Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-06-23
NEWS IN MINNESOTA ]
Warren has a telephone system.

Palmdale, Chisago county.
The State Bankers's association is in
session at Minneapolis this week
Condo Hamlin has resigned as colonel
of the Fourth regiment, M. N. G.
The cornerstone of the Lutheran SEM
mary at Hamline will be laid Friday.
The Nickerson-HureI sawmill at Nick
erson has been sold to Iowa purchasers.
The cornerstone Of Lac qui Parle
county's new courthouse has been laid
Yankee, the White Bear Yacht, won
the second race with Dominion at Mon
treal.
At Sandstone Parish's livery barn was
broken into and team of horses and a
wagon stolen.
McMichael's large elevator at Canton,
Mimi, was destroyed by fire, caused by
being struck by lightning.
The Minnesota Elevator company,
with a paid-up capital of 100000, has
been organized at Winona.
A heavy wind at St. Paul blew OF
several roofs and injured two women
by overturning a sidewalk.
Judge Otis has granted judgment
against the Bank of Minnesota stock
holders under the double liability act.
Insurance Commissioner O'Shaughn-
essy refuses to license companies organ
lied under ''stipulated premium" lava
M. E. Neary has been elected presi.
dent of the State Federation Of Labor.
Considerable property in Southern
Minnesota, Northern Iowa and South
western Wisconsin was damaged by
wind storm Saturday.
Winona is to become sole headquar-
tiers Of the Empire Lumber company. It
has heretofore been doing business
under Wisconsin charter.
Professor q. S. Grant, assistant state
geologist of Minnesota, has accepted
the chair of geology in the Northwest
ern university, Evanston, Ills.
Fred Kier, the Howard Lake wife
murderer, has been arraigned in court.
He had no attorney, and though he pro-
fessed to fully understand the enormity
of the charge against him, he stated to
the court that an attorney was not neo-
essary.
The Bassett family held reunion
near Glyndon to celebrate the golden
wedding anniversary of N. A. Bassett
and wife. -Four generations were pres
ent and interest was added to the occa-
sion by the wedding of tho youngest
daughter of the family.
John R. Clement, wanted at Preston
in connection with the failure of tho
Preston bank, has been extradited to
Minnesota by Governor Scofeld. He
lives at Eau Claire and his friends have
actively opposed the requisition, which
has been pending since March "a.
The secretary of state has reinstated,
under the r1cezt Summerville act, sew
eral corporations. The Wells-Fargo
Express company paid in a fee of $50;
the Thief River Trading and Transport
tation company, domestic, with $4,000
capital, paid fee of $50, and the Du-
luth Telephone Exchange company,
incorporated with capital at 100000,
paid as fee $275.
By the annual readjustment of SAL
aries Of postmasters Minneapolis be-
comes an office of the first class with
salary of So, 900. The St. Paul post
master also gets raise of $1,000. The
statement accompanying the list shows
that of the 100 presidential Offices in
Minnesota Is postmasters will have in
creased salaries next year. Only two
Offices show decreases.
At Mankato William Haggerty, Jr.,
convicted Of robbery in the first degree,
was sentenced to six years at Saltwater.
Edward Coswell, who had pleaded
guilty to grand larceny in the second
degree, got two years at Saltwater.
Haggerty is an old offender and was
pardoned out of Saltwater at the April
meeting of the pardon board. He was
in for robbery at that time.
At the open meeting of the superior
lodge, Degree of Honor, of the A. o. o.
W., held at Indianapolis, Mrs. Kate
Blewett of Jamestown, N. D., present.
ed the banner offered by tho superior
lodge to the state showing the largest
number of new lodges instituted since
Jan. l. The banner went to the juris-
diction of Minnesota, where II now
lodges of the Degree of Honor have been
organized.
The board OF hospital trustees has
made an official investigation into tho
alleged abuse of a patient named Har-
Ian at the St. Peter state hospital. The
testimony proved that Harlan made a
vicious assault upon a nurse named
Hughes, the attack being at midnight,
when Hughes was alone. In attempting
to control the patient, Hughes pushed
him upon the bed and the patient had
one or two ribs fractured.
The Mississippi Valley Lumbermen's
association met at st. Paul and ad-
vanced the price Of low grade white
pine lumber on an average of 30 cents
per thousand. Incidentally the 100.
lumbermen present :discussgd trade
conditions, and Congressman Tawney
was present by invitation t9present The