Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-06-25
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

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Dick Morrow of Moorhead had his
arm crushed by bite from a stallion.
All the business houses in Bemldji,
except the saloons, will close at $50
during the summer.
Five moose were seen two miles
from Germantown in eastern Marshall
county last Monday.
The State Bank of Milroy, Redwood
county, has been admitted to do bust
ness with $4,000 capital.
John Ottison, farmer at Brands
void, Polk county, Mimi, was killed
by lightning on Thursday.
The Crookston waterworks COM
pany will bore new 10-inch artesian
well from which to supply the city.
A company of Greenleaf farmers has
been formed for the purpose of build
ing telephone line from Litchfeld
to Greenleaf.
The corner stone of the new St. Vim
cent hospital in Crookston was laid
on Sunday. The ceremonies were
very impressive
Frank Bonville died at Duluth from
injuries received by falling from
slxty-foot telephone pole. He. struck
On his head and fractured his skull.
Mrs. Albert Spencer, better known
in Minneapolis as Dottie Farnsworth,
died at Salamanca, n. Y, of blood
poisoning. Her first name was Leona.
Mrs. Clara Hanson, who lives with
her son on a farm two miles north of
hugo, was attacked by a cow and re-
ceived injuries which may prove fatal.
1t is reported that iron ore has been
found in Mrs. r. A. Kragel's farm at
Castle Rock, between Hampton and
Pennington and the prospects of
opening mine are excellent.
Brooding over domestic troubles,
Louis Larson, a wealthy farmer, liv-
ing seven miles northeast of Tyler,
committed suicide by jumping into a
we'll containing ten feet of water.
A trainload of threshing outfits was
sent out by the Minneapolis Thresh-
ing Machine company to 10 distribu-
ted along the Winona & St. Peter road
between Mankato and Watertown.
Rival business colleges in Crookston
are arranging for a stenographers'
contest to test the merits of the two
colleges and the systems of steno-
graphic hen tracks taught in each.
For the first time i'll the history OF
the Minneapolis health o9c. the
south town district in charge IF Med
ical Inspector w. II. Hanscom, has
been without case of diphtheria for
three weeks.
May was big month for lumber
shipments from the head of the lake;
the total that went forward was $780,
255,000 feet; of this Duluth shipped
47,000,000 and Superior and Two Har-
bors the rest
Col. f. 7. Lee, of Minneapolis, has
received from his nephew, A. Morgan,
of New Orleans, a small tin tube con-
tanning some of the dust and sand
thrown, up by Mount Pelee during its
recent eruptions.
The state board of control received
word that Miss Wingstraud, an en-
ploye at the St. Cloud reformatory,
had her hand caught between the roll
ers of a mangler in the laundry, and
was seriously injured.
Fifteen cavalry cadets of Culver
Military academy, Culver, Ind, visit
ed Fort Smelling on their way to yell
lowstone Park, where they will spend
their vacation and emulate regular
army soldiers on the march.
j. E. Kcsheosh, full blooded Indi-
an, was convicted at Duluth on a
charge of assault with intent to kill
He struck his wife with an ak and left
her, as he supposed, dead, but she was
revived and had Kesheosh arrested.
Minnetonka property has been
showing an increased activity this
year, especially in the sale of small
fruit farms. The lake climate seems
conducive to the growth of apples,
grapes, berries, plums and cherries.
The 7-year-old son of Martin STEM
zil was run over by special train on
the Omaha road at St. Peter. The
child was standing on the track and
the train struck him in the head and
crushed it. Death was instantaneous.
A suit begun by the government
eight years ago for timber trespass
in Cass county has been settled by
the E. w. Backus Lumber Company
by the payment of $1,000 as a COM
promise, the suit having been for $685.
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Willie Peterson, the 1-year-old son
Of Frank Peterson, St. Paul, was
drowned in a tub of rainwater Sat-
urday afternoon. The boy in COM
pany with an older brother was play
ing in the yard when he fell into the
water.
Fire started in a pile of cordwood
at Mahtomedi, White Bear lake, which
spread to two sheds and endangered
the Mahtomedi hotel, which is man
aged by Mrs. Turnbull, and at pres
ent occupied by number of summer
residents.
Sixty-four young men and women
were awarded diplomas at the Ham,
line commencement exercises. The
auditorium of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, the scene of the presenta-
ton, was tastefully decorated in law
ender and corn.
For only ten months of the closing
railway fiscal year earnings of the
lines into Twin Cities have shown the
sensational increase of $23, s65 ,022 over
the aggregate figures for the same
period year ago. There is not a line
on the list that has failed to show a
strong increase.
A. Bierman, dairyman residing
near Crystal Lake, was attacked by