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ROUND ABOUT THE STATE. Another iron mine has been found on the Mesaba a few miles east of Biwabic. The St. Croix Valley Standard has been sold to J. A. Stuard and Francis Folsom, who will take immediate possession. Up to the time the doors were closed at the registrar's office at the state university 2,050 students had been registered. Charles Hellens, a packer at Swift & Co.'s, South St. Paul, was killed by a Great Western train. He left a widow and six children. At a meeting of the directors of the State Bank of New Auburn, G. K. Gilbert was elected president, E. L. Coon vice president, and H. Ebeling cashier. An association of state oil inspectors was formed in St. Paul, the purpose of the organization being to secure uniformity in the inspection of oil. A horse pulling a wagon fell dead in front of the West hotel, Minneapolis, after running several blocks with blood streaming from an immense gash in his side. The fair grounds are being cleaned off rapidly after the great fair, and gangs of men were at work yesterday removing all the odds and ends of truck that have accumulated in the past seven days. The Great Northern cordially seconds the efforts of the state board of managers of the St. Louis World's Fair to make Minnesota's exhibit there worthy of this great state. This road recognizes the fact that good exhibits mean a great financial benefit to the state after the fair. The Minneapolis Retailer's Association has urged upon the managers of the state fair association the advisability of changing the date of state fair week hereafter so as to include Labor Day. The law passed by the recent legislature, relative to the disposition of money received by townships from the sale of liquor licenses, is causing the state superintendent of education no end of explanation. Gus Olson, the Blackduck bartender, charged with criminal assault in the second degree, who was committed to jail on June 8, to await the action of the grand jury, has been taken to Brainerd to be examined as to his sanity. Brooding over his troubles is thought to have driven him insane. Mrs. Alvina Broski, 51/2 Tyler street, St. Paul, has been building herself a house and worked several days without food in the effort to get it finished. She finally could work no longer and applied to the police for relief. The public schools of Morris opened with the largest first day enrollment in their record, there being 445 enrolled, seventy-two of whom are in the high school. Some of the rooms are over-crowded and the question of more room thus confronts the board early, though the enrollment will be increased by over 100 before the middle of the year. G. A. Copeland, formerly a police lieutenant, was yesterday appointed probation officer of Minneapolis by the state board of control to succeed George D. Holt. The two-year-old child of Herman Badke of North Rochester fell from a high sidewalk on which it was playing and was found a short time later drowned in a barrel of water into which it had fallen. Oscar DuBois and Ole Lindberg, strangers in Minneapolis, were taken into custody by Patrolmen Erickson and Flood on the charge of stealing Charles Coester's pocketbook in a saloon. Assets $228,483.66; liabilities, $282,403.18. This is the showing of Charles F. Leland's schedule of assets and liabilities in the defunct Commercial bank of Duluth. John W. Riddle of Minnesota, now first secretary of embassy at St. Petersburg, to be consul general and diplomatic agent at Caird, in place of John G. Long, deceased. For the crop year of 1902-03 the receipts of grain in Minneapolis were as follows: Oats, 18,527,000 bushels; corn, 2,856,000 bushels; barley, 9,457,100 bushels; flaxseed, $10,072,600 bushels; wheat, 89,372,600 bushels. A. F. Ferris, state senator, representing Crow Wing and Morrison counties, died at Brainerd. An operation was performed upon him last night for appendicitis. Minneapolis organized labor turned out 8,000 strong despite the unpleasant weather, and made the parade one of the largest of a similar character ever held in the city. There were 200 musicians and 150 women and children in line. The city schools of Pipestone opened with a large attendance. It is thought that within a few days the
