Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-04-08
NEWS IN rs OLA

The Democratic state convention will
be held in Minneapolis june y.
Spiritualists Of Minnesota held q
meeting in Minneap olis Sunday.
Captain Cass Durham, u. s. "a, re.
tired, died at his home in st. Paul
The st. Paul city council has voted
to spend $4,000 on cycle paths this sea-
son. 4; u .ss. @
St. Paul took the amatuer whist
trophy from Chicago in the contest last
week.
AT per cent dividend will be paid to
creditors of the Scandia bank at Min.
neapolis.
The Fosston branch Of the Great
Northern is reported to be making good
progress. ~ =. j. Z. n
Sherburn needs new school house,
and will vote on the question at the
loming spring election.
The postofice at River Point, Steel
county, has been ordered discontinued.
The mail will go to. Steel Center.
The Milwaukee company has taken
out permit for new depot at Mime.
| lpolis. The estimated cost is $3.50, 900.
Gus Heidi was arrested at Princeton
charged with stealing horse belong.
Ing to J. III. Miller Of Monticello. He
has confessed.
A joint stock company with capital
stock of $40, 900 has been formed at At.
water for the purpose of erecting a
large Touring mill.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor A. Barto
was suddenly taken very i'll at his home
in Sank Center. He is suffering from
an attack of heart trouble.
The annual meeting of the Minnesota
branch of the Womans Board of Mis-
sions of the Interior will be held in
Winona April IL, ID and Is.
Plans for buildings at White Earth
agency have been completed and will
be submitted to the secretary Of the in
terror for approval this week.
The April calendar of the supreme
court was closed with a total of 254
cases. The number year ago was
238. The term opened Tuesday.
The residence of Martin Donnelly, a
farmer, five miles from New Prague,
was burned, together with $3.50 in cash.
James Brown, an employe, persisted in
the flames.
An organized gang of horse thieves
is believed to be working in Minnepo.
lis. At least that is the inference from
the number of horses stolen within the
past month.
Two million bushels of grain have
been chartered at Duluth to go forward
at the opening of navigation. 1t will
go to Buffalo or Chicago, at the option
of the shipper.
Four horses were stolen from the sale
stables of Barrett & Zimmerman, at
Minnesota transfer. The local police
department. was notified but the horses
have not been located.
About 100 Russian Mennonites have
left Mountain Lake for Langdon, n.
D., where they will make their future
! home, having purchased lands at that
point from the Great Northern.
An attempt was made to burn the
postofice at Warren. A pile of tow
saturated with oil was placed at the
northwest corner, and it was discov-
cred jtst in time to prevent disas.
trous blaze.
Adjutant General Muehlberg has
| been ordered to send East two Calling
guns and one breech loader from st.
Paul sent there for the use Of the two
artillery companies of the National
guard. They will be used in coast de-
Tense work.
Robert S. Shaw, son of Professor
Thomas Shaw of the Minnesota school
Of agriculture, has been appointed to
the chair of agriculture at the Montana
state agricultural school at Bozeman.
The live stock department will be in.
cluded in his duties.
The Consolidated Mining company is
said to be about to purchase the Sell
! mine at Hibbing. The riine is one of
the largest producers on the Mesaba
range. It has been idle for one year,
but if the Consolidated takes hold of it
will ship heavily this season.
At a meeting of the state university
faculty the first two years of the curri.
culum were radically revised. It was
also decided to institute a new course
which will terminate in the degree of
Phi. D. It is to be called the ''civics
course" and is made up of history,
philosophy and psy chology and logic, a
full years work in each being neces-
sary to secure the degree. .~,'.
Various Northern Minnesota logging,
mineral and land interests that have
projected several railroads for Lake
and Cook counties have federated their
plans and will join in building q line
that will connect Duluth with Port
Arthur and via the Port Arthur and
the Rainy River roads with the gold
country on the boundary. 8. .5 .~ :.
The grain shipping season has opened
on Lake Superior. Charters for 2,OOO,-
! 600 bushels Of grain have been made,
! half of which is wheat Armour will de-
+ liver to Letter to apply on sales Of Chi.