Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-07
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS.
Short Items Showing What has Hap.
poned Throughout Confines
of North Star State.

saengerfest.
The Indian summer reduces ths
supply of milk.
The state normal board asks for an
appropriation of $453,4S5.
Judge Jaggard leads in the vote
for supreme court judges.
Representatives-elect are figuring
on committee appointments.
Frank Clague of Lamberton is left
alone in the speakership contest.
The state begins an inspection of
the diaries in the cities and villages.
Alexander Finn, British consul, is
preparing to name vice consul at St.
Paul.
The state high school board will
insist on good teachers for small chill
dren.
The dry weather is causing some
fears Of forest fires in the Mime
sofa woods.
The state board of health Is max
Ing a survey Of the Minnesota lakes
and streams.
The tax budget for next year, as
fixed by the conference committee,
is $2,e26,2os.
Henry Peters, q night Waterman,
Is assaulted by burglars and dies at
the City hospital.
Charles Patterson organizes COM
pany to compete for the St. Paul
street lighting contract.
Miss Grace Livingston takes an
overdose of cocaine and dies on the
way to the City hospital.
The gross earnings and the school
loan amendments to the state con-
stitution appear to have passed.
An Austrian named Frank Palch-
ner was shot in a drunken brawl at
Eveleth, and probably will die.
Louis Jamert, a Faribault pioneer,
dropped dead on Central avenue to-
day while on his way to work. BE
was IS.
Francis NJ. Finch, we'll known Jew
elry man in St. Paul, was accidentally
shot while cleaning his revolver in
Seattle.
Robert G. Cook today was appoint
ed postmaster at Bridgeport, Kittson
county, Minnesota, vice P. 0. Olson,
resigned.
The state objects to the proposed
plan of diverting the waters in St.
Louis county by streams to furnish
power for Duluth.
Minnesota has annually about
1900 deaths from tuberculosis" said
DR.. 81. M. Bracken, secretary of the
state board of health.
The National German-American
bank of st. Paul has been approved
as reserve agent for the First Ma
tional bank of Hills, MINI.
Mrs. Anna Johnson leaped into
Lake Superior at Duluth. Her nus
band rescued her. and she later was
adjudged insane.
The state dairy and food commits
sion is on the watch for box car
merchants who are invading the
state with an impure grade of food
products or short weight packages
The Bankers National bank OF
Chicago has been approved as a re-
serve agent for the Merchants Ma
tional bank of Sank Center, and tho
Farmers and Merchants National
bank of Minneota, MINI.
The basketball game between Yale
and Minnesota this winter is assured,
and Minneapolis will again have the
opportunity of seeing the East and
West meet for championship honors.
Duluth saloonkeepers are filled
with CONSERVATION at what they be-
lieve is general movement to en-
force the liquor laws in respect to
closing at II o'clock at night and all
day Sundays.
C.. II. Neeb has sold a controlling
! interest in the First State bank of
| Lewiston to prominent farmers and
business men of Lewiston, and vicin-
ity.
Dr.. F. j. Brabec of Perham has
been indicted by the grand jury here
on the charge of desecrating an In
dian grave. For many years past a
band of Chippewa Indians has had
a burial ground on the shore of Big
Pine lake, in the vicinity of Perham.
The Indians formerly lived near
there, and since their removal to the
White Earth reservation they have
not abandoned the burial ground,
and return annually and hold weird
ceremonies there.
, A Finn, a miner from the town
| of Eveleth, was in St. Cloud last
evening looking for his runaway wife,
and vowing he would shoot her on
sight. The woman ran away with
another man, taking part of her hus-
bands savings.
Because he jumped from his en-
CINE, Edward II. Barrett, engineer in
the employ Of the Omaha railroad,
at St. Paul, was crushed to death I'M
der wreckage, while his fireman es-
capped injury by remaining at his
post.
The Great Northern road has Sc
cured title from the Pillsbury estate
to the tract Of land in Southeast
Minneapolis which was in contrO-
versy last year when the company's
| tracks vera moved. The considera-
ton was $4,000.
George Heider, a workman in the
Mcmillan slaughter-house in St. Paul,
near the High" bridge, was the VIC
tim Of an attempted hold-up shortly
after s o'clock in the afternoon, on
the railroad tracks near Western
avenue.
Made partially insane over the
study OF the Christian religion, Joe
Sing, a Chinaman operating the Ideas
Laundry at Ill Fifth avenue south,
started out late at Minneapolis on q
revolver rampage. He fred several
shots into the air with a "A calibre
revolver and ended it all by being es-