Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-08-18
NEWS IN MINNESOT

The new 100 barrel -four mill 1T Mora
has been completed. s= ....sl IS S.
& st. Paul Masons are. preparing fol
their golden anniversary next month.
The veterans Of Carver county will
hold their annual reunion at Carver
Aug. 20. i. 5 81 g.: sl@5@ s.S5.@s:s
= Lillian Lewis, the actress, died Sun.
day at Pennington, Mimi, of con.
sumption. II u ss. = ~ 80: ~ ss
DR.. Ohage, health commissioner at
St. Paul, has plans perfected for free !
public baths. i. 7z,%... =, - -
Two veterans of the war with Spain
have been admitted to the soldiers
home at Minnehaha. T.
Charles r. Trow bridge of St. Paul
has been made first lieutenant in the
new Eleventh cavalry in Luzon.
F. A choice collection of saws and ales
was found in one of the cells of the
county Jail at St. Paul Saturday.
A sneak thief stole a package Of
money containing $540 from the Scan
dinavian American bank at St. Paul. :,
DR.. Chalmer' drug store and John
McRae's general store at Eagle Bend
have burned. Total loss is about 90, 900.
Fires are lighted under the Duluth
blast furnace. The furnace is expected
to make $50 tons of metal daily and
perhaps more. :+ ri
j. M. McGentry, a shoe dealer Ut
New Paynesville, has fallen heir to half
a million dollars by the death of an
uncle in New York.
w. H. Close of Duluth was found
dead in bed at the Colonial hotel at
Mount Clemens, Mich. Death resulted
from locomotor ataxia.
Depositors of the Sa:ings Bank of St.
Paul have agreed to apply for a re-.
ceiver, the assets of the bank not being
as valuable as first reports indicated.
"The Minnesota National Park and
Forestry association" was organized in
Chicago, with President Northrop of
the University of Minnesota as presi.
dent.
Governor Lind, Attorney General
Douglas, Judge Mitchell of the supreme
court, and J. V. Brewer have spent the
past few days inspecting the proposed
1tasca park. =.
The $50 horses ordered by the govern
ment to be purchased at St. Paul, are
now ready at the Minnesota transfer,
and they will be forwarded to the Pa
cific coast within few days. e..
St. Paul, Minneapolis, Saltwater, st.
! Cloud and Red Wing people met in
Minneapolis to discuss the welcoming
home of the Thirteenth regiment. An.
executive committee was appointed.
Thirty-two lumber vessels loaded in
Duluth harbor in two days, and the
weeks shipments were the greatest on
record. Last week there were 81 900,
600 feet, and no preceding week had
come within 1900, 900 feet of that.
Walter Warren, we'll known young
! farmer near Lake Benton, shot and in
stantly killed Charles Wilson, a young
man who had been working for and
making his home with Warren for two
years. The men quarreled over wages
due Wilson.
: The result of tho investigation ON the
Chippewa reservation will not be known
for some time. Agent Jenkins Is now
at Menomonie, Wis, and Nessler has
left Washington for a 10-days vacation
in New Jersey. No work on the report
will be attempted until both of them
return to Washington and compare
notes. --
! A telegram has been received at the
capital from the war department re-
questing the governor to recommend
two officers for the proposed volunteer
regiments. It has been received since
the departure for Itasca park of Gov
ernor Lind and nothing will be done
until the latter's return. It is not known
whom the governor will recommend for
the positions. 49, III, r........ ...
! A sale of large tract of agricultural
land in the northern part Of the state,
which has long been pending, has been
consummated, Frank Crowel pur-
chasing from T. B. Walker 18, 900 acres
Iadjacent to the station Of shevlin, on
the Fosston cutoff, tho consideration
being $25, 900. Two-thirds Of the land
- covered with hardwood timber and it
isall good farming country. It will be
! sold Is settlers, -
! a statement Of the binder Irvine busi-
mess done BY the prison factory from
Aug. !, 1898, to Aug. !, 1899, he's been
presented to the board Of prison man
iagers. The amount Of Irvine manufac-
tured was $50, 1875 pounds, at . cost of
/ t860, 21O. Il. The sales amounted to
| e42l, 1876, leaving net profit of
i 66, l63. OF. The sales were as follows:
Cash, $194, 81. 3s; notes. $ee25, 624.esS
account q, 80, 90 OF the twine man.
ufactured ], y75, 27755 pounds were pure
manila and s, 590, 900 pounds was mixed.
The remainder was pure sisaa. 4,