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SUMMARY OF A WEEK'S EVENTS

MOST IMPORTANT H A P P E N I N G S A T HOME TOLD I N CON-

DENSED FORM.

LATE FOREIGN DISPATCHES

Interest ing I tems of News Gathered from A l l Parts of the Globe and Outlined i n t h e Briefest Manner Possible.

WALSH'S BANK FAILTTSES. John R. Walsh's three banks in

Chicago, the Chicago national, Home Savings and Equitable company, were placed in liquidation after an investi­gation. The local clearing house guar­antees payment in full. Efforts to build the Southern Indiana railroad and connecting lines against the op­position of great railway interests, re­sulting in the expenditure of millions of dollars without quick financial re-turns, are said to have been the causes of the failure. A total of $26,000,000 in deposits of public funds and pri­vate accounts are involved in the crash. Any loss in the failure will fall on the officers and stockholders of the banks.

Confidence reigns in the Chicago world after the Walsh liquidation, and examination shows that the deposed b a k e r ' s securities have a far greater value than that originally estimated.

CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Mr. Frederick Landis, of Indiana, in

his maiden speech in the house, scored the methods of the heads of the big life insurance companies and the men of high finance so eloquently that he won the plaudits of his hear­ers.

A rate bill approved at the white house conference and giving the inter­state commerce commission power to adjust charges has been introduced by Senator Dolliver.

The house ways and means commit­tee accepts the Payne measure, reduc­ing the Philippine tariff to 25 per c e n t of the Dingley rate, despite opposition of the sugar combine.

By ordering a reconsideration of the vote confirming the Panama canal ap­pointments the«senate paves the way to hold up the nomination of Chairman Shonts.

Resolutions have been introduced in the senate and house fixing the last Thursday in April as the date for pres­idential inaugurations.

T H E TURMOIL I N RUSSIA. Six hundred Russians are reported

slain in battle between revolutionists and troops in Courland. A general strike-is on. Moscow is completely tied up. St. Petersburg is prepared for a siege.

The proclamation of a general strike has created the most intense excite­ment in Russia. If i t can be success­fully inaugurated and maintained the revolutionaries are confident that it will break the government's back.

Lithuanians and Esthonians at Tu-kum fell upon Cossacks and killed an entire command, numbering 100 men, afterward horribly disfiguring the corpses.

Arrest and punishment of Shanghai rioters has been ordered by the Chi­nese government in an effort to restore order.

INSURANCE MATTERS. Edward H. Harriman, testifying be­

fore the legislative insurance investi­gating committee in New York says he has not done anything toward car­rying out his threats to use his influ­ence, political and otherwise, against Thomas F. Ryan. He says he was kept posted as to progress of legisla­tive action at Albany by Gov. Higgins and the late Speaker Nixon.

Manipulation of the assets of small­er life insurance companies to cover losses and loans on worthless securi­ties were charged at the legislative insurance investigation fin New York.

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MISCELLANY. Secretary of State D. E. Storms, of

Indiana, the third official of that state to get into financial trouble in the last few months, has been forced to turn his property over to a trustee and call on bis bondsmen and friends to get $77,000 to settle his indebtedness to the state.

An attempt to force large bakeries of Chicago to sign a closed shop agree­ment may cause a bread famine.

Andrew Carnegie will give $5,000,000 to add to the $10,000,000 foundation fund for the relief of needy teachers, according to an announcement from Boston.

Four lives were lost in a fire which destroyed the Verbeck theater at Lo­rain, O.

Mrs. John Lashaway, aged 70, her daugater-in-law, Mrs. L. L. Lashaway, and the latter's two-year-old baby were killed by a train at a street crossing at Weston, G.

The state bank of Colby, Wis., was robbed of $4,500 by two highwaymen, who were captured a few hours later. The rtolen money was recovered.

John A. Burbank, aged 78, former territorial governor of Dakota, died in Richmond, Ind., after a brief ill­ness. He was stricken with paralysis.

President Roosevelt informed a del­egation of shakers that he regards the disarmament of the nation impracti­cable and said resort to war in some cases is proper.

Ore shipments from the Mesaba -range exceed by 1,000,000 tons the rec­ord of 1902.

Because her husband refused to kiss her before going to work Mrs, Werley Peyton, a t Charleston, W. Vs . , shot film, inflicting a dangerous wound.

Zlon City hat been plated In the hands of a triumvirate by Oowle, who wil l recuperate on a Caribbean

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< Premier Katsura of Japan is slated for early retirement, a new cabinet be­ing formed by constitutional party leaders.

The government soon wil l begin suits to end rate discrimination against western shippers in the south­east.

Jack O'Brien defeated Bob Fitssim-mons in 13 rounds, the latter falling exhausted in his corner before time was called for the fourteenth round. It was O'Brien's fight all the way.

State insurance officials are called to meet in Chicago February 1 in the interest of a campaign for uniform laws to regulate business.

Abraham H. Hummel of New York, the lawyer who was involved in the famous Dodge-Morse matrimonial and divorce tangle, was convicted of con­spiracy, sentenced for a year and fined $500..

Tinder Gov. Deneen's threat of prose­cution former Illinois state treasurers and auditors have begun the refunding of $321,000 said to have been illegally taken.

