A con man without peer : August 1871 -- Fire destroys the State Capitol : March 1881 -- Judge Cooley's courtroom : December 1882 -- A crowded steamer capsizes on Lake Pepin : July 1890 -- Cops break up a poker game : February 1895 -- Buggy rage flares on Portland Avenue : February 1898 -- The penniless prima donna : December 1899 -- Twenty-five years behind bars : July 1901 -- Ice yacht reduced to kindling : March 1903 -- St. Paul's first road fatality : May 1903 -- Minnesota's last execution : February 1906 -- Killer wore jewels in jail : March 1910 -- A three-year-old stops traffic : September 1913 -- Flu outbreak closes churches, schools, theaters : October 1918 -- Hundreds die in Cloquet fire : October 1918 -- Tarred and feathered : November 1919 -- An organ grinder's despair : January 1922 -- Bohemian Flats women defy eviction : May 1923 -- Frank Lloyd Wright jailed in Minneapolis : October 1926 -- St. Paul gang figure slain : December 1928 -- Race row in Minneapolis : July 1931 -- The evil that boys do : March 1939 -- Armistice Day blizzard : November 1940 -- Flower feud in Excelsior : May 1944 -- Aerialist dies in fall at State Fair : August 1947 -- Jailed stripper blames wardrobe malfunction : May 1953 -- Six killed as jet hits house : June 1956 -- Little boys tell a big lie : February 1960 -- Cities out of sync : May 1965 -- Buried alive in Bloomington : June 1965 -- The Big Lake one : February 1966 -- Burning money to survive : February 1971 -- Skinny-dipper lands in court : August 1975 -- The Congdon murders : June 1977.