Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-05-04
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Winona will construct 900 worth
of sewers. this season. 49,
Five hundred Minneapolis woodwork
ers threaten to strike.
The Milwaukee road will build new
freight depot at Winona.
The Northern Pacific has secured con-
troll Of the st. Paul and Duluth.
St. Paul plumbers demand 81 for an
8-hour day. The employers refused and
all union men are on strike.
Investigation of alleged violations Of
child labor laws have been instituted at
Winona by the state labor bureau.
Frank Warnecle, owner of the Glen
coe feed mill, was caught in the fy-
wheel of his engine and instantly killed.
DR.. Girimondi, lately appointed con-
sui to Santos, Brazil, was formerly
pastor of the Irish Catholic church at
Shakopee.
Virginia is agitating for county divi-
sion, with that place as a county seat.
About 5000 names are on the petition
for that purpose.
Minneapolis woodworlzers have de-
cided to strike for increased wages and
recognition of their union. Six hundred
men are involved.
A mixed train was ditched near Frost,
on the Iowa, Minnesota and Northwest
ern, by the embankment givi-g way
and the engineer killed.
Logs worth 10000, belonging to G.
w. Potter of Chippewa Falls, Wis.
were burned on the north shore Of
Lake Superior. They caught from o
forest fire.
L. L. May, the St. Paul florist and
scotsman, has purchased the Thornton
farm Of 240 acres near Cottage Grove
and is converting it into an extensive
nursery auu seed farm.
Representative McCleary has recon-
mended the establishment of rural free
delivery at Wells, Faribault county,
and at Amboy, Blue Earth county,
making a second route at the latter place.
A wedding present in the shape of a
sterling silver water pitcher has been
sent to Deputy State Auditor Samuel
Iverson by his friends at the state Cap
itol Mr. lverson was married at Rush
ford to Miss Kittie Peter.
Senator Davis has introduced bill
granting a pension of $50 month to
Gertrude B. Wilkinson, widow Of Major
Wilkinson, late of the Third infantry,
who was killed in the Indian outbreak
in Minnesota two years ago.
Examiner Pope has prepared state
ment of the amount Of money on de-
::>osit in the II savings banks Of the
state for the first three months of the
year. They are: January, $11 $50, 917;
February, $11 ,605, 58l; March, $l1 1884,
ALL
It is officially estimated that 80 per
cent of the produce and commission
firms of the state have complied with:
the provisions of the Grindeland bill.
The remaining 20 per cent claim they
do cash business and receive no goods
on consignment.
J. s. Brown, representing St:eEouis
firm, has purchased all the wool shorn
from the $4,000 sheep owned by G.
W. Miller of the Laird Norton COM.
pany Of Winona. There was 10000
pounds of wool, and it brought about Is
cents per pound.
About % farmers in the vicinity of
Ortonville were arrested by the game
warden, who found them with spears
and fishing jacks in. their possession.
One OF their number ran to the electric
light power house and turned off the
street lights and in the darkness the,
farmers escaped.
Alfred Swanson, mold caster, WIGS
instantly killed while at work on the
new state capitol building in St. Paul.
Frank Thiery, working with Swanson.
suffered fracture Of the left leg above
the knee. The men were constructing
a scafold on the south side of the build
ing in preparation for the work of the
carvers on the upper facade.
George Tyson, Is years of age, was
drowned at Fergus Falls Saturday. In
company with his younger brother he
was sitting on the railing of the river
bridge when the little fellow fell in.
The older boy jumped in to save him,
but being unable to swim soon sank to
the bottom, while the little fellow
caught fishpole and was saved.
Action has been commenced by the
Minneapolis and St. Louis road to re-
strain the state treasurer from enforc-
ing the payment Of the per cent gross
earnings tax on the company's New
Ulm branch, on the ground that per.
cent is all that must be paid under the
law for the first three years. JudRel
Lewis has issued an order directing the
state treasurer to show cause.
The Minnesota delegates to the annual
congress Of the Sons of the American
Revolution in session this week at
the Waldorf Astoria, New York, are
General J. w. Bishop, D. r. Noyes, II.
A. Castle, Major g. Fl. Winnie and W