Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-02-08


Donaldson and the younger children
at Coronado Beach. Nothing arose to
disturb his anticipations until week
after his arrival. Then suddenly he
experienced considerable trouble with
his circulation.
Cadet John E. Lewis, a member of
the class which graduated from the
Annapolis naval academy, has been
assigned to the United States battle
ship Indiana. After a two months
cruise he will return to the naval
academy and take a postgraduate
course in engineering. Then he will
be assigned to the naval construction
corps. This is an honor conferred upon
the five cadets standing highest in the
order of general merit. Cadet Lewis
was appointed from Mankato, MINI.
Brief Minnesota Items.
George Picha, Company G, Second
volunteers, was drowned at Havana,
Cuba. The deceased enlisted at st.
Paul.
George Thayer and R. c. Stromquist
were arrested at St. Paul for robbing
the postoffice at Newport.
State Treasurer Koerner received
back $50, 1000 in bonds of the state fund.-
ing issue which was paid the first of
the year. The bonds were held by a
New Pork banking institution.
M. j. c. Nyberg, who was expelled
from the Minneapolis normal school,
was granted a judgment against that
institution for $4S.
The home of Julia Doharfenberg, at
Red Wing, was destroyed by fire.
Frank Wasielwski, a young boy IS
years of age, employed at the Gregory
department store at Winona, was in
stantly killed by being caught in an
elevator which he was playfully send
ing up and down.
The 18th annual exhibition of the
Interstate Poultry association at WI
mona was the largest in it's history.
factory of Hawkins & Olds, tore hole
in the roof and narrowly missed kill
ing one of the proprietors.
The new free public library building
at Winona, a gift by William H. Laird,
has been turned over to the city.
StanislausW ieszchowsk was drowned
in Lake Superior at Duluth.
A highwayman entered the grocery
store of j. G. Dance, at Minneapolis,
and held up the proprietor. Finding
only a couple of dollars in the drawer,
he refused to take them. Helping him.
self to tobacco and cigars, the thief
left.
Herbert Bros elevator at Mountain
Lake, with $4,000 bushels of grain, was
destroyed by fire. The work was that
of an incendiary.
Owen & Taylor's grocery store and
the general store of Gage, Hayden &
Co., at Wells, were entered by bur-
glars, who secured but lille booty.
DR.. George H. Cobb committed sui
eide at the home of his father in Min
neapolis. Overwork had unbalanced
the young mans mind.
A. B. Cushing, of Minneapolis, who
was charged with the murder of DR..
quilted by the jury.
Lars J. Hilland was found dead and
frozen stiff in his temperance saloon at
Shelly. He had been drunk the night
before and fallen asleep over the coun-
ter.
The closing matches in the North
western Whist association were played
at St. Paul. In the pair contests for
the St. Paul trophy, J. J. C. Davis and
F. Fl. White of Duluth won out, with
Sullivan and Sykes of Minneapolis close
seconds.
Samuel o. Leen and j. K. Adams,
both of Fosston, and both members of
the Fifteenth Minnesota volunteers,
blew out the gas in their room at Bal
timore and were found in a dying con-
dition.
G. c. Thurston, popularity known as
"Big Charley" died at his home in
Montgomery from dropsy. He was 81
wears old and unmarried. When in
good health he weighed 40 pounds and
at one time travelled with a circus.
William Dockery, the St. Cloud re-
formatory prisoner who escaped from
Assistant Warden Norten in Mime.
apolis, was captured in Chicago
j. C. Rossall, of Minneapolis, who Of
fered himself, under the name of w. C..
Riley, as a surety on the bail bond OF
Byrne, was sentenced at st. Paul to
the states prison for three years.
Simpson & Brown will build log
ging railroad at Fall Lake. .@z