Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-10-12

WITHIN three weeks.
The brickworl on the public library
at Spring Valley is completed and the
structure will soon be finished.
Charles S. Bartram of St. Paul is
elected grand chancellor of the
Knights of Pythias of Minnesota.
Minneapolis will spend about $67,-
SIT more this year for school pur-
poses than for the year preceding.
Ramsey county's assessment on
gold and silver plate is raised 800 per
cent by the state board of equaliza-
ton.
Title Marks, aged 81, of Milroy,
committed suicide by taking carbolic
acid. Dependency prompted the
deed.
Prospects are bright for one of the
busiest fall and winter seasons in
the history of northeastern Mime
sofa.
The stonemasons at work on the
new addition to St. Johns Catholic
church at Rochester went on a strike
over wages.
Walter Dickinson, a senior at Me-
chanics' arts high school, is in criti-
cal condition from internal injuries
received in football game.
Capt. David Mcbride Upton, mas
ter of the U. S. boat Col. A. Mckenzie,
and one of the oldest pilots on the
river, is stricken at the post of duty.
Three million bushels of wheat will
D,,1,,th e4o 10
of Washington and go down the lakes
on boats before the close of naviga-
ton.
To fall from the top of a six-story
building into basement and sustain
broken nose and few minor in
juries was the unique experience of
David James Costello in St. Paul.
While crossing a culvert with a
traction engine, the culvert near Ar
gylc was broke and Peter D. Felix,
the fireman, was pinned under the
engine. His left foot was badly
crushed and he was otherwise bruised
and scalded. His home is at Little
Falls.
The three-year-old daughter of
Samuel Hanson of Ravenna died from
strangulation, caused by attempting
to swallow bean which she had
picked up. w. S. Walbridge, deputy
coroner, was summoned, but held no
inquest.
The Home Telephone company at
Cottonwood has secured sufficient
number of patrons to warrant the
construction of three rural telephone
lines. Work will begin at once.
julius Berg, an inmate of the state
reformatory, escaped by climbing
through an aperture in the refrigera-
tor. He was sent up from Hennepin
county for burglary in the third de-
gree about four years ago.
E. J. Cooper of Minneapolis has
been along the north shore Of Lake
Superior, looking over the ground
with a view to building telephone
line between Two Harbors and Grand
Marais. The distance is 10 miles.
During the rainstorm at Alden
lightning struck barn on the E. 81.
Ostrander farm, two miles south OF
that place. One child Immediately
was killed, two others seriously
burned, and the hired man was
scorched in his face. They had gone
into the barn for shelter from the
rain.
Two highwaymen held up William
Ostrander of NcGregor, Iowa, just
as he stepped from a Northern Pacific
train at the Minneapolis junction.
The highwaymen, after holding up
their victim and securing So, jumped
onto the moving train and rode into
Minneapolis.
One of the largest barns in the
state, belonging to Nickerson brothers
of Elk River. was struck by lightning
and burned last night. The barn con-
tanned over $4,000 worth of hay and
ensi]age, and the total loss is nearly
$4,000.
A sensational rescue with street
car fender occurred on Lake avenue
south, Duluth. George, the five-year-
old son of Charles Linnell, 727 Lake
avenue, suddenly appeared on the
track in front of a swift moving car.
Motorman John Larson dropped the
fender and caught the child which
was unhurt.
The Moorhead council agreed to
give the street railway company the
privilege of using the bridge until
Aug. /, 1906, and to extend the time
six months provided the company at
that time has bridge of it's own un-
der construction.
While working in sewer excava-
ton at Twenty-third street and Uni
versity avenue, Minneapolis, John
Kurilla, aged 40 years, a laborer, was
crushed beneath a pile of fallen earth
and rock and sustained injuries from
which he died in the City hospital at
o'clock this evening.
Safebreakers have been operating
near Fosston, three different robber-
les having occurred in the last few
weeks. Last week professionals, evi-
IDENTIFY, broke into the postoffice and
store building of Nels Fredensberg
of Gonvik and carried off over $500 in
money and stamps.