Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-07-27
Lost in the Woods.


dense woods of Erie and living on her,
ries and water and sleeping on the
ground, Charlie, the 4-year-old son of
Fred and Mrs. Weirauch of Frazee,
was found in the woods three miles
from his fathers home and nine miles
from Frazee.
He was almost naked, all his cloth
ing but his shirt was torn off by the
underbrush and his body was burned
by the sun and torn by the brush.
Mrs. Weirauch left home to pick Der.
ries and the boy strayed away. When
he could not be found at evening it
was feared that he was drowned in the
Ottor Tail river, where his brother was
drowned some years ago.
Detroit and Frazee sent out over 100
men and the Commonwealth Lumber
Company sent men and teams, but for
five days he could not be found
Fell to Death.
Charles G. Sebastian was killed BY
falling from a swinging stage while
painting at the fourth story of the
Ryan building, Seventh and Robert
streets, St. Paul. Death resulted from
fracture of the skull. Mr.. Sebastian
was working on the stage with Holxan
Liedholm. According to an eye-wit-
ness, Sebastian placed his right foot
on the sill of a window to reach the
framework, and in doing so his left
foot pushed the stage from the wall.
He lost his balance and fell between
the stage and the building. He struck
the awning of the window beneath
him at the third floor, which was torn
away by the weight of his body. The
awning at the second story also gave
way under his weight and he struck
the sidewalk on his head and shoulders.
News Notes.
The assessor adds $1,940,S68 to the
assessed valuation of the property in
Ramsey county.
Mrs. Isabel C. Marston, aged IS,
committed suicide at her summer
home at Lake Minnetonka.
The house of Norman Albro at
Spring Valley was struck by light
ming. The damage is about $500.
There were thirty-three cases OF
smallpox reported to the state board
of health in the week ending July s.
The state pardon board declines to
commute the death sentence in the
case of William Chounard of Cass
Lake. *
During the visit of a circus al
Crookston, M. A. Bratrud's jewelry
safe was robbed of over $4,000 in cash
and certificates of deposit. There is
no clue to the robbers. Collins Bros
and Peterson & Booths stores also
were robbed of about 500 each.
The quarterly session of the state
pardon board was concluded yester'
day afternoon, the board having
granted relief in three out of over
forty cases heard.
The treasury was enriched by the
receipt of $902.s4, representing the
worldly possessions of A. F. Benton
who died recently at Worthington
Benton had no heirs.
A milkman who lives at Golden
Valley was stopped by two men al
the points of revolvers and robbed OF
S35 in bills, and another hold-up of a
pedestrian who lost $28, has been re
ported.
A small playmate threw a fire
cracker in her face, "just to scare
her." and little Ethel Anderson, al
ST.. Paul, aged 6, must 90 through
life with only one eye.
An unusually large catfish was tax
en- out of the river at Winona in {
peculiar way this week. The fish
had gone inside a hollow log at thu
boom of the Laird-N orion company
! and when the log was sent up the in
cline to the mill could not get out IL
time. The Hopping it made attracted
/ attention, and it was removed befor'
| it was cut up with the log. I
weighed forty-two pounds. d