Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-07-14
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Minneapolis has kidnapping sensa-
= The postmaster at Backus committed
suicide after shooting and wounding his
wife.
Deaf mutes are holding their annual
national convention at. St. Paul this
week.
John Dowlan, for 40 years prominent
in st. Paul BUSINESS circles, is dead,
aged 20.
The state capitol commission has dis
posed of $150, 1000 Of its per cent certif-
Gates at home.
The st. Paul Rod and Gun club will
hold its annual tournament July IA and
Is at Kittsondale.
Judge Searle of St. Cloud denied tho
motion for new trial for the Great
Northern train robbers.
Charles R. Zschau, who robbed the
German American National bank of St.
Paul, has asked for pardon.
The Bell block at Hastings has been
sold to Hastings lodge, No. 46, A. o. q.
w. and will be fitted up for hall.
An order has been issued establish
ing postofice at Healy, Fillmore
county, with Stephen Workman post
master.
A national park or forestry reserve as
ISOLATION will be formed in Chicago this
month, the object being to preserve the
1000, 900 acres of Minnesota timber.
James McIlrath, centurion of the
Century Road club for Minnesota, has
reduced the double century record by
AZ minutes. He rode 200 miles over the
St. Paul MinIstonka course in Is hours
~ minutes.
Franklin H. Griggs, second assistant
corporation attorney of St. Paul, has
been appointed judge advocate of the
Fourth regiment, M. S. N G., with
the rank of first lieutenant, by Gov
ernor Lind.
A representative of A. A. White ten
dered scrip and money at the United
States land Office at St. Cloud for filing
an entry of scrip on the Cass Lake town
site. Both were declined. The papers
will be sent to Washington.
Jerry Stolpman of Winona disap-
peared from his home on July 3, leav-
ing wife and four children. and has
not since been seen. Stolpman's family
relations had always been pleasant and
the people who know him cannot be-
lieve he has run away.
Secretary Hitchcock has announced
finally that there will be neither sus-
pension nor modification of the order of
June %, directing the removal of all
trespassers or intruders on the lands of
the Leech Lake Indian reservation I'M
Minnesota, within 80 days therefrom.
During the third week in September
st. Paul will be in the possession of the
German Catholics. From Sept. II to|
81 the German Catholic Central Society
Of America will hold it's annual con-
vention in that city. It is estimated
that 10000 to $1,000 visitors will be
present.
Seven Minneapolitans who have taken
precautionary course of treatment at
the Pasteur institute in Chicago have
returned home. These people were Bit
ten just month ago. There was no
certainty that the canine was mad, but
as matter of common precaution it
was decided to take the treatment.
The receivers of the Bank of Mime
sofa at St. Paul filed report to the dis
trict court covering the period from
May 2 to June 30, and asked for per-
mission to declare another per cent
dividend. The dividend, if granted,
will make total of 30 per cent that has
been paid the creditors of: the institu-
ticn.
John McGrath, paroled inmate of
i the st. Cloud reformatory, is being
looked for by tho police on suspicion Of
being the man who sand-bagged and
robbed man by the name Of Tom
Moore at St. Cloud. The reformatory
officials say that McGrath, whose time
had nearly expired, has been missing
for two days.
The amount of insurance written
during the last year in Minnesota shows
q gratifying increase over the preceding
annual period. Insurance Commits
sioner OShaughnessy has assembled
some figures which indicate that .
great deal of building is going on and
the volume of merchandise business in
Minnesota has. proportionately in
creased. ~~s@~~,~-s,EEzse--
! Mrs. William e. laird has presented
to the Winona free public library q
handsome statue, copy in Carrara
marble, of Canova's Hebe. It was pur-
chased in Florence. Wilhelm Lubke,
the noted art critic, ranks this statue
'.among the purest creations of female
Igrace." The statue is OF pure white
marble, 10 feet high, including the pc
destal, and weighs $500 pounds.
| The state board Of pardons has
granted pardon 70 JAMES Long, SEN
fenced for life from Traverse county,
June II, 1895, on charge of mu seE.
The pardon was granted subject to the
approval of Attorney General Douglas.
vino is still ct Buffalo, Mimi. TRYING
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