Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-11-17
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NEWS IN MINNESOTA

The new Grand Army hall at Park
Rapids has been dedicated.
Governor Clough has issued his
Thanksgiving proclamation.
1t has been definitely decided to hold
carnival in st. Paul this winter.
A new camp Of Modern Woodmep
Of America has been instituted at
Anoka.
McKinley's majority in Minnesota :is
6S,758. Clough's plurality for governor
is 4,l28.
A branch of the National Association
OF Credit Men has been organized in
St. Paul.
The store of O. E. Lundquist & Co.,
ct Hawley was robbed of 500 cash and
$50 in checks.
The Great Northern will build line
between St. Paul and Duluth, survey
OF which is almost completed.
The Moorhead city council has voted
to advertise for bids for $4,000 worth
OF bonds to fund the floating city debt.
St. Lukes hospital, Duluth, was
Quarantined last week Oh account Of q
case of diphtheria which developed
there.
Attorney General Childs has approved
writ of quo warranto against the Du-
luth Gas and Water company, return
able Dec. II.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved the allotment rolls of the Grand
Portage band of Chippewa Indians in
Minnesota. There are 800 Indians en-.
rolled.
Adney GLADDEN., boy who has been
working in Winnebago City meat
market for some time, has fallen heir
to $4,000 by the death Of an uncle in
Wisconsin.
William Rodger, ex-justice of the
peace, and formerly member of the leg
islature, died at St. Paul. He was a
Scotchman, and greatly interested in
Caledonian sports.
Hope academy, a college at Moor.
head, conducted by the district synod
of the Swedish Lutheran church, has
been closed. Hard times Of the past
few years have swamped it.
George E. Richie refused to testify
before the federal grand jury at Man
kato, against Joseph Sorg, charged
with counterfeiting, alleging fear for
his life. Judge Lochren sentenced him
to six months for contempt.
Judge Caldwell instructed the grand
jury to thoroughly investigate the
lynching of Cingmars and Musgrove,
which occurred at Glencoe on the
morning of Sept. z, saying it was a
serious case and it was their duty to
make thorough investigation.
Hon. Nathan G. Kingsley has been
appointed a member of the state rail-
road and warehouse commission to sue
coed Colonel w. M. Liggett, resigned.
Colonel Liggett will devote all his time
to his duties as dean of the State Agri-
cultural school at St. Anthony Park.
State Weighmaster Reese, in his an
nual report, says the total number of
bushels Of grain weighed into and out
of elevators and mills at Minneapolis
was: Wheat, 1850, 494; corn, I, $780,
476; oats, IL 1890, 1877; rye, 1852, 1877; bar
ley, 1,175,918; fax, 1854, $3.50 total, 1884,
913,OS2.
The jury in the case Of Arthur john
son, the boy implicated in the Wyom-
ing murder case, brought in a verdict
Of not guilty after one hours delibera.
ton. There is general dissatisfaction
with the verdict. The trial of Kelly,
the principal actor in the crime, is in
progress.
The long contest in regard to the
principalship of the Madison Lake
school has been finally settled, the dis
trict paying Professor Campbell his
salary to the present time, and for a
month in advance, and he resigning.
Professor Campbell has opened a school
in the Methodist church, enrolling
nearly all the scholars in the village.
The State Historical society has re-
ceived by gift several old newspapers
and magazines published in Boston in
1863, 1884, 1900 and 1908. Among the
lot is copy Of Russell's Gazette, under
the date of Jan. 6, 1900, containing the
obituary notice on the death Of George
Washington The copy was donated
by Mr.. Charles Thompson aud is val.
liable and interesting relic.
The proposition for holding conven.
'tion to revise the constitution of the
state has undoubtedly been defeated
not because it has not received ma.
.jority of the votes cast for and against
it, but because it has not received 8
majority of the whole vote cast at the
election. The Anderson bill for the
taxation of railroad lands also requires
not majority Of the votes cast on the
proposition, but majority Of all votes
cast, but it has probably carried.
State Farmers Institutes to be hello
in December as follows: Park Rapids
Hubbard county, Tuesday and Wednes
day, and 2; Wadena, Wadena county
Thursday and Friday, 8 and 4 Fergu'
Falls, Otter Tail county, Monday ant
Tuesday, z and 8; Pelican Rapids, OF
ter Tail county, Wednesday and Thurs
day, s. and 10; Alexandria, Douglas
county, Friday and Saturday, II ant
IL; Hinckley, Pine county, Wednesda!
and Thursday, Is and Il; Taylor
q Falls, Chisago county, Friday and Sat
/ urday, IS and 10; Mora, Kanabe
county, Tuesday and Wednesday, 2
and IS. - p. 81 zs.... =
s woman Charged with Criminal Libel
. ss. ST. PAUL, Nov. l7.--Miss Rebecca L
Il Taylor is editor and publisher Of Truth
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