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TWLLMAR. MINN.
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Complete Review 6f Happenings of
Greatest Interest from AH Parts of
the Globe—Latest Home and For*
eign Items.
WASHINGTON MOTES.
President Taft has been drawn into
the fight being waged by the insur
gents against the rules of the house.
He held conferences with both sides
but declined to announce how he
stands.
The new tariff bill, part of which
has been sent to the printer, is under
stood to cut the duty on lumber one
half and place hides on the free list.
It is expected to provide 1330,000,000
additional revenue, despite these
changes.
According to a report in Washington
the ?nate may investigate charges
that Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin
bought his election.
While the house is wrestling with
the tariff bill, it is believed the senate
may take up other important matters.
The senate confirmed, without op
position, the cabinet appointments of
President Taft. All of the members
except Secretaries MacVeagh and
Dickinson ha\e taken the oath of of
fice.
Consideration of President Taft'9
cabinet nominations began in the
United States senate. The house ha3
adjourned until March 15.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Ruth Leavitt, daughter of Wil
liam Jennings Bryan, obtained a de
cree of divoice from her husband at
Lincoln, Neb.
William B. Severe, chief of the mail
bag repair shop of the post-office de
partment, has resigned after 12 years'
service.
Lieut. Arnold of the Belgian army,
who was at one time denounced by the
missionaries for burning and pillaging
villages and committing assassinations
and other atrocities in the Congo, has
been found guilty and sentenced to im
prisonment for 12 years.
Chanes E. Brown, lawyer of Dan
ville, 111., was placed on trial in the
federal court on a charge of counter
feiting.
John W. Fisher, formerly prominent
as a lawyer and politician of Buffalo,
N. Y., was sentenced to Auburn prison
on his plea of guilty to grand larceny
In the first degree. The indictment
charged the theft of $2,500 from the
town of Cheektowaga.
Former Vice-President Fairbanks re
turned to his home in Indianapolis and
was greeted by many friends.
Theodore Roosevelt has announced
that he will leave New York on the
steamship Hamburg, March 23, for his
African hunt and visit to European
capitals.
Isaac Stephenson, after a deadlock
lasting several weeks, was elected
United States senator from Wisconsin.
GENERAL NEWS.
Should the miners in the anthracite
fields continue their demands for an
eight hour day and other concessions,
it is believed a stiike is certain to
follow.
The Standard Oil Company of Indi
ana and the Republic Oil Company
have lost their cases in the Missouri
supreme court and must give up their
business in that state.
In his address to the jury in the
Cooper-Carmack murder case at Nash
ville, Tenn., Gen. Meeks of counsel fipr
the defense pleaded the unwritten law.
Seven students of the Eastern Illi
nois Normal school at Charleston were
arrested on charges of noting, made
by the father of a young man whom
they ducked.
Kingdon Gould, son of George Gould,
•was elected a director of the Missouri
Pacific Railway Company, which is
controlled by his father.
Officers were elected by delegates
to the convention of the United Mine
Workers of America, district No. 11,ing
convention at Terre Haute, Ind. W. P.
Rollins of Linton is president.
More than thirty persons, fourteen
of whom were white, were killed and
sixty were injured by a tornado which
destroyed Brinkley, Ark.
Ordeis were issued by the interior
department for the opening of 3,000,
000 acres of land in eastern Wyoming
to homesteaders.
The chamber of deputies of France
passed the income tax bill by 407 votes
to 1GG.
The name of former Vice-President
Fairbanks is mentioned in connection
with the ambassadorship to the Court
of St. James.
Archibald G. Ellairof Detroit refused
to surrender for the use of the Roose
velt hunting party a cabin he bad re
served on the steamship Hamburg.
An attempt to wreck the pay train
of the Burlington road in Des Moines,
la., failed. It is believed robbers made
the attempt.
Elton Baldwin, who murdered his
mother at Saugatuck, Mich., was sent
to the penitentiary for life three days
after the crime.
One negro was burned at the stake
and another who had secreted him was
shot to death, following an assault on
a woman at Rockwell, Tex.
Elton Baldwin confessed that he
Wiled his mother at Sagatuck, Mich.,
because he feared she would tell that
he set fire to their barn.
William H. Bishop, well-known In
theatrical circles as manager and own
er of such old time stage successes as
"The Black Crook," "What Happened
to Jones," and "The County Fair,"
died in New York from Injuries sus
tained when he was struck by an auto
mobile.
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Mrs. Nanrjr Wilson, generally known
as Mrs. Staffleback, one of the most
notorious women prisoners in the Kan
sas penitentiary, died of pneumonia.
With her husband and three sons she
was convicted of murder in 1897.
