Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1921-02-09
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Minnesota
Given in Brief items for
Busy Readers.
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News Of Events In Gopher State
Gathered From Many Different
Sources and Arranged In
Crisp Readable Form.

Rochester-Primary system for nom
nations, displacing the old party eau
Gus, as provided by recent legislative
action, was adopted at special session
of the Common Council
Duluth-Of the 2,737 criminal cases
handled in municipal court last year,
drunkenness with 1859, topped the list.
Annual report of the city clerk shows
$42,197.07 collected in fines.
Luverne-Clarence Steine, Is year
old son of Knute Steine, of Luverne,
had two fingers shot from his right
hand by the accidental discharge of a
shotgun while hunting rabbits.
Rochester-A man giving his rame
as r. Radcliffe was arrested here on
charge of passing forged checks on
several business houses. The alleged
bad checks were signed &c. 0. John
son.
st. Paul-Plans to bring the Ma
tional Dairy show to the State Fair
grounds for it's annual convention
next October, were discussed at the
regular monthly meeting of the
State Fair board.
Pipestone-Mrs. David Johnson
probably was fatally burned and her
husband and two children were less
seriously burned, when a can Of
kerosene taken to the stove to kim
die the fire exploded.
Luverne-Riding horseback into
will Of r
here, an unidentified man left his horse
and in it's place took farmers team
hitched to a buggy and drove away.
No trace of the man has been found.
Hastings-The trial of Tony Meri
ca, South St. Paul, indicted on a
charge of murder in the first degree
in connection with the death of Greg
orius Diaz, ended when Judge w. l..
Converse directed a verdict for the
defendant
St. raul-Dr. E. w. Buckley und
William D. Dwyer, both of st. Paul,
have received crosses of TIE Order OF
St. Gregory, the highest papel civilian
honor, because of their war wo:k with
the Knights Of Columbus.
Belle Plaine-One-third of the men,
bers of the grand and petit juries
drawn for the June term Of court in
Sibley county are women. The selec-
ton was made pursuant to the action
of the state legislature on wolnen's
jury nils.
Notwithstanding explosion of a
gasoline tank of an automobile in a
garage in the c. w. Kinsman farm
near here caused a fire which Destroy
ed the car, garage, the machine shed
and a granary containing large quanti-
ties of grain and corn.
WinOna-Archie G. Ames of Mime
iska, one of the best known livestock
breeders of southeastern Minnesota,
filed a petition in bankruptcy. Assets
are listed at $SS,O00, including farm
lands and buildings, valued at $4,000,
and liabilities at $126,000.
Redwood Falls-It is expected the
Redwood County Rural Telephone
company will be granted permission to
increase it's service rates. The COM
pany has 1000 telephones in opera
ton in Redwood, Brown, Renville and
Yellow Medicine counties.
Red Wing-Joseph Gilbert, former
state manager of organization for the
Nonpartisan league, surrendered to
Sheriff John A. Anderson. He was
lodged in the :county Jail to begin
serving sentence of one year and a
day for violation of the Minnesota
sedition act.
Owatonna-A majority of the stu
dents of the Owatonna high school
have signed a petition asking the man
agement of moving pictures to guar
antee that only better class of pictures
will be shown here. The protest would
exclude vulgar comedies, sex films
and pictures portraying crime.
Luverne-Harry Lienau was given a
preliminary hearing on a charge of
assault with intent to kill and was
committed to jail to appear at the
March term of court. Lienau is alleg-
ed to have confessed to stabbing Miss
Florence Martin, % years old, who is
in hospital in a serious condition
from knife wound.
Warren-A Minnesota state record
for milk production during a seven
day period was broken this week by
Neeltje Mercedes de Kol Homeland,
7-year-old Holstein COW ON the P. Frost
Spaulding farm near here. The COW
gave 1855 pounds Of milk in seven
days, her highest production for a sin
gle day being 1897 pounds. The for
mer record was 1851 pounds.
Slayton-Two men were injured
here as result of accidents with
corn shelters and one of them may die,
Nick Gaul, whose hand was lacerated
in the machinery of the shelter. is in
hospital here, suffering from lock.
jaw Herman Hagen suffered amputa.
ton of hand after having is crushed
In asheller.
Mankato Captain Theodore w.
Black, Minneapolis, and Captain e. v.
Nyquist, Mankato, were named by the
War department as Minnesota officers
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