Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 24, 1897, Page 8

a enred an amendment making LEGISLATURE. @he Grind of the 4 Mi Minucsota Law De, al. Bee: Paul, April 15.—Goy. Clough sent a'message to the legislature yesterday calling attention to the deplorable con- dition of the patients in the state hos- pitals for the insane, and urging the necessity for the erection and main- tenance of a fourth hospital to relieve their crowded condition, He reminds the legislature of the purchase, by the State of a site at Anoka for a fourth asylum, and urges the making of an » appropriation of $100,000 for the erec- tion of suitable buildings thereon. He » requests that the matter be given early consideration, and that provis- fons be made for commencing work as soon as possible. * In the senate the message was re- ferred to the committee on legislative expenses, and in the house it weat to the committee on appropriations. The senate killed the Hodge bill to extend the terms of county auditors to four years. A big fight was made on the bill in committee of the whole, and it was finally recommended to pass, but a motion to advance it to the cal- endar was lost after considerable de- bate, which practically kills the bill. A large number of bills were report- ed fron: committees and in committee of the whole a good grist of bills were disposed of. A bill was introduced providing for the purchase and distribution of sugar beet seed, and one appropriating $3, annually for the use of the governor e rewards for the arrest of mur- following bills were passed: To regulate the practice of horse- shoeing in cities and villages of more than 50,000 inhabitants; to purchase and distribute sugar beet seeds; to cre- ate and regulate a state board of game and fish commissioners; to authorize the i ance of light and water bonds by ¢ having not less than 50,000 inhabitants, In the House. The Jacobson bill creating a legis- lative. commission to sit during the simmer and fall to inquire as to the claim of the state to any real property adversely claimed and to direct the ary litigation, passed the house y afternoon by a vote of 96 to 6. Almost the entire day had been spent on the matter, the discussion be- ing directed to the merits of the prop- osition advanced by Mr. Jacobson, and an alternative proposed by Mr. Gron- dahl, which was designed to effect the same purpose, but entrusted the ad- ministration of the purpose of the leg- islature to the attorney general and state auditor with instructions to pro- ceed to litigate the questions involved. The real contest of the day came over the question of which plan should be approved. The house was a unit in the opinion that something should be at- tempted, and by a vote of 57 to 47 de- cided in favor of the joint committee. Mr. Craig secured the reconsidera- tion of his bill to grant state aid to schools for the deaf and it was passed by a vote of 59 to 41. The house spent some time in com- mittee of the whole and a goodly num- ‘ber of bills were advanced to the cal- endar and several were killed. St.. Paul, April 16.—The omnibus ap- propriation bill, after being passed by { the house in the forenoon, came to the *S senate in the afternoon, and was nm OX passed by that body under suspension of the rules by a vote of 48 ayes to 2 nayes, Senators Hanna and Royerud casting the negative vot The biil was not pass until the Anoka contingent had made @ last strenuous effort to have attached an appropriation of $100,000, as sug- gested in the special message of Goy. Clough, sent to the legislature Wednes- day for the immediate construction of buildings for the fourth insane asylum at Anoka. The attempt of the Anoka contingent to get their hospital appropriation tacked on did not get a roll call. They realized that their cause was hopeless when the amendment was killed by a viva voce vote in the committee. The hospital fight was not the only one made on the bill, however. Whes the mormal school appropriations were reached, which was when the bill was first taken up, Senator Spencer pre- cipitated a lengthy debate by moving to have the appropriation for the firth normal school, located at Duluth, in- creased from $5,000 to $15,000. He did not succeed, although making a gallant fight, his motion being lost by a vote of 20 to 31. Senator Knatvold, who op- posed the Spencer appropriation, then had the roll called on an amendment to abolish the $5,000 appropriation for the Duluth buildings, but his amend- ment was killed. The senate disposed of a big bluck of bills in committee of the whole. The following bills were passed: To provide for the appointment of a highway commission te improve the public roads and define its powers and duties; to provide for the legitimation of the issue of marriages @cemed null in law where parties entering into sucb marriage did so in good faith; to amend the laws defining what shall constitute a newspaper for publication of the laws, etc., authorizes papers printed in foreign languages to print the session laws; to amend the laws re- ating to building, loan and savings as- sociations doing a general business; to amend the laws relating to the use of pound nets in international waters and interstate streams. Passed in the Hoase, The house sustained the committee -on appropriations by passing the omni- ‘bus appropriation bill almost without amendment. The bill was taken up as a special order in the morning. The first amendment came from Mr. Ja- cobson, of the committee. Provisicn *has keen made in the bill for the equip- lyst of the two experimental stations at Crookston and Grand Rapids, $2,500 for each, but no money had been set aside for maintenance, and for this purpose Mr. Jacobson a “each farm for the years 1898 and 1899, r $8,000 in all. This amendment was adopted. By an amendment offerad by ‘Mr: Schmidt, the wording of the item -appropriating for the costs\of suits to be instituted by the railroad commis- sion was changed so as to\make its meaning plain, and Mr. Hayter »¥ the =.p- propriation for the St. Cloud {nore al wchool in 1898 $15,000 for the qompie- tion of the north wing cover also iho furnishing of the building. ‘An nmendment. making tie appr- ypriation for the normal school at\Du- luth $15,000 instead of $5,000 was de- feated. The bill was then passed by a unanimous vote. The house held an evening session, the game and fish Dill being considered in comnuttes of the whole. The sen- ate bill was substituted. for the house Dill and recommended to pass. . ° 'The follow iug bills were passed: Providing for the public printing of the state; requiring county auditors and city controllers to furnish certii- cates as to delinquent taxes; increasing the gross tax upon vailroads from 2 to 4 per cent and providing for the sub- mission of the act to a vote of the peo- ple; remitting the royalty of the state upon iron ore mined upon state lands and smelted within the state; allowing special school districts to issue bonds for school buildings; providing that delinquent taxes upon pine Jand-shall be a lien upon the logs cut upon such lard and shall follow them into ‘he hands of their owner; legalizing cer- tain sheriffs’ -ertificates; amendiug the act providing for the loaning of the permanent school fund by adding a section repexling inconsistent aets; au- thorizing judzes of district court to ap- prove certain bonds; providing for the incorporation of companies solely for the purpose of operating creameries; relating te the stock of co-operative as- sociations; requiring that securities de- posited by building and loan associa- tions to secure their business in Min- nesota shall be deposited with the state auditor or treasurer instead of with trust companies; requiring that cor- porations shall pay interest upon money deposited by their employes to ‘nsure the faithful performance of duty; allowing counties in which the delinquent tax amounted on Feb. 1, 1897, to 30 mills upon the dollar of as- sessed valuation (St. Louis, Cook, Clay, Pine, Kanabec, Mille Lacs and Wash- ington) to remit penalties and interest upon the payment of such tax, and providing for a forfeiture tax sale in such counties in 1899; providing that eccunty funds may be deposited upon time certificates. St. Paul, April 17.—The Reeves min- ing tax bill, imposing a tonnage tax in lieu of all other taxes, of 5 cents per ton on all iron ore mined in Minnesota, was killed yesterday by the senate. After @ g its way through nearly three months of the session, causing many a long, acrimonious debate in the house, by which body it was finally passed, it met a miserable fate in the senate without even attaining the dig- nity of a place on the calendar. The pill came up on a motion to adopt the report of the taxes and tax laws com- mittee, indefinitely postpoing the bill. On call of the ayes and nayes the re- port of the committee was adopted by a yote of 32 to 19. The senate killed the bill introduced by Senator Stevens, the effect of which would have been the legislating of La- bor Commissioner Powers out of of- fice. The vote was 16 to 22. The Whitney bill, proposing a con- stitutional amendment so as to pro- vide that hereafter the legislature shall apply to the supreme court regarding the constitutionality of bills that it pro- posed to enact into laws. was passed by the senate by a vote of 35 to 10. The Sheehaa anti-trust Dill was killed without debate by a vote of 25 to 21. The Stebbins fire marshal bill was defeated by a yote of 24 to 22. Senator Dunn's bill, to compel -rail- road companies to so operate their trains as not discriminate against Min- nesota