Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-12-10

public officer and IL is not specified that
he shall receive q salary he is not entitled
to any. Tho fact that the law specifies O.
salary for q health officer Is proof OF it,
Any member of . board may receive 8
i salary il the city ordinance provides for il.
Miss Mamie Magrath, aged twenty-one,
of the town OF Warsaw, Rice county, com.
mitted suicide By poisoning. No cause u
known except dependency, occasions by
i'll health. Before dying she confessed to-
her father that she had poisoned herself. Fl
i A stabbing affair occurred at Shakopee
ut which Albert Hachtshiem received q
bad knife cut in the thigh at the hands OF
George W. schmitt, farmer living south
OF town in Scott county. Schmitt was
held in 81, 900 to the grand jury. %
Aseventeen-year-old wife travelling from
Youngsts wn, Pa, to Oak ota, in charge ola
portly colored nurse, was one OF the occu-
pants OF the sleeping car Vancouver, which
| reached Hartland, a starion thirteen miles
| north OF Albert Lea, about ten miles be-
! fore midnight. A few minutes later the cry
| OF a child was heard, and investigat ton
| developed the fact that the young wife had
| given birth to twelve pound boy. The
passengers requested that it be named AL
| bert Lea.
| At Jordan, Scott County, Bragg &
Co.'s refrigerator, containing 80, 900 dozen
| eggs was burned. Insurance on eggs S.
900; on building, $4,000.
! The following pensions have just been al
lowed to people OF Minnesota: Louise,
widow OF Gustave Lene, ST. Paul; Jerome
B. Hatch, Litchfeld; L. A. Colson Beaver
Falls; Lewis Bates, MARSHALL; Joseph Cobb,
oils; Charles A. Horn, Minneapolis; Hor-
ace G. Bennett, Minneapolis; Daniel H.
Freeman, Delano Elijah Biddle, Benson.
Pensions increased-Mack j. Kennedy,
Fair Haven; Samuel Taylor, Preston;
Abram Plumer, Winnebago; John Kerr,
Anoka; James Cramp, Spring Valley;
George L. bartholomew, Blue Earth City;
Edward Stevens, Fountain. Pension reis-
sued oseph c. Mold, Fairbank.
| Aman has been giving shows in souther
Minnesota lately, and calling himself Santee
Bill, and claiming that he was one of Gus
ter's scouts. As he was about to give an
entertainment at Hammond, in Wabasha
county, q rough who WAS refused admit
tance without paying, drew knife and
| dangerously stabbed Santee Bill in the
neck.
! At the prize defamation OF the Pilsbury
| Academy at Owatonna, the committee on
award OF prizes after paying high COM
pliment to the excellence OF the speakers
awarded the first prize to Lester Sunder-
land OF Minneapolis; second. Edward
Chambers of Berlin, and third, Bert Glasby
OF Claremont.
The Northwestern Miller OF Minneapolis
says the project for combining the entire
milling interests OF Minneapolis is one vast
company, which has been talked about in
a desultory way in times past, is now re.
| ceiying more serious consideration. Sever.
| al plans have been presented in relation to
| the matter. but the one which seems the
most acceptable to the majority OF the
| millers contemplates a union Of all the
milling firms under the management and
with single official head. The Miller
thinks that the effect OF such combina-
! ton in the trade would be enormous, and
| that the economy Of manufacture would
be very considerable.
| Caroline Pogreba, OF Dayton's Bluff,
died from bullet wound, and the case is
thought to be one Of suicide.
Emma c. sandell OF Minnea polls, sues
John A. Nordeen and gets verdict for
| IS, 600 for breach OF promise.
The 1850, OOO- bushel elevator at West
Superior formerly known as the Hill eleva-
tor has passed in the hands of a syndicate
composed Of Messrs. C. A. PilIsbury & Co.,
! w. H. Dunwoody, John Crosby, T. II.
Peavy & Co. and Van Dusen g. Co., Min
neapolis; D. C. Shepherd and H. F. Upham,
St. Paul. R. B. Burdick, late grain in.
|
and general manager Of the new organiza-
ton, which will be known rs the Great
Northern Elevator company.
A postoffice has been established at reien
Kittson county, with Augusta Westman
postmaster. Postoftice discontinued
Jacksville, Wilkin county; mail to Chris
tine Oak. Acting postmaster: From
Nov. 3, 1886, Henry Albers, Union Lake.
The mail services from Pelican Rapids to
GAINESVILLE. from Nov. 20, is changed to
end at Norwegian Grove, emitting Barnes.
vile, decreasing the distance eleven miles.
The railroad mail services from Winona,
to Winona Junction, Wis, via Chi
cago Il Northwestern railway. from Nov. /,
is changed to extend from Winona juno
ton to La Crosse, Wis. increasing the dis
lance ~ miles. .
The Minneapolis Millers' union will sink
into state Of suspended animation for
the present. =
| Postmasters commissioned in Mime
sofa: T. w. shachell, Prairie Junction; B.
Y. McNairy, Campbell; Samuel Cassairt,
Eden Lake; J. Mclaughlin, TownviIle; ABB
ner Remington, Kasson; Henry N. Klaus,
| Carlisle; M. T. Wenner. Georgetown; Fred
! Puhler, Ada; John Stuart. Pipe Stone ".
| G. Chiffon, Castle; G. Steinman, Smithfield;
Jens Petersen, Georgeville; Andrew We'll
! den, Antrom; John Oberg, Kragnes; Albert
II. hahe, Two hdFUOFs -s}se
Mail service has been established on the
| route from Glencoe to Hutchinson,
| via Chicago Milwaukee &, ST. Paul railway,
fourteen miles and back, six times a week,
| or as much oftener as trains may run
| from Dec. l. s&LS@
! Mart Fahey put Jack Keefe to sleep in
four rounds in q barn near Lake Calhoun,
! Hennepin Co. "
Lake Pepin closed entirely Friday night
| the 26th inst. It is expected that teams
will be able to cross in q few days.
! Michael Walsh tried to crawl under 8
freigh train at Campbell, and now he is at &
Breckenridge in the hospital with one leg
| less than he had.
| Wolves are said to be increasing in nun1-
Der in the woods along the st. Paul d Du-
| luth road. E3& III Ss5
Navigation opened this year at Winona
on March ~, and closed Nov. 90, making
total of 241 days. The first St. Louis
boat WAS the Libbie Conger, March Z, and
the last the Mary Norton, Nov. 10. The
| boats passing the bridge this season mum
bered 1870; barges 974; RATS, 1860, q
decrease Of $50 boats and lib RATS from
last year. = - b.
! At Albert Lea, County Superintendent
OF Schools G. w. Levins, indicted 4 for
criminal libel, pleaded not guilty and en-
tered a demurrer, which was overruled,
| the court holding that the indictments
were regular and properly drawn. The
| indicted man was held in $500 bonds. The
| case OF c. 81. Davidson, also indicted for
/ libel, was disposed OF in similar manner,
4 both cases being continued until the next 4
term at the request 81 the defendants.
I Andrew Gardner, a Northern Pacific
brakeman, fell OF Of freight train No. 1B
near Big Lake, and was killed.