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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1910
Page
2
A. Danielson promotes Singer as the best sewing machine, claiming it outwears rivals. He urges customers to buy Singer cash or on easy payments at The New Ulm Music Store, dismissing other brands as inferior.
The Interior Department prepared a draft order to exempt southern Minnesota under the Sioux treaty from prohibition and to enforce the dry rules only where Indians reside and could obtain liquor. The president stands ready to sign after input from interested parties.
Dr. George Edgar Vincent of the University of Chicago was elected at the regents meeting in Minneapolis to succeed Dr. Cyrus Northrop as president of the University of Minnesota. He will start April 1. Northrop becomes president emeritus. Vincent, 46, will receive a 10000 dollar yearly salary and is noted as an educator, speaker, and writer. He is the son of Bishop John Heyl Vincent, founder of the Chautauqua movement.
Two masked bandits entered a West Side St Paul saloon around 9 pm lining up twelve men with hands raised. They plundered the cash drawer of 47 dollars and escaped. Patrolman George Sudeth, off duty at Ducas street station, did not pursue or arrest and was suspended by Chief O'Connor.
Charles P McKenna a laborer is held at St Paul police headquarters as investigations into his wife s death continue. An autopsy by Coroner D C Jones found death by violence with multiple broken ribs and scalp wounds. bloodstains were noted at the house.
The Minnesota Tax Commission critiques the states personal property tax law noting widespread underassessment and unenforceability. It urges listing intangible property for a flat 4 mill rate and recommends expanding gross earnings taxation to railways and telegraph lines, while opposing income tax and leaving tonnage tax for iron ore unchanged.
Minnesota Congressman James A. Tawney who retires March 4 may become the next governor of the Isthmian Canal Zone. A nonpartisan coalition in the House urges the president to appoint him to aid Col Goethals. The post is now held by Morris N. Thatcher of Kentucky.
Fire destroyed the Brunswick hotel in Minneapolis with losses placed at 150000 dollars, 120000 insured. About 150 guests were believed safe though checks on staff and register awaited. A Minnesota Educational association meeting is planned at St Paul Dec 28 29 to elect officers and adjust the constitution for legal October meetings. A safe from Adams Express in Minneapolis was found on Superior boulevard but the 900 dollars in bills and silver were missing. Burglar captured under a bed was chased away by the homeowner with a revolver.
Washington reports Senator Lorimer of Illinois was given a clean bill of health by a Senate sub committee investigating bribery charges tied to his election to succeed Hopkins. The panel found no proof he initiated a money distribution to influence Illinois legislators, though some funds moved between members were noted.
London reports that with 64 constituencies still to be filled the coalition holds 349 seats to 257 for the Unionists. Liberal 236, Irish Nationalists 64, Independent Nationalists 9, Labor 40, making a net Liberal gain of one seat as results come in from 606 constituencies.
William M. Smith a Portage la Prairie pioneer died at his home after a weeklong illness. Born in Edinburgh on Christmas Day 1840 he came to Manitoba in 1860. He employed J. J. Hill and Pat Burns as freighters on the Red River and later ran Portage’s first grist mill for years.
Describing a wage dispute, sixty-seven Western railroads seek mediation under the Erdman act after 30,000 engineers reject a 9 percent raise and demand 13 to 17 percent. Telegrams were sent to U S Labor Commissioner Charles P Neill and Interstate Commerce Commissioner Martin Knapp to request arbitration.
Cambridge reports that Hattie Le Blanc, a seventeen year old French girl, was acquitted of murdering Clarencé F. Glover, a Waltham laundryman, on November 20, 1909. The verdict cheered spectators as the jury delivered freshwater relief to the defendant.
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