The Illinois supreme court reversed and remanded to the criminal court of Cook county for a new trial the case of "Jocko" Briggs, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged.

Austin Francis, charged with the murder in Kansas City, Mo., a month ago of Winona Newton, 15 years old, his sweetheart, was found guilty of murder in the first degree.

Gold has begun to arrive in large quantities at the Imperial Bank of Germany in Berlin from S t Peters­burg. About $7,000,000 has already been received. The movement is ex­pected to continue until a total of $25,-000,000 is reached.

Will Carter, a negro, was hanged at Kenansville, N. C , for a criminal as­sault upon a six-year-old white girl at Wallace, N. C , November last.

Former Alderman Robert L. Rudolph who was convicted in Milwaukee, Wis., a month ago of soliciting a bribe of $100 from ex-City Attorney Charles H. Hamilton in 1901, has been denied a new trial.

Gen. Felix Gustave Saussier, former commander-in-chief of the French army, is dead.

A seat on the New York stock ex­change has just sold for $90,000. the highest price on record.

President Roosevelt has appointed Joseph Bucklin Bishop as a member of the isthmian canal commission, to fill a vacancy in that body caused by the resignation of Chief Engineer Wallace.

Charles E. Shiveley, o* Richmond, Ind., supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, has designated February 19,1906, as the time for the celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the order.

Gov. La Follette, of Wisconsin, sent his resignation as governor to the leg­islature, to take effect on the first Monday in January. He resigns to accept the United States senatorship. The special session of the legislature, after receiving the governor's message, adjourned sine die.

President Castro, of Venezuela, has withdrawn his offensive note to the French minister and France may now consider the incident as closed.

Wreckers ditched a Santa F e train near Reading, Kan., and General Man­ager Hurley offers $5,000 for their ar­re s t

Daring swimmers rescued from a living tomb two men imprisoned 40 hours in a New York tunnel.

A bomb was hurled into the "open shop" bureau of the Employers' asso­ciation in New York, wrecking the of­fice.

Western railroads have agreed to ob­serve the interstate and Elkins laws.

President Roosevelt favors a new Chinese exclusion law, admitting all classes freely with the exception of coolies, while Secretary Metcalf op­poses this view.

A London philanthropist has given $500,000 to Gen. Booth of the Salvation Army to carry out a home colonization scheme.

Royal B. Stearns and W. B. Harsnell were convicted of grabbing govern­ment lands in South Dakota and sen­tenced to the penitentiary by a St. Paul court.

One man was killed "and many in-jured in a railroad collision on the ele­vated structure of the New York Cen­tral in New York city.

Fire in the plant of the Shonk Litho­graphing company in Chicago resulted in the death of one fireman and injury of a dozen people.

George Gill Roberts, accused of mur­dering Commissioner Kopf in Chicago, was held to the grand jury at the cor­oner's inquest.

Benjamin Parkhurst, of Washington, died in an Easton, Pa., hospital from the effects of a beating received a week ago at the hands of friends with whom he had "been drinking. Parkhurst w a s connected with the government postal department for 20 years.

Three men were blown to pieces and seven others were more or less serious­ly hurt by an explosion of dynamite in the excavation for the new Altman building in New York. Fragments of the bodies of the dead were scattered over an area of hundreds of feet.

Mias Alolse Kimball, aged 22, killed herself at Evansvllle, Ind., by taking carbolic acid.

A Kansas grand pury indicted State Senator F. Dumont Smith for alleged connection with land frauds.

The hood o£ Christmas presents for Europe gave steamers sailing from New York record-breaking loads.

The North Coast limited express, west-bound, on the Northern Pacific railroad, was held up and robbed 15 miles west of North Yakima, Wasb. The express car safe was blown open with dynamite. It is thought the amount taken will not exceed $500.

The large stores of Chicago report the biggest Christmas holiday trade in the history of the city.

President McCalllof the New York Life is dangerously ill of pnuemonla.

William Ouy, Just discharged from the Newburg insane asylum, shot and killed his brother-in-law, Harry Flint, aged 15, and an 18-months-old child, and fatally wounded Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett, In Cleveland, O. He was ar« rested.

Engineer J. J. Welsh and Brake-man J. A. Harris were Instantly killed, and Fireman O. J. Grove Was seriously scalded In a collision be­tween freight trains on the Pittsburg, Youngstown ft Ashtabula railroad, at

Four robbers blew 'open the safe in the bank at Baldwin, 111., battled des­perately with citizens and escaped in a rubber-tired buggy. Nobody was hurt in the street fight. About $2,500 in cur rency was torn into shreds by the ex­plosion.

Three men were killed by the explo­sion of a boiler of a freight engine on the Reading railway between Birds* boro and Joanna, Pa.

William Moore and Elmer Waldron were suffocated in a natural gas pit in Youngstown, O. They had entered the pit to make some repairs.

Two men named Sutherford and Mur­ray, both from Philadelphia, were killed by highwaymen on a ranch at Diaz, a small settlement in Chihuahua, Mexico.

The safe of the State bank, of Udell, in Appanoose county, Iowa, was blown open by robbers and ,$600 taken. Udell is 60 miles southeast of Des Moines.

