Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-26

Ioul cars VI sugar, belonging to l.. M.
Parks, had been stored on the sixth
floor, while on the fifth about a car
and a half of salt was in storage for
the Provision company.
- Killed.
Henry Green, a Minneapolis ped
dler, was shot and instantly killed at
4:3O o'clock in the morning on the
farm of Levi Bailey near Langdon,
twelve miles southeast of St. Paul.
The fatal shot was fired from a shot
gun by Henry Bailey, son of Levi
Bailey, who had caught the peddler
in the act of robbing the henroost.
The charge of heavy shot ploughed
its way through the mans clothing,
entering in the middle of the back
and tearing away the flesh. 1t was
not known that the fugitive was hit
at the time, and the body was not dis
covered until two hours later when
daylight came.
News Notes.
The receivers of the St. Paul and
Kansas City Grain company; Fred C.
Van Dusen and Peter B. Smith, have
been directed to pay dividend of 40
per cent on the face value of all
claims except such as are secured by
elevator receipts.
The first annual banquet of Native
Sons of Minnesota, at the Commercial
club, Minneapolis, was attended by
fifty men, all of whom could lay hon
or to the distinction of having been
born in the state.
Lester r. Brooks, prominently iden-
titled with the lumber and grain in
terests of Minneapolis and formerly
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, fell dead from an apoplectic
stroke while playing a game of chess
with his physician, DR.. L. w. Day, in
his own apartments in the West Ho-
tel, Minneapolis.
Four quarters of venison have been
seized at the St. Paul union passenger
station, being shipped through the
state from Alma, Wis. The game was
the property of F. o. Davis, of Daven-
port, Iowa. Efforts to have it releas-
ed have so far proved without avail
The sale of shorthorn cattle at pub
lie auction held at the state fair
grounds was well attended, and good
prices were realized
Mgr. Anatole Oster, who has been
appointed vicar general of the arch
diocese of st. Paul, has served in the
diocese since 1850. He was born in
France, in 1884, and came to St. Paul
in company with a number of students.
The Lincoln Republican club of St.
Paul has decided to confer with mem
bers of the republican state central
committee and arrange for big re-
ception to be given Gov. Van SAINT
early in January.
President George Cook, of the Du-
luth, Virginia & Rainy Lake road has
purchased tracts of land in the north
ern part of the state at cost of 3d.
275,OOO.
Mary Feehan, 4-year-old daughter OF
John Feehan, st. Paul, fell into tub
of boiling water and was badly scalded.
Frank Koran, formerly Minneapo-
| lis moulder, committed to the Roches-
ter asylum from st. Paul, died on the
train while en- route to the asylum.
He was subject to epileptic fits, and
death is said to have been due to such
an attack.
The biennial report of the veterinary
department of the state board of health,
which has just been compiled, shows
that two persons, two horses, 20 dogs,
Is cattle and 81 hogs have died OF
rabies during the period.
George Dingman, assistant dairy
commissioner, secured some baking
powder and spice samples taken from
a box car merchant arrested at Bird
Island.
| A farmer near Cass Lake says that
on his return to his farm after short
absence he found that deer had eaten
all his turnips. He found seven of the
animals in the field.
The steamer Robert Wallace, loaded
with ore from Superior for Cleveland
sunk in the lake thirteen miles off Two
Harbors, the result of breaking he1
steam pipe.
The receipts of the state insurance
department for September and October
amount to 81, 500, of which 81 200 rep.
resents delinquent taxes from eastern
insurance companies.
The Hamline and Carleton teams
played a tie game of football at Lex
ington park, st. Paul.
The recent election cost the city O;
Minneapolis $4,000.
August Lofferlmacher and his so1
John, charged with placing dynamite
in threshing boiler, had hearing
and were bound over to the granc
jury at St: Peter. Bonds were fixet
at $4,000 each. The father furnished
bail, while the son went back to Jail
The 3-year-old daughter of Georg.
Lombard, of Wells, was severely
burned from the waist down by tn,
explosion of a gasoline stove. Sh,
is in critical condition.
i The state pardon board granted ,
Ipardon to j. Frank Mccarthy on con
IL 1;4;on that he forever abstain fro,,