordered the governor
general to reassemble the diet and re
store constitutional government,
checking a general strike which had
been started.
Constantine Petrivitch Pobiednost
•eff, chief procurator of the Russian holy
synod, has resigned.
Austrian social democrats held a
meeting at Vienna and threatened an
uprising like that of Russia unles*
equal suffrage and other concessions
are secured.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Prince Louis of Battenberg and a
British fleet arrived at Annapolis. He
was royally welcomed by American
Officers.
A statement by T. Lee Clark, cashier
of the defunct Allegheny bank, writ
ten a few hours before his suicide,
charges W. H. Andrews with causing
his ruin.
Dr. C. H. French, president of Huron
(S. D.) college, announced that Ralph
Yoorhees, of New Jersey had given the
college 1100,000.
The corn crop in the southwestern
portions, of the belt is badly damaged
by heavy rains, wet weather causing
mold and decay.
Mrs. Henry T. Evans, wife of a di
rector in the National Biscuit com
pany, committed suicide in Chicago by
hanging.
The boom of Speaker Cannon for the
presidency was launched by Senator
Hopkins at a Hoopeston (111.) banquet.
New treaty with China designed to
and the hardships and abuses preva
lent at present by providing for the
examination of prospective immigrants
at the port of departure abroad, in
stead of at the port of arrival, is
sought by President Roosevelt, Secre
tary Metcalf and Commissioner of Im
migration Sargent.
Constantine Andrew was crushed to
death under a fall of rock in the mine
of the Gallatin Coal company near
Nashville, 111.
The old union flag was struck
throughout Sweden and the new Swed
ish ensign was hoisted to accompani
ment of salutes, the ringing of church
bells and parades of troops.
Five American missionaries have
been murdered at Llenchow, China.
Direct charge of fraud is made by
the receiver of the Enterprise national
bank of Allegheny against W. H. An
drews, republican machine leader, in a
suit to recover 155.000.
Former President Cleveland eulo
gized J. Sterling Morton at the unveil
ing of a statue at Nebraska City, Neb.
Proceedings to oust the Mutual and
New York Life companies from Ohio
were begun at Akron.
Two men were killed and others are
buried under the wreckage caused by a
head-on collision on the Shenandoah
division of the Norfolk & Western rail
xoad near Nace, Va.
Rival interstate commerce law con
ventions in Chicago adopted resolutions
on the question of railway rate regula
tion and provided for lobbies to attend
before congress in behalf of their views.
Secretary Hitchcock is hot on the
trail of land" grabbers throughout the
country.
Booker T. Washington declares
^President Roosevelt's southern trip has
.relieved the race issue.
Five women were badly burned, two of.
them probably fatally, In a Are which
destroyed the hardware factory of M.
Gould Sons ft Co. at Newark, N. J. Low,
'.160,000. -r
John Young, a pioneer of Wisconsin
and ex-sheriff of Sauk county, dropped
dead while transacting business, in
Baraboo, Wis.
C. D. Crawford, convicted of having
murdered Heine Lundin in a box car
at Blk River, Minn., must die Decem
ber 6. Gov. Johnson fixed that date
for the hanging.
The total assessed valuation of Jew
elry in Mississippi is only 148,850. The
total number of pistols assessed ia 10,
593, upon which t'here is placed a val
uation of 180,563.60.
An explosion occurred in the primer
dry house of the Union Cap & .Chemi
cal company at Alton, 111,, causing the
death of Foreman Anthone Beechy,
who was terribly mangled. The ex
plosion set off 10,000,000 gun and cart
ridge primers and blew the stone dry
house to pieces.
Two men were killed and three seri
ously injured by an explosion in the
Potomac electric power house in Wash
ington, D. C.
Charles J. Devlin, the widely known
coal mine operator, who recently un
derwent bankruptcy with liabilities of
15,631,000, died at St. Elizabeth's hos
pital, Chicago, as the result of a stroke
of paralysis.
The Farmers' national bank of King
fisher, Okla., has been closed by the
direction of the comptroller of the cur
rency.
Joseph R. Carpenter shot himself in
the railway offices of the Rock.Island
railroad In New York. He was a vice
president of the Stickler Brothers'
Furniture company, of Grand Rapids,
Mich., and the eastern traveling repre
sentative for the firm. No reason for
the deed is known.- •_.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of busi
ness October 31, 1905, the debt, leB*
cash in the treasury, amounted to $1,
002,646,125, which is an increase for
the month of $6,068,116.
W. O. Chadaeyne, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
has completed a motor cycle run from
New York city to San Francisco in 47
days 23 hours and 50 minutes.
James H. A. Brooks, a. well-known
manufacturer of Philadelphia, was
killed, Michael G. Price, a business as
sociate, and the wives of the two men
were seriously injured in an automo
bile accident, near Absecoh, N. J.
Cholera has broken out in Lodz,
Russian Poland. A number of cases
are reported in the most populous sec
tion of the town.
Gen. Tchertokoff, .an aide-de-camp of
Emperor Nicholas and formerly gov
ernor general of Warsaw, died sudden
ly in Paris.
