Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-09-10
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.
breckenridge will build $4,000 ad.
dition to her school house.

dition to her school house.
The pavilion at Spring Park, Lake
Minnetonka, was destroyed by fire.
c. J. Wilson. cook from St. Paul,
was found dead in the park at Breck-
enridge. ,s-.
Segwart Aaberg, the 5-year-old son
OF f. E. Aaberg of Kensington, had
his arm broken while playing.
Minneapolis is to have a chicken
! show next winter, and it is to be the
best one ever held in the northwest.
A party of Duluth and Superior
men bought $4,000 acres of cut-over
land from the McCord Lumber com.
pany.
Melvin Lufkin is dead and Glen
/ Woodruff, Minneapolis, is not expect
ed to live as result of eating poison
Gus mushrooms.
Z. L. Shepard's house at Brecken-
ridge was broken into at night by a
negro, who was afterwards captured
and placed in Jail. 81
Mrs. Anna NJ. Peterson became vio-
lently insane at Grand Meadow. She
was taken before Judge Washburn,
and will be sent to Rochester.
Maggie Zavottski, aged 9, admitted
in municipal court at Minneapolis
that she was a thief by profession,
the pupil of a man named Bozo.
Failing to see an approaching
street car in Minneapolis, Howard
Smiths buggy was struck and he
was thrown out, sustaining painful
injuries.
A new bank will be started about
| Nov. l at Mankato. Local and out
side capital will be interested. It is
to be national, with a capital stock
of 100000.
Mrs. Peter Morrey, of Kimball, aged
| about 70 years, died suddenly of heart
failure. The Morreys are pioneers,
having lived near Kimball for over
quarter of a century.
William J. Mclean and Arthur L.
Smith, alias John L. Green, two pri-
soners in prison at Fort Smelling for
deserving from the Thirteenth caval-
ry, escaped from the fort.
The government may have to ex-
ercise the power Of eminent domain
in acquiring land for the extension of
the Fort Smelling reservation. It is
reported that the owners do not wish
to sell.
S. Peterson, a dairyman, was fined
1925 in municipal court at Minneapolis
for selling diluted milk. He pleaded
guilty, explaining that he "iust put
small piece of ice in the milk to keep
it from spoiling."
The packet steamer Cyclone struck
a sandbar near Lake City and was
fast for over thirty-six hours. The
passengers and freight were trans
ferred to the steamer Blanche and
brought to Lake City.
Railroads entering the twin cities
have made reduced rates for the visit
OF President Roosevelt Sept. 26. A
rate of one fare for the round trip
has been announced for Minnesota
and North Dakota points.
A man is being held by the Manka-
to police under suspicion of being
| connected with a gang of burglars
| operating in southern Minnesota. He
had full set of burglars tools, also
several watches and gold chains.
Percy Walton, who, the coroner's
jury says, committed manslaughter
by shooting little Johnny Krisko at
the Columbia Heights rifle range,
| waived examination and was held to
the grand jury under $1,000 bond.
Two persons were injured slightly
and two street cars partially wrecked
at Minneapolis by a collision between
| large closed car which crashed into
a trailer on the Nfinnehaha line short
~ before o'clock the other evening.
Miss Nellie Zika, of St. Paul, is in
the city hospital suffering from pis-
toll wound in the breast, and her low
er, Martin Boos. who fired the shot
in fit of jealousy, is suffering from
a wound in the thigh inflicted by the
| same shot.
The contract for building the new
Norman county courthouse was let to
Olaf Swenson of St. Paul. The Pond
| & Hasey company of Minneapolis, Sc
cured the contract for the heating
plant. The cost of the building will
be 100000.
DR.. George Francis James, of the
California state norma; school, will
succeed Professor D. L. Kiehle in the
chair of pedagogy at the University
! of Minnesota. He is brother of
President Edmund James of North
western university.
Two men riding upon the rear plat
form of the ''owl'' Interurban car be-
| tween Minneapolis and St. Paul held
up Conductor C. S. Wick, tore open
| his coat pocket and secured $2.25
after scattering silver pieces over the
car platform and pavement.
Bennett Moen, while working
around a threshing machine near
Kensington, slipped and fell in such
a manner as to thrust his hand into
the self-feeder, badly decorating the
member. However, the surgeon be-
lieves the hand can be saved.
William Winford Wales, one of the
earliest settlers in St. Anthony, died
at Asheville, N. c., where he has
| made his home since leaving Mime
apolis. He was mayor of St. Anthony
| in 1857 and again in 1865, and filled
the office of postmaster, and served
upon the board of education of that
Minneapolis.
Minnie Erickson, young woman
employed as a domestic at Kensing-
ton, was seriously wounded by a rifle
ball fired from gun in the hands of
a neighbours small boy. The girl was
on her hands and knees scrubbing the
| floor when the shot was fired, the ball
passing through her arm and pene-
trating the abdomen. No serious re-
suits are expected.
Frank Eaton and Lon Merritt, of
section 80 frame, and r. H. Palmer
of Duluth, have struck it rich on the
| Mesaba range. They are fee owners
of eighty acres in section 6, township
IS, range Is, in which q large and de-