The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-03-17
LOCAL And STATE NEWS. !.

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Charley johnson /. left for Duluth
Thursday morning. . t~t@
8 The first number OF the Rainy Lake
!. Herald, edited by G. G. Brown, appeare;
last week. r. 4; d. .=a3.I IS. &.
1t is said that Ex-senator z. r. Bower
will succeed Adam Bede as publisher
Of Bede's Budget. q 80
..S Mrs rs. Eliza Davis. a mulatto, died in
San Francisco on the 9Th inst at the
age Of lob years, 4 months and 18 days.
She was born q slave Oct. IL, 1870.
The following are the state school ap-
preparations for this district; Cook
county, 36 pupils, SAL; Lake, 213, s244;
st. Louis, 6,832; s7,914; Carlton, 1858,
$3.50; Itasca, 1877, $192.
Rev, r.. T: Greene will leave next
week for West Superior, where he will
make his future home. Mrs. Greene
will remain here until, navigation opens
up, when she will ioin her husband.
Editor Wetmore of Duluth Press, who
was arrested on charge of criminal Il
bel short time age on account O" an ar
ticle published in his paper charging
DR.. Golf with the murder of Joe Wolff
has been found guilty and fined S73.4o.
Work at the Barge works in West S,o-
perior was resumed last week with p
crew of about 200 men. The whale.
backs will be repaired aud pitt into
shape for the opening of navigat ton
The christopher Columbus will be fttac'
out to run between Chicago and Mil
waukee.
The city council of Emporia Kan, re
Gently passed, over tho mayors veto, ar
ordinance prohibiting the sale or givin~
away Of cigarettes or cigarette paper, to
any person under the age of 81 years
under penalty of 800 fine or thirty
days. Imprisonment in jail, or both, for
conviction Of even an attem pit at evasion
Of the law.
A dispatch from Chicago dated March
9th says: The steamer Chicora arrived
here from ST. Joseph and Benton Har-
Dor, Mich, last evening, thus opening
the marine season q month earlier than
last year, although insurance does not
become operative until April l.. Some
vessels, encouraged by the mild weather.
will soon start for Buffalo.
Morris Hayes of New York comes for
ward with plan for celebration of the
beginning of the Goth century of the
Christian era to be held in the city Of
New York during the year 1900. His
plan contemplates all the features of
worlds fair, and he believes if the right
support is given him they will have an
exposition in 1900 which will far surpass
anything Of the kind which has yet been
conceived. . ~: ~ =# z.fz - =
The smallest baby yet reported was
born in Killingswortb, Conn., , on the 4th
INST The parents are Swedes. The
father is employed by farmer cutting
timber and weighs about 100. The
mother is stout, healthy woman
weighing about 100 pounds. The child
is male, as perfectly formed as a babe
can be, and on it's birth weighed only
eight ounces. It's face is about the size
of horse chestnut: A ring worn on the
little finger Of it's mother was easily slip
ped over his foot nearly up to the knee
1t is the opinion Of the attending physi-
clan that the child will live.
:, The police Of West Superior have sue
<ceeded in locating a gang Of Chinese
opium smugglers. who have been SNUG
Cling the drug through Canada for con-
sumption in Superior, Duluth and other
Northwestern cities. A large quantity
OF the drug was siezed in raid made
recently by the police. The raid will be
continued, and it is expected several
Cinnamon will be arrested and held to
the United States courts. It is estim at-
ed that nearly $4,000 worth of opiu N
has been struggled into Superior in the
past few months and shipped to the
Iron range towns, St. Paul, Minneapolis
and other Northwestern cities.
The late Mr. Geo. W. Chills was bet
: ter known as an individual giver than
perhaps any other man in the United
States. 1t is no exaggeration to say that
Mr.. Childs, for the last half of his life,
put more time, labor and pains into the
work of giving than he did into making
smoney. 80 many people he seemed to
scatter his gifts broadcast and bestow
them Unfortunately, but his giving
was not without method. In the Re
view Of Reviews for March Mr. Childs
method Of giving, is approximately yet
c'iscriminatingly described by Talcott
Williams of the Philadelphia Press
This article is illustrated with por traits
of Mr.. Childs at different ages, and en-.
cravings Of some of his most notable