Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-06-21
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.
Red Wing win bald a new iail.

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Red Wing will bAld new Jail.
The Winona school enrolment IL
1885. .#a
New Ulm offers $4,000 bonus for
pottery. .S 49, ! 3. ...z
Rose Coughlin will open Duluth's new
opera house Oct. q.
The St. Cloud band took the first prize
at the Fargo tournament.
Duluth teamsters have struck for 81
per day. raise Of so cents.
Travelling men held three days re-
union at Litchfield last week.
On account of the low water the mills
at Cloquet are shutting down.
Forest fires are raging near Two Har-
bors, along the Iron Range road.
Morris is exercised over the amount of
counterfeit money in circulation there.
The mill of the Cloqet Lumber COM
pany has shut down. There are no logs
to cut.
Four business houses at Rice's Station
were destroyed by fire, causing loss of
| $4,000.
Ludwig Arenson, charged with MUIR
dering Olaf Wigg at Crookston, has been
acquitted.
Red Wing dogs are now killed by cleo
tricity-that is, those that are killed
officially.
The st. Cloud city council will vote
$1,000 to the Johnstown and Seattle
sufferers.
An addition 5Ox100 feet will be built
upon the southwest wing of the Mankato
normal school.
A large moose has been seen near
Edna, and hunting parties have tried in
vain to capture it.
Rev. Pettingill, of St. Cloud, who it
was supposed persisted in the Conemaugh
flood, has been heard from.
Mrs. Deny, an old lady of Morristown,
| recently went into store for the first
time in over twenty years.
II. G. Stordock has been reelected
warden of the Minnesota penitentiary by
the new board OF managers.
The state firemens tournament was
held at Alexandria last week. The next
| meeting will be at Brainerd.
A new bank has just been started at
Window, with $4,000 capital. st. Paul
| parties own most OF the stock.
Mrs. w. L. Dunn, of Mankato, gave
! her baby morphine, mistaking it for an.
other medicine. The child is dead.
Brown county was the first to make
| its June settlement with the state treas
urer, $4,000 being the amount paid in.
| The United States court opened Mon.
day, Judge Noonan presiding. The cal
endar contains sixty law cases and fif-
teen chancery causes.
| An abstract Of public Examiner Ken
yon's books shows the resources of the
sixty-four state banks If Minnesota, May
Ii, to be $23,57l ,929.64.
The Mississippi is lowering SO rapidly
that unless there are heavy rains soon
navigation between La Crosse and St.
Paul will have to be suspended.
Dairy Commissioner Ives has gone to
New York and Boston in quest OF infor-
nation concerning the enforcement of
the food adulteration laws in Eastern
states.
Mining men Of the Vermillion range
will join the Duluth chamber Of COM
MERGE in erecting a large permanent
building on the state fair grounds. A
magnificent exhibit of ores from the
range will be exhibited.
Postmaster Thompson, of Cloquet, de-
MES that he is short in his accounts, ana
says that he will bring an action for
damages against the postoffice inspector
who made the charge.
The county commissioners of Big Stone
county have been enjoined from consid-
ering the petition asking the removal of
the county seat from Ortonville to C]in-
ton on account Of irregularity in the no.
tees.
A twenty-one-year lease and an option
for purchase has been filed for record at
Albert Lea on the farm of o. c.. Olson,
where the newly discovered gas wells
are situated. S. Lee Davis, of st. Paul,
is one of the lessees.
The injunction procured by Ortonyille
parties enjoining the county commits
on the county seat question was argued
before Judge Brown at Wheaton, and
| the injunction was dissolved.
The Eastern Minnesota railway COM
menced regular passenger service be-
| tween st. Paul and Duluth on Monday.
Their time for the trip is five hours, or
an hour less than the Duluth limited
| The Duluth promises to make the same
time.
There has been quite an Indian upris-
| ing scare at Mile Laos lake the past
| week. One man was shot by drunken
Indian, and it was reported that six or
eight had been killed and more were 60
ing to be. Three companies of United
States infantry went to the scene from
Fort Smelling.
The Minnesota Union ex-priscners of
| war have decided to attend in body
the national association, which will be
held in connection with the G. A. r. en-
campment at Milwaukee. P. L. Daw-
son, st. Paul, a. Dockstader and W.
Mills, of Minneapolis, have been named
committee on arrangements.
The Flandreau Indians have been
camped at Pipestone in the quarries for
| about week and have displayed con-
| siderable skill and labor in delving for
the much-prized pipe stone. The horses
lately supplied by the government are
all fine animals, being young and weigh
ing about 1000 or 1,100. The wagons
| are new. One noble red man went to
tHe quarIleS Id d top buggy.
St. Paul Union Stock Yards.
| Cattle-Good to choice ripe corn fed steers.
S3.50D4.15; good to choice fat native steers, e3n
! 4; do cows S2.50D35O; common COWS and mixed.
$1.250250; bulls, S1.e5@2. $50; milch COWS, ss0M
IS; stockers, s2Ql2.65; feeders, s2s093: calves
S2G14.
Sheep-Good to choice shearling muttous. 3h0
! Q4Oo; fair to good, S3.OO@3..5; lambs, $3yon
$50.
Hoss-Light s4osD4s5; mixed, saooa4.a5:
heavy, si.G06415
Chicago Live Stock.
Cattle-Native steers s3.4O6S45O; Texas cattle
$2.D@350; COWS, s1.1502.75
Hogs-Light, Si.35a146O; rough packing. S4l5
04.eo mixed, $4.a5GD4.4s; heavy packing and
shipping, S4.a56144o
Sweepstakes at range, Ssoo@4.7s; ambs. $3.50
@575.
Kansas City Live Stock.
Cattle-Good to choice corn fed steers, S3,856
LOS; common to medium, SO 25@a7O; stockers
aud feeding steers, s20O@3.3O; cows 81. 75@3OO
! Hogs-Good to choice light, S4l2160S4,l7Ik;
heavy and mixed $3.90@4.lO. =:
Sheep-Good to choice muttons, $3GOSo3. 90:
common TO medium, $25003.4O
THE GRAIN MARKETS.
Chicago.