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WILLI!AB. MINX
SUMMARY OF A
WEEK'S EVENTS
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
AT HOME TOLD IN CON
DENSED FORM.
LATE FOREIGN DISPATCHES
Interesting Items of News Gathered
from All Fails of the Globe and
Outlined in the Briefest Manner
Possible.
THE RUSSIAN REVOLT.
The uprising in Moscow has been
crushed, the last of the revolutionists
surrendering, and peace is restored in
the city.
Workmen started a bloody revolt in
Bakhmut, Russia, and were caught in
a trap by troops and 300 slain.
The reactionary cabal is ready to
force Witte's downfall and make Dur
novo the Russian premier.
The czar has ordered the loyal
troops to sweep through the rebellious
Baltic provinces with fire and sword,
making war against all age3 and sexes.
Count Witte may prevail on the czar
to seize the present moment to promul
gate a constitution.
The czar has begun a vigorous war
on the revolutionists. The prisons are
filled to overflowing and hundreds of
arrests are being made daily.
A collision involving two Russian
military trains occurred between Sna
menka and Dnieperovsk. Twenty sol
diers were killed.
The casualties in Moscow as a re
sult of ten days' revolt may reach
iiiree hundred workmen attacked a
detachment of dragoons in Riga, kill
ing 11 and wounding 14.
Terrorists began war in Russia by
shooting the governor of Ufa and as
sassinating the prefect of police at Pa
biance. Thirty revolutionary leaders
at Moscow have been executed.
MISCELLANEOUS.
New York legislators opened their
fight to unseat United States Senator
Depew, State Senator Brackett intro
ducing a resolution calling upon him
to resign forthwith. This was with
drawn, after a hot debate, with the
understanding that it is to be intro
duced again later in the session. In
an interview Senator Depew declared
he would not resign.
John A. McCall resigned as president
of the New York Life Insurance com
pany. The resignation was accepted
by the board of trustees and Alex
ander E. Orr was elected to the presi
dency of the company. Mr, Orr's sal
ary was fixed at $50,000.
A tox*nado swept the town of Albany,
Ga. Several persons were killed. Dam
age to property will exceed $150,000.
Gov. rianly, of Indiana, after a con
ference with Attorney General Miller
and several attorneys at Indianapolis,
announced that proceedings would be
commenced in the circuit court to oust
Secretary of State Storms, who has re
fused to resign at the request of the
governor.
France will send ships to take part
in the opening exercises of the James
town exposition.
Admiral Rojestvensky accuses the
British of intention to destroy his fleet
if the Japanese failed and the British
envoy promptly asks an explanation
oi. Russia.
Representatives of foreign govern
ments offer Chicago packers new loca
tions and immunity from prosecution.
A representative gathering of Greeks
In Chicago asked for a fairer and more
friendly recognition from the people of
the United States.
Mrs. William Ballinger, a prominent
musician of Wheaton, 111., killed her
self with a shotgun.
One man was killed, several hurt
and much property damaged by a 60
mile gale that swept Chicago.
Germany's reply to the military prep
arations of France is a rush order for
$50,000,000 worth of cars to carry the
kaiser's army to the frontier in case
the Moroccan conference ends in a
threat of war.
Gen. Rodriguez attacked Puerto Pla
ta, Santo Domingo. Twenty-five were
killed and some wounded.
President Roosevelt is much dis
turbed by the revolution in San Do
mingo, and it is reported that he is
seriously considering the advisability
of intervening and landing troops to
put an end to the revolt.
Charles A. Edwards, a New York
millionaire, was murdered in bed while
asleep in the home of his brother-in
law, a judge, in New Haven, Conn.,
after having had a dispute with his
brother-in-law, according *to reports,
over an estate.
Retaliatory measures against the
railroads in revenge for the cutting off
of passes are planned by the Pennsyl
vania legislators and may cost the
roads many million dollars.
The treasury department has ex
pended $60,000,000 in the last ten years
for public buildings.
David B. Hill begged for an oppor
tunity to explain his Equitable re
tainer to the Armstrong committee.
He was too late, as the sessions were
finally ended.
Fire at Chariton, la., destroyed the
post office and six business blocks,
causing a loss of $100,000.
Walter Wellman has been commis
sioned by the Record-Herald to build
an airship, the largest ever construct
ed, and to sail in it for the north pole.
The progress of the quest will be re
ported by means of wireless telegraph
apparatus earned on the airship, which
will transport five men.
A Chinese commission is coming to
the United States to study political,
commercial, financial and educational
methods.
Two sluggers and five union men
who hired them were found guilty in
the Gilbooley case at Chicago, with
prison terms as the punishment.
Jweph Stang, of Menominee, Mich.,
has received from Emperor William of
Germany, a silver medal bearing the
emperor's likeness, in recognition of
an act of heroism in saving the lives
of an old man and his daughter a num
ber of years ago when Stang was a sol
dier in Germany.
Infatuated with Pearl Wheaton, who
refused to marry him, Matthew Styer
broke into her home in Caledonia,
Minn., killed her and fatally wounded
her mother and sister. He then shot
himself, dying later.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of busi
ness December 30, 1905, the total debt,
less cash in the treasury, amounted to
$^94,869,718, which is a decrease as
compared with December 1, 1905 ,of
$4,883,113.
The issuance of temporary restrain
ing orders on ex parte statements,
which virtually results in government
by injunction, has been given a severe
blow by Judge Joseph V. Quarles, of
the United States district court for
the eastern district of Wisconsin, who
rules that hereafter he will issue no
such orders until both sides to the
controversies have been heard in court.
