Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-01-26
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

! The state forestry association wants
! state beard and forest reserve area.
/ Lamberton's new school building
! erected at q cost Of $4,000, has been
! dedicated.
! St. Paul's public building will be
; completed June so, 1853, Secretary Car
! Isle thinks.
Mankato will have al electric lifting
! plant Of its own. Bids have been ad-
! vertised for
| Three Kinks Of the St. Paul Curling
! club will so to the Northwestern bon.
spiel at Portage.
| George Zilsbcrger reported to the
: Winona police that So, 20 buried in his
cellar had been stolen.
! The Northern Pacincs Of St. Pail at
Duluth proved themselves the cham.
i pion polo team Of the state
Mayor Doran Of st. Paul kas teen
elected commander Of tho state associa-
ton Of ex-Frisols:rs Of War.
The sale Of large :cact Of Chippewa
/ pine in Northern Minnesota will prob
ably be set aside Oh tic ground of i'll
accuracy.
Lyman W. Hall, father Of II. P. Hall
and for many years q Prominent news
paper man Of ST. Paul, is dead at the
age Of SO years.
Edward Eelanrer Tho escaped con-
| ;nt
Bald Eagle lake, after being shot by
Nicolaus Semolten.
The comptroller Of the currency has
appointed J. B. AtWatcr Of Minneapo.
lis receiver Of the Columbia National
bank OF Minneapolis
At the meoting of The Masonic grand
lodge in st. Paul last week it was de-
cldtd to bar saloon keepers and bar
tenders from the order. The Old Off
GERS wero reelected.
The president sent to tho senate the
following nominations of Minnesota
postnasters: Peter A. Peterson, Can
non Fails John Schmo:z, Springfield
James Z. Maher, Iitchficld
! Governor Clough has appointed Edgar
Weaver Of Mankato {; member of the
state capitol commission i'll place of
Hon Daniel Shell, who resigned in
order to hold his place in tho senate.
Comptroller Eckels has given out an
abstract Of the reports Of tie condition
on Dec. II Of the 81 national banks of
minnesota, outside CT MINNEAPOLIS and
St. Paul. The average reserve va:
B1.2O per cent.
The school building at Lake Park,
valued at about $I0,O has been de.
stroyed by fire. a large supply OF
hand grcnades We're i'll the building out
had been stored safely out OF the way
III the basement.
Axel A. Lindross, aged 10, and Mrs
Mary Pikkarinen are under arrest al
Wadcna charged with the murder OF
the wonan's husband Friday last
The young man admits tho crime anl
alleges that the woman asked him tc
do it.
A new merchants organization TO b
known as the Winoua Business Mems
association, is to be formed, it's object:
to be to improve the local markets, fur
nish protection to the credit system
and bring about the securing of a mar
ket place. - 49,
Governor Tanner has l4o11nrcd The
requ:sition of the governor OF Mime
sofa for the. extradition Of Charles T
Hancy Of Minneapolis, under arrest al
70 Normal, Ills. Haney is charged will
attempting to bribe certain aldermen O
minneapolis while acting as city c.erl
OF that city.
Minnesota Stock Breeders, Swine
Breeders and Sheep Breeders associa
tion met i'll St. Paul last week J. G
CulTycr Of NIankato was elected presi
dent Of the Stock Breeders, a. L. Long
Preston. president Of the Swine Breed
erf, and W. J. Boynton, Rochester, 0
the Sheep Breeders.
John West, proprietor Of tIle Yves
hotel Of Barncsville, lost 50 pigs i'll tn
recent blizzard. He had 1870 of then
in one largo pen CD his farm, a mil
out Of the city. When the storm CAM
the pigs, in their efforts to avoid it
ferceness, crowded aud huGdled to
gether so closely that they We're smoth
cred to death.
AL persons who deposited money i,
the Bank Of Minnesota, at St. Paul
Tuesday, Dec. ~, 1896, the day tn
bank closed its doors, will get the,
money back Such was the ruling o
Judge Bum, after listening to ex
tended arguments On the question b,
the attorneys for the depositors and tn
attorney for the receivers.
The receivers OF the Bank of Mime
sofa have fled schedules of assets all,
liabilities. The assets are placed a
s3,l70, 1875 ~, and liabilities outside o
capital stock, surplus, etc at $2,325,
552.33. It is stated that tho officers an
directors Of the bank owe the bank, fo
borrowed money, s4*}l3,O46. and upo1
paper Endorsed and guaranteed by Off
GERS and members Of the board, $42O,
$3.50.
RGANIZED TIE COUNTY,.
Commissioners OF Eo!I.:ni,i, County De
rl tn,