Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-05-30
ROUND ABOUT THE STATR

ROUND ABOUT THR srATR
Winona is to have = new brewery.
A Red Wing woman tried to mail
Z letter in a fire alarm box and called
out the fire department and hundreds
of Spectators.
Thomas Short, seventy years Of
age, and rather feeble, fell into the
river near Fort Smelling, and would
have drowned had not DR.. C.. B.
Strang and Frank LaDue, a UNIVERSE
ty law student, jumped in and drag
ged him out Of eight feet Of water.
The Clark-Jackson Lumber com.
pany secured q contract from the
Hines Lumber Company of Chicago
to saw 2o,o00, 600 feet of lumber this
season. Contracts for $4,000, 600 feet
more viii be let necessitated by the
burning recently Of the Scofeld mill
ut Superior which was to have sawed
the entire so,ooo, 900 feet for the Hine,
company.
Harry Child, son of DIR. n. b.
Child, of Minneapolis, had q narrow
escape from drowning in Lake Min
netonka. He was in . sailboat when
the craft capsized. Harry Swenson,
Minneapolis attorney, reached the
young man with q rowboat and took
him to shore.
Albert Peterson of st. Paul, . pas
senger on an eastbound Northern Pa
cif1c train. fell from his car near
Trout creek, Mont, and died in Mis-
soula hospital, where he was COR
veyed by special train.
John Oliver was sentenced for two
months at Slayton for selling mort
gagged property. Austin and Robert
McCullom, brother, were sentenced to
the reformatory for stealing horses.
A. S. Pierce, an employee of the Mil
waukee road, was held up in St. Paul
by man and a woman and robbed
| OF $50. The woman was arrested and
SO found on her person. Tho man
fed with SO.
A river driver giving the name Of
E. d. Williams, was locked up at Lit
tie Falls on q charge of having had
several small checks cashed with tho
forged name of A. C. Morrill,.
William Koelner of Collegeville
town was possibly fatally injured in
q saw mill accident. He was struck
by driving belt and thrown on the
carriage. He sustained a fractured
skull.
Henry Green, Of St. Cloud, a veter-
an of the Eleventh Minnesota in tho
civil war, is dead at the age Of ~.
He lived in Stearns county since 1861,
and was forced by the Indians to-
leave his homestead near Melrose in.
Pioneer days.
By breaking in plate ghss door
thieves effected an entrance to the
store of the HUM Drug company in
Minneapolis and made away with
about $25 worth of candy and cigars.
The supreme lodge of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen viii as
semble in St. Paul June 9. More than
1000 delegates and visitors from all
parts of the county will be present
and important matters will be dis
cussed.
Work has commenced on the build
ing ot a 20O-fQpt docks At Beaver Bay,
twenty-five miles up the shore from
Two Harbors. Heretofore passengers
and merchandise have been transfer
red from the boats to the shore BY
skiffs.
The entire product Of the binding
Irvine factory at the Saltwater peni-
Tertiary has this year been sold to
farmers for the first time In the his
tory Of the institution. i
A report Of iron discoveries On
| what il described as the Western
Vermillion range reached Duluth.
The finds are in the nefghborhood Of
Graves lake, north of Deer River and
far from any known iron deposit In
the recognized iron county.
The forty sixth annual session Of
the 'Wmona district conference OF
Congregational ministers and
churches was held 1t Lake City. A
large number of delegates. and minis
ters we're prssent =.
Sheriff Hardy, Cass county, report
ed finding the body Of . man, in the
creek this stde Of Backus,. 4 who Sis
Thought 10 have been murdered: b.
dicatioas pefAtssd 70 ne fact: 81 De
man having been slugged, dragged
sonae d1staaee and then thrown in de
eEeek. ,.Iji3L;:.I mod r.
a3Wash1neten county teeehe1 ars 10
haNe s. sumner training school at
stilheater in June, continuing for 9x
weeks. Prot e. F. ": Carlson sof
Alexandria, formerly Of Saltwater,
v!iin % = charge 81 the school. {
& g. 1velson,,,e ~ sst.te auditor, est m
ates that THO Nelson Law taxnc
freight en- con1pslies md tie 4 Per:
est stex %, 1.ied aai gT1os. -
when put in operation whlnProy5de..
sdditfons1 revenue 70 tie Estate Cot;
sooo,o6o = year. Tie gross esrniles'
tax, however, must be ratified at he.
fEenezsI election before &it viii = BE-