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SUMMARY OF II
WEEK'S EVENTS
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
AT HOME TOLD IN CON
DENSED FORM.
tATE FOREIGN DISPATCHES
Interesting Items of News Gathered
from All Parts of the Globe and
Outlined in the Briefest Manner
Possible.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Senator Tillman in a speech in the
senate declared that he finds "cussed
ness" everywhere, citing the insur
ance disclosures, the contributions of
national banks to campaign funds, the
beef case decision, the Walsh bank
failures and the solicitude for the wel
fare of the railroads displayed in the
senate.
President Roosevelt sent a letter to
congress urging the protection of Nia
gara falls.
The house naval committee voted an
appropriation of $6,000,000 for the con
*.ti notion of a 20,000-ton battleship,
which shall lead the navies of the
world.
Speaker Cannon broke the prece
dents of the house by turning on Rep
resentative Shackleiord of Missouri
when the latter attacked the presiding
officer.
The introduction of testimony in pro
ceedings against Senator Smoot have
been concluded. The arguments will
toe made some day next week to be
agreed upon by counsel. The hearings
fcave extended over three sessions of
congress.
Senator Tillman declares that the
people have lost their faith in the
federal judges and ascribes the de
mand for a railroad rate law to this
loss of confidence.
The house committee on post offices
and post roads reported the post office
appropriation bill to the house. It
provides for an expenditure of $191,
373,848 for the fiscal year 1907. This
amount exceeds the appropriation for
1906 by 410,351,755.
MISCELLANEOUS.
George W. Perkins, partner of J. P.
Morgan, was arrested on the charge of
grand larceny in connection with a gift
of funds of the New York Life Insur
ance company to the Republican cam
paign fund, and is paroled in custody
of his lawyer pending argument on
ttabeas corpus in the supreme court.
Mystery surrounds the murders of
Six Italian laborers found hacked to
pieces in Minneapolis.
Former Consul Generals Goodnow,
McWade and Williams were arraigned
on serious charges in the inspection re
port of Assistant Secretary of State
Peirce, submitted to, the house.
Veterans of the civil war from the
north and south met in Atlanta to form
a new fraternal organization.
A boy hold-up in New York was sen
tenced to three years la the reform
school for stealing a cent from a little
girl.
Hundreds of families In Waterloo
and Cedar Falls, la., were made home
less by the breaking of levees, which
flooded portions of both cities.
Canal legislation at this session is
improbable and the administration, in
«ase no action is taken, will build lock
canal.
Floods demolished a great irrigation
dam in Wyoming, seriously retarding
government reclamation project
President John Mitchell created a
sensation in the Indianapolis confer
ence by accusing railroads of being re
sponsible for the strike.
Petitions of ex-Gov. Richard Yates
and Senator Shelby M. Cullom for
election to the United States senate
were filed at Springfield, 111. The
Yates list has 24,000 names and the
Cullom 121,601.
George Barney and George Isock
were burned to death while fighting a
lire at the Dodge colliery at Scranton,
Pa.
Charles E. Baines, mayor of Milford,
111., who, with Gilbert Yennum, a pol
itician, was indicted by a grand jury
two months ago on a charge of enticing
Myrtle Taylor, aged 16 years, and Es
sie Childs, aged 18 years, was acquit
ted.
The Sankey bill, providing for a
two-cent railroad fare in Iowa, was
killed in the Iowa house by a vote of
57 to 40, after a hot argument.
The Iowa senate, by a vote of 42 to
2 ordered the investigation of Iowa in
surance companies. The bill provides
for a commission of five senators and
representatives. An appropriation of
910,000 is made for the investigation.
Two additional bodies were recov
ered from the Century mine in West
Virginia, running the death list to 26.
All others have been accounted for.
John A. Locke and H. C. Harris are
under arrest in San Francisco on the
charge of safebreaking and train rob
bery, committed near Richmond, Ind.
Coal-carrying railroads, believing a
strike in the bituminous coal fields
certain, refuse to carry coal to mar
ket, and will store it for their own
use. Prices probably will rise at
once. Nine million tons of anthracite
coal are now in storage yards to
meet the threatened strike.
Chattanooga people appealed to Pres
ident Roosevelt to prevent federal
prosecution of the lynchers of the
negro hanged after the supreme court
had granted a stay.
The Wisconsin state railroad com
mission will hear arguments in the
two-cent rate fight early in April./
Twenty-three miners are believed to
have lost their lives in the recent mine
explosion at Century, W. Va. Twenty
two bodies have been recovered.
Russian officials are unable to stop
agitation caused by Schmidt's death,
which threatens new danger to the
czar.
In anticipation of a strike April 1,
the visible supply of coal in Des
Moines, la., has been absorbed by rail
roads and factories to the extent that
not a pound of commercial coal can be
had at any price.
The Salvation Army in London has
been unable to secure sufficient accom
modation for the emigrants desiring to
go tp Canada. Already 2,600 have been
sent to the dominion and passages for
2,000 more are booked.
Edward Voght was shot and killed
by Green Street, at Montpelier, Ind.
Street, who surrendered to the police,
asserts that the shooting was in self
defense.
A fishing boat struck a floating mine
off the coast of the Province Echizen,
Japan, and was blown up. Seven of her
crew of ten men are missing.
Following the world's convention of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, in Boston, the national body
will hold Its national convention in
Hartford, Conn., October 26 to 31.