Former Gov. Frederick Holbrook of
Vermont, one of the three surviving
"war governors" and the oldest ex
governor in the United States, is dan
gerously ill with bronchitis at his
home in Brattleboro. He is 96 yeais
old.
Opposition to President Taft's sug
gestion of a federal inheritance tax
as a means of raising revenue, has ap
peared in the Connecticut general as
sembly.
President Zelaya of Nicaragua, it is
reported, has called another confer
ence between his own country, Hon
duras, Guatemala, Salvador and Costa
Rica, with the view of arranging per
manent peace for Central America
Convicted bankers, who are prison
ers in the Western penitentiary of
Pennsylvania, have found a discrep
ancy of $26,000 in the accounts of the
prison on which they were put to work
to make an investigation.
Nine persons lost their lives in a
tornado which swept several counties
in Arkansas. The ruins of Brinkley
caught fire after the wind had done
its damage.
Capt. Fitzhugh, one of counsel for
the state, opened the arguments be
fore the jury and bitterly denounced
the slayers of former Senator Car
mack.
Several aluminum manufacturing
concerns in the west have been con
solidated into one corporation with a
capital of $750,000.
Swedish-Americans from all parts
of the country met in Chicago at the
annual session of the Swedish-Ameri
can Republican League.
Following the decision of the federal
court that the Missouri two-cent fare
law is unconstitutional a committee of
the Kansas senate returned an adverse
report on a measure of the same kind.
First Lieut. Edward L. Rains, Twen
tieth infantry, has been dropped from
the roll of the army for desertion.
Joseph B. Kealing, United States
district attorney at Indianapolis, rath
er than assist in the prosecution of
Delavan Smith and Charles R. Wil
liams, Indicted in connection with the
Panama libel case, has resigned.
E. H. Harriman and party left
Tucson, Ariz., in their special ain
for a trip over the Mex.can coast
lines.
A diamond necklace estimated to be
worth from $100,000 to $300,000 lost
by Mrs. Otto C. Heinze in New York
was found in the possession of a
Greek who was arrested in Omaha,
Neb.
That the tide of immigration is
again on the flood was apparently in
dicated when 1,500 immigrants arrived
in Boston on the steamer Romanic
from Mediterranean ports. This is the
largest number landing from any
steamer at Boston for 16 months.
Gov. Charles N. Haskell and others,
indicted for Muskogee town lot frauds
by the federal grand jury in February,
were granted until March 15 to plead,
by agreement of counsel. Their plea
will be entered at Vinita during the
term of the federal court there.
Snowden H. Falrall died at Iowa
City, la., aged 73. He was for many
years a member of the Iowa house and
senate. He was a college mate of
James G. Blaine.
On nis first Sunday as chief execu
tive President Taft walked to the Uni
tarian church. At Oyster Bay, Theo
dore Roosevelt, whom he succeeded,
did the same thing.
In a sermon to his congregation,
Rev. John Haynes Holmes of New
York said Theodore Roosevelt was not
a statesman, but the smartest politi
cian of the time, and as such did great
good.
A man believed to be Walter F.
Schultz of Chicago was found dead in
Alexandria, Va., across the river from
Washington. It is believed he was
murdered.
The German press praises former
President Roosevelt for his efforts
toward friendship between the nations.
Arguments to the jury in the Car
mack-Cooper murder case at Nashville,
Tenn., were begun by counsel.
Fred Parker of Brookfield, 111., has
asked the Chicago police to search for
his wife, who is missing from their
home and whom he believes is de
mented.
In January last there was a falling
off of about $50,000,000 in the total
value of the country's exports as com
pared with those of January, 1908
while for the seven months ending
with January last, the total exports
amounted to $1,031,719,944, against
$1,189,090,551 in the corresponding
seven months in question.
Albert T. Patrick, convicted of slay
William Marsh Rice in New York
in 1900, demanded that the supreme
court in Brooklyn set him free or send
him to tbe death chair.
President Lewis and members of the
United Mine Workers of America met
in Wilkesbarre, Pa., and discussed the
coming conference with the anthracite
operators, which may mean a strike.
The sale of all the properties of the
Southern Steel Company at auction
was decided upon at a meeting of the
creditors of that company in Birming
ham, Ala.
"Colonel" is the title which pleases
Theodore Roosevelt. He pattdd a
newspaper reporter on the shoulder
and told him he knew how to flatter
when the scribe addressed him by the
title.
Heirs of Andrew Layton, at a meet
ing in Beloit, Wis., decided to lay
claim to land in the heart of Chicago's
business district which is worth mil
lions.
The resignation of E. B. Cochems,
formerly of the University of Wiscon
sin, as athletic director of St. Louis
university, has been accepted by the
athletic board.
Frank C. Hollins, a New York bank
er and broker, who promoted and built
two railroads in Illinois, committed
suicide by inhaling gas.
