Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-03-11
NEWS IN MINNESO Ca

NEWS LIN VI llNlNESUIA
Mormon missio are at work in
Winona .Sss
Fire destroyed 5000 worth Of On
luth Herald property.
The postofice at Monticello will be
made presidential April !. 7.
A postohace has been established at
Dorothy, Red Lake county.
A Sunday school superintendent
union is to be formed at Winona.
The Dunn Day senatorial contest has
been revived in the Anderson tax law
appeal. ..'. .>>..' +
A party of IL prospectors has gone
from Dawson this state, to the Copper
river country. :.-, ....-
The senate committee on public build
ings favors the enlargement of the St.
Paul building.
Companies of the Minnesota national
guard will be inspected the last half Of
April and first Of May.
Judge. Vanderburgh, the veteran
Minnesota jurist, is dead. He had been
on district and supreme benches 50
years.
Special Commissioner Oar Hall has
gone to the Mile Laos reservation to
induce the Indians to remove to White
Earth.
Fire destroyed the building owned by
the Young Mems Investment company
at Mankato. The building cost $S4, 000
and was insured for $18,500.
The Winona Trade Council has de-
cided to draw up memorial for presen.
tation to the city council requesting the
establishment of free public baths.
Henry T. Welles. one Of Minneapo-
lis oldest and most respected citizens,
is dead, after an illness of several years.
The trouble which finally resulted in
his death was heart failure.
Mrs. Ellen r. Mendenhall of Duluth
has been granted divorce from Luther
Mendenhal4 on the ground of desertion.
Mr.. Mendennall filed an affidavit ad.
uniting the truth of the charge.
Winona lumbermen report rather a
light cut in the pineries this winter.
The Empire Lumber company has put
in about 10, OoO, 900 feet of logs and the
Laird Norton company 20,0o0,000 feet.
The Omaha road has put in through
tariff on -four with the trunk lines from
Minneapolis to New York of 81 cents
on flour to New York for export, and
% cents to New York on -four for
domestic sale.
A new disease has broken out in the
lumber camps among the horses, and
so general has it become and so fatal is
it in it's effects that steps have been
taken to investigate it. A slight scratch
develops into fostering sore, and the
animal soon dies.
The capitol commissioners held their
regular monthly meeting at St. Paul
and passed estimates for contractors,
who take charge of the erection now.
The Butler-Ryan company has begun
at the top of the foundation and the
capitol site has assumed busy appear
ance.
Fire destroyed the large -four mill of
Cargill & Fall at Houston. The capac-
ity of the mill was $50 barrels daily. A
large quantity of wheat, -four and
other millstuffs was destroyed and sew.
eral Milwaukee cars on the track were
burned. The loss is estimated at $751;
600; insured for half.
Five St. Paul retail houses, Field,
schlick & Co., Mannheimer Bros,
Schuneman & Evans, the Plymouth
and the Golden Rule have refused to
pay the personal property taxes assessed
against them on the ground that the
increases in the assessments made by
the local board of equalization were
arbitrary and unfair.
State Auditor Dunn is now at work
on the selection of state lands to be sold
this year. He expects to dispose of a
large amount of state lands in the
spring and summer, especially in the
western, northwestern and southwest
ern portions of the state. He has not
cided on the counties in which the
lands will be sold.
It has been definitely decided that
Luther seminary, whose buildings, at
Robbinsdale, in Minneapolis, were de-
stroyed by fire some time ago, will be
moved to Hamline, President j. j. Hill
of the Great Northern railway having
delivered to the synod, for the Norwe.
gian Evangelical Lutheran church in
America, warranty deed to four
acres on Smelling avenue near the Ham.
line university buildings.
The state encampnent of the G. A. R.
elected the following officers: Com
mander, E. w. Mortimer, Minneapolis;
senior vice commander, D. B. Searles,
St. Cloud; Junior vice commander,
Daniel A. Morrison, Rochester; chap
lain, John A. Henry, Anoka. The
council Of administration was reelected.
The Woman's Relief Corps selected
Mrs. Mary A. Sil1oway Of Minneapolis