Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-07-18
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

: Authority has been granted for the
organization of the y irst National
Bank of Rush City, with capital Of
$a5;OOO. ~
A Wright county medical society
was organized at Buffalo, almost ali
of the doctors of the county being
present.
Settlers of Beltrami county report
game of all kinds more plentiful this
year than for many seasons past.
Deer are especially numerous.
Two electricians met horrible
death at duluth at the grounds of the
Ferari Carnival. They are Moses
Blewett of Dulu.h ana George Rabis-
chung of a12 University avenue, St.
Paul.
The Cass Lake land office was
opened. in an informal manner. The
register, receiver and two clerks were
present, with few prominent bust
ness men.
Patrolman Moses Zimmerman of
the West Side police precinct, St.
Paul, was beaten into insensibility by
three young men. They took the po-
iceman's club from him and beat him
over the head and kicked him while
he was unconscious on Tie sidewalk.
Mike Welsh, a section foreman at
Burnett, seventeen miles from Du-
, luth, employed by the Duluth, Mis-
sabe & Northern road, suffered the
loss of his right hand while setting off
giant crackers. He was brought to
Duluth on a special train to enter a
hospital.
The body of a man badly decom-
posed, having been in the water for
months, probably, was found near the
water power mill at Cloquet. Letters
in his pocket gave his name as Otto
! Swanson. His drowning is supposed
to have been accidental.
Wolford and Franklin Nelson, sons
! of Alexander Nelson, were drowned
in Lake St. Croix near the Atwood
A mill yards, Saltwater, while Latt.
: ing. The boys were nine and ten
F; years of age.
Despondent over his inabllity to Sc.
cure work and brooding over repeat
ed attacks of ill health, John Carl.
| son, a tailor living in St. Paul, sihshed
his throat from ear to ear wit a
razor and then lay down on a couch
in the parlor of his home and died
| Archie, the sixteen-months-old SOL
of A. D. Hall, St. Paul, fell from q
window, distance Of forty feet, ant
received serious injuries. The boy
sustained no fractures, but he j:
thought to be hurt internally.
The fiscal year for The United
| States government closed June 80
and the customs receipt at the por
of St. Paul amounted to $sSO,OOO. III,
internal revenue collections for tn
district of Minnesota, comprising st
Paul, minneapolis and Duluth, wer
$1,465, 57o.62. The report of the post
Office receipts is not finished, bu
enough has been compiled to show al
increase of $4,000 over the bushes
of last year.
Maj. Burlingame, of Tracy, is do
ing little house cleaning for tn
good of the city. Many bushes
places have been operating nickel-in
the-slot machines without let O
hindrance for several years. Tn
mayor instructed the marshal to or
der every machine in town removed
at once, and by morning they had al
disappeared. Many small boys wer
fooling away lots of money ana &C
quiring the gambling habit by mean
of them.
John NJ. McClintock of Duluth ha
undertaken to mine iron ore from
under the waters of Longyear lake
in the ,Aesapa range, without lower
ing the level of the wafer in the lax
or interfering with the riparian
rights of the other owners along tn
shore. Just how Mr.. McCintock will
accomplish this he does not state, bu
he has taken out a prospector's leas
and evidently intends to find way.
He is county attorney of St. Loui
county.