The Dickinson press., 1902-10-11
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

A jury at Bemidji found George La
due guilty of the murder OF Eugene
McGlauchlin.
| Individual deposits in Minnesota
national banks amount to $36.436098,
an increase of $S,O00,O0O in the past
year.
Burglars entered the residence of
Mrs. G. A. Pillsbury, Minneapolis, the
other night and stole jewelry to the
value of $4,000.
Henry Kastelmeyer and Joe ratter-
son broke out OF the county Jail at
Redwood Falls by overpoweriag the
jailer and made good their escape.
Francis w. Anderson, president of
the st. Paul National bank, died at
Everett, WASH, of pneumonia. He ar
rived in Everett Sept. 20, with his
wife, to visit relatives.
The state health boards weekly re-
port shows fifty-one cases of smallpox
in Minnesota, compared with twelve
last week. The increase is attributed
to hardness in making reports.
James Weed, who is three months
over ninety-nine years of age. is dead
at his home in Winona. The cause of
his death is given as a general break
ing down as the result of old age.
The tug strike at Duluth is not only
settled but all details of the settle
ment have been adjusted. Every tug
In the Union Towing and Wre"king
company's fleet is now manned by
union men.
DR.. Orienne Mcdaniel, assistant bac-
teriologist Of the state board of health
meteorological laboratory, is seriously
i'll at her home in Minneapolis, sup
posedly as result of all infection of
glanders contracted in the laboratory
June 80
In the district court at Luverne
Martin G. Dietrich was awarded ST.
600 damages against Jacob ID. Fender.
The suit was brought for $4,000 dam
ages for biting off a portion Of the
plaintiffs thumb in fight, some
months ago.
Switchmen employed in the Twin
Cities have been given an advance in
wages of 11% cents an hour The ac-
ton of the different railway companies
In the matter was entirely voluntary,
as the switchmen had made no de-
mand for an increase.
DR.. Franklin Staples, one of the best
known physicians in the Northwest
and president of the Minnesota state
board of health, is confined to his
home in Winona by serious illness.
DR.. Staples is author Of a number of
prominent medical works.
State Auditor Dunn has made up the
state tax levy and will send out no.
tices to the county auditors. The levy
will be 253 mills, as against 2S3 last
year. The reduction comes in the tax
for state revenues, which is l mill
against 1.3 mills last year.
The United States land office in St..
Cloud Friday disposed of $500 acres
of land in Pine county for $1.z5 per
tracts and was sold to many different
parties. This is the second largest
sale in the history of the office.
twenty-five men on the Chicago
and Northwestern road, working in
the Rochester coal houses and Sec
tions, have struck for an increase OF
Is cents a day. The demands were
sent to the local superintendent. The
men are now receiving $1.25 per day.
II. P. Hall of st. Paul. one of the
Oldest newspaper men in Minnesota
and an old-time Democrat, has re-
nounced his allegiance to that party
and will join the Republican camp.
Mr.. Hall was a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for governor
at the last convention.
Basil Thunder pleaded guilty at
Bemidji of the murder of a woman
named OBoh-Bahmushke, and was
sentenced to Saltwater for term of
sixteen years. It was manslaughter
IN f1,@ fNrt %@.1
box car with a club in the vicinity of
Red Lake Falls last May.
After suffering for six hours the
little daughter of William Otto of
Albert Lea died as the result of burns.
She was pouring kerosene on the fire
in a stove when an explosion oc-
Cured. The child's mother was also
badly burned in taking the little girl
from the fire, but she will recover.
State Auditor Dunn has issued a
circular to county auditors, stating
that at the state land sale, to be held
this month, bidders will be held strict.
ly to the rule provided by law. Each
must pay Is per cent of the purchase
price and nine months interest on the
balance The IS per cent can then
run forty years if desired.
| 1tdy 1uUuu TlICu, d oOpuOulOlC Ill lilC
Rochester high school, lies at his
juries received in a football game on
the school campus Friday night. He
was tackling a fellow player when he
was injured. His left leg is broken
between the hip and knee, and he
has internal injuries from which he
cannot recover.
A Great Northern eastbound freight
train ran into Northern Pacific
freight at crossing onehalf mile
west of Sauk Center. Engineer Thorn
as Zins Of Melrose and Fireman Ernest
De Roche Of the same place, Great
Northern men, were badly injured, the
latter being taken out unconscious.
The engine was buried under eight or
ten cars loaded with grain and lumber.
The saloonkeepers of st. Paul are
decidedly against the free lunch.
They went on record to that effect by
vote of 1S0 to S. Following this en-
pointed to go before the council and
ask for an ordinance prohibiting sa-
loonkeepars from putting up a free
lunch. 1t is claimed that this will
save the saloonkeepers of st. Paul
half a million dollars annually.
The total value of realty, including
structures, in the state has been fixed
by the state board of equalization at
100000. AS returned by the
county boards and assessors this year
the valuation was $3.50, 7,977, which
was an increase of 77,G5S,OO0 over the
figures as fixed by the board two
years ago. To this the board added
an increase of about 20 per cent over
the entire state, making the total val
uation 100000 more than returned
by the state boards and county asses
sors. The board took the ground that
the farm property of the state has
been valued too low, and the action
taken was in line with this view.
Realty in Ramsey, Hennepin and st.
Louis counties was left as returned.
For Over Sixty Years
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