Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 18, 1914, Page 6

i | i PAGE SIX ABOUT THE STATE News of Especial Interest to, finnesota Readers. sie Sau | PROGRESSIVES IN THE FIELD Decide to Nominate Complete State and Congressional Tickets for Next Election. One hundred representatives of the Progressive party in Minnesota met at the Merchants hotel at St. Paul and decided to place a complete state and congressional ticket in the field im the approaching campaign. | County option, sufirage and opposi-| tion to a public utilities commission, | as proposed by Governor Eberhart, | were features of the resolutions adopted, which virtually constitute the party’s platform. W. T. Coe of} Minneapolis headed the resolutions ttee | > principles of the Minette and Nolan bills were endorsed “for the! ? ent.” | The platform also proposes a law! cequiring that estimates of the cost of | government shall be set out in a pro-| posed budget printed and circulated | long enough before election for the| people to inspect it before voting. It also recommends that all subordinate te employes be placed under civil ice The pending 3 8 constitutional amend- eferendum i as the nitiative, cter res before the e went on record as to the The giance national for nomina sive banner son of es- ored at the conference secretary of the na- al Pre ive ttee, as be- loud in their talk, but lacking in performance. TRAIN GOES INTO DITCH| Wreck on the Omaha Road Near Worthington. talities in the derail- No. 2 six miles was inc The list of ment of Omaha t of Worthing ased t fractured and oncussion of the brain. Of the sixteen injured three are not | axpected to recover. John Greer of Minne the olis has been in a stupor since cident. John C. Achen of Hai k., is suffering from a frac- and Edward Phelan of ured internally. Others are improving. A broken rail due to extreme cold weather was the probable cause of the derailment and subsequent wreck. All the coaches were thrown down a twenty-foot embankment and one| 2 J. Bloomfield, traveling | an, Surprise, Neb., soon died of his injuries. | a en He Ee ode fe fe oe ode fe ode fe fe fe ode fe fe obs oe oe abe oe tebe MINNESOTA LEADS IN LOW DEATH RATE. Minnesota leads the eighteen registration states in low death rate for 1913, according to sta- tistics announced by the cen- sus bureau. The Minnesota death rate was 10.7 to the thousand inhabitants, while Maryland was highest of the registration states with 16.3. The general average for the eighteen states was 13.8 to the thousand of estimated popula- tion, compared with 13.6 for 1912, and 13.9 'for’1911. Hee ee he le ote te ode ode oe de oe dete et ee PEPE EE EEE EH AGED MAN DIES IN FLAMES Bix-Story Building at Minneapolis De stroyed by Fire. One man lost his life and several ether employes of the Northern Man-! wiacturing company of Minneapolis | were badly burned in a spectacular fire which destroyed the concern’s six-story plant. The property loss is estimated at $100,000. W. P. Howe, seventy years old, who was shipping clerk, is dead. He) was helped out of the building by W. EB. McKay, foreman, when partly over. some by smoke and shock, but later was seen to re-enter the burning buila- ing. RETURNS TO GET CLOTHING Homesteader Perishes in His Burning Log Cabin. After escaping with his family from @ burning log cabin on his claim near Grygia L. C. Markland, sixty-five years old, returned for clothing for his wife and sons and burned to death. Only a few charred bones were found among the ruins, he knew | the | at the national corn show at Dallas, | | nesota politics. | egates assembled at the suggestion of! GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-KEVIEW WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, iceneedteneevennseueasvaneueens sueceeeceeeneveeeueveseeseeveseese! and other jeweiry that she selected. E t 4 4 J $ m The next day she brought them back | and told Pietro she could not wed m Pietro kill Josephine because he " loved her. His efforts to regain her -} afrection had failed and he feared she} } would marry some other admirer. | He waited under a stairway, where} | } von wien teams $8 With every $5.00 Trade Book sold from now until Saturday, February 28th, and remember that you have only three and one- half more weeks to work in, so if you expect to have this Grand | Claxton Piano moved in to your parlor you had better get busy. NOTICE— All outstanding votes must be turned in by Wednes- day, February 