The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-01-13
MINNESOTA HAPPENiNos
Short Items Showing What has Hap
pSned Throughout Confines
Of North Star State.

Gov johnson is inaugurated.
The legislature convenes in the new
capitol
F. q: Winston is appointed surveyor
general of logs.
Much legislation will be delayed by
the statute revision.
w. H. Williams is appointed state
labor commissioner.
The members of the house will draw
$3,931. IS for mileage.
The legislature may provide for q
constitutional convention.
A new plan for settling the board OF
control question is prepared.
The game and fish commissioners
want to know when their terms expire.
Wayne Canine, an Indian, was found
dead in a snow drift about.a mile out
of Walker.
Some one broke into the barn OF e.
Sjoberg, of Inver Grove, butchered a
COW and stole it.
Eugene Bowler, of St. Paul, meets
with violent death, and his friends
suspect foul play.
Members of the legislature believe
''early caucus" on senatorship will be-
come the custom.
Frank Clague, speaker of the house,
makes an appeal to the legislators for
honesty in politics.
The new city hall at Howard Lake
was formally opened, and largely at
tended dance was held.
Alfred Turner, one of the Oldest resi-
dents of St. Charles, died in Adrian
after lingering illness.
Senator Dale, of Madison, has plan
for extending the primary law to the
nomination of state officers.
. Mrs O. A. E. Blyberg, wife of a
leading merchant Of Pelican Rapids,
dropped dead at her home.
Senator Clapp is selected for the sem
ate by the republican caucus by vote
of 127 to for Judge Giltillan.
Henry Carstens, of Luverne, aged II
years, was instantly killed by the ac-
cidental discharge OF a shotgun.
II. w. Dana, Oldest son of Mrs. and
Mrs. w. NJ. Dana Of Minneapolis, was
killed in railroad accident recently
,at Sidnau, Mich.
Patrolmen S. NJ Lindahl and John
Larson were badly beaten and cut by
a druken mob that attacked them at
Ninth street and Cedar avenue, Mime
apolis.
The total number enrolled at the
convention of the Minnesota Eiuca-
tional association this year was 1861.
This is slightly below the figures of
last year.
Recommendation is again made in
the biennial report of the state capitol
commissioners to the governor that a
permanent board be created to care for
the capitol.
C. C. Miller, county treasurer of
Itasca county, refuses to deliver the
reins of office to his successor, Arthur
A. Kremer, who has been duly elected
and has qualified for the Office. V.
The records of the police department
of Winona for the year just closed show
that there were no arrests made in the
year, and total of a little more than
81, 500 collected in fines and costs.
Every gam bling house in Minneapo-
lis with the the exception of two col
ored resorts, are closed aud several of
the beer halls which women have fre-
quented in times have been closed by
Mayor Jones.
Fra in Thompson & Habstrett's dry
goods store at Maynard, completely
destroyed the $4,000 stock. Owing to
the prompt action of the firemen and
the excellent waterworAs system, the
building was not only saved, but also
property adjoining
Edward w. Mcclure of Duluth was
sentenced by Judge j. D. Ensign in
the district court to the Saltwater
prison, on the reformatory plan. Nc
Clure is the young man who confessed
that he stole from the city dock in Du-
luth sugar valued at $4,000.
A rumor that "Old Peggy" the Oma-
ha locomotive which ran on the branch
between Pipestone and Heron Lake so
many years and was retired a few
months ago, would be returned to its
old place on the branch. proved to be-
true.
John Skinner, grain man connect.
ed with the Chamber of Commerce,
living twenty miles north of Casselton,
N. D., was mercilessly. beaten and rob-
bed of s15l and a geld watch in the
heart Of Minneapolis:
1t was a gruesome sight that greeted
the crew of the east bound freight at
Freeman some miles east of Grand
Forks. 1t was q naangled body of an
=. nl.noxun man. xvhO had ou;aan4l-