Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 9, 1906, Page 4

i ? Perea re co a — PAYS TOO MUCH INSURANCE, Fire Marshal Says Minnesota Contrib- utes More Than Average. In proportion to the average paid in the United States, Minnesota has paid in ten years $5,971,251 more than her just share for fire insurance. Accord- ing to a table prepared by State Fire Marshal Edward Peterson, Minnesota has been paying a higher rate than the average in proportion to the lo’ses incurred. The table gives separate figures for United States and foreign companies, but the excess of Minneso- ta over the United States average is found in both. A third table shows the combined total of the two. The comparison of Minnesota premi- um rates per $100 with United States premium rates per $100 for ten years, is as follows: United Minnesota. States. 1895 ... $1,09 1896 . 1.06 1897 . 1.01 1898 . 96 1899 ... 97 1900 ... 1,00 1901 . 1.06 1902 1.15 1903 . “ 1.18 1904 1.42 1.16 The Minnesota ratio of losses to $100 and the United States ratio of losses is given thus: United Minnesota. States. 1895 . $52.26 $55.73 1896 . 44.24 53.37 1897 . 45.50 49.29 1898. 46.80 57.68 1899 . 52.15 66.43 1900 . 69.72 63.29 1901 . «+ 48.95 59.10 1902 . . 41.43 52.48 1903 . 36.90 48.61 1904 . - 54.19 61.78 AVETAZE. 0). 05. oc ese $49.08 $56.70 The excess of Minnesota over the United States average premium is giv- en as follows: 189) <a eeat $228,027 1896. «. 17.09 636,047 1897. ++ 7468 270,472 1898. + 18.85 667,249 1899... - 21,48 854,380 1900.. x10.15 - x430,100 1901. « VEL. 779,664 1902. « 21.05 1,068,434 1903. « 24.08 1,214,726 1904.. - 12.26 682,352 13.92 $5,971,251 x Less than the United States aver- age. $50,000 FUND HAS BEEN RAISED. Albert Lea College Is Placed on a Sound Footing. There is rejoicing among the friends of Albert Lea college, for the debt has been discharged and the first $25,000 of the proposed $50,000 endowment hag been secured. The $25,000 offered by Mr. Carnegie when the first half was raised becomes available and will be put at interest for the support of the institution. However, the man- agement of the college is not satisfied, and the acting president, C. B. Augur, is working to secure the second $50,- 000 and has quite a nest egg toward that amount. If an even hundred thousand dollars are secured for the endowment fund, the future of the institution will be as- sured. Miss Mary Marquis, the prin- cipal, is absent in Europe for the sum- mer, better preparing herself for her important duties. Prospective stu- dents are making inquiries, and the expectation is that the next year will see a large enrollment in the various departments. BIDS ARE TOO HIGH. Contractors Ask More to Build Cot- tage Than State Can Spare. Bids have been opened by the state board of control for a new cottage at the Hastings asylum for the insane. There is an appropriation of $40,000 for the structure complete, but the bids were all in excess of the propor- tion of this amount available for the bare construction. The bids were as follows: John J. Wahl, St. Cloud, $31,600; Ambrose Wahl, St. Cloud, $32,000; W. S. Kingsley, Faribault, $82,850; C. Ash & Co., St. Paul, $35, 192; O'Neil & Son, Faribault, $31,980; Olaf Swenson, Minneapolis, $33,480; James Leck, Minneapolis, $41,000; J. J. Daly, St. Paul, $35,446. State Makes Loans. The state board of investment ap- pfoved of applications for twenty-six Joans from school districts, townships and counties, aggregating $200,000. Of these loans $100,000 was for drainage and will draw 3 per cent interest. The balancg of the loans will yield 4 per cent. C, H. Warner Quits. Cc. H. Warner, superintendent of im- migration in the department of the state auditor, has filed his resignation, to take effect at once, in view of the fact that the year’s appropriation of $7,000 has been spent and there is not even money left with which to meet his salary. Mr. Warner is now devoting his time to the care of the Cole guberna. torial campaign, with headquarters in the Ryan hotel, St. Paul. Mr. Warner’s work in the auditor’s office will be di- vided among the other clerks. — The State DAY BY - DAY ROCHESTER HAS FREAK ROBBER. He Wanted Only $30 and Took No More. A robber who seemed to have a hankering for just $30 visited the home of Mrs. B, Hackett at Rochester re- cently. Although there was much money in the pocketbook which he ‘Chief Police Dramatic Censor. To the classic city of New Haven now belongs whatever glory attaches to the distinction of having formally established a censorship of her thea- censor, who is authorized by law to pass upon all theatrical performances in that city, and to order their discon- tinuance whenever he may see fit to do so. It looks like locating a rather delicate responsibility on an official whose acquaintance with the dramatic what limited, assuming that he is of the ordinary chief of police caliber. This New Haven enforcement will be watched with interest, if not anxiety, opened, he took only three $10 bills, ; by theatrical people everywhere. And ignoring the silver which was-wrapped in the bills. The thief visited no other part of the house than that where the money was kept. There was much loot which an ordinary burglar might have been tempted to carry off, but this man of mask apparently