The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-12-28
NEWS in MINNESOTA
EVENTS ~ a WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE. #,%

| AnQreW MaSnuSOn, q resident 0
saltwater for thirty-eight years, die,
suddenly of heart disease. @ @
, George Burton Young of the Young
Quinlan company, Minneapolis, Is deat
after brief illness, aged thirty-seve1
years. 5s 4
Frank Grandfield, a section man
was struck by westbound passenger
train at Anoka and instantly killed
He was fifty years of age. tM
Colonel Frank T. Corriston of the
First regiment, Minnesota nationa
guard, will be chief of police Of Min
neapolis under the new administra
ton. %
H. Alden Smith, head of the firm Of
Smith 6: Wyman, the biggest sash
and door firm in the Northwest
dropped dead at his home in Minneap.
oils. "
The nineteen-months.old daughter
of Joseph Veigel of Mankato is dead
as result of morphine poisoning,
due to having been given too much OF
a patent soothing syrup. III
August Ohlius, an old pioneer of
Stearns county, is dead at St. Cloud OF
old age. His aged wife, not able to
stand the separation, died a few hours
later. Both bodies were inferred in
the same grave.
Minnesota railroads have announced
their intention to fight the forthcom-
ing order of the state railroad COM
mission reducing commodity rates on
grain, coal, lumber, live stock and
other bulk freight.
The policemen of the city of Winona
have sent in a petition to the city
council asking for an advance in
wages of SO month. The reason
assigned Is that the cost of living has
increased and their present wages are
inadequate.
AS result of overturning lighted
lamp the baby daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George Dietz of Owatonna is
terribly burned and the mother of the
little girl is suffering severe injuries
from the burns received in her at
te1npts to rescue the child.
Consolidation of rural school dis.
tricts is one of the plans suggested
by committee of the Minnesota Edu-
cational association to raise the stand
ard of the rural schools and at the
same time provide for a higher mini
mum salary for the teachers. i.
Christian Olstead was instantly
killed at Wanamingo, Goodhue :,coun-
ty, while operating a wood saving
machine with several other men. The
flywheel broke and piece struck
Olstead in the head, killing him almost
instantly. He was forty-sevenS years
old. . r..
Eighty-fve accidents in factories
and workshops of the state are report
ed for, November by the state labor
commissioner, w. H. Williams. Three
of the accidents proved fatal. The
largest proportion of the accidents
was in railroad shops, where there
were thirty-six.
A fire originating from a defective
chimney in the Coates hotel at South
st. Paul partially destroyed the hotel,
ruined the stock of the Cooperative
Grocery company and caused the de-
luging Of the Office of the South st.
Paul Reporter, inflicting total dam
age estimated at $4,000.
Mayor A. J. Halsted of Brainerd,
editor of the Tribune, has rendered
his resignation to the city council and
it was accepted. The reason for his
resignation was the fact that the city
attorney declared the mayor could not
legally contract for the city printing,
for which he was the lowest bidder.
Thomas ]. Coleman, the Minneapolis
private detective convicted in the
Hennepin county district court of ex-
tortion and sentenced to five years at
hard labor at Saltwater, must serve
his sentence. In an opinion handed
down by the supreme court the de-
cision Of the lower court is sustained
and the sentence approved Coleman
is at present out on $4,000 bail and it
is said that he cannot be located.
One of the biggest verdicts ever
rendered In Ramsey county in IN &C
ton for personal injuries was re.
turned by district court jury in the
case Of Albert H. Sprague Of Abbots-s
ford, Wis.,, against the Wisconsin Cen
trail railroad. The jury awarded the
plaintiff $4,000. The plaintiff, a
freight brakeman On the defendants
road, lost both legs as the result CT
an accident at Gladstone, MIMI. June
IA, 1906. =. e..
Charges of malfeasance in Office
have been filed with Governor John
son against James H. Finkerton, treas
urer of Schroeder township, Cook
county. The complaint is made by
w. c. Smith, a county supervisor. The
charge against Pinkerton is the loss
Of $4,000 of the county's funds. Pin
kerton declares that the money was
stolen from him on a boat while he
was transferring it from Duluth bank
to a Cook county bank. He says he
had the money in satchel.
The good roads amendment to the
constitution voted upon at the late
election is lost. 1t failed by about 800