25th, as we change the column of votes on this date and all others will not be good after Wednesday, February 25th, so get them all together and turn them in on the above date. ITALIAN KILLS SWEETHEART Lays in Wait and Shoots Girl Who Jilted Him, Pietro Narcusy, a St. Paul Italian, loved Josephine Cabuzza, a pretty Italian girl, and when she told him at Christmas time that she would be his wife he gave her a diamond ring hor om wor he sh ar. ne: up to the authorities. APPEALS TO HIGHEST COURT) Railroad Will Test Minnesota Distance Tariff Law. The United States supreme court} will be asked to determine the consti- tutionality of the Cashman distance tariff law passed by the last legisla- ture. Attorney General Smith was notified that the Duluth and Northern Minne-| sota Railroad company will file an appeal with the United States su-| preme court from the order of the United States district court in St. Paul refusing the road an injunction to restrain the enforcement of the! law. | The company alleged that the| 3 3 VAPADBEO2 9008 schedule prepared by the state rail-| Toad and w house commission un-| der the Cashman distance tariff law) is confiscatory. | To be given away Saturday, March 28 Three and one-half weeks more LABOR TROUBLES = PROBABLE GAUSE Minneapolitan Shot by Two Men in Auto. Prize Package Sale Saturday, Feb’y 28 - 100,000 votes with every package Remember the date and get the votes As Joseph Bayerle of Minneapolis, thirty-six years of age, was boarding a car on his way to work two men drove up in an automobile and fired | at him from behind with pistols. One bullet lodged in Bayerle’s left arm and the other in his right thigh. He will recover. Stopping to see Bayerle stagger} against the gates of the street car| and fall into the arms of a passenger men in the automobile dashed away at full speed 2 Bayerle is employed as foreman at Levin Bros.’ upholstering plant, where) there has been labor troubles since} the first of the year. He says he be-| lieves the men who shot him were disgruntled employes who were dis- charged. | The attack was executed with such dispatch that neithe the conductor hor motorman was able to secure the | number of the machine or a descrip- tion of the assailants Thrd prize Lady’s ten- year gold filled Second Prize Lady’s twenty- AOBLAAVATOE year gold filled Watch. MINNESOTA AGAIN WINNER) Produces World’s Best Ten Ears of | Early Sweet Corn. | Minnesota has produced the best ten ears of early sweet corn in the world, winning the world’s sweepstakes prize SET (Comb, Brush and Mirror) Fourth Prize, TOILET Tex. | F. Stifter of Cokato, Wright county, raised the prize winning entry. | a This state also took the second; award in the same class, Robert) a Haedt of Eagle Lake, Blue Earth county, being the champion grower. Michigan was third in the early sweet 2 3 For Every Subscription Taken for the HERALD-REVIEW The state was awarded the show prize for the best exhibit from the Northern zone, comprising also Wis-| consin, North and South Dakota and| Michigan. PETER E. HANSON IS DEAD Former Minnesota Secretary of State! Fill out this coupon, mail or bring it to OU) subscribe for the vane 2 nen nu, au Office With $1.00 for one year’s subscription | 114g Review ciate, ied suddenly at Warner* Hot 33 to the HERALD-REVIEW and get 25,000 votes. . Get your friends to sub- scribe for the Herald- Review. We give you 25,000 votes for every new subscriber you get He was state senator for a number of years and served one term as secretary of state. Mr. Hanson apparently had been in the best of health. His sudden death was due to a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Hanson is survived by a widow, Rachel H. Hanson, three daughters and one son. He and Mrs. Hanson had been in Califurnia about two months. The body will be brought to Minne- sota for burial. WILL HAVE $60,000 EXHIBIT Minnesota to Be Represented at San) ‘ Francisco Exposition. H Minnesota will be represented av! the Panama-Pacific exposition at San} Francisco next year by a $60,000 ex-| hibit. Plans were made by delegates | from commercial clubs of the state at! a meeting in Minneapolis. The del- Town or City. Governor Eberhart. | It was unanimously decided to so- licit contributions. An effort will be made to reimburse the contributors | through an appropriation to be asked of the legislature. State Treasurer Walter F. Smith said the subscrip- tions can be taken care of by the treasury department.