Because of the heavy snowstorm
and blizzard in the east New York
newspapers were compelled to get
most of their stories about the in
auguration of President Taft by wire
less telegraph, a triumph of science
over nature.
Claiming they are being discrimi
nated against, the coal dealers of Ohio
and Pennsylvania will make an appeal
to various railways ieading to Lake
Erie points for a lower freight rate.
ST. PAUL'S ANTI-ARMOUR PETI-
TION PRESENTED.
House Makes a General Clean-up of
Business Passing a Big Batch
of Bills.
St Paul, Minn., March 6.—The
house received and immediately pass
ed a bill for $50,000 additional money
for legislative expense today. The
bill was presented by W. H. Putnam,
chairman of the house appropriations
committee. W. A. Nolan explained
the measure. Gentlemen, unless this
bill passes, some of us are liable to
go hungry," he said with a smile, "and
therefore I move the rules be suspend
ed and the bill placed on its final
passage." There wasn't a dissenting
vote. The original legislative expense
bill appropriated $150,000. With this
bill, the expense of the entire session
totals $200,000, practically the same
as former sessions.
That petite and sliapely chorus girls
nrist not appear ki Minnesota thea
ters in red, white and blue tights is
the provision of a bill introduced in
the house today by Mr. Sawyer, first
as a joke, and later taken in serious
vein.
St. Paul, Minn., March 8.—The spe
cial committee of the house, named to
consider the employers' liability bills,
today deli\ ered its report to the house
in the form of the introduction of a
new emplcjera' liability measure. The
bill does not abolish the existing law,
permitting an employe to sue for dam
ages in event of an injury, but allows
a choice to be made between the old
and the new law, the proposed bill
waiving the question of contributory
negligence and putting into effect a
considerably lower scale of indemni
ties than the former bills. The in
demnities are as follows: For death,
$2,000 to $3,000 both hands or feet,
$2,050 to $4,000 one hand and one
foot, or both hands, or both feet,
$2,000 to $3,000 one hand or one foot,
$660 to $1,000 one finger, $75 thumb,
$100 one toe, $25 big toe, $50 both
eyes, $2,000 to $3,000 one eye, one
third of amount allowed for loss of
both deafness, $1,000 to $1,500 total
disability, $2,000 to $3,00t temporary
disability, 50 per cent of wages.
Messrs. Spooner and Sawyer joined
tcday in the introduction of a bill to
provide that at least twenty employes
of the state reformatory be engaged
in the operating of crushed stone ma
chinery, the stone to be held at the
institution for distribution as ordered
by the state highway commission for
road building. The bill appropriates
$12,000 for the purchase of the neces
sary stone crushing machinery.
Representative Hinds introduced a
bill to place wall-eyed pike among the
fish that cannot be sold or shipped in
this state.
A protest against the bill to permit
six-round boxing contests was re
ceived from the St. Paul Y. M. C. A.
today, signed by Arthur B. Driscoll,
president of the St. Paul organization.
The bill is at present on the calendar
in the house.
The house spent most of today's
session in committee of the whole.
Among the bills considered and or
dered advanced to the calendar were
the St. Louis county delegation bill
to permit $400,000 additional bonds to
be issued for completion of the court
house in Duluth St. Louis county
delegation bill to create the office of
county public examiner by Mattson,
to permit rural school boards to hire
truant officers by Nolan, to require a
character certificate of those granted
liquor licenses by Rosenwald, to re
quire fees and measurements to be
recorded by surveyors general of logs
and timber.
Gov. J. A. Johnson has signed the
bill asserting state ownership in min
eral properties beneath the waters of
meandered lake beds.
There was no session of the senate
today. The finance committees of
both houses are continuing their hear
ings today on the various items of the
pending appropriation bills, prepara
tory to drafting the omnibus appro
priation bill.
St. Paul, Minn., March 9.—Senator
C. J. Gunderson of Alexandria today
jumped into the arena as a candidate
for United States judge, district of
Minnesota, to succeed Judge Milton
D. Purdy, who was appointed original
ly by President Roosevelt, and has
recently been re-appointed by Presi
dent Taft. Mr. Gunderson's entry
comes through a resolution adopted
unanimously and by a rising vote of
the state senate today. Senator Sew
ard of Lyon county introduced the
resolution. The resolution recites
that:
"We have absolute knowledge and
implicit confidence in the integrity,
learning and ability of Hon. C. J. Gun
derson of Alexandria and we hereby
respectfully pray that he be appointed
as judge of the United States district
court for the district ot Minnesota.
Camel Works Hard.
Prom the beginning of the journey
to its end a camel is never relieved of
Us load. It eats, walks and sleeps un
der its burden, often for weeks at a
time. The training of a camel is no
easy matter, as it takes about three
years to teach it to bend the knees in
order to be loaded and unloaded.
