Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-21
ROUND ABOUT fHE STATE,

Electric storm causes considerable
damage at St. Paul.
A Minneapolis chess player wins
midsummer tournament.
A food inspector in Minneapolis is
nearly mobbed by women.
Harold P. Bend wins the golf cham
rionship of the town and Country
club.
Congressman McCleary challenges
ID. j. Miller to series of Joint de-
bates.
Mrs. Ada Updegraf of St. Paul is
burned severely by the explosion of
gasoline.
The state normal board of review
grants licenses to fifty-three to teach
in Minnesota.
The commissioners expect that the
new capitol will be ready for use on
the first of the year.
Henry Weingarth of St. Paul is
pounded to Inconsistencies by high
waymen and robbed of $1OO.
Bemidji has a new town pump cap
able of lifting several million gallons
OF water in very short time.
A state fair visitor, supposed to be
Oscar Colrud of Rosholt, Wis, is
killed by St. Paul street car.
Extensive improvements are being
made by the Great Northern on its
tracks, yards and depot at Fosston.
There is a fight on to finish be-
tween the railroads entering Mime
apolis over the question of shipping
charges.
A shed filled with grain on the farm
OF William Corcoran, near Witoka,
was struck by lightning and was de-
stroyed.
The big financial venture of former
Senator Charles A. Townc and his
eastern associates in the Beaumont
oil fields has bursted.
Hastings will hold a street fair and
carnival on Oct. S, 6, and 8. The
I. c. Cash Carnival company of St.
Paul will furnish attractions.
St. Paul carried off the honors in
the market garden display this year,
defeating the Minneapolis market
gardeners by score of S96 to CAB.
The rails spread under the weight
of logging train south of Menahga
and bad wreck was the result. All
traffic was delayed about eighteen
hours.
Peter Olson, county commissioner
of Sibley county, lost his barn, two
horses, hay, feed and harness by fire.
The total loss is $4,000; Insurance,
$1,000.
r. Reiser, a brakeman for the Bur-
lington railway, was mangled to
death under the wheels of a freight
train below the fish hatchery, St..
Paul.
In attempting to put on a belt
while the machine was in motion,
Henry Kahler, thresher near Cot
tonwood had . his arm broken and
scalp cut.
Search is continued without result
for the body of James Mafreagh, who
was killed in the acetylene explo-
sion which wrecked a Cass Lake
building.
Inspired by the success of bandits
who prey upon the country folk, a
Minneapolis negress armed herself
with a revolver and held up Albert
Anderson, a stranger.
Under instruction from the count,
commissioners, the county surveyor
has re-surveyed' school district No.
1913 of the town of Plymouth, known
as the Bass Lake school.
Several well-known Minneapolis
merchants reported to the police that
they had been duped by pretty
young woman, who had an unlimited
supply of counterfeit bills.
While Sam Larson, a Golden Valley
milkman, enjoyed an afternoon nap
at his home, sneak thieves invaded
the house and separated Sam from a
roll of bills amounting to $3.50.
Rural free delivery carriers ap-
pointed for Minnesota routes: Court
land, route one, r. w. Zimmerman;
Eden Valley, route one, E. Wclliver;
Long Lake, route one, J. H. Amlaw.
A ruling has been made by the
state insurance department that all
companies writing tornado insurance
must state in the policies the insur-
able value of the buildings insured.
A. P. Blagilz, deputy game warden,
has been engaged for two weeks in
putting back into the Mississippi
thousands OF fish fry that have been
caught by the falling waters and left
in pockets.
1t is now stated that the committee
which has been dealing with the
Crookston library site is an illegal
body, and new one will have to be
appointed and all the work be done
over again.
From reports received of the prog
ress on the new 500 line road to Win
nipeg it is expected that the line will
be completed and through train serv-
ice started between St. Paul and
Winnipeg by Nov. 1.
John Williams and John Higgens
who are wanted on a charge of bur.
glarizing j. w. Berg's hardware store
in Little Falls, two weeks ago, have
been arrested at New Hampton, Iowa
and will be brought back.
Mrs. Charles Edison, residing about
a mile and half north of Pine Island
village, committed suicide by hang.
ing. She made q loop out of some
cloth and fastened it to a doorknob
In semi-sitting position she then
strangled to- death.
Former Postmaster E. E. Price OF
Marcy postofice, at Highland, has
been arraigned on the charge OF
sending inaccurate statement of the
number of stamps cancelled at his
office with a view to increasing his