The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-03-29
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

Fred Denim, wealthy farmer re-
siding near Gaylord, committed sui
eide by hanging.
Mrs. Eliza Bostwick, a resident OF
Minneapolis since 1850, Is dead, aged
ninety-three years.
Edward H. Wood, aged seventy, is
dead at st. Paul. He had been a res
ident of the city since 1855. W.
| DR.. G. A. REM, assistant health
commissioner, has been appointed
health commissioner of St. Paul.
Lake Crystal is suffering from an
epidemic of measles. One hundred
cases are reported at the present
time.
Professor E. T. Critchett has been
reelected superintendent of the New
Ulm public school for the thirteenth
time.
| BY an act of the legislature the sal
airy of the chief Of police of St. Paul
has been increased from $4,000 to
! $4,000.
Frank Graves, one of the oldest res
idents of Mobiles county, was run down
and killed at Bigelow by a train on
the Omaha.
A. B. Peterson, county commissioner
for Willlin county, is in serious con.
dition as the result of injuries received
in a fall upon the ice.
The plant of the st. Paul Foundry
company has been damaged by fire to
the extent of $4,000 and as a result
800 men will be out of employment for
some time.
The ninth annual convention of the
South Central Minnesota Educational
| association was held at Austin last
week and was largely attended, about
500 teachers being present.
The Farmers elevator at Blooming
Prairie has been destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of about $4,000, which
is partially covered by insurance. The
cause of the fire is not known.
w. C. Burns, a switchman employed
by the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul Railroad company, was almost
instantly killed by a fall down a STAIR
way in Ernest Krause's saloon at Min.
neapolis.
Minneapolis has won the second le-
gal battle in the war to compel rail-
roads whose tracks cross city high
ways to erect and maintain bridges.
The Great Northern was the defendant
in the latest case.
Since Dec. 26 the state has paid
bounties on 1928 full grown wolves
and 299 cubs, the bounties aggregat-
Ing $9,95S.5O. Roseau county leads
the list with 361 wolves, thereby Sc
curing almost $4,000. IL
Alexander B. Riddell, sheriff Of
Cass county, has been removed from
Office on a. charge of padding his ex-
pense account, Governor Johnson hay
ing granted the request of the state
board of control that Riddell be re-
moved.
A valuable find Of iron ore Is re-
ported to have been made at Randall,
in Morrison county, on the cutoff on
the Guyana range. The ore Is said
to be red hematite of 60 per cent
grade and equals anything yet found
on the range.
Secretary William H. Taft has an
nounced to President Northrop that he
will remain in Minneapolis after de.
livering the commencement GRAFTON at
the university on June 10 and will at
tend the annual banquet Of the Min
nesota Law alumni.
Charges of common ownership and
mutual understandings between the
principal wholesale coal companies Of
the Twin Cities will be investigated
by the joint legislative committee
that Is looking for combines in coal
and lumber business
While playing on low shed with
several companions at Minneapolis
Arthur Swanson, thirteen years of
age, fell to the ground, distance of
about eight feet. and was instantly
killed. The boy struck on his head
and his neck was broken.
Word has been received in Min.
| neapolis of the death of George E.
Cole. the former we'll known football
player of the university, at San An.
| tonic, Tex. Mr.. Cole had been fight
ing death for three years and had
travelled extensively In search of relief
from tuberculosis.
Struck by an automobile, driven by
an unknown chauffeur, on the morning
of May IL. 1904, Robert G.. Lester of
Minneapolis never recovered posses.
sion of his mental and physical facul.
ties and died last week, nearly three
years after the accident as the direct
result of his injuries.
| While driving in from Kratka to
Thief River Falls Lars Brandon was
shot and killed by the discharge of his
gun. neighbor. with several COM
panions riding near him, was driving
less than 300 feet in advance of Bran
don's sleigh at the time Of the occur
renee Circumstances cause suspicion
Of suicide.
Dying of starvation and neglect An.
| drew ArnesOn, man fifty-nine years