On This Date in Minnesota History: May 25

May 25, 1905 – A young man named Herman Speff, from Cokato, working for Mrs. Deal, and a young girl about 15 years of age, named Sidensticher, whose father resides near Wheaton, were found three miles south near the railroad tracks this afternoon. The young man was dead, having been shot in the mouth with a revolver, and the girl seriously wounded with two or three bullets in her abdomen.

The girl is still alive and claims that she had killed Speff and shot herself, and that she wished to die as they wanted to die together.

She borrowed the revolver from a Wheaton hardware store this afternoon.

The coroner, sheriff and county attorney are on the scene. It seems to be a complicated love affair.

The Minneapolis Tribune; “Murder at Wheaton; Young Girl Confesses to Shooting Lover; And Then Attempting to Kill Herself as the Two Wished to Die Together—Complicated Love Affair.”; May 26, 1905; p. 1.

http://cityofwheaton.com/

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 24

May 24, 1858 – Henry H. Sibley took office as the first Governor of the State of Minnesota on this date.

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

Henry Sibley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Hastings_Sibley2.jpg

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 23

May 23, 1857 – The Minnesota territorial legislature authorized the creation of Minnesota's Carlton County, named after Col. Reuben B. Carlton, Indian agent at Fond du Lac.

Carroll, Francis M.; Crossroads in Time; The Carlton County Historical Society (Cloquet, Minn., 1987); pp. 95-96.

Col. Reuben B. Carlton

http://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/photo.aspx?MediaID=1810

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 22

May 22, 2011 – “Two days of threatening skies turned furious over the Twin Cities on [this date], unleashing at least three tornado touchdowns in the metro area, killing one person in Minneapolis, injuring at least 30 others, knocking out power to thousands and leading to a curfew and school closings in north Minneapolis. In the hardest-hit area, Minneapolis' Jordan neighborhood, downed trees, snapped power lines and pieces of roofs littered streets and yards.”

http://www.startribune.com/local/122417279.html

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 21

May 21, 1882 – “Mark Twain visited St. Paul while compiling research for his book Life on the Mississippi that was published the next year.”

http://www.thehistorypeople.com/data/docs/timeline-part1.pdf

Mark Twain

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1244.Mark_Twain

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 19

May 19, 1904 – Because J. S. Bangs, manager of Swift & Co.’s plant at South St. Paul, refused to dismiss a nonunion butcher who was employed in the pork department, 229 union butchers went out on strike today at noon. The men say that they will not return until the man has been put out, and the management insisted today that he would remain.

Swift & Co. meat packing plant in South St. Paul. Swift’s Silver Leaf (far left) was a lard manufacturing plant.¹

J. S. Bangs said today that the trouble only concerned the men in the pork department, and that he did not think the strike would extend to the other departments.

The strikers are members of the Amalgamated Butchers and Meat Cutters’ Union of America, which was organized last year, and which includes all the butchers at the South St. Paul plant. The union was formally recognized a year ago, when schedules were adopted and the packing plants of Chicago, Omaha and South St. Paul were placed under union regulation.

The local union has a membership of 1,200, all of whom are employed at South St. Paul, and if the trouble in the pork department is not adjusted within a few days a general strike may occur.

The Saint Paul Globe; “South St. Paul Butchers Strike; Men in Pork Department of Swift & Company’s Plant Walk Out.”; May 20, 1904; p. 10.

¹http://www.lakesnwoods.com/images/SouthS1.jpg

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On This Date in Minnesota History: May 18

May 18, 1911 – Articles of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of state changing the name of The Dayton Dry Goods Company to The Dayton Company and providing for an increase of $100,000 in the firm’s capital stock. No change in the management or service will be made.

The change was deemed necessary because of the growth of the business of the concern, the recent now additions to the store and the plans to make further additions on the corner of Eighth Street and Nicollet, now occupied by the Chapman-Basting Company.

Dayton Dry Goods Company¹

Speaking of the policy and plans of the company today, George D. Dayton said:

“It is only a little over nine years ago that the Daytons bought out the Goodfellow Dry Goods Company on lower Nicollet and moving to the corner of Seventh Street on Nicollet, occupied the new building built there for them. Each year the volume of business has grown, and each year more space has been added, new varieties of merchandise have found their way to the store, and while dry goods are still the foundation stone of the institution, and always will be, yet the other lines are becoming so numerous that it has been deemed wise to drop the words ‘Dry Goods’ from the name and so, after July 15, the legal name will be ‘The Dayton Company’ instead of ‘Dayton Dry Goods Co.’”

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Daytons Change Firm Name; Term ‘Dry Goods’ Dropped From Title—Capital Increased by $100,000.”; May 19, 1911; p. 12.

¹http://www.lakesnwoods.com/Minneapolis/retail.htm

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