Like Many Another.
1 am always so busy doing noth
ing," remarked the Little Spalpeen,
"that I never have time to do any
thing else."
Considers Us Optimists.
Americans, both men and women,
are more equable, genial and smooth
tempered than Europeans because
they do not take life au grand serieux,
but always see the humorous side
of every situation, however untoward,
In which they happen to find them
selves.—London Sketch.
The Difference.
There Is high palmistry, and then
there is low palmistry. Low palmistry
reads fortunes from one's hands. High
palmistry takes fortunes off one's
hands.—New York Evening Pott
"Resolved further, that this regain*
tlon be engrossed and signed by the
president and secretary of the sen
ate, and copies forwarded to the Hon.
Knute Nelson and the Hon. Hoses E.
Clapp, United States senators at
Washington, D. C."
The resolution was seconded by
Julius Coller of Scott county, and
adopted without an opposing vote.
This means a contest over the con
firmation of Judge Purdy's appoint
ment by the United States senate.
E. S. Durment of St. Paul intro
duced a re-draft of his employer's lia
bility bill in the senate today. It now
permits contributory negligence to be
entered as a defense. It also materi
ally reduces the scale of damages al
lowed for various injuries, the death
allowance being $3,500. Elwell of Min
neapolis introduced a bill increasing
the rate of the general tax levy for
the university from .23 mills to one
half a mill, which will increase the
standing tax allowance $100,000.
S. A. Nelson introduced a bill to
declare a state office vacant when the
holder thereof is incapacitated to dis
charge the duties of such office for a
period of six months by reason of
sickness or other cause. It is under
stood this is especially aimed at L. A.
Rosing, whose long illness has kept
him away from the state board of
control most of the past year.
Senator Gunn offered a bill to per
mit towns and townships to levy a
three mill tax for libraries, museums,
art galleries and reading rooms. Geo.
P. Wilson introduced a bill to deny
legal recognition in future to common
law marriages. S. A. Nelson had a
bill to require a political candidate
in filing his statement of expenses to
also include a statement of all money
and aid received, the amount and the
contributors.
The bill for abolishment of capital
punishment in Minnesota was killed
in the house today by the close vote
of 35 for indefinite postponement to
31 in favor of the measure.
The principal address for the bill
was made by Representative MacKen
zie, former prosecuting attorney of
Sibley county.
T. J. Greene introduced an "old
timer" today, to appropriate $22,000
for W. H. Temple, to pay for certain
state bonds which Temple holds.
These were issued by the state in
1859, and only redeemed in part. The
payment asked has been rejected by
several legislatures.
St. Paul, Minn., March 10.—The St
Paul petition against the proposed Ar
mour packing plant in the Midway
district, within the limits of Minne
apolis, was presented to Speaker A. J.
Rockne at noon today. Mayor D. W.
Lawler and Representative Cal Stone
of St. Paul, made the formal presen
tation to the speaker on the steps in
front of the capitol. The petition,
rolled on a large reel, was then car
ried up to the house chamber, on the
second floor, by the detail of police.
The house this morning, on motion
of Represenative Bjorge, author of
the iron tonnage tax bill, agreed to
make that measure a special order to
be considered next Wednesday at 1:30
p. m.
The senate occupied the entire
morning fighting over the new normal
school bills. By a vote of 35 to 25,
the Daniel Gunn bill, for a new nor
mal at Cass Lake, was advanced from
"the table," where it has rested for
several days, to the calendar. The
vote was the test between the friends
of Cass Lake and those who stood
for a bill to permit the normal board
to select a location in northwestern
Minnesota.
The senate busied itself with con
sideration of bills in committee of the
whole this afternoon, while the house
worked with its calendar.
The bills passed by the house, in
cluded the following St. Louis county
delegation bills: to create a county
public examiner to create a county
court house and city hall commission
to authorize the county commissioners
to publish tne time when real and
personal property taxes become de
linquent to increase the clerk hire
allowance of the county auditor to
$22,000 a year, and that of the coun
ty treasurer to $15,000. Other bills
passed included one to authorize the
purchase of a federal reserve in Carl
ton county for university work in for
estry to permit local school boards
to employ truant officers and to
require a record of all logs measured
and fees received by surveyors gen
eral of the state.
On motion of Ole Sageng of Otter
Tail county, the senate this afternoon
killed the Rowe bill providing special
vengeance to descend on the heads
of chicken thieves.
A number of new senate bills ap
peared. "These included the following:
by Putnam and Dale, to permit coun
ty commissioners to establish agri
cultural experiment stations and
schools on county poor farms by Sa
geng, to establish a wheat-testing lab
oratory under the state railroad and
warehouse commission by S. A. Nel
son, requiring a record to be kept of
all saes of firearms by Campbell,
requiring railroads to clean and fumi
gate livestock cars at the end of every
trip.