Special Judge James E. McCullough
handed down his decision in Indian
apolis denying a new trial and sen
tenced David E. Sherrick, former
auditor of state of Indiana, convicted
of embezzling 3120,000 of state funds,
to serve from two to 21 years in the
state prison at Michigan City.
Gen. Luke E. Wright, the newly ap
pointed ambassador to Japan, will sail
from Seattle for his new post on April
29.
The great smelting, concentrating
and electric and steam power plant of
tiie Penn, Wyoming, Copper company
was almost completely destroyed by
fire, entailing a loss of $300,000 to
$500,000.
Fire at Johnstown, Pa., destroyed
four large business structures and
caused a loss of more than $500,000.
On complaint of Attorney General
Miller, of Indiana, a receiver was ap
pointed for the Modern Samaritans of
the World, a fraternal insurance order
doing business in Indiana, Illinois and
Michigan.
Otto C. Heggen, of Des Moines, la.,
asks President Roosevelt to annul his
naturalization certificate, saying labor
unions have destroyed American lib
erty.
Six vessels will assemble in Lake
Michigan in August and carry out
naval maneuvers.
British agitation for the protection
of policyholders in American insurance
companies brought a promise in the
house of lords of a committee of in
quiry.
Railroads have taken the greater
part of the coal output for their own
use, thus practically cutting off the
commercial supply for Chicago.
The sugar industry* is being devel
oped in Mexico, great areas of rich
land which are adapted for the grow
ing of cane being utilized.
William H. MacDonald, the famous
tenor and one of the founders of the
"Bostonlans," is dead.
The Morocco conference reached a
solution of the police issue through the
diplomacy of the American delegate.
Members of the firm of Wood & Co.,
iron manufacturers, were placed on
trial at Philadelphia for accepting re
bates. This is the first case to be
heard under the Elkins anti-rebate
law.
William Lamb and Jack Bees, miners
in the Happy Rock Mining company's
mine, near Galena, Kan., were killed
when a slab of rock weighing 100 tons
fell from the roof of the mine.
The National Business college in
Quincy, 111., made an assignment. The
liabilities are $30,000 and the assets
$100,000, but these are largely in notes
given by students for tuition.
The large lumber yard of J. Gibson
Mcllvain & Co., in West Philadelphia,
Pa., which contained many million feet
of lumber, was entirely destroyed by
fire, entailing a loss estimated at $300,
000.
Willie Hoppe defeated George Slos
son in New York for the world's cham
pionship at 18-inch balk line billiards,
one shot in, by 500 points to 392.
W. A. Calderhead was renominated
by acclamation by the Republicans of
the Fifth Kansas congressional dis
trict.
Robbers wrecked the safe of a bank
at Bentley, Kan., with dynamite and
escaped with $1,500.
One man was killed, one woman fa
tally injured and four other persons
more or less seriously wounded as a re
sult of a fight over the moneys raised
for the erection of a new church by
the Methodist Episcopal church at
Coaldale, W. Va.
The Alkin bill, increasing the liquor
tax throughout the state from $350 to
$1,000, passed the Ohio senate by a vote
of 25 to 11. This makes it practically
a law, as Gov. Pattison is known to
favor the bill.
Thomas Douglass, a C. & E. I. rail
way freight conductor, shot and in
stantly killed his wife, in Brazil, Ind.,
and then turned the weapon on himself,
sending a bullet through his heart, dy
ing instantly.
Voters in the Iowa cities of Water
loo, Webster City and Council Bluffs
rejected municipal ownership.
Sensational suits by the Mutual Life
company to recover enormous sums of
money open the way for criminal pro
ceedings against former President
Richard A. McCurdy.
Henry H. Rogers, defiant no longer,
answered questions of Attorney Gen
eral Hddley and trust ownership of
stock of reputed competitors was ad
mitted.
Former Mayor Samuel H. Ashbridge
died at his home in Philadelphia from
a complication of diseases. He was 57
years of age. Mr. Ashbridge had been
in the city's service for 23 years.
Russia plans a loan of $5,000,000 to
relieve landlords who suffered in the
recent agrarian disorders.
The insurance scandals are said to
have caused a mental and physical col
lapse in former Senator David B. Hill.
A carpet tack caught between cog
wheels cavsed a spark that resulted in
the blowing up of the works of the
Phoenix Powder company, near East
St. Louis, 111., and killing two men.
Andrew Carnegie, discussing the
railway rate bill, urges that appeals
from the rulings of the interstate
commerce commission be allowed the
railroads only in cases where the
earnings are affected to the extent of
$100,000 or more a year.
Thousands axe still facing starva
tion In famine-stricken districts of
Japan, in spite of foreign contribu
tions and the passing it winter
The explosion of a gasoline engine
caused a fire which destroyed a large
part of the town of Kane, Pa., entail
ing a loss of $84,000. The blaze start
ed in a livery stable and cremated 32
horses in their stalls.
Clarence H. Venner began suit in
Chicago against the Burlington Rail
road of Illinois-for an accounting, and
other railroad companies are affected.
Sarah Bernhardt, who refused to sub
mit to what she considered the exorbi
tant demands of the syndicate con
trolling Texas theaters, gave a per
formance in a tent at Dallas, and a
great crowd cheered her for her fight
against the trust
Chairman Payne in reply to a Massa
chusetts delegation says his committee
is against tariff revision at this ses
sion.
Gov. Curry was rescued from death
at the hands of Pulajanes, after being
36 hours in hiding.
