Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-01-05
resolutions expressing: sympathy with

resolutions expressing; sympathy with
Cubans.
Governor Clough has signed the
election certificates of the newly elect
ed members of congress and the pr 81.
Dental electors.
A dog went mad in N w Prague and
bit two men, several cattla d another
dog. Dogs and cattle vera killed and
the men went to Chicago for treat
ment.
The Mankato Packing company has
been organized with a capital of $25, 900
and will incorporate under the state
laws. 1t will lease and operate the old
Cassidy packing house.
Three masked men held up a Bryn
Mawr street car at Minneapolis and
robbed the conductor of $l25O and the
motorman Of l cent The holdup &C.
Cured at the end of the.
The executive committee of the Min
nesota State Immigration association
held meeting in the Office of the gov
ernor aud decided to hold a convention
in St. Paul some time in January.
A family of five persons, named
Bactel, were found dead in their home,
IS miles north of Verndale, MIMI, by
hunters. 1t is believed they froze to
death during the severe cold in No.
vember.
Philip M. Scheig, formerly teller of
of the Bank of Minneapolis, has been
pardoned out Of Saltwater prison bv
Governor Clough. Scheig was SEN
fenced in 1898 to seven years impr' on
ment for embezzlement.
The P. B. Mann e evator at Be-. ing
ham, operated by the Minnesota and
Western Grain Company of M nneapo.
lis, burst, wrecking the cas side of the
building and spilling about $1,000 bush,
els of wheat on the groun and tver
the Great Northern detracs.
Several St. Paul bank: av notified
State Treasurer Koerner that they will
stop paying interest on state funds
after Jan. l. The law provides hat
money must be placed in banks that
pay interest, so the deposit will be
withdrawn unless the law is changed.
Chicago and St. Paul capitalists and
real estate men have secured an option
on $4,000 acres Of timber and meadow
land northeast of Sandstone, upon
which it is their intention to settle a.
large colony of Dunkards. The land is
splendidly adapted for all root crops
and grain, and for the raising Of cattle
and sheep.
Frank Hibbing has taken ossession
Of the Duluth Gas and Water company
as receiver. He was appointed by
Judge Lochren in a suit brought bv
the Central Trust company of New
York to foreclose bonds on which it is
alleged six months interest has been
defaulted. The trust company holds
81, 1918, 900.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mathew Harmer, living
four miles west of Dodge Center, cele-
brated the 65th anniversary of their
welded life Christmas day, 81 of their
family taking dinner at their home
Mr.. Harmer is IS, and Mrs. Harmer 81
years old. The original family COLI
sisted OF IL boys, now all alive, and six
daughters, three dead.
George A. Durham, alderman from
the Third ward, Minneapolis, was ar
ralgned before Judge Pond on an in
dictment charging an offer to accept a
bride Of $4,000 from Halvorsen, Rich
ards & Co., for which he agreed to
lend his aid toward getting through a
huge reservoir contract. He pleaded
not guilty and was released on $4,000
bail
Herman Fiforman and Samuel
Brooks were arrested and locked up at
the central station at Minneapolis the
charge of grand larceny being booked
against them. It is alleged that the
two prisoners are the thieves who
broke into the rolling mill at Harris
Bros, at Irondale, few nights ago.
where machinery to the value of So, 600
was stolen.
Mrs. Anna Smith, who has served
years of a 24-year sentence for man.
slaughter, has been pardoned by Gov
ernor Clough. She is a colored won.
an, and while working as housekeepe1
for man named Hennige, near Bass
lake, in Ramsey county, in July, 1892,
shot and killed stranger who was
trespassing on the land of her employer
and who was at the time engaged in an
alteration with Hennige.
1t has developed during the recent
examination Of the Red Lake pine es.
timators that many valuable 4O-acre
tracts Of pine have been greatly under.
estimated by the regular force and have
been sold as containing 100000 feet,
when they actually had standing pine to
the amount Of 100000 feet in some
cases. This was learned through spe.
cial examiners which the department
sent up, and who have been working
Oh the quiet during the past month.
RUSSlA'S ARMY.