Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-03-31
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Mapleton will have an electric light
plant.
Stuckey, the Duluth bank cashier on
trial for larceny, was acquitted.
Winona is agitating a workhouse.
There are too many tramps around.
Garnets and opals are said to exist in
considerable quantities in Itasca county.
Pupils Of Chatfleld schools are set to
yorubbing steps as punishment for mis-.
demeanors.
Alderman Murphy of st. Paul, con.
victed of keeping a disorderly house,
has been fined 800.
A. II. Benham, brother of Admiral
4. K. Benham, Of the navy, died at st.
Peter Of pneumonia.
Experiments at the Humboldt high
tohool St. Paul, discover new way to
take K ray photographs.
A football game has been arranged
Tor the coming season between Mime
tota and Wisconsin university teams.
The Minnesota Democratic state con-
yention to select delegates to the ma
fioual convention will be held in St.
Paul June II.
Mrs. Mae Lockwood Of Minneapolis,
occurred a $4,000 verdict against her
husbands father and mother for the
alienation Of his affections.
Hon. E. j. Vogel, representative to
the state legislature from Scott county,
died Of consumption at his home at
Lydia. He was 80 years Of age.
The general merchandise store of
Gouldberg & Anderson at Cambridge
was broken into and goods to the
amount of from 5000 to $500 TAKEN
Governor Clough has appointed J. c.
Nygaard and G. E. Carson as county
commissioners of Beltrami county, for
the First and Third districts, respect
lively.
Ten thousand dollars worth of shoes
are said to have been stolen from Hef-
felfngers' Minneapolis shoe store by
one Of the clerks during a series Of
years.
George w. Knox lost his planning
mill and single mill at Aitkin by fire.
Both are total loss, with no insur-
Apce. The plant had been running a
Sw days only.
August Schaefer, ell-to.do farmer
in Pomme de Terre towdship, Grant
County, has received letter from Ger
many notifying him that he had fallen
heir to an immense fortune
At the fifth congressional district Re-
publican convention Charles A. Pills.
bury and Judge Ell Torrance We're
chosen delegates to the national con-
vention Mckinley was endorsed.
Executive Agent Fullerton has grant
ed permission for the shipment Of "a
live prairie chickens from this state to
Honolulu for breeding purposes. The
birds go to Ralph Smith, nephew Of
Mayor Smith of St. Paul.
Judge Searle fled decision sustain
ing the Stearns county probate court
In admitting to probate the last will
and testament of Sister NJ. Julia Will,
Order St. Benedict. Her brother, Fred
j. Will, sought to have the will de-
6lared illegal, alleging fraud and I'M
due influence on the part of members
Of the Benedictine order. A large st.
Paul estate is involved. The case will
be appealed to the supreme court.
The people of New Ulm are prepar.
ing for demonstration that will bring
together the civil and military officers
Of the state, as we'll as thousands Of
national guard men. Twenty five years
3go next May, in 1871, Colonel Joseph
Bobleter of the Second regiment, or
gapized Company A of New Ulm, and
It Is to commemorate this event in the
history Of this old military corps, the
Oldest in the state, that the jubilee is
arranged.
The grand lodge, A. O. U. W., is in
session at st. Paul this week. The
growth Of the order in Minnesota from
April !, 1895, to March 10, 1896, has
been remarkable, the net increase in
membership in that period amounting
to 2,732, the total membership being
near $1,000. During the year 1895,
Grand Receiver McCardy collected the
sum Of $275, 900. The total member.
Ship Of the A. O. y. W. in the United
States had reached in February last
351, $780,
OUTPUT CUT rs PER CENT.
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