Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-06-15
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

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appointed at St. Paul, Oct. l.
Ex-Governor A. r. McGill has been
appointed postmaster at St. Paul.
Retail liquor dealers held their an
nual convention at New Ulm last week.
George A. Hayes, who came to Min
nesota in 1853, is dead at Minneapolis.
Saturdays rain was general all over
the state and crops were greatly bene-
fitted.
Arthur H. Noyes of Minneapolis has
been appointed district judge for
Alaska.
Fire at Lakeville, Dakota county, last
week, destroyed property valued at
$4,000.
The state national guard is to be re-
organized and the Fourth regiment:
dropped.
Owing to the lumber showers strike
at Duluth the lumber shipments have
greatly fallen off.
The Peavey elevator at Duluth, now
in course of construction, will be the
largest in the world.
Mrs. M. n. Gilbert, wife of the late
Bishop Gilbert of the Episcopal diocese
of Minnesota, died at St. Paul Sunday.
Authority to commence business with
a capital of $4,000 has been granted
the First National bank of Winnebago
City.
Robbers broke into the postoffice at
Hancock and blew up the safe. About
$500 in money and some valuable papers
were taken.
The three men who blew up the Do
yer bank two weeks ago and got away
with about $1,000 in money, have been
arrested at Chicago.
The 18th annual state convention of
the Federation of Labor held a two
days session at Red Wing. The attend
ance was the largest on record.
The Duluth emergency hospital has
more cases Of suspected smallpox pa
tents now than at any time since the
beginning Of the disease, some months
ago.
The barn of W. A. Ferguson, west Of
Fergus Falls, was burned Saturday.
Four horses and large number Of hogs
persisted. The fire was set by passing
freight train.
T. J. Hcsselgrave of Long Prairie,
VIC was charged with the murder Of
his wife, was found not guilty. The
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verdict was given.
In a runaway at Mora Mrs. Ruther-
ford, Miss May Rutherford and Mrs.
Maud Rutherford were badly injured.
The physicians are unable to state if
any are fatally injured.
The 28th annual commencement exer-
cises of the state university were held
in the armory building Thursday morn
ing and 1886 young men and women re-
ceived diplomas from the different COL
leges.
The state school land sale was held at
Mora last week by State Auditor Dunn.
Over 5000 acres were sold at prices
ranging from IS to $1,000 per acre. The
entire township Of Ground House was
sold. Bidding was sharp.
President Kondo of the Nippon Yu-
shen Kaisha and party Of officers of
that great japanese steamship line,
spent Thursday on the Mesaba range,
the guests of Vice President L. w. Hill
of the Eastern Minnesota road.
Ben johnson, son of O. A. johnson,
who keeps a store at Constance, Anoka
county, has been arrested by Sheriff
Merrill on the charge Of committing the
Wise murders near Anoka. The gun
has been found that did the killing.
Three indictments have been re-
turned by the grand jury of Dakota
county against G. NJ. Walbridge of
Mortified, for unlawfully disposing of
stored grain. He was arraigned in
court, pleaded not guilty, and furnished
$4,000 bail.
The Free Lutheran church of the
Northwest opened it's conference at
Montevideo Thursday. Over 400 dele
gates are in attendance and the session
will last nearly week. Several candi-
dates for the ministry will be examined
and ordained.
P. E. Pirath of Red Lake Falls pro-
poses to organize the farmers of Mime
sofa and the Dakotas to control the
price of wheat. He proposes to make
the minimum price Is cents a bushel,
the cost to the farmers for the organiza-
ton, to be cent per bushel.
Major L. G. Wilcox, we'll known in
Minneapolis and St. Paul newspaper
circles, died suddenly of heart disease
at his summer home near Hugo, this
state. He was best known to many of
the editors through his position as press
agent of the state fair association.
The total amount of property lost in
the fire which nearly leveled Virginia
Thursday last, is now closely estimated
1T $3.50, 600. The insurance will not ex-
coed $125,OOO. About 80 business
houses, including 80 saloons and ho-
tells, burned. Thirty residences were
also consumed. --....ss
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