Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-05-31
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

Tracy will soon have system of water
works.
a starch company has been organized
at Hastings.
The Manufacturers Bank of West Du-
luth has begun business.
State Universalists convene at Still
water, june 10, II, 12 and IS.
Pipestone Grand Army men are going
to build hall for their own use.
Mankato citizens want drinking foun.
tains placed in the public streets.
a farmers institute will be held at
Redwood Falls, beginning June 10.
Wright county residents are bit
terly opposed to the meat inspection
bill
Mrs. j. Saxine, native of Norway,
has taken out naturalization papers at
Hastings.
Albert Lea is oyerrun with thieves.
Four Culprits are now in Jail for high
way robbery.
The county seat of Lac qui Parle
county has been changed from Lac qui
Parle to Madison.
F. I. Driblst, of the Owatonna Journal,
has sold his interest in the paper to his
partner, W. A. Dynes.
The jury in the case of Lomsdalen, on
trial for murder at Fergus Fails, brought
in verdict of acquittal.
One Of the features of the coming en-
campment at Window will be young
ladies' cavalry company.
A new disease has broken out among
the hogs at Pennington. They froth at
the mouth and then 60 mad.
A Florence farmer tried to draw
bounty on the hide of yellow dog,
claiming that it was wolf skin.
There was a majority of 400 against
bonding Duluth in the sum of 100000
to build new court house and county
Jail.
Ten tramps arrested at Mankato were
given twenty minutes in which to leave
the city. They We're gone in half the
time.
Six additional skeletons have been I'M
earthed on Langford avenue. St. Paul
They had probably been buried twenty
years.
Dairy Commissioner Ives has selected
Frank ID. Holmes to represent the COM
mission this summer at the farmers in
stitutes.
The annual meeting of the Norwegian
Synodical Church of the State of Mime
sofa is being held at Fergus Falls. It
will end June ).
During the first month of ore ship
ments from Two Harbors the total ore
shipped was 90,ol7 tons, an average of
over 5000 tons per day.
The election at Duluth, to determine
whether or not the county should be
bonded for $500, 900 to build q new court
house, resulted in defeat for the bonds.
Bob Younger, in prison at saltwater,
is said to be falling rapidly, and his case
is about hopeless. The physicians can
do nothing for him, but he is still cheer
full.
Arson B. Grant, of Moorhead, while
calling on young lady, was captured
BY some young men who did not like
him and carted away in a scavenger
wagon.
The Owatonna city council has called
special election, to be held on June 1S.
for the purpose Of voting bonds to build
| water works. The bonds are not to ex-
coed $4,000.
The plant Of The Buffalo Gazette is to
be moved tn Delano. The Gazette is the
| only Democratic paper in Wright county
and its politics will remain unchanged
under the new proprietor, DR.. Catiin.
The bones of some huge carniverous
monster were dug up at Mankato by
men at work on the sewers Those cap
able of judging declare that they We're
deposited there during the glacial period.
While large crowd was standing in
front OF the opera house at FaribauIt a
section of the sidewalk gave way, pre-
cipltating about forty people to the eel
lar below. Several were badly injured
The Chandler mine at Ely is now ship
ping 40 cars of ore daily, but in order to
get out whas they have contracted for
this season they must ship at least $50
| cars per day. New men are constantly
being added.
Ten Chaska brick yards are furnishing
| employment for over 800 men this sea
| son. Nine yards are making 425, 900
brick per day now, and will turn out
over half million brick per day when
running at full capacity.
! State Auditor Braden has returned to
| st. Paul from land sales which he has
| been holding in Redwood. Murray and
Lyon counties. In the three counties
named he sold about 1000 acres of land
which about closes out the state lands in
those counties.
The City of Brainerd voted in a special
election on the proposition to give a
bonus Of its electric light plant to a syn
dictate which is arranging to develop the
| water power here The vote is almost
unanimous for the donation, standing
s26 for disposal to Is against.
The jury in the Lomsdalen poisoning
case at Fergus Falls was not out over
thirty minutes, when it returned a YER
dict Of not guilty. The circumstances
pointed strongly to Lomsdalen's guilt
but when it came to the evidence. it was
not sufficient to hang him, and there was
no opportunity 70 End verdict sova ir
the Grst degree.
| The supreme court of Minnesota ha:
decided that charge of $40 per day fol-
all auctiOneer's license in places of the
size of Waseca, Albert Lea, etc., is pro.
| hibitory and consequently unconstitu.
tional. The last legislature, however,
amended the law so as to authorize in.
corporated cities and villages to refuse
! to grant auctioneers' licenses, and also
to demand $50 per day as license fee.
Brainerd has given, as a bonus, its
electric light plant to syndicate. The
plant thus donated was purchased by
the city from c. F. Kindred for SAC, 900,
and the city has since put into it $2O, OOC
so that the syndicate gets snug sum OF
$50, 900 as a bonus, but in consideration
for it, it is guaranteed to at once put in
manufacturing enterprises employing at
least 800 men.
Ambros Tighe, United States commits.
sioner. has begun suit at Brainerd tc
have the bonds of the Mississippi River
Water Power ana Boom COMPANY mum
bered from 81 to "A and IS to 100 in
elusive declared invalid and the mortgage
! securing them satisfied. The bonds are
for 81 900 each. The corporation is one
of G. +. Kindred's many organizations
and it is alleged that Mr.. Kindred sold
these bonds without any authority from
the company for their issue.
THE SIOUX COMMISSION.
It Will Leave Chicago Probably Thurs.
day Night Governor Foster Talks.
CHICAGO, May 2S.-The Sioux commits.
sion appointed by the president to have
another try at the Indians who are I'm.
willing to sell the central strip Of their
reservation arein the city. The chair.
man is Ex-Governor Foster of Ohio, and
William Warner, grand commander of
the Grand Army Of. the Republic, and
Gen. Crook are the others. alt will be
smother Oklahoma" said Governor Eos
ter. "But this is much finer land than