cities in favor of Chicago and the East, which was on the calendar for passage, was the cause of quite a lengthy debate. It was defeated by a vote of 13 to 29. By request of Senator Hedge his bill to extend the .erms of office of county auditors from two to four years, was taken from the table and advanced to the calendar. The following bills were passed: Yo authorize villages to elect mu- nicipal judges; to provide for the va- cation of state and territorial roads where they cross lands now platted irto city lots; to provide for change of venue in justice court cases; to de- termine the descent of real estate and providing for an equitable division of estates; to legalize bonds heretofore is- sued by county commissioners, pur- porting to have been issued pursuant to chapter 297, Laws of 1895; provid- ing for the manner of bonding coun- ties by submitting the same to a vote of the people for the purpose of r: ing moneys to fund certain floating in- debtedness; to provide for the pa ment of a 3 per cent gross earnings tax upon sleeping cars, etc.; providing for the taxation of fast freight line and equipment companies for a 2 per cent gross earnings tax; providing for the taxation of express companies, provid- ing a 3 per cent gross earnings tax; to provide for the imposition and coliec- tion of a 3 per cent earnings tax upon the gross earnings of all property with. ug the state of all telephone compa- nies, etc.; proposing an amendment to section 2, article 6, of the constitution; relating to actions against cities, v: lages or boroughs for damages to per- sons injured on streets and other pub- lic grounds; to amend the laws relat- ing to payment of license money by saloons in certain cases, authorizing villages to receive one-half license where the county con:missioners locate saloons within 600 rods of said village; to provide for justices of the peace in cities having a population of Jess than 5,000 inhabitants; to authorize county commissioners to issue bonds to fund the tloating indebtedness of said coun- ties; to pertait voters of townships to hold their elections within an incor- porated village when such village is located in such township; to enforce the payment of taxes which became de- Mnquent on or before the first Monday. of January, 1896. The House. The house got down to business on its calendar yesterday and almost cleared it up, remaining in session un- til late in the evening to accomplish the work. There were forty-six senate bills on hand ready for third reading and eleven measures of the house. ‘The first bill lost was the Dallimore bill providing for a commission of three members to appraise the value of the grand stand at the fair grounds and determine the title to the property. Three new bills were introduced by leave of the governor and both were passed under suspension of the rules. The first came from Mr. Staples and appropriated $600 to pay the expenses connected with the examination of the sureties on the bonds of state deposi- tories. H,. F. 1029 was offered by Mr. Anderson and was designed to allow grand juries to be called in connection with special terms of the district court in Chisago county. This dill, teo, was ssed. H. F. 2080 was introduced by . Kendall, and transfers to the road ard bridge fund of Olmsted county an appropriation heretofore made fora bridge, but mever drawn. There was no objection to immediate action. Senator Sheehan's new home rule bill and home rule amendment, the one granting to each city the right to fraine its own charter under the present con- stituticnal provision, and the other pro- posing to amend the constitution on the same subject, were taken from the table where . they have rested since their report by the house, and on mo- tion of Mr, Dunn were placed on the calendar, ‘The following bills were passed: . To legalize certain mortgage fore- closures; providing that dams used in driting logs shall not be subject to the provisions of an act allowing county commissioners to condemn property for the purpose of maintaining the height of water in navigable lakes; amending the law establishing a board of vet- erinary examiners; allowing county commissioners to issue bonds for the maintenance of bridges in certain cases; codifying the law relative to the office of court commissioners, and in- creasing the powers of such officers; defining the boundaries of counties bordering upon meandered lakes and streams; exempting life insurance from execution; to amend the statute rela- tive to damage done by beasts running at large, so as to make it apply to Mille Lacs, Morrison, Crow Wing and Todd counties; providing for the ap- pointment of commissioners by the su- preme court to codify the corporation laws of the state, and appropriating $2,500; requiring county officers to cer- tify to the payment of taxes upon a deed for the transfer of an undivided interest in real property when the pro- portionate part of the taxes is paid; authorizing probate courts to allow*the accounts of executors who have in good faith paid claims against sn estate be- fore they have been allowed by the court; relating to investments by sav- ings banks; codifying the laws relative to the state public school at Owatonna; atwending the primary election act; al- lowing actions for personal injuries, be- gun by a person afterward deceased, to be continued by his personal represen- tative: reducing the bounty for the ar- rest of horse thieves from $200 to $50; requiring the owner, assignee or at- torney in fact to fire authority before a mortgage can be foreclosed; provid- ing for a second examination for per- sons com:nitted to insane asylums so as to allow their discharge, which shall relieve the hospitals of responsibility for their conduct; to allow companies organized in other states to insure against Icss from burglary or theft to do business in Minnesota; providing that all grain in elevators shall be as- sessed to the owner in the assessment istrict where the elevator is located; to allow townships to establish graded schools; to prohibit the desecration of Decoration day; to legalize certain con- veyances in which the wife has not united with her husband in power of attorney. St. Paul, April 19:—It would now ap- pear that for this session of the leg- islature, at least the fourth insane asylum question is disposed of. Sen- ator Wyman, of the finance committee, made an unfavorable report to the senate on the recommendations of Goy. Clough that the legislature appro- priate $100,000 for the immediate con- struction of buildings at Anoka. At the same time the senator from Hen- nepin reported, with a recommendation for indefinite postponement, the Dill in- troduced by Senator Dunham to pro- vide for an appropriation of $200,000 for the construction of the fourth in- sane asylum. The bill to extend the terms of county auditors to four years was defeated by a vote of 27 to 23. The Sweningsen Dili to regulate in- surance agents was killed. Over half a hundred bills wére passed, among those of general interest being the fol- lowing: fo appropriate $5,000 for the re- lief of sufferers from flood in the val- ley of the Ked River of the North; to make members of the town board of supervisors ineligible to the office of road overseer; relating to the giving of notice of the appointment of as- signees or receivers; to encourage the production and manufacture of long line spinning fibers and spinning tows * from flax and hemp grown in the State of Minnesota; to authorize cities in this state to acquire sites for public docks for passenger purposes, etc.: to amend the laws so as to allow boards of education to elect one of their num- ber as treasurer; giving liens on stray logs, timber and other floatables picked up and secured in another state by any person or corporation; to author- ize the formation of corporations for securing stray logs, timber, lumber and other floatables, and to define their powers and duties, and the duties of surveyors of logs and lumber; to pro- vide against the manufacture, adulter- ation or sale of food jellies to prevent fraud and preserve the public health; to provide proper punishment for ma- licions interference with telephone’ wire, instruments, electric meters, etc.; proposing an amendment to the constitution which relates to the elective franchise of women; to amend the ccustitution relating to the method of amending the constitution; to pro- vide against the manufacture, adulter- ation or sale of spice and condiments, to prevent fraud and preserve the pub- lie health; to enable county commis- sioners to issue certificates of indebted- ness in certain cases; an act for the enconragement of higher education in village and town public graded schools; relating. to the advertisement and sale of goods, wares and mer- chandise in certain cases: to repeal chapter 87 of the General Laws 1895, relating to the redemption from tax sales; to provide for the legitimation of the issue of marriages deemed null in law where parties entering into such marriage did so in good faith; defining, what shall constitute a newspaper for publication of the laws, etc.;.authoriz- ing counties, cities and villages to ap- propriate money for the support of so- cieties for the prevention of cruelty; an act to amend an act relative to building and loan and savings asso- ciations doing a general business; to amend the laws relating to primary. elections; prohibiting domestic and foreign corporations from subscribing any money for the purpose of aiding any political party, ete.; licensing and regulating insurance agents, brokers, ete.; anti compact insurance bill; to enforce payment of taxes which be- come delinauent prior to first Monday in danuary, 1897; for the better pro- i i } i} tection of laborers; to regulate the ‘Practice Of barbering and to license persons to carry on the same; to amend an act to revise the laws re- lating to banks of discount and de- rosit; to amend an act to provide for elementary normal school instruction in state high schools; authorizing vil- lages to issue bonds to pay existing judgments; to define the rights of shore owners in the beds of meandered streams or lakes, and providing for the partition of the same between the own- ers thereof. St. Paul, April 20.