John D. Archbold, testifying in the
Missouri ouster hearing in New York,
says no "master mind" rules in Stan
dard Oil.
Failure of the German Moroccan
policy is said to have led von Bulow
to resign.
The grand jury in New York is or
dered to look into the gift of $48,000 of
New York Life money to Republicans,
Reports of the recent battle on the
island of Samar, Philippines, show that
the constabulary, fighting against
overwhelming odds, won a brilliant
victory over the Pulajanes.
Mrs. A. L. Evans, who has received
threatening letters because of her tes
timony in the Ivens case, in Chicago,
was attacked by a thug, who dragged
her into an alley and brutally beat her.
A stubborn fire, that raged for over
three hours, destroyed a Market street
building in Chicago, causing losses of
$150,000 and erippling the elevated
railroad service.
The storm which has prevailed over
California during the past few daya^
was phenomenal in character. Much
damage has been done. The rainfall,
however, has assured a bountiful har
vest.
Melting snow and high water caused
the worst wreck in the history of the
Wyoming division of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad, when a work
train dropped into a small stream near
Natsona, Wyo. Ten lives were lost.
Leaders in both branches of the Ohio
legislature have* tacitly agreed to ad
journ on next Monday until 1908. The
agreement for an early adjournment is
due to the serious illness of Gov. Pat
tison, the members believing that re
lief from the anxiety and worry re
garding legislative matters will ma
terially aid his recovery.
Three persons sustained severe in
juries and thousands of dollars' worth
of property was destroyed in a tornado
that struck the neighborhood south of
Billings, Okla.
Earl and Cecil Larson, brothers, of
New Hartford, la., were thrown from a
buggy by a runaway horse into a
swollen creek, and both were drowned.
John Hasberry, a negro, was shot
and instantly killed in Cincinnati, O,
by Policeman Jacob Sterley, after he
had seriously wounded his wife and
slightly injured the policeman.
After a heated discussion the lower'
house of the Iowa legislature has
passed a law relating to weights and
measures, fixing the standard weight
of one dozen eggs at 24 ounces.
Less than three hours before the
time set for her wedding Pansy E.
Townsend was shot and mortally
wounded by her father, Joseph P.
Townsend, in their home in Everett,
Mass. Townsend then ended his life
with a bullet.
Four firemen perished and about a
score of firemen and citizens were in
jured in a fire accompanied by a series
of explosions that demolished a six
story factory building in New York.
The loss is between $300,000 and $400,
000.
Terrific rains have caused many
Iowa rivers to overflow.
August Auerbach secured a verdict
for $10,000 against the Chicago Ameri
can League baseball club for injuries
received from a foul tip at a game.
Joseph Cassidy, shortstop of the
Washington American League baseball
club, died at his home in Chester, Pa.
He had been ill for seven weeks with a
peculiar disease, which his doctor
termed purpura hemorrhagia, the
blood turning to water.
Norval E. Foard, for nearly 40 years
associated with the Baltimore (Md.)
Sun, and for many years holding a
leading editorial position on that pa
per, died from pneumonia, aged 69
years.
Seven persons, three generations of
a family, were killed by a Reading
train near Sunbury, Pa.
Labor, led by President Gompers and
the American Federation of Labor, de
clared its purpose at Washington of
taking part in the coming congression
al elections and attempting to defeat
all candidates hostile to legislation de
manded.
Richard .Ivens, the self-confessed
slayer of Mrs. Bessie Hollister, was
found guilty in Chicago and given the
death penalty.
American members of the interna
tional commission urge quick joint ac
tion with Canada in order to save Ni
agara falls.
While preaching to his congregation
Rev. J. B. Lentz, pastor of a Latter
Day Saints church at Carson, la., was
struck by lightning, which caused his
death within an hour.
The new battleship Constitution, de
signed for the United States navy at
a cost of $10,000,000, will put the
Dreadnought in the shade.
Frank E. Moores, mayor of Omaha,
Neb.', died at his home in that city.
Mayor Moores was 66 years of age. He
was serving the last year of his third
term as mayor, and had long been
prominent in the Republican party of
the city and state.
Because it was not shown that the
"beer" sold was "lager beer" a verdict
of $17,500 against three Chicago saloon
keepers and in favor of a drunkard's
children was set asidt and a new trial
ordered.
Many New York wholesale and job
bing firms may be criminally prose
cuted for underbilling and misrep
resenting shipments. The interstate
board has began an Inquiry.
Judge O'Sullivan nullified District
Attorney Jerome's opinion that polit
ical contributions by life insurance
companies are no crime, holding that
they may be indicted for larceny.
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EIIEI
FOURTEEN MEN ENTOMBED I N
FRENCH DISASTER AR E
FOUND ALIVE.
LIVED 20 DAYS ON HAY,
BARK AND DEAD HORSE
Sope Had Been Abandoned Long Ago
—Survivors Dazzled by Sudden
Daylight—Graphic Description of
Long- Imprisonment.
Lens, France, March 31.—Fourteen
of the 1,200 miners who were entombed
in the coal mine at Courrieres 20 days
ago were taken from the mine alive
and well Friday. They had lived on
hay found in one of the underground
stables, and the morsels of food which
they took into the mine with them
nearly three weeks ago. All attempts
to rescue the entombed had been aban
doned more than two weeks ago. The
sudden appearance of the imprisoned
men caused stupefaction. A gang of
salvagers had just completed their
night's work when they were startled
to see a group of miners, terribly hag
gard and exhausted, and with eyes
sunken, appear from a remote part of
pit No. 2.
