Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-04-14
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

NEWS In MINNESOTA
Franchise for an electric line has
been granted at Mankato.
F. A bitter war is on at Halstad between
saloon and anti-saloon factions.
The State Bank of Morristown, CAPT
tai $40, 900, has opened for business.
J. j. Hill will develop his mining
properties in the northern part of the
state.
The Duluth and Iron Range road has
opened way station at Biwabik for the
season.
Active work on the new capitol will
be resumed as soon as it stops freezing
at night.
Monroe Nichols of Duluth is said to
be slated for one of the $4,000 positions
in the census bureau.
The secretary of the treasury has re-
ceived from Minneapolis 81 contribu-
ton to the conscience fund.
The Northern Pacifc-St. Paul and Du-
luth land grant case has been decided in
favor of the Northern Pacific.
Application has been made for a re
ceiver for the Odd Fellows Accident In
surance company of St. Paul.
Joseph Plihal of Silver Lake has been
lodged in jail at Glencoe for counter
feiting. He admits the charge.
a new court of the Catholic Order of
Foresters has been instituted at Monu-
ment with 40 charter members.
Land Commissioner Hermann ex-
presses the hope that the Minnesota leg
islature will not repeal the fire warden
law.
A. D. Aldrich Of Benson, one Of the
proprietors of the Aldrich House, was
fatally injured in runaway accident
Sunday.
The large saw mill at Akeley, owned
by NJ. l.. Moore, burned to the ground
late Sunday night. Loss, 50, 500; no in
surance. It will be rebuilt at once.
A stranger passed 30 Peruvian dollars
on Winona saloonkeepers, and as the
dollars are worth only 40 cents, he
cleared $12 in a short time and then
skipped out
Judge Bum of the United States dis
trict court has appointed E. B. Lincoln
of St. Paul receiver Of the Washburn,
Bayfield, and Iron River, vice George NJ.
Seward of Chicago, resigned.
John D. Sloane of St. Pasl has been
appointed supervising inspector of steam
vessels for the fifth inspection district.
Under Harrison's administration Mr..
Sloane held the same position.
A man supposed to be G. A. Mcclure
of West Duluth was killed by North
ern Pacific train at Elk River, Sunday
evening. A note was found upon him
which indicates that he was in Morris
Jan. l.
The John Ball post, &. A. R., at Wi
mona, has secured number of head
stones for the unmarked graves of SOL
diers in the cemeteries of that city and
Of Trempealeau, Wis, and Minnesota,
MIMI, from the government.
A payment has been made to the state
of Minnesota by the United States of
418, 938 on account of wages paid to the
| volunteers before they were mustered in.
The whole claim under this head is
$21, 900. The remainder is the pay of
men who did not afterward enter the
volunteer service.
Orders for many thousand dollars
worth of Irvine, together with the cash
accompanying them have been returned
to farmers by Warden Wolfer, the
prison Irvine factory having reached its
limit some days ago. Every pound that
can be manufactured up to Aug. has
been sold either in small cash lots OF
carload club orders, and it is believed
the orders yet to come direct from farm.
ers will amount to millions of pounds
Not single order from dealer hat
been booked and Irvine dealers through
out the state this year will be unable tt
handle the prison Irvine.
AS result of a decision of the su
preme court the city of Minneapolis
finds itself without single saloonkeep
er's bond worth the paper it is writer
on. The decision was rendered in thu
suit Of the city of Minneapolis to en-
force the liability of the sureties on tn,
saloon bond of ''Stockholm" Olson, O.
South Minneapolis fame. The supreme
court in effect declared that the city O.
Minneapolis had no cause of action OF
the bond, for the reason that the bono
was made payable to the city instead O
the state of Minnesota, the city havins
no authority under its charter to tax,
such penal bond.
RAILROAD BUILDING FOR 1899.
Not Less Than Five thousand Miles to B.
Constructed.
CHICAGO, April 8.-The Railway Ag
publishes the following: There is ever,