Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-08-09
MINNESOTA: NEWS.
Bike Races at State Fair.

| Blanks have been distributed for the
bicycle races the first day of the state
fair. Entries will be received up to
Aug. %. The new half mile track, de-
clared to be the best in the northwest,
is now ready, and contestants may
| have free use of it for practice all
through August.
There will be eight events in the
cycling programme, with first, second
and third prizes in each for the anna
teur races, merchandise orders rang
ing from SIS to $25, and for the profess
sional races cash prizes ranging from
So to $50. The schedule of races is as
follows:
One Mile Novice, Amateur-First
and second men in each heat qualify:
third man in fastest heat.
Two-mile Handicap-Professio
One Mile Lap-Amateur.
One Mile OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES heats
Two-mile Multicyclc-
! Closed Professional Event.
Half-mile Opcn-Amateur, heats.
Five-mile NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
| Fly Wheel Bursts.
| The bursting of one-thousand
pound fly wheel in one of the engine
rooms of the Cooperative Barrel COM
pany, Minneapolis, did about $1,000
damage, will be the cause of about ST.
men taking lay-of until the damage
wrought can be repaired.
| The fywheel was about six feet III
| diameter and was attached to a four
horse power engine which ran the
drying machine in one section of the
plant, and the printing machine in an
other. When it let go it flew into
dozen pieces, each one seemingly going
in different direction. The force
with which the wheel burst was suf-
ticient to throw pieces of the spokes
distances of more than a block after
first hurting them through the roof
and sides of the engine room.
Wonderful Well.
Harry Hurl, farmer living five miles
from Stephen reports that his hired
men were digging we'll on his farm
and had got down to a depth of A
feet when the bottom suddenly fell in
and one of the men was thrown into a
whirl of water and disappeared and
has not been seen or heard of since.
The other man when he felt that the
ground was giving away under him,
caught onto the rope that was used in
hosting the dirt up and was drawn to
the top. Mr.. Hurl then got rope and
chain about 100 feet long and attached
a weight to it and dropped it in this
well but it did not touch bottom and
was washed rapidly west, showing that
a large body of water was underneath.
! Crop Report.
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Climate and crop bulletin of the
weather bureau, Minnesota section:
| Wheat and oats are being cut as far
north as a line drawn from Chisago
county to Lac qui Parle county. The
indications are that the crop is a good
one generally, but there are reports of
injury by fly in jackson, Traverse. Big
Stone and Yellow Medicine counties,
and blight in Meeker, Benton, Nor.
rison, Freedom and Blue Earth coun.
ties. Wheat is filling we'll in the Red
river valley, especially the early sown.
Oats are badly lodged in Watonwan,
Rice, Dakota, Mower and Brown coun-
ties, and considerable areas are sc
tangled and down that they will have
to be moved. Flax is somewhat
spotted, but on the whole good crop
it is ripening in southern counties
Corn continues to grow splendidly. and
promises large crop.
A Triumph.
Miss Florence NJ. Austin, daughter
of DR.. Marshall P. Austin of Mime.
apolis, and a lady whose performances
on the violin gave her friends every
confidence in her ability to ultimately
achieve great things in that line has
triumphed in a manner exceedingly
agreeable to her many friends in this
state. Miss Austin has been awarded
second prize in the yearly concur OF
the Conservatoire of Liege, which was
held July 10 and 10.
| Grain Inspectorship.
At regular meeting of the Railway
and Warehouse commission, A. c..
Clausen was reelected chief grain in
spector of the state. Inasmuch as Mr.,
Clausen was not in accord, politically,
with the chief executive of Minnesota
he declined the office. At subsequent
meeting of the commission, E. S. Rel
shus, of Cottonwood, was elected to fill
the vacancy.
| News in Brief.
The large boarding house of the
Northern Lumber company at Cloquet
was destroyed by fire.
William Proehl, wealthy farmer
living twelve miles north of Winthrop,
hung himself. Poor health was the
cause. He was % years old.
One hundred thousand ladies is a
large number, but the Federation OF
Women's Clubs expects to entertain
more than that number at headquar.
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