President Roosevelt returned to
Washington from his visit to the south,
thus completing a tour of the entire
nation during his term of office.
Rear Admiral Train, commander-in
chief of the American Asiatic squad
ron and his son, a lieutenant, were at
tacked by a mob in China, and the,son
is held as a hostage, on account of the
accidental shooting of a woman.
Thirteen persons were killed and 30
injured in the wreck of the Atchison,*
Topeka ft Santa Fe passenger train, No.
1, which struck a loose rail, ditching
five cars, one mile east of Blue River,
which is the eastern limits of Kansas
City, Mo.
The Norwegian storthing ha? decid
ed to allow the people to vote on the
proposition of calling Charles of Den
mark to be king.
Lord Curzon, the retiring viceroy of
India, was prostrated by fever as a re
sult of exposure to th» sun.
Secretary Taft has been ordered by
the president to take personal charge
of Panama canal matters, abolishing
the office of chief of administration.
Cuba is reported to have asked Min
ister Squier's recall for implication in
the annexation plot
Gov. Warner of Michigan plans to
compel railroads to restore the north
ern mileage book.
Saloons in Minneapolis must close
on Sunday, according to a drastic order
issued by Mayor David P. Jones, fol
lowing a strenuous reform campaign.
Paul Morton says the insurance agi
tation will result in placing the com
panies on a better basis.
Saloon passengers on transatlantic
liners in the future will be inspected
by federal doctors, like steerage trav
elers.
The Commercial association reported
a 20 per cent increase of Chicago trade
in the year ended October 31 over the
preceding year, and 100 per cent over
a decade ago.
Two men who registered at a hotel in
East St. Louis, 111., .as M. M. Donaldson
and Toney E. Donaldson, his son, were
found asphyxiated by gas in their room.
The younger man was dead. The other
was unconscious. I
Laws to protect song birds from be
ing killed by cats, requiring license
tags for the animals and holding their
owners responsible for their depreda
tions, are urged by the president of
the National Association of Audubon
Societies in New York.
Charles H. Darling, has retired from
the office of assistant secretary of the
navy, which post he has held since De
cember 16, 1901. is succeeded by
Truman H. Newberry, of Detroit, Mich.
The United States, Russia, Great Brit
ain, Italy, Switzerland and Brazil have
already declared their readiness to enter
into official relations with Norway.
The life insurance inquisitors in New
York find it necessary to extend the
investigation to take in some of the fire
companies and those issuing industrial
insurance and policies on the lives of
children.
Charles Nickel, mayor of Chenoa,
111., and bank president, was shot and
killed by his brother-in-law, William
La Due, who then killed H. D. Jones,
who sought to disarm him, barricaded
himself in the bank vault and wounded
two others.' He successfully defied
capture for six hours, but finally sur
rendered. Family troubles caused his
action.
King Victor Emanuel laid the corner
stone of the new harbor works at Ge
noa, Italy. As his majesty, by aid' of
an' electrical device, lowered the stone,
which weighed 11 tons, into the sea
there was a scene of great enthusiasm.
The evacuation of Manchuria by the
Japanese is being actively carried on.
and troops are-arrlvlng daily at vari
ous parts.
The Chicago post office has' moved
into the new federal building.
Mrs. Margaret Todd, 80 years old, a
wealthy New York woman, disappeared
and was found mangled by a train In
Philadelphia.
The New York police stopped (he pro
duction of George Bernard Shaw's play
"Mrs. Warren's Profession" by arrest
ing Samuel Gumperts, manager of the
Garrlck theater, in which the play made,
its appearance, on a charge of offending
public decency in sanctioning the per
formance.
The proposed meeting of the commit
tee to consider the question of changing
the date of the inauguration of the pres
ident of the United States from the 4th
of March has been postponed from No
vember 8 until November 28.
Col. Henry C. Ward, Fifteenth United
States infantry, at his own request ha3
been retired, after 42 years' active serv
ice.
The president has appointed Charles
A. Stillings, of Boston, Mass., as pub
printer, to take effect at once. Mr. Still
ings is manager of the Printers' board
of trade of New York city.
Ex-Gov. Andrew R.McGill, of Minne
sota, aged 65 years, died suddenly in S
Paul of heart disease.
The most disastrous fire which has
occurred in West Virginia for years
practically wiped out the little oil town
of Pine Grove, in Wetzel county, causing
a loss of |125,000. Dynamite was finally
used to stop the flames, buildings in the
path of the fire being blown up.
In a head-on collision between two
freight trains on the Chicago, Rock
Island ft Pacific railroad at Casey, la.,
six persons were killed.
The population of Greater New York,
as counted by the state census bureau
June 1, is 4,014,304. It was 3,437,202 in
1900.
Grand Secretary W. S. Carter, of the
Brotherhood of (Locomotive Firemen
has been paid $50,470.85, principal and
interest by the National Surety company
of Chicago, for loss sustained by him
when the Peoria (111.) national bank
closed its doors.
The machinists' strike, which had
been in progress for 18 months in Chi
cago, has been declared off. by the
union.
Cashier J. C. Langley, of the First
national bank of Mansfield, III., is short
$30,000. A brother of Vice President
Fairbanks is president of the bank.
