Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-01-06
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE,

Winona contributed over $4,000 for
the relief of the cyclone sufferers at
St. Charles.
The new gymnasium and post ex-
change at Fort Smelling is ready for
the apparatus.
The st. Paul Spiritual alliance en-
tertains $50 children at dinner and
Christmas tree.
The Chicago Great Western round
house on the West Side, St. Paul, was
damaged by fire.
Mrs. Axel Erickson, of St. Paul,
died from the effects of burns re-
ceived last August.
Minnesota schools are competing
for place in the states educational
exhibit at the St. Louis fair.
The grand jury of Olmsted county
indicted a number of saloon keepers
for selling liquor to minors.
The state gets list of more than
1900 acres of swamp land, the first
batch under the recent decision.
Joseph NJ. Trickey has been ap-
pointed postmaster at St. Paul Park
to succeed E. B. sperry, resigned.
St. Paul teachers did not get their
December pay before Christmas.
There is not enough money in the
fund.
The Masonic bodies of Duluth are
to erect new building to be known
as the Masonic Temple, at a cost of
100000.
The government is making a spe-
cial analysis of the streams of North
ern Minnesota and particularly of the
iron ranges.
twenty-five persons narrowly es-
capped with their lives in a fire which
attacked the St. Charles hotel, at
Minneapolis.
The state dairy and food commits
sion has opened up a crusade against
druggists who are selling adulterated
blackberry brandy.
A boy, ten years old, named C1au-
sen, shot and killed the baby of Fred
Brandt at Madison Lake. He did not
know the gun was loaded.
Northern Pacific division superin-
tendents have completed their work
in St. Paul and the majority are en-
route to their headquarters.
The store building occupied by a.,
| Backenheimer, clothier, at Moorhead,
Minn., burned, causing loss of $45,-
900, insured to the amount of $19,-
900.
Minnesota has finally acquired title
to several tracts of swamp lands in
the Cass Lake Indian reservation val
ued at several hundred thousand dol
lars.
The Finnish college which was es-
tablished in Minneapolis has closed
and will be opened next year in the
old Spirit Lake hotel, west of Du-
luth.
Max Ross, St. Paul, attempted to
commit suicide by taking carbolic
acid. Ross was chagrined because of
rebuke received from his mother
in-law.
Over $4,000 has been raised by the
Norwegian Lutheran Free church
since it's annual meeting last June
for lifting the debt on Augsburg SEM
mary.
The Metropolitan Fire Insurance
Company of Chicago was authorized
yesterday by Insurance Commissioner
| E. H. Dearth to do business in Min
nesota.
Francis Henry, alias E. D. Will
liams, an alleged forger, who made
his escape from the Morrison county
Jail in August, has been arrested at
Omaha.
The skeleton of human being was
found in the cellar of a shack on E.
Sixth street, St. Paul. The police sus-
pect a hidden crime and are investi-
eating.
In the readjustment of the affairs
of the Citizens National bank of Fer
tile, C. NJ. Berg, of Mcintosh, be-
comes cashier, and G. Logan Larsen
assistant.
H. T. Sondergaard, of Litch1eld,
one of the best known butter-makers
in Minnesota, has been appointed ex-
pert of the state dairy and food de-
partment.
At a meeting of the city council
of Little Falls that body accepted the
offer of Andrew Carnegie to give the
city $4,000 with which to erect a
library building.
Fire in the First Avenue hotel at
East Brainerd caused a loss of $4,000.
Mrs. George Forsythe owned the
building, valued at $4,000, and car
ried no insurance.
John Forske will be the next post
master at Borup, Norman county,
MINI. The recommendation for his
appointment has been filed by Rep
resentative Stevenson.
Pulpwood lumbermen estimate that
the cut of that wood in the Duluth
district this winter will be from So.
900 to 100000 cords, an amount never
before appropriated in this region.
Mr.. Stevenson has also recon.
mended the appointment of L. G.
Townsend as postmaster at Black
Duck, which Office has been ordered
advanced to the presidential class.
For failing to bring back the
change from a $40 bill with which he
was sent to buy beer, Peter Carlson
was sent to the workhouse for 4(
days by Judge Holt of Minneapolis
C. R. Nlandigo, of St. Paul, has
been awarded the Sales prize scholar
ship for 10000 at Harvard universe
ty. The Sales prize scholarship was
founded in 1893 with a principal O.
$4,916, by Francis Sales of Cambridge
Mr.. Mandigo is a graduate of st
Paul central high school, class O: