Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19

months-old infant lying on the floor
of the sitting room burned almost to
a crisp.
For time the mother lost her rea-
son. She became hysterical and the
neighbors feared she would do her.
self great bodily harm if she did not
take her life. Kind neighbors took
charge of her, and though suffering
from the severe shock, she was re-
ported as resting easily.
Farmer Anderson living six miles
east of GAINESVILLE, while sinking a
small tubular we'll, struck substance
which upon examination bore strong
resemblance to coal. The drill pene-
trated through a twelve-foot vein.
Anderson shipped quantity of it to
st. Paul and it was declared to be
coal. Ex-senator D. M. Sabin offered
Anderson $3.50 an acre for his farm.
1t was refused and a contract is said
to have been made with the Great
Northern railroad, allowing it to
prospect the land.
News In Brief.
At a meeting of physicians held in
Crookston the Red River Valley Med
ical Society was organized to en-
brace all the counties of the state
north of Norman.
Smerling Williams attempted to
take the life of Sergeant Andrew
| Call, in the bar room of the CONNER
cial hotel, Third and Sibley streets,
St. Paul. He was arrested.
Disappointed because the young
man she was in love with had mar
ried another, Josephine Trouix, a
pretty 20-year-old domestic in the en-
ploy of Mrs. Harbaugh of White Bear,
was adjudged insane and committed
to a detention hospital. Physicians
think she may recover her reason
again, in time.
While hunting near Bethel a party
discovered the decomposed body of
man. The head and part of the
neck were hanging by rope from
the limb of a tree, while the rest of
the body lay on the ground.
The fourteen-year-old son Of Mr..
Zahrenhusen, a farmer living ten
miles southeast of Pipestone, COM
mitted suicide by setting fire to a
straw pile and then throwing himself
into the flames. It is alleged that
punishment inflicted by his parents
made him Respondent.
There was a freight wreck in the
Milwaukee yards at Pennington. Four
cars were piled up by jumping the
track at switch. No one was in
jured. Three cars loaded with lum-
Der were destroyed.
Adam Flanders of Leon, Iowa, de-
clined to pay So for marriage Ii
cense in St. Paul, and persuaded his
bride-to-be to defer the wedding un-
til they had reached home, where
they could get one for 81.
The Great Northern section house
was burned. Three families were liv-
ing in the house, but all escaped in
safety except Mrs. Larsen who was
so soundly asleep in an upper room
that her door had to be battered in
before she could be aroused. She
was badly burned about the face and
arms.
William Hellums, the new engineer
at the flour mill at Pipestone had two
fingers of his right hand so badly
mangled while working about the ma
chinery, that they had to be ampu-
tated.
The Winona Poultry Association
has completed arrangements for hold
ing it's fifteenth annual show in Pyth-
ian hall, Jan. to 8. A premium list
with premiums valued at 5000 has
been prepared.
F. N. Davis, resident manager of
the Minneapolis Office of the D. APP
pleton Publishing Company, was ar
rested recently by Detective Meal
lister on the charge of embezzling
$500 of the firms money.
About twenty-five residences and
store buildings have been built at
Battle Lake since last spring or are
under construction, including one
brick bank building and a brick gro
Gerry store and barber shop.
In one of the fastest games ever
played the St. Cloud high. school
team defeated the Minneapolis Gen.
trail eleven by score of to 0. Not
a touchdown was made in either half,
the lone score being made by a mar
velously executed drop kick goal from
the field in the latter part of the Sec
ond half.
Tom Roberts, a fisherman from
Wacouta, was held up in the railroad
yards at Red Wing and relieved of
small sum of money. The robber
struck Roberts over the head with a
coupling pin, inficting deep wound.
The victims condition is critical.
Four rural routes from Pipestone
started Nov. /. Each is twenty-five
miles long.
A money order for 81 bought at the
Minneapolis Office of the United
States Express Company and subse.
quently raised to $40, led to the ar.
rest of Frank Simmons in Saltwater
Perry Werden, the big first base.
man, of the Minneapolis Club, came
very near making his last home run
the other night. Upon retiring
Perry carefully turned out the gas
and then accidentally let the stop
slip back again. He was found about
two hours later insensible, but re-
vived in a short while and is none the