Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-10-19
NEWS in MI m ESOTA

Seven hundred Iowa merchants ana
farmers visited the Twin Cities Sunday.
Frank Dowdle, a pioneer resident Of
Renville county, is dead, aged 50 years.
The Minnesota conference of Daugh.
ters Of the American Revolution was
teld in St. Paul last week.
The state labor commission proposes
to ask the next legislature for an in
spector to look after the mines on tho
range.
Frank ]. Haberman, young farmer
residing near Fulda, was killed by be-
ing thrown off load Of lumber while
on his way home from town.
Cholera is raging among the hogs in
Southern Minnesota, and the farmers
in that portion Of the state are much
excited over the cor dition of affairs.
The trial of Miller and Elmer, in
dicted for the Wise murders at Anoka,
has been set for Monday, Oct 20. The
boys pleaded not guilty when arraigned.
The second annual convention of
the Catholic Total Abstinence Benefit
association of Minnesota was held Sum
udy LII oG 1 dNA. 11OOAV AVO A1A0AA ssAAO
women attended.
The plant of the Mora Milling and
Electric Light company has been de.
stroyed by fire. The only thing saved
was the dynamo. Loss $4,000. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
A test Of the current transmitted
from Apple River, Wis, to St. Paul for
the St. Paul Gas Light company, shows
that it is the most powerful ever trans
mitted through an underground cable.
30, 200 volts.
Arthur E. Commers, teacher at the
Sucked Point Indian school, near
Tower, who accidentally killed an In
dian pupil named Charles Eagle Sept.
90, has been exonerated by the United
States grand jury.
Otto Hohe OF Royalton, while hunt
ing, accidentally shot himself and died
instantly. He was standing on log
and fell off and the hammers of the
gun struck the log, both barrels being
discharged, hitting him in the head.
E. L. Williams, a dock laborer EN-
ployed by the Northern Pacific at Du-
luth, has received word from Corn
wall, Eng, that he has fallen heir to
$4,000 Williams is only 81 years of
age and came to this country from
Cornwall.
held up near the Milwaukee depot at
Appleton by two tramps, and in the
struggle to get away was shot in the
right hip, the ball penetrating the
bowels He will die. One Of his as
sailants has been arrested.
1t is reported that the Ann Arbor
railway has purchased the Wisconsin
and Michigan from the Chicago credit
ors and will use it as a connection with
the $780, to take care of the grain traffic
from Minneapolis to Eastern points via
the Meuominee car ferry route.
Frank Sellinger, residing near Spring
Valley, had stick of dynamite which
he said he intended to use at chari
vari. His wife became scared and ran
out of the house, and Immediately an
explosion occurred, wrecking the house
and blowing the man to pieces.
The Duluth school board reduced the
tax levy recently made from IL mills to
6 mills, cutting down the city tax rate
to less than 10 mills, as against $40
mills last year. AS the valuations are
reduced below those of last year, the
taxes will be very little increased. !
Typhoid fever has assumed alarming
proportions throughout Northern Min
nesota- While Duluth has very little
Of the disease, her hospitals are crowded
with it, most Of the cases coming from
the woods and the iron range towns
where there is an abundance of it.
Ore shipments from Two Harbors
during September were nearly 800, 1000
tons. The total shipments for the sea.
con were about 10000 tons. Had it
not been for the severe rains during
the past two months the record would
have been 100000 tons more than that
figure.
The $3.50, 1000 explorations by the
Minnesota Iron company at Minnesota
Station, on the Duluth and Iron RANT
road. have been discontinued, IN, wo x
not being up to the hopes tA It'd Bye
first discoveries. Still there - o:c there,
and some million tons or mos have
been opened into.
The Duluth police are determined to
run all the vagrant negroes out of the
city. During the past year a large
number have arrived from the South
and never made any pretense at work.
ing. The better class of colored people
Of Duluth refused absolutely to have
anything to do with them.
There is shortage of nearly $1,000
in the public funds that were in the
hands of A. H. Wegner, the Cook
county commissioner who died sud.
"enly q couple Of weeks ago. OF this
AMOUNT $3.50 is from tho county and
o. 141.61 is from the Beaver Bay school
district, where Wegner lived.
Several Filipino students may soon
be enrolled on the books Of tho Vino
ma normal school President Mills
paugA has received . letter from Su-
perm .endent F. w. Atkinson, DEPART
ment Of instruction Of the Philippines,
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