Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-09-17
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

Five burglaries were committed in
Duluth in one night.
The pavilion at Spring Park, Lake
M'nnetonka, was destroyed by fire.
The residence on the Robert Brown
farm in Featherstone was burned.
The Goodhue Milling company or
ganized with capital stock of $4,000.
A new board has been established
at Walthorn by Blooming Prairie
men.
S. o. Holmberg, Minneapolis car
penter, fell from a scaffold and was
killed.
The Normal school at Winon7 will
furnish free instruction to pupils of
the lower grade.
John Ostrander, of Minneapolis,
committed suicide by hanging after
heavy debauch.
Fred Reeves, an 8-year-old colored
boy, was perhaps fatally bitten by a
dog in Minneapolis.
G. w. Allen, for twenty-three years
resident of Minneapolis, was killed
AANoA A'AOAI1Cdl, NdudUd.
Freeman Kean, an old resident, was
almost instantly killed last night by
an electric car at West Duluth
-Four persons were seriously in
jured at Como park, St. Paul, in a
runaway accident caused by an auto
mobile.
A gang of Chicago Great Western
surveyors is running lines to connect
Hayfield, Dodge county, with Judge,
Olmstead county.
While blasting in the quarries at
Jasper Claus Young was seriously and
| perhaps fatally injured. Should he
recover his eyesight will be gone
DR.. George Francis James of the
| State Normal school of Los Angeles,
| CAL, has been elected professor of
pedagogy in the University of Mime
| sofa.
Jacob Mingelkouf, who runs
saloon at 311 Twentieth avenue north,
Minneapolis, was fined $75 for selling
beer to William Noon and Mash Clark,
both OF whom are minors.
| Francis A. Cummings of Minneapo-
lis, aged 10, while playing polo on the
grounds at Hartford, Conn, was
thrown from his pony and sustained
compound fracture of the skull.
Rev. j. j. Keane, pastor of the
Church of the Immaculate Concep-
ton, Minneapolis, has accepted the
appointment as bishop of Wyoming
and will be consecrated at the ca
thedral in St. Paul on Oct 2S.
The state normal board held brief
session to dispose of routine matters
prior to the opening of the normal
schools. The only matter of interest
to come up was the much agitated
| question of the disposition of books
sent to the normal school presidents
as members of the state library COM
mission.
Charles NJ. Peterson, a farmer liv-
ing near Porter, while on his way to-
attend the state fair, was doped and
robbed of $50. He fell in with three
strangers on the train, who gave him
drinks from bottle of whisky. He
does not have clear recollection of
what happened after that. He is now
in Mankato waiting for more money
to arrive from home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Murphy, two
old people, aged IS and "a years re-
spectively, were found dead in bed
in their room at 1915 Aldrich avenue
n, Minneapolis. The gas was turned
on full and death resulted from as
phyxiation. Coroner Williams decid-
ed that death was purely accidental.
Prominent members of the Mime
sofa Scandinavian Relief association
celebrated the birthday of August G.
Rosing, secretary of the association.
MIR. Rosing, the venerable father of
the Democratic candidate for COVER
nor, was so years old.
Frank Mccormack, brakeman on
the Minnesota and North Wisconsin
road, was killed at Scanlon white
coupling cars. Axel Peterson wa;
killed near Cloquet by an East bound
Great Northern passenger which ran
over him.
For the crop year ending Sept. 1,
Minneapolis received S4,381, O40 BUSH
els of wheat. This is gain of g.
419,440 bushels over the previous
year, and had it not been for the I'M
seasonable weather that has prevailed
for weeks and the extremely light
movement of wheat to market in Au-
gust, the gain would have been much
greater. Under the circumstances the
showing is gratifying.
Mrs. Clara r. Marsh, aged 10 years,
residing in Holland, VT, but staying
for few days at the Kendall hotel,
St. Paul, fell from the second story
window to the ground and received
injuries from which she died few
hours later.
At the meeting of the state board
of equalization in the state auditors
Office, C. NJ. Sprague of Sank Center,
was elected president: ]. E. Cooley,
Duluth, recording secretary, and l. L..
Philley, Lac Qui Parle, reading sec
rotary.
The state board of control is schem-
ing to beat the anthracite coal trust,
and instructions have been sent to all
the state institutions to try soft coal
in their cooking ranges. This is done
by some of the large hotels very sue
cessfully, and if soft coal can be used
in the state institutions for cooking,
no anthracite will have to be pur-
chased.
Two black bears in the zoo at Min
nehaha park treated the visitors to a
battle royal, the cause of contention
being very small dried up peanut
thrown by small boy. When they
were finally separated, one of the ami
mails was in a very sad state, being
minus several feet of epidermis.
Burglars looted the postoffice at
Elmwood but did not secure much
money, as all but few dollars was
in the safe, which they did not open.
Eight girls were put to work as