The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-26
ROUND sABoU Il THE STATE.

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A. r. Hungerford, of Preston is
nominated by prohibitionists for TIE
legislature.
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. NJ. Sprague Of Ma
; pleton, observed their silver wedding
anniversary. -Et. <.44; y ~ a.5=7 j: = IS
= There is a great land rush on for
+ claims in sections in town 1925, in
the Big Fork valley: -. s*:eq:s
Skating in Minneapolis for this sea-
son. has ceased as far as the park
board is concerned. 49,. y
Henry johnson of Blooming Prairie
is charged with having destroyed two
mail boxes on a rural route.
; The Minnesota Good Roads associa-
tion will meet at St. Paul Feb. % for
it's tenth annual convention. =.
Miss Gordon and Somner F. Ander.
son, both deaf mutes, were married
in Minneapolis by sign language.
The president sent to the senate the
following nomination of Ola C. Enge,
to be postmaster at Gilmore, Mimi.
There were seventy-eight cases of
smallpox reported to the state, board
of health for the week ending Feb 8.
The Shefield-King Milling company
of Faribault is contracting for a. new
1,000-horse power engine to increase
capacity.
Lawrence, the 6ve-year-old son of
j. w. Mclaughlin, St. Paul, was Sc
riously hurt in an accident while
coasting near his home.
There is a strong probability that
the republican state nominating con-
vention will be held at Duluth and
not in Minneapolis or st. raul.
The failure of hand brakes to hold
a car going up Selby hill in St. Paul
caused a, rear end collision in which
half 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 it's state
prison for use by the inmates of all
state institutions. 49,
A new company, to be known as
the Fergus Packing company, has
been organized by business men of
Fergus Falls with capitalization of
$50. 000.,
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 woodsman is
dead and second is seriously injur-
ed and escaped death by nothing
short of miracle. Both were work.
ing at the landing when a huge bank
of logs gave way.
Mrs. Florence Allen and her two
young daughters, aged fourteen and
twelve years, had a narrow escape
from suffocation in a fire which near
ly destroyed their home in St. Paul.
Fred Linke of Red Wing asked for
divorce from Augusta Linke, but
Judge Williston has granted the
divorce to the wife because her ans
wer was stronger than his complaint.
Circulars have been received by the
United States land Office at Crookston
which materially change the manner
of taking final proofs in cases where
the papers are drawn outside of the
district Office. According to the in
structions, when it is desired to make
final proof without visiting the land
Office in person, the settler must as
heretofore, make application to the
district land office for such final
proof.
Charles O'Lander of Superior, en-
ployed at William Ingham's lumber
camp on the north shore, thirty-fve
miles south of Grand Marais, was
found dead on the ice about half
mile from the lake shore.
Falling in an epileptic fit, while
carrying a lighted lamp, Mrs. Kate
Beck, a nurse at r. j. Mendenhall's
residence, Minneapolis, sustained
burns which resulted in her death
at the city hospital late in the after
noon.
A farmers cooperative creamery
will be built at Cyrus in the spring.
"A IcupOIdIy OISdulZdtlOu WAS lOrn-
ed with c. w. johnson president, and
Carl Stensland secretary.
Eric Engstrom, aged about thirty,
died in the union depot at St. Paul
from the effects of an accident,
twelve miles out of Nickerson, MINI.
Engstrom was working in the woods
and was caught by a tree falling. <
John Olson, retired farmer from
Elgin, ILL.,, attracted attention to him
self in the vicinity of the union depot,
in St. Paul, by explaining that he had
$4,000, and that he was afraid of tho
girls. # .':.# 5=IHH4s5
Charles A.. Magnusson was found
dead in bobsled by pedestrian in
Minneapolis who noticed his drive
less team and stopped the rig. Mag
nusson was found in the bottom of
the sled. rs g. IL .s4s *5
The Socialist Labor party of St.