Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-04-07
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

The St. Paul health department will
start a crusade against unwholesome
milk. -
A court of inquiry has been appointed
to sit at St. Paul for the Fifteenth Mn
nesota.
Edward L. Pratt, Company L, Thir-
teenth Minnesota, died of smallpox at
Manila.
Judge Kelly of St. Paul holds the
horse thief bounty law to be unconsti-
tutional.
Colonel Ames of the Thirteenth Min
nesota, cables that all the wounded are
doing we'll.
A rigid inspection of renovated butter
under the new law has been proclaimed
by the state dairy department.
The Fifteenth Minnesota regiment
has been mustered out and most of the
men have returned to their homes.
The Minnesota grand council of Royal
Arcanum held it's annual meeting in
Minneapolis the latter part of theweek.
Arrangements are being made by the
First Baptist church of St. Paul for the
celebration Of its Fiftieth anniversary.
Railroads in Southern Minnesota have
agreed to a new schedule reducing rates
on wheat and fax a to 2 cents per hun
dred pounds.
The young women of the West Supe-
Nor normal defeated those of Macales-
ter college at basketball. The game was
played at St. Paul.
The war department has allowed the
claim of the Twelfth Minnesota regi-
ment for expenses incurred while in
camp at New Ulm.
Requisition has been made on tho
Wisconsin authorities for the arrest of
Joseph R. Clements, concerned in the
wreck of the Fillmore county bank.
Chairman Fred Gerlach of the L. A.
W. racing board announces that A. D.
Smith, St. Paul, has been appointed
Handicapped for the Minnesota district
Teachers in the Moorhead schools will
hold an exhibition day April IL, at
which time the work and proficiency Of
the scholars will be viewed by friends
and parents.
The acting secretary of the interior
has affirmed the decision of the lane;
commissioner, denying the right of til,
State of Minnesota to certain swamp
lands in the St. Cloud district.
Representatives Of the Chippewa In
dian tribes held council at Leech
Lake. They oppose the sale of their
pine lands and solemnly promise not to
be guilty of another outbreak.
Michael Treacy, of Brown, Treacy
& Co., St. Paul, was assaulted and
robbed of about $500 while going from
the first to the third floor Of the build
ing to pay the employees.
Creditors of the Scandal bank Of Min
neapolis are to have two dividends of 3
per cent each declared. One is to come
from collections from stockholders anC!
the other from collections made by the
receiver.
A. J. Jeremy of Nininger has filed
suit at Whitehall, Wis, in behalf Of his
stepson, R. w. Bush, against j. A.
Marsh and his mother, Mrs. Kate Marsh
for $1,000 damages for personal inju:
ries received by having been repeatedly
horsewhipped.
Albert Vance of Winona, who was
mustered out Of service with Company
G Of the Fifteenth regiment, is but Il
years of age, and is the youngest wal
veteran in the United States. He en-.
listed on July 8 and has served his full
time, so that he is in every sense of the
word veteran.
According to the St. Paul weather
bureau reports the March just passed
was the coolest and snowiest March OF
which there is any record. The average
temperature for the month was Is de.
greess, against general average of 81.
The precipitation melted snow was
2.87 inches, against an average of l. 4;
inches.
The coded timber land question, as
far as the Minnesota reservations are
concerned, has been settled. Secretary
Hitchcock has authorized the statement
that the sale had been postponed. The
secretarys order includes the stoppage
of all estimating, logging and every
matter connected with the coded timber
land question.
Captain Mercer, the recently appointed
United States Indian agent at Leech
lake, and Red lake sub-agencies, has
notified Major J. Fl. Sutherland, the
agent in charge, that he is ready to re.
ceive the property and will formally
take charge of the said agencies. Major
Sutherland will remain in charge of the
White Earth agency.
The Superior Shipbuilding company
has been incorporated under the laws OF
West Virginia, with a capital stock OF
81 100000. The ship yard will be bull,
at Duluth. It is stated that Andrew
McDougal, the inventor of the steel
"whaleback" barges, is back of the com
pany and that it will fight the ship.
! building combination recently compile.
ted on the great lakes.
In consideration of the Great North
| efn agreeing to erect its Shons in G.