Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-04-20
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

NEWS. In MINNESOTA
Winona n unded up 80 tramps in one
day.
Winona insurance companies are en-
gagged in lively rate war.
Automobiles manufactured at st.
Paul will be run at Como park this sum.
mer. i.
w. A. Funk of Mankato to be rival
of McCleary for congressional nomina-
ton.
The pontoon bridge across the St.
Croix at Saltwater will be free after
this month.
The postofice at Sheridan, Faribault
county, has been ordered discontinued.
Mail will be sent to Keister.
Immigrants arriving by the thou
sands in New York are headed for
Minnesota and the Northwest.
Joe and John Ballangro, while intod-
Gated, pounded William Saice and wife
of White Earth into insensibility.
Directors Of the proposed Duluth. st.
Cloud, Glencoe and Mankato have de-
cided to send surveyors out in about q
week.
Free delivery has been ordered estab-
ished at Fergus Falls, to take effect
Sept. l. Three carriers and one substi-
tute will be appointed.
State food and dairy commission has
discovered several cases in which for
maldehyde gas has been used by milk
dealers in St. Paul. They will be prose:
cuted.
E. B. Smith, better known in Minne-
apolis newspaper circles as N. Tims,"
has gone to Omaha, where he will ~
sumo the position of city editor Of the
Omaha Bee.
Professor Irwin Shepard of Winona,
secretary Of the National Educational
association, announces the Offering of
prizes for essays on heating, lighting
and ventilating school buildings.
Owners of horses in the vicinity of
Glenwood are considerably worried over
an epidemic of pinkeye which is raging.
Nearly every farmer east Of Glenwood
has one or more horses SO affected.
The Indian appropriation bill, as
agreed to in conference carries an ap-
preparation of $1,000 for the erection Of
additional buildings and other improve
ments to complete the Leech Lake
agency.
Requests for plans for new lockups
have been received by Secretary Jackson
of the state board of corrections from
Olivia, Renville, Proctor Knott, Glen
dale and Park Rapids. Two plans will
be sent, meant to accommodate four and
eight prisoners respectively.
In proclamation designating Friday,
April 20 as arbor day, Governor Lind
calls attention to the riches of forestry,
and to the fact that we have felled more
than. we have planted, urging school
teachers and pupils to observe the day
by planting trees and shrubs
Governor Lind states That former
Justice Thomas Canty of Minneapolis
is now in the Philippines as special agsnt.
of the state prison board with a view to-
contracting for sisal and manila for the
prison Irvine plant. Further than this
the governor declined to explain. Judge
Canty's expenses are to be borne by the
prison board, but his services are being
given free.
Roy Fisk accidentally shot two of his:
companions, Will Merges and Claude
Mallory, at Jackson while hunting for
fish. Merges received over 80 ahx in
his left side and Mallory g. number ii
his right arm and head. The shores Of
the lake have been crowded with hunt
ers, who are shooting pickerel Weighing
from two to four pounds each. Friday
over 1000 pickerel were taken out Of
the lake. a. ,s=ssss>,..
Albert Duani Of jackson county, the
only prisoner under sentence of death
and awaiting execution in Minnesota,
! will not die on the scaffold. The board
of pardons committed his sentence to
imprisonment for life. Dunai's appi-
cation has been before the board for sew
eral months, and Governor Lind has re-
Trained from naming date for his exc
cution until the case could be acted
upon by the board.
J. G. Hanley Of St. Paul, executive
agent of the Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union and representing che
various grain growers associations
throughout the world, is interested in q
farmers trust, which is being promoted
and an agricultural conference has been
called to be held in Paris, July 9-16 It
is the object of the trust to raise the
price of wheat to 81 per bushe1 and de-
crease the acreage 20 per cent.