—In the senate the day was spent in gathering up odds and ends of desirable bills and in transacting other business that comes on during the closing hours of a legis- lative session. One of the pleasant oc- casions of the day was when Senator George T. Barr of Blue Earth was elected president pro tempore, and an- other followed immediately when Sen- ator Stevens presented Lieut. Gov. Gibbs with a handsome group picture of the members of the senate em- ployes. During the afternoon the sen- ate had as a special order one of the most important measures of the ses- sion. It was the Miller bill to give more effect to findings of the state railroad and warehouse commission, and has been in evidence all through the session as S. F. 33, being one of the first bills introduced. Along with it was considered H. F. 18, by Mr. Ja- cobson, which is a bill exactly similar to the Miller bill. As a result of yes- terday’s inquiry into the bills the sen- ate revamped both measures and merged them into one, which was placed on the calendar. Senator Steb- bins called up the Sweningsen anti- compact insurance bill, securing a re- consideration of the vote whereby the bill was killed last Saturday. Ii was his intention to have another vote tak- en on the passage of the bill, but by re- quest of Senator Sperry the bill was referred to the committee on insurance. The committee reported the bill back in the afternoon, with an amendment knocking out an accompanying revis- fon of the insurance laws. After be- ing discussed for some time the bill was again lost by a tie vote—21 to 21. The Meyers house bill to authorize city councils to contract with a private con- cern or corporation for the erection and maintenance of a system of water works, gas works, electric light plants, ete., was lost—24 to 21. The commit- tee on military affairs reported out for indefinite postponement the Dill to make the Sons of Veterans of Minne- sota a part of the military reserve of the city, thus entitling the society to a share of the state aid which is annual- ly given to the state national guard. The House. The house made a new record yes- terday, one that finds no parallel in the annals of preceding legislatures for many years, and one that will prob- ably go down to history for the emu- lation of future legislative bodies. While the upper house was taking its ease with an armfull of house bills buried in its committees or even wait- ing for a first reading, the house sat until nearly midnight and cleaned up its general orders, so that it will start in to-day with nothing ahead of it but a long calendar, except a few bills re- ported out last night just before ad- journment. The afternoon and eveti- ing were devoted to work in committee of the whole. Mr. Staples was in the chair at both sessions. He always gets the largest amount of work possible out of the house, and they responded nobly yesterday. The list of general orders contained ninety-two bills when the committee of the whole tackled it, and when they got through it was swept clean. By no means all the measures were recommended to pass. In fact a majority of them were recom- mended for indefinite postponement, put all had consideration. Disposed of: To appropriate $15,000 for the pur- chase of a sugar beet experimental farm. Lost—40 to 29. Reconsidered and restored to the calendar. To pre- vent the adulteration of cider; indefi- nitely postponed. To amend the con- stitution 60 as to allow the levy of a tax of one-twentieth of a mill for road and bridge purposes and allowing the creation of a state highway commis- sion; passed. Relating to indexing of instruments by register of deeds: passed. Amending the law relative to building and loan associations; passed. To establish the Minnesota institute for crippled and deformed children; passed. Relating to the feeding of stock in yards; passed; notice of motion to reconsider entered by Mr. Dallimore. Allowing the settlement of the claim of the Twin City Jockey club to prop- erty on the fair grounds; lost. THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. Chicago, April 21. — Wheat — No. 2 red. 89a93e; No. 2 spring, T5aT6c; No. 2 hard winter, 74a78c; No. 1 Northern spring, 77a78c. Corn—No. 2, 241-2a 245-4c; No. 3, -4a23 1-2c. Oats — Cash No. 2, 17¢; No. 2, 18a21c. Rye— Cash, 35 1-2c; May, 36¢; July, 36 1-2c. Chie: April 21. — Hogs — Light, 3. 