Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-05
act THE rnos1 1,rnrninent men of the towns


of Lien, pomme de Terre Stony Brook and
Elbow Lake have been interviewed aud ex-
press it as their opinion thatsa reasonable
amount Of bonds could be voted from the
towns along the proposed route without dlih-
Guilty. 80 al .ar5z4.3. 49, a..
Father McGolrick, Catholic, of Minneapolis
made complaint against indecent show pictures
on bill boards The case WAS submitted to the
jury, who, after viewing the bill boards on
which the objectional posters were hung and
dehberating for half an hour. returned
verdict of not guilty, the proposition to I'M
pose fine having been favored but BY two OF
the twelve.
The contract for the new building at the
deaf and dumb institution at Faribault has
been gwen to L. III. Emery and William
O'Neil jointly their bid{s6, 775) being the lowest
The building is to be of stone 65xa0, and two
will be fitted up as gymnasium, and the sec
ond and third stories used for shops and bos-
pital. An addition is also to be made to the
laundry building
A, L. Thornton, county recorder at Fonda
| died recently. Deceased came to Hous-
ton, Mimi, in 1858; he then went into the
surveyor generals Office in St. Paul, where ne
| was engaged in government surveying, and
then followed civil engineering Mr.. Thornton
! made the first sectional map of the State OF
Minnesota, and has followed the business with
| slight intermissions. up to within the past
| four years
The annual meeting of the Winona conference
| of Congregational churches began at Wabasha,
| Tuesday evening, continuing Wednesday and
Thursday of last week Among the speakers
were Rev Mr. Crum and Mrs Thomas Wilson
of Winona; Rev. j. H. Morley of St Paul;
If
! and Mrs, uhase,of Minneapolis, president Of
the womans board of home missions for the
| Northwest
Mary Jane Clarns, aged seventeen, OF Park
er's Prairie, Otter Tail county, indicted by the
grand jury, was arrested aud arrangements
made to bring her into The cry She did not
appear, but her brother handed the following
letter to her attorneys, Clapp, Woodarl X
| Cowie: ''This is to certify that Mary Jane
Clarns is dead. [SiSnedl A. Z. Henderson, NJ.
D." It is presumed tlla. the girl committed
suicide rather than endure public trial
The corner stone Of the new Young Meu'e
Christian Association building Was laid at North
! field IA address was made b! Frank Cutler,
| secretary Of the association. in which he said:
| eve have come together tN-nIght 10 lay the
corner stone Of the lirst \. NJ. c. A. building
ever erected in Minne*ota' The Luill,n= is
| to cost when completed, about S.. O3. ST ,osi6
Of which has already Dron pledged. and It is
expected to be completed. the lst Of August.
/ Andrew Nelson and his team wore found dead
! i'll IL slough recently three miles north Of
/ Hawey. Nelson, who vs. Srede. twenty
| Six wears old and married, wentro Hawlev, and
| after purchasing a load If lumber got drunk
and started home about dark. He LETT the road
when near small slough, drove across, miss
! ing the bridge, circlel around the slough and
came back and tired t. drive mp the grade on
the bridge and Was upEe IN fifteen inches Of
wafer, under the load g: lumner. The team
| were nired and drowned
Philadelphia Record: Russian -four equal
in quality to that made from choice Minnesota
spring wheat, is offered for delivery in New
York at Sc per barrel. This attack upon our
grain is as bold az the snubDillg Of John Bull
IN Central Asia. 1t must be admitted that the
Muscoylte l.ah his strong points i'll traffic as
well as diplomacy. A nation that can send its
, flour s; CO. miles from the point of manufac-
ture and sell it III New York at competitive
prices will surely command its share Of bust
ness.
The following changes have been made in
the postal clerk service: r. L. Mason. vice D.
Warning, Oh the route from St. Paul to Sioux
City; NJ E. Miller, vice Joseph Zeis, removed,
on the route from St. Paul to Bismarck, Oak. ::
Thomas Clarkins, vice j. S. Murray, appoint
ment EXPIRED route, st. raul to Elroy; G. NJ.
Brown vice G. s Armstrong, transit rreu, route,
Watertowu Oak, to MINNEAPOLIS: G. W. Flack
of Redieli, Oak vice G. A. Chamberlain, ap-
pointment expired, route, St Paul and Rreck-
enridge; Henry Fink yioo W. l. Mccain, route,
ST Paul to Bismarck
The insurance commissioner has ruled, IN
der the cooperative lite association law,
passed last winter, tNat NO Iowa cooperative
association shall be l,crnn:ttea to do business
in this stata without pG:l-up capital Of $780,
O0O This is the Application imposed under
the law of the state Of Iowa on Minnesota as
sociasions Of this kind, under q ruling of the
Iowa attorney general and under reciprocal
provision contained III tic law passed here
last winter our insurance commissioner applies
the same to test Iowa This will shut them all
out.
Further details Of .hc homicide at Marietta,
Lac qui parle county, shows that Olaf A. Sun
din. the yict1n was shot hy John Hamluergre..
a hardware merchant, during general quarrel.
The two m~n, with others, had been drink.
ing, and uuarreeG. Mrs. l1ammergren tried
to get her husband TO 60 home. when Sundin
assaulted her and wien hcr husband interfered
Sundin chased HIM some distance with an up
lifted washno@rd Hamncrgren halted and
fired to fri!;hren Sundu, who continued to
advance wl.e:. Fanmer5ren fired again, shoot
ing Sundin through the body, killing him in.
stantly. Hanmergren was arrested.
At the spring term of the district court, just
closed, at Morris, Stevens Co.,, Wilton A. Suits
was sentenced to the state prison for two years
and six months, for larceny This will be his
second term in that institution, and it is pro
baby that indictments IN several places, for
forgery will await him at lis expiration. John
Bucklin, the Hancock saloonlst: who, 1t is
charged, kicked Benjamin Baxter to death
was indicted for murder, and his trial will oc-
cur at the November term. He is at large
upon s.. OU bail In civil action for damages,
J brought by John Magone against the st Paul
, Minnea polls & Manitoba hallway Company fol
500, the alleged valuo oi his grain stocks de-
stroyed by fire from defendants engine, thu
jury found for the Defendant
Minnesota produces large quantities of gin
seng and seneca, and some very choice grades
, OF both of these roots are dug from the soil o.
g the state This fact has attracted the atten
ton of a Cincinnati business house, Which
! handles about half of the product in these ar
ticles of the entire country, and the concern
has just opened branch house IN ~ Fan!
The firm is engaged in an exporting business
entirely, and in the un;'ed States only makes
! purchases 1t has a resident agent in China
which is the great market of the world TO
! ginseng in connection with which the Chlnes'
I have various supersttions, and which the.
j, also value OH account of supposed medicinal
properties The St Paul house is the onl,
branch house maintained by the Cincinnati
= firm.
Lists prepared for the next volume of Brad
b streets, contain the names of 1901 additional
J individuals and firms who have entered upol
Y business in the state Of Minnesota, outside Of
the city of ST. Paul, during the past thTe
J months. The number of Withdrawals froH
: business in the meantime has been s35. Ih
total number of individuals and firms in bus