Kuhn, Loeb ft Co., as syndicate man
agers, call for the payment of between
$10,000,000 and $15,0u0,000 on account
of the last Japanese loan.
For the third time the Chicago city
council administered a crushing defeat
to Mayor Dunne and by a vote of 46 to,
20 rejected his traction policy.
The reciprocity treaty between the
United States and Cuba will not be re
newed by the former if the commercial
treaty concluded between the island
and England Is ratified.
Gov. Roberts, of Connecticut has
granted a reprieve to Frank Sherrie,
who was sentenced to be hanged this'
week for the murder of Mrs. Ludwika
Kulas. The prisoner is reprieved un
til January 9, 1906.
The dead body of Harry Hart, 14
years old, was found in the woods at
Marion, Ind„ with head torn nearly off
by the discharge of boy's shotgun. The
body had been guarded all night by the
boy's faithful dog.
I. J. Bailey, a contractor, was killed
outright by being struck by an engine
while driving across the railroad tracks
at Fulton, 111. A companion In the
buggy was thrown several feet, but es
caped without injury.
At Peoria, 111., Judge Worthington
granted a writ of habeas corpus for
Newton C. Dougherty confined in the
county jail for alleged defalcation of
school funds, but refused to fix the date
for the hearing.
All the boilermakers and helpers of
the Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville
shops are out because Erie engines are
being sent to Peru, Ind., for.repairs.
In forging the names of ignorant ne
groes to land leases George Washington,
Murray, a negro once a member of con
gress from South Carolina, will have
to spend the next three years cracking
rocks and road building in that state.
The rifle range and two pavilions at
Scheutzen park, Union Hill, N. J., were
destroyed by fire, involving a total loss
of $100,000.
The large lime kilns of the Kelley
Island Line and Transportation com
pany at Marblehead, O., were totally de
stroyed by fire. Loss, $150,000.
Six mine officials were killed by an
explosion at Hazel Kirk, Pa., in un
dertaking a dangerous task which they
refused to saddle on foreign helpers.
Three persons died and property loss
of more than $150,000 was Caused as a
result of flood from a broken water
main in Chicago.
Americans in Hongkong assert that
the Chinese boycott on goods from the
United States is now being vigorously
conducted in all the Chinese ports and
that*the results are very serious.
Capt. James G. Wright, 85 years old,
killed himself by firing a bullet into his
brain in Indianapolis, Ind. For more
than half a century he was prominent in
business circles in southern Indiana.
A Philadelphia ring is said by an in
vestigating committee to have robbed
the city of $6,330,000 in the expenditure
of about $18,000,000 for the construc
tion of. a filtration plant and boule
vards.
The trunk of the body found in a
suit case in Boston has been identified
as Susan Geary, a chorus girl. Morr
Nathan, her fiance, has been arrested
in Pittsburg on suspicion of having
murdered her.
Gen. DragomiroflC the Russian hero
it* the war with Turkey, Is dead.
After murdering his wife and their
two children, and sleeping beside their
bodies all night at Richmond, Va,
William C. Coker went at sunrise to
the home of his neighbor, R. S. Gres
eett, and killed him. He then commit
ted suicide.
Three persons were seriously in
jured, one of whom has since died, and
a dozen others had a narrow escape
from the flames in a fire that destroyed
the priests' house at Nazareth orphan
age, a Catholic boys' institution near
Raleigh, N. C.
Seventeen inmates of an orphans'
home at Burlington, Vt, were poisoned
mysteriously, three dying. The state
board of health physicians are unabTe
to find any explanation for the trag
edy.
As the result of a shotgun duel at Oli
ver's station Ind., Ephraim Ramsey, a
farmer, was shot and instantly killed by
Thomas.Ridley, his nephew. The shoot
ing is the culmination of years of do
mestic strife.
King Oscar has definitely and formal
ly declined the otter of the Norwegian
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KILLING CONTINUES WITHOUT
POLICE HINDE ANOB.
A Terrible Massacre Occurs at Ktsh
ineff in Which Hundreds
are Killed.
Berlin, Nov.4. —The Tageblatt prints
the following dispatch from the Jew
ish owner of three houses in Kieff:
"Anti-Jewish excesses have been
raging here fcr three days and all the
Jewish shops and many private houses
have been totally destroyed. The
number of Jewish victims is large, and
children and old people have been bar
barously murdered while the military
and police looked on with cynical in
difference. The situation is desper
ate."
The Lokal Anzeiger's Kieff corres
pondent represents the {[situation as
improved. _The number of dead on
both sides is about one hundred, but
many hundreds of persons were wound
ed and mangled and the city repre
sents a horrible appearance.
Some laborers have returned to
work. Street railways'are resuming
and other railways are making ready
for business. Traffic is expected to run
regularly by Sunday.
London, Nov. 4.—A special dispatch
to the Standard from Odessa says:"
"Three railway stations have been
burned between Odessa and Shmerlnkar
and the postal service has been sus
pended.
FOOTPAD CAPTURED.
A Young Woman is Held and
and Bobbed in the Heart of
the City- of St. Paul.