Dr. S. M. King, a prominent physi
cian of Akron, O., committed suicide
while lying in bed by shooting himself
through the head.
Thousands are starving in north Ja
pan on account of the famine there,
according to advices brought by the
steamer Empress of Japan.
By the explosion of ten sticks of dy
namite in the home of August W.
Schroeder, in Groves, near Menominee,
Mich., Gertrude, his two-year-old
daughter, was killed, and Mr. and Mrs.
Schroeder seriously injured.
Capt. Sidney Bowers, of the fire de
partment, was killed, and Frank L.
Hines, a fireman, was seriously injured
in an incendiary fire which completely
destroyed the Highland Baptist church
at Springfield, Mass.
Alice Roosevelt divided honors with
the president at the New Year's re
ception at the White House. The affair
was the most brilliant ever known in
Washington. Over 9,000 persons at
tended.
There is a report that John A. McCall
has resigned as president cf the New
York Life. The payment of the $235,000
Hamilton graft is rumored.
The grand jury at Baltimore, Md.,
which has been investigating the af
fairs of the Maryland Trust company
under the old regime, returned pre
sentments against three of the former
officials.
The appeal of Charles L~ Tucker,
convicted nearly a year ago of the
murder of Miss Mabel Page, at Wes
ton, Mass., has been denied by the
Massachusetts supreme judicial court.
Huntington Wilson, of Illinois, now
first secretary of the legation at To
kio, has been decided upon as the suc
cessor to Mr. Peirce, third assistant
secretary of state.
After 12 hours of steady snowfall
one of the heaviest snows for many
years covered the whole of New Mex
ico.
Gen. Francis Fessenden, aged 66,
one of Maine's most distinguished sol
diers of the civil war and a former
mayor of Portland, Me., is dead.
The American Institute of Archi
tects will bold its thirty-ninth annual
convention in Washington on January
8, 9. 10 and 11.
An agreement to abolish rebating on
premiums has been entered into by
the New York Life Insurance com
pany, the Equitable Life Assurance so
ciety and the Mutual Life Insurance
company. Grover Cleveland has been
appointed referee to decide all ques
tions that may arise in such matters
and his salary will be 312,000 per an
num.
Judge Thomas H. Paynter was nom
inated for United States senator from
Kentucky to succeed J. C. S. Black
burn, in the joint caucus of the demo
crats of the state legislature. The
nomination is equivalent to an elec
tion.
Charles T. Yerkes, street railway
magnate and financier, died at the
Waldorf-Astoria, in New York, leav
ing his Fifth avenue mansion and its
treasures of art to that city. The mag
nate's wife, from whom he had been
estranged for years, was reconciled to
him on his deathbed.
The funeral of Charles T. Yerkes,
the late traction promoter, took place
from his home in New York city. The
services were conducted by a Quaker
minister. They were simple. The
body was placed in the Yerkes mau
soleum in Greenwood cemetery.
In a fit of despondency Clarence
Barnum, a farmer living near Roches
ter, Mich., murdered his wife, son and
daughter with an ax, and blew out his
brains with a shotgun.
Count von Moltke, a nephew of the
great general, has been placed in com
mand of the German army.
The shipwrecked crew of an Amer
ican ship was refused a landing in
England through the alien immigra
tion act.
Former Gov. Odell received a crush
ing defeat in New York when young
Wadsworth, President Roosevelt's can
didate, was nominated by republicans
for speaker of the house.
Five cities in Austria were visited
by an earthquake, which damaged
buildings and scared the people.
The factory of the Pittsburg Glass
& Plaster company at Venice, 111., was
destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
over $50,000.
Louis Erb, in a fit of jealousy, shot
and killed his wife and himself at
*Lake Geneva, Wis.
A tournament for the world's bil
liard championship will be played at
New York beginning April 8.
Tortured by fear, hunger and thirst,
Joseph Davis wandered for nine days
in the abandoned corridors of a mine
at Wilkesbarre, Pa., and when finally
rescued ate so ravenously that his life
almost paid the penalty.
Mayor McClellan, of New York, se
lected Gen. Theodore A. Bingham, U.
S. A., retired, to succeed McAdoo as
police commissioner of New York city.
A verdict of $94,500 was returned at
Millsville, N. J., against the West
Jersey ft Seashore railroad, it being
held that a spark from one of the com
pany's locomotives caused the fire
which destroyed a glass factory.
The Boston brokerage firm of H. R.
Leighton ft Co., was crushed to the
wall by a rise in copper.
An unusual expansion in trade dur
ing the year was reported, by Dun's
review.
Charles T. Yerks, after makint lib"
eral provision for his wife and chil
dren as long-as they live, and a few
minor bequests to friends and rela
tives, left practically all of his great
estate to the public, $100,000 going to
the University of Chicago, $750,000 and
the mansion to an art museum and
the remainder to build and endow a
hospital.,
America Will reenforce Philippine
troops, so as to be ready to throw a
large armed force into China in case
of an uprising. The squadron is to be
increased.
The public debt was reduced almost
$5,000,000 during the year 1905.
James H. Howard, charged with
helping murder Gov. Goebel, of Ken
tucky, must undergo life imprison
ment, according to a decision by the
United States supreme court
The retail jewelry firm of Herbert
L. Joseph & Co., of Chicago, failed/
with liabilities estimated at nearly
$200,000.