The strongest of the party said they
had broken out of a distant gallery,
where they had been entombed since
the a of March 10. The rescued
men were taken up the elevator, but
were unable to see, owing to the daz
zling daylight. The mine officials were
deeply affected as the weeping sur
vivors were taken to a hospital. The
men were able to talk feebly, but
sensibly. They all asked for news of
relatives or friends, and wished to go
home Immediately. The doctors, how
ever, prevented them with difficulty
from so doing. Later crowds be
seiged the mines in the hope of hear
ing of further escapes, necessitating
the employment of a strong police
force and detachments of troops to
maintain order. It is said that others
of the entombed miners are alive, and
about to be brought out, their signals
having been heard.
Ate Dead Horse, Bark and Hay.
One of the men rescued, a man
named Nemy, said that for the first
eight days the party ate the bark off
the timbering of the mine. Later they
found the decomposed body of a
horse, which they cut up and ate with
hay. The survivors brought up por
tions of the decomposed horse meat.
Nemy, Who was the most lucid of the
miners who escaped, graphically de
scribed their imprisonment as fol
lows:
After the explosion I groped my way
about, stumbling over bodies and
seeking refuge from the gases. I
found some comrades sheltered in a
remote niche. We ate earth and bark
for eight days, and then these provi
sions gave out.
"We continued to grope among the
bodies seeking for an outlet from our
prison, but were forced back time and
time again. We found some hay
which we ate, and two days later we
found a dead horse, which we cut up
and ate with hay and bark. We suf
fered most for want of water. Finally
we became desperate and separated
into three parties and communicated
with each other by shouts. Last night
we felt a draught of fresh air which
finally guided us to an opening."
The doctors have forbidden the sur
vivors to do any further talking. Vast
crowds of people surround the hospital
where the escaped men are being
treated.
PEORIA PASTOR EXPELLcD.
Rev. J. S. Southey, Accused of Grave
Offenses, I Dropped from
the Church.
Peoria, 111., March 31.—Charged with
lying, embezzlement, abuse and aban
donment of family and elopement, Rev.
J. S. Southey, pastor of the Nazarine
church in this city, was expelled from
the Church of the Nazarene after he
had been called to trial before a church
council. Southey was summoned to an
swer to the charge of eloping with May
Shawgo, a worker in his mission, and
the church trial followed charges made
by his wife. He was also charged
with using money belonging to the
church for his own use.
The trial was conducted by Elders
L. Kent, of Chicago, and J. A.
Smith, of Pekin, as prosecuting attor
neys, and the congregation of the Naz
arene church, about 100 'in number, as
complaining witnesses. Neither South
ey nor Miss Shawgo were at the trial,
they having sent word that they would
not appear.
Receiver Removed.
Jefferson City, Mo., March 31.—The
supreme court Friday announced its
decision that the St. Louis county cir
cuit court acted without authority
when it appointed a receiver for the
$2,500,000 People's United States Bank
of St. Louis, of which E. G. Lewis is
president. The decision knocks out
the receivership jof Fred Essen, who
was appointed after the first receiver,
Selden P. Spencer, had bean removed.
Wisconsin Bank Closed.
Baraboo, Wis., March 31.—Bank Ex
aminer Bergh, of Madison, closed the
bank of North Freedom. No cause
was given for closing the institution.
The deposits are $60,000 and the capital
is $10,000, and it is said here that there
is plenty of money to pay creditors.
Found Her Life Work.
"I don't see your wife often,
Huckstep."
*Njo -she's always in some sort of
charitable work."
"What particular work is she en
gaged in?"
"I believe she is trying to save Ni
agara now."—Chicago Tribune.
Mr.
Nice Vehicle.
"Roller skating gives one a fine car
riage."
"The fine carriage it gave Brown
was an, invalid's chair."—Houston
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MINNESOTA ITEMS.
S Paul.—St. Paul men seek to cap
ture the next meeting of the American
Bowling congress.
Duluth.—Some of the Northern Min
nesota Indians are about to receive
$30,000 as their share of another land
sale.
St. Peter.—Dates have been selected
for the state Christian Endeavor con
vention, and it will be held in this city
July 12, IS, 14 and 15.
St. Cloud.—The local Elks are mak
ing* extensive arrangements for the
entertainment of the state convention
to be held here June 14 and 15.
Buhl.—Hilda Jorgren, a Finnish girl,
12 years of age, daughter of a settler
living 14 miles west of here, is reported
lost in the big woods.
Winona.—Fire last night destroyed
the Campbell Brothers granary near
Clyde, with 3,000 bushels of grain. The
loss is $3,000, insurance $1,200.
Ely.—John Johnson has been ar
rested charged with having assaulted
Matthew Gustafson, a Finn., in the
rear of a saloon here.
Duluth.—Ernest Jam, 19 years of
age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jam
of Two Harbors, was drowned in Lake
Superior off that port, as a result of
going out too far on the thin ice.
Minneapolis.—Mrs. Amelia Benson, a
prisoner at Central station, attempted
suicide in her cell by hanging herself
to one of the bars with a heavy hand
kerchief.
Minneapolis.—The new Minnesota
code, it appears, omits mention of sev
eral counties, among them being Hen
nepin. There seems to have been a
curious error on the part of some one.
St. Peter.—At its last meeting the
board of county commissioners issued
Instructions to Auditor A. H. Freeman
to procure certified lists of all mort
gages owned by Nicollet county resi
dents and filed for record in the coun
ties of Sibley, Brown, Blue Earth and
Le Sueur.
