Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-12-23
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE,

1ne minnesota DIVISION OF the Intel.
national Sunshine society met in Min
neapolis.
The Housekeeper building in Min
neapolis was damaged to the extent
Of $1,000.
Watson Williams, ID years old, was
arrested in Minneapolis an a charge
of stealing a purse.
The jury in the case of the state VS..
w. H. Hatton returned verdict of
not guilty at Saltwater.
Only seventeen cases of smallpox
were reported to the state board of
health for the week ending Dec. z.
In the four hospitals and -asylums
in Minnesota 1,165 patients are for
elgn born and S15 are native born.
Samuel G. Andrist, president of the
st. Paul Retail Grocers' association,
died at Bethesda hospital of appendi-
citis.
The Bull Inventment Company of
Duluth, capital $4,000, filed articles
OF incorporation with the secretary OF
state.
A meeting of employees of the Min
nesota Transfer Railway Company
was held for the purpose of taking
action on the proposition to establish
a railway Y. NJ. C. A.
Walter Vanderwerker, a hackdriver
residing with his mother in St. Paul,
was taken to the city hospital suffer
ing from the effects of an overdose of
laudanum. It is thought that he will
recover.
A courtship of eight days, less than
a month of married life, and a cell
in the Central police station, is the
fortune of Mrs. Phillis Blood, who
was arrested on the charge of vag-
rancy in Minneapolis, at the request
of her husband.
State Auditor Iverson, assisted by
State Treasurer Block, conducted a
sale of timber lands at Duluth and
sold about two-thirds of what they
offered, or $4,000 worth.
The supreme court has decided that
there is no moral obligation on the
part of the state to pay the Minnesota
Sugar Company $19,925.3e, the amount
claimed to have been earned in 1906
under the sugar bounty act of 1899.
The stockholders of the St. An
thony Furniture Company at st. An
thony Park have decided to wind VI
the affairs of the company, and J. w
Halstead has been placed in charge
to finish making up the material OF
hand and to wind up the business.
Articles of Incorporation were flee
by the Fire Insurance Protective AS
ISOLATION of America, with headquar
tiers in Minneapolis; capital, 100000.
The Stewartville creamery wa
burned. Loss on building, $1,000
machinery, $500. Total insurance
$780,
A tramp by the name of Henri,
Williams stole an overcoat from tn
Commercial college at Lake City ant
took the train for Wabasha, wher,
he was arrested He pleaded guilt,
and was sentenced to sixty days il
Jail.
Franklin Stimson, for twenty year
a resident of Duluth, and for a mum
Der of years engineer of the Mesab
block, committed suicide by takin;
chloroform.
Three families were renderedShome
less by the destruction of the tene
ment house at 1919 Hewitt avenue
Merriam Park. H. ]. Hubbard an
Frank and William Kahn, who occu
pied the upper story, had to see
shelter with friends.
Twenty-Five million feet of the ey
pected production of 100000 feet O
No. boards by the mills on the Du
luth-Superior harbor for the seaso
of 1904 has already been contracte
for by eastern box makers and 9th
ers.
Frank Palacek, living at 2o10 Sec
ond street north, Minneapolis, wa
severely burned in fire which dam
aged his home to the extent of a fe,
hundred dollars.
Secretary E. w. Randall of the stat
; fair board announces that Minnesot
has again secured the cooperation {
, the American Hereford Breeders a!
ISOLATION and the American Shorthor
Breeders association for a nations
cattle show at the next state fair.
Plans for amending and revisin
the probate code in general and tn
advisability of committing peopl
who have mild form of insanity t
,, special home for indigents instea
of to regular asylum were DISGUISE
at the annual meeting of the Mimi
sofa Association of Probate Judge
in St. Paul.
, With his frontal bone fracture,
his nose crushed and his right chez
battered in, Paul Schmideck of Ro
. lingstone is recovering from a ver
, serious accident. In company wit
, Alfred Sens he started to drive to A
, tura. The horse ran away and tn
buggy was dashed against post.
With less than twenty minutes
which to work, sneak thieves entere
the home of Mrs. r. Fl. Passmore,
Minneapolis, and stole more than So
worth of jewelry from a "blini
drawer, taking also some valuab
: sealskin garments.
Anton Anderson. a farmer. believe
: to have been insane, shot himself
his home near Battle Lake. He W,
unmarried.