Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-04-18
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.


lied under the leadership of George
Ragerman.
Senator Moses E. Clapp has been
secured to give the Memorial day
address in Austin.
Joel Miller, employed at Alger,
Smith & Co.'s saw mill, Duluth, die
during rage at the mill.
William Ewart was appointed post
| master at Vivian, Waseca county, VICE
A. j. Tangeman, resigned.
The corner stone of the new NJ. E.
church was laid at Princeton, Rev.
DR.. Forbes officiating at the cere-
mony.
Judge Cant at Duluth sentenced
Richard Hannah, who was convicted
of manslaughter to fifteen years at
saltwater.
Several concealed cases OF small
| pox were reported to the state board
| of health recently from the town Of
Benton near Belle PLANE.
President H. Allen of the Red Wing
Ladies' seminary was seriously injur-
ed and came very near being killed in
jumping from Milwaukee train. =.
Detective Moran of the Margaret
street police precinct, St. Paul, ar
| rested seven men on a charge Of tres
| passing in the Burlington railroad
| yards.
Democrats had the best of the mu-
nicipal election at Winona. L. L.
Brown, their nominee for mayor, de-
! feating E. X. Tarbell (rep.) in hard
| fight.
After celebrating for over thirty
one hours the jury in the case of
Chester Clegg, at Luverne, charged
with grand larceny, found him guilty,
of petit larceny.
A daring robbery occurred in tho
saloon of w. Burns, l55 East Seventh,
street, ST. Paul The thieves got the
bartender's watch and $40 from the;
cash register.
James A. Tormey, superintendent;
of the Winona public schools, has
been elected to the position of SUPER
intendent at Spokane, WASH, at sal;
airy of $4,000 per year.
The Chicago Great Western round-7
house at Mankato burned and two
freight engines were destroyed. The;
fire started in the oilroom. The build,
ing was of no great value.
Total blindness has stricken Paul.
RAIDER, noted football player and
Hamline coach, as the result of in iu-
ries received in the Hamline-Carle-'
ton football game last fall.
The mattress factory at the Mime
sofa school for the feeble minded at
out by the attendants. The entire,
damage will not exceed $500.
A rich find of metallic iron ore has
been made on Andrew Johnson's
homestead on the Highland iron
range, thirteen miles from Two Har-
bors. This is the new iron range.
H. B. Knudsen and W. A. Eden have
secured contract from the North
ern Pacific road to handle the steve
dore work on the company's six
docks at Duluth this year It is a
large contract and from 300 to 500
men will be required.
Death by bullets fired from a revolt
YER in her own hands was the end
chosen by young woman in the
edge of the woods near Nicollet ave-
nue. and Forty-second street, Mime
apolis.
A labor difficulty which threatened
to result in strike, has lust been
settled in Winona by arbitration. By
the settlement the sheet metal work
ers have been granted an increase of
20 per cent in wages per hour, and
the work day has been reduced from
ten to nine hours
Material for the new sewer system
is on the ground at Slayton and work
will begin at once. The village coun-
Gil has given franchise to B. l. Weld
to put in gas plant for public and
private lighting.
The receipts at the Minneapolis
postoffice last month were 1872, 1876,
as against $s1,O13.2s during March
1902. This difference of s11,700.4s in
dicates gratifying increase of IA per
cent
The annual reoprt of the superin-
tendent of the St. Paul workhouse
shows that during the year 9SS per-
sons were received at the house, over
half of this number being sentenced
for drunkenness. OF the whole num-
Der gu were first commitments, lis
second, 40 third, and two were sent
up for the fortieth time.
The Great Northern has Just az.
quired another iron mine on the Me.
saba range. 1t is known as the Mis-.
saba Chief, and contains a large de.
post of low grade ore, estimated al
100000 tons.
; Mrs. Mary Hickey was burned to
death at Mortified. She was making
bread when her clothing caught fire
from the stove. She ran to another
room, but when her son arrived she
was dead. He succeeded in quench.
ing the fire in the kitchen.
The first boat to clear from Duluth
for lower lake ports left with 175,0Ol
bushels of wheat. 1t was the Sultana.
Captain Driscoll. According to thf
time-honored custom the usual fee
for the clearance papers was re-
funded.
William Behrns has been appointed
regular carrier and III. Willian
Behrns, Jr., substitute, on the rura
, route at Chaska; also Louis Ande1
son, regular carrier, and Carl Boyun
J substitute, on the route At Kasson.