Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-11-20
BRIEF MINNESOTA NOTES.

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| { The Duluth Box Company's factory wa.
destroyed by fire. Loss $l2, 900. Z, ~.
r. E. Arne's shoe store at Faribault,
| was partially destroyed by fire. =
Princeton is unable to ship her potato
crop because Of scarcity of cars =
| Ten dogs supposed to- be afflicted with
| rabies were shot in Minneapolis 49,,
c. c. Norris caught bass at Lake
Independence that weighed ~ pounds.
The pastry and meat clerks Of st. Paul
have organized themselves into g. union.
| Ed: Schumacher, an implement dealer
| at MankatO. filed petition in bankruptcy.
| Seven new rural free delivery routes
have been established In Hennepin coun-
ty. ..r =. ,-.~.-.-s H.. gr.,
| Fire at Clara City destroyed the hard
| ware store of A. Enkemas &. Co, Loss
| SIS. 600. 80. s.:T =
Splitting in theaters is put under ban by
| an ordinance introduced in the st. Paul
council.
The Minneapolis post office during the
month of October sold $72,97115 worth of
stamps.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. p. Everith. of Red
wood Falls. recently celebrated their
golden wedding.
American Grass Irvine Company to the
| extent of $4,000
Reuben c. Pickett, Minneapolis book
| keeper. was arrested charged with the
murder of his wife Sept 20, 1900.
The sailors on many boats running into
the Lake Superior ports are deserving to
get jobs In the woods for the winter
E. S. Baker located a clam bed in the
river at Stewartville that yielded $50
| worth Of pearls in\one days picking.
Mrs. William Mayes. of st. Paul, at
tempted suicide by saturating her cloth
ing with Kerosene and setting it on fire.
The Great Northern railroad recently
had to send out it's coast train in two
sections to accommodate homeseekers.
While Charles C. Baltuf, Minneapolis
laborer, was heating coffee in his dinner
pail the cover blew off, injuring his face
quite severely.
The mangled body Of a man supnosed
to be Gus Wacholz. a hostler, was found
on the Chicago Great Western tracks be-
low the Concern street grade crossing, st.
Paul.
At Bagley. Andrew Kajailen, while
working in granary underneath bin
of oats. was Instantly killed by the floor
overhead giving way.
T. F. Lindsay will go to states prison
for one year because he represented to
some Duluth people that he had valuable
mining claims on which he would locate
them. After he had their money, they
found he had no claims.
bault, has instructed the board of edu-
| cation to bar all children from the pub
lie schools who have not been properly
vaccinated.
On Nov. there were s,1746so bushels of
No. wheat in store in Minneapolis. A
year ago the amount was 5,SS7,6S9.
Roy c. Amour. the 12-year-old son of
William Amour, of the Northwestern
Consolidated Milling Company. accident
ally shot himself in the left arm at Cedar
Lake.
Grain dealers are concerned at the pres
ent time over a prospective shortage of
| contract wheat The proportion of No.
northern in the daily receipts thus far
on the new crop has been very small and
| 1t is feared by some that there will be
serious squeeze in the December option
| in this market before the first of the year,
when deliveries must be made on Deem
Der contracts.
Ernest Iyey, of the 1vey Company, con-
tractors, st. Paul, was crushed to death
| by boiler falling on him at his planning
| mill near the Selby avenue bridge.
The logging operations. far as any
| further shipments of timber from the
northern part Of the state Is concerned,
is practically closed for the season Of
1901
Upon DR.. wahlstrom, president of Gus
tavus Adolphus college. St. Peter. high
honors were conferred at the close of
Bishop Won Scheele's address during the
| quarto-centennial exercises. He was
made a knight of the Order of North
Star by Bishop Won Scheele at the COM
| way.
| At a spirited auction in the chamber of
the house Of representatives 100000 feet
| of state timber were sold by State Aud
1tor r. c. Dunn.
Superintendent Hoverstad. of the
| Crookston experimental station, will con-
duct farmers institutes in North Dakota
! this fall under the ausices of the Agri-
| cultural college.
Smallpox is increasing among the Red
Lake Indians, and Indian Commissioner
Jones received letter yesterday from
| Agent Mercer in which he reports that all
of the Cross Lake band of LOO are aff1ict-
| ed with the disease. Mr.. Jones says that
everything possible will be done for
them.
State Auditor Dunn has sent out levy
| on school district loans of the state. The
! principal due, is s175,5s7.eo. and interest
| $70,631.96.
The Austin city council has voted to &C.
cept the offer of Andrew Carnegie to give
$4,000 for public library building and to
| give the two lots on which the present
! city hosehouse stands for the site.
! Weaving may become part of the cur
riculum in the Minneapolis public schools.
! The board of education has been asked
by the' supervisors to buy 10000 small
| hand looms and the matter is now under
consideration.
With no courts to stand in the way, the
Chippewa Indians of the White Earth
reservation are being vaccinated at the
| rate of about 200 day. Most of the In
dams are Observation-Disclosures.
Statistics given out by the census bu-
| reau yesterday show that Minnesota has
6l2990 persons of school age, to 20 years;
1893. 7S4 males Of militia age; voting age,
| soc, 1914.
! The value of the John S. Pillsbury es-
! tate is fixed at $1,600,00O, OF which the
personal property Is estimated to be
| worth 100000 and the real estate to be
worth an even million. A detailed in
ventory Of the estate will probably be
| filed before long by the administrators.
although they have three months after
| the date of their appointment in which to
| do so.
A discovery was made by two men who
were burning hay two and a half miles
north of White Bear. 1t was the body of
a man in such a state Of decomposition
| that practically only the bones remained.
| Preston is to have rail connection to
the north at last. An electric line is to
be built to Chatdeld, via Fountain, and
extended southwark to DEBORAH. The
| survey has been made to Fountain, and
| that section may be ironed this fall. The
Minnesota & Iowa Electric Railway Com
pany is the protector.
An emergency sale of timber will prob
ably be held this fall in Beltrami county
by State Auditor Dunn. About 900, 900 feet
of pine was killed by forest fire, and
unless cut this winter will be worthless.
The sale, if held. will include at least
100000 feet of green timber.
Pearl Hill, the 3-year-old daughter of
James Hill, residing near Richmond, met
| her death in peculiar manner. While
balancing on rocking chair, she fell
backward, striking on her neck and Shout
,ders. The blow rendered her unconscious.
and she died after two days of suffering.
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