Postmaster General Cortelyou says
Chicago's new post office is inadequate
and officials believe congress in the
near future will authorize a new build
ing.
A new alien law has gone into effect
in England and immigrants are re
fused permission to land.
Aroused by the success of convicted
cattle barons in escaping the law's
penalty the government officials will
soon bring more cases in Nebraska.
The printers' fight for the eight-hour
day has become general throughout the
United States.
Mayor McClellan began his second
term as ma or of New York city with
an address to his heads of departments,
in which ho told them they will be
held strictly to account and will be re
moved if they fail in their duties.
Manning C. Palmer was convicted of
misappropriating the funds of the
failed American Exchange National
bank, of Syracuse, N. Y., and sentenced
to five years in prison.
Thousands of negroes paraded at Sa
vannah, Ga., in honor of the signing
of the emancipation proclamation.
The parade was marked by the great
est disorder.
William Randolph Hearst, with the
aid of the republican and municipal
ownership aldermen in New York city,
is contesting the seat of the president
of the board, with the aim of forcing
Tammany to go to the courts, thus
bringing a recount of the votes cast in
the recent municipal elections.
In attempting to quell a New Year's
riotous celebration in his saloon at
Belleville, 111., William Tannehill shot
and dangerously wounded Fred Hop
wood.
James Kittredge, who was a patient
in the private sanitarium of Dr. Wil
liam Pickett in Philadelphia, jumped
from a second-story window of the in
stitution and was instantly killed.
Gov. James O. Davidson was sworn
in as governor of Wisconsin to serve
the unexpired term of Gov. Robert M.
La Follette.
Frank Phiscator, a millionaire Alas
kan miner, ended his life in his apart
ments at a San Francisco hotel by
cutting his throat with a razor. Phis
cator is said to have been one of the
pioneers of the Klondike and was at
Forty-Mile at the time of the great
discoveries.
Paul Sovdell, aged 40, a familiar
character of the red light district of
Cleveland, O., for the past several
years, shot and killed Jessie Smith,
aged 23, in a resort, and then commit
ted suicide.
The average price of commodities is
higher than in 22 years, according to
Dun's review of trade.
Comparative death rates for 1905
show Chicago to be the healthiest city
in the United States.
Tne seventy-seventh general assem
bly of Ohio convened at Columbus, the
house being organized by the republi
cans, who have 62 votes against 59 for
the democrats, and the senate being
organized by the democrats, who have
19 votes.
At Duke, Okla., W. Goodnight shot
and killed his wife and then himself.
He was jealous. Mrs. Goodnight was
16 years old. They had been married
but a few days.
Secretary Root and British Ambas
sador Durand are to-sign an agree
ment for the preservation of the great
lakes' fish.
Customs receipts at the port of Chi
cago during 1905 show an increase of
nearly $1,400,000 over those of the
previous year.
John Ellis, an ex-banker of Beatrice,
Neb., and ex-county treasurer of Gage
county, despondent over financial af
fairs, committed suicide by taking car
bolic acid.
MISS Barbara Toxer shot and killed
F. C. Clayton, a business man of Okla
homa City. The woman asserts that
Clayton attempted to assault her and
that she shot in self-defense.
Frank Steunenberg, former governor
of Idaho, was murdered by a bomb at
his home in a suburb of Boise. His
fearless prosecution of the Coeur
d'Alene gang directs suspicion that
way.
Safeblowers opened the safe of Stick
ley, Wray & Co.'s bank at Iroquois,
111., and got away with $1,400 in cash.
The American Shipbuilding com
pany's plant at Bay City, Mich., was
burned. Loss, $250,000.
*ue' American Association for the
Advancement of Science at New Or
leans adopted a resolution asking con
gress to immediately take steps to
preserve Niagara falls.
engineer Frederick Barlow, Fire
man T. Erwin and Brakeman Edward
Gosslin were killed in a collision on
the Great Northern road at Granville,
N. D. Several passengers were in
jured, none seriously.
Claude A. Bagby, of Durango, Col.,
was shot and killed at Notre Dame,
Ind., by Louis Roquels, of South Amer
ica, whom Bagby and a number of oth
er students tried to hold up as a joke.
Dr. Oliver B. Hart, of Chicago, who
entered a plea of guilty cf murder in
the case of Irene Kiowkow, ten years
old, was sentenced by Judge Barnes to
45 years in the penitentiary.
District Attorney Jerome, in open
court, declared that the gambling
houses and pool rooms are as numer
ous as ever and scored the police for
failing to suppress them.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
returned an indictment against the
Chicago, Burlington ft Quincy railroad
and two of its officials on charges of
violating the Elklns law in regard tm
rebates. &.<* V:,/*4:"1^, I
SERIOUS III BALTIC PROVINCES
TROUBLE STILL GIVEN THE EM
PEROR'S TROOP3.
Peasants are Silled Without Warn
ing. Street of Capital in Pit
iful Condition.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 5.- -The Associ
ated Press has been permitted to in
spect a report prepared for the em
peror regarding the situation in ,the
Baltic provinces. \,
The report declares that though op«
en revolt has been crushed in many
parts of the provinces and though the
local authorities, who were disposed
by the revolutionists, are resuming
the reins of the government under the
protection of the troops, the situation
is still a very serious one.
In the district of Dorpal and Teu
rena, in western Livonia, the troops
are unable to move except in heavy
force. \,
A body of cavalry which made a
forced light march from Walk,, sur
prised an insurgent band at Rueu, but
the peasants resisted until their ranks
had been torn and shattered, when
they surrendered their arms and
their leaders.
