Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-28
ROUND ABOUT THE STATE.

CltleS IN eight days.
The Federation of Women's clubs
will meet in St. Paul.
The St. Paul Bowling League or
ganizes for the season.
st. Paul's street cars were listed
Tor taxation as wagons.
The famous swamp land case is de-
clded finally for Minnesota.
A Minneapolis woman is thought to
have been murdered in Chicago.
Twin City golfers enter Olympic
contest for worlds championship.
South St. Paul is alarmed over the
spread of typhoid fever in that city.
Herr Grunow, appointed German
consul at St. Paul, arrives in the city.
St. Paul man sued by Dubuque
woman for 100000 for breach Of
promise.
There were 154 deaths, 322 births
and ISL marriages in St. Paul during
August.
Judge Greenleaf Clark is elected
president of the Minnesota Historical
Society.
Considerable railroad construction
is reported to be planned for the
Northwest.
The state board of equalization will
investigate the assessments on the
Minneapolis mills.
Miss Cleo Page of 800 Jackson
street, st. Paul, ends her life by TAX
ing carbolic acid.
Julius Hartvet, state chemist, dis
covers a fungus for detecting cane
sugar in maple syrup.
The state board of equalization
raises the assessments on three
classes of personal property.
Thomas Moore is found uncon-
scious under the Robert street bridge
and dies soon afterward.
The St. Paul ball team will play a
post-season series with Buffalo, the
champions of the Eastern league.
The rivers and harbors committee
is likely to provide for a six-foot
channel from St. Paul to St. Louis.
Mrs. Nora Bonner, 246 East Uni
versity avenue, is in critical con.
dition from the effects of carbolic acid
poisoning.
The first turbine type boat to be
built on the lakes is under const1uc-
ton at the shops of the Pearson Boat
company at Duluth.
Charles Chase, painter, living at
267 w. Seventh street, committed Sui
eide by jumping from the Wabasha
street bridge at St. Paul.
Major Simon Michelet, Indian agent
at White Earth, has gone to the
worlds fair, accompanied by band
of Chippewa Indians numbering eigh.
teen.
The members of the victorious drill
team of Minnehaha camp, Modern
Woodmen of America, are given a re.
ception when they arrive from St.
Louis.
Alleging false arrest and imprison-
ment, Frederick A. Rogers filed a
complaint in the Ramsey county dis
trict court yesterday, demanding $1O,.
$50 from Frederick Schroeder.
The report of the August shipment.
from the Grant mine, operated neal
Hibbing, on state lease, shows 9,75C
tons of ore taken on, meaning nearly
$4,000 in royalties.
c. c. Stuhr from Washington, made
an attempt at suicide in the St. Pau
Union depot last night by shooting
himself under the right ear. The bal
came out of the right eye.
Because of petty quarrels with he1
husband, Mrs. w. Palmerson, 10 years
old, committed suicide last night by
taking carbolic acid, in her home
500 St. Peter street, St. Paul.
It seems now that Maud Rice Vol.
colt, the young Minneapolis woman
who committed suicide in Chicago
was heir to an estate worth several
thousand dollars in the Windy City.
At special meeting of the board
Of county commissioners at Two Har-
bors, bids for the construction of the
courthouse were opened and the con.
tract awarded to Pastoret & Lunz, a
local firm, for $62, $50.
The general store of O. C. Reed OF
Crookston, was seriously damaged by
fire. The store is located in the Nc.
Kinnon block and little damage was
done the building. Mr.. Reeds stock
valued at $4,000, is almost worthless
from damage by smoke, water and
fire. The insurance is $4,000. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
The whole town of Rockford, is
greatly excited over the bold attempt
which was made to hold up Thomas
Girling, chairman of the republican
executive committee, Ed Connor, sec.
rotary to the chief of police, his
brother, Earl Connor, and their driv.
er, Samuel Pitts.
Mrs. L. Shanage, of St. Paul, by
prompt action probably saved he1
home from being burned. She was
lighting her gasoline stove when the
tank caught fire. Lifting the burn
ing stove in her arms she carried il
into the back yard and then tainted
away.
A woman tramp! Such was found
to be the fact in the case of Jane
Lee, who was arrested by an officer Of
the South Side police station, in Min.
neapolis. A few hours afterward she
was released because the officers did
not wish to prosecute one of the
weaker sex on charge of vagrancy
Practically half of the freshmen
entering the university this year will
be forced to drop one of their chosen
subjects and take up the specia,
course in English provided by the
board of regents. The cause of this
is the wholesale failures in the en-.
trance examinations, which were Civ
en- to all the students entering the
"U."
The St. Paul Board of Trade has