St Paul, Nov. 4.—The attempted
robbery of a woman in a blind alley
near the central part of S Paul, at a
late hour of the night, resulted in the
arrest of a youthful footpad after an
exciting struggle.*.
Miss Maud Bailey, 57, college ave
nue was passing along Minnesota
street of at 11 o'clock to meet a freind
at the Metropolitan- Opera house, and
when at the mouth of the alley between
Sixth .and Seventh streets, was dragged
some distance into the alley, where
she was knocked down by her assail
ant, who took her purse from her.
Her screams attracted the attention
of George Clolburn and C. Montgom
ery, who were on their way home
from a night school. They entered
the alley, and while assisting Miss
Bailey to her feet discovered the foot
pad cowering in the shadow at the end
of the passage and at once closed in,
and after a lively tussle succeeded in
overpowering him.
The renewed cries of alarm of his
victim had in the meantime attracted a
police man, who took the footpad to
the station, where he was booked un
der the name of A. P. Barry.
MURDER MOST FOUL.
Mysterious Tragedy in Minneapolis
is Most Sensational and
Puzzling.
Minneapolis, Nov.4—An unidentified
man entered the home of James Bren
nan at 1:35 this morning and shot and
killed two of the children and shot
and seriously wounded two other
children and Mrs. Brennan. The in
jured were taken to the city hospital
Their assailant escaped.
Mr. Brennan is a member of the Sal
vage corps, and was on duty at the
time of the shooting. He was sum
moned home, and arrived shortly be
fore the wounded were removed to the
hospital. The mother and two in
jured Children were in such a serious
condition that the police were unable
to get any details concerning ihe mur
der or the murderer.
Pleads Guilty.
Fargo, N. D., Nov. 4 —A plea of
guilty was entered by Thomas Stan
ton when asrainged on the charge of
robbing his roommate iu this city.
Stanton became alarmed after secur
ing the money and fled from the room
without his shoes. He related a story
at a restaurant about an attempt be
ing made to rob him and how he es
caped witn part of his clothes. Stan
ton went to Breckenridge and mailed
back some private papers to his victim.
This lep to his arrest He will be sen
tenced at the regular term of court
next week.
Seek Li?ht.
Washington, Nov. 4—President
Roosevelt will not dee'de the contro
versy over the White Earth timber
sale until next week at the earliest.
After last conference he directed Sec
retary Hitchcock and Commissioner
Leupp to prepare a statement showinsr
the amount of timber to be dispc^ed
of and the number of Indians affected
and also information about how the
proposed plan of operating works in
Wisconsin, where it has been in op
eration for several years. These data
is being collected and will be sent to
the president in a few days.
Hangs Dec. 5.
S Paul, Nov. 4 —Tuesday, Dec. 5,
is the date fixed by Gov. Johnson for
the hanging of D. Crawford, sen
tenced for the murder of H. Lundeen
in a box car at Elk River. The gov
ernor has signed the death warrant
and sent notice to the officials of Sher
bourne county. Crawford will be tak
en to Elk River from St. Cloud, where
he is now confined.
No app ication for pardon or com
mutation of sensence has been filed,
although E. S. Cary, his attorney, an
nounced he would make'application.
Can't Agree.
Mankato, Minn., Nov. 4.—-Capt A.
H. Reed, of Glencoe, presikent of the
St. Cloud, Glencoe & Mankato Railway
company was in the city. He returned
from Chicago where endeavored to
learn from the officials of the Chicago.
Milwaukee & St Paul Railway com
pany just what they intend to do with
their extension from Good Thunder,
just begun, seemingly with the pur
pose of paralleling Capt Reed's road.
He was unable to learn their intea-
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DEATH DF A. R.M GILL.
Tormar Governor of Minnesota Diss
Suddenly in Hi Home in
St* Pan
St Paul, Nov. L—Ex-Gov. and Post
master Andrew R. McGill died sudden
ly yesterday morning at 4 o'clock at
his residence, 2223 Scudder avenue, S
Anthony Park.
Death was painfully sudden, for the
postmaster had been aa his usual em
ployment all day Monday. Monday
evening he complained of feeUng ill,
but laughed it off, saying that proba
bly his stomach was out of order.
At 4 o'clock he went to the bath
room. After being absent some little
interval of time his wife went to seek
him and and found him stretched upon
the floor. She ran to arouse the
neighbors and call a physician. Be
fore medical'aidjcould arrive the post
master had passed away.
Death was due to heart disease, of
which Mr. McGill had been a sufferer
for many years. He was sixty-five
years of age!
A. R. McGill had been a prominent
figure in Minnesota history for, forty
years. He was born in Pennsylvania
in 1840, and came to S Peter, Minn.,
in 1861. He served in the Ninth Min
nesota during part of the civil war,
but was discharged on account of fail
ing health. Returning to S Peter,
he was elected county superintendent
of schools. In 1865 he became editor
of the St Peter' Tribune, and was
elected clerk of courts. He studied
law under Judge Horace Austin, who
was elected governor in 1870, and made
.•. B. it'onx.
young McGill his private secretary. Id
1873 he was appointed insurance com
missioner, and held that office' for
thirteen years, making a fine record
efficiency in the department In 1886
he was nominated for governor and
made the campaign on a high-lieense
platform, defeating Dr. A. A. Ames by
a small plurality. 'He was defeated
for a second nomination by W. R. Mer
riam, in one of the most bitter fights
the state ever saw.