There is a strong concentration of
insurgents in the villages of Meizekul
and Lemcal, further to the westward,
which must be attacked and broken.
A band of insurgents attacked Gen.
Orloff and- his escort of a squadron of
cavalry near Marienburg, but the at
tack was repulsed and the leaders cap
tured. The latter were immediately
tried by a drumhead court martial and
shot.
The advices received by the govern
ment report the capture of an import
ant arsenal of the revolutionists at
Temernik, in southern Russia, in
which were found not only rifles,
bombs and explosives, but also a
small field piece.
Another arsenal near Natchekhevan
caught fire and the explosion follow
ing resulted in the killing of twelve
persons and the wounding of nine.
The streets of the capital ive put
on a pitiful semblance of holiday
attire, but none of the heavy buying
characteristic of the prodigal Russians
in former days is in evidence, while in
the industrial sections the workmen
exhausted by a long series of strikes,
are without money for the Christmas
trees.
The-green trees and gewgaws were
brought into the city by the country
people, but the trees remain .ubought
in the streets.
DRAINAGE BILL.
Halvor Steenerson Introduces Bill
For Reclamation of Min
nesota Lands.
Washington, Jan. 6.—A bill propos
ing appropriate the receipts from tne
sale of public lands in Minneso-.a. to
reclamation of swamp and overfli^ved
lands in the state was presented in .the
house by Representative Halvor Steen
erson. Concerning the purpose of the
measure Mr. Steenerson said:
"The bill propose to devote the pro
ceeds of the public lands (exclusive of
ceded Indian lands) to reclamation tf
swamp and overflowed land oh the
public domain or on ceded Indian
lands.
"There are millions of acres in North
ern .Minnesota of such lands which will
remain worlh'ess until the state and
federal authorities take hold of the
matter and furnish drainage outlets.
It is just as meritorious to reclaim
swamp and overflowed lands and make
them productive drainage as it is to re
claim arid lands and male 2 them pro
ductive by irrigation.
"The proceeds of public lands in so
called arid and semi-arid states-—Ari-'
zonna, California, Colo.'ada, Idaho,
Kansas, Montana, Nebraska. Nevada,
New Mexico, North Dakota. Oklahoma,
Oregon, South Dakota, ah, Washing
ton and Wyoming—are devo ed to re
clamation by irrigation, andtli pro
posed act will place Minnesota 0:1 an
equal footing with those states.
''It is not fair to put the prosceds of
the public lands in Minnesota into the
treasury of the United States to be de
voted to general expenditures, when
the proceeds of the public lands in the
states named are devoted to reclama
tion of their arid lands
While the bill applies only to Minne
sota, it is akin to numerous others of a
similar nature that have been intro
duced.
Timely Arrival.
Winona, Minn., Jan. 6.—J. A. Zabo
rowski, a mail irrter of this city, was
the means of saving a life. While de
livering mail he called at 760 East
Broadway. Getting no response to
his knock, he opened the door to throw
in the mail and found a strong smell
of burning wood. Inside was a little
girl trying to stamp out flames which
were burning on the heavily oiled
floor. A piece of burning stovewood
had fallen on the floor. The little girl
had been lelt alone with a baby
brother.
.. Still Cutting Logs.-
Minneapolis, Jan. 6.—The report of
F. O. Winston, surveyor general of
logs and lumber for the second district,
which comprises the Mississippi river
territory, has been filed with the gov
ernor. During the year he scaled
5,372,693 logs, or 437,907,490 feet of
logs. The mills in that district sawed
486.066,760 feet of logs, representing
621,671,924 feet of lumber, 34,587,250
shingles and 110,072,000 lath. There
were 125,714,000 feet of logs carried
over. The largest volume of business
was at Minneapolis.
Civil Service Jobs.
,St Paul, Jan. 6 —Several civil service
examinations will be held in St. Paul
this month. One will be held Jan. 24
for the position of electrical engineer
and instructor in the engineer school
at Washington Barracks, D. C, at a
salary of 81,500 a year, and similar va
cancies as they may occur. The age
limit is twenty-one to thirty-five
years. An examination will be held
Jan. 31 for the position of constable in
the Indian service to fill two vacancies,
at $720 a year, at the Osage agency,
Oklahoma, and other vacancies.
GOPHER GOSSIP.
St. PauL—The Sons of the American
Revolution hold their annual banquet
and election at the Commercial club.
St Paul.—William S. Thorn, assist
ant general passenger agent of the Soo
line, died at his home on Dayton av
enue.
St Paul.—The annual meeting of the
Minnesota Educational association
opens with a large attendance.
St. Paul.—F. A. Miller loses his bride
while dodging rice at the union depot,
and she star*.,. on bridal tour alone.
St. Paul.—The assistant corporation
attorney says, the city is not liable for
injuries sustained at the public play
grounds.
Delano, Minn.—Delano high school
basketball team defeated the South
high team by a score of 28 to 11 in a
game played here.
St. Paul.—Gov. Johnson returns from
a trip to the coast and says he is dis
appointed with California.
Winona.—The parties to the contest
of the will of the late Mrs. Amanda
C. Hayden, by which an estate valued
at about $100,000, was bequeathed to a
sister of the decedent have come to a
settlement.
Two Harbors.—Oliver Wendell
Holmes, .who was so seriously burned
on his face and body, as a result of an
explosion of the gas light plant in his
cigar and confectionery store, is dead.