Leonard Imboden and James A. Hill, bankers, were found guilty of conspir­ing to wreck the Denver (Col.) Savings bank.

Attorney General Moody has ren­dered an opinion to the effect that no midshipman can be removed from the naval academy without process of court-martial.

Mra. Anna Brandt, aged 69, despond­ent and in ill health, severed the artery in her wrist and jumped off the bridge at Elkhart, Ind.,- into the river.

An anti-foreign riot at Shanghai was crushed temporarily after the mob attacked the American vice con­sul and was fired upon by marines, who killed 20 coolies.

Ralph and Ray Relyea, brothers, aged 10 and 12 years, were drowned while skating on the Coldwater river at Coldwater, Mich. Their bodies were found clasped in each other's arms.

A band of Yaqui Indians waylaid Fernando Mavtorena, one of the wealthiest merchants in Sorono, Mex­ico, on the outskirts of the village of Maytorena and killed him and his driver.

Robert E. Lee, grandson ^pf Gen. Robert E. Lee, was acquitted of Ihe murder of Thomas King at Cheyenne, Wyo.

Imports of diamonds and other pre­cious stones have reached the remark­able total of $37,000,000 at the port of New York for the present year.

China's refusal to come to terms with Japa'n arouses suspicion of secret inspiration from France, Germany and Russia.

Former Attorney General Judson Harmon has written a sarcastic letter criticising President Roosevelt's de­fense of Moody and Morton.

George C. Prussing, president of the Illinois Brick ^company, and eight other manufacturers who were indict­ed in Chicago for conspiracy, in re­straint of trade, plead guilty and were fined $2,000 each.

Samuel N. Hoffheimer, charged in Chicago with obtaining $256,000 by false pretenses from S. W. Straus &j Co., was bound over in the sum of $25,000.

Congressman Lorimer, of Illinois, introduced a bill to appropriate $31-000,000 for a 14-foot canal from Chi-cago to the gulf, via St. Louis.

The Cleveland Worsted Mills com­pany has voluntarily advanced the wages of its 1,500 employes ten per c e n t The company has plants in Cleveland and Ravenna, O.

President Roosevelt, in an address in Washington, warmly championed the public school as one of the great­est of institutions.

Mrs. William Ostrum and her two children, aged one and two years, were burned to death in their home, on. the outskirts of the city of Charlevoix, Mich.

John McElyain and John Hopper, shot-firers, were killed by an explosion in the Sheridan Coal company mines near Pittsburg, Kan.

Mrs. Mary Lacey Quigley, mother of Archbishop James E. Quigley, of Chi­cago, died at Rochester, N. Y., at the age of 85.

During street fighting at Mitau, the capital of the Russian province of Courland, 300 persons were killed.

When Miss Alice Roosevelt, as Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, goes abroad in June with her husband, in every coun­try she visits she will be presented at court by the American ambassador or minister.

Frederick A. Busse has been con­firmed as postmaster of Chicago by the senate.

Five men were killed by the ex­plosion at the Dupont company's dy­namite works of about 1,400 pounds of nitroglycerin in the mixing house of the company's factory, which is three miles distant from Marquette, Mich.

The international fleet which has been making a demonstration in Turk­ish waters has been recalled.

Edward S. Dreyer, the Chicago banker whose fight for freedom has attracted attention for years, has been paroled. He had served over two years of a sentence to the penitentiary at Joliet for misappropriation of $316,-000 of Chicago park board funds.

In a duel fought in their cornfield on a farm 20 miles from Jerseyville, 111.. William Andrews was shot and instantly killed by his brother, Joel Andrews. There had been bad blood between the brothers.

The presidents of eight Illinois and Wisconsin colleges have decided to abolish professional football coaching and put the game in the hands of the faculties.

Chicago and South Bend, Ind., will be connected with a traction line which, the promoters insist, will be the largest and finest of the kind in the United States.

Fourteen indictments were returned by the federal grand jury at Kansas City, Mo. against common carriers, railway emclals. shipping and freight agents, charging the giving of rebates and conspiracy to gain rebates.

Three children of Mr. and Mrs. Al­bert Ingersoll are dead as the result of a lire'that destroyed their home near Fife Lake, Mich.

Judge Brazee In the municipal court in Milwaukee, Wis., decided that Charles F. Pfister was not guilty of larceny as bailee, as charged In the In­dictment returned on August 4 last by the grand jury. The jury was or­dered to return a verdict of acquittal.

Henry E. Weaver, president of the Weaver Goal and Coke company and one of Chicago's leading men, died from apoplexy while at the dinner ta-

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YAROSLAV T A K E N A N D COM­MITTEES N A M E D TO ADMIN*

ISTER I T S A F F A I R S .

MOSCOW AGAIN PLACED UNDER MARTIAL LAW

Great Baltic Provinces Under Abso­lute Sway of Rebels—Estimated That 5 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 Persons H a v e Joined Revolutionary Movement

Moscow, Dec. 22 —As the result of trouble following the inauguration at noon Wednesday of the general strike, martial law was proclaimed here Thursday. Armed workmen number­ing many thousands have seized con-trol of Yaroslav, the capital of the dis­trict of that name, and are now admin­istering its affairs through their com­mittees. This result was achieved after a few short but savage street fights between revolutionary bands and the police and loyal troops. A large part of the troops there are in sympa­thy with the workmen and refused to attack them. The workmen have closed all factories and shops and stopped all business.

