Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-04-11
ROUND ABOUT TIE STATE.

1uc canning factory ~ NudtAcA0 -
nearly completed.
The Commercial hotel at Cambridge
was destroyed by fire.
Erick Rusk of Springvale accidental
Swenden.
Henry Cousins, contracting logger
of Morris was found dead in a Min
neapolis hotel.
James Brockstrom, of Minneapolis,
was found unconscious with his
throat cut in St. Paul hotel.
Ole Anderson, laborer, of St. Paul,
walked Oh a bluff at Fort Smelling.
He struck head first and his skull was
crushed.
An unidentified man deliberately
threw himself in front OF an Iron
Range train near Two Harbors, and
was ground to pieces.
Howard James, purchasing agent OF
the Great Northern railway, has been
selected to become president of the
Northern Steamship company.
! Preston village voted by 204 to 10
to issue $4,000 bonds to pay for the
| right-of-way for the Preston-Isinours
branch of the Milwaukee railway.
One hundred journeymen plasterers
walked out of the new capitol because
the master plumbers union refused to
agree to better hours and more pay.
! Burglars broke into the Church OF
the Immaculate Conception in Fari--
bault and stole the gold altar vessels,
valued at about $3.50. They left no,
clue.
The Central High School of St. Paul
defeated the Austin High School at
st. Paul in a debating contest for
chance to compete in the finals of the
High School Debating League.
The Irvine output at the prison fac
tory this season is exhausted, orders
having been booked for all the twine
manufactured. Many orders have been
returned to farmers and there will
be no twine for the dealers.
Fire completely destroyed the
Spau!ding hotel at Walker. The losses
are: Albert Carlson. saloon, $500, no
insurance; c. l.. Logan. restaurant,
5000, no insurance, John hing, hotel
and furniture, $4,000, insured.
j. W. Brown. formerly superintend-
ent of the Minnesota state training
school at Red Wing, has accepted the
position of superintendent of the
| North Dakota reform school at Man
| dan.
Saturday night Joseph Harbuck and
John FOUNDER, two lumberJacks, slept
together in a lodging house in Min
neapolis. Sunday morning wehn JOS
eph woke up he found that $3.50 which
he had saved while up in the woods
! during the winter was missing-and
! so was John.
General orders No. provide for the
encampment season which opens at
Lake City on June IS. when the First
regiment and battalion of artillery ar
rive. The Third. regiment twill come
on July and break camp July 10, and
| the Second will be in camp from July
IA until July 21.
| The Pennington school board mas
reelected Superintendent F. P. Phipps
for his fifth successive year. The past
year has been marked by exceptional
~ good work and the erection of a
large addition to the school building.
Judge Flaherty at Morris sentenc-
ed Harry Martin for one year after
! he pleaded guilty to forgery in the
third degree, and John Finley for
nine months, for grand larceny in the
ssecond degree.
! A clever robbery was perpetrated in
the jewelry store of S. Jacobs & Co.,
SIG Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis,
when a colored man walked out with
an unmounted diamond valued at
S131. The police have a good descrip-
ton of the man and his pal.
i Secretary Hitchcock has ordered pa
| tented to the state of minnesota list
No. of the school indemnity sections,
embracing 32,O34 acres in the Crook
ston district.
The man who committed suicide at
Sanborn has been found to be R. NJ.
Chase of May City, Iowa.. He walked
into the station, and BEFORE any one
there realized what he was about he
had cut his throat with pocketknife.
He died soon after the doctor reached
him.
Thieves broke into the Olson Hard
ware store on Raymond avenue in St.
| Anthony Park and stole twelve dozen
knives, number of razors and several
pairs of clippers.
Two lumberjacks were killed by
trains near Duluth. One was killed on
the Sucker river bridge on the Iron
Range road. His name was George
Smithfeld and he was thrown eighty
feet in the river.
All So bills in circulation in Mime
apolis are under suspicion. This is
occasioned by the arrival of some very
deceitful greenbacks of the So denomi-
nation. These have every appearance
of being just what they purport to be,
legal tender. But they are bad, very
bad, because they are so good.
Albin Nelson has been appointed re-
gular carrier and julius Peterson sub
stitute on the new rural route at
Gladstone. 81. Chill has been namd
regular carrier and Elmer Forth sub
stitute On the new route at North 81,
| Paul.
A man from up north claimed to
have lost 500 while in Crookston, and
had couple of others arrested for the
theft. Nothing was found against
them or on them more than their
clothes, and they were dismissed with
a warning not to let it happen again.