S Paul.—The county commission
ers adopted the report of the commit
tee on claims allowing Sheriff Miesen
$500 for his expenses in connection
with the execution of Wlllian Williams
on Feb. 13. The sheriff put in a bill
for $772, but the committee considered
this excessive and cut it down to $500.
Mankato.—The fruit growers of this
section of the state are to hold a meet
ing in Mankato on the first Monday in
April, for the purpose of forming a
permanent organization. About thirty
fruit growers in Blue Earth county
are back of the movement. L. Z. Smith
of this city was elected president at
at preliminary meeting.
Pine River.—Falling from an origan
stool, Mrs. R. Thorp, of Little Falls,
sustained an injury to her spine which
Is very serious and from which «h«
probably never will entirely recover.
She was playing an organ when the
stool on which she was seated gave
way and she struck the floor very hard.
Minneapolis.—The city of Minneapo
lis wins in the action brought in the
district court to invalidate the appro
priation of $10,000 made by the city
council for a Minneapolis exhibit at the
Louisiana Purchase exposition held in
St. Louis a year ago last summer.
Minneapolis.—It is claimed on good
authority that the Great Northern will
abandon its line between St. Cloud and
Minneapolis on the east side of the
Mississippi river, running all of tls
trains over the Osseo line, turning the
line on the east side of the river over
to the Northern Pacific, thus giving
that company a double track between
S Cloud and Minneapolis.
St. Peter.—Fred Zuelsdorf, a car
penter at Henderson, while carrying a
bundle of shingles along a narrow
scaffold twenty feet above the ground,
lost his balance and, to save himself
from falling on his head and shoulders,
jumped from the support His prompt
action doubtless saved him a fractured
skull, but in alighting on his feet he
broke the small bones in both his
heels.
Duluth.—The state dairy and food
department has clashed with Gordon &
Dllworth, manufacturers of fruit Jams
and other products, over the question
of coal tar dyes. The state chemist
found a red aniline dye in a jar of
their blackberry jam, and notified the
retailer that it was illegal. The re
tailer called on the manufacturer, who
refused tb take the goods oh* his hands,
and said the state department was
either mistaken or "grafting."
Hastings.—Arthur Rude, Edward
Otte and George Lytle, who entered
Hanson Bros.' store on the night of
March 12, pleaded guilty to burglary
before Judge F. M. Crosby today and
were sentenced to the state reforma
tory at St. Cloud.
S Paul.—Governor Johnson has
been asked by Governor Pardee of Cal
ifornia, president of the National Irri
gation, congress, to name fifteen dele
gates from Minnesota to the next meet
ing of the congress, Sept 3 to t, at
Boise, Idaho.
Mabel.—The report that Mrs. W. R.
Sherwood has been in a trance and
saved herself from being buried alive
by waking at an opportune moment, is
denied by the woman's relatives. Mrs.
Sherwood has been ill and is now re
covering.
Pelican Rapids.—At a meeting of the
Commercial Club G. M. Mills was
elected president, J. F. Cocking vice
president L. E. Lester secretary and
Charles R. Frazee treasurer. Commit
tees were appointed to further the in
terests of the city and surrounding
country.
Henning.—Ernest Llndgren, a Soo
brakeman of this place, was thrown
from a box car at Altoona, and bad
his arm cut off near the shoulder.
The accident, it is thought, will prove
fatal, although he is* still alive.
Warren.—After a spirited election,
license carried by twenty. The-officers
elected are: Mayor, August Lundgren
aldermen, C. E. Lundquist, W. D.
Powell, T. N. Lodeon.
Blackdu'ck.—Joseph Skelk, an Aus
trian, who has a homestead claim some
miles north of here, was in town yes
terday and reports that a weasel came
near killing his 10-months-old child.
Detroit.—Evidence produced at the
coroner's Inquest over the body of
Joseph Luzon, chief of police at the
White Earth agency, who was
shot and killed last Monday, show that
the crime was of a most atrocious
character.
Flunkey.—The Minnesota & Inter
national station here has been de
stroyed by fire, nothing being saved
except a small quantity of freight It
is not definitely known how the fire
originated, but it is thought to have
resulted from a defective stovepipe. No
estimate of the loss has been given
out
Hamllne.—For the first time in the
history of the Pillsbury oratorical con
test, which has been an annual feature
of university life for seventeen years,
a young woman has carried off first
honors. Miss Ludle C. Way, a senior,
won first place and a prize of $100 In
the contest held In the university
chapaL
KWS OF IINRESOTA.
Kindness Rewarded.
St. Paul—Kindness has proved to be
good business policy in the case of F.
P. Ingalls, night clerk at the Ryan
hotel, who expects to recove $20,000 in
return for a loan of $25 made to a
hardup friend more than ten years ago.
David Noble, a mining piospector
who was a frequent patron of the hotel"
years ago, told Ingalls one night that
he was "broke" and asked for a small
loan. Ingalls promptly handed over
$25 without any request for security,
but Noble passed 1,000 shares of min
ing stock over to him, telling him fiat
he might hold it as security.
Ingalls has not seen Noble since,
but two weeks ago he received a letter
from a Butte Him of brokers offering
him $17 a shaie for his stock in the
Noble Mining company of Cook City,
Mont. He hunted up the old certifi
cates and last night telegraphed that
he would sell at $20.
Declines Good Offer.
