Warren sheaf., 1905-04-20
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short Items Showing What has Hap
pened Throughout Confines
of North Star State.

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
$21,950.
Thirty-two thousand five hundred
and ninety persons were carried on
the Duluth ship canal aerial ferry
bridge in one day.
Excelsior will be the terminal limit
of the Lake Minnetonka extension Of
the Twin City street railway system
for the present year.
Adjt. Gen. F. B. Wood yesterday
moved his Office effects and staff into
the commodious quarters reserved for
him in the new capitol.
Martin Meeker, former banker of
Pennington, and man of wealth,
found dead from exposure and starva-
ton at Cleveland, Ohio.
Frand Lindells barn and hay shed,
containing ten tons of hay, three
horses, harness and tools, were de-
stroyed by fire at Marine.
A horse hitched to one of the Ives
Ice Cream company's wagons was
killed in runaway on Washington
avenue north, Minneapolis
y statement issued by Postmaster
McGill shows an increase of $1S,661
in the receipts of the St. Paul post
office for the year ending March 81
Thirty-five applications for pardons
were considered by the state pardon
board, and out of the entire number
one applicant was completely success
full.
Gov. Johnson announced the ap-
pointments of C. w. Gilmore of Pipe
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
a loss of $4OO. 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. F. Carter of St. Cloud, purchas-
ing agent of the state university un-
der the state board of control, has
resigned his position and will resume
his business in that city on May 1.
News has reached Duluth through
reliable channel that the Canadian
Northern road now has under con-
sideration the extension of the Port
| Arthur, Duluth & Western road to
Ely.
The ice in the Red river went out
at St. Vincent last night and the river
fell six inches. Usually the ice goes
out about April II, a week later than
this year. The water is we'll within
the banks.
The police of Mankato are looking
for one John Ward, who is accused
of robbing two roommates Sunday
morning of $45 in currency, some
small change and foreign coins and
two silver watches. ....
John Hitzker, for several years
president of the state board of barber
examiners, was badly injured at
Winona by being knocked from his
wheel and trampled on by horse
that was running loose.
Officers of the Minnesota Historical
society believe that the plaster will
be scraped of: the old round tower
at Fort Smelling and that the tower
restored to look as it did originally
They hope also for the same treat
ment for the octagonal tower.
w. H. Hatcher, miStary storekeepe1
of the estate, has received consign.
ment of 1900 dress coats which will
be issued to the national guardsmen
Immediately after the annual en-
campment at Lake View next sum
mer.
Two hundred members from the
states of Minnesota, Iowa, North and
South Dakota and Wisconsin attend
ed the quarterly meeting of the Ma
1ional Railway Water Supply asso.
citation held in Alexander's halls yes
terday afternoon.
| Louis Cnrest, from Montana, was
found guilty of passing counterfeit
five dollar gold pieces in federal court
at Minneapolis, and was sentenced by
Judge Morris to eighteen months il
the state penitentiary and fined $500
One hundred and fifty immigrants
passed through Duluth on their way
to the iron ranges and points west
A much greater number of immi
grants has passed through Duluth
this spring than ever before in the
same space Of time.
| More than 400 immigrants arrived
at the union depot, St. Paul, over the
Rock Island, Minneapolis & ST. Loui.
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