Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-01-19

CHARLES E. JOHNSON.
NEWS in MIN !, 4iiSOTA
Berndt Ander' on has been reap.
pointed state dairy commissioner.
The state commission has reappointed
G. @. Whitney printing expert.
Orders have been received to put on
. full force at the Cincinnati mine near
Biwabik
The Bankers Exchange bank of Min
neapolis, which closed Dec. 80, has re-
opened for business.
Thomas McGrath prominent citizen
Of GAINESVILLE for II years, was frozen
to death in the late storm.
The senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Nettie J. Van Inwegen as
postmaster at Ortonville, MINI.
Mrs. Jennie c. Crays, after four years
service as a member Of the Minneapolis
school board, has been elected president
of that body.
Engineer Luke Jewett Of the Great
Northern was fatally injured at Stephen.
His engine was thrown from the track
by a snow drift.
Governor Clough has appointed Lu-
man G. Simon judge of probate of Red
Lake county, one Of the new counties
formed out of Polk.
Senator Gum of Grand Rapids has
been very ill at his home with Appendix
cltls. His condition is such as to cause
fear as to his recovery.
A Great Western train ran into a
street Car near Minneapolis, injuring a
state university professor, perhaps ia.
tally, and six other people.
Paul H. Beaulieu is reported dying at
his home at White Earth, of heart
trouble. He is considered the best In
dian interpreter in the state.
st. Louis county commissioners will
probably require banks to furnish
surety instead of personal bonds for
money deposited with them.
Governor Clough has signed the
death warrant of George Kelly, one OF
the Wyoming murderers, and set the
day of execution for March %.
The State Agricultural society, the
State Beekeepers, the State Foresters
and the State immigration Boomers
are in session at St. Paul this week.
Professor D. T. McDougal of the
state university has been appointed
chairman of q commission to decide
uponsa location for an international
botanical labratory in the tropics.
Governor Clough has appointed Ell.
mer H. Dearth insurance commissioner,
and has reappointed Adjutant General
Muehlberg, Storekeeper Converse, Su.
perintendent Pendergast and Librarian
Gilman.
May White of Minneapolis plead
guilty to highway robbery. She is q
daughter of respectable parents and
had comfortable home. Medical ex
perts are of opinion that she is 'mora
imbecile.'
News has reached Plato, No., of the
drowning of five children as result OF
the floods IN Texas county. Thomas
Wilson, accompanied by his daughter
Mrs. Kinney, and five children at
tempted to ford Prairie creek. The
children were drowned.
The Brighton elevator at New Brigh
ton, a suburb Of Minneapolis, owned by
the City Elevator company, burned
with its contents, 100000 bushels o.
oats and wheat. The total loss on e.e
vator and contents was 100000. Five
box cars loaded for shipment were als>
destroyed.
Jacob Nix, captain of Company l.
First regiment, Mounted Rangers, ant
later captain of Company G., Secont
regiment cavalry, who so gallantl,
defended New Ulm during the India,
massacre in 1868, is dead. He was abou
~ years old and a resident of New Uln
since 1858.
Jack Quinn, Frank Frost and Michae
| Ryder, the two former highwaymen
and the latter charged with forgery
who unceremoniously escaped from
the Minneapolis Jail while guard
slept, were all recaptured while sleep
ing in flag shanty between Mendot
and Fort Smelling.
The Anchor mills packing building,
4-story brick and stone structure, 10
Gated at Sixth avenue south and tn
Milwaukee tracks on Second street
Minneapolis, was completely Quilted b,
fire, entailing loss of at least $500, OOC
The building was owned by the Pills
bury-Washburn company.
A proposal has been made by Colon<
Clarke Chambers to make admission t
the state fair free. The increased al
tendance and the consequently create
value of privileges, together with tn
reduction in expenses, would nearl
compensate, Colonel Chambers claims
for the amount lost in admissions. Th
greater value of the fair as an educ;
tionul institution would more tina
compensate for any appropriation TIT
would be necessary.