Six hundred workmen carrying arms invaded the Korslnkin factory, one of the largest manufacturing plants in Russia, and ordered all the officers to depart. The workmen declared that in the future the factory would be the Joint property of all the workmen and that the employes would share all profits. The authorities are powerless to oppose the workmen. The whole province will soon be under the abso­lute sway of the revolutionists.

Mill ions Join Revolt;

St. "Petersburg, Dec. 22.—The situa­tion in the Baltic provinces is becom­ing graver. The revolutionists con­tinue absolute masters of affairs in al­most every section of the country. The revolution, moreover, is growing steadily, and it is estimated that 5,-000,000 persons throughout the Baltic territory are either in a state of active revolt or are ready to join the revolu­tionary movement.

An Armenian communistic republic has been proclaimed at Tifiis, where the Armenians have been vic­torious in the rioting which has oc­curred between them and Tartars. The Armenians are now in control of the greater part of Tifiis province in Transcaucasia. The revolutionists are in control of Batoum. Fire has broken out in the district along the water front and several vessels have been burned.

Soldiers R u n n i n g Trains. The continental train left the War*

saw station at noon Thursday with military engine drivers and a strong guard of soldiers. The tender and lo­comotive were old, the strikers baying rendered all the others useless. Two files of soldiers were drawn up onAhe platform.' The railroad strike began at the Nicholas station at noon, but the Baltic roads were still working at that hour. The employes of the Putiloff iron works to the number of about 12,000 have struck. r

The government's advices show that all the trains with troops which enter the'Baltic provinces are being stopped by the insurgents. A number of Cos-Sacks in a car were captured and dis­armed beyond Dorpat. The town of Tukum has been retaken from the in­surgents by Russian troops.

Mut iny i n Army. Vladivostok, Dec. 22.—The mutiny

and rioting in the Manchurian army are -extending and the most terrible scenes are witnessed daily. A detach­ment of Cossacks has attacked the barracks at Tomsk, wherein 900, mu­tineers were confined, and set fire to the buildings. It is reported that all imprisoned men were roasted to death. Rioting on the streets here is "con­tinued. In one street drunken- Cos­sacks set fire to a block of houses and massacred 120 of the residents as they attempted to escape. Numbers of:peo-pie are killed daily on the streets} 1

Given Another Chance. •>? I Springfield, 111., Dec. 22.—The] su­

preme court of Illinois granted a new trial to Victor Roland O'Shea, of Chi­cago, convicted of the murder of his wife, Amy O'Shea, on September 10, 1902, and sentenced for life imprison­ment. The first trial resulted in no agreement, and the second in convic­tion. O'Shea's defense was insanity. The 'defendant's attorneys contended that Judge McEwen, who prpesided, asked questions on cross examination that influenced the jury to the preju­dice of the defendant.

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Sedalia, Mo., Dec. 22.—Fire. Thurs­day destroyed the "Katy" building, causing a total loss of $75,000. -The building w4s owned by E. G. Cassidy, whose loss Is $30,000, and the stock, by B. V. and E. B. White, who sustained a loss of $40,000. The small stares ad­joining suffered minor loss. !

- B*foses Resignation of Cabinet. Buda-Pesth, Hungary, Dec. 22.—The

emperor-king has decided that in view of the existing political circumstances he cannot accept the resignation of the Fejervary cabinet tendered Wednesday.

Adjourn Over Holidays. ' Washington, Dec. 22 .—The senate

and house of representatives Thurs­day, after holding short sessions and transacting matters nf minor impor­tance, adjourned until January 4.

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him?"' "By all means. He is one o f na­

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• A n d There Are Other*, "Studying your lesson, Johnnlcr* 8-"No, air; I am figuring up how

many days it will be t o Christmas."—

S t Paul—James Neumann pleads guilty to;shooting Benjamin Fink Oct 13.

St. -Paul—A new company secures the Minnie Harvester plant, an£ will manufacture binder twine from flax straw.

Minneapolis—Corporal Tanner, com­mander-in-chief of the G. A. R., is the guest of honor at the Loyal Legion banquet.

St. Paul—Miss Hilda Anderson. 7*0 Jessie street, had her right arm bad­ly crushed in a mangle at the Model Steam laundry.

Minneapolis—State railroad and, warehouse commissioner advises farm­ers to sell oats only on basis of legal weight per bushel.

Hastings—Henry Hoffman, a pioneer of Dakota county, died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. John Moll tor, in Douglas, at the age of eighty years.

Spokane- The shoes of Governor Johnson of Minnesota, were stolen from under his berth on a sleeping car, as his train was approaching this city.

Mankato—Carl Dice, one of the lead­ing business men of this town, died today of bronchitis, after an illness o t three weeks. He was a prominent Elk.

Breckenridge—The district conven­tion of the I. O. O. F. was held here Grand Master P. W. Hugo and 100 dele­gates from other district lodges were present

Minneapolis—Expenses' of the evan­gelists and salaries of singers in con­nection with the recent Chapman re­vival campaign in Minneapolis amount­ed to S3.767.85.

