Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-12-29
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

TIRE az AsnOy QoStrOyo0 TOUR pu11Q"
ings.
Measle. are epidemic at New Paynes-
vile.
Virgins is to have a new 1856
hotel.
Hastings has purchased steam fire
engine.
A Farmers institute will be held at
Royalton Jan. 4 and 8.
A movement is on foot to reorganize
the Security Bank of Duluth.
Nils J. Lawson was held up and
murdered by footpads at Mime apolis.
St. Paul and Duluth polo clubs will
play for the state championship at
Duluth.
Burglars stole 300 pounds of butter
and $l5 in cash from the creamery at
Newport.
A postofice has been established at
Warrington, Houston county, six. miles
from Houston.
Great Northern employees at Melrose
have organized reading room and
library association.
A rural free delivery experiment will
begin at Hastings Jan. l. -Four carriers
will cover 30 square miles. ..
A popular subscription to furnish
medicines and supplies to Cuban in
surgents has been started in St. Paul.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Marvin of st.
Paul will celebrate the 60th anniver.
sary OF their marriage Tuesday, April 6.
Two boys and a girl have been ar
rested in Minneapolis charged with
having committed numerous highway
robberies.
The First State::Bank of Pine County,
at Pine City, is expected to open it's
doors about Jan. l. 1t will open with a
capital stock of $4,000.
Two unknown men held up William
Scotch, a cattle buyer, eight miles
northwest Of Pelican Rapids and re-
ieved him Of $400 cash.
Trouble is promised for Minneapolis
aldermen, some Of whom are alleged to
have succumbed to financial arguments.
The grand jury is investigating.
Work will begin this week on the
erection of the steel superstructure of
the new Duluth Superior bridge, and
the expectation is that it will be in
readiness for traffic about April /.
A paper was read before the Mime.
sofa Dairymen's convention favoring
the location of dairy board of trade
in st. Paul. The convention indorses
Ex-Governor Hoard for secretary of az.
riculture.
James Fahey. for the murder Of Louis
Basel at picnic near st. Johns, Sibley
county, July 4. was convicted of man.
slaughter in the second degree, and
sentenced by Judge Caldwell to 10 years
at Saltwater.
The net income exclusive of taxes,
Of all railroads from Minnesota bust
ness for 1873 was $685., OO4; for thu
previous year it was $13, 672, 295, show
ing al increase of s., 181, 700, or about
81 per cent.
The old Minneapolis court honse vii
be repaired and adapted to the needs O
a "Workingman's Home" correspond
ing chiefly with the similar organiza
ton at Chicago which is conducted b,
DR.. Kellogg.
Chief Grain Inspector Clausen say
that 80 per cent Of the Northwest
grain crop remains over for next year
Usually 80 per cent of the crop is hell
till after Jan. l, but remarkable condi
lions prevailed this season, as is gener
ally known.
The annual report Of the railroad ant
warehouse commission shows tina
there is practically no increase in tn
railroad mileage of this state to be re
corded this year; the total number O
miles of main line and branches Of roa.
operated in Minnesota, June 80, 1896
was 5,991.S1, an increase of fifty-thre
hundredths Of mile over the previou