Saturday, October 6, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota History: October 6

October 6, 1902 – Eight thousand cattle were received at the South St. Paul stock yards today.

This breaks all records. Last year the record was 4,600 cattle, but that has been beaten several times this year.

The car record was 412 cars, which smashes all records again. Two weeks ago it was thought that high water mark had been reached when the number of cars reached 372.+

The shipments of cattle were heavy all over the country, and it is explained that the market was due to fall, and there was a grand rush to get the cattle in at high prices.

As to the quality not much can be said. Most of the animals need more feeding before they will be fat enough to kill.

The Minneapolis Tribune; “Breaks All Records. Eight Thousand Cattle Received at South St. Paul. Car Records Also Go Glimmering—Quality Not the Best and Prices Go Down.”; October 7, 1902; p. 7.



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Friday, October 5, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota History: October 5


October 5, 1986 – Both of David Virnig’s “arms were severed above the elbows when he got caught in machinery while chopping silage on the family farm at Hillman, Minn.” His parents rushed him by car 40 miles to the hospital in Little Falls, Minn. Friends found his arms, “one of which had been thrown 30 feet from the machinery,” and put them “on ice to preserve them for a separate trip to the hospital.” Then David and his “detached arms were flown by helicopter to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, Minn.” Three surgeons reattached his arms, but they became so severely infected, that the doctors were forced to amputate them.  

Minneapolis Star and Tribune
; “Surgeons lose 8-day battle to save teen-ager’s arms”; October 16, 1986; p. 3B.
  


Hillman, Minn.

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Thursday, October 4, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota History: October 4

October 4, 1905 – Hugh Hamilton, a prominent poultry raiser of Greensboro Count, Pa., was perhaps fatally shot today in a crowded dining room on Pittsburg’s Smithfield Street, by Anthony Oleson, a well-educated young Swede, who had never seen Hamilton before. The police are of the opinion he is the same Oleson who, on Oct. 5, 1904, entered the White House with evidently murderous intent toward President Theodore Roosevelt, shot an officer and made his escape, and that Oleson came from Minneapolis, having lived on Cedar Ave. in that city. Oleson is the second Minneapolis Swede to attempt to harm President Roosevelt.1 The Minneapolis police have been asked concerning him.

Oleson is in the Central Station, where he was taken only after the greatest trouble by a squad of policemen. An infuriated crowd of spectators gathered around the Swede after the shooting and would have lynched him had it not been for the overwhelming number of police.

The Minneapolis Tribune; “Crank From Minneapolis on Way to President, Shoots Stranger”; Oct. 5, 1905; p. 7.


White House 1905
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1Minnesotan tries to force his way into White House to see Roosevelt; see Oct. 5, 2014 blog
http://pjefamilyresearch.blogspot.com/2014/10/on-this-date-in-minnesota-history_5.html
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota History: October 3

October 3, 1951 - Former Major League Baseball outfielder Dave Winfield was born in St. Paul on this date. “Over his 22-year career, he played for six teams: the San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Indians. In 2004, ESPN named him the third-best all-around athlete of all time in any sport. He is a member of both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the College Baseball Hall of Fame.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winfield    


Dave Winfield

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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota History: October 2

October 2, 1914 – In the glare of electric lights, at 3 a.m. today, a highwayman entered the lobby of the Markham Hotel, the leading hotel in the heart of the business district in Bemidji, and forced two bellboys and the night telephone operator, Miss Arvilla Patterson, to throw up their hands while, at the point of his gun, the bandit compelled night clerk Harry Broscoe to unlock the safe.

This done, the bandit lined Broscoe up against the wall, jumped over the counter and took the contents of the safe, amounting to $500 in cash and several checks.

With the money in his possession the robber sprang back over the counter and as he left by the hotel’s main door shouted back, “Now you can call the police.” The robber is described as being of medium height and weighs about 140 pounds.

He wore a handkerchief over his face and a long raincoat. No arrests have been made. At the time of the robbery the hotel bus had just gone to the Great Northern station three blocks away, and as straggling pedestrians were on the streets, it is believed that an accomplice guarded the entrance and that the escape was made in an automobile. It is also believed that the robbers are the same who blew open the safe of the Long Prairie post office a few nights ago.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Bemidji Hotel Held Up by a Masked Robber. Lines Up Clerk, Phone Girl and Bellboys—Loots Till at Gun Point.”; Oct. 3, 1914; p. 4.



Markham Hotel

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Monday, October 1, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota history: October 1


October 1, 1901 – It took a Duluth jury about three minutes to find Andrew P. Hagen, a lumber cruiser, guilty of attempting to commit rape on Mrs. Caroline at her home in Herman a few weeks ago. Hagen was given a chance to plead guilty to a charge of indecent assault, a lesser offense, but refused. He put in no testimony, not even taking the stand in his own behalf.

After Hagen committed his assault, Mrs. Holmberg escaped from her home and sought refuge with a neighbor’s family a short distance away. William Johnson, the neighbor, testified that though Mrs. Holmberg left her three young daughters, aged seven, five and three in her home, he was afraid to go back and see about them, and they remained there alone all the rest of the night. Johnson said the reason he did not go was because he was very tired and had no cartridges for his gun.

Duluth Evening Herald; “Shocking.”; Oct. 1, 1901; p. 2.




St. Louis County Courthouse

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Sunday, September 30, 2018

On This Date in Minnesota History: September 30

September 30, 1910 – A strange phenomenon took place in the northern sky shortly before 8 this evening and was viewed by all citizens in Barnesville, Minn., who happened to be on the streets at that time.

A dazzling streak of light shot east from the northern sky leaving a brilliant path, visible for fully five minutes.

A few stars fell to the east and south of the streak. A meteor is believed to have fallen nearby.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Light Shoots Across the Sky. Barnesville Citizens See Phenomenon Believed Due to Meteor.”; Oct. 1, 1910; p. 1.



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