Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-14
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS,
Short Items Showing What has Hap.
poned Throughout Confines
of North Star State.

building to cost $4,000.
Fire at South St. Paul causes dam.
age estimated at $4,000.
The St. Paul committee makes
plans for the saengerfest.
The assembly committee kills thu
anti-free lunch ordinance.
John F. Kelley, 462 East Curtice
street, falls three feet and is killed.
N. P. Langford completes his fif.
t1eth year as resident of St. Paul.
The state fair board makes good
financial showing in spite Of bad
weather.
John Schultz had his right hand
taken off in corn shredder at Can.
non Falls.
A copy of Raphael's "Sistine Ma.
donna" is unveiled at St. Paul's Epis.
copal church.
The barn of Mrs. Julia James, in
Port Douglas, was burned with eight
or nine tons of hay.
A two-weeks' course in practical
work for farmers will be given at the
school of agriculture.
St. Paul capitalists are interested
in the development of a rich iron
range near Winnipeg.
Henry Sharon and wife were thrown
from buggy in a runaway at Little
Falls, and he was killed.
Counterfeit ten dollar gold pieces
are being unloaded in Minneapolis
by skilled manipulators.
liver Tostenson fell from a passen-
ger train at Watson. His left arm
was cut off above the elbow.
The board of directors of the Com
mercial club of St. Paul elected Gov.
Van SAINT an honorary member.
Joseph Fahcy of huntsville is found
dead at the base of the bluff at the
foot of Minnesota street, St. Paul.
The statute revision commission
will make it's report at the opening
of the session of the legislature.
Fred Nicholson of the firm of Mich
olson Bros, at Lynd, lumber and
hardware men, was badly hurt by q
bull.
Gov. Van SAINT says six-foot chan
mel will make the Mississippi river
one of the great highways of COM
merce. x-
The legislature will be asked to
pass bill making it misdemeanor
to refuse to rent fats to families hav-
ing children.
Frank A. Kurrasch Of Orfock blew
off the top of his head with shot
gun, after first having attempted to
cut his own throat.
The residence of Mrs. Lavina L,
Osborn was totally destroyed by fire
at Mankato. The loss is $4,000, par
TALLY covered by insurance.
Burglars entered hardware store
at St. Cloud and carried off six 3d.
caliber revolvers and a shotgun. Nc
trace of them has been discovered.
George Prof, an employe of a
hardware company at Duluth, will
attempt to loop-the-loop on roller
skates. He is an athlete of promi
hence.
A promising young life was sacri
feed to some hunters carelessness
when q bullet struck down George
Wendt in Duluth. He was 81 years
of age.
Ripe Strawberries were picked on {
farm at Minnetonka at late as Nov
Is. The severe frost of that evening
ended the strawberry season, anc
there are no more remaining.
The skeleton of a man was founc
by young man named William Mar
shall, Two Harbors clerk, near thu
Duluth & Iron Range tracks between
Two Harbors and Knife River.
The body of Jacob Dryhaug, tn,
postmaster at shotley, who mysteri
ously disappeared with $1,000 on his
person a. month ago, was found OF
the shore of Red lake.
Something new in the way of ar
amusement enterprise is being at
tempted by Captain Fred Sibley, who
in the summer season runs the
steamer Robert Harris between Wi
mona and Fountain City. he is alse
the owner of the steamer Frank, ant
started out today from Fountain City
with the boat for southern waters
having in connection with it large
barge on which he has fitted up {
merry-go-round. It is his intention
to stop at various points in southern
waters.
Mayor James c. Haynes has
through his attorney, filed his forma
notice of appeal to the district cour'
from the return of the city canvass
ing board declaring David P. Jones
mayor of Minneapolis, and his de
mand for a recount of the ballots.
The Twenty-frst regiment of in
fantry which was stationed at For
Smelling previous to it's departure fol
San Francisco, according to order.
just issued by the war department
will embark for Manila from Sa1
francisco harbor on Feb. 1, 1905.
Emil Wissan, an 18-year-old you'll
of Cloquet, is lost in the woods. II,
went hunting, expecting to return
the same Gay, and nothing has beer
seen of him since. The assumption
is that the lad is lost, though he ma,
have met with an accident.
Miss Edith Hunt, a nurse for thu
last year at the isolation hospital a.
Duluth, has gone to Pierre, s. D., t
join her two brothers, whom she ha!
not seen since she was years old
sixteen years ago. They have beer
looking for her, and she for them
for many years.
The Northern Pacific freight agents
begin an educational trip over tn,
lines of the company.
The appointment of Leonard A
Rosing of Cannon Falls to q positio,
on the board of control was an