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all city and county health officials to
meet Oct. II In Minneapolis to discuss
public health. This will be the day
before the meeting Of the State Medi-
cal association.
Walter Babcock, one Of the youngest
Civil war veterans in the Northwest,
Is dead at Minneapolis. He was sixty
eight years old and marched away to
the war in 1853 when he was only If
teen. Mr.. Babcock had lived in Min
nesota fifty years.
When car ahead of a locomotive
on the Chicago Great Western rail-
road jumped the track and tipped
over the edge of a seventy.foot trestle
near Winona, it carried Dominik
Bronx, brakeman, of Winona, to
death. He fell beneath the overturned
car.
Directors of the South St. Paul Live
Stock exchange refused to admit the
live stock branch of the Equity Co
operative exchange to membership and
the result will be that the Equity ex-
change will establish an independent
commission house in South St. Paul
Oct. l.
Judge Fish, in the Hennepin county
district court, denied the motion for a
new trial in the case against Joseph
w. Brasdon, wealthy business man Of
Minneapolis, convicted of an offense
against fourteen-year-old girl. An
appeal will be taken to the state su-
preme court.
Clarence Anderson was shot and
killed while hunting ducks in a boat
with two companions on Iron lake
near Slayton. When a flock of ducks
flew past one of the men raised his
gun and fred just as Anderson raised
up to get a shot. The charge passed
through Anderson's head.
Investigation Of alleged illegal ex-
penditures of more than 100000 OF
Koochiching county funds and charges
of malfeasance and nonfeasance
against certain county officials, all sus-
pended from Office by Governor Burn
quist pending an inquiry, will begin
Sept. rs at International Falls.
The first criminal indictments ever
returned in Minnesota in connection
with timber thefts on state lands were
returned by the Beltrami county grand
jury in session at Bemidji when John
Miller and NJ. Purritannen were &C.
cused of having unlawfully entered
upon state land and cut timber.
Following examinations on the open.
ing day nurses and physicians ex-
cluded 285 pupils from the St. Paul
public schools. This was from an
attendance of something more than
one-haf the normal. OF the 2S5 ex-
cluded eleven were found with symp-
toms suggesting infantile paralysis.
Ira Bond. Minneapolis broker, who
was arrested in Davenport, Ia, several
weeks ago in connection with the
theft of automobiles, but was released
on a technicality, has been rearrested
in Minneapolis following his indict-
ment in Chicago on charges Of lar
ceny and receiving stolen property in
connection with an alleged band Of
automobile thieves. Bond is wealthy
Mill City broker.
Approximately $500 widows of war
veterans in Minnesota will gain in
creased pensions under the recently
enacted federal law, to become effec-
tive at once. The act increases their
pensions, now $12 a month each, to
$40 a month each, and includes wild
ows of veterans of the war of 1872,
Mexican war and Civil war. The in
crease means about $336,000 more q
year for Minnesota widows.
Edward M. Van Duzee, pioneer res
ident of St. Paul, is dead, aged eighty
one. Mr.. Van Duzee, who for several
years was president of Pillsbury acad-
envy at Owatonna, had been identified
prominently with the Baptist denomi-
nation of the city, state and nation.
He had been a member of the Mime.
sofa Baptist state convention board
since 1870 and of the executive COM
mittee Of that board since 1896
Anna Hart of Oklee, Red Lake
county, and Ida Wiklund of Two Har-
bors, Lake county, were named cham
pion bread makers of the state by the
extension division of the department
of agriculture, University of Mime.
sofa. These two girls won their hon
ors in the contest under the direction
of the extension division at the state
fair. Each will receive a 500 schol-
arship in the Minnesota School of Az
riculture.
Fire at Minneapolis, which threat
ened to sweep through the entire job
bling and hotel district about Gateway
park, damaged six buildings, caused
total property loss estimated at
$410,00O, Frustrated. eighty persons
with smoke and injured two seriously.
Loss of life was prevented by sending
squads of police and firemen through
a dozen lodging houses to carry out
sleeping men who had been overcome
by the gas and smoke.