New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-04-19
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short Items Showing What has Hap
psned Throughout Confines
of North Star State.

HOWARD u. ldfd Is appointed posi-
master at Fox Lake.
Business men Of Watkins will in
corporatesa local telephone company.
1t is expected that the old round
tower at Fort Smelling Will be re-
! stored.
The state board Of pardons grants
the petition of Fred r. Davis of st.
Peter.
The house approves the bills to per-
NIT a farm machinery plant at the
state prison.
The house recommends for passage
the bill prohibiting the issue by the
state Of mineral leases.
The contract for building a bridge
across the Mississippi at Elk River
has been let to w. f. Chadbourne for
| S21.950.
Thirty-two thousand five hundred
and ninety persons We're carried on
the Duluth ship canal aerial ferry
bridge in one day.
/ Excelsior will be the terminal limit
of the Lake Minnetonlla extension of
the Twin City street railway system
LOT the present year.
Adjt. Gen. f. B. Wood yesterday
moved his office effects and staff into
the com1nodious quarters reserved for
him in the new capitol.
Martin Meeker, former banker Of
1 Pennington, and a man Of wealth,
found dead from exposure and starva-
| ton at Cleveland, Ohio.
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containing ten tons of hay, three
/ horses, harness and tools, We're de-
stroyed by fire at Marine.
A horse hitched to one Of the Ives
Ice Cream company's wagons was
killed in a runaway on Washington
avenue north, Minneapolis.
| A statement issued by Postmaster
| McGill shows an increase of S1S,661
in the receipts of the St. Paul post
Office for the year ending March 81.
| Thirty-five applications for pardons
We're considered by the state pardon
board, and out Of the entire number
one applicant was completely success
full.
Gov. Johnson announced the ap-
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stone as municipal judge Of Pipestone.
and L. w. Henderson as special as
sistant Judge.
The upsetting Of lamp in the
home of A. L. Togod, ST. Paul caused
loss Of $500. The loss on the furni-
ture is placed at 5000 and is covered
by Insurance..
Charles II. Allen, who says that
he was formerly commercial agent in
Minneapolis, for the Chicago & East
ern Illinois road, was arrested at Du-
luth on forgery charge.
b. T. Carter OF ST. Cloud, purchas
ing agent of the state university I'M
der the state board of control has
resigned his position and will resume
y his business in that city, on May /.
News has reached Duluth through
reliable channel that the Canadian
Northern road now has under con
sideration the extension of the Por
Arthur, Duluth & Western road te
Ely.
The ice in the Red river Went GU
a at ST. Vincent last night and the rive
- lSll Ola IIlE1lCo oiSliotliN slIIC SoC'
u out about April II, a week later thai
this year The water is we'll within
n the banks.
:, The police of Manllato are looking
|, for one John Ward who is accused
q Of robbing two roommates Sunda,
If morning of $40 in currency, som
5. small change and foreign coins am
two silver watches.
S John Hitzker, for several year
!, president Of the state board Of barbe
examiners, was badly injured a
8. Winona by being knocked from III
: wheel and trampled on by a hors
"a that was running loose.
Officers of the Minnesota Historics
I society believe that the plaster wi
! be scraped off the old round towe
! at Fort Smelling and that the tower
] which has stood since 1858, Will b
I restored to look as it did original,
They hope also for the same trea1
ment for the octagonal tower.
w. III. Hatcher, military storekeepe
of the estate, has received a consigl
ment of 1900 dress coats which wi
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Immediately after the annual Ell
campment at Lake View next sun
mer.
Two hundred members from I'll
states of Minnesota, Iowa, North an
South Dakota and Wisconsin atten'
Il eel the quarterly meeting of the n
tional Railway Water Supply ass
citation held in AleXander's halls We
| terday afternoon.
II Louis Chrest, from Montana, W;
| found guilty of passing counterfe
five dollar gold pieces in federal cou
at Minneapolis, and was sentenced
i Judge Morris to eighteen months
the state penitentiary and fined s5e
One hundred and fifty immigran
passed through Duluth on their w;
to the iron ranges and points Yves
A much greater number Of INN
grants has passed through Dulu
'r'~ this spring than ever before in Il
same space of time.
!, :, More than 400 immigrants arriv