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money will be turned over to N. o.
Werner of the central committee, who
will forward it to the sufferers.


throughout the city, on account of his
connection with the business depart
ment of this paper, and his friends are
numerous. All who call on MIN at
the above location, will be treated
right. In the matter of giving full
value no house in the city has better
reputation than Browning, King & Co.
j. L. Lynch. for Il number of years
floor manager at the Palace Clothing
House, has accepted position with
Messrs. II. Eilerman Il Sons, 31S and
800 Nicollet avenue, where he will eX-
ercise his talents in conducting the
gigantic closing out sale that is now
on in the big clothing establishment.
Mr.. Lynch after Il brief period, expects
to go into business for himself, and
has already, in company with Messrs.
George Crise, Andrew Nordstrom, and
j. l.. Dickinson, secured a lease on
splendid Nicollet avenue location
which they intend to occupy after
May first next.
The body of Jacob Wirth was found
floating in the river at the foot of
Eighth street, shortly before 8 o'clock
Thursday night. Two boys, Andre Lar
SON and George Mon, 2611 Seventh
street S., were taking in their fish nets,
which had been set All day, when they
noticed something caught in one cor
ner. From papers found on the body
the man was identified as Jacob Wirth,
residing at 267 East Sixth street, st.
Paul. The body was well dressed,
and on it We're found a gold watch,
with the hands stopped at G:3O,
match box, and a gold pin, the badge
of some secret order. \ letter from
brother in Tarrytown, n. Y, and
several notices from the Swiss-Amer-
lean league, written in German, indi-
cate that the man is Il Swiss or Ger
man by birth.
The Flour Leaders union at it's meet
ing Sunday afternoon appointed Il
committee, consisting of three en-
ployes from each of the large milling
firms of the city, to wait upon the en-
plOyers and make Il request for Il de-
crease of working hours. At present
the flour leaders work ten hours day,
but in view of the fact that practical
~ all other employees Of the mills work
only eight hours day, they consider
that they are entitled to reduction of
two hours a day, and the committee
will request the firms to recognize the
eight hour day. Thirty-one new men,
bers We're initiated at the meeting SUN
day. Frank Nolan and Il. J. Curran
were elected as delegates to the con-
vention of the State Federation of
Labor, which convenes at Little Falls,
June 8.
Married While intoxicated. Monday
afternoon, John Baer of Saltwater for
got two hours later that he had a wife,
and left for his home in Saltwater
AOIudS CNClluS5. LIS VI luz, III OlNCl
to properly celebrate the wedding,
continued to drink numerous highballs
and later in the evening was arrested
for being drunk. She was in police
court Thursday morning, and begged
that the case be continued until she
could telephone her husband. When
Baer received a telephone message to
come to st. Paul and get his wife out
Jail he treated the matter as joke,
having but dim recollection of the
marriage ceremony i'm which he was
one Of the central figures on the pre-
vious day. He was finally prevailed
upon to come to st. Paul and at noon
Thursday he deposited $40 to secure
the release of his newly-acquired wife
from the police station. To a police
officer Baer admitted that he remem-
bered something about his marriage,
but he didn't think he was wedding a
woman who would go out and get
drunk enough to be arrested on the
| night OF the WeQulQS.
Minneapolis lumbermen are operat-
ing their mills at their full capacity
at the present time, in order to take
advantage Of the good supply of logs
which the excellent stage of water in
the river has allowed them to accumu-
late. In spite of the fact that the water
is too high at present for the boom
companies to handle logs eXpeditiously,
| all the mills have enough logs to keep
them running for week or more. The
recent rise Of the river has necessi-
tated the shutting down of operations
on the main boom, mile from the
North Side pumping station. The
water is falling and it is expected that
operations will be resumed in a few
days and that enough logs will be
| turned to supply the saw mills for
| several weeks and offset any scarcity
which might result of another abandon
ment of operations by the boom cOmpa-
ny. The sawmill people are bringing
every available supply of dry lumber
into play in order to be prepared for
the summer trade The unusual ac-
tivity in the building field promises
to establish a new record for lumber
sold during the coming season. The
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