The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-06-03

ter, Mimi, run by John Zeigel, of
Winona, was destroyed by fire.
Willie Edison, 3, St. Paul, fractured
his skull by falling from the porch
of the Edison house to the Ground.
The Memorial day committee of St.
Paul decides to engage no union
bands for the Memorial day parade.
Hamline and Manchester baseball
teams are defeated on their home
grounds by St. Thomas and Shat
tuck.
The store of Philip Fabel, at Seven
Corners, St. Paul, is looted by bur-
glars who .break through barred
window.
Arnold Holm, an Eveleth lad, while
hunting in the woods near that city,
discovered the skeleton of a man in a
brush pile.
The executive committee of the
Minnesota Editorial Association COM
pletes arrangements for the excur-
sion to St. Louis.
Experienced river men are offered
$3.50 a day at Be1nidji, and they are
hard to get at that price. Log drives
will all be moving this week.
The North Branch Ditching Com
pany, having a capital of $4,000, re-
Gently filed articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state.
c. L. Carlson, a well-to-do business
man Of Minneapolis, killed himself
in a fit of dependency caused by the
recent death of his wife.
Expert safe crackers attempted to
loot the safe in the Office of the
Farmers Seed Company, Fairbault.
They secured only 81 in cash.
Former Mayor Campbell, of Crook
ston, offers prize of $40 to the per-
son keeping his lawn in the best
shape during the coming summer.
Crookston merchants protest
against the use of the street sweep
ers, on the ground that it stirs up the
dirt and causes it to settle on goods
in the stores, and is otherwise dis
agreeable. . -~ ~.~ s..
= ReH.4S--E. Moon, pastor of the Pap
fist church Of Faribault, has handed
in his resignation and will sail about
July as missionary among the
natives of the Congo Free State, South
Africa.
The Bankers Reserve Life Insur-
ance Company, of Omaha, Neb., an old
line or legal reserve company, was
authorized by the insurance commits
sioner to do business in the state of
Minnesota.
The regents of the State Univer-
sity, at their meeting, created a chair
of sanitary science. Fred H. Bass, an
instructor in the engineering depart
ment, was placed at the head of the
course and given the title of assistant
professor.
S. G. Iverson, state auditor, received
from the State Board of Control $27,-
1868, the amount of insurance re-
ceived on the administration building
of the state public school at Owa-
tonna.
Miss Emma Reuse, of St. Paul,
made insane by sun worship, declares
in Chicago court that her name is
Minnesota, and that she is in St. Paul
cathedral.
Principal w. A. Bartlett, of the Wi
mona high school, has received word
from the University of Chicago that
diplomas of the school will be &C.
cepted for admission to the freshman
class of the university without ex-
| animation.
The foundation for the new flour
mill was commenced at Frazee. The
machinery is there for 100-barrel
mill, which will be in operation in a
few weeks.
This term four hundred and eighty
one students will be graduated from
the University of Minnesota. Last
year the senior class numbered 449
graduates.
Augustine society by one point won
the oratorical cup in the annual
contest here tonight with Livingston,
at the state normal school at Moor
head.
The suit of Milo White against the
village of Preston has been settled out
of court. It was a damage claim for
$4,000, but was compromised for
$3.50. IT, /~@ s<...
The body of Rudolph Carl Freuling,
"a Dearborn street, St. Paul, was
found floating in the river by Joseph
Mozinski, fisherman. It was taken
to the morgue and afterwards identi-
fed by his mother, Mrs. Carl Rux:
An unknown man was killed by a
Northwestern passenger train three
miles from Mankato. The man was
walking on the track of the Omaha
and stepped to the Northwestern
track to escape an Omaha train, when
he was struck from behind and
frightfully mangled.
An investigation is being made. Of
rumors In this county that fishermen.
are dynamiting trout streams and are.
also using jugs Of lime to effect the
same purpose. It is said that some of
the streams that were well stocked q
few years ago have been almost en-
tirely ruined By this practice.