Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-28
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short Items Showing What has Hap
paned Throughous Confines
of North Star State.

movement is on foot to establish a |
hospital at Pelican Rapids
The house republican caucus will be
held Jan. 2 in the new capitol.
Luck and a good fire department
have save'l St. Paul from big fires
The dairy farms contribute $50, ooo,-
600 annually to the wealth of the state
Judge Greenleaf Clark bequeathed
S25' 900 to the St. Paul public library.
The young people Of Moorhead are
agltating the matter of skating rink
Holy Rosary, the largest Catholie
church in Minneapolis, is destroyed by
fire.
Bemidji is rejoicing in a reduction OF
little more than l per cent in its tax
| rate.
Represe Dtative Cole of Walker urges
legislation to induce settlement of the
state.
Earl Henry Current is elected rresi-
dent of the Minnesota football team
for 1905.
The appoin tment of Major Fred B.
Wood as adjutant general is an
nounced.
Anoka county proposes to trade Co.
lumbia Heights for Champlin, in Hen
nepin county.
The public examiners report shows
big increase in the deposits in state
and savings banks.
Michael Goodnick, special police
man of Minneapolis, was shot in the
leg by a hold-up thug.
Fred Wells, recently from New York
city, committed suicide in Minneapolis
by drinking carbolic acid.
The First National Bank of Gale
donia, has been authorized to COM
mence business; capital, $4,000.
Emil Aubrecht, a Minneapolis gro
Ger. attempted to kill his brother-in-
law, Anton Kurke, of Willow River.
F. w. Eva, chief grain inspector,
makes his annual report. He urges
system of Office inspection for wheat.
George w. Hazelton was appointed
postmaster at Hawick, Kandiyohi
county, vice Ericl1 Erickson, resigned.
The factory of the Red Wing
Furniture company was destroyed by
fire. The office building and ware
house were saved.
w. a. Reynolds, travelling sales
man, met with a remarkable accident
at Duluth. He broke one of the large
ribs in his left side by coughing.
Magnus NJ. Louis, 80 years old, died
at the Bethesda hospital in St. Paul
from injuries received in falling from
load of lumber in South St. Paul.
Stuart p. Wallace, forman at tn,
Lakewood cemetery, Minneapolis, met
death in the cemetery pumping station
by inhaling deadly gasoline fumes.
At special election for voting ST.
900 bonds in Bagley. the proposition
carried by 40 to S. The money will be
used in completing and furnishing the
new school house.
Mayor Fay of Virginia has offered a
reward of $500 for information that
will lead to the apprehension and con.
viction of the persons who dynamited
his dwelling recently.
Having taken a dose of morphine
sufficient to kill him, Ed Jones, of To-
nah, Wis, laid down in his bed at the
Rhine hotel, Minneapolis, and calmly
smoked a cigar as he waited for death.
Louis Chrest'a rough looking fellow,
26 years old, was arrested in Mime
apolis by Patrolman Kannan, on the
charge of passing five dollar gold
pieces.
At Bemidji preparations ale being
made for series of ice boat races.
The lake is a splendid sheet for this
sport, and some swift craft are being
built.
John Zill1owski, night engineer at
the Globe mills, Perham, committed
suicide by shooting himself, while in
fit of dependency. He is survived by
q family.
One of the big Minneapolis milling
companies made the statement that in
all -four produced for some time past
larger proportion of wheat has been
used. On grind of 1,0oo,0oo barrels
the excess consumption of wheat over
ordinary ran to 100000 bushels. This
was necessary to keep up the quality
of -four.
The Kenyon Canning company held
It's annual meeting and elected
the following directors: President,
O. F. Henkel; vice-president, George
Elceck; secretary, H. F. Bergh;
treasurer, S. A. Bulls and E. Stegner.
The company had very profitable
year, the net profit being about 49,
900 on an investment of $4,000.
The recount in the legislative dis.
trict in Winona in which the election
of J. J. Pehler, republican, was con.
tested by Theodore Sikorski, demo-
crat, has shown that Pehler was reg.
ularly elected, and raises his major
ity from two to four Sikorski now
will drop the contest, as there would
be no chance of his unseatins Pehler
in the house.
Land commissioner Richards an
nounced that the squatters on the ten
sections of reserved lands adjoining
the town of Cass Lake would be given
until May Is to vacate
Representative Lind introduces in the
house of congress the senate bill au-
thorizing the city Of Minneapolis to
construct bridge across the Missls-
sippi liver.
Thomas Healy, employed by the
American Hoist and Derrick company,
st. Paul. committed suicide in chair
car of the Great Western limited, as it
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