Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-05-07
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

| "A" ~. 0Po0AuAAS "a LAKE, NlLy, drop
ped dead of heart failure.
The Cottage hotel, at Cottagewood,
Lake Minnetonka, was almost entirely
destroyed by fire.
John J. Mahoney, a prominent
farmer near Austin. was killed by be-
ing thrown from a wagon.
The Northwestern Photographers
association will hold their convention
in Minneapolis Sept. rs.
Mrs. NJ. L. Luther. of Minneapolis,
will have charge of the Woman's de-
partment of the state fair.
John Schroeder of Long Prairie,
aged II, accidentally shot himself
while hunting, inhicting a serious leg
wound.
The year old daughter of Julius
kuch1, of Red Lake Falls, tipped over
a boiler full of hot water, and was
fatally scalded.
\ fremen's relief association will
be organized at Crookston, under the
state law. Chief Morris of the fra
department has taken the preliminary
steps.
The new city council of Faribault
raised the saloon license from $500
to $1,000. 1t is expected the increase
| four or five saloons.
The board committed the sentence
of Richard 0. Lunke, sent to the pen
itentiary from Otter Tail county for
forgery, to three years, so that he can
be released on parole.
1t is estimated that the G. a. r. of
Minneapolis will on Memorial Day OF
this year, decorate 200 more graves
than last, SO great has been the NOR
tally among the veterans.
Swan Hol I'm, who made an attack
upon Postmaster j. S. Nelson of Car
yer, last summer, was released from
the county jail yesterday, after an i'm
priSonment of seven months.
At special meeting of Hastings
division No. l, \. o. H., a class of
nineteen was initiated. An enjoyable
banquet followed, Patrick Carolan,
president, acting as POSTMASTER.
Harry Swan, of Brownton, 16 years
old, was accidentally shot and in
stantly killed. \ companion, Edwin
Grasinger, has lost his reason because
of the nervous shock of the affair.
Crookston has public improve
ment league which is taking hold of
the work of identifying the town. An
association of this kind that works in
telligently, can do wonders for city.
Henry Nelson, former shipping
clerk for the Standard Brewing COM
pany, was brought to Mankato from
Portage, Wis, to answer to the charge
of stealing S211 from his employers.
The removal of the headquarters of
the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic
from Marquette to Duluth is delayed
for an indefinite period, owing to the
scarcity of dwellings in the latter city.
F. w. Cappeien, of Minneapolis,
bridge engineer, says a congressional
act is necessary before the construc-
ton of a bridge across the Mississippi
pi at Little Falls. Mr.. Cappelen has
the plans for the superstructure COM
pleted.
Peter Mintel, employed at the St.
Paul steam dye works, was found
dead at the foot Of q flight of stairs
leading to his room in the basement.
1t is thought he fell headlong down
the stairs, breaking his neck. De-
ceased was SO years of age and had
no relatives in this country.
The Twenty-fourth infantry, Z. S.
A., the colored regiment which distin-
guished itself at the battle of San
Juan, will succeed the Fourteenth in
fantry at Fort Smelling. The change
will be made next fall, when the
Twentyfourth returns from the Phil
ippines, where it has been doing serv-
ice for the last three years.
At meeting held in Chicago the
directors of the recently organized
National Federation of Millers elected
H. S. Kennedy of Minneapolis secre-
tary and Herbert Bradley of New
York, traffic manager. Mr.. Kennedy
is secretary of the Millers' club of
Minneapolis.
The citizens of Rochester to the
number of about 100 are organizing a
sportsmen's club to enforce tho fish
and game laws which for several
years have been extensively violated
in Olmsted county. Some o. Inc best
business men of the city, and large
number of the sporting men will be
members.
It is now practically an assured
fact that the Red Wing theological
seminary will be moved to Minneapo-
lis. This means that school buildings
aggregating in cost about $4,000 will
be erected here at the earliest oppor-
tunity. The school at Red Wing now
has about $50 students, and it is ex-
pected that this number will be great
ly increased as soon as the new
buildings have been erected.
Work upon well designed to raise
the level of White Bear lake has been
completed, but the expected result
has not followed. Although the we'll
was sunk to a depth of 500 feet its
water supply rises only to within if
teen feet of the surface and must be
pumped the additional distance. The
well cost $2,192. White Bears level
is thirteen inches lower than it was
q year ago..
Alfred Skinner, who was for TWEEN
| ty-seven years resident of Mime
apolis, killed himself in Brookville,
Mass, recently. Skinner was baker
by trade, and about year and half
ago he and his wife moved to Brook