Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-03-14
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ten million.
st. Paul.-The code omission OF
standing appropriations will not neces-
state an extra session Of the legisla-
ture.
st. Paul.-The will Of Mrs. Martha
A. Bolkcom bequeaths $4,000 to the
Protestant orphan asylum and the
Home for the Friendless.
st. Paul.-Norval Baptie defeats Sim
nlrud, the Norwegian champion skater,
| at the downtown rink.
Minneapolis.-The travelling men of
the Northwest will ask the railway
companies to grant them a 2-cent fare.
Minneapolis.-Gov. Johnson says he
would rather be a Minnesota farmer
than attain the riches and reputation
Of Rockefeller.
st. Paul-The non depot directors
| recommend alteratie as to secure more
room at the depot.
Minneapolis.-The federal court sus-
talns the demurrer of the state say
lngs bank in the suit brought to re-
cover on the defalcations of w. &.
Bourne.
Duluth.-Judge Phineas Aver, one Of
the most familiar figures in Duluth,
| died today at st. Luke's hospital.
Judge Aver was 7e years Of age.
st. Paul.-Low railroad rates are ex-
pected for the conventions in St. Paul
next summer.
st. Paul.-Signers OF D. w. Doty's
certificate Of nomination may be de-
barred from voting at primaries.
minneapolis. J. Wise, who has a
coffee store at 8 Sixth street north,
| was assaulted in his own store at mid
| night and robbed CT $40.
Minneapolis Amanda Larson.
of 2104 Chicago avenue, who took car
bolic acid. died at st. Barnabas hos
pital.
Minneap olis.-February's building
figures will be phenon1enally large, and
will far exceed the record for any other
February in the history Of the city.
Washington.-The senate passed the
bill permitting the building Of a dam
| across the Red river in Red Lake
county, Minnesota.
Inver Grove.-A dog thought to be
rabid bit the 5-year-old daughter of
L. H. Newbergh Of Lincoln park, and
| was captured here.
Duluth.-The underwriters concerned
with the insurance loss on the Peavey
terminal elevator, recently burned, have
not yet sold the grain in the ruins.
The men who were on the ground early
with bids are still refusing to raise
| their offers, and it is said are getting
cold feet"
3of% ~
beer received by Supt. Mackenzie of
the Petit iron mines to take charge
OF the mines In China near Tien Tsin.
Mr.. Mackenzie has the offer under con-
sideratioa. Mr. Mackenzies brother is
in the diamond drill business in China.
Cass Lake.-Ernest Flemming, the
| merchan: who was severely burned at
the time Of the fire in his place Of busi-
ness at Rena, has recovered to the ex-
| tent that he has returned to Bena from
the hospital at Grand Rapids, whittier
he was taken on a special train a few
hours after the fire.
st. Peter.-The Minnesota State fair
short-ship circuit, composed of six
| county fairs that have banded them
| selves together for the purpose Of Sc
| curing better racing events, has COM
| p1eted it's organization by electing
| George Atchison, Mankato, president;
F. J. Dunnecliffe, Window, vice presi-
dent, anu E. E. Miller, St. Peter, Sec
rotary.
Duluth.-T. e. Kroust, brakeman in
the employ OF the Duluth & Iron Range
road, met death here yesterday. He
| was attempting to open the knuckle
Of an automatic coupler while the train
was moving five miles an hour, and
Slipped and fell on the rail. Several
cars passed over him and he died soon
after he was taken to the hospital.
Minneapolis-Ma Rogers, steam
filter, living at S15 Fourteenth avenue
south, met with very mysterious death
on Sixteenth avenue south, near Frank
lin avenue. His lifeless body was found
hanging by the neck, between two
pickets on a fence.
Duluth-Charles Johnson, the Min
neapolis railroad contractor, will build
the extension Ut the Duluth, Virginia
& Rainy Lake railroad from it's pres
ent terminus at Ashawa, northward
to the boundary where it Is connected
with the Canadian Northern. This is
q district Of about one hundred miles.
Biwabik.-Fire totally destroyed the
Bray hospital, two patients and a num-
Der of attendants asleep in the build
ing barely escaping with their lives.
Firemen fought the flames heroically,
and after desperate efforts succeeded
In getting all of the inmates out of
the building unframed. When dis
covered the flames had already made
great Roadway, though the origin of
the fire is as yet unknown.
Stillwater.-The state board of con-
troll having made a definite statement
as to just what it's attitude is regard
ing the so-called Bean and Perro site
for a new state prison at Oak Park,
residents in that vicinity are now ac-
lively engaged in an endeavor to re-
duce the price for lands there to $12,-
500, the amount the board has agreed
to pay.
st. Paul.-Out of 5,107 who took the
recent state teachers examinations,
2,315 received certificates. Not all the
others failed, as many took only part
Of the subjects, to get credit on later
examinations. The certificates issued
were as follows: First grade, 176;
conditional first, 81: second grade,
1,07e; conditional second, 391; limited,
sS1.
Washington.--1n the house today a
ELL was passed to authorize the sale
Of forty acres Of government land in
Dakota county, Minnesota, to that state
as an addition to the grounds of the
state hospital for the insane at Hast
1ngS, MINI.
La Crosse,-While stealing ride on
Milwaukee passenger train, John w,