Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-26
MINNESOTA !. NEWS NOTES.

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Delano is to have Democratic paper
There are eight cases Of smallpox in
Otter Tail county. t#I $.A
Total receipts at Crookston land Office
last year were e57, 1922. s,sE
A bridge will soon be built across the
Mississippi river at Royalton. (
The BURBERRY crop of Northern Min
nesota is declared to be complete fail
ure. r .s@ 3
f. w. Dayton was arrested at Bird
Island on charge of having forged
pension papers. Ell
The Albert Lea Ministers association
has decided to have all violaters Of the
Sunday law arrested. - Il" j
Veterans at Blue Earth City voted not
to attend the Milwaukee encampn1ent
without 1-cent-a-mile fare. - ~
The Minneapolis police commission in
vestigating charges against Superintend-
ent Bracket have exonerated him.
Spring Valley young men have petit
toned the adjutant general for permits
sion TO form a militia company.
Labor Commissioner Lamb is in the
Vermillion mining region investigating
the recent accidents tQ workmen.
All lumber business at Rice's Lake is
| stopped because the lumber dealers say
| ths assessors have taxed them too high.
Mrs. II. A. Hobart, President of the
State W. G. T. u, has issued q call for
a state convention at Duluth, Sept. 10,
II and l2.
C. S. Fulton, of Duluth, has received
official notification of his appointment
to the position of chief grain inspector
for Duluth.
The residents of Albert Lea are not
| pleased with their "chicken-koop post
| Office" as they term it, and say they
will not petronize it.
The St. Croix boom has closed at Still
water on account of low water. 1t is es-
timated there are yet 75,O00,000 feet Of
logs in the St. Croix river.
An Arab who is studying, at Carl
eton College, to be missionary spoke at
Mankato Sunday evening. He told
about the people Of his country.
Three valuable horses belonging to A.,
Brendemuhl were run over and killed
at Moorhead by train. One of them
was trotter with record of 2:S5.
Eight hundred tons of milled steel was
used in the ship "lO2' launched at Du-
luth last week. She is 260 feet long.
She will carry 100000 bushels of grain.
The Heron Lake News says that St.
Paul and Minneapolis are ready to join
hands on Just two things-horseracin
and "hogging" all the federal appoint:
ments.
An inmate of the poor house at Madi
son has declined to receive a suit Of
clothes offered him by the county on the
ground that he was not in the habit Of
accepting charity.
Large numbers of settlers are passing
through Red Lake Falls daily en- route
for the Red Lake reservation. If emf
grafton continues the land will all BIZ
squatted upon by September.
Snakes grow large in some parts OIL
Minnesota. A report has it that 6eaC
snake twenty eight feet long, was found
in Geneva lake, near the town Of Geneva
and that larger one has been seen neal
there.
Editor Burns of The st. Paul Herald
is after Thompson, of the Dispatch
Burns claims Thompson is not a natural
lied citizen, yet has been acting as no
tary public, for which Burns seeks 8
warrant.
The prosecution in the cases of thu
Saltwater aldermen and ex-aldermeI
charged with malfeasance in Office was
knocked out by the court on the GROUND
that the charges were vague and in
definite.
Emil Birkle, of Kenyon, has com
menced suit in the district court against
the members of the village council 70,
$4,000 for causing to be posted in the
different saloons notices forbidding the
sale to him of intoxicating liquors.
The Roman Catholic sisterhood Of thu
White Earth reservation has ordered q
tombstone for the daughter of Chie1
Hole-in. the-Day. The stone is to beal
the inscription, "Rose, Daughter of CHIEF
Hole-in-theDay, Died June 5, 1889, AGED
"a years"
The personal property valuation ii
Goodhue county this year is 81, 112, 1916
about one-quarter of which amount rep
resents the Red Wing valuation. There
are over II 900 houses in the county
and about $4,000 COWS, 10000 hogs anc
5000 sheep.
! On the 10th of June Nils Strand, EN-
ployed on the county surveyors staff a
Mud Lake. was bitten by a cat while
asleep at night in tent. He is now il
manifestation of hydrophobia, and hi!
; recovery is doubtful.
The government fleet is now at worl
at the head Of the Wisconsin channel
about three miles above Red Wing, re
pairing the damage done by the spring
high water to the dam. Operations viii
soon commense at the head of Lake
Pepin, where some 100000 will be ex
pended this Season.
The colored Odd Fellows of the stat,
are making extensive arrangements TO
their first Of August celebration at Sprin,
Park, Lake Minnetunka. They viii
have the grandest parade ever had b,
the colored people in this state. Goveruo
Merriam has consented to review then
from the steps of the capitol.
The Duluth &. A. R. post has ap
pointed committee to look about TO
the best plan to build home for tn,
post. Ii the post goes it alone it will
probably expend $4,000 in a neat bricl
structure, but if the city will help
handsome memorial hall and armory fol
Company K, costing $4,000, will proba
bly, be built. ~
According to the Minneapolis city di
rectory, the city is losing population
The name Of Austin Secore this yea
occurs on the 977th of the pages devoted
to names. Last year it was on tn
1,0l5th page. This shows that there ar
up to this point thirty-eight pages o
names less this year than last, and tn
decrease of names, taking sixty to tn
page, would thus be about 1890. At tn
same ratio the decrease when the worl
is finished win approximate 2,640.
: TIL, Cologne Gazette publishes q dis
! patch from st. Petersburg stating tina
: the car has expressed the intention o
| meeting Emperor William on the &c,
man coast while en- route to Denmarl
about Aug. 30. The car is averse Z
| going to Berlin. 4 Il $ b XII 4 i az
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