Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-05
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE

the Crookston high school.
The railroads have decided to cut
Off favors for party business.
The railroads will run two coach
excursions a week to St. Louis.
The grape crop is large and the
price on the market unusually low.
Henry H. Biddell, railway fire.
man, is killed at the Minnesota Trans
fer,
The state fair receipts are more
than 100000 in spite of the bad
weather.
j. ]. Regain of St. Paul today was
reelected state president of the Hi
bernians.
Judge L. w. Collins is made a mem
Der of the National G. A. r. executive
committee.
The efforts of the Minnesota ar
tillerymen to secure an Interstate
! match fail.
The state board of equalization
raises the assessed valuation of house,
hold furniture.
Dan Patch, pacing king of the
world, is now convalescing at his
home at Savage.
Threshing engines are said to be
making bad work of Crookston's as
phalt pavement.
M. J. Finn of Little Rock succeeds
Mike Kelley as manager of the St.
Paul baseball team.
Hilda Olein of Rush City, Minn.,
made insane by religion, creates panic
in Duluth theater.
Two boys were seriously injured
in street car accident at Grand
avenue and Oxford street, St. Paul.
A Commercial club committee criti-
cises the exhibit in the new manu-
features building at the state fair.
The plant of the St. Paul Sash,
Door and Lumber company is burned,
causing loss estimated at $4,000.
John Falber of LIE sueur, section
foreman of the Omaha road at o.
tawa, was run over on the track and
killed.
The cornerstone of the new build
Ing of Gustavus Adolphus college was
laid at st. Peter in the presence of
1900 persons.
w. T. Walker of Minneapolis was
fined 81 in the police court for oper-
ating his automobile faster than the
state law allows.
After Sept. rs the curb market, so
long feature of wheat trading on
the Minneapolis market, will be a
thing of the past.
The St. Paul water board will pur-
chase an electrical thawing device
for keeping the house connections
open during the winter.
At a stockholders meeting of the
Battle Lake mills it was decided to
sell the mill to Head & Mcclellan of
the Otter Tail County bank.
DR.. II. M. Bracken, secretary of
the state board of health, says ty-
phoid fever is prevalent in many of
the smaller cities of the state.
Julius Hartvel, state chemist, will
attend the conference in st. Louis to
recommend standards for the pro-
posed national pure food laws.
The wife of T. M. Torstenson, a
farmer living in Elk Lake township,
three miles north of Hoffman, was
found in the granary shot dead.
At least 900 trunks are handled
every day at the Minneapolis union
depot. During the week of the state
fair the number ran above 1000 every
day.
While walking on the Bird mine
location on the Mesaba range, John
Nimila fell forty feet into test pit,
and received injuries which will prove
fatal.
A desperate attempt to stab Police
man Andrew Erickson with scissors
was made by Jessie Bowers, colored,
in the room of a colored man at Min
neapolis.
The skeleton of a child probably
four months old was found yester-
day afternoon by Patrick Gibbons
near Snail lake, nine miles north of
St. Paul.
There are sixteen prisoners in the
county Jail at Bemidji, four of them
accused of murder or attempted MUIR
commencing Tuesday.
The largest truck automobile in
America has just been finished by a
New York firm for the Pillsbury-
Washburn company, and will be used
to deliver -four in Minneapolis.
There has been another advance
In the price of clam shells at Winona,
and they bring SIS a ton, as against
$12 short time ago. The reason for
this is that the supply is diminish
ing.
The remains of the man who was
killed on the Great Northern at the
oity limits have been identified as
those of Edward P. Rowe of Ashta-
bula, Ohio, and will be sent there for
burial.
w. H. Aarons, known as the "Bone-
SETTER" is under arrest in Mime
apolis, charged with practicing medi-
cine in the state without license.
w. H. Norris of this city is the COM
planning witness.
John Oslund, farmer living near
Mankato, was robbed of gold watch
valued at $50 and $40 in cash, in an
alley of Second street, St. Paul. His
assailants, two in number, succeeded
in getting away with their plumber
after choking Oslund into insensi-
bility.
Big placards printed in vivid red
ink and carrying q warning against
splitting on the floor, under penalty
of fine of IS, have been sent to all
the theaters and passenger stations
in Minneapolis by DR.. P. M. Hall,
commissioner of health, with instruc-