Plainview—The home of William Roseleck, a farmer living west of town, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The loss is estimated at $3,000. partly cov­ered by insurance.

Perham—Work on St. Henry's new Catholic church has been suspended on account of the weather. The roof is completed and the building wil be fin­ished in the spring.

Little Rock. Ark.—Col. O. C. Grey, superintendent of the Arkansas School of the Blind, and former superintend­ent of the Minneapolis schools, died last night of spinal meningitis.

St. Paul—Saloon licenses for 1905 will net the city $382,000 revenue, as compared with 377.000 in 1904. The licenses are $1,000 apiece, so that the number of saloons increased five.

Waterville—The twentieth anniver­sary meeting of the Waterville Wo­man's. Christian Temperance Union at ­tracted a large attendance and many visitors from other cities In this state attended.

Eveleth—Is Carnegie's money taint­ed? That is a question that must be settled locally before Eveleth will ac­cept (a donation sufficient to construct a library building for the 7,000 people living here.

Eveleth—Interest has developed here in the life history of Albert Schnider, an old musician, by a letter of induiry from Breitenbach, Switzerland, which is believed to indicate that a fortune is awaiting him.

White Earth—Agent Simon Mlchelet. with a corps of assistants, has gone to Pine Point to resume the re-allot­ment of land as provided under the Steenerson additional allotment meas­ure.

Minneapolis—Twenty-five Minneapo­lis families are supplied with bread every afternoon at the Unipn, City Mission, this being one of the works of charity performed by that institu­tion. " -

Sparta—There is a shortage of la­borers to carry on the work on the Mesaba range this winter. The lum­bermen especially are short of help. Those that are located, at points a long distance from towns feel it the mos t

St. Cloud—A. R. Starkey, assistant city engineer of St. Paul and president of the Civil Engineers' Society of St. Paul, has been requested by the city council to visit this city to^solve the water problem here.

St. Paul—Mrs. Maria Perkins, col­ored, wife Of George W. Perkins, a teamster living at 179 Ramsey street, was taken violently ill while on the way to church and died a few minutes later.

Bemidjl—The state railroad and warehouse commissioners notified the Minneapolis, Red Lake & Manitoba rai lway'that they had inspected the new line from here to Nedish and found the track, sidetracks and other facilities up to requirements, and gave their consent to the opening of the line.

Moorhead—What to do with the in­fant daugher of Clara D'enlger, who formerly lived at Fargo, is a problem, that confronts the city authorities. About three months ago the child was placed in a home in this city. The mother paid for the little one's care for a time, but she disappeared and has apparently taken" no interest in her offspring since.

Minneapolis—Suffering from small­pox in its most malignant form and in daily contact with a score or more boarders, John Gubbins, a transient, was removed from the Pacific hotel, Third avenue N. and Washington, by the . city health department. , St. Cloud—Minnesota has millions of tons of peat, but it is unexplored, dif­ficult to mine, and it is uncertain whether all of it will make good fuel. That is the summary of a report which Prof. C. W. Hall of the state univer­sity has made to the governor.

Minneapolis—Present indications are that the poor of Minneapolis will be more royally entertained this Christ­mas than ever before. Moreover, the number taken care of this year will be greatly in excess of all efforts here­tofore. . \

St. Paul—Unity Unitarian congre­gation dedicates its new $75,000 church building.

Hamline—A partial report on the examination of the books of the state agricultural society was made by the auditing committee named by Govern­or Johnson, consisting of E. M. Pope, Paul La Vallee and Harvey W. Grim­mer.

' Minneapolis—A new overcoat was taken to the South Side station last night by a small boy who had found it (n Riverside park, near the Mississippi river. In the pockets were a pair of gloves and a wallet containing a few cents.

S t Cloud—As a .result of the recent saloon and brothel scandal here, which has already caused the revocation of one liquor license and raiding of one disorderly house, resolutions were of* fered before an audience of 1,000 peo­ple, gathered at the opera house last evening, to request Mayor Benson to close all saloons at 11 o'clock every night and all day Sundays.

Sparta—Sparta is to have an Ice skating rink, to be built and maintained by public subscription and to be free. Chief of Police Peter Coagrove hae been busy soliciting donatlens of la* bor and funds to construct the rink, and has met with much encourage-

NEWS IF n m . Decis ion Affirmed.

Washington.—In an opinion by Ju»« tlee Holmes, the supreme court of the United States upheld the validity of the Minnesota state law holding rail­road companies responsible for injur­ies done to employees through the carelessness of other employees

The case was that of the Minnesota Iron company vs. Mark M. Kline. Kline was the engineer of a train on a road in S t Louis county, owned by the iron company and was injured through the failure of a brakeman to net a switch. The jury in the trial court brought in a verdict for f5,000.

The court, however, took the case into its own hands, and ordered that the state law awarding damages to the seryants of corporations because of carelessness on V\e part of their fel­low-servants was unconstitutional. The state supreme CDurt reverses this finding and ordered that the verdict of the jury be carried into effect That decision was affirmed.