Retiring.from public life for a time,
he organized the S Paul A Minneap
olis trust company, now the Northern
Trust company of St. Paul. After the
election of President McKinley, he
was appointed postmaster of S Paul,
succeeding Robert A. Smith, and in
1898 he was elected to the state senate
from the thirty-seventh district, serv
ing continuously ever since, both as
senator and postmaster. In public
life he was never aggressive, but al
ways inspired confidence and showed
independence of special interests. He
was revered by his political associates,
and no imputation of dishonest mo
tives or conduct was ever succesfully
made.
Census Figures.
Minneapolis.—According to the fig
ures compiled by the state census bu
reau, half the number of people living
in St. Paul are natives of the state.
Twenty-eight and four-fifths per cent
are foreign born. The remainder, 21
1-5 per cent, were born in some other
state of the Union The figures for
Minneapolis are 29 1-3 per cent foreign,
44 1-3 per cent are natives of the state,
and 36 1-3 of some other state. Dututh
has 41 4-10 per cent foreign born resi
dents, 35 2-10 per cent Minnesota born,
and 23 4-10 born in some other state.
The percentage of people born in the
United States is, in St. Paul, 71.2 in
Minneapolis, 71,'and in Duluth, 58 6.
Of the foreign born population, Ger
mans come first in St Paul, and
Swedes first in Minneapolis, and Du
luth. Swedes come second, Canadians
third, Irish fourth and Norwegians
fifth in St. Paul Swedes come first,
Norwegians are second, Germans are
third, Canadians fourth, and Irish
fifth in Minneapolis. In Duluth, Ca
nadians come second, Norwegians
third, Finlanders fourth and Germans
fifth. Minneapolis has forty-three
born at sea and S Paul has thirty
one.
New Notes.
St Paul—Frank Ryan, SH years
old, is scalded severely by drinking
from a tea kettle spout'
St. Paul—Three more timber suits
have been started by Attorney General
Young, on cases referred to in the re
ports of S. T. Johnson, former public
examiner.
Ada—In the football game here Ada
won from Grand Forks by a score of 22
too.
St Paul—Miss Eleanor Adams, the
young lady who was found unconscious
at Cypress and Seventh streets, landed
in the city, hospital after a three
hours' ride in the police ambulance.
The woman suffered an attack of ell
pepsy.
Mankato—The Northwestern Tele
phone Exchange company is construct
ing a farmers' line from here to Eagle
Lake. Some twenty-five farmers have
subscribed.
Bemidji—Orders have been issued
for the closing ot the saloons at 11 p.
m. every night in the week, and all
day Sunday.
Thief River Falls—Within twenty
days a thoroughly equipped railroad
300 miles in length and extending from
here to Kenmare, N. D., will be placed
in direct communication with Minne
apolis.
St Paul —Three suits of alleged
timber trespass will be filed in the dis
trict court soon by the attorney gen
eral. Assistant Attorney General Jelly
has had the work of drawing up the
bases and will prosecute them.
Washington Minnesota postmas
ters: 'William Cutllff, at Drummond
Lake county, vice John Walfrld, re
moved, and Jobu Riley, at Savage,
Owatonna—Owatonna is to have a
gas plant in the near tuiure.
Meriden—H. J. Roseneau wins first
prise In the monthly butter scoring
contest
Mankato—The, United States grand
jury returned six Indictments and was
discharged.
South St. Paul—Oscar Morschter,
who was killed, had signed a card at
a revival meeting.
Edge Valley—Steps have been taken
to organize a stock company to build
or purchase a first class hospital
building.
Glyndon—Joseph Majeska of Hast
ings, was killed by an east-bound
Northern Pacific freight train one
mile east of here.
Hallock—-A special term of court will
be held here, for the purpose of try
ing Charles C. Reeves for the murder
of Ludwig Swanson.
St. Paul—Reed & Stem will be the
architects for the auditorium. The
St. Paul firm was formally chosen by
the auditorium board.
Ada—Tom Amuhdson,' who owns a
threshing machine near Gary, was
crushed and instantly killed by being
thrown.under the engine.
Winona—Congressman James A.
Tawney has Just returned from a trip
to Arizona, New Mexico and- other
points in the great Southwest.
Washington—In the grand total of
more than $150,000,000 of postal re
ceipts in the last fiscal year, Minne
sota contributed about $3,235,000.
Randolph—The body of John Hol
lien, who had been laboring on the
farms in the vicinity, was found on
the Chicago Great Western tracks.
Elk River—A series of entertain
ments has been arranged by several
local business men'. Four dates will
be filled here by the Midland Lyceum
bureau of Des Moines Iowa.
Duluth—Mrs. Anna Freeburg, 84
years old, danced a Swedish national
dance in honor of the eightieth anni
versary of her birth, in the presence
of a large assemblage of guests.
