Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-05-10
MIN NESOTA NEWS NOTES.

The Mirror 10 i naw parsr atIyle.
Snow fell at Sank Rapids Thursday.
Albert Lea is agitating street sprink.
ling. FL Il, .,....s, , j., s., ~
Lake City boasts . pig with six legs
and double body. @,E - -.
John Rengel shot full.gfown lynx at
st. Cloud last week. ~.
Measles are epidemic at zumbrots.
They are mild in form. ss. %
The corner stone Of the, new Moravian
church was laid at Chaska Sunday.
There were 10, SAT marriages, 58s di-
vorces and 20,626 naturalizations in 1888.
vioks, the Rochester seed firm are
looking up property near Saltwater Tor
q seed farm. t8,yss. & L : 81
5. Mrs. Ellen Larson, sixty.six+ years OF
age, secured q divorce from her husband
at Moorhead. ~ ~ y ~ 4: >,%
Mr.. and Mrs. William Chambers, Of
Glencoe, celebrated their golden we'd
ding last week. .,-.r q.
H.. a superior quality Of hamatite iron
ore has been discovered at Hogs Back,
near Plainyiew. ..a (
7Waseca had an incendiary@ fire last
Wednesday, and serious damage was
narrowly averted. ~. -, gs44 H.
The Minnesota Farmers alliance have
organized Hail, Cyclone and Tornado
Insurance company. :. - 20. u j +.
W. f. Street, editor of the Superior
Inter-O Ocean, has been made deputy col
lector of that port of entry.
Two deaths from diphtheria are re-
ported from one family at Red Wing.
The house has been quartined..
Professor O. Whiteman, after seven
teen years service as superintendent Of
schools at Red Wing, has resigned.
The postoffice department. has sent an
inspector to st. Cloud to Investigate tie
claims that city has for free postal de-
livery.
Citizens ~ Traverse county will vote
on May 20 on the question Of removing
the county seat from Browns Valley to
Wheaton.
Philip Chmelick, OF, London, whose
wife and daughters were foully MUIR
dered last winter. has gone insane from
his trouble.
Boston bond holders are figuring on
the BrainerG dam property, with a view
of purchasing it. The property is val
ued at 5000, 900. -.
The St. Paul street car drivers voted
Thursday evening to return to- work at
the reduced prices. The, cars are now
| running IS usual, -.
/ st. Paul water works bonds were sold
Last week to the amount Of $l0O, 900 at
nearly TO- perg cent. premium. They
were 4 ia per cents
/ The owners aud lovers of fine horses
have organized the Spring Valley Trot.
| ting ASSOCIATE ton ard 80 fine half-mile
track has been completed.
| The ST. Paul iobbers have decided tc
| give their employees half holiday each
week, and will close their. places. Of bus1.
meas at p. m. on Saturday from May
to Aug. 81.
| In the ease Of the state against the st.
| Paul Union Depot company to recover
! $40 ,45O.5Y taxes OF gross earnings, Judge
Villas decides for the plaintiff, and the
company must pay the taxes.
! c. NJ. Reese, of Kandiyohi county has
be4n appointed to alcceed E. NJ. Mer.
chant as state weighmaster at Minneapo
; lis. Edwin McManlls,of Crookston, viii
succeed H. 4. Norton ae Duluth.
1t is said that syndicate of capital
lists, headed by Thomas Lowry, are buy
ing property on the Duluth hill top, ant
! that the scheme ia to put cable line W
the hill starting at the union depot.
! Abont 1000 laborers employed by thu
St. Paul Street Railway on construction
| work, went on astrike for, an advance
in pay from $1.a5sto $3.50 per Gag. They
won their point in twenty-fouG hours
! The wheat acreage of 1887 was 3,053,
ss7, while in 1888 it was only 2,929, 052
with en- average yield in 1887 Of 1917
bushels per acre. The total yield o.
wheat in 1888; was 50, 070, 15y bushels.
In the centennial procession at Littl,
Falls the Sons Of Veterans carried a haf
that was presented to Wa.wa-a-com-ick
head chief of the Mile Laos Indians, BY
President Jefferson over eighty year,
| ago. i
Two boys sleeping in the upper story
OF 7. !. Hathaway's residence at Crook
ston were badly burned Thursday, on,
Of them probably fatally. Mrs. Hstha
way was also considerably burned. Tit
house was entirely destroyed.
Erick E. Selseth, postmaster at Nash
! Stevens county, was arrested Thursda,
! and taken to St. Paul, charged with hav
ing made a practice of using stamps a.
legal tender at neighboring towns ant
! .renorting them to the department as can
isnelsd hyshim: He is said.to have pock
eted 5000 or 81, 900 in this manner. =.
IT il stated that at Grassy Point ant
/ Fond.du Lac fully 200 barrels of eggs O.
wall.eyed pike are now lying about il
that vicinity. where they have beer
| thrown by the METERS who have beei
fshing Illegally up the river. There ar,
70. 900 pike eggs in u quart. and this vii
show that over 100000 900 eggs hav
been destroyed.
Saltwater is one Of the first cities II
appoint its meat inspector aud establish
fees. For cattle, from one to four in
spected at one time, Is cents eaah, owe
that numbere lleents each: hogs, one t
four; 10 cent? each over tltst number
IL ~ q cents shh s 9ns Ste Hour, 3D.;
lambs, one to nur, i6'csnts 'esch, oye
that Number, s cents each; calves, 1
cents each. = 80 -
|. At Crookston Wednesday night an un
offending citizen named Jake Zeinhol
was taken from his room at the Glove
land house, was bound, gagged and ;un
mercifully beaten. Then he was takel
to the outskirts of the town and tarre,
and feathered. a rope. Was. placed aboa
his neck, and he was dragged q mil
and left for dead. Finally he recovere'
and informed the police. He now lie
in q precarious condition. with littl
hope Of recovery. His assailants hav