The Governor's Cup. Money Creek.—H. A. Goetch, wins'

the governor's cup in the twelve months' educational butter scoring content, which has been conducted wi­der the auspices of the state dairy and food department. His average score of the twelve months was 95 71. The is a beautiful engraved silver enp which Governor Johnson offered last winter to the buttertnakers of Minne-so who would get the highest average score in a twelve months' contest

Four additional cups were offered by the department to the four gett ing the next hightest averages. Edwin Tied of Nicolett wins the best one of the four cups with an average score of 95.69, whicn is only 2-100 of 1 per cent below the average of the winner. The winners of the three remaining cups in order are: H. J. Bosenau, Meriden, 95.58; C. W. Sly, Lake Crystal, 95.31; A. G. Scbandel, Elmore, 95.16.

Reuni ted . Duluth.—After being separated for

three years, Olaf Rikola and his wife, whose parents, named Sabbats, live in Chicago, were reunited, when the young wife arrived from Chic igo.

The couple came originally from the Tyrolese mountains, where they were married against the wishes of the girl's parents. The bride was stolen from her parents' home by her bsthrothed, but immediately after the marriage ceremony she was recovered by her father, who moved to America, where all trace of the bride was lost by the

Rikola followed and two years later he went to America, going to Pitts­burg. I t was there he first received word of tbe whereabouts of his bride who had been kept secreted with her parents in Chicago. He communicated with his wife, who had meantime at­tained legal age, sent her money and she left her parents home and came North.

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H i g h Water . Crookston.—How to take care of the

spring freshets in the Red River val­ley, carry off the surplus* of water during the closed season of the Red Lake of the Red River of the Norih is a problem which confronts drainage engineers of northern Minnesota and North Dakota at this time and promi­ses to become a very serious question.'

The fact that tbe Red Lake river and Red River of the North do not open up clear of ice for the free passage of the vast accumulations of spring water un­til after serious floods and enormous d a m a g c t o t h e entire farming' conmu-nity along their banks has been done, makes the question of handling spring freshet and thaw water a most serious one, particularly at this time when there is so much ditch work just com­pleted and so much in prospect for an­other year.

D e a d Mail. Minneapolis —The annual report on

mail matter sent to the dead letter of­fice from the local postoffice tells an interesting story 6f the letter that never came.

In-one year 118,061 pieces of mail matter have been declared "nixies1' and sent to the dead letter officj or re­turned to the sender for more postage or a corrected address. The following figures show the various defects and the way the matter is handled and dis­posed of: Returned to the sender, 86,-380 pieces; address corrected and for­warded, 15,774; wronc address, 106; in­sufficient address, 1772; illegible, 159; held for postage, 13,180; Canadian let­ters incorrectly addressed, 90.

N e w s Notes . Fort Snelling—Unless a compromise

is effected, Minneapolis may be cut off from trolley communication with the fort For some time there has been a dispute between the street railway company and the post authorities over the erection and maintenance of a wait ing room.

S t Paul.—Gov. and Mrs. John A. Johnson left over the Northern Pacific for Los Angeles to seek surcease from official and social obligations for two weeks. They went directly to Port­land, but will spend the greater part of thitir vacation in the California city.

S t Cloud—The most effective move made for relief of the car situation since the shortage began to be felt is that of the Great Northern road, now under way. All cars obtainable are being rushed to stations where grain has accumulated and where facilities for storing it have been overtaxed.

S t Paul.—The state will get a hand­some income from Its Mesabe mines this season. (

S t Paul—The three weeks old son of Ed Ficher, 790 Atlantic street, was found dead in bed one morning. The coroner decided that death had been caused by convulsions.

S t Paul—The state board of eduoa* tlon met .recently and added several schools to the l ist of those regularly inspected by the board. Graded schools throughout the state also came in for their share of attention, and several were added to the l i s t

S t Paul.—The members of the state railroad commission went to Portage* on the Northern Paoifio, to investigate the need of a depot in that town. The eltisens have petitioned for a station bouse.

Mtnneapollft-Five members of tbe family of J. W. Ell iott narrowly es­caped death by asphyxiation.

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< > Principal Event* That H a v e Oc- A curfed in the Old Countries 2

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Two new telephone lines will be e s ­tablished between Sweden and Nor­way. One of them Is to run from Moss and Sarpsborg, Norway, to Svinesund and Strom stad, Sweden, and the other from Jocksfors, Sweden, to Orje, Norway. The charges on the latter line will be 5 cents for each message.

The dissolution of the union of Sweden and Norway checked co-oper­ation of different kinds between the Scandinavian countries. The Social Democrats of the Danish rigsdaghave taken steps to resume t#he good work by proposing a Joint meeting of mem­bers of the legislative assemblies of the Scandinavian countries and of the French chamber of deputies. The meeting may be held in Copenhagen in the fall of 1906.

8 W E D E N Mrs. Eva Moller of Russby is 94

years old. She was once the house­keeper o f Bishop Esaias' Tegner, the famous poet, and she enjoys the tell­ing of incidents from his private life.

Fat heifers and young steers com­mand a price of $50 to $60 in south­ern Sweden, and a big ox may fetch as much as $100. The prices of milch cows are also very high.

