The Tomahawk., 1903-09-17
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

Mankato from the effects of fall.
The Gold-Stabeck bank and the
bank of Redwood Falls have cunsoli-
| dated.
Professor j. Thaler of Calmar,
Iowa, has been engaged to instruct
the Preston band.
The Lyman-Irwin Lumber company
was Incorporated for $4,000 and not
| $4,000, at Excelsior.
Charles McLeon fell from the open
window of Minneapolis hotel and
died in the hospital.
Work on the new opera house at
Preston is being pushed and the
building will be ready October 1.
Svon Peterson was appointed post
master at Adolph, st. Louis county,
Mimi, vice P. A. Bjorlin, resigned.
Reports from the wild rice fields
are that there will not be large
crop. The cool and wet weather has
injured this cereal.
OH Olson has secured the contract
from the state board of control for
the construction of new cellroom
addition at the prison to cost $22,-
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Rice and old shoes pelted in ira
ditional godspeed at West Duluth
bridal party entering carriage
frightened the horses attached, and
at the heels of wildly racing team
the bride and her maid of honoy were
dragged in mad race through the
| streets. Very luckily neither was
| hurt.
The St. Paul school board has de-
| cided that pianos in schools are an
unnecessary expense and has ordered
them out. The saving will be about
81 900 per year.
Robert S. Ross of Colfax, Iowa, was
struck by the engine of a passenger
train in the Great Western yards in
St. Paul and received injuries which
may prove fatal.
AS the result of an accident Miss
Cassie Benjamin, II years old, one OF
the best known young women OF
southeast Minneapolis, died ut her
home of carbolic acid poisoning.
When the name of Ole Olson was
called in the police court st. Paul to
answer to charge of drunkenness
big, strapping Sioux Indian stepped
out of the "bull pen" and confronted
Clerk Dix. The prisoner insisted that
his name was Ole Olson, that he came
from New Sweden, in Redwood county
and was visitor to the state fair.
Over one hundred loads of potatoes
were marketed in Elk River in one
day. Some of them were hauled from
| beyond Zimmerman, from the neigh
borhood of St. Francis and from near
Anoka, and many from Wright coun-
| ty.
The people Of st. Paul consume the
least milk per capita Of the three
largest cities in Minnesota, according
to the rep..t Of the milk supply OF
zoe cities 1eceived by the state dairy
and food commission yesterday from
H. E. Alvord, chief of the dairy di-
vision of the United States depart
ment of agriculture.
State Superintendent of Public In
struction Olson reports that the cost
Of maintaining "a summer schools
this year was $26,346, as against only
$25,696, for 81 schools last year. The
enrollm ent, too, fell off from 1866 to
1889.
Tory Nietzel, 14-year-old boy was
found guilty of stealing SIS from G. M.
Cowzet's safe at Delano and was sent
to the reformatory at St. Cloud. A
comrade, O'Leary, was let go, the evi-
dence showing that Nietzel took the
money.
It is announced by the Duluth
street car company that $4,000 will
be expended before winter in the pur-
chase of new motor equipment and
that the power will be materially i'm
proved.
The state bank of Silver Lake,
Mimi, was robbed of $4,000 in cash
and all notes and securities. The safe
was completely destroyed. There is
no clue to the perpetrators.
Ira Flemming was arraigned before
Judge Page Morris in the federal
court charged with making counter
felt ffty-cent pieces. Flem1ning ad-
mitted the charge.
Hugh Martin, employed by the ST.
Paul health department to remove
dead animals, has been missing for
three weeks.
Reichow Brothers of st. Paul will
institute an automobile hack service
from the st. Paul union depot to st.
Anthony hill. An automobile hack
| service from St. Paul to South St.
| Paul is also to be started soon.
Lost in the woods for eight days
and without food, was the experi-
cnce of George Smith, who lives near
Winton.
The supposed tramp who was shot
by Chief of Police Ramage, escaped
from the insane asylum at Roches-
ter. He says his name is Anderson.
| NJ. j. Heffler and Lew Wilson were
arrested at Luverne charged with
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