The Tomahawk., 1904-02-25
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

postmaster at Fulda.
The grocers and the growers of s.
Paul unite in war against vegetabl
peddlers.
A. r. Hungerford, of Preston
nominated by prohibitionists for tn
legislature.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Sprague of Ma
pleton, observed their silver wedding
anniversary.
There is great land rush on TO
Gains in sections in town 1925, il
the Big Fork valley.
Skating in Minneapolis for this sea
son has ceased as far as the parl
board is concerned.
Henry johnson of Blooming Prairie
is charged with having destroyed two
mail boxes on a rural route.
The Minnesota Good Roads associa
ton will meet at st. Paul Feb. % fol
/ it's tenth annual convention. 4
Miss Gordon and Somner I. Ander
! son, both deaf mutes, were married
in Minneapolis by sign language.
The president sent to the senate the
following nomination of Ola G. Enge
to be postmaster at Elmore, MINI.
There were seventy-eight cases OF
smallpox reported to the state board
Of health for the week ending Feb 8.
The Sheffield-King Milling company
of Faribault is contracting for a new
1,00O-horse power engine to increase
capacity.
Lawrence, the fve-year-old son of
j. w. Mclaughlin, St. Paul, was Sc
riously hurt in an accident while
coasting near his home.
There is strong probability that
the republican state nominating con-
vention will be held at Duluth and
not in Minneapolis or st. Paul.
The failure of hand brakes to hold
car going up Selby hill in ST. Paul
caused a. rear end collision in which
half a dozen persons were injured.
The state board Of control favors
national law giving each state the
privilege of manufacturing, free of
duty, tobacco and cigars in its state
prison for use by the inmates of all
state institutions.
A new company, to be known as
the Fergus Packing company, has
been organized by business men of
Fergus Falls with capitalization of
$50,0OO.,
Fire at Winona destroyed the
wholesale department of the Mime
sofa Harness company. The contents
of the building were destroyed, but
the building was saved The loss will
be close to $4,000.
BY an accident in Newman's lumber
camp near Solway, one woods1nan is
dead and second is seriously injur-
ed and escaped death by nothing
short of a miracle. Both were work
ng at the landing when huge bank
If logs gave way.
Mrs. Florence Allen and her two
'oung daughters, aged fourteen and
welve years, had narrow escape
rom suffocation in a fire which near
y destroyed their home in St. Paul.
Fred Linke of Red Wing asked for |
divorce from Augusta Linke, but
Judge Williston has granted the
ivorce to the wife because her ans
yer was stronger than his complaint.
Circulars have been received by the
United States land office at CroolSston
7hich materially change the ma nner
f taking final proofs in cases where
he papers are drawn outside of the
istrict office. According to the in
tructions, when it is desired to make
nal proof without visiting the land
flee in person, the settler must as
eretofore, make application to the
istrict land office for such final
roof.
Charles O'Lander of Superior, en-
'oyed at William Ingham's lumber
mp on the north shore, thirty-fve
lies south of Grand Nlarais, was
'und dead on the ice about half a
lie from the lake shore.
Failing in an epileptic fit, while
rrying a lighted lamp, Mrs. Kate
eek, nurse at r. j. Mepdenhall's
Minneapolis, sustained
rms which resulted in her death
the city hospital late in the after Z
,On.
A farmers cooperative creamery
Ill be built at Cyrus in the spring.
temporary organization was form
with c. w. johnson president, and
RI Stelssland secretary.
Eric Engstrom, aged about thirty,
I'd in the union depot at St. Paul
I'm the effects of an acciden Mt, l
elvc miles out of Nickerson, Minn.
gstrom was working in the woods
d was caught by tree falling. /
John Olson, a retired farmer from /
gin, ILL.,, attracted attention to him I
f in the vicinity of the union depot, /
st. Paul, by explaining that he had
600, and that he was afraid of the
Is. J.
Charles A. Magnusson was found p
I'd in bobsled by pedestrian ia l.
who noticed his drive !