Warren sheaf., 1897-01-21

Amending penal code relating to de-
struction of property.
Providing for the registration of mu-
nic'pal bonds by the cities of this state.
Prohibiting confinement of fish in
boxes or traps in inland lakes.
Appointments.
Governor Clough has made the fol-
lowing appointments: State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction w. w.
Pendergast, Adjutant General Muehl-
berg, Military Storekeeper w. s. Con-
verse and State Librarian Charles A.
Gilman were all renamed for their re-
spective Offices. On the state board of
corrections and charities. j. B. Wake
field, of Faribault, and c. p. McGinuis,
OF st.. Louis county, were again ap-
pointed for terms of three years each,
and Professor w. w. Folwell for two
years. AS new member, Conde Ham,
lin, of St. Paul, was given commls-
sion for two years; O. w. Shaw, of
years as a member of the board of con-
troll of the state public schools; An
thony Kelly, of Minneapolis, for five
years on the board of directors of the
state institute for detectives; j. ]. Nc
Caffery, of St. Paul, for six years on
the board of managers of the state re-
formatory, and Frank Temple for FIVE
years on the board of managers of the
state prison. w. P. Huntington. of
Redwood county, and Ex-Governor L.
P. Hubbard have just completed terms
as trustees of the soldiers home at
Minnehaha and both were given new
commissions, expiring in 1903.
Wards of the State
Secretary Hart of the state board of
Charities and Correction, has issued his
report for state institutions for Decem-
Der, 1896. There were 3,023 inmates of
insane hospitals as compared with
1881 the same month the preceding
year, an increase of 1872. The number
in the Soldiers Home was 1884, an in
crease of IS. There are 22O pupils in
the school for the deaf, 10 more than in
the preceding year. There are SIS in
mates in the institute for the feeble
minded, an increase of 81; state re-
formatory, 40, decrease of 2; state
public school, 2O4, an increase of 26;
school for the blind, 81, decrease of 6;
states prison, sos. an increase of 50;
United States prisoners, Is, decrease
of 1s. The total increase of population
in all state institutions was $50 over
the same month in 1895.
Tropical Vegetation.
Professor D. T. McDougal, of the
State University, has been appointed
chairman of a commission to decide
upon location for an international
botanical laboratory in the tropics. He
and Professor J. NJ. Golfer, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, are the principal
promoters of the scheme, which has
now reached such stage of develop
ment that its development that its sue
cess is assured. The leading scientists
of America and England have heartily
endorsed the plan.
Brief State Items.
Senator Davis and Representative
Tawney have been named as members
of the reception committee to the in
augural ball.
Theresa Weinhundler, domestic in
st. Paul, blew out the gas when she
retired and was killed.
Ed Ballinger, a convict, made his es-
cape from the Saltwater prison while
marching to breakfast.
Five U. s. mail boxes were robbed in
one night in Minneapolis.
John Wold, aged years, while CATCH
ing rides on passing sleighs in Mime
apolis, was thrown to the ground and
killed.
The miscellaneous cash receipts of the
prison for the month of December
amounted to $l9, ,499. ......
Papers in q libel suit against Banker
Asa Paine, of Carlton, for $40, 900. have
been filed, growing out of charges
alleged to have been made by Paine
against Martin, the candidate for
county auditor on the republican ticket.
The suit mas been threatened ever
since election.
Az the passenger train on the Great
Northern was pulling into Donaldson
station, with two engines, it struck
big snow drift, throwing the front en-
gine of the track. Endgineer Luke
Jewell was buried in the debris. He
was injured SO that he is not expected
to recover.
Efforts are being made to reorganize
the suspended Germania bank Of ST
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