Minneapolis—Christ Norby, the man
who stabbed his own son, Hardy Nor
by, at 18 University avenue northeast,
made a desperate attempt at suicide
as he was being placed under arrest.
Mankato—Congressman McCleary
has accepted ah invitation to address
the Economic club of Providence, R.
I., on Nov. 10, the day after his ad
dress before the Economic club of
Boston. A
Pipestone—Peter Travits of this city
was found dead in bed of heart disease.
He was an old and respected citizen
of Pipestone county, and a soldier ot
the Civil war. He leaves a family of
children.
Granite Falls—The fifth annual
meeting of the Western Minnesota
Teachers' association in this city, was
one of the. most successful in its his
tory. There are 200 teachers in at
tendance.
Winona—After several years of dis
cussion Winona county is to have one
consolidated rural school district. The
four districts around th° village of
Lewiston have voted overwhelmingly
In favor of the move.
Harvey Stark, indicted as Frank
Jones for the theft of a diamond ring
from Harm & Bros/ jewelry store on
Seventh street, was sentenced to three
years imprisonment in the state peni
tentiary by Judge Orr.
Winona—The annual, county Sunday
school convention, which closed at St.
Charles, elected the following officers
for the ensuing year: President, O. A.
Bierce secretary, Carl Gerlicher
treasurer, W. F. A. Brachlow.
Moorhead—Because none of his vic
tims want to prosecute him, Peter
August Eklund may go free of punish
ment although he has admitted em
bezzling $11,000 and has given himself
over to the police authorities in Lon
don.
Ralph Moss, fifteen years old, ap
peared before the police judge charged
with larceny. Moss,' it is said, snatched
a purse containing $1 from Mrs. Mary
Smith of Minneapolis in a department
store. He was placed under the care
of Probation Officer Graves.
The state treasurer sent out the war
rants for the semi-annual apportion
ment of state funds to the school di
stricts. The amounts distributed is
$863,000. The special aid to state high
and graded schools will be sent a few
days later. This, amounts to $53^,000.
South S Paul—While sleeping in
his caboose at State street, W. A.
Bryan, a conductor on a Chicago Great
Western freight running between Min
neapolis and Chicago, was robbed of
a gold watch and chain, which he had
In a vest folded under his head for a
pillow.
Minneapolis—St. Paul' delegates to
the Union Veteran's union, which had
its convention in Springfield, 111., Oct
20-22, returned and brought with them
the announcement that the union will
hold its reunion in Minneapolis next
September on the same date
xthat
the
G. A. R. encampment will take place.
St. Paul—Judge Hallam filed an or
der in the district court overruling
the demurrer to the complaint in the
suit of Charles Thompson and Anson
R. Speer against the Minnesota Cold
Storage company, Involving the ques
tion of the right of possession of 140
wild ducks killec! by plaintiffs in North
Dakota.
Duluth—Fire have destroyed the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Nellie Nelson of
Eveleth, the mother of triplets about
three years ago, and she and they had
a narrow escape frm death in the
flames. Mrs. Nelson was deserted by
her husband more than a year ago.
She and the triplets' were alone and
asleep when the fire originated.
Winona—The Winona board of
health and city council are going to
rid the city of hogs.
Thief River Falls—Frank Burjan, a
brakeman on the Soo railroad, was
killed while trying to couple two
freight cars together. He was stand
ing between the cars and lost his bal
ance, causing him to fall on the coup
ler just as the cars came together.
Austin—The golden wedding anni
versary of Mr. and Mrs. John C. M411s
of Austin township was celebrated in
G. A. R. hall in this city. One hundred
old settlers and friends were present,
and a banquet was served after which
speeches and songs followed.
Tyler—Tyler's oldest citizen and the
senior member of the firm of H. P.
Laurltzen & Son, died at the home of
his son in this village, at the age of
eighty-two.
Winona—Five Wlnoria saloonkeep
ers and one grocer have been fined a
total of $255, including costs, this week
for the violation of the state pure food
laws.
S Paul—The Minneapolis, Red
Lake ft Manitoba Railway company's
report filed with the railroad commls*
slon, shows freight receipts of $2,104.
84. Operating expenses were 8818.08
and the net Income and surplus for the
year, tl.Sf4.ti,
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Scandinavia.
Principal Events That Have Oc
curred in the Old Countries
Within a Week or So.
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Mr. Borgbjerg. a Social Democrat in
the Folketing. eaid that in behalf of
his party he would thank the Social
'Democrats of Sweden for their activ
ity during the Union crisis and the
share which they contributed towards
a peaceful solution of that crisis.
Representatives of the Swedish and
Norwegian governments met at Stock
holm Oct, 26 and signed the treaties in
volved in the Karlstad agreement. The
treaties, which are drawn in Swedish,
Norwegian and French, operate with
out ratification, and the Swedish gov
ernment authorized the minister of for
eign affairs to ratify the foreign pow
ers of its recognition of Norway a3 a
separate state. All the formalities of
the dissolution have now practically
been concluded.