He was one of the most prominent men
in social and business circles.
Minneapolis.—George A. Ralph, state
drainage engineer, has filed with the
drainage board his report on the sur
vey of 800,000 acres of swamp land
in Aitkin, Cass, Hubbard, Wadena,
Marshall, Kittson and Roseau counties.
It includes field notes and all levels
taken.
Minneapolis.—Annie Weiss, the 4
year-old daughter of Peter Weiss, 259
Sixth avenue north, swallowed several
poisonous pills and died almost instant
ly.
Duluth.—There is a well-defined sus
picion in railroad circles that a number
of secret service men have been at
work in the Northwestern field for sev
eral weeks looking up violations of the
Elkins law.
Fergus Falls.—The coroner was
called to New York Mills to investigate
the sudden death of Mrs. David John~
son. He found no suspicious circum
stances, but the case was an unusually
sad one.
Minneapolis.—James B. Irsfield, for
mer halfback of the Minnesota univer
sity football team, has brought suit in
the Hennepin county district court
against Collier's Weekly, demanding
damages of $1,900 for alleged defam
atory statements published about him
in Collier's of Dec. 2.
St. Cloud.—As a result of the recent
revival here a meeting was held in the
Metnodist church and plans were for
mulated for the erection of a Y. M. C.
A. building to cost $10,000.
St. Cloud.—Mrs. Michael Schultz of
Paynesville, the woman who bravely
saved her stepson from death by fire
by rolling him in a snowdrift, died from
the effects of the burns she received.
Hastings.—At the meeting of the
county commissioners the register of
deeds was authorized to transcribe all
abstract books of unplatted property
in Dakota county for the sum of 5%
cents per folio, to be paid upon accept
ance of the work.
Washington.—Congressman Halvor
Steenerson is receiving so many re
quests for copies of his speech against
federal control of insurance that he has
ordered 10,000 copies.
Mankato.—Frank Lee Richardson,
the 12-year-old son of Frank W. Rich
ardson, a well-known Garden City
farmer, was kicked by a horse in his
father's barn. His skull was fractured
and he died in a few hours without re
gaining consciousness.
Duluth.—James A. Pratt, forty years
old, ol Flushing, L. I., one of the four
heirs to more than $1,000,000, and who
disappeared from his home on Easter
Sunday, leaving a wife and five chil
dren, is believed to be somewhere in
Northern Minnesota, but so far the
police of the state have been unable
to locate him.
St. Paul.—Gov. John A. Johnson an
nounced that the state would give a
reward of $500 for the arrest and con
viction of the murderers of Charles
O. Bader of Minneapolis, who was shot
and killed by robbers in his saloon, 216
Second avenue south. Mayor Jones
for the city of Minneapolis has of
fered the same amount.
Red Wing.—Granville Pearson, one
of the pioneer residents of Goodhue
county, died at his home in Vasa. He
settled in this county in 1855. He was
sixty-seven years old. He served sev
eral terms in the state legislature and
was prominent, particularly in Swedish
circles. He leaves a son who is a pro
fessor at Yale.
Minneapolis.—Two of Japan's most
prominent merchant importers, Fu'sa
jiro Nakamura and Goro Nakayama of
Yokohama, are Minneapolis visitors.
They arrived from the Pacific coast,
registered at the West hotel and then
visited the Pillsbury and the Wash
burn-Crosby flourmills.
La Crosse.—A runaway team at
Houston, Minn., near here, dashed into
a switch stand, turning the track just
as a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
passenger train was passing, and caus
ing the rear coach to be overturned
In the ditch. Three people were seri
ously injured and seventeen others
Slightly hurt.
Bruno.—Sandy Bean, 20 years old,
was accidentally shot in the hand while
hunting with friends near here, and
was brought to St. Barnabas hospital,
Minneapolis, where one of his fingers
was amputated. Bean was drinking
from a spring while his friend, H. V.
Machel, was breaking a hole in the ice
with his /gun.. .The gun was discharged
and the load struck Bean in the hand.
Minneapolis.—A 12-year-old girl liv
ing on:Twenty-fifth avenue south near
Twenty-fourth street, was brutally as
saulted and robbed of a purse contain
ing $1.75, near Minnehaha avenue and
Twenty-fourth street.
Champlin.—Mr. and Mrs. George
Curtis of this town celebrated the
twentieth anniversary of their wed
ding. The couple entertained a large
number of friends and relatives.
Winona.—-Mrs. Josephine Bruskf,
aged 85 years, dropped dead on the
street while on her way to assist in the
celebration of the mass at St. Stan
islaus' Polish Catholic church. Heart
failure was the cause of her death.
Duluth.—A thief threw a heavy stone
through one of the windows of the
Palace Jewelry company at 324 West
Superior street, seized a diamond case,
watch and a tray of gold brooches, and
fled to Fourth avenue, and then ran
Into the Northern Pacific railroad
yards. The value of the stolen goods
is $150. The street was brilliantly
lighted and crowded with people. At
least twenty people were in the jewelry
•tore.
Stillwater—Timothy J. Kilty, a
farmer living near Cornelian lake, was
held up and robbed while driving home
from a meat market where he had
sold aome hogs. His wife was with
aim.
HEW
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Is Constitutional
St Paul.—The inneritanca tax law,
as passed by the last legislature, is
held to be constitutional in a decision
handed down by the supreme court
The opinion means to the state about
9600,000 in back taxes.
