Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-12-27
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

MlNNESUIA, NEWS NOlEN. :
The thermometer registered IL below !!
zero at Brainerd last week 49,. .e.. !
A company has been organized at
Cannon Falls to build telephone line to
Randolph. - IL r
DIR. Anes, of Minneapolis, who has
been reported rs having been again very
i'll, is getting better. ~ -. -.
Brainerd public schools are having an
extended vacation on account OF diseases
which are prevalent among children.
Alexandria authorities are enforcing
the; law against selling cigarettes to min
Org and closing up gambling houses.
Chris Belts, German laborer of Owa-
tonna, to-day shot and killed his wife
and then himself. Domestic troubles.
Attorney General Clapp has denied the
application for quo warranto proceedings
against the Great Northern Railway com
pany.
A post mortem examination of COW
held at the state veterinary school in
Minneapolis revealed a clear case of con-
sumption.
A. Barto, of St. Cloud has been APP
pointed register of the land Office at that
place. William Westerman was ap-
pointed receiver of the same Office.
The body of Guy Gardner, who has
been missing from Rose, Creek since
Aug. Is. was found about two miles from
town. 1t is thought that he sucided.
Thieves have been tanlpering with the
mail boxes in St. Paul. They have
key. A policeman caught two of them
in the act, but fell down and failed 10
catch them.
Some genuine cases of small pox in
the village of Sleepy Eye are causing
great excitement, having closed the pub
lie schools and all public assemblies and
threatening to close all places of bust
hess.
". G. Pence, who gave the famous
steamboat excursion from WinOna, on
the Mississippi last Christmas, is out
with placards announcing a second en-
Clirsion this Christmas with the steamer
Robert Harris and two barges
a practical lumberman is authority
for the statement that the Canadian gov
eminent has lost s3,000.0O0 in timber
dues alone since 1882, through fires set
by the Indians. He claims that $780,
100000 would not cover the amount Of
timber that has been destroyed by fire
between Lake Dauphin and Lake Win
nipeg.
At Breckenridge, the motion for IL
new trial in the case of Andrew
Void was denied by the court. But
the court. considering the facts as war
ranting it, certified to exceptional cir
Cumstances. and reduced his sentence to
imprisonment for life. Harry Baldwin,
indicted for outrage, was sentenced, to
imprisonment for twenty years.
The winter cholera has captured Fer
gus Falls. Over 800 citizens have had q
run Of the disease, or at least touch Of
it, and two or three cases have been SER
iors. The city water supply from the
Red river. has been analysed and found
free from impurty, and the physicians
say the origin of the disease was IN.
doubtedly tie unusually mild weather
which has prevailed all this month.
Petitions for the appointment of Mark
Hargreavcs, publisher of the Hokah Sun,
and David House, a prominent druggist.
for the postmastership were recently for
warded to Washington. Congressman
Dunnell has sent word that disinter-
ested committee must be obtained and d
vote taken Of the Republican patrons of
the office for choice of postmaster. The
proposition is not looked upon with ia
vor by the candidates or their friends,
and they refuse to obey the order.
The state public examiner has COM
pleted an abstract of reports made to
him as superintendent of banks, show
ing the condition of the state banks of
Minnesota at the close of business Nov.
10, 1883. The total resources are SEQ,
GsS, G93, so, which is an increase of
S1.G54 ,2G3.5l over the abstract of re-
ports made on the 10th of last August
The increase is mostly from increa ses in
$3.50, 900: increase of deposits, $674,.
s273l; increase of profits, 1924, dis. 81.
The number of banks have increased
by one.
The total enrolment in the graded
schools of the state for the year ending
July 81, 1889, was o2,227, and the aver.
age attendance has been 57,457. These
figures are given from the annual report
of State Superintendent Kiehle. This
report also shows many interesting facts.
There are I 10 independent and special
school districts in the state under con-
troll of 10 special superintendent and 100
high school principals, who also ofticiate
in the capacity Of superintendent. The
salaries paid the special superintendent
aggregate S30,405, and those paid the
principals who a5t DIS superintendent as
we'll as teachers in the high schools
amounted to $09,9O2.50. Among the
teachers the ladies largely predominated.
There was total Of /. S57-1 $40 females
and 2l7 males. The principal cities of
Minnesota that have an enrolment of
1000 or more pupils are: st. Paul,
1858; Minneapolis, 1914: Duluth,
Red Wing | ,4oa; Brainerd, 1920; Fergus i
Falls, LODI: Rochester, 1923. The av-
erage attendance in these schools for the
fiscal year were: St. Paul, 1924: Mime
apolis, 14,367; Duluth, 1920; Winona,
2,03J; Saltwater, 1882; Red Wing,
1,042.