Willmar tribune., 1904-11-16
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short 1tems Showing What has Hap
penod Throughout Confines
Of North Star State.

"a Ae" @4,OUO Sc1OOlhOuSe mere Will
be occupied the second week in No.
vember.
Col. Alfred M. Flagg, Northwestern
newspaper man, commits suiside at
Duluth.
The charitable societies prepare to
distribute Thanksgiving dinners to
the poor.
The state educational association
will consider bill to take schools
out of politics.
The, capitol commissioners COM
plete arrangements for furnishings at
the new state capitol.
Inspector Rankin says enough at
tention is not paid to the primary
pupils in the state schools.
The assistant dairy and food COM
missioner says that box car mer-
chants are becoming a pest.
NIhe passenger representatives of
the Northern Pacific will take an edu-
cational trip through the Northwest.
The Northwestern millers may have
to import wheat in order to protect
the high grade of their brands of
-four.
Miss Hannah McCauley, 919 Smell
ing avenue north, dies after taking a
mixture of remedies to relieve an at
tack of cramps.
The jerome bridge at Crookston
seems likely to be held up for a time,
as there is a dispute over the terms
of the contract.
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the sailing of the new Great North
ern steamship Minnesota, according
to circular issued by the company.
Some of the country merchants are
complaining in regard to the rural
| routes, believing that the mail order
houses receive too much of the busi-
ness.
A burglar alarm frightened away
burglars who entered the Browning
King clothing store in Minneapolis.
So hasty was their exit that not an
article was taken.
A new corn picking machine was
! within the past few days tested on
the. farm of D. McConochie, near Pilot
Mound, in Fillmore county, and
ner.
Allie Pulford, seventeen years old
, and bellboy at the West hotel, Min
! neapolis, was arrested on a charge of
taking from S. j. Mayer, a travelling
man from New York, diamond pin
valued at $500.
| Several sales of lumber have been
4hn ho
ginia Lumber company some days ago
placed with eastern buyers 100000
feet of Norway, and this is now being
shipped from Duluth.
While out with a Halloween party
at Hutchinson Fred Micka, aged 18,
received bad wound from a 81
caliber revolver, accidentally fred by
another young man, the bullet pass
, ing through the calf of his leg.
The Crookston Business Mems
union is considering the advisability
I Of starting a creamery there. Cream
cries have been successful elsewhere,
and there is no reason why one
could not be made to pay there.
| Confined to his bed by an illness
which prevented him from working
to earn a living for his wife and six
children, Ben Arnold of St. Charles,
in the western part of this county,
shot himself in the head with a re-
volver.
The unusual scarcity of robberies,
hold-ups and midnight assaults oc-
curing in this city during the month
of October is partially explained by
the police records, which show that
712 arrests were made by the police
force during that month.
Depositors of the defunct Mer-
chants bank of Duluth, which failed
more than year ago, have filed a
; petition with the clerk of the federal
court here asking that Hanson E.
Smith, president, and James W.
Smith, cashier of the bank, be ad-
! judged bankrupts.
The complete returns of registra-
! ton for Minneapolis and Hennepin
county show that the registration this
year is record breaker. The total
registration for the county is 52,439,
and of this number the city is cred
tied with 1902.
The Minnesota hen has stepped
proudly to the front at St. Louis and
gobbled 81 per cent of the poultry
prizes awarded. Out of forty-three
birds competing in the poultry prize,
Minnesota won twenty-six prizes, the
largest percentage of winnings by
any state.
State Auditor Iverson yesterday re-
ceived draft for $6,625 from the fed
eral government, as the quarterly in
stallment of aid for the Soldiers
home. The usual amount received
is about $4,000. The addition sum is
| in payment of claim that has been
held up from last year.
With impaired intellect, a founding
dismissed from an English charitable
institution to make his way throgh
life as best he could, William Hine,
aged 10, was intercepted by 1mmigra~
ton Inspector Dean of Duluth and
deported to Canada.
James Ewin, colored, Is years old,
was found dead in his bed at 723
Washington avenue south, Minneapo-
ds. Coroner U. G. Williams was sum-
moned and pronounced death due to
heart failure.
Minnesota has what is called q Re-
tail Dealers. Coal association. 1T
costs $40 to get into it and S. a year
afterwards to maintain good stand
ing. A Belle Plaine merchant some
! lime ago intended to deal in coal and
! paid the entrance fee into the asso-
,iation. Recently he tried to buy coal