The opinion resulted from the re
fusal of Probate Judge Bazille to ap
point appraisers to ascertain the value
of legacies and devises made by Paul
D. Ferguson. Judge Bazille refused to
comply with the request and the case
was carried into the Ramsey county
district court There an application
for a writ of mandamus was denied on
the grounds that the law was uncon
stitutional.
The tax is \\i p3r cent on legacies of
more than $10,000 or under $50,000, 3
per cent on legacies of $53,000 to $100,
000 and 5 per cant on legacies of more
than $100,000. There are seventeen
large estates that are liable and the
taxes accruing to the state will be
about $000,000.
State Agricultural Society.
Minneapolis, Jan. 3 -The annual
meeting of the Minnesota State Agri
cultural society will be held on Tues
day, Wednesdav and Thursday, Jan. 9,
10 and 11 in A. O U. W. hall, Seventh
street, near Hennepin avenue, in this
city. Under the state law these an
nual meetings alternate between St.
Paul and Minneapolis. The business
of the session will include the election
of a president, two vice-presidents and
two members of the board of mana
gers—to succeed respectively, C. N.
Cosgrove of LeSueur, B. F. Nelson of
Minneapolis, C. M. Griggs of St. Paul,
J. M. Underwood of Lake City and L.
D. Baird of Austin.
There will be a very interesting pro
gram which will inciude addresses by
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture W.
M. Hays, Prof. II. Bolly of the
North Dakota agricultural school, M.
T. Grattan of Preston and other weil
known speakers. The meetiugs of the
breeders and live stock associations of
the state will be held at the same
time.
Did Not Enow Santa.
Minneapolis.—A bullterrior who did
not like the looks of Santa Claus came
near spoiling a Christmas celebration
at the home of E. Cambell. As it
was he. chased the jolly saint out of
doors, seizad him by the seat of the
trousers and was only persuaded to let
go when the old fellow through off his
false whiskers and called the do* by
name.
There is a little Miss at the Cambell
residence and it is the custom to.have
a celebration for her every New Year's
eve. This year one of the big brothers
in-law consented to act the part of San
ta and dress up in the most aproved
fashion with whiskers, gorgeous pad
ded clothes, fur, bells and a big sack of
toys.
But Mr. Bull Terrior had never
heard of Santa Claus. To him the
weird stranger looked more like a
burglar than anything else and with a
bound and a growl he rushed at the
supposed intruder. Santa turned and
flsd, but not before the dog had fast
ened his teeth in the padded trousers.
Many Old Timers.
St. Paul.—The state census report
just issued gives some interesting fig
ures on the movement of population to
and from the state and betwesn differ
ent parts of the state. There are 31,
949 persons enumerated who have lived
in the state forty-sev^n years, or since
its admission to th» Union. As the
territorial c:nsus of 1857 gave a popu
lation of 151,037, it will be seen that
one-fifth of them are still living in the
state. Of these old settlers, Hennepin
county has 4,431, Ramsey 3.179, Fil
more, 1,363 and Goodhue 1,2J8.
News Notes.
Excelsior—David Granbrill, a Min
netonka resident, narrowly escaped
death while driving over tne iOc road
from Tonka Bay to Excelsior. T&e ice
gave away where the water :~as fif
teen feet deep, and Granbrill managed
to escape. The horse went down and
was drowned and the wagon could not
be recovered.
St Panl—Jo'in F. Flannigan, a bar
tender who died at the city hospital,
had two broken ribs and a badly
bruised side when brought to the hos
pital, and the coroner's jury is unde
cided as to whether or not the injuries
contributed to his death.
St.Paul The Minnesota National
Guard assosiatisn begins "its 'twenty
sixth annual convention at the armory.
Wilinar—The Great Northern rail
way will soon begin the erection of a
transfer elevator to bs losated in the
west end of the city.
Winona—While on his way home at
night, Ernest Nichols, a farmer living
near 1'ekin a dozan miles west of Wi
nona, met with an accident that re
suited in his death.
Uemidji—A. Rutledge, state game
warden, arrested Albert Martin and
George Bess at Wilton, a small station
west of here, on a charge of having
venison in their possession in the
closed season. Both men asked for a
continuance in their cases.
llainline—Frank Reed has been re
elected manager of athletics at the uni
versity and the coming season will
mark bis third year as athletic mana
gers.
St. Taul—The state is making a
fight for title to 151,000 acres of swamp
lauds in the northern part of the state.
St. Peter—Quite a snurrlittle fortune
has just been received by Thomas Han
nigan, an influential farmer of Cleve
land township. The money, $3,000,
was his share of the estate of his sis
ter, llosanna Hannigan of Providence,
R. I and in a fashion it came to him
most unexpectedly.
St Paul—Notice has been filed with
Governor Johnson of the conviction of
Henry Prolow, found guilty in Good
hue county of murder in the first de
gree for killing Henry F. Zemke in a
saloon row at Goodhue. Sentence has
not been passed, and the judge may
give him life imprisonment If not
the governor will soon have to set the
date for another hanging.
Mankato—The independent oil com
panies have scored another point in
their campaign for better freight rates
on oil in barrel shipments, putting
them on a more even basis as competi
tors of the Stan dard.
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I Gossip From
Scandinavia. I
4 Principal Events That Have Oc
2 curred in the Old Countries
Within a Week or So.
