Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-08-20

latest machinery will be on the train
and will be used in practical man.
ner. The demonstrations will include
the making of macadam road, gravel
road and-most important of all-the
making of good dirt roads.
Everything will be practical; theory
will have no place in the work or talk.
The movement is backed by the Min
nesota Good Roads Association, by the
Agricultural department of the Unit
ed States and by the State Agriculture
| al Society. The most stupendous OBJ
! ject lesson in Good Roads ever shown
will be placed before the state fair
| visitors.
After the fair the good roads train
will travel through the northwest
stopping at many towns and villages
where practical demonstrations will
be given.
Notes.
The carriage works of the T. P. Hall
! Company at Rochester were badly
damaged by fire.
John Lind is candidate for con-
gress from the Fifth Congressional
district which is Hennepin county.
Sergeant Major Frank E. Blair of
the Fourteenth infantry died Of tuber-
culosis at the Fort Smelling military
hospital.
Henry Harrisberger, Tyrone farm
! er, had two fingers on the right hand
crushed in binder. Amputation may
be necessary.
B. Fangmeier committed suicide
! last night at his home a few miles
northwest of LeSueur by taking a
dose of strychnine.
Governor Van SAINT has donated a
gold medal to be given the winner of
| the log-rolling contest at Harriet is
| land on Labor Day.
The annual meeting of the Tenth
Minnesota Veterans association will
occur at the state capitol Wednesday,
Sept. 3, at II o'clock.
George Williams of Ada was in
stantly killed by lightning. He was
driving in his field and one of his
horses was also killed.
A tramp made murderous assault
with knife on Avis Schwab at Le-
Sueur. Schwab escaped injury and
the hobo was put in Jail.
The barn, six horses and sixtyfve
sheep on Julius Wepp's farm near
| Slayton were destroyed by fire started
| by child. Insurance, $500.
| Harry K. Hare, a brakeman on the
Duluth & Iron Range, was caught be-
| tween the drawbars of two cars and is
| dead. He was about % years old and
| unmarried.
Curtis NJ. Haight, a farmer near
Rochester, committed suicide by
swallowing strychnine and carbolic
acid and hacking his throat with a
| jack knife.
Mrs. John Caulcutt was run down
and killed by a Northwestern train
near Lake Elmo on Sunday. She was
| 70 years old and had wandered away
from her home.
The village of Emmons, on the main
line of the Minneapolis & St. Louis
railway, in Freeborn county, is to
have depot erected and station
maintained by that road.
| Governor Van SAINT issued a requi-
sition for George w. Williams now
under arrest at Havre, Mont, and
wanted by the state prison authorities
for violation of his parole.
David McNicol, vice-president and
general manager of the Canadian Pa
cifc road, is given as authority for
the statement that the Canadian line
intends to construct it's own road in
to Minneapolis.
The state pardon board has denied
the application for pardon of To-
bias Eller, sentenced to the St. Paul
workhouse for wife-beating. The
board went on record as opposed to
pardons for such offenses.
At meeting of the University re-
| crQnfS nr Co0roo r TorooS hrnf hor
of President James of Northwestern
university, was appointed to the chair
of pedagogy, left vacant by the res
ignation of DR.. Kiehle. Mr.. Thomas,
of Duluth, was made an Instructor in
rhetoric, and Mrs. Waters, instructor
in French.
The Winona board of education
passed resolution directing that the
principals of all buildings be required
to teach as we'll as supervise the work
in their respective buildings. The
change will reduce the teaching force
by six members and cut down school
expenses some $4,000.
The board of county commissioners
put the total tax levy on personal
property in St. Louis county at $780,
900. Sixty thousand dollars of that
amount will be appropriated as ba-
sis for a fund for the erection of a
new courthouse.
A remarkable increase in the popu-
lation of Minneapolis is shown by the
1902 directory of Minneapolis, just is
sued by the Minneapolis Directory
Company. The new directory has no.
OIL names, which, using the low null
tiple of 2H, indicates present popu-
lation of 247 1928, gain of 14,4s2 dur
ing the past year.
Governor Van SAINT has appointed F.
S. Stewart municipal judge in Anoka
to succeed the late Hiram Thornton.
Judge Sanborn has rendered de-
cision against the Aetna Life Insur-
ance company for $4,000 interest
claimed to be due the county of Ham
ilton, Iowa, on $4,000 worth of bonds
purchased. "
| A small tornado struck Redwood
Falls. Trees were blown down and
some streets were impossible as re-
suit. The city bell tower was blown
over. King Brothers warehouse was
unroofed. High buildings were strip.
ped of tin and towers and residences
were more or less damaged by falling
trees. I IS ~ f s:5 -,
The Duluth &. Iron Range railroad
has ordered 500 more steel ore cars,
to be ready for next seasons business.
John Hendrickson fell down long
fight Of stairs in the Pioneer Hotel,
Nicollet and Second street, Minneapo-
lis, and his injuries may prove fatal
His skull is possibly fractured and be
sustained other severe bruises
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