Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-07-04
Accounts Were Short.

tured and he was picked up in an UNI
conscious condition.
Accounts Were Short.
South St. Paul was treated to SEN
sation by the arrest of City Treasurer
Stapf, who is charged with being short
in his accounts to the amount of nearly
$4,000. His bondsmen, however, who
are Rev. L. L. Stapf and H. and ID.
Becker and Frederick Render, have
assured Mayor Fitch that whatever the
deficiency amounts to, they will deposit
that sum with the city, so that the
municipality will lose nothing.
The money is said to have been spent
in Improbable business ventures, Stapf
being interested in grocery store and
in the St. Paul Excelsior Manufacture
ing company, neither of which yielded
the return anticipated, and to carry on
which the city funds are said to have
been used.
Stapf is very popular in South ST.
Paul, and has been regarded as
scrupuliously honest man and public
servant
Child Labor.
The necessary blanks for the en-
forcement of the child labor law are in
course of preparation. In the mean
tigating the matter in st. Paul and
Minneapolis. Bad condition of affairs
has already been found to exest in some
factories in regard to the character Of
the work at which the children are en-
gagged and in the matters of ventila-
ton and cleanliness. Effective steps
will be taken soon to remedy the mat
ter.
Quite number of children under the
legal age are known to be engaged in
Minneapolis in violation of the law
Labor Commissioner Powers will
have conference with the Minneap-
oils board of education at its next meet
ing upon the subject of the enforce
ment of the child labor law.
Binding Irvine.
The Saltwater prison is doing good
business in binding Irvine. Since sam
Piles of the now Irvine were sent out
orders have been coming in by wire and
mail, and Warden Woolfer now finds
himself with more orders on hand than
can be filled until the 10th of July. For
tunately the state had a good stock OF
American hemp Irvine on hand and
those who can not get their orders in
in time to get slsal and MANILA can get
the American hemp, which has proved
to be an excellent article and equal to
anything on the market.
Since the 18th of June dozen cars
have been shipped and there remains
| orders on the books for fully 20 cars
more. These, the warden says, will be
shipped just as soon as they can be
reached.
Gov. Cloush has granted pardon to
James O'Neil. life convict at the
prison sent from Sibley county. ONeil,
! it will be remem bered, is the convict
| who had his right arm and right leg
amputatcd because of tuberculosis.
While George r. Barton, of Lake
| City, and Peter s. MACEDONIAN and Ed.
Bolwin. of the Wood Harvester Com
pany, of St. Paul, were driving near
Theilmanton, the neckyoke broke aud
their team ran away. Mr.. MacGowan
sustained fracture of the thigh bone.
A serious hailstorm visited four or
five sections about five miles east of
Mortified, driving the small grain into
the ground, and, it is thought, none can
! be saved.
| An unknown man was run over at
Red Wing by a switch train and in
stantly killed. Both legs and one arm
were entirely cut off. A slip of paper
A man, IS years old, giving the name
of Alex Schutar, and hailing from Mil
tonville, To-, was arrested at Mankato
in possession of three horses, colt and
cart, said to have been stolen from
! NOrthWoOd.
Elias Ellison, a laborer was killed by
an ore train at Virginia.
The wonderful improvement IN the
iron and steel market is such that the
Minnesota Iron Company has just re-
ceived an offer to buy from it 1000, 600
tons of bessemer ore at a price so cents
per ton higher than previous sales.
The company has not accepted the offer
as yet, and may and not do so, relying
upon b. bright business outlook for
higher prices.
| While operating steam threshing
machine near Lakeville, the engineer,
Joseph Berries, was killed by the ex-
ploding of the boiler.
st. Cloud boasts of brass band that
plays while riding bicycles.
j. w. Ball, an insurance agent who
lives near Lake Calhoun, Minneapolis
| was arraigned in the police court for
violation of the game law, and the case
is rather an unusual one, as the provi.
sion of the law under which is is.
brought is not generally known. The,
charge made against Mr.. Ball consists
in the allegation that he had confined
in cage golden robin, and it appears
that it is an offense to so confine
harmless wild bird.
George Mewson, colored barber at
Owatonna, was arrested for attempt
ing to bite Joe Gonson's fingers off.
Gonson was severely injured in the
fracas.
The summer training school will COM
mence at Buffalo July Is and continue
four weeks. It will be conducted by
Prof. Buel 7. Davis, of Winona, assist
ed by r. Margaret Gilbert and B. G.
Eaton. The attendance this year
promises to be much larger than in
former years.
frederick Hyde, charged with larceny
from railroad car, was committed tc
jail at Red Wing to await the grand
jury. -
a dog owned by F. Applehee went
mad at Anolxa and was shot. John
Geddes also had to shoot his dog for
the same reason.
AT Hamilton Station, Pat Mccain
was badly cut with . razor by Ed Jor.
dam. The men had trouble some time
ago. They met and Jordan suggested
settling it. Mccain thought he meant
friends and stepped up, when Jordan
drew razor and cut him on his hand
and abdomen. His clothing saved his
|. life.