Minneapolis—The United States de
pal tment of agriculture has been tid
ing to steal E K. Slater, state dairy
and food commissioner, from the Min
nesota seivice, but Mr. Slater stated
today that he had declined the posi
tion oftered, and would "stick to the
ship."
The depaitment under Secretary
Wilson is about to install an inspec
tion and grading bureau at New York
for butter received there. The idea
i« to grade butter if desired by the
trade, and to conduct an educational
bureau, noting the faults in butter re
ceived, and notifying the shipper how
to correct them Mr. Slater was want
ed as the head of this new service,
and llie position was tendered by E.
W. Webster, chief of tne dairy divi
sion. No salary was named, except
to say that the salaiy would be made
an inducement.
Mistaken for Wolf.
Crookston—While walking along the
east branch of the Roseau river, near
Pencer, Martin Larson had his left
arm shot off and narrowly escaped
death, being mistaken for a wolf. Ed
win Severson, Larson's uncle, did the
shooting.
Larson was walking along the bank
of the rher, hidden by the heavy
growth of underbrush. Suddenly two
shots rang out and Larson fell to the
ground agonized by a painful wound
in his v.iist and forearm. Severson
rushed to the spot and was horrified
to see his nephew weltering in blood,
instead of the wolf at which he sup
posed he had shot.
Fell to Death.
breaking his neck in the fall. He was
dead when picked up.
O'Laughlin owned the house in which
he lived. He occupied two rooms on
the second floor, while the first floor
was occupied by tenants. He returned
ing, and it appears that he had just
reached the top of the stairway when
Ihe accident occurred.
Girl* Raise Money.
Mankato—The Southern Minnesota
High School Field and Track associa
tion will hold its annual meet in this
city the latter part of May. The ath
letic association of the local high
school is anxious to present a good
showing, and being without funds,
the high school girls undertook to as
sist them. A supper was served, pat
ronized by over two hundred people,
the girls having entire charge of the
kitchen, and ten of the club members
acting as waiters. In the evening an
athletic entertainment was given at
the high school building by the club,
with musical selections interspersed.
The club cleared about $80 as a result
of the supper and entertainment and
has enough funds to carry it through
the spring.
Big Banquet.
Duluth—Eignt hundred attended the
sixth annual banquet of the Garfield
Republican club at the Masonic Tem
ple hall. More than 200 guests came
from the ranges and Two Harbors sent
a large delegation. The hall was not
large enough to accommodate every
body and an overflow banquet was held
at a cafe.
The event was the most successful in
the club's history. A feature of the
evening was the strong patriotic senti
ment that prevailed. It was vented
when patriotic songs were sung, or
some particularly striking remark was
made that appealed to the assembled
multitude.
News Notes.
St. Paul.—The aldermen pass a res
olution requiring better service on the
Snelling line.
Minneapolis.—The Great Northern
and the Northern Pacific will make
joint use of their tracks to St. Cloud.
St. Paul.—Mat Jackles, 260 West
Third street, is arrested on a charge
of attempting to shoot his wife.
St. Paul.—Leo L. Brandt, during a
runaway near the Union depot, re-/
celves injuries that may be fatal.
Minneapolis.—The state dairy com
missioner starts a campaign to im
prove the quality of the cream in Min
nesota.
Minneapolis—Minnesotans are asked
to assist in securing the establishment
of a children's 'bureau at Washington.
St. Paul.—Frank. De Mars pleaded
guilty to the theft of a quantity of
wood valued at about $100 at New
Brighton, and was sentenced to the
reformatory by Judge Bunn in the dis
trict court.
St. Paul.—Junior medical students
at State University may be boycotted
by St. Paul city hospital.
St. Paul.—O. C. Gregg, superintend
ent of the state farmers' institute, yes
terday turned into the state treasury
$1,508.60 received for advertising in
the farmers' institute annual for the
present season.
Inver Grove.—In a struggle with a
mad bull, James McDerinott, Jr.,
son of James McDermott, a farmer,
had a narrow escape from death. The
young man tried a Quo Vadis perform
ance until his brother, John, came to
the rescue with a butcher knife and
cut the beast's throat.
Little Falls —Among the twenty ath
letes who will start in the five-mile
open event, which iss expected to be
the feature of the charity athletic car
nival to be held in Chicago, under the
auspices of the Illinois, Athletic club,
will be John Running Deer, a White
Earth reservation Indian.
S Paul.—The state board of phar
macy will hold preliminary educational
examinations on April 24. at the col
lege of pharmacy, State University, St.
Peter, Granite Falls, Duluth and
Wadena. This is done to save time
and expense for applicants.
St. Paul.—Woman's Civic League
fixes the second week in May for clean
ing the city.
I Gossip From
I Scandinavia.
Minneapolis—While groping his way
to his room in the darkness early Sun
day morning, Patrick O'Laughlin, 171
Nicollet street, Nicollet island, made
a false step and fell down the steep dredged off Krnppel bridge two cast
stairway, fracturing his skull and
Principal Events That Have Oc
curred in the Old Countries
Within a Week or So.
FINLAND.
August Sundholm, a noted journal
ist was killed and his body hornbly
mutilated, near Helsingfors.
Edvard Lonnroth, a Helsingborg
printer, emigrated some ten years ago,
and a few years later his relatives re
ceived information from Montenegro,
telling them that Mr. Lonnroth war
dead. They even received some prop
erty which was left by him, and he was
officially endorsed to be dead. Av few
weeks ago his relatives received let
ters from the man himself, telling
them that he is running a printing of
fice in Guthenborg, Sweden.
