Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-31
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4 st. Paul-Two st. Paul boys run
away from home and are stranded in
st. Louis.


St. Louis.
st. Paul.-The Capitol City Furniture
company's factory at 639 Jackson street
il destroyed by fire.
| st. Paul.-The railway and warehouse
| commission announces it's proposed re-
| vision of freight rates.
st. Paul.-Williams Williams, SEN
fenced to be hanged on Feb. 10, makes
| public the story of his life.
Hamline Some members of the agri-
cultural society want the carnival
feature at the state fair eliminated.
Winona.-The city council is now
considering curfew ordinance that, by
! the blowing Of a whistle at o'clock
every night, shall require children to be
of the streets after that hour.
Neutrality-suspicious. Cook, an es-
capped inmate from the state asylum.
| has been returned to that institution.
| He was captured at Cleveland, Ohio,
and was missing since September.
Blackduck-sam Cromie, employed
! In Hays & Townsend's camp, few
miles west Of this village, was acct
| dentally and instantly killed this after
! noon while at work decking logs.
Crombie's home is at Little Falls
st. Peter.-Gustavus Adolphus COL
lege opens the spring semester with the
largest attendance in the history If the
school. There are about $50 students
now enrolled and more are expected
When all have entered the total will
doubtless exceed 375 and may reach
to 400.
neutrality-suspicious. Davis has
| introduced a bill in congress authoriz-
ing the secretary of the interior to sell
| forty acres of land adjoining the Has
| tlngs state asylum, now needed by that
| institution. It is a part of the proposed
Indian allotment.
Luverne.-At the annual meeting Of
the Rock County Breeders association
the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: M. L. Ruddy, presi-
| dent; J. B. Dunn, vice PRESIDENT; J. J.
! McNfff, secretary; E. T. Thorson,
| treasurer; A. o. Moreaux, recorder.
Mankato.-James Conley a half
| breed Indian, coming from one of the
New York tribes, who has resided in
Mankato for a few months, was found
dead In bed in his room at the Ryan
| house. A bottle Of poison was found
in his pocket.
Minneapolis.-W. j. Metzger, 1901
Lyndale avenue S., and Charlotte Metz
| ger, widow, 5000 Girard avenue NJ, are
| anxiously awaiting for notification Of
| when they may come into possession IT
$500, 900 each, to which they are heirs.
Mankato.-North- bound from this
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Passenger Train No. 43 was wrecked
near Benning. The train struck a sharp
| curve and the engine, baggage car and
smoker were derailed.
st. Peter.-Free mail delivery, rec-
| commended for st. Peter by postal in
| spector. several months ago, has been
ordered by the postoff1ce department.
The carrier system will be inaugurated
May 1.
MOorhead.-Rev. and Mrs. 6. "A.
Traut were given a pleasant surprise
Monday by about fifty of. the members
and friends Of the Congregations!
church of this city, of which Rev. Mr..
Traut is the pastor. The occasion was
the fifteenth anniversary of their mar
rage.
st. Cloud.-Mrs. T. II. Tibesar of this
city had a narrow escape from asphyx-
iation by coal gas. Her husband is
away from home a great deal and Mrs.
| Tibesar was in the house alone. At an
early hour in the morning she awoke,
and feeling i'll, started to open VIM
| dow. She tainted away before she
could reach it and believes she must
| have lain unconscious for some hours
! st. Cloud.-The Tri-County Good
Roads association will hold "a big con-
vention at st. Cloud Feb. IL. There will
be meetings in the forenoon and after
noon at the opera house, to be adj
| dressed by well-known speakers. In
the evening there will be banquet.
st. Peter.-Rev L. G. Almen of this
| city, president of the board Of direc-
tors Of Gustavus Adolphus college and
| soliciting agent for the school, is con-
Quoting an active campaign in an e..
fort to raise money for new buildings
and provide funds for their endowment.
Mankato.-Six boys ranging in age
| from IA to IS years, some Of them sons
of prominent citizens and busin css
men, have run away from home. It
has been learned that they boarded T.
| freight train on the Omaha road and
| went to st. Paul.
Duluth.-Two young men engaged in
| fight at billiard room at 1872 West
Superior street, and Nicholas Loallella,
aged sixty years, separated them with
considerable effort. The aged man
three minutes later was dead, the ex-
ertion and excitement proving too much
for him. He tottered away from the
late combatants and dropped dead.
Observation-Disclosures eight members
of the senior class Of the local high
school have been expelled Tor Selling
| and cutting from the heads o! junior
| students locks of hair with which to
form the school colors-red and black
there is threatened general strike
+ of students.
CrOOkStOn.-Represen B. S. Ben
nett spent yesterday in the city look
ing up several matters in connection
with the filing of fourteen damage
| suits against the 500 road for alleged
losses claimed by farmers in the vi
cinity Of Bijou, Nov. IA, as the result
Of a prairie fire in the eastern por-
is made that the fire was caused by
sparks falling from a passing 500
freight engine or from coal which was
dumped with ashes on the 500 track,
near Bijou station. The latter is MIR.
BENEFITS theory. He will appear as
attorney for all the plaintiffs.
Red Wing.-The two youngest chill
dren of Mr.. and Mrs. Tenny Gamble,
at Pine Island, were severely scalded
with hot water. One of the legs of the