Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-11-03
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Seven arrests have been made at
Willmar for blind pigging.
Sle-sCy Eye will erect a monument for
Chief Sleepy Eyes, whose grave has
just been found.
J. w. Taylor of St. Paul has been
elected president of the Inland Iekkes
Yachting association. G
The American Public Health aes@ia-
ton holds its 9th annual sessfod in
Minneapolis Nov. l, 2 and 3.
The Swift & Go. packing plaat at
South St. Paul is to be nearly doubled,
involving an outlay of 100000. =
The constitutionality of the law go&
erning the distribution of the STAG
school fund is called in question.
Joe King on trial at Carlton, &C.
cused of having murdered Gus Berg
near Mahlowa, has been acquitted.
Because of IL: unjust French tariff
he Minneapolis, flour millers will not
have exhibits st t!:a Paris exposition.
Among the passengers who arrived
Sunday on the Steamer Amsterdam was
Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota.
Minnesota State University and Grim
nell played tie game of football Sat-
urday at Minneapolis. The score was
to 5.
A steel shipbuilding plant is to be
established at Collingwood, Ont, with
the assistance of Captain McDougal Of
Duluth.
A movement has been started to OBJ
tain the pardon Of the Fifteenth Minne-
sofa regiment who were sentenced to
Imprisonment for mutiny.
The state 81; ::v:ne court has upheld
::!1<- TARA .eiaI; law which requires
commission 1necc. iants to take out IL
yellseS, give bonds and make reports of
s;lles
The supreme cOar. has made ruling
that an oral contract made by school
teacher with the board Of trustees Of a
school district to teach school is invalid
and no recovery can be had tor services
performed hereunder.
According to the insurance commits
sicner's report the amount OF insurance
written in Minnesota, in 1888 increased
8 per cent over the anlnrnt written in
1897, from $s342Oo to $685., 900 The
average rate decreased notably, from
1291a2 to 1.O4. Two Years ago the aver
age rate Was Las.
Marion Fink, for whose whereabouts
query was recently received by Mayor
Kiefer OF St. Paul, was found at Du.
luth Fink is wanted as the heir to a
fortune left him by his father at Ober-
| a1nmergau, Bavaria. He is employed
as blacksmith by the Northwestern
Manufacturing company of that city.
George H. Hayes, since the beginning
chief clerk of the state reformatory at
St. Cloud, has been notified of his dis
missal by Superintendent Houlton. He
will remain a week and instruct his
successor, Thomas Heller. Hayes dis
missal is the result of the unsuccessful
effort some months ago to GUST Houlton
and he is accused OF disloyalty.
The Mahoning mine. at Hibbing,
Mesaba range, has closed down for the
season with a total shipment of 100000
for this mine since the spring Of 1895,
when it was first opened. The Faya1
mine, Mesaba range, will close the sea-
son with a shipment Of over 1000. 900
tons, and will probably lead all mines
of the Lake hyperion country. 1t is a
property of the Federal Steel company.
Dr. Franklin Staples. president of the
%@ n,,l - :, IL,
gent set of rules adopted by the board
concerning quarantine and other pre-
| ventive measures to guard against
smallpox where it has broken out in
towns along the Southern Minnesota
| railroad. The rules provide for the
strict quarantine Of all smallpox pa
tients. such guarantee to continue not
less than four week. iro:u the appear
! ance of the disease.
| The state bureau vi labor has com
| piled statistics ct accident reports Tor
the first nine months Of 1889. Thvro
been 495 reported, 2V Ill January and an
increasing number every month until
it was 81 in September. d rilree-fold in
! crease. Deputy Commissioner Olson
F.! does not know how 10 account for it
unless it is ''prosperi;y." or else more
thorough work by the inspectors.
Among the accidents were 70 fatalities
and II in which limbs were lost.
| Peter NJ. Gideon, one of the best
! known characters in Southern Minne-
| sofa, is dead. He was born in Cham
paign county, Ohio, in 1920, and resided
there until 1S41, when he removed to
Clinton, Ills. From Clinton he came
| in 1858 to Excelsior, there being at that
time only about FIVE or six white fam.
| lilies around Lake Minnetonka. The
following year he began experiments
and Investigations in fruit growing, and
has since done more than any other
{ man in the Northwest to advance the
cultivation of apples and other fruits.
He was the originator of the Wealthy
| apple, which he named after his wife,
Wealthy Hall, whom he married in
| 1s49. In 1873, when the state estab-
lished an experimental fruit farm, he
! was made superintendent and contin-