The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-06-26
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

Chas. Radtke was badly injured BY
falling from a handcar, which jumped
the track at Rochester. 81, az
John Olsen, 165 jackson street,
West st. Paul, was drowned in Lake
Vadnais, five miles north of St. Paul,
The Black Duck waterworks, cost
| ing $1,000, has been completed. Black
Duck now has excellent fire protec.
ton. 8''
The Faribault Commercial club is
devlsing means to induce farmers to
raise sugar beets in order to get q
factory.
| The 6-year-old daughter OF, -. John
Wayda, farmer Of vHoldingford, was
crushed under a falling tree and died
in ten hours. IL !
George Randall, brakeman on the
Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad, was
killed in railroad accident at Eden
Prairie, Hennepin county. go, - ..,.
The sixth biennial convention OF
the Catholic Order of Foresters for
the jurisdiction of Minnesota opened
three days. session at St Cloud.
James Robiskie, a well digger at
Glencoe was buried eighteen feet
| deep in an old we'll that cated in.
Men worked secven hours to recover
MS body.
Coal has been found near Duluth in
| sufficient quantities to warrant bust
ness men to form . company to mine
it, and accordingly the Willow River
Coal company filed articles Of incor-
poration, with a capital stock of
100000.
Judge Buckham, of Owatonna, has
denied the petition for change of
venueNin the Krier murder case, Civ
ing the waste of time necessitated
by SIGH course as his chief reason.
The state dairy and food commits
sion is conducting an investigation
into the cheese factories of the state
and announces that so far they have
been found to be generally in excel
lent condition. !:
A span of horses, harness and car
riage were stolen from the barn of
G. E. johnson, five miles southeast of
Grand Meadows. Officers are in pur-
suit of the thieves. =
F. F. La Rowe, assistant general
agent for the American Express COM
pany in st. Paul, has been appointed
general agent for the company in
Sioux City. -.
R. R. Hudson, Superior plumber.
has filed papers in suit against T..
Il. Bunker, president of the Duluth
plumbers union, charging him with
Islander, and demanding $1,000 dam
ages. :. The complainant alleges that
Bunker attempted to injure him in a
business way by rejecting upon his
unionism.
James Mannarino, the nineteen
year. old Italian who was recently
sentenced to serve four years at Still
water for shooting Policeman Joseph
Puglesa in St. Paul, assumed the en-
tire burden of the shooting, and tes-
titled that none of the other four Ita-
lians accused of being implicated in
the deed fired a shot at the police
man: :."'
While her husband Martin Lacour-
STARE, of $40 Garfield avenue, Duluth.
was out at nearby grocery. store, on
an errand, his wife Lena hung her
self. with a clothesline in a back room
of their home. Ill health was the
cause.
Forest D. Varnum, inspector of
electric wires for the city of St. Paul,
was appointed by Governor Van SAINT
as a member of the state board of
electrical examiners, to succeed C. L..
Pillsbury, resigned.
The sixty-five members of the grad
uating class of the law school of the
state university took oath before the
supreme court and were admitted to
practice in Minnesota. -
Three mammoth new steel eleva-
tors with a storage capacity of ap-
proximately 3,500,o00 bushels of
wheat and estimated to cost $75O,OOO,
are to be built in Duluth within the
next year:
Almost every member of the grad
uating class of the Winona normal
school who received diplomas at the
commencement exercises have secur-
ed a school for next year. The ex-
ercises proper were held in the opera
house at Winona when Senator Moses
E. Clapp delivered powerful address
to the class, and Governor Van SAINT
presented the members, seventy-four
in number, with their diplomas.
Simon Erickson, popular young
farmer of Hauley Falls, recently en-
ployed as an engineer in Granite
Falls, became intoxicated and fell
asleep on the track of the Minneap-
oils & St. Louis. When the midnight
passenger came along it cut him to
pieces.
The lack of harmony that has been
in existence for over a year at the
agricultural college has resulted in
the enforced resignation of four MEM
bers of the faculty. Tney are Prof.
F. D. Tucker, principal; Mrs. Virginia
Meredith, preceptress of the girls
department.; Mr.. Mahood, physical in
structor, and Mrs. Mayhood, instruc-
tor in algebra.
A sensational attempt on the life
of C. B. Johnson, North Western
railway agent at Owatonna was made
by man named Frederick Dietz. The
attack was made in broad daylight
with long dirk-shaped knife. The
man was overpowered before he could
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