Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-08-31
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE

A1A AAI0uAIS VI MAuucdpO11S JuHH0C
from an excursion boat on the river.
The authorities are making efforts
to keep cattle diseases out of Mime
sofa.
One man is killed and three are in
jured in a wreck in the st. Paul depot
yardA
An unusually good list of entertain.
ment features has been secured for the
state fair.
Insurance Commissioner Dearth sets
trap for the agents of the "wild cat"
companies
j. M. Mcleod of Washington, D. c.,
is swindled out of $500 on card trick
at st. Paul.
Rev. o. III. Elmer, go, died at his
home, st. Paul, as the result of a para
lytic stroke.
Wanamingo, village about seven
miles west of Zumbrota is to have
state bank.
Jerome Ellsworth of Cleveland was
arrested and fined for selling four
black bass.
The city of Bemidji does not feel able
to make any appropriation for the Bel
trami county fair.
Winona county old settlers enjoyed
their annual excursion going to Lake
City on the j. I.
The statute revision commission will
report to the legislature concise and
up-to-date code.
James Hanson, in the town of Sulli-
van, in western Polk county, lost three
horses by lightning.
The Kelly brick plant at Wrenshall
was burned together with 1900 cords
of wood. Loss, $4,000
St. Peter and St. Paul's German Ca
tholic society is building a large
church at Belle PLANE.
1t is asserted that three-fourths of
the whisky drank in Minneapolis is
manufactured in that city.
The grand lodge of Colored Masons
of the state met in Minneapolis for
their annual convocation.
John, the three-months-old child
of Mr.. AID Mrs. Conrad Eugstmann of
st. Paul. was found dead in it's cot.
There were 80, $50 car lots of freight
received in St. Paul during July and
nearly an equal number forwarded.
Constable Boyd was locked in barn
at St. Paul while attempting to secure
q race horse on a writ of attachment.
There is to be royal battle waged
to prevent the incorporation of the vii
lage of Markville, Lake Minnetonka.
The big coal sheds of the Great
Northern at Brookston, between Cass
Lake and Duluth, were burned to the
ground.
Harley, s-year-old grandson of Geo.
Williamson, ran away from home in
Mankato and has not been seen or
heard of since.
For killing bull moose, Dennis For
tier was fined fifty dollars and costs.
The moose had strayed from the Thief
River timber.
The hardware store of Chris Schwarz
& Bro. at Racine, was entered by rob-
bers and about $50 worth of razors and
revolvers taken.
It is expected that 1900 union men
from Saltwater will join in the cele-
bration of Labor Day by the St. Paul
unions Sept. S.
Andrew E. Boon, merchant of Fer.
gus Falls, and brother of ex-Congress~
man Boon, was found dead in the out
skirts of the city.
supt Olsen complies statistics show
ing that the cost of the teachers sum-
mer schools is decreasing, while the at
tendance is increasing.
BENJAMIN r. Richards, a colored
barber at Seventh and Forest streets,
St. Paul, was found dead in his shop
by patron of the place.
A committee named by the Mime
sofa Educational association will meet
to discuss the advisability of changing
the high school curriculum.
The body of a man, supposed to be
from St. Paul and is thought to have
been murdered, was found two miles
southeast of the city on the Mendoza
road.
Fire broke out at Brookston station
on the Great Northern railroad, doing
much damage. The fire originated
FROM the explosion of gasoline in the
engine room.
Wandering demented and alone
among the gravestones in the Hillside
cemetery, St. Paul, a woman who gave
her name as Anna Gustave was picked
up by the police.
The steering wheel Of the steam frig-
ate Minnesota, which has been shipped
from Washington to the State Historl-
cal society, will be mounted in con.
spicuous place in the new capitol.
Frank johnson and Ed Smith, color.
q, got into a fight over game OF
craps in Minneapolis. johnson re.
ceived two razor cuts about the
chest, and several about the hands.
John Huff, an employetof the Great
Northern, was hit by the train from
Duluth at Crookston, and sustained a
fracture of the skull, broken arm
and other injuries that will prove fatal
Thomas Thut, a painter of Duluth
caught bald eagle in a wire fence
near his shop on Superior street. The
fence is between the shop and the
right of way of the Duluth 4 Iror
Range road. Mr.: Thut's attention wa.
attracted the bird by violent dap
ping of wings and screening: The
bird is a young one and now a captive
In cage that Mr.. Thut has bought
for it. -.
David Timpany, found uncounclou.
on Twenty-frst avenue south, Minnea-
polls, with six knife wounds in hi
back, was a victim of an enemy who in
tended to murder him. "