The Last Word.
A good deal of fuss is going on In
the "culchawed" crowd about a claim
that Paul Revere never made his
famous midnight ride. "H*m," mur
murs C. E. Ingalls, "doesn't the poem
say 'Scarcely a man is now alive who
remembers that famous day and
year?"—Kansas City Journal
Defined.
First U. S. Senator—"What Is a
blind partisan?" Second U. S. Sena
tor—"One who doesn't know the
color of money."—Life.
The Boy Was Going 8ome.
A novel experiment to demonstrate
thepracticability ofapneumatic carrier
was recently tried in Chicago. The
"parcel"shot through a short length of
s»mnle tnb*» was a 13-year-old boy.
He traveled at the rate of 16 miles
an hour, and was in no way the worsa
for the journey.
In the Automobile Age.
"Is the human race in peril?" askfl
the Independent It is, unless it Jumps
as soon as it heart the honk.—Denver
Republican.
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PRESIDENT TAFT'S
OFFICIAL FAMILY
SKETCHES OF THE NINE
EMINENT MEN FORM
ING HIS CABINET.
P. KNOX HEADS THE GROUP
Pennsylvanian Is Secretary of State
Franklin MacVeagh, Chicago Mer
chant, Holds the Treasury Portfo
lio—Jacob M. Dickinson, Tennessee
Democrat, to Manage the Army
Affairs of the Agricultural Depart
ment Left in James Wilson's
Hands.
Philander Chase Knox of Pennsyl
vania, secretary of state in the cab
inet of President Taft, was born at
Brownsville, Pa., in 1853. He was
graduated from Mount Union college,
Ohio, in 1872, and three years later
was admitted to the bar. During the
years 1876 and 1877 he served as as
sistant United States district attorney
for the western district of Pennsyl
vania. In the-latter vear he formed
a law partnership with James H. Reed
which still exists and which has rep
resented many large corporations, in
cluding the Carnegie Company. Mr.
Knox entered President McKinley's
cabinet as attorney general in April,
1901, serving until 1904, when he was
elected United States senator from
Pensylvania. The latter position he
resigned to become the head of Presi
dent Taft's cabinet.
Wilson Retains His Place.
Only one member of the Roosevelt
cabinet retains his portfolio under
Mr. Taft. That is James Wilson of
Iowa, secretary of agriculture. So ex
cellent had been his work in that posi
tion that there was no serious talk of
making a change. Born in Scotland in
1835, Mr. Wilson came to the United
States in 1852 and three years later
settled in Iowa. In 1861 he engaged in
farming in Tama county. He was a
member of the Iowa assembly for
three sessions and speaker of the
house for one session, and also was a
member of the Iowa state railway
commission. In 1873 he was elected
to congress, serving two terms, and
was sent to the national legislature
again for one term in 1883. He was
regent of the State university of
Iowa In 1870-74, and in 1890 was
made director of the agricultural ex
periment station and professor of agri
culture at the Iowa Agricultural col
lege, Ames, la, In 1897 he became
secretary of agriculture.
MacVeagh for the Treasury.
Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the
treasury, was born on a farm in
Chester county, Pennsylvania, gradu
ated from Yale in 1862 and from
Columbia Law school in 1864. He be
gan the practice of law in New York
city but ill-health forced him to aban
don it and in 1865 he went to Chicago
and engaged in the wholesale grocery
business. In this and other commer
cial pursuits he has amassed, a.large
fortune. Before entering the cabinet
he disposed of his holdings in the big
grocery firm and resigned as director
of the Commercial National bank of
Chicago. Mr. MacVeagh has always
been interested in movements for the
public welfare, locally and nationally.
Dickinson Is War Secretary.
Jacob M. Dickinson of Tennessee
and Chicago, the new secretary of
war, was born in 1851 at Columbus,
Miss. He graduated from the Uni
versity of Nashville in 1872 and after
ward studied law at Columbia college,
Good Company.
Religion cannot illuminate philo
sophical discussions. Philosophical
discussions can confirm religious
truths. And therefore seek the com
pany of truly religious people and of
real philosophers, the living as well
as the dead.—Tolstoy.
A Matrimonial Oversight.
It never seems to occur to persona
who are getting married that they
ought to take each other for good as
well as for better or worse.—Philadel
phia Record.
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at the University of Leipsiz- and in
Paris. He served several times by
special commission on the supreme
bench of Tennessee and was assist
ant attorney general of the United
States in 1895-97.
Postmaster General Hitchcock.
