Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-10-06
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
st. Paul plumbers are on strike.

st. Paul plumbers are on strike.
The total cash in the state treasury
Sept. 80 was 81, 716, 424.1S.
The jury in the Burroughs bigamy
o,se, on trial at Winona, brought in
verdict of guilty.
A banquet is being arranged for Min
neapolis on Andrew Jackson Day. Jan.
8, at which w. J. Bryan is to be the
guest of honor:
Rev. Maurice D. Edwards will COM
plete this month the 25th year as pastor
of the Dayton Avenue Presbyterian
church at st. Paul.
Minneapolis is to have new and ex-
tensive industry in the shape of an in
delible ink mandatory which will en-
ploy about 100 persons.
The result of the work of the state
board of equalization adj nearly 3D.
600, 900 to the personal IT, ~ assess
ment of Ramsey count.
Two men have been a-.r~~' ed in Chi
cago by the Pinkertons, L.: 4scd of tho
robbery of the Sandinavian- American
bank in St. Paul on Aug. II. They give
the names of Billie Burke aud kid"
Barrett.
DIR. j. M. Tucker of Hastings, who
accompanied Governor Lind's party to
San Francisco to receive the Thirteenth
regiment, had the pleasure Of greeting
h 10 r,l,n l., in
the regiment.
| The warehouses of the Minneapolis
Sash and door company and the Wood
ward-Holmes company were Sunday de-
stroyed by fire, entailing heavy loss.
The former company will lose $50, 900,
while the damage to the latter plant
plant will aggregate $4,000. The
Minneapolis Sash and Door COM
pany had insurance of $35. 900 and the
Woodward Holmes conpany's loss is
partly covered.
There is $500, 900 to distribute in the
October apportionment among the COM
mon schools of the state, and about
325, 900 children entitled to share in it
one county still estimated. The per
capita is $2.73. The October apportion-
ment last year yielded $21 per capita,
and the year before $3.50. In so it was
higher, $3.50, but there are 10000
more children to share it now than
three years ago.
The presidents of the normal schools,
F. A. Weld of Moorlead, J. F. Mills
paugh of Winona, C. II. Cooper of Man.
kato and George Kleeberger of St.
Cloud, met at the statehouse Monday
for the purpose of adopting some uni
form system for the classification of
high school pupils who enter the nor
NAL schools. The board also complied
the catalogue from which books are
selected for the district school libraries.
The calendar for the October term of
the state supreme court contains over
$50 cases. The state is chiefly inter-
ested in the case of Line In Drew
against the probate judge OF Mcleod
county, involving the constitutionality
of the Inheritance tax law, and in the
appeals testing the Grindeland law for
licensing commission men. The second
OF the cases to test the Anderson law
taxing railroad lands is to come up at
this term from Jackson county. The
former case is now pending in the
United States courts.
| The state board of equalization has
adjourned sine die. The session has
been long one and much hard work
has been dol.e. A rough estimate puts
the addition this board has made to the
taxables of the state at $l0,OOO,OOO, or
10 PER cent Of the personal property
list. The precedent established of list
ing the capital stock of corporations is
expected to result in much more sig
nifcant additions 10 the grand list, es-
pecially OF corporations holding public
franchises, which have hitherto escaped
taxation III l.cI tt; head.
The profits CT tie st;s.., fair Of 1899
were SO S:..41. tbs is the largest
earning ever made. by t:Ie fair and very
! gratifying to the beard Of managers.
Of the state fais receipts Proper,
$6l 1920 We're fo:s admissions 10 the
: grounds and the grand stands, as against
q. total of $36. 951. IS for 1885, The total
receipts for 1898, including balance of
1912. II and the state appropriation of
$4,000 were only $6s,5a3.7o, less than
$1,000 more than was taken in at the
gates alone this year. The surplus will
be used in improvements at the fair
grounds.
The annual convention of the German
Roman Catholic Benevolent Association
| Of the State of Minnesota is being held
1T Sleepy Eye this week. One of the
delegates gives out an important change
which will be made in the constitution
and bylaws relating to the insurance
Of women. The constitution now pro-
vides for such insurance, but it is not
satisfactory. At present only the wives
Of members of some German Catholic
society may be insured. The constitu-
ton will be so changed that any woman
in good health, belonging to any Ger
man, Catholic church may be insured.
The Lake Superior Consolidated,
sometimes known as the Rockefeller
IL