Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-02-02
NEWS NESO1'Al

The ST. James hotel at Duluths vs.
badly damaged by fire Monday
The next Northwester bonspiel VIZ.
be held at st. Paul.
The Century Piano company OF Min
neapolis has assigned.
John Moran was frozen to death e !
.Anoka Wednesday night.
st. Clouds $50, 0D high school build
ing was entirely destroyed by fire.
; Governor Clough has reappointed all
the members of the state board OF boiler
inspectors. S. .=:z5s.
+ Stearns and Benton county farmers
visited the state farm at st. Anthony
Park Friday. . ss...s.s=:s5s.s.z
The annual meeting Of the Southern
Minnesota Agricultural society was.
held at Albert. Lea. z=zss
At ST. Paul Judge Orr gave Robert
Goss7er 80 days in the workhouse and =
lecture for .smashing" 80 .s$
The Elmer block at .Wadena was en-
tirely destroyed by fire. Loss, e12,-
600; insurance, $4,000. : = -z zs=:;s
Charles W. Finn of Partridge, Pine
county, died in q sleeper berth between
Erie and Dunkirk, N. Y. y..5z.zz
Albert Blanz, who had broken his
parole, has voluntarily returned ito the
Saltwater prison to complete his sem
tence. :
It is stated that two aldermen and a !,
fitx off oio will IN o,x,,oc%o-l
apolis as a result of the grand jury'sl
Doodle investigation.
Charles Hanson and Frank Frost re.
celved IL and year sentences respec-I
lively at Minneapolis, for highway
ROBBERY and burglary.
Professor w. w. Riddle of the State
university, who was injured in a street
railway accident at Minneapolis about
two weeks ago, is dead.
Argument in the case of the will of
the late Julia Will of St. Benedict
Academy near st. Cloud was heard by
the supreme court Monday.
An election for the removal of the
county seat of Sibley county from Hen
derson to Arlington resulted in favor of
Henderson by majority Of 215.
+ City Treasurer Haugen of Minneap-
oils has resigned. He was elected for
8 third term last fall, but owing to
financial troubles he was unable to Sc
cure bondsmen.
The 3lst annual meeting Of the Min
nesota Editors and Publishers associa-
| hn 1o1I a. h. II
club, St. Paul, Thursday and Friday,
Feb. Is and 10.
Thomas Fl. Garfield, one of the orig
inal promoters Of the Northern Pacific
road, and one of it's directors when
Governor Smith of Vermont had charge,
died suddenly at Lake Park.
Charles F. Haney, the Minneapolis
city clerk, who was extradited from H.
linois, arrived in Minneapolis Satur-
day. He plead not guilty and was
bound over in the sum of 81 500.
The grand lodge, Sons of Hermann,
the Herman monument at New Ulm in
time for tbs meeting Of the national
convention to be held there in Septem-
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Governor Clough has received from
the general land Office an approved list
Of swamp and overlooked lands selected
under chapter 10. United States Stat
utes, comprising 57,837 acres located in
the Duluth land district.
P. B. Groat, secretary of the Mime
sofa State immigration association, has
issued a circular under date of Jan. 81,
announcing the state immigration con-
vention to be held in St. Paul, Feb. 3,
in the Commercial club rooms.
The Great Northern has laid off 40
men at Barnesville and reduced the
working hours of the few that are left
: in the shops to 40 hours week, closing
up entirely Oh Saturday. The reduc-
ton in force is said to be only temper
airy. -
Governor Clough has granted a
North. Dakota requisition for the re-
turn to that state Of Nicholas Eirt, said
to have committed burglary Hirt is
: the man arrested at St. Paul after his
marriage at Hudson, Wis, to the 49,
year-old daughter of his former en-
ployer. Es.-s:.
| ORGANIZED THE COUNTY.
Commissioners of Columbia County De-
cline to Await Cloughs Procla nation.
MCINTOSH, Mimi, Jan. 20.-Colum.
| hia county is TI,o