Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-08-04
NEWS IN MINNESOTA u


Reeves g. &c: at Princeton. -
The St. Paul city council has voted to
abolish the board Of public works.
A new bank has. been organized at
Princeton, with a capital Of $4,000.
A Great Northern freight train was
wrecked at Litchfield. No one was in
jured. " No. - ~
A Rebekah lodge has been instituted
at Mabel. ~.s~
Great damage is being done in Grant
county by what is supposed to be the
Hessian fly.
Duluth defeated the Minnesota Boat
club in the eight-oared race Oh Mime.
tonka by six feet.
The Gray lumber mill, On Rice's
Point, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000 insurance $25, 1000.
The Minnesota State Game and Fish
Protective association is ho1dinga ses-
sion at St. Paul this week.
A man giving the name of Sam Short
was arrested in Rosemount, MINI. on
the charge of counterfeiting.
Two large stock barns and two sheds
on the farm Of Ex-Governor Merriam
Lear st. Paul We're destroyed by fire.
The celebrated Mendenhall divorce
case at Duluth has been disposed 6f.
Judge Moer decided to grant neither a
divorce.
The Cloquet Iron Mining company,
with headquarters at Eveleth, has fled
articles Of incorporation. Capital stock
$4,000.
Joseph Kadelker, Great Western
switchman at St. Paul, accidentally
killed his S-year-old son while shooting
at a target.
The St. Cloud Cycle company has
made voluntary assignment The
failure was attributed to a drop in
prices on wheels bought early In the
season.
While officer George Tuscott of Sand
stone dozed on the train two prisoners
bound for Saltwater, who were under
his charge. escaped by jumping from
the train.
The tramp question was discussed in
a tramp convention, at Beaver Falls.
Resolutions were adopted, which, if
carried into effect will rid the county of
very great nuisance
Mrs. A. r. Dalrymple, wife of the
famous bonanza farmer, residing at St.
Paul, was thrown from her carriage
near the Soldiers Home and received a
scalp wound and some painful bruises.
Her daught er-in-law, Mrs. Frank Dali
rymple, who was with her, sustained a
fracture of a rib.
The Minnesota Iron company has paid
a second dividend of $247, 500, making
total dividends to date of So ,240,OOO. It
will pay 1896, 900 moresthis year. The
company has SO far this year shipped
oyer 100000 tons of ore, and will make
a total output for the season Of a little
more than double that.
Superintendent J. NJ. Gruber of the
Eastern Minnesota, at West Superior,
has been promoted to the general SUPER
intendency Of the Montana Central with
headquarters at Great Falls. He is
succeeded by J.B. Rice, formerly super
intendent Of the Fergus Falls division
of the Great Northern. ::~-~=
Mitchell & McClure's saw mill, the
largest in Duluth and which usually
cuts about 10000, 900 or more each year
will close down for two months, which
practically means for the balance Of the
season. This company s docks are now
piled SO full of lumber that they cannot
hold any more. The prediction is made
that nearly all the other mills will also
close.
There was an old time rush at the
land office when township 6O-24 was
opened for settlement, and the assist
ance Of the police was necessary to
keep them back. Thirty two filings
We're made. The secret of the rush was
that coal deposit is believed to under
lay the property. The Great Northern
has 1900 acres in the township taken
with that belief.
Sound money Democrats of Mime
sofa to the number Of between 200 and
800 assembled in st. Paul and adopted
resolutions repudiating the platform
apopted at Chicago, and declaring that
the sound money Democrats Of Mime.
sofa will refuse to support the candi-
dates of that convention. A motion to
ask for third ticket was put and car
ried by almost a unanimous vote. Del:
egates were chosen to- a national con-
vention if one is called.
The largest incorporation fee ever paid
i'll the Northwest, and with: one excep-
ton the largest ever paid in the United
States was handed to State Treasurer
Koerner Thursday by Charles w. Bum
Of St. Paul, being a Drexel. Morgan
check signed by O. H. Coster for a con-
sideration of $77, 525. The check was
given in consideration of the recording
of the charter and articles of incorpora.
ton of the reorganized Northern Pa
cifc Railroad company, and it's size is
due tothe fact that the capital of the
concern is named at $155, 100000. ~.
AT the March term of the district
court the case of. Anders and Carrie
Nicholson against the Duluth Building
and Loan associationto recover alleged
excess on mortgage foreclosure, was
tried, and Judge Moer has had it under
| advisement ever since, It is alleged by
the plaintiffs that the defendants did
not compute values on plaintiff S stock,
interest on the debt, etc. correctly, in
which view Judge Moer concurred, and
filed his findings, owing the plaintiffs