20; mixed, $424.20; heavy, $3.70 a4.20; rough, $3.70a3.85. Cattle — Beeves, $3.80a5.40; cows and heifers, $2a4.35; Texas steers, $3.25a4.40; stock- ers and feeders, $3.40a4.45. Sheep Natives, $324.90; Westerns, $3.20a ; lambs, $3.75a5.80. Milwaukee, April 21.—Flour steady. Wheat excited and higher; No. 2 spring, 76 1-4c; No. 1 Northern, 811-2c; May, 75 8-4e. Corn firm and wanted; No. 3, 23 1-2e. Oats higher; No. 2 white, 20a 21e. Barley steady; No. 2, 32c; sample, 26a31c. Kye higher; No. 1, 36 1-2c¢. Provisions higher. Minneapolis, April 21.—Wheat—May opened at 77 1-4c and closed at 74 7-Sc; July opened at 781-4c and closed at 75ce; September opened at 72c and closed at 70e. On track—No. 1 hard, 7S8e; No. 1 Northern, 76c; No. 2 North- ern, 74 1-2c. ¢ South St. Paul, April 21. — Hogs — Not enough to make a market. Cattle —Prime steers, $404.25; good steers, $3.75a4; prime cows, $3.25a3.50; good 7593.15; common to fair cows, 203; ght veal calves, $3.50a4.50; stockers. $3.50a3.95; feeders, $3.60a3.90; bulls, $2a3. St. Paul, April 21. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern; 72a73c; No. 2 Northern, 70 1-2a71 1-2c. Corn — No. 3 yellow, 20a21c; No. 8, 19a20e. Oats — No. 3 white, 17a171-2c; No. 3, 15a 1G1-2c. Barley and rye—S: 0. °2 rye, ley, 20a25¢; rye, BleB1 1-2 ¢; timothy, 90a$1.2: MINNESOTA NEWS. Interesting Happenings in the North Star State. The village council of Royalston unanimously passed a curfew ordi- nance. The Southern Dental association held its annual session at Mankato. The usual nuicber were in attendance. Brakeman Will Munci, an employe of the Great Northern, had his right arm severed while coupling cars at Crookston. The Red River Lumber company, whose planing mill at Crookston was destroyed by fire, has a new mill in op- eration, . Peter Meis of Hastings is dead of dropsy, aged 71 years. He leaves a wife and one daughter, Mrs. M. C.' Tautges of St. Joseph, Minn. Mr. Mies located here in 1855. A five-year-old child of Peter Colbe- son died near Rushford from the ef- fects of seyen burns received by the accidental overturning of a kettle of boiling water. ‘The people at Stillwater are trying to keep the old street car line, and have served an injunction to prevent Fink & Scott, the new owners, from tearing up the line and selling it as junk. Mrs. M. Campbell of Elysian is dead of consumption. She was the daugh- ter of J .C. Swain, one of the oldest settlers in the county, an ex-member of the legislature and a prominent citizen of this county for the past thirty years. Two persons were drowned at Belle Plaine in the Minnesota river in a large boat that is being used to convey pas- sengers to town, owing to the height of the stream There were ten in the boat, but the others luckily escaped. The three-year-old son ef John Wal- shad, 130 Sixty-first avenue W, Duluth, lost his balance while playing on a briage and, falling into the stream, which had been swollen by floods, was drowned. The Wauseca Chautauqua this year will open July 6 and close the 23d. Its attractions for the year will be greater than ever, and many leaders in all lines of education and research will be present and take part. John Werner, a prosperous farmer living two miles east of Fulda, and for sixteen years agent of the C. L. Col- man Lumber company, committed sui- cide by hanging. He leaves a wife and family. The three-year-old boy of Fred Kuy- all, a farmer living four miles south of Waseca, was frightfully scalded. A kettle of boiling water was standing on ihe floor, and the little fellow tipped it over himself, He may live. The grand court convention of For- esters for Minnesota, Wisconsin and Towa will be held in Waseca May 11, for a two-day’s session. The conven- tion will elect officers and select dele- gates to the supreme court convention, to be held in Denver. August Hagerdown, a young farmer living at Brandon, was fined $5 and costs for abusing Isaae Ott, a boy he had taken from the state school at Owatonna, It was abuse of the gre: est brutality, and complaint was made by the agent of the school. Farmers generally around Elysian have begun seeding. The prospects for a good harvest were never better. The soil is full of moisture, and a few warm days will make the conditions for starting a crop all that can be de- sired. John Vall, alias Curly Jack, who bur- glarized the hotel and machine shop at Pelican Rapids, was captured by a posse in the brush a mile northwest of the village. Jack Willett, whom Vail implicates in the crime, is #so under arrest. The thirteenth annual encampment of the Minnesota Division, Sons of