Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-09-20
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

Glenwood is to have nav brickyard.
Duluth's wheat receipts last week were
67O, 900 bushels.
Brainerd is to. have third bank with
capital Of $4,000.
Red Wing schools are so crowded that
more room Is necessary.
Stone has been found near Cannon
Falls which assays 50 to the ton.
Tho Union Elevator company at Still
water is in the hands of receiver.
The annual session of the state w. G.
T. U. was held in Duluth last week.
Secretary Rusk attended the Minnesota
state fair Wednesday and Thursday last.
On an average nine tramps day have
been arrested at Madison during the past
week.
The second trial of Clara Blatz, for tho
murder OF John Dougherty, has been be-
gun ut St. Paul.
At Dodge Center Henry Churchward's
barn was burned and two of his children
perished in the flames.
The prison doctor says Bob Younger
| is not as bad off as the newspapers make
him. He may live month.
DR.. J. L. Camp, Of Brainerd, imperil-
ing his own life, saved two ladies from
drowning at Long Lake, and is very i'll
Wadena, the Indian charged with kill
ing man at Mile Lac reservation
hort time ago, has been found not
guilty.
The Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh
| and Tenth Minnesota Volunteers held
| reunions in st. Paul last week. All
were we'll attended.
Tuesday was wedding day" at the
Minneapolis exposition. Three couples
were joined in the holy bonds after the
latest approved plans.
Mrs Topliff, of Edgerton, put small
rope around O. Gould's neck and almost
choked him to death. She claimed that
he had grossly ins',lted her.
At Blue Earth City the bloody flux
has become an epidemic, twelve children
having died within nine days. Several
! adults are very low with the disease.
Advices from the Freeborn gas we'll,
! where work is now in progress, are to
the effect that strong flow of gas has
been struck which when lighted burned
to height cf six fest.
The Wilder farm school and business
college has opened under the auspices of
the Episcopal church, with about 100
students. Bishop Whipple was present
and delivered the opening address.
About 100 Yankton Sioux Iudians are
now camped at the historic pipestone
quarries near Pipestone. They are here
for the purpose of obtaining an annual
supply of the stone that is worshipped
by the tribe. They will remain about
ten days.
Twenty stacks of wheat containing
some 1900 bushels, owned by 3. Blemke,
| farmer near Sleepy Eye, were set on
fire and completely destroyed. Although
man was seen to fire the last stack, be
escaped and.is as yet unknown. The loss
is over 81 200.
r: Clark, at st. Cloud, has presented
to the secretary of the Central Minnesota
Fair association a check for $1,000.
Owing to the first fair not being finan-
clal success, the association has been
laboring under financial difficulties, but
this removes them,
Land sales are to be held next month
In Pine, Chisago, Kanabac and Isanti
counties: Only 9 limited quantity of
land, principally that covered with hard
wood timber, will be offered this time,
as auditor Braden contemplates a more
extensive sale early in May.
At Winona three boys were playing
with toy cannon, made from a car
fridge she'll. They loaded it with pow
der and small stone. The charge hit
Larry Mllkofski, boy of IS, in the
neck, severing his jugular vein. He
bled to death in two minutes.
The st. Croix Dam company intends
this week to begin the construction of
the big dam at the head of, Daubrey's
rapids, above St. Croix falls. This work
Is one of the most important ever con-
structed on the st. Croix river, and will
do away with the costly jams that have
taken place for years.
Last week Wednesday the machinery
Of the new 1000 barrel ''Imperial" -four
mill at Duluth, started grindingits first
wheat. A few car loads were put
through n the mill to clear out the ma
chinery. Grinding began in earnest
Monday. 1t employs, with a cooper
shop, about seventy-five men.
The will of the late Senator Goodrich
has been admitted to probate in Blue
Earth county. The estate will inyen-
tory $1O, 900. To his aged mother is be-
queathed 81, 900, and the balarce is di.
vided between two sisters living in
Maine. His library is donated to the
Blue Earth City Masonic lodge.
A little over thirty years ago Louis
Vertun, then living at St. Paul, pur-
chased 100 acres of land in what were
the wastes of Minneapolis. His widow
has just arrived from Germany and lays
claim to the land. which is now in the
heart of tho city and worth millions.
The land had been sold for taxes years
ago.
The plans of the Duluth street railway
for building an inclined railway up the
hill are perfected. 1t will be built en-
tirely of iron and steel, will pass over
some of the streets at height great
enough to allow teams to pass under
meath and will carry street cars and
wagons up the hill. The cost of this in
cline will be about 100000
A Washington special says Dame Ru-
NOR IN the capital city has it that ex-
Senator Sabin is to marry Miss Ida Muir
ply, of st. Paul. Mrs. Sabins friends
are very emphatic in denunciation Of
the contemplated marriage, some even
going 80 far as to say that the charges
against his former wife were trumped
| up in order to get her out of the way.
The Northern steamship line, whose
six steel ships ply for the Manitoba road
| between Duluth and Buffalo. will build
| this winter a large steel tug for the use
| of the line. The tug will be very power.
full, all of steel, and used entirely to han
die ships of this line in Duluth harbor.
It will cost nearly S20,0OO and is named
for H. D. Minot, president of the Eastern
! ra lway.
Dank Examiner Kenyon has COM
pleted an ATTRACT of reports showing the
condition Of the Minnesota state banks
for the quarter ending Aug. 16, 1889.
The total resources are S24 1888, ,429. so.
For the quarter ending May l6 the re-
sources were $23, ,57l 1929. "a, showing an
increase for the last three months of
u, All ,50O.35. The number of state
banks in May was "a; row there are 81,
an increase OF 8.
Was Fast for Those Days.
| SAN Francisco, Sept. 17.-The United
States man.of-war Iroquois, which has
been undergoing extensive repairs at
Mare island for the past year, was given
o trial trip in the bay and developed an
average speed Of seven and one-half
knots per hour, with favorable tide.