Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-03-30

A new electric railway company is
planning to make St. Paul the center of
an extensive subur ban system.
Governor Lind has requested Attorney
General Douglass to investigate the
Saving Association of Minneapolis.
The grand lodge Of the A. O. U. W.,
and the grand council of the Royal Ar
canum are in session this week at St.
Paul. .
Public Examiner pope has been in
formed by the officers of the Winona
Deposit company that they will soon
apply for a charter as state bank.
A requisition has been issued on the
governor of Minnesota for Miss Cakes,
wanted in Sanborn county on a charge
Of disposing Of mortgaged property.
State Superintendent Lewis threw a
bombshell into the meeting of the state
normal board at Winona involving the
question of the fairness Of opening bids
for the Duluth school.
Captain Sigsbee has, accepted all invi-
tation to visit St. Paul early in April, at
which time he will choose the design
for the tablet to be presented to the
steamer St. Paul, which he commanded
during the Spanish war.
Some $4,000 still due the state fol-
money expended in assisting to fit out
volunteer troops will be paid by the wal
department soon. This is the opinion
of Adjutant General Lambert. who has
returned from Washington, where he
fled final papers in the case
The complete returns Of gross earn
ings of railroads in Minnesota show
them to have been during the past year
$4,000, SO5.01, all increase Of $685.
986.79 over the previous year. The
taxes paid into the state treasury on the
gross earnings amounts to 81 ,444 503.82,
an increase Of $183, 1872 05 over last year.
The special committee Of the Mime
apolis city council, appointed to con-
slider Alderman Peterson's ordinance to
repeal the ordinance granting to the
Northwestern Telephone Exchange
company the license under which it OPP
crates in that city, decided by a unan-
imous vote to recommend to the council
the passage of the ordinance. 1t is said
to be the desire of the council to make
more equitable and binding contract
with the company. -
The people in the western part of Big
Stone county are terrorized by hydro.
nh In,
the supervisors have ordered all dog;
shot. a number of horses and cattle
have been bitten by rabid dogs, and
quite number have died with symp.
toms clearly indicating hydrophobia
Asyet no person has been bitten. Fears
are entertained that many horses and
. horned stock will have to be killed to
prevent injury to others.
The First regiment of the national
guard, formerly the Thirteenth Mime
sofa, will be reorganized. Seven of the
ten companies composing the regiment
before it went into the service of the
United States have notified General
Reeve, the colonel of the old First, that
they will re-enter the state guard. The
companies that will re-enter are Com
panies A and of Minneapolis, G, d.
and E of St. Paul, G of Red Wing and
K of Saltwater. The regiment will be
filled from companies Of the Fourth reg.
iment.
Governor Lind has reappointed Dr.
Charles E. Riggs Of St. Paul member
Of the state board Of inspectors Of in
sane hospitals. The terms of DIR. H.
W. Brazie of Minneapolis and DR..
George w. Mcintyre of St. Peter having
expired, these gentlemen were succeeded
by DR.. W.T.. Milligan of Wabasha and
DR.. @. o. Cooley of Madelia. Governo,
Lind also appointed DR.. Thomas Lowe
of Slayton, DR.. Louis A. Fritsche OF
New Ulm and DIR. G. J. Regnell of Min.
neapolis members of the state board OF
medical examiners.
The prison census for the state, GOV.
ering 1899, has been completed by Sec.
rotary jackson of the state board OF
charities. It embraces the convicts OF
all classes in the penal institutions
Compared with the year preceding there
are % less prisoners, and 100 less than
in 1897 The total number of convicts
in the state prison and reformatory last
year was 1913; in jails and warehouses,
$40; prisoners held for trial, 1859; total,
1,178 OF the totals, Ramsey county
furnishes III and Hennepin 272 Big
Stone, Red Lake and Traverse counties
strike small averages with one prisoner
each, while the other counties range
from five to thirty each, except St. Louis,
which had On hand and in the penal in
situations 1873 of it's inhabitants