The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-01-04
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS or A WEEK THROUGH.
s.s.%s OUT THE sTATE.,> -.

6C1llW8tor prlSQ0s Is. OSaO OF poIuAClOus
anemia. He was forty-six years old.
Edward Henry .Judson, aged sixty
four, Q pioneer resident of st. Paul
and q veteran Of the Civil war. is dead
The Minnesota State Educational
association held its forty-fourth annual
convention In Minneapolis last week
DR.. Charles Griswold, seventy-four
years of age, for many years prac-
ticing physician of North St. Paul, is
dead.
DR.. Emanuel l.. Hess, for eleven
years rabbi of Mount Zion temple at
Bt. Paul, died suddenly last week OF
heart trouble.
DR.. Cyrus X. Bartlett, we'll known
blienist and a physician who ranked
high in the state, is dead at Minneap-
oils, aged seventy-seven.
Captain P. H. Ryan, a resident of
st. Paul since 1853 and veteran of
Tho Civil war, is dead. He was sew
enty-eight years of age.
At q special election last week the
village Of Battle Lake voted $4,000
bonds TO buy an acetylene lighting
7lant and waterworks system for the
village.
Thomas Cochran, prominent In St.
Paul business circles and we'll known
% q public spirited citizen, orator and
scholar, is dead after an illness of
Two months.
Chester Tracy, the two-year-old son
Of Edward Tracy of Minneapolis, fell
into q tub Of boiling water and was so
severely scalded that he died a. few
hours later at the city hospital.
Despondent because Of the death of
his wife a year since and his own Ill
health Peder Medic, a contractor,
ehoked himself with small piece Of
rope in the timber near Minneapolis.
Samuel G. Iverson. state auditor,
last week distributed $4,405.50 in &C.
cumulated claims against the state for
wolf bounties. The payments cover
bounties on 561 full grown wolves and
1913 cubs.
Six children were badly burned,
two perhaps fatally, and number OF
people were bruised and trampled on
rs tho result of a mishap at Christ
mas celebration at the United Breth-
rem church at LIE Sueur Center.
A prisoner convicted of larceny at
Mankato escaped from the sheriff of
Blue, Earth county while being taken
to saltwater by jumping through a
window of a railroad coach. The pris-
jpinsr was handcuffed at the time OF
6is escape.
George Hare is dead at Rochester as
the result of an accident which hap
peued to him on Dec II. On that day
Il he was at work on corn shredder
when the aleeve of his coat became
caught in the machinery, drawing his
arm into the feeder.
DR.. L. w. Babcock of Wadena, a
physician and a leading politician,
died ut st. Luke's hospital, st. Paul.
of a complication Of nervous diseases.
He Was sixty-six years Of age and was
speaker of the lower house of the
legislature during the session OF 1903.
Minneapolis is to have new pas
senger station to occupy the site OF the
present Union depot and considerable
additional land. The work of tearing
down the old building will be begun
In the spring and when that is out OF
the way building operations will pro-
coed. - 80. ~
State Treasurer Block, in his an
hof
interest bearing securities of other
states held by the state be disposed
Of in order to get funds with which
to meet the increasing demand for
loans from municipalities within the
state.
C.L. Benedict will succeed himself
as postmaster at ~ 10, MINI. The
recommendation t.,r his disappointment
has been filed b.. Representative Nc
Cleary. Mr.. McCleary also recon-
mended the reappointment OF ]. E.
Haycroft as postmaster at Madelia
and c. E. Fuller at. st.. James. IN
Fayette Tyler. a brakeman on the
Northwestern railroad, was caught
between two cars at GAINESVILLE and
| his breast was badly crushed. A spe-
cial train hurried him to Rochester
and he was operated on at st. Mary's
hospital, but died on the operating
table. His home was In Rochester.
The entire town Of :Ulen, which is
located in the northeastern part of
Clay county, has been almost entirely
wiped out by fire. All OF the business
section was destroyed and only the
ha rdest kind of work on the part of
tho volunteer fire department saved
the residence portion from destruc-
ton. We. s"--~
| Edward T. Young, attorney general
bl the state, has transmitted to the
EoveYnor his annual report In which
he recommends important changes In
The laws, covering antitrust laws, tim
Der matters, the Inheritance tax and
public service corporations and rec
ommends an appropriation for extra
help in his Office.
Fred Zimmerman of owatonna,
while Intoxicated, shot through win