Little Falls herald., 1899-09-08
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Cass Lake is to have school this fall.
The Twin Cities are having an cpl.
demic of burglaries.
The state conference of charities and
corrections met Monday at Duluth.
The St.Paul city council will be asked
for franchise for public heating
system.
1t is apparently definitely settled that
President Mckinley will not visit Min
nesota this fall.
The governors party to meet the
Thirteenth regiment at San Francisco,
has left for the coast.
The 2-year-old daughter of Louis Gil.
bert was choked to death at ST. Paul by
q beanpod lodging in her windpipe.
Articles Of interpretations have been
filed by the State Saving Bank of Hoff.
man with a capital stock Of $4,000.
It is stated that the government may
get possession of the Pipestone reserva.
tion, containing the valuable quarries.
A postofice has been established at
Becida, Hubbard county, 1S miles from
Bemidji, Harry B. Blackey, postmaster.
The Pillsbury- -Washburn company OF
Minneapolis has sued Cincinnati tiou1
dealers for using it's label on inferior
-four
General John Ludwig of Winona has
been presented with a handsome sword
and belt by large number of his
friends IN that city.
Policeman Strout of Minneapolis.
who killed the Dolan boy because he
didn't ''halt," has been arrested on
charge Of nanslaughter.
Thus far 70 cans of minnows, bass,
crappies, perch, etc., have been shipped
from Hastings to the state fish hatchery
for distribution in the inland lakes
throughout the state.
The first formal celebration of Ger
man day in Minnesota occurred Sun.
day and was great success. Fully
$4,000 people were on the grounds at
Smelling park, near Fort Smelling.
The village of Minnesota City, Winona
county, is represented in the Thirteenth
Minnesota. regiment by Henry Deering.
A great celebration is being planned
upon his return. He will be met with
a brass band and public banqhet will
be given in his honor.
The Park Rapids and Leech Lake
branch of the Great Northern built last
hos %lo T.. b.
earnings tax on the line from Park
Rapids to Cass Lake. $163.Oo which is
per cent on the earnings for the first
10 months, up to April 10.
Thirty applications fer pensions from
relatives of Minnesota boys killed in
the Spanish-American war have been
received by the adjutant general at
Washington. In addition dozen have
applied for invalids' pensions by those
who were totally disabled.
Memorial services We're held in the
Sandstone cemetery Friday in memory
of the g. persons who lost their lives in
the Hinckley fire, in 1894, at that
place. Several clergymen assisted in
the services and Fred L. Dennis deliv-
cred the principal address.
Judge Ensign has assigned to three
railways the work of erecting a steel
bridge 1868 feet long, as an elevated
roadway over Garfield avenue, Duluth.
The avenue is crossed by score OF
more of railway tracks in that distance
and travel there is dangerous.
At a special meeting of the county
commissioners Captain A. S. Crossdeld
of Browns Valley was appointed county
attorney for Traverse county, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of F.
j. SteiH, recently appointed to the
judgeship Of the Sixteenth judicial dis.
trict.
A pigeon was shot at La Prairie hav-
ing ring on it's leg, engraved, $780,
F. & K. a." The body of the bird il
pure white, with brilliant brown wings
like the hose Of the brown thrush; the
crown of the head was also brown, and
the legs were covered with long brow1
feathers forward, like the wings of =
small bird. The pigeon came into the
village from the northwest.
The iron ore movement from the head
of the lakes, Duluth, Two Harbors and
Superior, was enormous in August.
The amount was 1,456, 512 tons. The
movement from here since the opening
o&navigaion to Sept, has been 1885,,
$50 tons, as compared with 4,131,12
tons for the same period last year-a
gain of 5733, ,551 tons. All OF the docks
broke all previous records during
August for any previous month