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MINNESOTA NEWS. The bank of Mantorville has made an assignment. Winona gambling houses have been ordered closed. At Montevideo three fur coats were stolen in one day. The Dulth shoe factory has closed down temporarily. Minnesota retail grocers have perfected an organization. Light snow fell in the Northern part. of the state last week. The Mankato Free Press is after the gambling dens of that city. The big Backus saw mill in East Minneapolis will be rebuilt. The bank at Halstead was robbed of $300 last week. The thieves got away. Fire in Berrisford's biscuit factory at St. Paul did damage to the amount of $30,000. Several Indians at the Red Lake reserve. were confirmed Sunday by Bishop McGolrick. Work on the foundation of the Mankato government building is progress. ing rapidly. George B. Hush, a prominent Minneapolis real estate dealer, has been declared insane. The Brennan Lumber company's saw mills have started up, giving employment to 300 men. Lulu Beaudette, a 13-year-old girl, committed suicide by drowning at Minneapolis Tuesday. Rev. Edward D. Neill, a pioneer Presbyterian minister of St. Paul, died suddenly Tuesday. The St. Paul city council has voted $9,000 to be expended in providing labor for needy citizens. The Minnesota and Wisconsin collective flax exhibit at the world's fair has been given an award. The Montgomery Messenger has been sold by C. T. Kelly to J. J. Leonard of Jordan. It will be Democratic. Congressman Kiefer is trying to have the office of immigrant inspector at St. Paul, recently abolished, restored. St. Paul street railway employes protest against the employment of nonunion men. A strike is possible. John Sandrum, a deserter from Company H, Seventh United States cavalry, was arrested at Granite Falls. C. A. Mackey has purchased the plant of the Bay City, Wis., Tribune, suspended, and will start a paper at Barnum. The body of Ed Tice, who had been missing for 10 days, was found in the mill pond at Hutchinson. Foul play is suspected. It is said in Washington that Eugene Hay, United States district attorney for Minnesota, will be allowed to serve out his term. In the breach of promise case of Mrs. Lilian J. Clement against Seymour W. Brown, at Winona, the jury awarded the plaintiff $13,042. Western roads have agreed to a one fare rate for the round trip from all points in Minnesota to Chicago and return for Minnesota day at the fair. Being unable to secure $50,000 bail required by the court W. S. Streeter, the vice president of the Minneapolis Guaranty Loan company, languishes in jail. The Rademaker brothers, who shot and killed John Woyahn last June, were indicted by the grand jury at Chaska for manslaughter in the second degree. Minnesota Knights of Pythias met in Grand Lodge at St. Paul last week. Grand Chancellor Wheaton was reelected. The membership of the order in Minnesota is 6,447. The officers of the State Dairy association have decided to hold their next annual meeting at Waseca in December. Premiums will be offered for the best exhibits of butter, cheese, etc. The Monday New York World says: Harvard men are watching a tall, heavy, light-haired fellow from St. Paul, Minn., named Houghton, who is playing a spry game at right guard. The hearing of the complaint of Davidson and Hawthorne against the St. Paul and Duluth road, in the matter of freight on coal between Duluth and the Twin Cities, has been set for Oct. 24 by the railroad and warehouse commissioners. Carleton citizens have organized a vigilance committee to rid the village of suspicious characters and prevent a repetition of the recent bank robbery. While the work of organization was in progress a citizen was held up about 200 feet back of the meeting place and robbed of $200 in cash. The robber was not caught. The grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias for the State of Minnesota held its 21st annual session at St. Paul last week. Several amendments proposed last year to the constitution were taken up. The most notable of these was a proposition to admit liquor dealers into the order. This proposition was defeated by an overwhelming majority. The Minneapolis Journal world's fair correspondent says: J. L. Bernado's gigantic hog, of Pipestone, is dying in a stock barn at the fair. Columbus is the hog's name and he is the weightiest hog in the whole swine exhibit, tipping the scales at 1,800 pounds. But the most wonderful thing about Columbus is that he does not know the taste of corn. He was raised entirely on barley, wheat and oats, being thus fed as an experiment to see what such feeding would produce. He is 84 months old, measures 8 feet 9 inches from the tip of his snout to the root of his tail, is 7 feet 6 inches around the body; 16 inches around the fore leg.