The Copenhagen Politiken proposes
that the three Scandinavian countries
keep a joint diplomatic representative
in the far East. The Danes have in
vested large amounts of capital in east
ern Asia. Jn Danish consuls are gen
erally Germans, who are Denmark's
competitors and the diplomatic repre
sentative is in the hands of Russians,
whose influence is not what it used to
be. Thus the circumstancfes call for
an independent diplomatic representa
tion in the East, and Sweden and Nor
way may follow Denmark. But three
separate services would be expensive,
and at the present moment Norway and
Sweden may not be able to agree on a
dual representation. The unpleasant
ness between the two might be over
done, however, by having the three
countries agree to establish a joint
service. At any rate, the paper avers
that the time has come for keeping a
Danish ambassador at Peking.
FINLAN
The. proclamation of civil liberty in
Russia-was followed by the announce
ment of a return to a constitutional
regime in Finland and the abolition
of the arbitrary conditions under which
Finland has been governed since the
accession as governor general of Count
BobrikofT, who in June of last year
was killed by Schaumann. Prince
Obolensky, the governor general, an
nounced that he had been instructed
from St. Petersburg that the landtdag
be immediately called in extraordinary
session to legislate for Finland. The
members of the senate who had con
tinued to perform their functions under
Count Bobrikoff and Prince Obolensky
all handed in their resignations. Those
who demand a constitutional-govern
ment ask for a unicameral landtdag,
to be chosen at general elections by all
citizens of mature age, and the first
duty of which shall be the preparation
of new laws for Finland. Later re
ports state that the senate, believing
that tranquility could not be main
tained until the new order of things
is in force, resolved that the emperor
should be appealed to to repeal the dic
tatorship and grant other reforms, in
cluding the abolition of the censorship,
pending the establishment of freedom
o» the press and the removal of griev
ances connected with the military serv
ice. Finally the senate resolved that
as it no longer possessed the confidence
of the people new senators should be
appointed. The resolutions were signed
by all the senators and were dispatched
to St. Petersburg, by the cruiser Asia,
together with the resignations of the
senators.
SWEDEN
The old union flag was struck
throughout Sweden in the morning of
November first, and the New Swedish
ensign was hoisted to accompaniment
of salutes, the ringing of church bells
and parades of troops. In Stockholm
the whole garrison paraded, and most
of the population thronged the streets.
At 9 o'clock the flag flown by Sweden
before the union with Norway nearly
a century ago was again broken out
over the palaces, from church steeples,
public and private buildings and steam
ers and sailing vessels. King Oscar
witnessed the spectacle from the roof
of the palace, and tens of thousands
of citizens gathered in the vicinity and
demonstratively greeted him. A Chil
ean school ship in the harbor joined
with the Swedish vessels in saluting
the new flag. Similar ceremonies took
place in all the cities, and every school
house in the country had its demon
stration, the children gathering out
side and saluting the flag.
Over 2.000 persons are treated for
cancer every year in the hospitals of
Sweden. No reports have been com
pleted for the year 1904, but for the
year 1903 the exact number was 2,631.
From 1S96 to 1903 the number of
deaths due to this disease in the cities
alone was over 1,000 a year, and the
number was 1,216 in 1903. But these
figures cover only a part of the ground,
no reports having been made from the
rural communities. Henceforth all
practicing physicians will be instructed
to report all cases of cancer known
to them in their communities.
The political discussion is still crowd,
ing out much important news from the
Norwegian press. This is our'reason
why Norway has received less space
than usual in this paper.
Representatives from Sweden and
Germany ere to negotiate for a com
mercial treaty between the two coun
tries. The negotiations were delayed
about a month because the Swedish
cabinet had been so busy settling the
Norwegian trouble.
So many Swedish farmers have gone
to Denmark to study Danish methods
that the Kopenhavn asks the Danish
farmers whether it is wise and fair
that they should educate their northern
neighbors to become successful com
petitors.
A'special committee has prepared a
bill for paying wages to the troops that
were kept in the field after the expira
tion of the regular term of service.
When the wife of Sergeant Dahl
holm of the Jon Koping regiment found
out that her husband was to remain
in service after the regular time she
began to ponder so seriously over the
matter that her mind became unbal
anced. His return was too late, and
he had to take her to a hospital.
About Vhe middle of October there
was very little coal ln^the wood yards
of southern Sweden, and the prices
were rising on account of a scarcity of
coal in England. The high freight rates
also have something to do wtih It.
At a fire in Stafsinge, Holland, fif
teen head of cattle, three horses, three
hogs and about 60 fowl were burnt
.death.
'-CarrSundbeck, a writer of some note
who made an extensive, tour of the
United States a few years ago, has
written an article on the condition of
the farmers of Sweden. He claims that
the farms of Sweden are incumbered
with debt to the extent of* 70 per cent
of their assessd valuation, and that
this kind of debt is increasing at the
rate of 4 or 5 million dollars a year.
Mr. Sundbeck points to the homestead
law and the exemption laws of the
United States as exceedingly effective
means of enabling the masses of the
people to obtain possession of small
parcels of land, of developing them
into farms and of keeping thof=e farms
out of the hands of the capitalists. It
took about fifty years to load down
the Swedish farms with debt, and Mr.
Sundbeck thinks that it will require
from fifty to one hundred years of
wise legislation and management to re
move that debt.
