Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-08-03

Minneapolis. - The Minnesota state
board of control announces that $780,
600 worth of Minnesota penitentiary
bonds at Az per cent, have been sold
at par to the Minnesota Loan & Trust
company of Minneapolis.
Eveleth Rejected suitors sought
to kill Miss Roderich, member OF
the Austrian colony, by setting of
powder under her bedroom. But one
fuse was effective, cracking windows
and causing a loud explosion.
Crookston. - The most spectacular
ire in score of years destroyed
six frame buildings and the Crook
ston auditorium in the heart of the
city last night. The fire is believed
to have been of incendiary origin.
The loss is about $4,000.
+ Red Wing. A immense cheese
weighing three tons, which will be
exhibited at the Minnesota state fair,
was manufactured on fat car in the
Pine Island railroad yards by the Pine
Island creamery. The cheese is said
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Fergus Falls.-Eugene Mccarthy,
who robbed the Marquard store at
Elizabeth and the Holt residence near
Rothsay, pleaded guilty to the charge
OF burglary before Judge Nye last
night, and was sentenced to saltwater,
the term being from one to five years
Proctor. During the annual meeting
of the Mesabi Range Volunteer Fire.
mems association some practical jok
ers lighted bonfres on the 0age of the
village and turned in an alarm. All
the delegates responded and watched
the Proctor firemen extinguish the
blaze.
Albert Lea.-The city council is ad-
vertising for bids for the construction
OF concrete and steel dam and bridge
across the Shell Rock river at the foot
of Fountain, lake. The bridge is to be
an ornate one, rs feet in length and
about 40 feet in width, the estimated
cost being about 100000.
Minneapolis. - The McCaul-Web-
ster Elevator Company has started
action in the district court against
the Great Northern Railway company
for freight rebates amounting to $685.
70 on shipments of lumber and mer-
chandise made from points in Mime.
sofa, Wisconsin and Iowa to Whine.
bago, Neb., nearly six years ago.
Minnesota will receive $125,0OO less
this fiscal year from the sale of Irvine
made at the plant at the Saltwater
prison than last, according to figures
given out by State Treasurer Smith
The amount received from this source
to date is $1,104,0719 90, but payments
may be made between now and the
close of the fiscal year Monday, that
will raise the amount equal to that re-
ceived last year.
st. Paul.-Twenty-seven cases of
eggs have been seized at New Prague
and st. James by M. j. Moriarty, an
inspector of the State Dairy and Food
commission, and the arrest of the per-
sons who sold them will be made soon,
according to a report he made to the
department yesterday. Seventeen of
the cases were seized at New Prague
and the other ten at st. James. They
contained 230 dozen rotten eggs.
Akeley. During a severe electrical
storm here a bolt of lightning struck
the big livery barn of John Snider, ST..
The south half of the barn was reduced
to splinters and the barn set on fire.
The fire was discovered by a mill hand
and the night patio of the Red River
Lumber company fire department ex.
tinguished the flames before the gen.
eral alarm summoned the Akeley fire
department. The horses OF. occupants
of the barn were not injured.
st. Paul.-Proposing to establish
free switching zone in the Midway dis
trict, which in their opinion, will re.
suit in a great boom in manufacturing
industries for that section of the city,
the directors of the Minnesota Trans.
fer company have made application to
the State Railroad and Warehouse
commission for permission to take
such action, and to establish switch.
Ing rates for the territory outside the
proposed zone, known as the Belt line.
The commission has set August "a as
the date of the hearing on the applica
ton.
According to ata~compiled by State
Commissioner Welsh, the
number Of state banks in Minnesota
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