Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.

have been put in operation. ~
Charles sCoburn, prisoner, escaped
from the gail at Preston. 49,
The state prison at Saltwater now has
more inmates than ever before.
Thirty Indian children MADE their
| first communication at St. Cloud Sun
day.
The siXteen-year-oldI daughter of NJ.
| Martcl, Clear Lake. was killed by light
ming.
During the past year j. S. Dutton, of
farlhault. has lost twenty head of cattle
by disease.
A temple of the knights of Aurora has
been organized at Mankato, with a men,
bership of fifty.
Walter Fl. Sanborn, of st. Paul. has
been elected grand commander of the
Minnesota Knights Templar.
jeremiah Prendergast, of Minnesota,
carried off high honors at the COM
mencement of Georgetown college,
Twoyoung men of kellogg have leased
farm on the Zumbro river, and will be-
gin hog raising on large scale.
The State Dental association holds a
! three days meeting at the Spalding
house, Duluth, beginning July 10.
1t Is said that if Albert Bulow, under
| sentence of death, escapes hanging, the
people OF Royalton will lynch him.
Joe Carkie. Jr., Peter Paul and An
tome I.amott were arrested and fined at
Anoka for fishing in the lake with net.
Wadena, the Indian who shot Magnu-
son in Mile Laos county, and created the
recent ''lndian' war, has been arrested.
Swan Megnuson, shot by drunk en- In
dams at Mile Laos recently, has recov-
cred sufficiently to be removed to his
home.
A gang of tramps engaged in a fight
| with Red Wing citizens and nine of the
former were landed in Jail after hard
battle.
Minnesota stock shippers think that
with good crops the state will produce
at least one-third more hogs than ever
before.
Reports from various parts of the state
say that the chinch bugs are being at
tackled with disease that kills them off
rapidly.
Sheriff Cratic, of Wabasha, has two
bird dogs which recently came to a
point on covey of prairie chickens and
remained in the same position twenty
four hours.
G. O. Dahl, convicted of manslaugh-
ter in the second degree at Caledonia,
has been granted a new trial because
one of the jurors took whisky into the
jury room.
The Chautauqua Assembly at Maple
GOOD Park. Waseca, begins July d.
There will be a Bacon Shakspere con-
trcversy between Donnelly and Wallace
Bruce, of New York.
An order has been issued by Judge
Mcclure vacating a portion of the town
site Of the old village Of Wacouta. In
the early fifties that place was one of the
foremost settlements in Minnesota.
George Dreven thought he had struck
a natul al spring on his property at Wa
SEGA, but found on making a close ex-
animation that it was only a broken
water pipe from which the water bub-
bled up.
Ex-senator Sabin has made formal an
plication at Saltwater to legally adopt
the three orphan children who have re-
sided with him for some years. Two of
them are the daughters Of the late Dele
gate Raymond, OF Dakota. and the other
is Ida Chambers, whose parents are
dead.
| Arrangements for the summer meet
ing of the State Editorial ASSOCIATION
have been about completed by the COM
mittee. The meeting is to be held at
Saltwater about July "A, and in connec-
ton with it there will be an excursion to
some point of interest in the neighbor-
hood of the city.
| At the Park region encampment,
| G. "A. R., Detroit, a serious acct
dent occurred while firing a salute to
Governor Merriam. The cannon was
discharged while Nathan A. Starr was
ramming home the charge, mangliny the
right hand badly and burning his face,
eyes, breast and both hands and arms.
! A report from Detroit states that Mon
day night robber entered the caboose
on freight train between Audubon and
| Park Lake, in which were a number of
passengers, and demanded their vaiu-
ables. All but one gave up, and the
robEer shot at him and jumped from the
| II ain.
| The amount of logs sold at Saltwater
last week aggregated about 13,000,O QUO
feet. For the season so far nearly $780,
| 100000 feet have passed through the
boom, and there are still some 50.OOU,-
OCO in the boom. The home consumption
is large, over 100000 feet of lumber be-
! ing cut daily.
The report of the Red Wing reform
school appraisers shows the valuation
determined upon them for the Lowther
lands to be $l1 ,355.20: Thomas lands,
| $391.3 5. The Jordan farm was not ap-
praised, as arrangements for its purchase
had been made. Mr.. Lowther will ap.
peal to the district court, but this will
not delay the erection of the buildings
Capt. D. C. Chase has left Perham,
where he has been experimenting the
werk against the grasshoppers, which is
finished. The expense to the state will
be $4,000. Five thousand acres have
been ploughed, and several hundred
acres on which 'hoppers Matched were
! swept with "dozers.'' Capt. Chase says
! all trouble with grasshoppers is at an
end.
The MICHIGAN legislature adiOnrned