The St. Paul'-Pioneer" Press paid the
following tribute to the natives of the
Scandinavian peninsula in its New
Year's edition: Outside of.Russia and
Japan the event of the year was the
separation of Norway and Sweden, an
episode important, not only because it
meant the creation of a new and in
dependent nation in Europe but be
cause of the manner in which it was
effected. That an event of the kind
should have taken place without the
shedding of a single drop of blood,
without recourse to force on either
side, was an object lesson for the
world from which it ought to profit.
Both Sweden and Norway won by their
self-restraint a«d patience, and by
their refusal to regard false notions of
national honor, the respect of the
world in a measure that the longest
war and the most brilliant demonstra
tion of military skill would not have
won for them.
The executive committee of the
Danish peace society has resolved to
send an address of thanks to King Os
car for his conciliatory and chivalrous
conduct during the Union conflict. It
will be stated in the address that a
similar conflict between other nations
would not have been apt to terminate
so peacefully. The hope is finally ex
pressed, that the three Scandinavian
kingdoms will co-operate in the interr
est of peace and justice. The address
will be handed to the Swedish ambass
ador in Copenhagen.
The Norwegian consuls at Archangel.
Rio de Janeiro, Bilbao and Cardiff have
been authorized by the foreign depart
ment of the Norwegian government to
transact consular business for the
Swedes at those points.
SWEDEN
A chair of statistics is to be estab
lished at the Stockholm high school,
and Gustav Sundbarg, who is already
connected with the school, will be the
first "professor statistics."
The Stockholm academy of music re
elected Crown Prince Gustaf as pres
ident.
The torpedo cruiser Psilander made
a trip to St. Petersburg a few days be
fore Christmas.
The aim of the Skane butter export
union is to control the butter export
from southern Sweden in order to pre
vent the exportation of butter of in
ferior quality. The local unions are
rushing into it in such great numbers
that the organizers will no doubt car
ry their point.
The Swedish government sent two
steamers to Riga, Russia, to give aid
to the Swedes residing there. About
30 out of the 150 Swedish residents
of the city returned to Sweden on ac
count of the disturbances in the Bal
tic provinces.
The special tariff commission will
soon resume its negotiations with Ger
man representatives with the view of
agreeing on a commercial treaty be
tween the two countries. The nego
tiations are secret, and all that is
known is that the commissioners have
a very delicate task to perform.
A telegram dated Teheran, Persia,
Dec. 14, says: Sven Hedin has arrived
here. He told a journalist that he went
from Constantinople to Batoom. He
was compelled to remain at that place
for twelve days on account of the rail
way strike in Caucasus. He next went
to Trebizond, whence he made an inter
esting trip to Erzeroom and Tabris. It
is his intention to leave this city in
two weeks to explore the deserts of
eastern Persia. He expects to reach
Cuetta by way of Siestan and Mush
ki in about three months, so that he
may be at Simla in April.
Prof. Robert Koch of Berlin will de
vote his Nobel prize^ of $40,000 to the
publication of his vvrltings on medi
cine.
Albert Bonnier, the Stockholm pub
lisher has distributed $2,000 as gifts
among eight young authors.
In a fire at Kristdala, near Oscars
haum, a woman named Lovisa Berg
strom was burned to death.
Two horses which were a part of the
load of a ferry going from Froso island
to the shore, hear Ostersund, slipped
on the icy deck, and their weight was
thrown to one side. The ferry was
upset, and four out of the seven per
sons on board the ferry were drowned.
The Swedish authors* union peti
tioned King Oscar to ask the riksdag
to make an appropriation of $2,700 to
be distributed among the most dis
tinguished writers of Sweden. The
king consulted the Swedish academy,
and this august body gave an answer
that was bound to attract general at
tention. Since 1863 the academy has
awarded those prizes. Now the acad
emy argues at some length to show
that some other authority ought to act
as judges of awards in this case. The
academy has always done its bes,t, and
its awards have always been criticized,
so that it would be glad to be relieved
of the duty and the honor of distribut
ing the prizes. The academy finally
says that it desires to have the matter
settled in a manner which will be sat
isfactory to the authors who are vir
tually entitled to prizes.
The national board of health propos
es the establishment of a hospital for
lepers at Mora. The board mentions
$15,000 as the probable cost of the hos
pital.
For the third time the English No
bel committee has unanimously pro
posed that the literary Nobel prize be
given to A. C. Swinburne, who is looked
upon as England's greatest living poet.
Swinburne was born in 1837. His
friends hope that he will get the prize
to be awarded Dec. 10, 1906.
Immense quantities of herrings were
caught along the west coast of Sweden
during the latter part of December. A
large part of the fish was immediately
exported to Germany.
A fire in J. V. Svensson's automobile
factory at Angustendal, near Stock
holm, threw 200 out of its SOO employes
out of work.
Skane has again furnished thousands
of Christmas trees for the large cities.
Theoretically, the trees are to be cut
where the forests need to be thinned
out. But when a tree which is ten
or twelve years old brings from 15 to
50 cents the temptation to "thin out"
a little too fast is great. In some
places the ground was swept clean
just before Christmas, to the dismay of
those who are interested in preserving
the forests of Sweden.
A recent election proved that the
Social Democrats have been gaining
ground in Helslngborg. They elected
their candidate for the riksdag by 1,
647 votes, his Conservative opponent
A poor tenant farmer in Skllltnge.
Skane, has a cat which catches rab
bits, partridges and other game and
carries them home In such condition
that they may be used for the table.
That cat is a very popular "pussy."
