Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-04-06
MINNESOTA BRIEFS
Weeks History in Gopher stats
Told In Paragraphs.

st. Paul. While inspecting cars
In the Union depot Frank Becker, 961
Robert street. was caught between q
locomotive and baggage car and In
stantly killed.
Deerwood.- schools of the vii
lage were closed on account of the epi-
demic of scarlet fever. The disease
has not only attacked children, but
grown people, too.
st. Cloud.-M. Weidert of Rice, aged
Ga years, arrived in the city to take
treatment at the hospital here. Just
after entering the door he dropped
dead from heart failure
Faribualt.- slot machines in the
village of Morristown have been re-
moved. Many complaints have been
made that the young eboys were play
ing them, SO the authorities ordered
them removed.
Minneapolis. - Emmett Smith and
John Sank, claimed by the police to
have confessed to several recent rob.
berries, were arrested by electives.
Much Of their loot has been recovered
from local pawnshops.
Austin.-Rev. w. L. Riley, of De-
troit, Mich, formerly pastor Of the
Chicago Avenue Baptist Church Of
Minneapolis, has accepted ! call to
the pastorats Of the Baptist church
here and will begin his labors April 1.
Albert Lea.-The total deposits Of
the four banks in this city foot up
$1,S26. s23.87, and those of other banks
In the county total $1,122,455.92, or
$2,949,379.19 for the county. The
amount will pass the $S,000,00o mark
in q short time.
Madelia. From fifteen to twenty
families arrived here Friday and
Saturday to settle on farms which they
bought last summer. The most Of
them came from Iowa and Nebraska.
Land has advanced to 500 an acre
and very little is for sale.
Duluth.-Detamus McElwain, Min
nesota pioneer, died at Fond du Lac,
Mimi, at the age of IS. He came to
Minnesota from Illinois in 1851, and
settled on a homestead, which is now
the site of Northfeld. He hauled the
lumber used in building the first
school house in st. Paul
Minneapolis. II Dr. George Edgar
Vincent, president-elect of the State
University, who is to assume the Of
flee April 1, will address the members
of the superintendents' section of the
Minnesota Educational Association at
it, annual convention at the univer.
sity, March 81 and April 1.
Minneapolis. - John McKeeyer.
f1fty-five years old, 3645 Fifteenth
avenue south, "hostler" for the Mil
waukee railroad, was instantly killed
by falling into the turntable pit in
the Milwaukee roundhouse. His body
was removed to the morgue. Mckee
yer is survived by his wife and family.
One of his sons is an engineer on
the same road.
Brainerd.- Iron Range Town.
site company has been Incorporated
in Brainerd by Messrs. E. G. Bane, DR..
r. A. Beise, J. H. Kreckelyberg, Carl
Zahfe and J.. p. Ernster for the pur-
pose of handling real estate and min.
eral lands and engaging in mining and
exploration work. The capital stock
is $4,000 and Brainerd is the principal
place Of business.
Albert Lea.-The county auditor has
awarded the contract for ditch No %
to George Conn of Royal Center, Ind,
and the work will be pushed. While
this is the twenty-third county ditch
one judicial ditch has been construct
ed in Freedom county. and over a hun
dred miles of ditch have been laid at
an expense of fully third of mil
lion dollars, while thousands of acres
have been reclaimed.
Moorhead.- While cleaning the Pres
byterian church at Dlworth prepare
tory to services Leslie Burr discovered
the $1,000 draft and other booty stolen
from the Dilworth postomce. The reg
istered draft, together with number
of stamp books, was found concealed
in the altar. Nothing else found IA
the church, however, furnished clue
to the identity Of the robbers.
| Duluth.-William Bruman was SEN
fenced to 20 years Imprisonment for
knocking down and robbing his chum,
Jalmar Altonen, and then throwing
him over high bank to the ice on
Lake Superior, few weeks ago. The
deep snow on the ice broke the fall of
the unconscious man, and he was alive
when discovered, but he is still in the
hospital. Bruman at first denied his
guilt but later confessed He pleaded
guilty of robbery in the first degree.
Washington, d. G. The inter.
national joint commission to define
and regulate the boundary waters be.
tween the United States and Canada,
it was announced informally at the
White House, will be made up of for.
mer Represe ntative James Tawney. of
i Minnesota. chairman; former Senator
Thomas A. Carter, of Montana, and
J Frank 8. Streeter, Republican nation.