Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-10-12
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH
OUT THE STATE.

| Mrs. Thomas Reynolds, twenty-four
years old, ended her life with a revolt
yer at ST. Paul while suffering from
melancholfa.
In round numbers Hennepin county
has on record over 5000 divorce de-
crees which have been granted within
the past twenty years.
The receipts at the st. Paul post
office for September were $SO,21O.20,
rs against $69,59S54 for September,
1905, gain Of $10,620.66
An increase of $26,61O,7e2 over the
returns of the county boards has been
made by the state board of euualiza-
ton on the real estate OF the state.
The Minnesota university football
team will meet its first opponent of
the year Oct. 81, when the heavy
Ames Qa.) team will play at Mime
apolis.
Ninety-eight persons lost their lives
In Minnesota's iron mines during the
year ending June 80, 1906, according
to the first annual report Of Mine In
spector w. H. Harvey.
The state board of equalization
wound up its 1906 session by adding
$2,E7,154 to the assessments of five
public service corporations of Mime
apolis, St. Paul and Duluth.
The "ltd" is OH at Owatonna with a
venGeance. It not only affects saloons
and other places Of business, but
youths under eighteen are warned that
cigarette smoking will result in their
PROSECUTION.
John Mingo. blacksmith, was
lpund dead in the barber shop of H.
| Q. Dege. ST. Paul. He had adjusted a
cord to the top Of a door, made loop
* the other end of the string and
stranglsd himself
| Colonel Roscoe f. Hersey, for near
" forty years resident of Minnesota.
Died suddenly In Bangor Me. Colonel
Hersey left ST. Paul in July for Ban
kor on business trip and his return
was looked for at any time.
Hearing his dog making big noise
n the brush the other evening Oluf
Omild, living near Erie, went out and
fired a couple of shots in the direc-
tion from his Winchester. Next morn
inE he found that he had killed 800
pound black bear.
/ Az present there are in the Henne-
pin county Jail nine homicide cases,
all Of which are to be tried in this
term Of court. This is record which
has never before been equaled in the
criminal calendar of any court in this
part OF the country.
Charles Baum of West Duluth,
twelve years of age, was run over by a
street car and killed. He was riding
with another boy on delivery wagon
when the car and wagon came into
collision and Baum was thrown out
and fell under the wheels of the car.
Minnesota taxpayers are to be let
Of easy during 1907. a. they will be
required to raise only $2,247,500 to
keep the ship Of state in deep water,
which is almost $25o,oo0 less than the
revenue tax of last year. The levy
will be 2.7s mills, as against 500 mills
last year.
The last thing the state board OF
equalization did before adjournment
was to place an additional assessment
OF $4,000 each on the Associated
Press franchises owned by the Mime
apolis Tribune. the Minneapolis Jour-
nal. the st. Paul Pioneer Press and
the BIT. Paul Dispatch.
The st. Paul school board has
amended the rules SO as to give the
principal of each school permission to
indict corporal punishment when other
means fail, provided the principal has
the written permission Of the parent
or guardian, and also with the pro-
vision that each case shall be report
ed to the superintendent.
Henry sussman, accused of the kill
ing Of his wife at the Glenwood hotel
in Minneapolis, has been indicted by
the Hennepin county grand jury on a
charge of murder in the first degree.
He was taken before Judge Holt in
the criminal branch of the district
court and entered plea of not guilty.
His case was set for Oct. II.
An increase Of 5000 in the number
of pupils entitled to apportionment is
noted in the summary Of the returns
by the county superintendent to the
state superintendent. For the school
year closing July 81, 1906, there were
in this state 37S,24e children attending
school at least forty days and the pre-
vious year there were 375,166.
The biennial report Of Warden
Wolfer Of the Minnesota state prison,
Just issued, shows that the net profit
Of the prison Irvine plant for two years
was $409,462.S7. The state manufac.
tured nearly 26,000,o00 pounds OF
Irvine in two years. Warden Wolfer
says the profits Of the prison for two
years exceeded actual expenses in the
sum of 1871 1850.
Patrick White, seventy-five years of
age, Is dead at Mankato of injuries
sustained at the home of P. w. Smith,
four miles northeast Of Madison Lake.
! a sixteen-year-old boy named Albert
Turner was cleaning shotgun, which
was supposed not to be loaded, when
It was discharged. the charge passing
through the calf Of one of Whites
legs and entering and breaking the
bone of the other leg.
During the last few weeks freight
cars have been opened in Red Wing
and quantities of furs, dry goods and
shoes carried away. The railroad de
tectives and the local authorities