Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1920-06-30
Recent Happenings in Minnesota
49, Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers. =,
ENTIRE field COVERED
News OF Events In Gopher State
Gathered From,Many Different
I Sources and Arranged In
Crisp Readable Form.

tion of Accidents conference was held.
"Safe installation of electrical blasting
equipment" was the subject of an ad-
dress to be given by T. H. Mischief.
Virginia-The play ground season
opened here with the five city play
grounds filed to capacity. Coach ALI
Jackson and Miss Kathryn Carey Of
| the high school faculty are in charge.
Winona- Because of the great num-
Der of bugs attracted by the electric
lights the city council has ordered the
Winona white way and downtown dis
tricts darkened for the summer. A pro-
test has been registered against the
order. -
Winona-An independence day cele-
bration will be conducted here under
the auspices of the American Legion
post of Winona.a Legion posts in
neighboring towns in Minnesota and
Wisconsin will be- asked to cooperate
in the program.
Mankato-Jacob B. Wolfe of Stacy
vile, a., bled to death as the result
of an accident at Owatonna yesterday
afternoon when his car collided with
team and buggy. The whole of the
buggy passed through the windshield
and cut VOLTS jugular vein..-
Duluth-The Saengerfest convened
here with nearly 1000 delegates from
all over the central and western states
and from Canada present. More than.
1000 singers were in the concert.
Members of Scandinavian lodges that
had been in session in Duluth and
Superior remained over for the event.
Virginia-District:,J Judge Freeman
is trying the damage suit of J. B.
Hume against the Duluth & Iron
Range Co., the Wiwabak Transfer Co.,
and Vince ,Vidas for $4,000 damages
alleged to have been sustained when
a passenger train hit motor truck of
the company driven by Vidas, on
which Hume was a passenger. 49,:
Little Falls-A man, believed to be
B. E. Hurd of Pine River, is in a -criti-
cal condition at the hospital here as
a result of having slashed his throat
on Northern Pacific train. He was
a passenger on No. 9 and when short
distance south of here stuck pocket
knife in his throat making a cash
of about two inches. =
MISUNDERSTANDING from a NOV
ing airplane at an altitude of hoo
feet, Orville Bonn of Montevideo, a
sergeant pilot in the American air
service in the world war, made a sue
cessful descent with the aid of a new
parachute. This was the first demon
stration in Minnesota of this para
| chute, an invention of Roy Calm of
this city. It has been adopted by the
government after thorough tests: :,
Dell, Rapids Ralph Riley, of Mt.
Vernon, is dead as the result of drink
ing the contents of a bottle Of strich-
! nine: The boys father had been dig
ging ditch for drain when he found
the bottle and threw it aside. The boy
found the bottle and died IN convul-
sions few minutes after drinking
the contents. About a year ago the
boys brother was fatally burned
while playing with fire of old news
papers near his home.
Red Wing-A cloudburst which
struck this city caused derailment OF
! nine freight cars on the Chicago Great
| Western railway and caused the turn
ing over of an automobile with six
occupants on a road three miles from
here. The approach to trestle three
miles from the city limits on the
I Great Western road was washed out
| and decailed nine; cars OF a train en-
/ tering the city. The cars were loaded
with stock, but none was injured.
St. Paul-Failure of the United
States Health service to secure prior
ity orders for shipments of alum and
chlorine to purify local water supplies
leaves many Minnesota cities and
towns at the mercy of tn railroads,
DR.. Charles E. Smith, Jr., executive
officer of the State Board of Health,
declared. Several Minnesota towns
using such chemicals to purify water
have only limited supplies on hand
now, DR.. Smith said, which when ex-
hansted will leave the town without
pure water. The state health depart
ment is preparing for such an emer-
gency and intends to launch local cam
paigns to inform the people of the nee
essity of boiling water for drinking
purposes to- safeguard against possible
epidemics Of typhoid fever g.,
Minneapolis-Jacob o. Bentall, sen.
fenced to two years In the federal PEN
itentiary for violation of the espion-
age act, has been granted stay until
! Julv "a on the Issuance of the writ OF
commitment. He was convicteds ttor
alleged seditious remarks paa1e In q
speech at Hutchinson, MINI, July 81,
1917. A..
Minneapolis men attacked
Private o. W.sAllen. of the marine
corps, on tfurlough from the Great
Lakes naval training station, while he
yas waiting for a street car at Forty
seventh street and Minnehaha avenue,
and after struggle robbed him Of ~.