Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1891-01-02

H>ef sssH:nst gamhlsrsis is on at Red
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A new charter for St. Paul is being
gitaftd. @=5s.%
William @ 'Mnlchay will be stats au-
!itor 5ierlna1l's deputy.
"a Creek Catholic church has been q.
fablished in minneapolis.
Abont l5O Winona people enjoyed .
steamboat excursion Christmas day.
] AsGoodhue County Soldiers Monu-
ntnt association 10 being organized at
Red Wing. -
AT Lanesboro Mrs. Ingebritt Anker.
son 5wasfatally burned while filing .,
kerosene lafai,. ss g. - .
Bonniwell's roller mills, at Howard
Lake, caught fire Saturday aud tho ma
ch'nery was lost. Fully insured.
Governor Merriam. of Minnesota, has
issued his proclamation announcing that
The >fiye'sixths jury.law had passed.
The fourteenth annual session Of tho
educational Association of Minnesota,
Is being held this week in the capitol,
st. Paul.
The jury in the case of Horton, ac-
cused OF drowning his wife in the Mis-
slssippi at St. PSul, brought in a verdict
Of not guilty.
Louis Sommers, Of Hastings, has been
sentenced to Imprisonment for life for
the murder Of Miss Mary A. Dietzen
last February.
Articles Of incorporation Of the Clark
Milling company, Of Melrose, wit, .
capital stock of $iO0, 100 have been hled
with the secretary of state.
At Hinckley, Minn., the coroner's
Jury returned = verdict that Marshal
Booth was justified in shooting the
Kane boys. He was acquitted.
According to The Northwest Trade
there were SUO, 900 acres of fax in Min
nesota and the two Dakotas this year.
while there were but 10000 acres in
Ireland.
Mrs. Lizzie Palies, wanted in st. Paul
TOR working confidence game, feigned
sickness while in charge Of an officer at
Wlnona and was taken to q hotel. She
escapvd.
A. W. Lindquist. Of Owatonna, Mimi,
ekated 6o mics in s honrs and rs min
uteE, breaking the worlds record made
by Ennis, of Chicago, 6 hours and S!
minutes.
Senator Davis will make an effort to
get tne minnesota apportionnlenr in
creased to eight menbers Instead of
seven, as provided by the bill which
passed the house.
The Winona and Southwestern road
gave an excursion to Wiuona Wednes-
DAY to the business men of the different
towns along the line, which was COM
pleted last week to Spring Valley.
At St. Paul Christmas morning Silas
M1ckels attacked his wife aud adopted
daughter, Emma Mcleod, with Knife
and revolver. The daughter died in a
few moments, but the wife is still alive.
Mlckels blew his own brains out.
Fire at Gull River DESTROYED between
5000, 900 and S,000.OOO feet of dry lum-
ber, besides the Gull River Lumber
company's dry kiln and several build
ings In connection. Eight dwelling
houses, the co,upauy's store building
and the postofice were consumed.
The old plant owned BY tho Wiuons
Harvester company is about to be sold
to the Green Bay, Winoua and St. Paul
Railway company, to be used for renair
shops. The main building is SOxlOO feet.
hive stories high, besides other large
buildings worth in all s6O, 900.
The new smokestack at the Hill street
electric power house Of the ST. Paul
street railway. which is Just comuleted-
is one OF the tallest and largest in the
world. 1t is zoo feet high and has an
inside diameter at the base of fifteen
feet. It took 875, COO brick and rs. .OO1
FIRE brick to build it. 1t weighs 10. 500
tons and cost $4,000.
The committee to revise the coursa Of
ctudy in the graded schools of the state
met In St. Paul Monday and Tuesday.
The committee appointed by Superin.
tendent Kiehle, consists of Professor n.
P. Judson, of the state university: "
L. West, Farihault; Miss Mabel Law
renee, St. Cloud; Miss Mary Hall. St.
Paul; R. E. Denfield, Duluth. ard T..
Bliss. Of Henderson. The result of their
work has not yet been made public.
The monument to the brave men who
lost their lives in the New Ulm massa.
Gre by the Sioux Indians, has been fin
ished vt a cost of 5000. The emonuruent
is Of white bronze ON a stone base. :
feet square by feet high. The plinth
is feet high, inches square by = feet
3 inches high. Tho spire and cup give
total length to the monument Of Is feet.
The north and south plinths show in bas
relief battle scenes, and the east and
west rlinths, with four tablets On tho
monument show a life-sized medallion
OF Judge Charles e. Flandrau, with
an inscription giving history Of the Iu-
dian massacres and the names Of sol.
diers killed In battle