Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-09-12
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.


The strike condition in Minneapolis
u unchanged.
A. F. Kratsch, 80 years old, died at
4ankato from the effects of fall.
The Gold-Stabeck bank and tho
bank of Redwood Falls have CONSOLE
dated.
Professor J. Thaler OF Calmar,
Iowa, has been engaged to instruct
che Preston band.
The Lyman-Irwin Lumber company
was incorporated for $4,000 and not
$4,000, at Excelsior.
Charles McLeon fell from tho open
window OF Minneapolis hotel and
died in the hospital.
Work ON the new opera house 1t
Preston is being pushed and tho
building will be ready October !.
Svon Peterson was appointed post
master at Adolph, St. Louis county,
MINI, vice. P. A. Bjorln, resigned.
Reports from the wild rice fields
are that there will not be largo
crop. The cool and wet weather has
injured this cereal.
o n Olson has secured the contract
from the state board of control for
the construction of q new cellroom
addition at the prison to cost $22.-
600.
Rice and old shoes pelted in tra-
ditional godspeed at West Duluth
bridal party entering carriage
frightened the horses attached, and
at the heels of wildly racing team
the bride and her maid of honor were
dragged in mad race through the
streets. Very luckily neither was
hurt.
The St. Paul school board has de-
cided that pianos in schools are an
UNNECESSARY expense and has ordered
them out The saving will be about
$1,000 per year.
Robert S. Ross OF Colfax, Iowa. was
struck by the engine of a passenger
train in the Great Western yards in
st. Paul and received injuries which
may prove fatal.
AS the result of an accident Miss
Cassie Benjamin, IT years old, one Of
the best known young women Of
southeast Minneapolis, died at her
home of carbolic acid poisoning.
When the name of Ole Olson was
called in the police court St. Paul to
answer to charge of drunkenness a
big. strapping Sioux Indian stepped
out of the "bull pen" and confronted
Clerk Dix. The prisoner insisted that
his name was Ole Olson, that he came
from New Sweden, in Redwood county
and was visitor to the state fair.
Over one hundred loads of potatoes
were marketed in Elk River in one
day. Some of them were hauled from
beyond Zimmerman, from tho neigh
borhood of St. Francis and from near
Anoka, and many from Wright coun-
ty.
The people Of St. Paul consume tho
least milk per capita of the three
largest cities in Minnesota, according
to the report of the milk supply of
200 cities received by the state dairy
and food commission yesterday from
III. E. Alvord, chief of the dairy d.
vision of the United States depart
ment of agriculture.
State Superintendent OF Public In
struction Olson reports that the cost
of maintaining "a summer schools
this year was $26,s48, as against only
$25,696, for 81 schools Last year. The
enrolment, too, fell off from 1865 to
&,359.
Tory Nietzel, 14-year-old boy was
found guilty of stealing IS from C. NJ.
Cowzet's safe at Delano and was sent
to the reformatory at St. Cloud. A
comrade, O'Leary, was let go, the evil
dence showing that Nietzel took the
money. i
1t is announced By the Duluth
street car company that $4,000 will
be expended before winter in the pur-
chase of new motor equipment and
that the power will be materially I'M
proved.
The state bank of Silver Lake.
Mimi, was robbed of $4,000 in cash
and all notes and securities The safe
was completely destroyed. There is
no clue to the perpetrators.
Ira Flemming was arra4gned before
Judge Page Morris in tia federal
court charged; with making counter
felt fifty-cent pieces. Femming ID
united the charge. =. -"s>'
Hugh Martin: employed By tho, St.
Paul health department. to pemoye
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