Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-02-03
MINNESOTA BRIEFS.
Weeks History in Gopher State
Told in Paragraphs.

filed as democratic candidate fOi ]
mayor of St. Paul and Edward J.. Bish
op for the office of city comptroller OF
the same ticket. st. Paul politicians
believe there will be no serious oppo
sition to these two as candidates al
the primaries.
Crookston-Fire, probably from an
overheated stove, completely de-
stroyed the Turkish store stock, val
ued at $4,000, owned by M. Kalad
Kalad and a boy named Albert Omar
barely escaped with their lives from
room on the second floor. The in.
surance is $4,000. Firemen saved the
building, which belonged to c. w
Kelsey. ..."
St. Paul-Prof. Jabez Brooks, con:
nected with the University of Mime
sofa from 1859 until last year, and
previously president of Hamline Col
lege for fifteen years, is dead in Cali
fornia, where he went with his wife
and daughter two weeks ago. He was
eighty-seven years old. Death &C.
Cured at the home of his son, David
Denslow Brooks, in San Jose:
Mirneapolis.-"S School Days" is a
musical comedy with al the trim.
mings that go with such productions.
The company numbers SIS. There are
scenic, costume and electrical effects,
and the musical numbers are new and
catchy. Herman Timberg will be
seen in the principal role when the
attraction opens it's engagement at
the Bijou, the week of Feb. 6. His
support includes Daniel Murphy, Will
fred Derrick, Dan Coleman, Anna
Wilkes, Gertrude Kirwin, Lily Dean
Hart and Florence Benedict
Winnipeg, Man.-John c. Comlins,
| Of Beaudette, Mimi, was sent to the
higher court by Magistrate McMicken,
| OH a charge of manslaughter in con.
nectiOn with the death of Andrew
| Coleman, who was frozen to death on
| January while with party of men
In charge of Comlins on their way to
work at the latters lumber camp
twelve miles from Darwin The mag
strate stated that there was no doubt
from the evidence given that Comlins
had done lot for the men on that
trip, but that he was guilty of negli-
gence, in that after he reached the
camp he failed to send out searching
parties to look for Coleman, knowing
the condition he was in. Comlins was
given his liberty on $4,000 bail.
Duluth.-No agreement was reached
between the city and the Canadian
Northern officials yesterday regarding
the franchises under which the road
seeks to enter the city. The city is
Insisting on a clause that Duluth shall
be given rates on the same basis as
other lake cities in Canada and the
road objects to this clause There are
other minor points in dispute, and the
officials left last night for Chicago
without reaching any agreement with
the city. The road, it is claimed, may
not come to Duluth at all unless the
franchise is granted, but instead will
build it's terminals in Superior The
officials who were here yesterday,
while they did not hold this out as a
| threat, state that it was a possibility.
Chandler.-Postmaster j. M. John
son, of the local postoffice, has been
removed because he opened letters of
his wife to- another Chandler man, he
says, and he gave out a staAment
charging conspiracy to GUST and en-
barrass him. He says his wife went
to Iowa, following a family quarrel,
and he recognized her handwriting in
several letters addressed to his rival,
whereupon he naturally became inter.
ested. Finally his curiosity was un.
able to Withstand a partly opened let
ter and he tore of the envelope Then
United States Postofice Inspector
Drake removed him and put the post.
office in the Robert Fitzpatrick store,
where it is now. He will apply to
the postofhce department for rein:
statement on the grounds that hus
band has right to open the letters
of his wife, especially, when addressed
to another man.
Rochester. - A terrific explosion
In the opera house at Stewart.
vile, was the cause of serious and
probably permanent injuries to four,
as well as nearly wrecking the build.
ing. Almon Johnson, an electrician,
was doing some repair work on line
that furnished current for the spot
lights, and he was being assisted by
John Smith, a youth of Is. Harvey
Brandon, member of the Huntley
Amusement Company, who was play
ing in SteWartville at the time. and
Albert knight, an employee of the the
ater, were also in; the building. John
son had completed his work, and
placed the lighted torch that he had
been using upon trunk of the Hunt
legs, which had served for work
bench. Brandon had brought shot
gun into the theater, and taking the
gun apart, Brandon and knight were
examining the stock. Smith, the boy
was about to extinguish the light il
the torch, when a terrific explosion oc
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