James Jenkins and his son Steven Jenkins (later Steven Jenkins Anderson) lure Ruthton bankers Rudy Blythe and Toby Thulin to their ten-acre Pipestone County dairy farm, which had been repossessed by Blythe's bank, and kill them both. The murders spur a nationwide manhunt, ending with Steven Jenkins's surrender and James Jenkins's suicide in northern Texas. Steven Jenkins, barely eighteen years old at the time, professes his innocence but is convicted of the murders. Seventeen years later he admitted in an interview that he had killed the bankers.

St. Paul's first McDonald's restaurant opens on Fort Road. A hamburger costs fifteen cents. The St. Paul franchise was not, however, the first McDonald's in the state of Minnesota; one had opened at 2075 North Snelling Avenue in Roseville in 1957.

Dakota leaders sign a treaty in Washington, DC, selling their lands east of the Mississippi River for about $500,000 in cash and goods. This treaty, along with the Ojibwe treaty of the same year, opens eastern Minnesota to settler colonists. Representatives for the United States are Joel R.

The final game at Nicollet Park: the Minneapolis Millers play the Rochester Redwings, winning the Junior World Series 9-4. After Nicollet Park was demolished, the Millers' home would be Metropolitan Stadium until the Minnesota Twins replaced them.

Joan Growe is born in Minneapolis. She served as Minnesota's secretary of state from 1975 to 1998, the first woman elected to statewide office without first having been appointed. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, she championed voter and election reform, including such programs as vote by mail and motor voter registration.

Republican presidential candidate William Howard Taft campaigns briefly in Melrose as part of a whistle-stop tour of Minnesota that includes Minneapolis, St. Cloud, and Sauk Centre. Introduced by Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., Taft urges voters not to take a chance on Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan.

St. Paul resident Edward Phelan is arrested for the murder of his business partner, Joe Hays. He was acquitted, but his character was so unsavory that many considered him guilty. Hays's was the first death and the first murder in the city's history.

A statue of F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of the novel The Great Gatsby, is unveiled in Rice Park, St. Paul. Sculpted by Michael Price, a Merriam Park resident and teacher at Hamline University, the statue is dedicated during a centennial celebration of Fitzgerald's birthday (September 24, 1896) and unveiled by his granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan.

Theodore Hamm holds an open house at his St. Paul brewery, which he had owned since 1865 and which would be incorporated in 1896. Hamm's beer has long been a popular Minnesota product, advertised by the slogan "from the land of sky-blue waters" and the Hamm's bear.

John Ireland is named Archbishop of Minnesota. Born on September 11, 1838, in Burnchurch, Kilkenny County, Ireland, he had arrived in St. Paul in 1852. After his ordination in 1861, he served as chaplain of the Fifth Minnesota Regiment during the Civil War, organized an abstinence society, and helped bring many immigrant groups to the state.