Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-05
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

A telephone system has been estab-
lished at Jasper.
Peter Split, of St. Paul, was held
up by Minneapolis thugs and robbed
of $19o.
The Avon creamery was burglarized
ind twenty tubs of butter, weighing
1900 pounds, stolen.
Thieves made entrance to the
Northwestern station at Pine Island,
but secured nothing of value.
Burglars stole $500 worth of jewelry
and silverware from the C. A. Pills
bury residence in Minneapolis.
The Highland Canal and Power COM
pany has taken an option to purchase
the Jay Cooke water power on the
St. Louis river for $1,OO0,o0o.
John s. Bouck, for many years en-
gagged in the ministry in connection
with the Methodist church, died at his
home in Princeton at the age of 70
years.
Mrs. L. j. Noren and her 9-year-old
son were severely burned in a kero-
sene explosion at Cokato. Mrs. Noren
attempted to start kitchen fire with
kerosene.
William Fort, switchman employ
ed in the Union depot yards at St.
Paul, was run over by a Northwest
ern train recently and received in
juries from which he died two hours
later.
Edward futile, of Minneapolis,
found guilty of assaulting Elizabeth
Zimmerman, was sentenced to the
states prison at Saltwater for a
period of five years at hard labor.
Minneapolis nimrods are preparing
to go up into the pine woods and hunt
deer as soon as the season opens. Up
to date County Auditor Scott has is
sued fifty-six licenses to persons who
wished to hunt deer.
Because he has scruples about send
ing man to Saltwater, Frank Mar
tin, who positively identified Thomas
Hanley as the person who held him
up in an alley in Minneapolis refused
to swear out a warrant against Han
ley.
When Mrs. J. McGrath of Mime
apolis, awoke in the morning she
found her two-weeks-old daughter,
Catherine, dead at her side. The
baby was lying fiat on it's face on the
pillow. At first the mother thought
the infant was only in sound sleep.
She tried to arouse the child by shak-
ing it, but was unsuccessful.
A new rural mail delivery route
from the St. Anthony Falls postal
station on the East Side to New Brigh-
ton, Ramsey county, will be insti-
tuted Nov. l. John McCullom will
be the mail carrier and Felix Bauman
will act as substitute.
Women may vote on the school
bond proposition which will be SUBJ
mitted to the voters of Minneapolis
at the general election on Nov. 4, in
spite of the dictum of some half-in-
formed, self-constituted authority.
The law is so plain on this point that
there is no occasion to call in learn
ed law man to construe it,
Nicholas Anderson, a Underwood
foreman, aged so, choked to death
while eating at the Colson house in
Duluth. He choked with the first
morsel he put in his mouth and all
efforts to save him were Of no avail
He died within ten minutes.
Minnesota and Iowa universities
have practically closed arrangements
for a new compact for joint debates.
The formal proposition was submitted
by the Gopher collegians and the
Hawkeyes have decided that the sug-
gestions, with few exceptions, are
good. Accordingly debates will doubt
less be resumed next year under the
new compact.
Pickands, Mather & Co., of Cleve-
land, who have had an option on the
Elizabeth mine at Hibbing for several
weeks, have practically closed for the
property and the bonus of $ooO,0O0 for
the lease.
The livery barn of William Hessian
burned at Redwood Falls. Five horses
were burned to death. Loss, $4,000,
with $1,000 insurance. Incendiarism
is suspected.
The State Bank Hartland was au-
thorized to do business. The capital
is $4,000. The president is J. C.
Cheney and the cashier is E. O. Ner-
Wig.
Captain E. c. Bill, the oldest cap.
tain on the Mississippi river, died at
Winona after having suffered from a
paralytic stroke, which he received
several months ago.
Tony Orinolto, an italian, is under
arrest at the Central police station in
St. Paul charged with an assault with
a dangerous weapon. It is alleged
that he attempted to shoot signor
Buberto, the proprietor of the
Bucket of Blood" saloon, but instead
seriously wounded.
William, the 6-year-old son of James
Hamm, of St. Paul, took a dose of
carbolic acid and will probably die.
The poison was taken by the child
accidentally.
Water in the Mississippi is so low
that the river power house of the
Twin City Rapid Transit company is
unable to supply current enough to
run it's cars. If it were not for the
5000 horse power storage batteries
which the company has installed, not
all of the lines in the city could be
operated, owing to lack of power.
o. NJ. Sawyer, proprietor of the
Ideal hotel, at Elgin, hanged himself
to the railroad bridge south of town.
He was discovered by school child
rem.
The lumber industry in the north
ern tier of counties is being rapidly
succeeded by agriculture, says State
Auditor Dunn, who has just returned
from an extensive sale of state lands