The first cabinet officer selected by
Mr. Taft after his election was Frank
H. Hitchcock of Massachusetts, who
gave up his place as first assistant
postmaster general to manage success
fully the Taft presidential campaign.
He has been given the office of post
master general in the new cabinet.
Mr. Hitchcock was born at Amherst,
O., in 1867, and graduated from Har
vard in 1891 and from Columbia Law
school in 1S94. Since 1891 he has
been a government official.
Nagel Has Commerce Portfolio.
Missouri has been rewarded for its
switch to the Republican column by
the appointment of Charles Nagel as
secretary of commerce and labor. Mr.
Nagel is a leading lawyer of St.
Louis and the west. He was born in
Texas in 1849, moved to St. Louis
when a child and graduated from the
St. Louis Law school in 1873. He has
been senior member of the law firm
of Nagel & Kirby, professor in the
St. Louis Law school and a trustee
of Washington university. In 1881-83
he was a member of the Missouri house
of representatives, and in 1893-97 was
president of the St. Louis city coun
cil. He is a member of the Repub
lican national committee and for years
has been an intimate friend of Mr.
Taft. He was one of Mr. Roosevelt's
most enthusiastic supporters. As an
attorney Mr. Nagel was identified with
several important cases dealing with
the numerous complications in the
affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in
the then Indian territory.
Navy Under Meyer's Charge.
President Taft's secretary of the
navy, George Von L. Meyer of Massa
chusetts, has had wide experience as
a business man, legislator, diplomat
and cabinet officer. He was born in
Boston in 3858 and graduated from
Harvard in 1879. He then entered
business and has been prominently
conected with a number of financial
and mercantile concerns. His career
as a public official began in 1889, when
he was elected to the Boston common
council. He then served on the board
of aldermen, and in 1892-96 he was a
member of the Massachusetts isgtsla
ture, the last two years being speaker
of the house In 1900 Mr. Meyer was
sent to Italy as American ambassador,
and in 1905 was transferred to Rus
sia. In January. 1907, President
Roosevelt called him home to enter
his cabinet as postmaster general.
This portfolio he has relinquished for
that of the navy. Mr. Meyer's home is
Hamilton, Mass
Ballinger Secretary of Interior.
After, about one year's service as
commissioner of the general land of
fice, Richard A Ballinger of Seattle,
Wash., has entered the cabinet as
secretary of the interior. He is a
native of Iowa, having been born in
Boonesboro in 1858 After attending
the University ot Kansas and Wash
burn college at Topeka. he went to
Williams college, graduating in 1884
and afterward studying law and re
moving to Washington. He was
United States court commissioner in
1890-92 and later was Judge of the
supreme court in Jefferson county,
Wash.
Attorney General Wtckersham.
George W. Wickersham, who be
comes President Taft's attorney gen
eral, has had the reputation of being
one of the ablest lawyers In New
York city. Born In Pittsburg In 1858,
he studied civil engineering in Lehigh
university and in 1880 graduated from
the law school of the University of
Pennsylvania. For two years he prac
ticed law in Philadelphia. In 1884 he
became associated with the law firm
of Strong & Cadwalladare, to which
Henry W. Taft, brother of the presi
dent, belongs.
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Hint for the Talkative.
There is much to be said for silence.
If the majority of people could be
made to exercise themselves regularly
in restraint of the tongue the general
business of this planet would be con
siderably expedited.—Pall Mall Ga
sette.
As Wa 8ow, Wa Reap.
Man is the artificer of his own hap.
plness. Let him beware how he com
plains of the disposition of circum
stances, for it is his own disposition
he blames.—Henry D. Thoreau.
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NEW
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FIRE AT WORTHINGTON.
Worthington The Worthington
Real Estate company's building, the
first brick building erected in this
place, was burned, the fire starting
from an overheated stove in the shoe
store of Loren Clark. The Workmen
had lodge rooms on the second floor
and lost all their fixtures and para
phernalia. Clark's loss on his goods
was $12,000 and he had insurance of
$6,000. Nelson's restaurant was dam
aged to the extent of $1,000, the in
surance being $500. The insurance on
the building was but $3,000 and the
total loss caused by the fire is esti
mated at close to $25,000. The burn
ed structure will be replaced with a
bigger and better building.
CELEBRATES 100TH BIRTHDAY.
AVinona—James Hogan, who makes
his home with his son, James Hogan,
Jr.. of Homer Ridge, celebrated t'ie
iOt'th anniversary of his birth. T\Ir.
Hogan has been a cripple from lheu
matism for the past 20 jears. and his
sight and hearing are impaired. AP
a result of the marriage of Mr. and
Mrs. Hogan 13 children were oorn, ot
whom four are now Ining, these be
ing Mr* Kate Green of Komer. Mrs.
