Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-05-11
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.
The state fair grounds will be light.
ed by gas.

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The St. Paul motor cyclists will
take a trip to the St. Louis fair.
The Crookston BARRIERS have decid-
ed to close their shops ats p. m.
The Odd Fellows celebrate the eigh-
ty-tfth anniversary of their order.
The state live stock board had $50
COWS killed last year because of tuber-
culosis.
The state fish commissioners sec are
half million pike eggs for Matching
purposes.
An unusually large number OF
buildings will be erected in St. Paul
this year.
Warrants are issued for six men
charged with illegal registration at
St. Paul.
The state labor bureau will pre-
pare a list of business openings in
Minnesota
Minnesota and North Dakota are
making an effort to secure uniformity
in game-law,.
The Congregational church of
Crookston has extended a call to Rev.
Shaw of Fargo.
F. L. Palmer of Minneapolis IS elect
ed grand regent of the Minnesota
Royal Arcanum.
John H. Allen, the wholesale gro
Ger, of St. Paul, dies at his home on
Summit avenue.
The Minnesota Potato Starch com
pany of Anoka has been incorporated
with $4,000 capital.
w. p. Noxon, the we'll known Min
neapolis lawyer, was drowned in Echo
Bay, New Rochelle, N. Y.
The First regiment, national guard,
wants to go to St. Louis whether the
other regiments go or not.
Representative Buchanan has rec
commended the reappointment of Post
master Arundel at Staples.
Herbert f. Luers, second lieutenant
of Company L, National Guard, was
elected captain of the company.
Gov. Van SAINT decides that the ma
tional guard cannot go to the St:
Louis fair at the states expense.
Christopher Poulson, formerly a res
ident of St. Paul, was killed in a
street car accident in Cincinnati,
Rockville burglars, who broke open
Weissman's store and postohice, es.
capped after long and exciting chase.
Reunold Valliere. % years old, was
crushed to death under logs on a
rollway on the Waskai river. A wife
and one child survive him.
FO11r Proct0r voo;) Rrox,
this town handled no less than 49,
56S pieces of mail during March, an
average of S73 pieces daily.
Work began at Window onsthe new
courthouse, which is to cost about
$4,000. J. B. Nelson & Co., of Man.
kato, Minn., have the contract.
Paul Jackson, a Minneapolis negro
| attempted to commit suicide because
his companions leased him about be.
ing whipped in a fight with a woman
Joe Simpson of Flensburg is in jail
at Little Falls charged with stealing
1865 from the person of George Scha
balla, at Swanville. He had $24O whe1
arrested.
Four men with empty whisky bot
ties in their pockets killed by Chi
cago & North Western train near Wi
mona. There is a forcible temperance
lecture in this little story.
The state railroad and warehouse
commission issued orders for the con
struction of loading platforms at He
ron Lake and Wilder on the Chicago
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha.
The bridge across the Clearwater
river in Red Lake Falls has beer
swept out by the ice, and the bridge
at Terrebone, ten miles east of here
has also been partly swept away.
August F. Haas, while working in :
new building on West Third stree
near Washington street, St. Paul, fel
through an open stairway from the
first floor to the endorsement. Hi:
ribs and chest were injured, but I'M
less he received internal injuries he
is expected to recover.
Gov. S. r. Van SAINT received a tele
phone message from Winona, stating
that his house, occupied by P. F
Millspaugh, president Of the Winons
fire started in the kitchen and caused
loss of several hundred dollars.
Superintendent of Schools Kunze
of Red Wing was overwhelmed wher
more than 200 children clamored fol
leave to enter the prize competition
arranged by the civic league Tor flow
er and vegetable gardens.
William H. Lightner, receiver of the
Bank of Mankato, which suspended il
1894, submitted to the state audito,
a statement of the unclaimed divi
dends due to depositors, amounting
to $1.137.69, and turned the amount
into the state treasury.
E. P. Miller was riding a motor
cycle and collided with a. Saltwater
car at Sixth and Broadway, St. Paul
Miller was caught in the fender anc
was carried for half block, and his
machine was smashed. He received
no injuries.
Three men, well-dressed in clothes
of fashionable cut, apparently in com
Portable circumstances, refused tc
take the witness stand in their OWL
behalf in the municipal court in Min
aeapolis, accepting instead ten-day
sentences in the workhouse.
John Pietsch, driver for the St. Pau
Sash, Door and Lumber company, was
badly injured while loading lumber
in the railroad yards at Third ant
John streets. His head was cut il
several places and one leg was broken
Some one throws beer bottl,
through a window at the home of F
w. Boswell, chairman of the citizens
committee which conducted the rait