Vet- erans, which was to occur at Prince- ton, June 8, 9, 10 and 11, has been postponed a week. The change was made to accommodate teachers and pupils in public schools. ‘The Lily creamery at Lake Crystal, was broken into and several hundred pounds of butter stolen. Footprints leading to and from the creamery showed clearly in the mud, but no oth- er clew hag been found as to who did the act. First Lieut. Frank B. McCoy, Third infantry, is now assigned by the secres tary of war to do duty with the nation- al guard of Minnesota. Private Will/ iain McFadden, Third infantry, now at Fort Snelling, has been ordéred dis- charged. William A. Dickson, a prominent farmer living in the town of Terrace, Pope county, was found hanging dead in his barn. He had been sick for some time and treatment did not seem to help him. Becoming despondent he committed suicide. It is rumored that $10,000 was recently left to him. At the special election held at Mont- gomery for the reorganization of the yillage charter, a majority were in fa- yor of reorganization. Several addi- tions will be included in the new char- ter, which will about double the popu- lation, and it also gives the president and council greater powers. As W. L. Rice, living two miles south of the village of Grand Meadow, was driving his team with a load of corn, his only son, 2 boy of nine years, who was playing with a companion, fell un- der the wheels, one of which passed over his chest. The child lingered in great agony until he died. Albert Blanz and Edward Smith, con- victs at Stillwater, have been taken to the Rochester asylum. Blanz is the convict who violated his parole and, later, gave himself up at New Orleans and returned to the prison of his own accord. Smith was sent up from Hen- nepin county a few years ago, to serve eight years. William Call, Jos2ph Deschampes, Thomas Nelson and Austin Lindstrom were held to the district court at East Grand Forks on the charge of killing ‘Thomas Breen, whose body was found on the Northern Pacific railroad bridge two wecks ago, They were taken to Crookston to jail. Lindstrom confessed and was tendered freedom under $4,000 bonds, which he was unable to give. The trial of Fred H.Burdick, charged as agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Paul railway, with having refused to deliver a receipt for 600 bushels of parley shipped over the read, was held in justice court at Wabasha, This is a test case, to determine the validity of , the law. Defendant was found guilty, but at once appealed to the supreme ecurt, Blood Poison Confined our son to his bed for five months. ‘The disease left him an object of pity and a sufferer. He was covered with blotches, the burning and itching were terrible to bear. Alady told us to try Hood’s Sarsaparilla. He began taking it and soonimproved. After taking afew bottles he was entirely cured. That was three years ago, and there has been no return of the dis- ease.”—S. C, BOYLAN, East Leroy, Mich. Get only Hood’s Sarsaparilla {t is sold by all druggists. Price, $1; six for $5. Hood’s Pills ey"in"ehtct “a cents A Lewiston woman died last week who was told twenty-six years ago by numer- ous physicians that she could live but a short time. Eight of those doctors died before she did. Large Movement of Settlers. The first week in this month witnessed the largest movement of settlers to North Dakota known in the history of that state. It is doubtful if a larger number of actual settlers was ever before moved at one time in this country than the Great Northern took out of St. Paul on April 2. The train consisted of 152 cars of passengers, household goods, farm im- plements, etc., and was divided in five sections. The total number of men, women and children was 1,557. They zame from various states, Indiana, Vir- zinia contributing more than any other. Many of them are known as Dunkers, or German Baptist Brethren and went to join colonies previously -located in the Turtle Mountain and Devil's Lake regions of North Dakota where their brethren have been very successful. Many of the new comers will locate on government land, of which millions of acres still re- main open to settlement. The Dunkers are American born and English speak- ing, an industrious farming class, and have already proven themselves an im+ cortant addition to the population of North Dakota. They have now along the Great Northern railway no less than seventeen settlements in that state. A New York police justice has fined 4 freman who had no time off for courts ing $5 for kissing his sweetheart in thé public streets. FITS Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness aftey Grst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer Send for FREE $2.00 trial bottle and treatise: Dn. R. H. 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