Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-12-18
BRIEF MINNESOTA NOTES.


| All Pilsburys was elected commodore
Of the Minnetonka Ice Yacht Club
solomon Williams was acquitted Of the
murder of James Morris sat Walker.
Halvor A. Olson was run over by
threshing engine and crushed to death at
Madelia.
Bert BROKER, indicted for the death Of
Archie Goodman at Tower. was found
| not guilty. -
Two pickpockets were arrested while
plying their craft at the Masonic fair in
Minneapolis.
Three cases Of small pox have been dis
| covered at Two Harbors. One is excep-
| tionally malignant. :
Lillian White, of Minneapolis, died
while in bed with her sister. The fact
| was not known until morning.
John Norton. an old man who has been
| living alone In a little house in st.
Charles, was found dead.
A lodge banner valued at s125 was stolen
! from the wagon Of the United States Ex-
press Company In Minneapolis.
The losses from the late fire at Sparta
| were about $4,000, and all are being adj
| justed. There was about $1,000 insurance.
Within a few weeks the Twin City
Rapid Transit Company will be paying
its employees an increased schedule Of
| wages.
The Edward Maness sawmill at Oak
| Park, Benton county. was burned. The
loss is estimated at $1,000, with no 1nsur-
| ance.
Ephraim Phelps. of Main township, Of
ter. Tail county, dropped dead while saw
ing wood. Heart disease was the cause
| of death. 8
The handkerchief presented by Mrs.
| Theodore Roosevelt to the Ladies' Aid So
ciety of Fowler church. Minneapolis, was
| sold for s1O.25.
| H. Burns, clerk at Two Harbors in
a Jew store. robbed his employer OF goods
| to the value of about $500. He was
promptly caught
A. Stone, of Minneapolis, was SEN
fenced to thirty days in the workhouse
for. giving whisky to little James Tanan-
don. aged u years.
Amboy is to have a national bank.
with George D. Eyga broad. Of Winnie
bago City, president, and George T. Barr.
of Mankato, cashier.
N. P. Clark. of st. Cloud, filed bank
ruptcy petition in United States court.
giving assets of $3.50, all exempt, and
placing his liabilities at s6s7s21.
For twenty-four years Charles S. Fee
has been general passenger agent of the
Northern Pacific Railway, he having just
completed that length Of service.
Mrs. Louis Peterson was burned fatal
ly at Duluth. She was filling a lighted
lamp with kerosene when it exploded and
the burning oil was blown into her face
and she inhaled the fame.
1 Fourteen rural delivery routes will be
established by the postoffice department
in Hennepin county on Feb. l. This with
the service already in operation will cover
the entire county and insure daily mail
for all residents Of the fifth congressional
district.
Appleton. Swift county, four carriers;
length Of route, 111II miles: area COW
cred, 165 square miles; population served
1888; number of houses on route. 422
| or~s1~ u D
Otis Pomeroy and S. w. Baker; star
route 1889 to be discontinued. Postofice
at Fairfield to be supplied by rural car
riers. Mail to Appleton.
The new library building at Duluth is
expected to be ready for occupany in
about ten weeks. A good deal of stir has
been made in the papers over an alleged
action taken by some town in the east
which, while willing to take Mr.. Car
negie's money for it's library, was not
willing to name it the 'Carnegia Ii
brary."
1t is probable that sixty or seventy OF
the finest of the lake feet will tic up at
Duluth and Superior this winter. Already
many are laid up there. This means a
large addition to the business of the port
for the cold weather and a large expendi-
ture in the spring, when many thousands
will be spent on these vessels.
= In November the grain receipts at Du-
e any month in the history Of the market
Y here. Wheat receipts have been larger
r than last month, but the combined total.
. Of all grains never reached, such dinen.
sions which total about 100000 bushels
a q day all the month.
e post mOrtem examination of the re.
= mains Of Mike Montrey and Dave Cum
:, mings. who died at Nester's camp. nea,
Two Harbors, has been made by a physi.
q clan. The stuff they drank was spirits OF
v nitre. They supposed it was diluted al
| cohol.
: neapolis, of the famous stallion Directun
e seems to have stirred horsemen all ovel
n this city and st. Paul to regard the Inter
national Stock Farm man as the savior
of the western trotting game
d Wyman. Partridge & Co. are to incor
e porate with a capital of s2,000,Oo0. Thu
j, personnel of the firm will remain thu
same. The members of the present firm
= o. c. Wyman and George Partridge, Of
G Minneapolis. and S. D. Coykendall, o.
p Rondout. N Y, will be stockholders
The United, States court Of appeals ha:
: affirmed the decision of the lower court IL
8 the Lake Michigan and Lake superior
+: Transportation Company against the Du
; | luth Towing Company. The steamship
company brought suit for $4,000 agains
), the towing company, alleging negligence
on the part of, its tugs, which resulted
a in the sinking OF the steamer Peerless
), The court held for the tugs.
The Chicago. Board Of Trade. having
e met with some success in their ifgh
Of against the Chicago and Milwaukee buck
O ct shops, will probably carry the fgh
into Minneapolis next.
Fire did damage amounting, according
! to various estimates, all the way from
l $35, coo to $4,000 at the pant of the Pro
duce Refrigerating Company. 410-4l2 FRS
sstreet north. Minneapolis.
: Charles Hale Linn. who disappeared
y some seven years ago. turned up at Can
non Falls with his lawyer. Colone
Sweeney. Of Usage. Iowa. looking afte
his interests in the Hale estate.
r Congressman Morris, of Duluth. intro
|. duced a bill for the amendment Of tn,
= | Nelson law, which he thinks will correc
the abuses which have crept into the In
dian timber cutting in Minnesota durin:
e recent years.
t "A: A. Campbell was standing on top o
q car of ore at Duluth when the tral
sprung Unexpectedly and he shot down
ward with the ore, passing through tn
f pocket of the dock and the spout into tn
Z hold Of the steamer, distance of abou
100 feet. He was, terribly bruised, but will
recover. ~
l. Alexander Lfndros, porter in the salool
at 2 Main street. Minneapolis, droppe'
dead while at work yesterday. He wa
| in apparent good health and death j
believed ito be due to heart failure.
The first car~of corn in the history, o
Battle Lake was shipped the other day t
r the cities. It brought AZ and As cents
| buShel at the elevator. A lot of cor