Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-12-04
BRIEF MINNESOTA NOTES.

| orange.
William Sloan, a farmer, was thrown
from his wagon. breaking his skull, at
Madelia. He cannot live.
| inc state auditors Office received $18,-
| 096oo IN tax settlements for November
from county auditors.
The postoftice at Underwood was
| robbed The loss was $50, and there is no
| clue, although tramps are suspected.
Inc last mail train on the Milwaukee
ran down and instantly killed. at Mime
sofa City, L. D. Mead an, aged peddler.
! A former Mnneapolitan, in the person
Of James Moir, has been pressed into
service by the English in South Africa
against the Beers.
Clearings of $21, $4,000 for Minneapolis
banks for the past week places the city
in new position in the ranks Of banking
centers in this country.
| State Auditor Dunn received from the
state grain inspection department $21, 1901
| as fees collected by that Office thus far
| during November
| The first steps in impeachment proceed
| ings against Aid. J. c. Hunt of St. Paul,
We're taken by the board of aldermen,
for his address at a meeting of the ST.
Paul commons. in which he charged that
| the city railway company has work
Ing majority in the city council"
Three people were dangerously bitten
| by mad dog which frightened the resi-
! dents of the towns of Richfield ana
Bloomington in the southern part of Hen
nepin county The canine was not cap
| tured until the next afternoon, when he
was quickly executed.
Charles J. Groshong. in charge of a
Bovey-DeLaittre logging crew, fell from
| a Northern Pacific freight train at
Jonesville, fifteen miles west of Brainerd,
and died later as the result of his in.
juries.
An unknown woman. well dressed and
apparently sober, attempted to commit
| suicide by leaping from the steel arch
bridge in Minneapolis, but was presented
by passers-by and a motorman.
Two car loads of hogs bound from Min
| neapolis to South St. Paul in Mime
| apolis & st. Louis train, jumped the
track on the Raymond avenue viaduct in
st. Anthony Park. Out of 70 hogs %
| were killed.
Maj. Fred E. Resche. of the Third in
fantry, National Guard. has been APP
pointed a member of the examining
board, to succeed Maj. Noyes C. Goblin
son, who has resigned from the guard.
Charles H. Latterell sustained serious
Injuries today by falling from the second
story of the new court house in process of
erection at Foley, Benton county. The
doctor pronounces the injuries to his back
and loins to be of very serious nature.
coroner's jury at St. Cloud declared
Mrs. Anna Walstrom came to her death
| by gunshot wound Intentionally inflict-
ed by August Walstrom, her husband.
I. ]. Cannon. brakeman Of Glendive
Mont. died at the Northern Pacific sana-
| forum at Brainerd. He fell beneath a
moving freight train and both legs were
cut off.
The new Methodist church at Homer,
which has been built to replace the one
destroyed by lightning last summer, was
dedicated Sunday. Presiding Elder J. F.
Stout officiated.
The Duluth saloon men who expected
the Sunday closing order which was is
sued by Acting Mayor Cromwell during
the absence Of Mayor Hugo would be-
come dead letter in the course Of few
| weeks, have come to believe that it will
stand. Mayor Hugo has shown no dispo-
sition to in any way interfere with the
order.
NO contributing cause, other than
grief for the loss of her child" Thus
reads death certificate in the Mime
apolis health department. 1t tells the
story of the pathetic death of Mrs. Cath
crime La Duke.
Judge Lochren, of the federal court, ap-
proved the sale of the property of the St.
Cloud Water, Light and Power Company.
and the report of Howard S. Abbott, mas
ter of chancery, who made the sale in
accordance with the orders of the court.
Foreign corporations cannot sue in this
state unless they comply with the state
law requiring such companies to report
certain matters to the state. The West
ern Cottage Piano and Organ Company
sold piano to Libbie Russ. and when
she did not pay, the claim was assigned
to W. e. Van Auken. an agent Of the
company. Libbie Russ retains possession
Of the piano. however as Judge Pond
decided that Van Auken could not Sc
cure any more rights than those held by
the company.
The claim of the State Agricultural
School against the Alomania Bank for
30.30 was yesterday declared a preferred
claim by Judge Lewis. The money was
deposited in the bank by J. A. Vye Sec
rotary of the school. and was a part Of
the proceeds of the state school farm
lands.
The Northwest Alumni Association of
the University of Pennsylvania will hold
its seventh annual reunion and banquet
at the West hotel. Minneapolis, on Mon
day evening, December 2.
| st. Paul, st. Louis, Cincinnati Cleve-
land, Brooklyn, Detroit. Newark, Milwau-
kee, Baltimore and Buffalo all fell behind
Minneapolis In infantry recruiting figures
for the last eleven months. The enlist
ments in Minneapolis were 1928. percent
age of 1.57. Sergeant Frankin's station,
on basis of state population, ranks 81
per cent better than any city in the Unit
ed States.
Graft Brothers big flour mill at Lake
|
in the morning. Along with it went the
electric lighting plant. the water works
power and the telephone system. The
fire started in an upper story of the MILL
probably from spontaneous combustion,
as loud explosion gave the warning
j. M. Marty, connected with the state
fish hatchery, placed several thousand
wall-eyed pike. 600 steelhead trout of this
years crop and 100 year old in Lake
Minnetonka These are the first Steel
heads ever placed in 'Tonka and the ex-
pertinent will be watched with much in
terest.
The state received an Inheritance tax
James Murphy. of Faribault, represent
ing l per cent tax on s13O54.13. minus u
discount of per cent for cash.
Minnesota's exhibit at the Pan-Ameri-
can is expected to arrive by boat at Du-
luth. Much of the exhibit was distributed
falo.
John Sexton. SO years of age. met death
last night in peculiar manner About
o'clock he fell down stairs at his homq
In Minneapolis, fracturing his skull
Death occurred about midnight.
Fire completely destroyed J. B.
Hompes' store building at Deer River and
about half of the stock. Loss about s., 900.
partly covered by Insurance. The fire
was caused by robbers blowing open the
safe. All the thieves got was a SIS over
coat.
The Minnesota School Of Agriculture at
St. Anthony Park will begin again in
January Its already popular short course
IN agriculture for the benefit of young
and old farmers who cannot take the
| regular course. Last year lectures were
given only in the forenoon.
The State Board of Control has pur-
chased more than two tons of chewing
tobacco. and more than half a ton of
smoking tobacco, for use by inmates of
various state corrective and charitable
institutions In the next three months