F. N. Thofelt, a member of Adolf
Fredriks church, Stockholm, has In
stituted legal proceedings against
Count Chaplain. E. D. Henman on ac
count of certain expressions which he
made in a sermon last summer. Rev.
Henman said, among other things, that
the Social Democrats were traitors to
their country, and he also made offen
sive remarks about the king on account
of his conciliatory standpoint on the
Norwegian question. Mr. Ihrfelt, in
order not to be accused of siding with
Norway, kept quiet until the Norwe
gian question was settled.
Kristina Nilsson (Countess Casa de
Miranda), has donated a number of
Images of a religious nature to the
society of antiquities and history of
Smaland. One is an ivory image rep
resenting Christ wearing the crown of
thorns, and another represents Virgin
Mary. The collection also contains im
ages of Paul and other apostles and of
holy women. Most of the objects were
Intended for use at private warship, on
journeys, etc. Some of them are of
German origin.
DENMARK.
Captain Soiling, the representative of
the Danish fish exporters in England.
has devised a new method oL preserv
ing fish. He guts, cleans and washes
the fish in salt water. Then he wraps
each fish separately in parchment pa
per and puts the fish in chopped ice.
The ordinary method is to place the
fish directly in contact with the ice,
which indeed keeps it from- decaying.
But in a few days the old method
makes the flesh of the fish soft and
tasteless, while Capt. Soiling has dem
onstrated that his method will keep the
flesh firm and sweet for about'two
weeks. He claims that the access of
his method depends mainly upon tlje
fact that the air is excluded from tue
fish. If Capt. Soiling can keep what
he promises his method will be" the
means of stimulating the export of fish
to inland points far from the sea.
A church which is tumbling into the
ocean. The Hoierup church at Stevn
has been closed because it is in danger
of being washed into the sea. It is
hoped, however, that the historic struc
ture, which has been the goal of so
many outings, will .be saved. The wall,
which has been moved several times
already, will again be moved nearer to
the church.
NORWAY
Minister of Finance Knudson has re
signed, and his resignation has been
accepted. Premier Michelson takes the
finance portfolio.
So far as the representation of Amer
ica at Kristiania is concerned, it seems
probable that C. H. jGraves, who repre
sents the United States at Stockholm,
will be required to act in a dual capac
ity as minister for Norway and Sweden
until. congress makes provision for a
separate minister to the former coun
try.
A passenger train on the Kristiania
and Trondhjem railway got stuck in
snowdrifts Oct 14 at several places
near Roros.
Bjornson writes in the Danish Politi
ken: "One day when a deputation
from the Norwegian storthing is going
to fetch back the head of the state,
who has resided outside of our country
for more than five hundred years, the
day when the representatives of the
storting are sailing through the fjord
with him on board, his Norwegian
squadron accompanied by a Danish and
a British squadron—and maybe others
—thai day will clearly reveal what this
people cherished at the depth of its
heart during its long, faithful struggle
—that it was no matter of formality
of any sort whatever! No, the Norwe
gian heart could no longer endure the
haughtiness of foreign rulers. It will
rejoice, it will be thrilled with emo
tion at the sight of a sovereign who
can no longer 'rule without Norwegian
councillors.' No one will resist this
pageant when it comes sailing towards
our shores as our greatest and finest
fairy tale—a reward for our fidelity to
ourselves."
A special committee has prepared a
bill for kept paying wages to the troops
that were in the field after the expira
tion of the regular term of service.
"A number of lawyers and politi
cians" have drafted a constitution for
a Norwegian republic. It is a curious
piece of work. The government is to
be a ministry elected by the storting
after each general election. The stor
ting shall also elect the president of the
ministry. A rather startling provision
is the one which prescribes that no
member of the ministry shall be al
lowed to resign. He may be opposed
to a solid government and a solid stort
ing, but he must remain in the minis
trj*. The "royalists" are ridiculing this
innovation with telling effect
The Kristiania inner mission has
raised some money for the aid of the
families of poor soldiers who served
on the frontier during the Karlstad ne
gotiations.
The storthing, by a vote of eighty
seven to twenty-nine, adopted the prop
osition of the government that it be
endowed with full power to negotiate
with Prince Carl of Denmark for his
acceptance of the crown of Norway, on
the understanding that the wisnes of
the people be consulted in the form
of a referendum. The motion of ten
members for a referendum as to
whether a republican or monarchial
form of government should be adopted
was rejected by a vote of eighty-six
to thirty.
Jacob Christenscn, a Bergen ship
owner, has ordered two new freight
steamers of 6,600 tons from English
shipbuilders.
The government proposes an expend
iture of $110,000 on the Trondhjem high
school of technology-. About one-third
of this amount is to be contributed by
the state, and the balance by the city
of Trondhjem. The proposed appro
priation will be enough for enclosing
the main building and the chemical
laboratory and for making excavations
and building a basement for the physi
cal and electrotechnic laboratory.
0 C. Hauge, former secretary of the
legation ot Sweden and Norway at
Washington, has been appointed Nor.
wegian charge d'affaires at Washing
ton. It is understood that he will be
the first minister to the United States
from Norway.
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