J. A. Blomkvist, a laborer employed at the Ragnhildsborg brickyards, So-dertelje, cleaned the machine with an iron rod. When he had finished the job he gave orders to have the ma­chine started again. But the rod, which he still held in his hand, was seized by the machine and hurled against Mr..Blomkvist with such force that he was thrown to the floor and so badly injured that he died- in a few minutes. Mr. P. O. Nilsson, the man who took Mr. Blomkvist's t iace, had all fingers of his right hand cut off by the same machine the next day.

Many farmers who have been raising sugar beets in southern Sweden, have maintained that the seeds distributed to them by the sugar manufacturers yield unreasonably small crops as com­pared with some other varieties, the manufacturers being anxious to obtain the sweetest beets without regard to yield per acre; while, on the other hand, the farmers, who sell their beets bv weight, want to raise as much per acre as possible. In order to get at the facts, different varieties were planted in small quantities in different localities last spring, and the beets have been tested. The results shown that the beets required by the factories contained an average of 16.9 per cent of sugar, while the extremes of per­centage were 15 and 17.7 for the other varieties. On the other hand, the fac­tory beets gave 36,100 kilograms per hectare, while the extremes were 34,200 and 39,000. This result does not sus­tain the contention of the beet growers that they are compelled to raise a beet that yields a crop of minimum bulk.

As far as known there are only two springs in Sweden which show "radio­activity," and they are located at Porla and Helsingborg. As the name indi­cates, this activity is due to radium, the wonderful element which was dis­covered a few years ago. This peculi­arity was noticed long ago in those springs, and the people called it "the spirits in the water." It has a distinct effect upon those who drink this water directly from the springs, but it is lost when the water is bottled.

The postmaster general has proposed that the riksdag make provision for the appointment of 300 additional men on the postal service.

It is estimated that the postoffice de­partment will give a surplus of about $250,000 for the year 1907.

The telegraph department has ad­vised the riksdag to borrow $1,000,000 for the construction of new telephone lines in 1906.

W. Lonnbeck, editor of a periodical, has complained to the government about the manner in which the reli­gious instruction is conducted at a new high school in Stockholm. Mr. Lonn­beck is particularly hostile to a pamph­let about the Bible because it contains grave errors, he says, one of them be­ing, that Mostes did not write the books of Moses.

Fr. Thorselius, a noted music teacher, was appointed a knight of the order of Vasa by the king on the latter's birth­day. Mr. Thorselius died and was buried more than half a year before his appointment. It is evident that some­body had not been reading the news­papers very carefully.

Dr. Sven Hedin, who is on his way to the very heart of Asia, has already reached Teheran.

The Swedish ski club excluded Prof. Fridtjof Nansen as an honorary mem­ber because he opposed the policy of the club last winter.

A deputation from the society for the promotion of the liberty of con­science and for the reform of religious instruction called on the Swedish min­ister of ecclesiastical affairs to find out what may be expected by way of reforms of the methods of instruction at the normal schools and the public schools. The minister said that he was in favor of certain reforms. Dogmatic instruction ought to be curtailed and Should be x limited to Luther's cate­chism. The practice of memorizing re­ligious text books should also be cur­tailed or, what would be still belter, entirely discontinued.

Potatoes are so plentiful and cheap in southern Sweden that the whisky distillers will import neither potatoes nor corn this year.

Dr. C. A.- Haak of Karlstad has willed all his belongings, which are worth about $125,000, to a number of charitable institutions, the Free­masons' children's home in Stockholm to receive about one-half of the amount.

A house at Saxberget, Grangarde parish, not far from Falun, burned down in the night. It was occupied by its owner, Erik Eriksson, and his wife, and their remains were found in the ashes in the morning. Both of them were about 80 years old.

A rule has been introduced in the Swedish army that the soldiers while tn service shall not visit private res­taurants without special' permission. The rule is said to work admirably a s a temperance measure.

Many business-like Swedish fisher­men are thinking of starting a mutual Insurance company for insuring their fishing gear.

The owners of the Trelleborg linen mills started to bore an artesian well. But at a depth of only 15 feet a layer -of coarse sand' carrying a stream of water was struck, and now the flow of this little hole Is 2,5frt barrels a day, which Is enough to aupply the whole city. ' •• ""^V

An explosion took placev^n ]|Jork« \ horn's powder mill at KarlskogaT It la % supposed that gases rising from acids ^ used In soldering- Ignited aome drops % ot nitroglycerine that b a a been spilt -„ on the floor. A fifty-year-old man was •' shockingly mutilated, and he expired -Immediately. No one else was injured. '

Leading shoe manufacturers in Sweden and Denmark are endeavoring to organize a union to reduce the loss caused by the failure of ,retai l shoe dealers. They have found that it is a n very expensive affair to have an embar- f? ragged business placed in the hands of "r receivers. Cases were cited in which ,.-the creditors expected about 75 per * cent on their bills, but the receiver­ship ground so well that they received only 10 or 15 per c e n t The idea pre­vails among the manufacturers', that a failing business should be disposed of by private agreement so as to avoid the heavy expenditures connected with an official failure. - ; •'

Representatives of the 'governments of Sweden and Germany are negotiat­ing at Stockholm for a new commer­cial treaty between the two countries. They will not be able to finish their delicate task until some time in Janu­ary or February.

