The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-09-19
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES

annual convention at st. Paul
The Swedish Methodist conference
will be held at Duluth next year.
Labor commissioners of the various
states are holding a convention at Min
neapolis.
Survivors of the Ninth Minnesota
volunteers held reunion at Minneap-
oils Thursday.
Mayor Youmans has vetoed the cur
few ordinance passed by the city coun-
Gil of Winona.
The National Credit Insurance COM
pany, Minneapolis, has assigned, owing
1000 with 100000 securities as as
sets.
Grain rates from St. Paul and Mime
apolis to Duluth will, on Sept. %, be ad-
vanced from cents to = cents per 100
pounds.
A meeting of the creditors Of the N.
P. Clarke Lumber company was held at
Minneapolis, but no final action was
taken.
Insurance Commissioner Smith of
Minnesota, who has been in very i'll
health for some time. is reported to be
improving.
The Iron Exchange bank of Duluth,
which has not been doing profitable
business lately, has decided to go into
liquidation and wind up it's affairs.
Acting Secretary Reynolds has ap-
proved as basis for patent Minnesota
swamp land list No. 4S, containing
1895 acres in the St. Cloud district.
Business circles at Duluth are agi-
tated over the unexplained absence
of A. Bieloch, one of the wealthiest
and best known business men of the
city. He has been gone week.
A meeting of members of the capitol
commission was held Thursday, but
nothing Of Importance in connection
with the plans for the new building was
passed upon. Adjournment was taken
to Sept. 26.
The State Bar association held it's an
nual meeting III the supreme court
room of the capitol with about 40 prom
inent members of the profession from
different parts of the state in attend
ance. A banquet at the Windsor was
feature.
The Minnesota Iron company has de-
cided to advance the wages of all em-
ployes i'll its mines n the Mesaba range
from 20 to 25 per cent Contract min
ers will hereafter receive 1926 a day.
The section hands on the Duluth and
Iron Range road have been granted an
advance from $1.15 to $l.5o per day.
Frank Chermah of Chatfield and his
horse and swarm of bees got badly
mixed up at Bear Greek HILL Cher
mains face and hands We're bristling
with bes st;ngs, $50 of which We're taken
out of his face. The horse was pune
tured all over and was evidently sick
from the attack of the savage little in
sects.
Governor Clough has appointed George
H. Hazard as commissioner to supervise
the state park Of the Dalles of the St.
Croix. Mr.. Hazards duties will prac-
tically be that of superintendent of the
park in 50 far as Minnesota's interests
are concerned. The park will be form
ally opened late in the fall, when excur-
sions will be run from the principal
cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and
the prominent men of the two states will
deliver addresses,
The Temperance Reform League has
under contemplation a plan to establish
a land bank or rent bank, similar to
those Ct Germany, which have been 80
successful in populating former was
tracts, and causing an increase of nat
ural wealth. The plan is to utilize the
capital of the East in de-
veloping the West, or that part of it
tributary to Minneapolis and St. Paul.
The league is represented here by George
F. Ormsby Of Boston, the vice president.
Its aim is to decrease crime and promote
industry by occupying mans attention
with healthy and profitable employment.