Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-05-05
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Mayor Kiefer has invited President
Mckinley to pay visit to St. Paul.
A postofice substation has been or
dered opened at Rice's Point. Duluth.
J. T. Shaw has been appointed gauger
in the internal revenue service at Wi
mona.
A State Luther league has organized
by the young people of the Lutheran
churches of Minnesota
The banquet to be rendered Senator
Davis and Congressman Stevens will be
given May IS at the Aberdeen hotel,
St. Paul.
Bank Examiner Pope has taken charge
Of the West Side bank Of St. Paul and
will make a thorough examination of
its affairs.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved for patent to Minnesota 1,54s
acres of land in the Duluth land dis
trict Oh account Of the swamp land
grant.
A special election will be held in
Hastings on Thursday. May IS, to vote
upon the question Of issuing $50, 900 in
bonds to build and equip new school
house.
The term of the United States circuit
court of appeals opened in St. Paul
Monday with IS cases on the calendar.
Judges Sanborn, Thayer and Caldwell
will sit during the term.
The first state teachers examination
to be held under the provisions Of tho
new law will be conducted by the state
department of public instruction in az
sections of the state Aug. and s.
Frank Carson, Boulder. Mon, wh<
so brutally murdered P. F. Dahlman.
the Minnesota mining man. over an inr
aginary grievance, was convicted by;
jury Of murder in the first degree.
Fire burned the roof off the First Ma
tional bank building, Duluth, and
Quilted the offices on the sixth floor. The
Duluth telephone conlpany's exchange
is located there and was destroyed
The Second and Third regiments will
be equipped with new uniforms through
out to take the place of those worn at
Chickamauga. Captain Bobleter, mill
tary storekeeper, is engaged in the work
Several St. Paul Presbyterian preach
ers and their elders loaned money to q
young man until his remittances should
arrive from the East. They are wonder
ing whether they have been "worked"
The special school meeting at Winona
called for the purpose of providing addi-
tional school accommodations, resulted
in the uncommon iberality of ordering
constructed three additional school
houses.
The annual business meeting of tho
State Saengerbund will be held at Wi
mona Sunday, June 25 and local singing
societies have already commenced to
prepare for the entertainment of tho
visitors.
Charles Raaen Of St. Paul, Is years
old, has been sentenced by Judge Kelly
to eight years in the penitentiary.
Raaen assaulted and robbed Michael
Treacy of 1888 in the stairway of the
latter's place Of business.
The business done in Minnesota by
the life, fidelity and casualty CON-
panies has just been tabulated by In
surance Commissioner O'Shaughnessy.
There is shown a net gain of s., O00, 600
in life insurance over last year.
The finance committee of the Morris
Improvement league has already raised
over 81 200 for the improvement Of the
right of way and city park and they
have not yet canvassed thoroughly the
business interests of the community.
The Duluth, Mesaba and Northern
railway contemplate building a double
coal dock at Iron Junction, also num-
Der of iron bridges along their line, this
summer. The Duluth and Iron Range,
it is said, will erect $1,000 depot at
Eveleth.
! The attorney general has given IN
opinion to Assistant Secretary Lomen,
to the effect that both officers and
agents of foreign corporations doing
business in this state would be required
to make afidavits of the volume of theil
company's business.
Plans by the Pauly company, St
Louis, for $4,000 Jail have been 40
, copied by the Lyon county commission
!. ers. They provide for eight steel cell
and four additional cells for women
children or insane persons, and an 8
room sherifs residence.
Thomas B. Scott of St. Paul, formerl,
? president of the Life Clearing company
| has been arraigned in the crimina
court on the charge of perjury It i
alleged he falsi6ed statement to tn
: insurance commissioner regarding tn
b condition of his company. -
Trespassers on the state pine !and
during the past winter are to be vigo,
> ously prosecuted by State Auditor Dunn
, Two glaring offenses have been reported
one in the Duluth district and the sec
ond near Bemidji. There have, bee
many comparatively small offenses.
Colonel Fred Ames of the Thirteent1
Minnesota sent a cablegram to Governo
Lind stating that three of the regimen
were slightly wounded in a recent en-
gagement. They are: Sergeant Bur
1ingame of Company K, Private Win
linger of Company D, and Private viii
Jams of Company E.
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