W. D. Kirk, president of the Capital
bank of St. Paul, died suddenly of
heartjfailUre following a severe cold.
The state normal school at Mankato
reopened last" week with ian attencU
ance of'480, as compared with 421 a
year ago.
O. E. Hand, a brakerrian on the Rock
Island railway, was. blown from thb
to# of a freight car at Inver Grove and
seriously hurt.
:In ?ne
of the hottest city cpntests
ever held at Redwood Falls the license
people won out oh mayor by a major
ity of 4 in a total of 445 votes cast.
Dr. Carl Bendeke, who had.-]TCC~
engaged in the7.practice of medicine in
Minneapolis for many years and was
favorably kno\yn throughout the North
west, is jdead.
The annual report of State Librarian
John. E. King, filed with the governor,
shows that the state librarj has over.
55,000 volumes, exclusive of all pamph
lets and duplicate volumes.
Building operations in Minneapolis
for the year just closed reached tha
total of ?"i0,364,240 and thus exceed--:?
the figures of 1904 by $2,5*44,200, an
increase of about 33 1-3 per cent.
Not far from half a million head
c:
cattle passed through St. Paul 1- ',
year on the way to the Chicago steel,
yards. This does not include thf
stock killed at the South St. Paul
yards.
Grain receipts in Minneapolis for
1905 were 6,371,610 bushels moje tix:
those of the preceding year. The tot
receipts for the year just closed wsi-'
145,440,500 bushels, which breaks all
previous records.
-The resolution adopted by the Mia
neapolis city council in 1901 requiimis
the' union label on all printing done
for the city has been declared' illegal
by Judge Andrew Holt of the Henne
pin county district court.