Alter the robbery was committed in
the Russian National bank at Helsing
fors, the bank building is guarded by
two soldiers armed to the teeth. So
carefully do they guard the building
that thev did not even admit a police
commis«ioner and two detectives who
came to make a drawing of the in
terior of the bank. The soldiers re
quired the commissioner^ to show a
"bomaga," or written permission from
the proper authorities, to enter the
building.
The constitutional labor union held a
mass meeting at Helsingfors which was
attended by 1.500 persons and which
resolved by a unanimous vote not to
join a national strike if such a strike
is declared.
DENMARK.
The water rose three feet the har
bor of Copenhagen during a violent
storm.
The Finsen monument committee has
.decided to turn $13,500 over to the
Finsen institute, and $8,000 will be
spent for a monument of the great in
ventor. It will be remembered that
his world-wide fame rests on his
treatment of lepers by means of cei
tain rajs oi light.
Miss Eli Woller Is the first lady to
defend a medical thesis at the Uni
versity of Denmark.
A few months ago the authorities
closed the Hojcrup church for fear
that it mignt tumble into the sea. It
is located clo«e to the brink of the
lofty Stevn precipice, which is grad
ually being undermined and carried
Into the sea. Now the church has
been opened again, but a part of the
graveyard is shut off because it is
bound to slip ijito the seat at no very
distant day.
While Copenhagen harbor was being
a
2 5
a
of S
between 1 and 2 o'clock Sunday morn- hagen
were struck at a depth of
Judge by the damage done
to the pieces by rust they must have
remained at the bottom of the sea for
a long while. They are supposed to
King Karl X. Gustaf
le when he besieged Copen-
SWEDEN.
A large number of Russian fugitives
are staying at Fridhem, Brannkyska
parish, near Stockholm, and the au
thorities are keeping a close watch on
them.
A publisher in Stockholm has com
menced to publish a series of pamph
lets on Esperanto, the official language
which is receiving so much attention
after the collapse of the Volopuk craze.
The managers of the Nobel estate
have announced that each of the five
Nobel prizes, to be distributed Dec. 10,
1906, will amount to $37,404.72. This
is an increase of $120 as compared with
the prizes of 1905.
The Swedish corvette Freja arrived
at Naples, Italy, March 12. Two men
had to be taken to the hospital.
The Insurance Company of the Com
munes of Frosta and Far, Skane, which
carries insurance to the amount of
$2,430,000, had absolutely ifolosses last
year.
A flock of wild geese, the first of the
season, passed over Skane northward
as early as Ma**ch 5.
The debt on the hall owned by the
labor organizations of Stockholm is so
large that the interest paid last year
was $10,000.
Large rolling mills will soon be built
near Gothenburg.
In the year 3903 Sweden had 4,947
establishments for the poor, namely,
1,465 poor houses accommodating 27,
448 persons, 231 poorfarms accom
modating 19,610 persons 36 work
houses, accomrrodating 7,035 persons
15 children's hemes for 452 children
and 3,080 small houses accommodating
11,904 persons. The whole number of
poor people receiving public aid was
235,277, of whom 156,681 belonged to
the rural districts, and 78,596 to the
cities. The paupers receiving public
aid constituted 4\t per cent of the
.population.
Lieutenant Co'onel Gahn recommends
that all soldiera be supplied with shoes
of a uniform type.
Considerable quantities of Swedish
goods are sold in Siam. But as they
are shipped in foreign vessels Sweden
does not receive proper credit. The
Swedish consul at Bangkok would like
to see a Swedish steamship line estab
lished for taking charge of the traffic
between the two countries. Such a
line would not only gain Sweden proper
credit but also develop the market for
Swedish products in Siam.
It is proposed to extend the Western
Trunk railway to Stockholm, where
large1 depot buildings will be needed if
the plan is realized. The projected im
provements will cost over $14,000,000.
During the past ten years the
Malmohus Supply Company has dis
tributed 7,500,000 small trees, free of
charge, and the trees are now covering
thousands of acres.
The Scandinavian club at Hamburg
voted down a motion made by the
Swedes to withdraw from the club and
receive their share of the assets of
the club. But the Swedes are start
ing a Swedish club anyway.
About 50 railway laborers who were
engaged in widening the track of the
Helsingborg, Raa and Ramlosa rail
way quit work because they could not
have their pav raised from about 8
cents to about 9 cents per hour.
Mr. Lithander asked the minister of
state in the first chamber of the riks
dag whether the government intends to
draw' up a bill for checking the work
of labor organizations which are dan
gerous to society and even to the state.
The minister of state answered that the
cabinet intends to introduce such a
bill, but the subject is so complicated
that the bill cannot be completed and
introduced during the present session
of the riksdag.
The executive committee of the
Swedish brewers' union has memorial
ized the King, suggesting that the laws
governing the brewers' trade be made
less strict or that the breweries be
turned over to the state.
The Young People's Total Abstinence
association of Skane has issued an ap
peal to the young people of Sweden to
unite themselves into a national or
ganization no matter to what other
temperance organization tney ma.y be
long.
