Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-06-05
MINI ESQ NEWS.
Increased Racaints.

Increased Receipts.
The miscellaneous receipts of the
various state institutions under the
jurisdiction of the state board Of com
troll for April aggregated $11 ,629 90,
about SO per cent more than for
March. The increase is largely in the
receipts of the insane hospital and
the Faribault institutions, which are
now disposing of grain and other farm
products raised last year.
The receipts were: Saltwater PEN
itentiary, s6,o76.o5; st. Cloud reforms
atory, sl,22s.as; Red Wing training
school, $4,000; Rochester hospital.
$40; St. Peter hospital, 1923;
Fergus Falls hospital, $685.. 81;
Anoka asylum, S2e.15; Hastings asy-
lum, $15.40; School for Feeble Mind.
ed, Faribault, Stills; School for
Blind. $3.50; School for Deaf, s$21s.2s;
{ OWatonna public school, ST. Moor
head normal. $3.50; ST. Cloud nor
NAL, $209.5s; Winona normal, $451.92;
.Mankato normal, S27e.05.
;54a Ultimate anu crop bulleG1n.
The frequent showers in the Red
river valley early in the week. delay
ed the drying of the. soil, and seeding,
T]but in the middle and latter parts of
the week there was less rain, and
considerable wheat was sown after
the 22nd, but the low lands continue
very wet. It is said that all the wheat
that it is safe to sow this season has
been put in, and that all the unseeded
land dry enough before June 18th will
be seeded to barley and fax. The
wheat that is seeded is. growing fine
~. In all the rest of the state wheat,
oats and barley are growing rapidly.
and they seem strong and healthy.
Corn and potato planting and fax
seeding are well advanced except on
the heavy soils and in low places, and
the earliest are coming up we'll. Grass
in pastures and hay fields is growing
rapidly, and a good hay crop is an
ticipated.
Awful Death.
Bernhard Gordon, carpenter, em-
ployed at the East Side street car
barns, Minneapolis, met a terrible
death because he used steel tape
measure.
With Athanas Bernard, Gordon was
working on some girders twenty-five
feet above the ground. They were
using a tape in measuring. Gordon
was standing on iron girders aud al
lowed the slack of the measure to
drop and touch live trolley wire
some distance below them, complet-
ing circuit.
Instantly Gordon received a terrible
shock, which threw him from the end
of the girders to the ground, striking
on his head. His skull was fractured
and he died within a few minutes.
The other carpenter was also badly
shocked, but he fell only short dis
tance, landing on some joists.
Unconstitutional.
Judge Bazille, of the Ramsey coun-
ty probate court, held that the inner
itance law passed by the last legisla-
ture and embodied in the 1902 laws,
is unconstitutional
This law was passed in the extra
session last winter and provides.
among other things that near rela-
tives inheriting from an estate shall
pay tax of one-half of one per cent
on a legacy Of $4,000 or over, and
that remote heirs receiving $4,000 or
more shall pay ten per cent.
Judge Bazille refuses to appoint APP
praisers in the matter of the estate
of Emerson w. Peet, and of his own
motion raised the point and declared
the new law Constitutional because
the amendment to the constitution
passed in 1894, and which is still in
effect, provides that the tax imposed
shall not exceed five per cent.
Fine Attraction.
Secretary p. w. Randall of the state
fair has added another item to his
constantly growing list of features
for the program for the state fair Of
1902.
This is nothing less than the en-
UaUament 0f nndn Eiclr apd b;e 90