Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29
MINNESOTA NEWS.
A New Warden.
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A New Warden. /. , -,
Gen. Charles Nice. Reeve was selected
10 serve the state in the capacity of war
den OF the state prison. to succeed Hen
~ Wolfer, who has resigned to engage
in business,
A special meeting of the board of pris-
on managers was held at Saltwater at
which Mr.. VOTERS resignation was for
mally rendered and accepted, and after
the claims and qualifications of several
candidates for the position had been con-
sidered, the choice of the board fell on
Gen. Reeve. He will assume his new du-
ties Dec. 1.
Mr.. Wolfer will become associated with
the Northwestern Grass Irvine Company,
which is part of the Irvine trust, and has
three plants, of which he will be general
manager. The plants are located at st.
Paul. West Superior and Oshkosh. The
company now employs 1000 people, is put
ting up new buildings and will eventually
employ 1900 people in making binding
Irvine, mating, carpets, Innings for furni-
ture, bric-a-brac, etc. Mr.. Wolfer will
make his home in St. Paul, His salary
will be about three times as great as
that of warden.
The Law Holds.
The commission men have received an
other setback in their efforts to have the
Grindeland law declared unconstitutional.
After the state supreme court had upheld
the law an effort was made to get the
matter before the federal courts on ha-
beas corpus proceedings. c. c. Emerson,
a st. Paul commission man. was arrested
for handling consignment from Wis
cons1n. He had not complied with the
requirements of the law, and as the COM
mission men claim it is in violation of
the interstate commerce act, it was de-
cided to make test case. A writ of
habeas corpus was sued out and Emer-
son was taken before Judge Lochren,
of the federal court in St. Paul T. w.
Palmer made his argument for the de-
PENDANT and without hearing Attorney
General Douglas and ex-Attorney Cen
eral Childs, who appeared for the state,
Judge Lochren dismissed the writ and re-
manded Emerson to the custody of the
sheriff
Looks Like a Trust.
In a decision sent Insurance Commits
sioner O'Shaughnessy by Attorney Cen
eral Douglas, and in reply to inquiries
or the former, the latter holds that all
insurance companies that are members Of
the so-called Western Union association
and which adopted a resolution purport-
ing to bind them to certain percentage
agreement, savors of the suppression of
competition and is unlawful YOU are
authorized,' continues the communica-
tlon' to require such companies to with
draw the circular letter referred to (Which
relates to the agreement in question:. or
eliminate therefrom the feature increas-
ing the compensation Of their agents only
upon condition that such agents will sur
render the business of the non-Union fire
insurance companies and cease thereafter
to represent them
A ShOplifter.
A strange woman, about so years old,
who would give neither her name nor ad-
dress, and who possessed nothing by
which she could he identified, was ar
rested at Mankato, on advices from st.
Peter that she was wanted there for
shop lifting. She had with her two satch-
els and shawl strapped up, and these
contained numerous pieces of ladies' fine
dress goods of a probable value of 5000
to $780, She denied that she had stolen
these, but would give no account Of where
she got them.
Chief of Police Davis came from st.
Peter and took her back. He was accom-
panied by lady clerk. who identified the
woman as being one of two who had
been in her employers store together dur
Ing the morning, and she also recognized
two pieces of dress goods stolen from the
store.
Discharged.
An oral order was made by Judge Ell
lott, of Minneapolis, sustaining the de-
murrer in the case against Albert Meyer
and Mary Brookings, Christian Scientists,
recently indicted on charge of having
practiced medicine without license.
In discharging the defendants the court
practically held that Christian Science
does not come under the head of the
practice of medicine. The parties were
charged with having attended little girl
who recently died of diphtheria.
Burned to Death.
Lars johnson, farmer living near
Pelican Rapids, was found dead in field
where he had been burning brush. He
had evidently been seized with a fit of
~f0fAN~AS AAe%N
He was badly burned but succeeded in
crawling some distance before he died.
The body was discovered by neighbors,
who were crossing the field. Johnson was
about As years old, and we'll known in this
section.
News in Brief.
John Pope had his hand badly mangled
In the cylinder of a separator at Easton.
Only few days before a young man
from Illinois had q finger taken off by the
cylinder of the same machine.
The post office at Elk River and the
one at Gilmore have been raised to the
presidential class.
Mrs. Clementine Hutton, Washington,
D. c., was appointed laundress at the
Pipestone Indian school, Minnesota.
d. D. Hill, second mate, and Joseph Du-
hey, seaman, were the victims of shock
ing accident on the schooner Adriatic in
Duluth harbor. While seated on the top
of the main mast, seventy feet above the
deck, the mast fell and the sailors came
to the deck with it, both suffering seri-
Gus fractures and possibly internal in
juries.
While workmen were engaged in dig
ging a sewer in the lower end of St. Cloud
they unearthed a number of skeletons.
1t is thought the bones lay in an old
cemetery from which it was supposed
the bodies had all been removed.
Ward Warren and George Shaner, aged
IS and 16 years, were arrested in Minne-
apolis for burglary.
The M. & st. L. Ry. has laid its track
from New Clm to Hanska
Three buildings at Glyndon operated as
temperance, saloons were burned.
Owatonna Is putting In an electric fire
alarm system.
Samuel w. Richie, formerly wealthy
Minneapolis broker, was found dead on