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Aged Couple Is Badly Treated

Aged Couple Is Badly Treated
WI1LMAR-Mr and Mrs. Joseph Pecka, aged
about IS years. residing in Lake Lillian township
kandiyohi county, attacked Sunday morning
between 1:3O and 2:3O o'clock by unknown in
truder, who awakened the couple when he broke in
to the house, demanding money ransacked the place.
setting fire to the interior and then angered because
his demands for cash not responded to- vciousy
attacked both Mr.. and Mrs. Pecka, knocking each
of the aged people unconscious.
The man entered the house brandishing % cali
bre rifle. He wore homemade mask over the lower
part of his face white cloth covering his face be-
the eyes.
He demanded money, and when told by the
Peckas that they had none, the man ransacked the
place. While thus engaged Mr.. and Mrs Pecka
crawled into the attic
Unable to find anything he considered of value
the intruder then gathered up paper and started a
fire the floor of of the rooms Mr.. Pecka came
down to etinguish the blaze only to be struck
the head and rendered unconscious by the visitor.
This brought Mrs. Pecka out of the attic also. She
gave the man IS, all the money she said was in the
house. She too struck down. When the old
people regalned their senses the man was gone.
After regaining consciousness Mr.. Pecka made
his way to the home of his nearest neghbor where
a call was put in for Willmar authorities
Three Minnesotans Die In Auto Crash
Manufactures persons were fatally injured
in automobile collision Lake Crystal Satur-
day night. The dead: Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Lamb,
Mankato, and Herbert Moses, of Lake Crystal. Two
daughters of the Lambs escaped with minor injuries
The Lambs had been attending the high school bas-
ketball tournament at Jackson and were enroute
home when the accident occurred Moses was dr1v-
ing toward jackson when the tire on his machine
blew out crashing it into the Lamb car. Mrs. Lamb
killed instantly and Moses died soon afterward
Lamb died Sunday morning He was druggist here
and member OF a pioneer Mankato family.
Smoking Pipe Powder Can Goals Drop, Trouble
BLUE EARTH-A of blasting powder, a
lighted pipe and the flick of little girls flying coat
combined last week to blast in which two
men and the child escaped without serious injury
Bricelyn. Returning from a trip to the village
for blasting powder little Betty Flo sat the lap of
Webb Salley beside her father Julius Flo, who was
driving with the can of blasting powder sitting on
the floor of the between their feet. When they
arrived at the Flo farm, Betty opened the door and
moved to get out. Her coat tipped the pipe from
Saleys hand and the tobacco Goals dropped into the
powder The Resultant blast caught Flo and Salley
squarely in the face burning the child slightly None
seriously hurt.
Take IS Crappies From Two Whitefsh Stomachs
BRAINERD- Presenting evidence to show that
spearing of whitefsh should be permitted in Pine
Lake. A. A. Weidemann, president of the Crow Wing
Protective Game club displayed "a crappes and sun
fish fngerlings and one bass lingering which had
been taken from two white1sh near Brainerd. The
fngerlngs taken from the stomachs of the whiteish
ranged up to three inches in length Weidemann said
it proved his contention and the belief Of his club
that whitehsh spearng would be practical and bene-
fetal in view of their voracious inroads upon small
game fish. Speculation to the number of game fish
so destroyed would run into the thousands.
Freak Calf Born Near CrooLston