Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-27
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

Miss Helen Mari, Minnesota gin,
has entertained King Edward.
The St. Paul school board will put
some new phones in the schools.
The state farm school has moro
students than it can accommodate.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Rathstock eel
ebrated their golden wedding at Ma
pleton.
Two farmers are held up, slugged
and robbed while going home from
St. Paul.
Burglars entered the saloon of A.
Hartsmith at Comfrey and secured
$4,000 in cash.
The Congregational society of Fari-
bault has taken steps for the erection
of $4,000 church.
The Chicago Great Western and
the Milwaukee railroad now occupy
the same depot at Mankato.
Two rural routes have been estab-
lished from Watkins, a little place
five miles west of kimball to COM
mence Feb. IS.
Property in the center Of Long
Prairie of the value of $1,000 has been
donated to the village by w. E.. Leo
for a public park.
Frazee shipped 2s4 cars of wood
in the last three months and is be-
coming the biggest shipping point for
wood out of the cities.
In response to a petition for tho
establishment of three rural mail
routes leading out of Mora, two have
been favorably considered.
Josephine Rock and Samuel Whip
pie, full-blooded Indians, living ON
Prairie Island, were married by JUS
tice Diepenbrock at Red Wing.
Annie Lee and Clarence Prick both
pleaded guilty to forgery indictments
in the district court at Minneapolis
and were remanded for sentence.
Miss Tina Olson, employed in the
laundry at the Nicollet hotel, Min
neapolis, narrowly escaped death by
having her hair caught in the man
gle.
John Hughes, the street car con-
ductor who was arrested on a charge
SIS in the municipal court, of Mime
apolis.
The Snow opera house at LIE Sueur,
the only one in town, was ordered
closed by Mayor Termath on the
ground that it is unsafe as place
of public assembly.
The new public school building at
Hills was destroyed by fire causing
loss of $1,000, partly covered by
$4,000 insurance. The flames started
from the furnace.
James Van Vert, postmaster at
White Earth, was bound over to the
United States district court. He is
alleged to be short $42l.7s, and he
says he has been robbed. Bail was
fixed at $1,000, in default of which
he was committed to the Otter Tail
county Jail.
The steamer Bon Ami Of the White
Line Transportation company, was
at Duluth with ninety-fvc tons Of
Lake Superior herring, collected
| from the fishermen of the north
! shore.
An unidentified man was found in
an unconscious condition at Park and
Wabasha streets, St. Paul, early in
the morning, suffering from the eff
fects of dose of laudanum. In his
pocket was found letter addressed
to John L. Memoirs.
St. Pauls council has practically
agreed that no special permits for
violating the building laws shall be
granted. Not only do these viola
tons actually increase the fire risks
in the business sections of the city,
but they increase insurance rates.
The DeCamp Fruit company at
Crookston which is branch of the
Grand Forks company of the same
name, and which has been operating
here for some time, has decided to
consolidate it's stock with that of the
parent company and is packing up.
A young woman, who gave her
name to several of the guests Of the
Hampshire Arms as Lena Olson, was
assaulted and robbed by clever
purse snatcher in front of the Hamp-
shire Arms in Minneapolis.
First Finnish M. E. church of the
Northern Minnesota conference was
dedicated at Split Rock by the pre-
siding elder of the Duluth district,
assisted by the pastor of the church,
the Rev. H. Salmi, and the Rev. j.
H. Nichaelsen.
Carl Melgard, for years in the mer-
camille business here as member of
the firm of Lukkason & Melgard at
Rushford, was injured by a falling
tree and died in twenty minutes at
ter medical help reached him.
The two-story veneered building
owned by Heeman Williams at
St. Charles and occupied by Charles
Kaufman as bowling alley, and
John Ether as a dwelling, was burn
ed. The loss amounted to $500.
Paul Bush, an engineer on the
Great Northern road, rescued the
members of family from burning
building at Crookston and is being
lauded for his bravery.
C. F. Reich, proprietor of the Rock
ingham apartments, Minneapolis, re-
ported to the police this morning
that for two nights in succession
sneak thieves or burglars have en-
tered there and helped themselves to
various household effects.
The presence of an uncommonly
large number of Migrants, grafters
and petty thieves, at Duluth, has
moved the Duluth authorities te
adopt drastic measures to rid th<
city of them.
A band of toughs holds up a wed
, ding party and feasts and fights il
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