Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-04
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

A temporary receiver has been ap-
pointed for the st. Cloud Waterworks
company.
The poultry show at Minneapolis was
not SO we'll patronized as to warrant
holding another there.
A. W. Crusoe, general merchandise
dealer at Mora, has assigned Assets,
5000; liabilities, $4,000.
The dwelling house Of Isaac Claggett
at MonteViGeo caught fire aAd his two
little boys, asleep up stairs, were sufo-
Gated.
a light engine ran into and badly
WI rked caboose at Grove City, Mimi
Two passengers m:raculously escaped
with sight injuries.
Manslauyhter in the second degree
was the verdict in the Carbury murder
trial at ALERT Lea, the jury being out
about two hours
Accord ,ng 10 d Washington dispatch
Ex-Governor Merriam will not be a can
didate for delegate to the national Re-
publican convention.
The breach Of promise case of Edith
E. johnson VS.. Charles E. Beebee of
Winona Tor $lj, 900 resulted in verdict
OF $3.50 for the plaintiff.
George A. Thorne Of Hastings, Felix
Meighen Of Fillmore county, and
Charles r. Tyler Of Red Wing, all
minnesota pioneers, are dead.
United States Marshall To]lman Of
St. Paul is after VIII sky law breakers
at the head Of Vermillion. Blind pig
dens are numerous in that section.
Seven new mail carriers are to be al
lowed at the St. Paul postomce, the
ordcrto go into effect April l. Three
additional clerks will also be allowed.
1T Blue Earth City Jacob Freund
was ARA gned and pleaded not guilty
to the charge of murder. His attorney
gave notice Of a motion for change of
venue.
Mrs. Valentine. wife of Ezra G. VAL
entine, chairman of the Red River
Valley Drainage commission, died at
St. Euke's hospital, St. Paul after a
long illness.
The affairs of the Citizens bank of
Minneapolis, which failed recently, are
said to be in bad shape. It is thought
creditors will get little over Is cents
on the dollar.
Dottie Lamb, a dressmaker, was
found dead below the Smith avenue
bridge at St. Paul, having evidently
suicided by jumping to the ice below,
a distance Of over 100 feet
Mrs Hannah Becker of Winona has
celebrated her 9Sth birthday by gath
ering Of her children, grandchil dren
and greatgrandchildren She was born
in Germany and came to America when
so years old.
Governor Clough has issued areouisi-
ton OIL tho governor Of North Dakota
for the extradition Of John Helm, want
ed in Minneapolis on charge of for
gerry. Helm is accused Of forging a deed
to certain real estate situate in Mime
apolis.
The grand: jury at Sank Rapids has
found indictments against ex-School
Treasurer George Crook Of G.enderado,
and J. A Burton Of Watab. One is al
legged to have embezzled Si06 and the
other 500. They were arrested and
bound over to the next term Of court.
John A. and Andrew Benson, grocers
Of St. Cloud, have received word from
the mayor OF their native town in Han
over, Germany, stating that they are
two OF the rs heir to q valuable estate
left by distant relative in Vienna If
the story be true, they will receive
over $3.50, 1000 each.
Mrs. Matthias Freillinger Of RAN
dolph, Dakota county. discovered her
son Jacob, aged Is years, hanging from
tree and cut him down. He fingered
four days unable to speak WHEN death
ensued. It is supposed that he had
been reading about hanging, which
affected his mind.
The State Of Minnesota won victory
in the pine land cases in tho district
court Of Hennepin county, where the
case Of the State aga nst the Shevelin-
Carpenter company was tried before
Judge Seagrave Smith and jury The
jury returned a verdict in favor of the
state OF $9,2l1.67, which IS 81. 10 per
thousand feet for the lumber which it
was ca med had been taken, together
with interest.
The authorities Of the state reforma-
tory at St. Cloud are nonplussed
Judge Ives Of Crookston has sentenced
Floss.e Robinson, a half-breed, to that
institution, where there are no accom-
mods;tlons for women. The woman is
now il the woman's ward Of the St.
Cloud Jail awaiting developments.
She was sentenced TO the reformatory
for two years for assault in the second
degree. The attorney general has been
appealed to for a way out of the diem
ma in which the prison authorities are
placed.