The railway hotel at Tierp, not far from Gafle, was burned down, and the cook lost her life in the flames. It is supposed that the fire was started by the explosion of a kerosene lamp.

The Indal rafting oomyany has voted $6,750 for the military defenses of Sundsvall on condition that the city council of Sundsvall be authorized to spend $27,000 for the same purpose.

The Swedes of Berlin celebrated King Oscar's birthday with greater eclat than before. A banquet was g iv­en at the fashionable Kaiserhof hotel, a choice musical program was ren­dered, and the celebration was wound up with a splendid ball.

The clergy and the schoolmen of Sweden are particularly interested in Fridtjuf Berg, the new minister of public instruction. This is natural, for he is an energetic man, and an enthu­siastic believer in supporting the pub­lic schools from the;church.

A new veterinary institute is to be built in Stockholm.

In Orkeljun^a are two brothers who. on account of some difference, have re­solved never to talk to each other fh?%. again. They have kept their pledge J!J1 for about two years, says our author-its*. This fall they have been standing side by side threshing grain in the granary without permitting a single word to pass over their lips." They live in the same room, and even sleep in l^e same bed, but they are as noiseless a s deaf mutes.

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D E N M A R K . The Danish government takes In

handsome amounts of money by means of lotteries. Peschke-Koedt, a po­litical economist, is opposed to the whole scheme, and he has written a newspaper article in which he makes some interesting calculations. The average length of time which the holder of a ticket must wait before he draws a first prize is 65,000 years. Even the 41 prizes of $2,700 each are by no means easy to capture. Here is the startling way in which the writer illustrates the chances of win­ning one of the latter: ' i f Judas Ischariot, in the temple of Jerusalem, had taken a ticket in a lottery ar­ranged by the authorities of that time on the same plan as the one which I am criticizing, his decendants would have been fortunate if they had won a $2,700 prize at the time*'of Martin" Luther.''

A Danish hardware dealer has sent a large number of revolvers to Fin­land.

P. S. Kroyer, a noted Danish artist, has been compelled to quit work on account of failing eyesight.

About 60 persons in Copenhagen have organized themselves into a so­ciety for making experiments in the line of spiritism.

Several earthquakes were noticed at

seen in the direction of a volcano. At ,a festival given by a farmers'

alliance at Ringsted, Minister of A g ­riculture Ole Hansen gave an address ^,. _ in. which he made the assertion that i^SJsflj the Danish women do not know how " 3saE3?r

to fry pork. How had he found out? He had made a trip to England and while there he had eaten Danish pork which was "as toothsome as anything imaginable." He thought that inas­much as the Danish men know how to raise the best pork in the -world the Danish women ought to learn to fry that pork.

N O R W A Y Things loosed rather dark for 2s.»r-

-»£ and the govern- -" way before June 1 ment bought 4,000 tons of rye and 4,000 tons of oats. The clouds bl?w f away, so that the grain was not needed. "-* It was feared that the government % would lose money on the deal. But < the prices have risen so much that &•-there will be no loss. t%

The catch of "big herring** has been % very satisfactory this season. About "J»^,w 85,000 barrels was salted in the waters « ^ ^ | southwest of Trondhjem up to Nov. 24. WQM

The public expenses connected with 31111 the reception given to the king and the queen in Kristiania were $8,000. This is a small amount, considering that the arrangements were quite com- v._ prehensive, and that the festivities ^ ^ p lasted for several days. ^ ^ ^ S - ' ^

Ibsen is said to be doing well. M^0~k Many new cases of polyomyelite ( p a ^ ^ ^ ^ f f

ralysis of* the brain and the spi.»ey,5;3||Kr have occurred in northern Norway. ' &%Sli~ *\

Henrik Ibsen spends a part of the day sitting In a chair, and he is in the- *̂ 1 habit of chatting with his relatives "Jfe?. and nearest acquaintances about t h » J l | | § events of the day. JllPlii*

Vilhelm Krag, a well known news^f f lP '* M! paper man, walked up to the palace te> get a better view of the situation darS^sigBS; ing the demonstration in honor of th»^W king and the queen. While standing there he was struck by an intense light «*-* from the electric projector on the roof £ of the storting building, and the p*o--Jpi pie, supposing him to be the king, sud- 5v!&SM

denly burst into a frantic cheering. He hurried out of the way as fast a s he could.

The Norwegian labor unions" have ^ contributed $20,000 to strike funds dur- " ing the year. A large' part;of this amount went to Sweden. xl *

Orebladet proposes whipping' for certain crimes.

A stock company has been orgai in Kristiania with a capital stock: $2,000,000 for the purpose ot promotir the saltpeter industry in Norway. Sam Byde, a prominent engineer, te tol be general manager of all the aaltpe? ter factories in Norway. The bulk o l the stock Is held by representatives the great Industries of France. * ^ -

It seems .almost incredible' that person was hurt during the denwnatra^ ttons connected with the arrival of king and queen. "People climbed cats on roofs and towers, etr wires and suspending electric but neither the persons, ner tbe rations tell down, and there were mlshanar