Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-01-12
STATE NEWS.

Rev. John NJ. Stariha of St. Paul is
spoken of as likely to be appointed
bishop Of the vacant see of St. Cloud.
Postofices at Hibbing, Mapleton,
4elrose, Perham and South St. Paul
were raised to the presidential class
Jan. /.
The County Auditors association will
ask the legislature to appoint COM
mission to revise the tax and assess
men: laws.
The bakery of G. Elder at Chaska was
partly destroyed by fire. During the
excitement Mr.. Elder dropped dead of
heart disease.
Lumber shipments from Duluth dur
ing the season just closed have been
257, $780, 900 feet as compared with 2O2,-
100000 feet during 1896.
Articles of incorporation of the Foley
Bros. g. Kelly Mercantile company have
been: filed. The firm succeeds the P.
d. Kelly company, which failed some
time since.
Louis Balser, the Mankato hotel
keeper who shot and killed his. wife a
few months since, has been convicted
OF murder in the second degree IL Life
Imprisonment is the penalty.
Governor Clough has appointed
George L. Bum to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Judge Kerr of
Ramsey county. Mr.. Bum is a son of
United States Judge Bum of Wiscon-
sin.
The building occupied as a lace in.
dustrlal school at Leech Lake agency,
has been burned. Miss Colby, the in
structress, was seriously burned. The
contents If the building We're total
loss.
Tho Minnesota Educational associa.
ton elected the following officers for
the ensuing year: President, D. L..
kiehle, state university; permanent
secretary, Mabel Peck of Rochester :
treasurer, S. B. Rose Of Redwood Falls.
The state reward of $500 for the ar.
rest OF Read and Adams, two horse
thieves at Glencoe, was awarded to
Wesley Apin $7333, Henry Rable
$73 .s3, August Frank $73 49, Edward
Grohong $50, Edward Fuller 500, all of
New Auburn
The General Electric company Of
Schenectady, N. Y, has secured the
contract for the machinery for the new
powerhouse of the Pillsbury- W ashburn
Flour Mills company at the dam below
Tenth avenue, Minneapolis. Next to
that Of Niagara this will be the great
est electrical power plant in the world.
The Eastern Minnesota road, it is
stated, will replace all it's wood bridges
with steel structures of the latest de-
sign. The longest is that over the Ne
madji river, and foundation piers are
now being putin. The foundation for
a mile-long steel elevated structure on
which trains: will enter. Duluth is also
under way. - Y = "a r Z =.
Three alleged counterfeiters, for
whom the United States officers have
been looking for two years and q half.
We're rounded up in Minneapolis Sun.
day. Their names are w III. Blair and
:: Albert N. Blair, brothers, and Matt
Richardson, alias Charles Read, alias
Riley: The men were arrested in Nav.
1884. at Prescott, Wis, for the offense.
but broke jail. : s.: .t -s a p. 81
The contest between Lizzie Price and
Flora J. Frost for county superinten-
dent Of jackson county has been dis
missed on motiGn by w { A Funk, at
storney for Miss Price. Miss Frost has
held the Office for number Of terms.
and was reelected last November 81
one vote. bout 40 witnesses were
brought mp on both sides, but the ma.
jority was in Miss Frost's favor.
EXTRACTS FROM AUDITOR puNN,s
AM tlAL
The report Of State Auditor Dunn
suggests the atvis ility Of lesseuing
tax On realty and easiing taxes on
corporal ions, inheri tances, annuities,
etc
. The actual state debt Oh July 81.
Hl896,was$I ,45I,, 1888 ~ as aga1nst 81.
1906, 900 on July 8 ~ SCI
The permanent school fund now
amounts to 8 4 ssi a:2.aS {, sperma.
snent iYers.ty fund now amounts to
.I59. 100 rs
;sS The estimat tied property va,,uation 81
the. state 81 about @. 00O, Coo less than
stWofy ears agO, entaiiinp q red uction ii
revenue g 300 .00t, annual
che amount ppropri fo sa' aries sis
.ofindge he leg atnre ssis QUO.
VII lie the 81 ofstl,1e i've reine
court and thirty Gistrict cour ;sls.es