Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1898-04-15
NEWS In 4 INES OLA

Frazee City is to be lighted with cleo
tricity.
"A lodge Of Rebekahs has been insti
tuted at Alexandria. s@ Sd IL.
"A postof1ce has been established a
Lolita, Wadena county. III.
An even hundred naval recruits wer,
enlisted at St. Paul last week.
GoAernor Clongh has designated
April 20 as Arbor Day for Minnesota.
Ex.Congressman Kiefer has beer
nominated for mayor by st. Paul Re
pubicans. s'
@. B. Baker & Co. of .Winnebage
City have failed. Liabilities and assets
about $4,000 each. ",*
Forged notes and land leases to the
amount of $4,000 have turned up in
Luverne the past week. g..
Albert Stilson, prominent lum herman
and once member of the territorial leg
isluture, died at Anoka.
The new mill of Paine & Co., at Carl.
ton, has been totally destroyed by fire.
Loss partially covered by insurance.
The store of Fred Price at St. Cloud,
was entered by thieves and several
hundred dollars worth Of clothing
stolen.
George Carder, a meat dealer of Buf-
falo county, was killed in a runaway
accident between Cochrane and Foun.
tain City.
The town of Solway, on the Crook
ston.Duluth extension of the Great
Northern, will be made central point
for lumbermen.
The com ptroller of the currency has
declared dividend of 5per cent for the
creditors of the Columbia National
bank of Minneapolis.
The farm buildings, machinery and
considerable grain of H. S. Hogoboom
Of Campbell were burned Saturday
evening, the loss being $1,000.
At Minneapolis Henry Stafford was
shot and fatally wounded by Policeman
Zimmerman. He was running away
when the officer told him to stop.
The safe in the office of the Fred
Miller Brewing company, at Duluth,
was opened Friday night and checks to
the amount Of 5000 and cash amount.
ing to $500 taken.
Work has begun on the new inter.
urban street railway line between St.
Paul and Minneapolis. It will run by
way of Como park and the state uni.
versity.
Despondent at the death of his wife,
Jesse G. Jones, we'll known and
prominent lumberman of Minneapolis,
committed suicide over her grave in
Lakewood cemetery.
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly and young
bride returned from their wedding trip
east. having visited Philadelphia, Mon.
treal and other cities. They will take
up residence at his old home in
Nininger.
DIR. G. A. Chilgrin of St. Peter,
MIMI, has been chosen assistant su.
perintendent of the South Dakota asy
lum for the insane. DR.. Chilgrin was
for five years assistant superintendent
Of the St. Peter asylum.
Thomas p Smith, supervisor of In
dian schools, is at White Earth to look
after the location and construction of
the new government school buildings
which it is proposed to establish there
Work on the buildings will probably be
begun early this season.
At meeting of the state drainage
commission the contractors on the
Sand Hill, Nordick and Middle River
bitches were ordered to push the work
of completing. those bitches with all
speed. It is desired to get them fin
ished before the spring freshet.
Governor Clough has received and
turned over to State Auditor Dunn a
check from the United States treasury
for $2,549.07. The amount is per
cent of the cash received from the sales
during the year ending June 80, 1897,
of public lands situated within the
state.
A serious stabbing affair occurred in
Mccullough & McCarthy's saloon at
Cloquet. A crowd of woodmen were
drinking and quarreling, when Harry
Mains stabbed man named Simns
four times. It is thought Simns will
recover. Mains was arrested and is in
Jail.
The state board of pardons heard 40
applications for pardon at it's Monday
meeting and granted one. Five others
received combinations. The par.
don granted was to Fred Douglas,
sent up from Minneapolis for bank
robbing. Douglas is one Of the men
who testified at the prison investiga.
ton few months since.
Roland Hartley, Governor Clough's
secretary, reports that the st. Anthony
and Dakota Elevator company has sup
Piled the farmers of the flooded dis.
trict near Georgetown, Clay county,
with 4, 900 bushels Of seed wheat, and
1900 bushels more will be needed to
relieve the necessities Of the case.
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