Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-01-21
NEWS IN MINNESOTA:
DULUTH AND WINNIPEG ROAD
ORDERED SOLD.

Convention OF County Commissioners to
Discuss the Question of Better Roads.
The Grand Lodge Of Masous Elects
! Oaicers.
| State surveyors held a meeting in st.
Paul.
The Canadian curriers' won the Walker
trophy at Duluth.
Window is now using it's new electric
light and water plant.
St. Paul Odd Fellows will establish q
home for INDECENT members.
Labor Commissioner Powers wants
vestibules on Winona street cars.
The daughters Of Erin will hold a
state conference at st. Paul, Feb. Is.
Mile Laos county will hold an immi-
grafton convention at Princeton Feb. Z.
Jacob Freund was indicted at Blue
Earth City for the murder Of Clara
Ober.
1t is stated the City Bank Of Mime
apolis, which suspended Wednesday,
will pay in full
Father O'Gorman Of the St. Thomas
seminary, st. Paul, has been appointed
bishop of Sioux Falls, S. D,
The Northwestern Surgical Academy
of Homeopathic Physicians held its
semi'annual meeting at st. Paul.
Congressman Kiefer has been placed
in charge of bills affecting Minnesota.
Wisconsin and Missouri public build.
ings.
Judge Nelson, in the United States
court at Duluth, issued q decree order
ing the sale Of the Duluth and Winni-
peg railway.
The w. H. Ketzeback Milling com.
pany at Wells, at it's annual meeting
for the election Of officers, declared a
! dividend of $4,000.
The Winona school board talks of
abelishing kindergartens to save ex-
penses. The people will make decided
protest against the move.
Daniel Shell of Worthington has ten.
| dered his resignation as a member of
the capitol commission. The resigna-
ton is result of the Sutton decision.
Mrs. B. L. Russell Of Minneapolis,
assistant superintendent of the Chill.
dren's Home Society of Minnesota, has
organized local advisory board for
Hastings.
The new Granite Falls city council
commenced business by cutting down
the license from s., 900 to $3.50, and or
dering the pool and billiard tables and
chairs out Of the saloons.
James Smith of St. Paul. a member
of the Order Of Railway Conductors,
has been appointed as deputy in the Of
| fee Of the Minnesota labor commits
| Toner, to succeed Frank Valesh.
A pension of $24 per month and $3.50
back pay has been granted Captain
| Mahlon Black, who was one of the first
settlers in Minneapolis and member
of the first territorial legislature.
Judge Cory of St. Paul was elected
president of the Northwestern Curling
association, whose next bonspiel will be
held at Portage, Wis. Nettleton of St.
Paul won the St. Paul Jobbers' union
trophy.
The matter of good roads will be con.
sidered ut q convention of the county
| commissioners of the various counties
| in the state, which will be held at rep.
resentatives' hall, in the state capitol,
Feb. 10. The initiative in calling this
convention was taken by the Ramsey
county commissioners.
An estimate makes the total lumber
cut at Winona for 1896 of all the mills
Of the city at 1856, 100000, 66, 200, 600
shingles and 43,500. 900 lath. The gain
over last year in the number of feet of
lumber cut is II, 700, 900; The gain in
shingles, 1900, 900, while there wore
100000 less lath cut than in 1894.
This cut is considered very satisfactory.
The state grand lodge of Masons
elected the following officers: Grand
master, J. F. Lawless, St. Paul; deputy
grand master, A. T. Stebbips, Roches-
er;senior grand warden, A. Branden-
burg, Fergus Falls; junior grand
warden, J. H. Randall, Minneapolis;
grand treasurer, J. H. Thompson, Min.
neapolis; grand secretary, Thomas
Montgomery, St. Paul.
HoNORED EX-GOVERNOR MARSHALL