desired exactly $30, and when he had gotten what he came for made bis escape without disturb- ing any more of the contents of the house. Entrance was effected through a din- ing room window, and not the slight- est disturbance was made, the family upstairs not being aroused. The thief apparently was familiar with the hab- its ef the inmates of the house. No ar- rest has been made. POSTOFFICE CLERKS MEET. St. Paul Man Chosen President at Con- vention at Faribault. The fourth annual meeting of the State Postoffice Clerks’ association was held at Faribault under the aus- pices of the local branch of the United National Association of Postoffice Clerks. f Postmaster Kaiser and Mayor Smith of Faribault welcomed the clerks with a few appropriate remarks. Dinner was served at 12:30 at the Arlington hotel. At 2:30 p. m. the business session was held at the Wal- dorf club rooms, and was opened by President Chase Krels of Minneapolis. ’ The following officers were elected: President, Denis Healy, St. Paul; vice president, Fred Seeback, Red Wing; second vice president, Miss C. Ellis, Northfield; treasurer, M. J. Kelly, Min- neapolis; secretary, E. J. Klekenapp, Faribault; state organizer, W. A. Hickey, St. Paul. ‘ The next convention will be held at Red Wing. PROSPECTING FOR IRON ORE. Systematic Explorations Under Way in Crow Wing and Cass Counties. There have been sporadic efforts made to investigate the prospects of iron in nearly every portion of Crow Wing county, but it is only recently that there bas been any effort to de- velop these finds in any deffinite and systematic manner. Attention now, however, is being turned to Cass coun- ty as well. It has just been learned that Richilieu & Whiteside, one of the heaviest firms in Duluth, has _pur- chased about 17,000 acres of land be- tween the known western edge of the Mesaba range and Pine river. This firm is said to be running several dia- mond drills in that section. Other firms owning land or options in that vicinity are also beginning a system- atic search for iron and the land lying between the Mesaba and Cuyuna ranges is being thoroughly worked over, DITCH BOND CASE SETTLED, Authorities of Crow Wing Concede a Demand for Interest. The hitch between Crow Wing coun- ty and King & Co., the purchasers of the ditch bonds, is settled, and it is ex- pected the bonds will be sent to Brain- erd for execution next week and that the money will be ready in the next ten days. The hitch arose because of a reso- lution passed by the board to pay in- terest only from date instead of from October last, the date on which the bonds were sold. King & Co. contend- ed that the money had been held in hand awaiting the fixing up of formali- ties in the proceedings, and that they were entitled to interest thereon for the full time. The county finally con- ceded this point, and there is not like. ly to be any further delay. HYDROPHOBIA IS FEARED. Mad Dog Caused a Panic in Moorhead, Minn, A mad dog created a panic during the Memorial day exercises at Moor- head. The dog seized a smaller dog on the outskirts'of the crowd, which he shook vigorously. A policeman shot him ip the throat. The dog then started through the crowd for Fargo, but was headed off at the bridge and killed by William Crossman. An investigation showed that the dog had bitten several dogs in Fargo before going to Moor- head. An epidemic of rabies is feared. LIVED OVER A CENTURY. Mrs. Casja Eckman, the oldest per- son in the central part of the state, died at Cokato in her 101st year. She was born in Sweden on April 24, 1806, and came to the United States in 1866, with her husband, who died on the ves- sel] in New York harbor. Her daugh- ter is the wife of J. G. Nelson, the Stillwater lumberman, and her sons are Sam and C. H. Eckman of Cokato and Rev. P. J. Eckman of St. James. She had twenty-five grandchildren and eighteen great grandchildren, | | | | it wouldn’t be surprising if New Ha- ven became the butt of many a flinty joke on the stage. The old settler was telling one of the exploits of his youthful days. “Me and another feller,” he said, “was throwin’ dice for a cher’nut sor- rel.mar.’ We had three flings apiece. He flung first. His first fling was six- teen. Then he flung fourteen. Next time he flung eighteen. That was purty hard to beat, but I started in. The first fling I flung, I flung eighteen. The next fling I flung, I flung eighteen. And, by gum, the next fling I flung, .I flung eighteen, and flung the mar’! I can prove it by Cy Barker.” Then the other old settler told the story of his having wunst throwed Abe Lincoln, fa’r an’ squar’, in a rasslin’ match—but nobody believed him. PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Reported by Lothrop & Johnson, patent lawyers, 911 Pioneer Press building, St. Paul, Minn.: Orson Buck- lin, Marietta, Minn., end gate and lift- ing jack; Cliver Cheverfield, Deer Riv- er, Minn., log loader; Olaus A. Dahl, Nash, N. D., fastener for window sash; Samuel D. Felsing, Crookston, Minn., pneumatic stacker; Jean G. Fortier, St. Pau), Minn., card game; Edward A. Holritz, St. Paul, Minn., copyholder for typewriters; Herman Kruse, Camp- bell, Minn., clevis, A Grand Thing. “This new luminous paint is a splendid invention!” declared the fond young papa. “How so?” asked Mr. Newlywed. “Why, you just paint the baby’s face with it, and you can see it to give him his bottle without lighting the gas!” Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with noone APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach, the seat of the disease. Catarrh ie a blood or consti- tutional disease, and inorder to cure it you must take internal remedies. Ilall's Catarrh Cure {is taken in- ternally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure {s not a quack medi- cine. ltwas prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years and is a regular prescription isco of the best tonics known, ined blood purifiers, acting directly on the es. The perfect combination of the ientsis what produces such wonderful re- sults in curing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo. O Bold by Dru; ts, price Thc. ‘Take Hall's Family Pils for constipation. Woman's Way. They were talking about the new star in society. “She never laughs at jokes,” the man, “Maybe she has no sense of humor,” said the woman. And then the con- versation languished. said Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrap. For cbiidren teething, softens the gurus, renuces {ne fammation, allays cures wind colic. 25ca bottle. A man’s popularity with women is |° often similar to a cat’s popularity with mic art may. fairly be assumed to be some-- FAINTING SPELLS ‘Cured by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pil Remedy Which Actually ‘Manes New Blood. ters, with the chief of police for chief 3 Anemia makes the patient short of breath so that there is often a seuse of suffocation, sometimes there is a cough and the sufferer seems to be going into consumption, at others there is a mur- mur of the heart and heart disease is feared. In the following case severe fainting spells were an alarming symp- tom resulting from ‘‘ too little blood.” Mrs. George Forrester, of 7 Curtis street, Watertown, N.Y., says: ‘Some time ago I took a heavy cold and it left me in a very weak condition. I be- came worse and worse until finally I had anemia. I lost flesh and appetite, had no color and was subject to fainting spells. Sometimes they would attack me suddenly and I would fall to the floor with hardly any warning. “‘T had one of our best physicians, but after he had been attending me about a mouth without any improve- ment in my condition, I decided to see what Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills would do. “The pills were well known to me for, about two years before, members of my family taken them with the best results. I soon found that the pills were just what I needed for I soon be- ae to notice an improvement. After I aad taken them a-while longer I was en- tirely cured, and we all believe in Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills aud recommend them highly.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills actually make | new blood. They do that one thing and they do it well. Impoverished blood is deficient in red corpuscles. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills increase the number of these red corpuscles and in this way send health and strength to every tissue. All druggists sell Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills or they will be sent by mail, post- paid, on mpceipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Wil- liams Medicine Oo., Schenectady, N. Y. Souve ir of Mark Twain. A young woman photographer, Miss Jessie Beals, recently went to photo- graph Mark Twain’ for a publication. As she was pinning on her hat to de- part after the operation Mr. Clemens took note of her action and remarked: “Here, one hatpin isn’t enough for any woman. Miss Lyan”—to his secre- tary—-‘go and get her one of those hatpins. Miss Lyan returned, bearing a new style hatpin—one of those with a corkscrew pin and a gun metal head. “I took some stock in a hatpin fac- tory lately,” said Mr. Clmens, “and they unloaded some of thetr product on me. So I'm trying to work it off on my friends.” No envious Flatiron Building gale will ever wrench out Miss Beal's gua metal hatpin. in cotton wool for a souvenir. Her High Criticism. “Well, all I've got to say,” stated the lady with the steel-bowed eye- glass and the determined, set coun- tenance, “all I've get to say about Noah is that I haven’t very much of an opinion of him,” “Why, sister Kinfokes,’ asked her pastor, with whom she had been dis- cussing the flood and the events con- nected therewith, “what is the reason for your disliking that noble old pa- triarch?” “Reason? Reason enough. Didn't he take his own wife and his three sons and their wives into the ark?” “Yes.” “And what about his wife’s mother, and his sons’ wives’ mothers? It looks to me as\if Noah was. another of those fool men who have been preju- diced against mothers-in-law through reading the funny papers” Money sharks are plentiful in the ocean of life. She keeps it laid away | BOUGHT CARGO OF FLIES. Strange Consignment Sent From Bra- zil to London. One of the strangest cargoes a ves- Sel could possibly have was unloaded at the London docks toward the close of March. It consisted of several sacks filled with dried flies, consigned to a large firm of grain merchants. These flies, originating in Brazil, have been