Anna Nunn of St. Paul, Thomas Ho
gan of South Dakota, and James Ho
gan. Jr., of Komer Ridge. Twenty
eight grandchildren were born, of
whom seven ha\e died. There are 30
great-grandchildren.
CAPT. TAPPER DEAD.
Villarc—Captain John Tapper, pio
neer ferrjman of Minneapolis, is
dead. After a long illness the end
came yesterday at the home of his
son, Frank Tapper. The infirmities
of old age led to his gradual decline
In health, a decay which was marked
ly noticeable in the last jear. At va
rious times since he retired from ac
tive work Captain Tapper has beea
in Minneapolis for extended Msits.
Connected so closely with the early
days of the city, both as a ferryman
and toll keeper on the old suspension
bridge, he has been a familiar ac
quaintance of all the old settlers.
SUES THE OMAHA FOR $15,000.
Mankato—Thomas L. Bastow of
Owatonna has started an action in
the federal court in this city to re
cover $15,000 for injuries alleged to
have been sustained in a wreck at
Cumberland, Wis., last August. The
Omaha road is the defendant. The
complaint alleges that Bastow was a
passenger, and that through the neg
ligence of the company the train was
derailed and his hip and several ribs
were broken, and all of his front teeth
knocked out.
NEWS NOTES.
Rochester—John Dick, a pioneer
resident of the county, died here. He
was 84 years of age.
Hastings—John Wilscheck commit
ted suicide at his home on East Fourtn
street by banging himself to a beam
in his barn.
Hastings—The residence of Mr. and
Mrs. L. P. Husting burned and their
daughter, Eva, aged 2\: jears, perish
ed in the ruins.
St. Cloud, Minn., March 6.—Mrs.
Xavier Braun. familiarly known as
"Grandma Braun," of this city, cele
brated her ninetieth birthday.
Duluth—Yousiff Mahmout wrestled
for an hour with Fred Beell without
securing a fall. The bout was evi
dently a frameup and the crowd of
1,000 was sore.
Mankato—A. H. Fowler, a promi
nent resident, died of apoplexy in the
basement of his residence. He was
city assessor and a member of the
board of public works.
St. Cloud—The St. Cloud Street Car
company will extend this season to
the Sauk river at Waite Park, then
south to take in the seven granite
Shops along the Osseo track.
Hastings—John E. Cooke of Lake
ville was arraigned upon a charge of
shooting at his wife, the hearing be
ing adjourned until March 13. Cooke,
as will be remembered, also fired a
bullet into his own head, and in con
sequence is in a critical condition.
Minneapolis.—"The Smart Set,"
one of the best colored organizations
in the country, will be seen at the
Bijou Opera House, Minneapolis, the
week of March 14th, offering some
thing out of the ordinary in the
amusement line. It is a comedy
drama wedded to sweet music of the
infectious, jingling kind, and is called
"The Black Politician."
Mankato—Rev. Nels Simon Hagger
ness died, aged 64 years, leaving a
wife, three sons and one daughter.
Death was due to a stroke of apoplexy.
He was born in Norway, but came to
America 37 years ago, and at once en
tered Augsburg seminary, graduating
two years later. He filled the pulpits
of the Norwegian Luthern churches at
St. Peter and Mankato for some j-«»arr
and organized several churches in
southern Minnesota.
Winona—J. N. Adee, superintendent
of the public schools at Batavia, 111.,
was elected by the Winona board of
education as superintendent of the
Winona schools succeeding Charles R.
Frazier, who recently resigned to take
a position as assistant state superin
tendent of public instruction.
Hastings—The explosion of a kitch
en stove in the home of Louis Hust
ing, a nursery salesman, burned his
4-month8-old son to death, injured his
2-year-old daughter, Eva, so that she
died, and seriously burned his wife,
who struggled to rescue the children.
Okabena—Wednesday, as the big
snow plow on the Milwaukee road was
going west, Ralph Clover of Jackson,
a shoveler, was struck by the plow
and instantly killed. His neck, both
legs and one arm were broken. He
was 54 years of age. An inquest ex*
onerated the railway company.
St. Cloud—Representative Lind
bergh has appointed Albert Hammer
ell and Nathaniel K. Quickstad, both
of St. Cloud, Minn., as cadets to An*
napolis. Both are principals. He has
also appointed F. A. Cummins of Cass
Lake as cadet to West Point.
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NORWAY.
It will take about three months to
repair the Fram end make it ready'
for Capt Roald Amundsen's next
north pole expedition.