The gross receipts of tne govern
ment railways of Sweden during the
year 1905 were $15,000,000, of whien
about $3,525,000 was turned into the
national treasury
Herr G. O. Wallenberg made a
notable speech in the second chamber
of the riksdag on the commercial
policy of the Swedish government. He
maintained that the existing tariff sys
tem of Sweden is obsolete, and so in
consistent as to be rather a patch
work than a system. He scored the
government including the king, for
moving so slowly towards a much
needed tariff reform. Herr Wallenberg
claimed that by means of a judiciou"
and well balanced tariff revision
Sweden will be able to check emigra
tion to an appreciable extent.
King Oscar paid a visit to Ex-Em
press Eugene March 3 at her mansion
in Mentone, and two nours later she
returned the visit.
The Stockholders of Vermland'-
Enskilda Bank have decided to put
up a new building for the bank in
Karlstad at a cost of $150,000. The
profits for the past vear were $190,000.
which was distributed to the stock
holders as a ten pei cent dividend
Prince Carl made a fine speech when
he distributed the puzes at a skii
tournament in Lulea.
NORWAY.
The Skjaggedal waterfalls in Har
danger have been sold to Samuel Eyde,
a Norwegian engineer, and Knut Wal
lenberg, a Swedish banker, for $50,000.
An unusuallj. large number of per
sons were diowned along the coast of
Norway during the fust das of March
The state (ouncil has appointed
Christopher Ravn as Noiwegian con
sul general at New Yoi and Mr Berg
horst consul general at Havana. Mr.
Lund has been given the post of con
sul at San Francisco.
Pi of. Odland who lesigned as pro
fessor of theoiosj because the other
members of the theological faculty are
not oithodox enough, has warned the
church people against agitating in fa
vor of separating the churcn from the
state. Personally he has applied for
a position as pastor of a little hign
toned congregation in •Kustiania.
Foreign Minister Lovland asked Dr
Sigrud Ibsen to enter the diplomatic
service, but the latter answered that
his private affairs prevented him from
compljing with the request.
No less than 314 persons lost their
lives by accidents along the west coast
of Norway from Sept. 1 to March 5
The loss of Jife caused by the snow
slide1 at Steve Lofsten, was so great
as tc make the event a national calam
ity. About 60 fisheimen from Ibbe
stad, Lenviken and Brono were stop
ping in fou» fisnermen's lodging
houses at Stene when the snovvslide
came. The six buildings were de
stroyed, and some of the men wer*
carried into the sea. Only 39 men were
taken out alive and most of them were
more or less injured. Medical aid was
obtained almost immediately. The
work of rescue was dangerous becaus*
fresh avalanches were expected everv
minute.
The Norwegian Hj dro-Electric No
trogen Manufacturing Company ha««
been registered in Lower Telemarken
The capital stock is put at almost
$2,000,000, divider] into about 12,000
shares. The head of the executive
committee is K. A Wallenberg, a noted
Swedish banker.
Fritz Freschow, who owns a vast
amount of landed property, pays $6,r50O
in taxes to the national government.
There are slim changes for a regular
fight in Norwegian politics at this mo
ment but stil! the newspapers man
age to use a lot of unkind words about
this or that man who occupies a prom
inent position.
It is proposed to raise at least $100,
000 by private subscription for a pleas
ure yacht to be given to King Haakon
The imports decreased and the ex
ports increased about $750,000 during
the month of January, as compared
with the same month last jear.
It is said tha* Prof. F. A. Wulff, of
the university of Lund, be appointed to
fill the vacancy in the Swedish
Academy caused by the death of Prof
Gustaf Ljunggren.
The Degerselet depot building on the
Morjarv railway in the extreme north,
was burned down.
Major Lemke, director of the third
district of the state railways of Sweden
has issued an instruction to his sub
ordinates not to admit into the railway
service men whom the military au
thorities have rejected as unfit for
military service.
It is rumored that Bishop Billing
of Lund intends to resign as member
of the first cliamber of the riksdag at
the close of the present session be
cause he feels that he cannot do jus
tice to the clergy of his diocese while
he occupies a seat in the riksdag.
A new theological periodical will soon
be started by Prol. Pfannenstill, of
the university of Lund.
Major LembKe of the third railway
district of Sweden has instructed the
subordinate functionaries to emplov
only total abstainers in the service of
the state lailways of the district
The proprietors of Hotel Rydberg.
Stockholm, have offered to sell the
establishment for $650,000, and if the
offer is accepted they intend to donate
$135,000 towards establishing a business
college in Stockholm.
The General Telephone Company has
offered to sell its plant to the govern
ment for $4,258,170, which is about
$750,000 less than the price asked in
1901.
Some cf the members of the stor
ting complained because their speeches
are not reported more iully in the
press. To this criticism one paper
answered that the papers give the sub
stance of the speeches, leaving out
only the repetitions and the padding,
and that some speakers ought to leain
something by reading theii own
speeches in the papers.
A Norwegian commercial club has
been organized in London.
A man woriiing every day in the
box shop of the Porsgrund porcelain
factory is over ninety years old. His
name is Hans Peter Christensen, and
his home is the Mothougen farmstead.
The HolmenLollen Sk\ tournament
was not a brilhant success this year on
account of a violent snow storm and
a mild temperature The king and
queen were there and were received
with entnusiasm as usual.
A carpenter at Eidsberg, who had
been out hunting, left his loaded rifle
hanging on the wall He-felt perfectly
safe because there were no big child
ren in the house. But a few days later
a Kristlania bov was left alone a few
moments in the house, and he climbed
upon a chair to take down the rifle,
which was discharged, killing a small
child instantly. The owner of the rifle
was fined $5 for failing to take proper
care of firearms.
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