Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-01-17
BRIEF MINNESOTA ITEMS.

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the year.
Crookston-The grocery store owned
oy Andrew Staining at the foot of
Houston avenue, was burned.
st. Paul-The city engineer recon-
mends improvements to the water
supply system. to cost s1S1,100.
exandria-Senator Nelson is nom
mated unanimously for third term
and the legislative session opens.
Minneapolis-The state board Of
health will supply antitoxin to diph-
iberia patients who are unable to buy
it. ..F..
st. Paul-John Burns of Independ-
ence, Iowa, is kicked to death by some
one whose identy has not been made
known.
,Minneapolis-At recent meeting of
the board of directors of the Security
bank it was decided to grant a bonus
Of 4 per cent upon the salaries of the
clerks.
Duluth-Judge Cant of the district
court today handed down a sweeping
decision for the defendants in the
famous case of the heirs of w. A.
Mining company.
Mankato-The postofice receipts
were, $40,310, a gain of more than
$4,000, insuring the placing of the
office in the list of first-class post
offices July 1, with an additional clerk
and a raise of $500 in the salaries Of
the postmaster and deputy postmas-
ter
st. Paul-The state game and fish
commission has issued 667 permits to
persons within the state to be al
lowed to spear fish. The spearing
season lasts from Dec. Is to March
1 and S. r. Fullerton asserted that
this will be the greatest. season ever
experienced in this respect.
Rochester-Earl Wilmont, who stole
4 suit case on a North Western train
between this city and Winona, was
sentenced in district court today to
one year and six months in the pen
itentiary.
OWatonna-Owatonna is to have
new cement block manufacturing con-
Germ. E. P. Elliott of Minneapolis has
been in the city for the purpose of
interesting local capital in the project
and it is said the desired amount has
already been raised.
Faribault-The issuing Of marriage
licenses in Rice county during the
year 1906 has fallen off considerably
| from the year previous. The clerk Of
court issued during the year 15S IL
| censes, where in 1905 he issued 212, a.
| falling off of ffty-four.
Minneapolis-John P. Quirk charged
with the murder of William A. Dow
| ell, was injured yesterday morning in
| the court house when the elevator,
loaded. with eight prisoners and two
| deputy sheriffs, fell from the third
| floor to the basement.
living ten miles southwest of here,
| was killed by the limb of a falling
| tree within ten rods of his house.
| When he did not respond to the call
| for dinner his wife sought him and
| found him lying in pool of frozen
| blood <.e.,-
Rochester-A meeting Of Rock Dell
| citizens was held in that township
| to discuss the proposition Of organic
| ing a cooperative lumber yard at
Hayield. The sum Of $4,000 was sub
scribed but the organization will not
be completed until $4,000 is back of
the project.
| enthusiastically thrown from
| the window of a Great Northern pas
senger car, the body of a baby boy
about a week old was found LYING
beside the track at Second avenue
north. The body was frozen stiff and
Indications are that life had been ex-
tinct for several hours.
Mankato-A number of veteran In
dian fighters who participated in the
defense of Hutchinson from Little
| Crows band have met to formulate
plan of action in regard to the state
pension law passed at the last session
of the legislature.
| Blackduck-A wood working facto-
ry for. this place is now an assured
fact, according to c.. w. Jewett who
with his associates has been nego-
tiating with large Minneapolis con.
Germ which has had several points IL
view for establishing such a plant.
st. Cloud-Frank c. Taylor, twenty.
two years Of age, sentenced from Hen
nepin county Oct. IL, 1905, to the state
reformatory for an indeterminate sen.
tence for grand larceny, was one o:
the three pardoned by the board. With
Taylor it was a case of a good boy
falling in with bad company for the
first time. On the day that he com.
mitted the crime of stealing a watch
he had taken his first drink of liquor
st. Joseph-John Phillips, charged
with intoxication and threatening t
clean out his family if they did no
obey him, has been sentenced to thirt!
days in the county JAIL According tt
the testimony Phillips went home ii
a hilarious condition, and with ;
butcher knife in his hand drove hi
wife and eight children out of tn,
house. He threatened to kill them
The children range in age from two t.
ten years.
Mankato-One Of the leading dair.
farms that is supplying milk to pa
irons in the city this morning market
ed six high-grade Jersey cows and on
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