Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-05-19
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

NEWS In MINNESOTA
The Park Region encampment, G.. A.
H., will begin at Long Prairie June 2.
A check for $500 from Henry Irving
for the Hinckley monument fund is
missing.
j. E. Conrad, the pioneer parson of
Blue Earth county, is dead. He came
to Mapleton 40 years ago.
Ore shipments on the Duluth and
Winnipeg are expected to average 800
cars per day for the season.
Christian Schosson and Louise
Frank, the former 81 and the latter 70
years old, were married at Winona.
The annual meeting of the North
western Interstate Band association is
to be held at Ortonville June % and q.
Third street, St. Paul, now includes
every commission house in the city. It
used to be the swell street of the town.
A hard gust of wind blew down the
newly erected Episcopal chapel at Clo-
quet. The new building is almost q
total wreck.
Judge Nelson denied the application
OF Attorney General Childs for an Or
der restraining the sale of the Duluth,
and Winnipeg. =
Owing to the unusually high water
in the St. Louis river all of the five
large saw mills at Cloquet were
obliged to shut down last week.
K. NJ. Bergen, a leading merchant of
Preston, his wife and three children,
were poisoned by eating homemade
cheese. They will probably recover.
Montgomery is experiencing build.
ing boom this summer Two business
blocks are being built to cost $4,000
each, besides several fine residences
At New Paynesville the public
schools are opened at s o'clock in the
morning instead of to avoid the ex.
cessive heat Of the afternoon; they dis
miss at $780,
Mrs. Augusta F. Hilgedick, wife of a
prominent farmer Of Faxon township.
Sibley county, was drowned in the Min
nesota river together with her small son
whom she attempted to save.
The supreme court has filed decision
declaring the Kelley cure law to be I'M
constitutional. This is the law which
authorizes county commissioners to pay
for inebriates taking the Kelley cure.
Governor Clough has issued an order
allowing the offices in the capitol to
close Saturday afternoons from now
until Sept. 1. The order was issued in
response to petition from the en-
ployes.
S. F. Fullerton, executive agent of
the state fish and game commission,
has been granted a divorce on the
ground of desertion. His wife sided
in Ontario and has always refused to
live i'll this country.
Margaret Camp, years old, fell from
the second story window Of the home
Of her parents, 20l1 Fourth avenue
south, Minneapolis, and received frac-
ture of the skull, from which she died
three hours afterwards
Postmaster General Wilson has is
sued an order barring the Acmet Nov
city company and A. G. Roberts of
Jackson, Mimi, from the use of the
mails on the ground that they are oper-
ating fraudulent concern.
The case against Officer Harstadt of
Harmony, charged with clubbing sew
eral young men into submission, has
been dismissed and the young men who
participated in the alteration have
been placed under heavy peace bonds
for two years.
The Duluth Gas and Water company
is in default of $3S, 900 of bond interest
and the holders Of the second mortgage
bonds are about to bring an action in
the federal court to forclose their mort.
gage and also to ask for the appoint.
ment of receiver.
Professor J. W. Ferree, aged 81, died
very suddenly of apoplexy at New
Paynesville. He was very robust old
HILL, uttF1HS odWeu WOOu Tie evening
before with his son on wager. He had
held chairs in several Eastern colleges
and has also written text books on
mathematics.
Following state land sales are sched-
uled for June: Todd, Long Prairie,
Thursday, June II; Hubbard, Park
Rapids, Friday, June 10; Becker, De.
troit, Tuesday, June Is; Clay, Moor
head, Wednesday, June IT,: Wilkin,
Breckenridge, Thursday, June II; Otter
Tail, Fergus Falls, Friday, June 18;
Norman, Ada, Monday, June 81; Polk,
Crookston, Tuesday, June ~; Marshall,
Warren, Wednesday, June %; Kittson,
Hallock, Thursday, June "a; Roseau,
Friday, June rs. Those already held