Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-03-10
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

A Rebekah lodge has been established
at Amboy:
Sisters Of St. Benedict will build a
new hospital at Duluth.
Willard s. Dennis, a leading cigar
dealer of st. Paul, has assigned.
The senate bill giving Fergus Falls a
federal building has been reported
favora0ly.
The ladies of St. Paul will begin a
war against high hats at theatrical ger
formances.
lamp explosion in the postoffice at
M1nneota considerably damaged the
mail on hand
An interesting immigration conven-
ton was held at Fergus Falls. J. J..
Hill and E. V. Smalley were among
the speakers.
George w. Somerville, q prominent
attorney Of Sleepy Eye, announces him.
self candidate for congress from the
Second district
State Auditor Dunn has gone to Hot
Springs, Ark, in the hope that he will
recover from the effects of severe at
tack Of the grip.
A letter received from Young Amer.
lea, Ind, says that a large colony is
being organized there to emigrate to
the Red Lake Indian reservation.
The grand encampment Of Minnesota
Odd Fellows was held at Minneapolis.
w. w. Trafton of Faribault was elected
grand patriarch of the grand lodge.
William E. Lee, formerly warden of
the st. Cloud reformatory, has an
nounced his candidacy for the Repub-
Ican nomination for governor of Min
nesota.
Congressman Towne has secured
favorable report from the war depart
ment upon the proposed construction
OF a bridge across the Mississippi river
at Aitkin.
Dr. David Day is seriously i'll at his
residence in st. Paul He has been
long afflicted with chronic bronchitis,
which Of late has become complicated
with an ailment of the heart.
John A. Hartigan, grand regent of
the grand council, Royal Arcanum of
Minnesota, has issued a circular, calling
the annual meeting of the grand coun-
Gil at the Bowlby block, St. Paul,
March "a
United States Marshal D Conner has
appointed Robert G. Beaulieu Of White
Earth deputy marshal in the place of
E. 81. Funk, who has resigned Deputy
Beaulleu will have charge of some of
the work i'll the Indian reservations.
The directors OF the State Asricul-
tural school will hold summer school
for girls, with term of six weeks, be-
ginning April 2S Accommodations
will be provided for between 900 and
800 girls.
The six judges of the Hennepin dis
moving F. R. Hubachek as assignee of
the Irish American bank, and have ap-
pointed Judge Mahoney in his place.
The opinion scores the MANAGEMENT of
the bank
The Minneapolis term Of the United
States courts has been postponed from
March 3 to March H. and the Fergus
Falls term to April +. Judge Thomas
of Deadwood, S. D.. will open the Min
neapois term of court in the absence of
Judge Nelson
The Swedish Lutheran church Of
Worthin gton has expelled 10 members
for belonging to the A. O. q. W., it
being contrary to the tenets OF the
church for members to belong to secret
societies. There is much bitter feeling
over the matter.
A peculiar pension bill was passed by
the senate, penslouing christopher
Schmidt, a private citizen of St. Paul,
at $40 per month because of blindness
resulting from shot striking him
while he CHANGED to pass before the
rife range at Fort Smelling.
The remaining indictment against
II. Kaufman and Dave B. Yezner, the
Ely merchants, who were indicted on a
charge Of securing from St. Paul mer-
chants goods on credit on the strength
of Misrepresentation alleged to have
been made regarding their financial
condition, has been dismissed.
Preparations are being made by the
state game and fish commission for an
active warfare against those who fish
during March and April. All fishing
during those months is prohibited in
this state and the commissioners will
enforce the law rigidiy this year. Pre-
viously a great deal of leniency has
been shown. but it will not be so this
season. The law allows dealers FIVE
days in which to dispose of stock on
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