Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-07-07
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Maurice Lyons, q st. Paul PIONEER, is
dead. r., = = =
s. German day will be celebrated in St.
Paul Sept. 8. r. ~.
5. A contract for a sewer system at
Minneota has been let. -: r.
..ssWinona banks have reduced the in
terest rate from 8 to 2 per cent.
Four small boys who ran away from
st. Paul were arrested at Hinckley.
The state fair managers have plan
for show ring for the exhibition of
stock. .~..,
Two store buildings at GAINESVILLE
belonging to- E. Nelson, have been
burned.
The government is beginning topo-
graphical survey in the vicinity of the
Twin Cities.
DR.. Robinson of Rock Island has been
appointed principal of the St. Paul Gen.
trail high school,
Sixty-three centuries were ridden in
June by Minnesota members of the
Century Road club.
State Chemist w, S. Eberman has re-
signed, and J. A. Hummell has been
named to succeed him.
Public Examiner Pope has issued q
call for the state bank statement at the
closesof business June 30.
A postofice has been established at
Action. Meeker county, with August
Hendrikson as postmaster.
Parties representing Is lodges, A. o.
o. W. are making arrangements for q
picnic at Buffalo, July 10.
The appointment of Colonel Lowen-
stein as state immigration agent re-es-
tablishes an Office abolished eight years
ago.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the bank examiner by the
Amboy State bank, with David Secor
Of Winnebago city as president. The
capital stock is $4,000.
It is reported that William Angel of
St. Paul, well known in political circles,
is to be appointed appraiser Of lands in
Indian Territory. Angel is endorsed
by Tams Bixby. The position pays
$4,000 year.
Lumber shipments from Duluth are
very heavy. In the past seven days
100000 feet have been shipped east
from Duluth and Superior by water, be-
sides what has gone west and south in
the car trade.
The death is announced in Manila of
Paul Rhode, private in Company K,
Thirteenth regiment, from typhoid. He
was unmarried and a bartender before
enlistment at Saltwater. His sister,
Gertrude Rhode, living in Saltwater, is
his nearest relative.
Robbers entered the city hospital at
Saltwater and tapped the till Of $39
and also took gold watch and chain.
Tnere is no clue and the mystery is
locked and there is no evidence of tam
pering with the windows.
Pat Flaherty, who was being trans
ferred from Duluth to the Fergus Falls
insane asylum. was placed in the Jail at
Staples over night for safe keeping,
where he committed suicide while the.
officers went out for lunch. He hung
himself to the top of the cell with a..
strap.
Foley Bros. contractors on the East
ern Minnesota extension from Hibbing
to Virginia, are troubled by scarcity
of laborers and have advanced wages
to So day. Between scarcity OF
help and rainy weather it is scarcely
likely that the road will be in operation
| by Sept. l, as expected. -
Ida May Beatty, the 3-year-old daugh-
ter of Maurice p. Beatty Of Company
G, Thirteenth regiment, who was killed
at Manila April TO-. has applied to the
adjutant general through her grand
father, George Warrant Of Kasota, for
a pension. Her mother died shortly
before her fathers enlistment:
Seven miles west of Mantowa, near
Kettle lake, the body of August Berg,
q farmer, was found by Joe King; A
bullet hole from rifle extended through
Che back of the head and out Of the
mouth. An empty gun was clasped III
| the arms of the victim. The body was
sent to Carlton and King held as a wit
ness. =: r -: =
:: A terrible electrical and windstorm
prevailed at St. Vincent Friday. The
Great Northern pumping mill was
4 blown down and the ST. Anthony and
j Dakota Elevator company's fat house
/ wrecked. The storm took:J. Diamonds
60-foot barn with nine horses 60 feet
/ 1t broke windows, and blew down tree
4 and chimneys: ~. = s.;zss''sss1~ :,
\ The state game and fsh. commission
! has begun the annual distribution o
Il trout fry in the various sections of thu
i state where trout streams are located
It is exnectai1 that :i)60 O0A ,r;;l1 -. -