purchased for use in the manufacture of food for chickens, cage birds and the like. They were caught on the River Amazon by Bra- zilian3, who travel up the river in flat- bottomed boats, aad who are provided with gauze nets, with which they cap- ture these insects in millions, as flies hover in dense clouds over many of the swampy reaches of the Amazon. The flies thus caught are. killed, driel in the sun and then placed in sacks. Upon arrival in London they are mixed with milet and other grain, and are sold as chicken food, etc, Some time ago the Brazilian gov- ernment, fearing that the fish in the Amazon river would be starved, for- bade the exportation of flies; hence the price of this strange commodity, which used to be 6d. per pound, has now risen to 1s. 6d. per pound and often a little more. A Transparent Fiction. The late Clarence H. Clark of Phil- adelphia had one of the finest private libraries in the world. Mr. Clark was an authority on incunabula and on first editions. A Philadelphia auctioneer once sub- mitted to Mr. Clark a copy of Dicken’s “Little Dorrit.” The auctioneer said that the owner of the book claimed that it was a first edition, and he wished to know if the man spoke the truth. — Mr. Clark examined the work. Then with a smile he said: # “The owner spoke the truth to the same extent as a friend of mine onge did on his honeymoon. “Starting with his bride on the hon- eymoon my friend entered a railway office, and, as always in the past, bought only one ticket. “The bride noticed the oversight at once: “Why, you only bought one ticket, dear,’ she said. “By Jove!’ the fellow answ-red. ‘I forgot all about myself.’” Seen Them All. “Is your ineffable highness going aown to take a look at the British war fleet?” inquired the grand vizier. “No,” the sultan wearily replied, “I don’t think I care for it. 1 fancy I've seen every blessed warship there is jn all the world. T’ll pass ‘em up this time, I guess.” A CRITICAL PERIOD INTELLIGENT WOMEN PREPARE Dangers and Pain of This Critical Period Avoided by the Use of Lydia E. Pink. ham’s Vegetable Compound. How many wo- men realize that is the change of life, and that the anxiety felt by women as this y/ time draws near j is not without reason ? If her system is in a deranged condi- tion, or she is predisposed to apoplexy or congestion of any organ, it is at this time likely to become active and, with & host of nervous irritations, make life a burden. At this time, also, cancersand tumors are more liable to begin their destruc- tive work, Such warning symptoms as a sense of suffocation, hot flashes, diz- ziness, headache, dread of impending evil, sounds in the ears, timidity, pal- pitation of the heart, sparks before the eyes, irregularities, constipation, varia- ble appetite, weakness and inquietude are promptly heeded by intelligent ‘women who are approaching the period of life when woman’s great change ra be expected. We believe Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg- etable Compound is the world’s great- est remedy for women at this trying period. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound invigorates and strengthens the female organism, and builds up the weakened nervous system as no other medicine can. Mrs. A. E. G. Hyland, of Chester~ town, Md., in a letter to Mrs. Pink- ham, says: Dear Mrs, Pinkham:— “T had been suffering with a displacement for years and was passing through the change of life, I had a good deal of soreness, di spells, headaches, And was very nervous. wrote you for advice and commenced treat ment with Lydia E. Pinkham’s Neaen Compound as you directed, and I am hay tosay that all those distressin eyitptoans ate ine ands I have passed safely through the change of life a well woman.” For special advice regarding this im- portant period women are invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass She is daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham and for twenty-five years has been advising sick women free of charge. Her advice is free and always helpful te women, treme Peace. She (at the local art gallery)—1! wonder what's the idea in calling this one “Peacefulness?” He—Observe the absence of femate figures from the picture. Haif Million acres OKLAHOMA PUBLIC LANDS ficn' overntest Lands, near Lawton, opened by Congress to Home- stead Settlenent this Summer.Get s Home in Sunny Soathiand. five years to pay. Maps, completeinfor- mation regarding Opening, Homesteading. ‘Terms, . fifty cents. CATRON & CO.. Lat Beeause it is Made to Cure Colds, Coughs, Croup Bronchitis, Tonsilitis, Burns, Bruises, All: Muscle Twosizes. Soreness. 25and 50c. 1. $. JOHNSON & CO., Boston, Mass, | ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE ,, "vo. fase | A Certain Cure for Tired, Hot, Aching Feet. DO NOT ACCEPT A SUBSTITUTE. ‘This signature For tal Pack: ddress, Allen 8. Olmsted, on every box. Le Roy, N. similating the Food andReg ula- ting the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS “CHILDREN |} paves Promotes Digestion Cheerful- ness and Rest.Contains neither Morphine nor Mineral. OT NARCOTIC. Aperfect Reme tick Sour Stomach -Disreinen Worms Convulsions Feverish- ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of NEW YORK. 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