Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-03-26
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At Eden GALLEY. John Herd shot and
killed Robert Charles-
The express and baggagemen of
Minneapolis have formed a unie<n.
Crookston BARRIERS agree to quit
work at s p. m. except Saturdays.
The Northwestern National and the
Metropolitan banks. of Minneapolis,
have consolidated.
Belgrade township at it's annual
election voted to exclude city hunters
from the fields of that town.
Over in the Mesaba coutry. accord
ing to a Duluth dispatch, there are
$40 licensed saloons and SIS blind
pigs.
At the annual election Elk River
voted to issue bonds for a state bridge
over the Mississippi by vote of 262
to 20.
Camp St. Cloud of the Minnesota So
ciety of the Army of the Philippines
was organized with a membership of
thirty-two.
DR.. T. S. Cook, a colored physician,
whose once is at 5S2 Robert street, St.
Paul, tried to end his life by cutting
his throat.
The grand aerie of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles, which will convene
in Minneapolis June 3, will be very
large convention.
The annual meeting of the Dal1ota
County Educational association will
be held at Pennington, April 25 and
&c.
The mangled body of Adward Peter
son, 80 years old. was found at Twen-
ty-fifth avenue North and the North
ern Pacific railroad tracks, Minneapo-
lis.
The unknown man who was killed
by the cars near Mendoza was identi-
fed as James Egan, a Minneapolis
teamster. living at 1904 Seventeenth
avenue South.
A lodge of the Daughters of Erin
was organized at St. Cloud, with a
membership of ffty-six. Mrs. ]. j.
Daley of Minneapolis, state president,
installed the new officers.
Lake Minnetonka will probably be
open for navigation in a few days. II
it should be, all records for early op-
ening since 1878 will be broken. There
is quite bit of water along the shore
and the ice is reported to be rotten"
more than two-thirds through and is
sure to disappear very soon. It is said
by old-timers that although spring
was early in 1878, 1857 carries the rec
ord.
The oody of George linck, brake
man on the Milwaukee road. knocked
of train from the La Crosse bridge
into the river, last fall, was found
floating in the river near Brownsville,
by Joe Williams. Relatives were noti-
fed. A reward of SIS was offered.
The exchange of the Zenith Tele-
phone company, the competitor of the
Bell company, burned out The fire
will lay out the system for sixty days.
The damage was $4,000 and the COM
pany carries $4,000 insurance.
A Chippewa delegation composed OF
Chief Falmouth, William Bonga, Ben
King, May-deway, Gon-oniend, and
Acknowledgements, left Walker for
Washington, to discuss the payment
of stumpage money and other Indian
complaints. -aoe-s83sss:s:s
State Superintendent Olsen has COM
pleted plans for some pioneer work
looking toward the establishment of
comprehensive system of Industrial
education in the public schools of the
state. He now proposes to use the
teachers summer schools for begin
ming campaign which he hopes will
end in the establishment Of a common
sense system of Industrial training.
The department of agriculture re-
ports 90 per cent of wheat in farmers
hands: corn, about 90 per cent, and
oats, 80 per cent. Amount, 1913, 1OO, 900
bushels wheat of the crop of 1901 Oh
percentage of 90.
The freight traffic of the Duluth
railroads locally shows an increase for
February over year ago of IS to 90
per cent. Fortytwo hundred cars Of
logs were received there during the
month.
Otto E. Schneider, who was SEN
fenced to three years in state prison
for grand larceny, and who was pa
rolled and broke his parole, was ar
rested at Duluth. He has, been in
Germany and South Africa, but could
not stay away from Duluth.
By the order of Governor Van SAINT,
Philip T. Megaarden has been formal
ly removed from the office of sheriff
of Hennepin county.
Herbert Gallehugh shot and killed
Charles Collins, the colored cook at
the Hotel Angelo, Minneapolis, for al.
legged insult to his wife.
At mass meeting at Mankato is
was voted without a dissenting voice
to accept the proposition Of J. H. Col
Inns of Chicago to build local cleo
trio street car and interurban line to
St, Peter by way of Kasota, and to put
in competing lighting plant.
An empty Interurban car, going to
the Midway barn from St. Paul, ran
into a herd of twenty cows at the
west side of the Transfer bridge on
University avenue, at $3.50 O'clock last
evening. Three COWS were killed and
seven injured The car, No. 643 was
slightly damaged.
The Minnesota Sugar company, at
St. Louis Park, has contracted with
farmers near Hastings to raise up
wards of two hundred acres of sugar
beets the coming summer. Russian
families from South St, Paul will cul-