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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1912
Page
2
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Illinois Governor-elect Dunne ended the card index of officeseekers, with 4,017 applications and 160 state jobs to fill. He announced no further applications would be received and that names of the chosen Democrats would be released after the inauguration.
On Wednesday December 18 the Senate concluded a speech by Senator Kenyon on an Interstate liquor shipment bill. Bristow introduced a bill for preference primaries for postmaster appointments. The House Banking and Currency Subcommittee will report unfavorably the Levy bill to free money in the market by moving 60 million dollars from the treasury to national banks. Indian appropriation considerations resumed. A Taft message on post office interior agriculture and commerce and labor departments was read in executive session as presidential nominations were reviewed. The HouseInterior expenditure panel adopted a report censuring former Indian Affairs commissioner Robert G Valentine for conduct before his resignation.
In Barraques near Menin a cinematograph show ignited a fire that spread quickly. The panic among women and children proved deadly with twelve killed and twenty injured. Ten bodies have been recovered.
The Progressive legislative committee in St Paul plans to press for a minimum wage law mothers pension law old age disability law woman suffrage presidential preference primaries a legislative reference bureau the initiative referendum and recall. A three member drafting committee will be appointed and report on December 27. The report may also seek legal standing for third parties with at least five percent of the state vote.
Governor Eberhart announced three appointments to the University of Minnesota board of regents. M. M. Williams and Dr. W. J. Mayo are reap pointed for six year terms, while John G. Williams of Duluth fills the vacancy caused by Henry B. Hovland’s resignation. Williams is a prominent attorney and former state bar president. His term runs until 1914.
Olaf Christopherson, sixteen, of Fergus Falls, is arrested for the murder of Rev. John Cling at his Donnelly area farm in Otter Tail County. The minister was shot at close range. Christopherson allegedly fled with a horse, buggy, and shotgun before confessing to the sheriff after a pursuit north of Elbow Lake.
An acetylene explosion at the Prest-O-Lite lighting plant in St Pauls Midway district killed Henry Hohn a night watchman and heavily damaged the factory. The blast triggered a two hour fire with multiple further explosions. Property damage is estimated at 30000 dollars. Hohn left a wife and eight children.
Duluth reports wheat futures and spot quotes with No 1 hard and Northern grades and flax values around 1.25 per unit. South St Paul cattle hogs and sheep prices listed, while Chicago Grain and Provisions shows wheat, corn, oats, pork and butter figures. Minneapolis grain closes with multiple grade and arriving quotes.
John Bergman of Palmer used four cigars as weapons to drive off a wolf pack as he walked toward his camp at dusk. He exhausted himself reaching the camp where volunteers with guns arrived and scattered the wolves. E 0 Quesvold of Hutchinson is named Minnesota’s 1912 premier buttermaker with a 95.5416 average in six monthly contests and will receive a gold watch and a trophy.
Very Rev. J. P. Moran O. P. P. G. head of Holy Rosary church Minneapolis died at St. Marys hospital after about a week of treatment. He preached a mission at New Prague and fell ill on return. For twelve years he led Western missions and served thirty years in the Dominican order as sub prior of Holy Rosary convent and missionary leader. He was widely known across the Northwest.
The United States senate passed a bill to open to homestead entry land in Aitkin county Minnesota. The tract was withdrawn twenty one years ago as part of the Sandy Lake reservation for reservoir purposes at the Mississippi headwaters. It was never usable for the intended purpose due to distance from the river. Opening time to be determined by the interior department.
William M. Lewis shot and killed John Partee during a quarrel in Warren Jackson's home in Minneapolis. The shooter, claiming Partee insulted his sister in law, fled to St. Paul but was later apprehended. The incident followed a night of revelry by a group of colored men and women.
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