Shoes are sold at public auctions
so frequently and in such quantities
in the city of Malmo that the regular
shoe dealers complain that they are
subjected to undue competition. The
shoe dealers, have petitioned the au
thorities to provide that each article
shall be paid for as soon as it is knock
ed down to the highest bidder.
The farmers of Malmo are making
efforts to raise the grade of their but
ter so that it may command a higher
price on the English market.
A sword-blade of bronze from the
early iron age was found at Dagstorp,
and a farmer named Jons Jonsson
bought it for 14 cents. A man repre
senting the historical museum of Swe
den heard of the find and paid Jonsson
$21.60 for the sword.
A steamship company in Gothenburg
has established a new steamship line
between Gothenburg and Scotland.
Miss Emilie Landgren of Gothen
burg has donated $8,000 to a number of
charitable concerns.
Four women's organizations sent
deputations to the premier with peti
tions asking that woman's suffrage be
included in the general suffrage bill
which the government is preparing.
The premier frankly admitted that he
could not comply with the request of
the petitioners because it would im
peril the whole bill in the riksdag.
DENMARK.
At the New Year's reception King
Christian asked the American minister,
Thomas J. O'Brien to convey his kind
sentiments to President Roosevelt. The
Crown Prince Frederick also asked the
minister to convey his congratulations
to Miss Roo.sevelt on her engagement.
Denmark has concluded a treaty oi
arbitration with Italy. Both powers
pledge themselves to submit possible
controversies to the Hague tribunal.
The treaty is important because it has
been concluded between a small coun
try and a great power.
The American Brewing Institute o»
New York has asked Prof. N. Hjalmar
Nilsson of Svalof to come to America
to lecture on the growing of grain for
malting purposes.
The city council of Randers has
voted $400,000 for improving the har
bor and increasing its depth to 18 feet.
Natural gas has been struck at Hor
netorp, Hirtshals. At one place gas
has been flowing out of a hole in the
ground for two months.
Georg Brandes, the great interna
tional literary critic and apostle of fair
play, was asked in an open letter why
he never espoused the cause of the
Jews, his countryman, Mr. Brandes,
being of Jewish descent. To this he
made a lengthy reply which contains
many interesting points. He makes, the
preliminary remark that he is asked
so many questions that it takes three
months of the year to answer them.
In the different countries of Europe
he seems to be looked upon as a free
bureau of information on general af
fairs. Besides a host of people who
have their own personal axes to grind
there are many who try to make out
that it is his duty to champion some
cause which they have at heart, and
they are generally much surprised
when it takes some time before they
receive an answer. In one instance
a prominent lady asked him to write,
an essay on international peace to be
read at a peace congress in Rome.
"When he suggested that she better
get Kaiser Wilhelm to write such an
essay the lady was greatiy offended.
During the conflict between Sweden
and Norway the Norwegian repub
licans made a passionate appeal to
him to wage a newspaper war in favor
of a Norwegian republic, and from
Sweden he was entreated to plead the
just cause of Sweden before Europe.
The Italians and the Polanders want
him to secure Nobel prizes for some
of their worthy countrymen. As to
the Jews, he says, he has found it
difficult to strike hard blows for their
cause because the great Jewish news
papers will not publish his expres
sions on that subject. Brandes says
that he is strongly opposed to the
plan of making Palestine the future
home of the Jewish race, and he thinks
the Jews made a mistake in declining
the offer of England to permit them
to settle in Uganda, Africa. He looks
upon Max Nordan, the present leader
of the Zionist movement, as an incom
petent person. Brandes finally speaka
favorably about the movement among
the Russian Jews and about revolu
tionary tactics, which, he says, in a
few years will be the means of giving
the Russian Jews the same rights as
other inhabitants of Russia.
NORWAY
About the middle of December it
rained so persistently in the country
around Levanger that the roads were
made "almost bottomless."
The city of Elverum wants to con
struct waterworks at a cost of $50,
000.
The city council of Stavanger, by a
vote of 9 to S, defeated a proposition
to supply the public schools with free
writing materials at a cost of $2,600.
The old ice-breaking steamer Mjol
ner in Kristiania is offered for sale
at one-half of the original cost of $50,-»
000.
The British government may buy
the hotel in which the Norwegian
ministers resided while staying in
Stockholm.
The government has decided to have
the king and the queen crowned in
Trondhjem June 24.
About 50 clergymen of Kristiania
were received in audience by the king
and the queen Dec. 14.
It is estimated that the waterfalls of
Glommen could furnish 300,000 horse
power. But on account of the unsat
isfactory manner in which its water
is regulated at the outlet of Lake Mjo
sen, only two waterfalls have been util
ized to the extent of 40,000 horsepower.
The Norwegians residing in London
and neighboring cities gave a ban
quet Dec. 15 in honor of the ascension
of King Haakon and Queen Maud to
the throne of Norway.
The Kristiania Seventeenth of May
committee had a handsome surplus at
the end of the old year, and $270 was
set aside as a contribution to the Eids
vold monument fund.
A number of ministers and philan
thropists have started a~ regular cru
sade against the low dives and saloons
in Vaterland, a certain portion of
Kristiania.
The Norwegian coat of arms has
been decided upon by a royal decree.
It is a red triangular shield, in the
middle of which is a golden lion with
a crown on its head and an ax in its
fore paws. The design was made by
Eilif Peterssen.
Prof. Fridtjof Nansen has given a
lecture on Amundsen's voyage through,
the Northwest passage. The speaker
said that Amundsen will always rank
among the great explorers of the
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