The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1901-08-22
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An annexation OF Dakota county ter
ritory to Ramsey county is proposed.
Minnesota will ship more ore this
year than Wisconsin and Michigan to-
gether. s
The state board Of control has award
ed contracts for supplies amounting to
$73,307 So.
Mrs. Elsie Mills, daughter Of POST
master T. *. Johnson Of Vida. died Of
consumption.
Patrick Barrett, q well known early
resident Of Saltwater, is dead. He was
over seventy years old.
The barn and granary Of August Leh-
mann, at Triumph, were struck by
lightning and burned.
As severe hail storm greatly damaged
crops south Of Warren. The Tullar
farm lost 800 acres of v heat.
Emil Hermann was instantly killed
while working around the sand pump
on the union depot leveee at st. Paul
The state board OF health has issued
orders that employees Of lumber camps
and school teachers must be vaccinated.
Edward Gilbert and Walter Vanstin,
Claiming to be from Minneapolis, Were
arrested at Northfield for petty larceny.
John t. Petersen died at East Grand
Forks of ct assumption. He had been In
business at that place for several years.
The state board OF health will bring
suits against rural health officers who
are lax in the performance of their du-.
ties.
T.. x. Seifert OF st. Cloud. a carpen-
ter. was struck and killed by the flyer.
while repairing the station platform at
Rothsay.
Citizens OF Meaker county want Gov.
Van SAINT to call a special election, SO
that they may elect legislative hepre-
sentatives.
During a heavy storm rear CIarkfield
lightning burned the wheat stacks on
the farm of AI.:hcny Holm and Chris
tian Toni ON.
AT a recent meeting cf the Stewart
Vile council it was voted to allow Mr..
johnson of LIE Roy, to put in an electric
lighting plant. #
s5SBy a wreck on the Duluth d Iron
Range railway, one locomotive was
damaged and seven cars smashed. No
one was injured.
Anthony Tibeear. the seventeen-year-
old son OF Peter THAR, was killed by
switch engine in the Great Northern
yards 1T Crcokston. 5.5
The state railway and warehouse
commission has named A. G.. Clausen as
It'll secretary, and Henry Feig as super
1r;c or IF elevators. sr| f .
The is an authoritative denial of the
story that the Chicago. st. Paul, Min
neapolis & Omaha road IL to build
second elevator at Itasca at once. n
Secretary Bracken, OF the state board
of health has increased the efficiency OF
two state departments by appointing
dairy inspectors as state health officers
Mrs. Robert Mckinley. wife of a.
prominent farmer Of Renville, died at
St. Joseph'c hospital, st. Paul, from the
effects Of an operation for appendicitis
Redwood county farmers are receiv-
ing letters from residents Of lowe IN
During into the advisability OF stacking
straw so that It can be baled ana sent
to Iowa.
AT Mankato recently, fire DESTROYED
A. G. Benefits new Winton automobile
and one single and one double carriage.
Loss on vehicles and barn, 5000; fuily
insured.
The old or .annery triiGiI g at Blde
Eartl, Ellrned recently. The IRE orig
mated frcn: sparks falling on the rooI
from the smokestack. A separator ano
the engine were saved.
The st. Cloud council has authorized
the city attorney to annul the franchise
of the waterworks company Tor alleReo
failure to fulfill the conditions or ITS
contract to furnish filtered water.
Al 9 O'clock recently, within block
of. the center of the city Of Sleepy Eye,
three hoboes assaulted young lady.
Her screams attracted attention, ana
the hoboes scattered, but We're arrested
and locked up. Is &
Slit has been brought by the Village
of Lanesboro against the 1898 wa-er-
y37lss. extension contractors and the'r
bondsn en-, to recover $4,750 paid them
on contract, and $4,000 damages, the
svstenl having been rejected.
The st. John elevator at Worthington,
was struck by lightning at midnight
and burned To the BTouHu. py Aie1A
work the department confined the hre:
although two other elevators, mill and
lumber yard were in imminent danger.
The loss is $4,000.
George Lambert. a farm hand at Al
bert Lea, is in dangerous condition as
the result Of an encounter with Charles
GARDENER. The former is said to nave
been intoxicated and was insulting sew
erai women, when GARDENER vent 10
heir relief and attacked Lambert.
A large barn on the Percheron horse |
farm, eight miles northwest OF Pipe
stone, was struck by lightning and to-
tally destroyed, together with 100 tons
of hay and 1900 bushels OF oats Inc |
live stock and machinery were saved
The loss is conservatiye'y placed at
So. SEQ. Insurance $i,400.
The body of boy 10 or IA years old,
was found in the river near Hubert ,
An1es farm on Grey Cloud near Lang
don. by an employe of the farm. 1t IS
thought to be the body of boy miss |
ing from one of the down river st. Pau |
excursions. AS the body was ,rfectly
naked, 1t is supposed the boy must nave
been In bathing when drowned.
Contracts have been awarded for an |