The Norwegians seem to have out
done the world in celebrating the
birthday of Charles Darwin. The
great founder of the evolution theory
has obtained a very strong footing in
Norway, and practically all the news
papers and periodicals of the country
united in paying homage to him on
his one-hundredth birthday. From
all the chairs of the institutions oi
learning his name was mentioned with
thanks. His name was not heard in
the churches but on the other hand
no objection was made to the un
stinted and vniversal praise cf the
great re*olutiorist in the scientific
•ftorld. The celebratiou connected
ith the university was tho »eerest
of all. Prof. W. C. Brogger. piesidenr
or tne university, introduced the pro
gram with a few remarks about th?
triumph of the theory of e\ elmion in
Norway. Thirty years ago, he said,
tne vord '"Darwinist" wa* employed
as an epithet of abuse, an "evolution
ist" had made himself unworthy of
general respect. What a change in
those thirt jears! A man v.ho re
jects Darwinism is "looked upon as
an impossibil.u" in our day. Prof.
Schruncr next took charge of the pro
gram. The lights were shut off, and
a life-sie picture of the great nat
uralist was thrown upon a screen.
This was foHowed by a ghastly array
of prehistoric beings which are sup
posed to have led up to animal life as
we see it around us. The hall was
crowded, still there was absolute si
lence as the uncouth animals of the
different geological periods passed
across the screen A reporter states
that "particularly impress-he vas the
transition from the semi-ape to ape
man." When this uiiiqi'p stance was
over Prof. Schreiner "rose nnd ex
plained what we have lost and what
we have gained by the development
into man."
A movement has just been started
to organize a new political party in
Norway. About a year ago twenty
four Leftist members of the storting
were shut out from the Leftist union
because they were opposed to the rad
ical wing of the party, which, never
theless, was strong enough to over
throw the Lovland cabinet and put
the present (Knudsen) cabinet into
power. Now those tabooed Leftist
members of the storting and their
sympathizers are trying to organize a
national party which is to follow the
"golden midway" in Norwegian poli
tics. At the head of the movement
are found the most popular men in
the country, as, for instance, ex-Pre
mier Michelsen, Fridtjof Nansen,
Ernst Sars, the historian, Konow. Arc
tander, Abraham Berge, Ole Arvesen
and a host of lesser lights. In the
preliminary platform of the n^w i"arty.
considerable stress is laid on rersonal
liberty,—political, religious and social.
It is also worthy of note that Lov
land and Aarrestad are left out: Lov
land, the leader of the languase re
formers, and Aarrestad, the leader of
the temperance people. It would seem
that this may drive the latter group
Into a crowd by themselves, and if
this should happen the new party will
have all the fighting that they can
wish for.
SWEDEN.
The Riks bank has reduced the rate
of discount from 5 to 4 per cent.
W. Liebgott of Malmo has invented
an apparatus for catching seals alive.
The Separator Manufacturing com
pany of Stockholm cut dow the work
ing hours from ten to eight about six
months ago because there was such
a large stock on hand. Now the pros
pects are better, and the time has
been extended from eight to ten houis,
or from 46 to 57 hours a week.
A remarkable contribution to the
spelling reform movement will soon
be published by Prof. Noren, a noted
linguist. He has just finished a work
in which he discusses the origin and
meaning of the names of the rivers,
cities and mountains of Sweden, and
this will throw a side light on their
spelling.
Mr. Rhodin and Mr. Modin, two of
the employes at Storjungfrun light
house off Soderhamn, started to walk
across the Ice to Soderhamn. The
sheet of ice extended as far as they
could see, but it was thin and brittle.
When they had walked about one and
a half (English) miles they realized
that they were in danger, and re
turned the same way. But a few sec
onds lated they bothtoetaohrdletafwy
onds later they both broke through
the Ice. They were seen by people
at Vallvlk, but it was impossible to
reach them from that quarter. The
two men fought desperately for their
lives, but the cold water soon put an
end to their efforts, and they both dis
appeared in tbe water. It is custom
ary to carry long stakes made for
the purpose when tbe ice is dangerous
ly thin, but the victims had not taken
the precaution to carry any such ap
pliances.
The managers of the jubilee fund
of King Oscar II have proposed new
buildings* at the1 Osterisen tubercu
losis sanatorium. One of. the build
iners is to be an addition to the old
edifice, and the other is to be a pa
villion for the accommodation of ten
such patients. The proposed improve
ments will cost over |200,000.
The board of aldeftnen of Stock
holm have come to the conclusion
that the city will have to borrow about
$13,000,000 in order to be able to
make the necessary public improve
ments.
Sweden exports large quantities of
butter to England, and Swedish but
ter is a well known article of food in
Manchester. But the Danes were there
long before the Swedes, and it takes
time before the Swedish goods get the
full credit which they deserve.
Many German mine owners are in
favor of putting an Import duty on
Iron ore. This would hit the Swedish
Iron ore Interests rather hard.
The reduction of the tariff on wine
was vigorously opposed by all the tem
perance forces of Sweden, but all in
vain.