Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-04-27
NEWS IN INNESOTA


Forest fires are burning briskly il the
vicinity Of Duluth. IS
The state labor bureau reports an in
crease in accidents. . ;. y.
i J. Hill has contributed s., 500 to the
Fergus Falls college. d. g..
The state national guard is preparing
for the annual inspection.
8 Petitions are being circulated to have
st. Louis county divided. -
Ballaton city council will at once be. !.
gin construction Of waterworks. r..
German Lutherans in the vicinity of
Balaton have decided to build q church.
@. lehman, Third United States in
fantry, was buried in Duluth Sunday
The farmers elevator at Stewartvillo
has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
The Wisconsin Central has closed q
deal for extensive terminal facilities at
St. Paul:
Threatening forest fires have been
burning in the vicinity of Cass lake for
several days. 80.
Louis Begen of Minneapolis caught
five black bass at Medicine lake. He
was fined $25.
The state supreme court has decided
that there are property rights in q dog,
although unlicensed.
Miss Minnie Fisk, schoolteacher, sui
cided by shooting at Plainview. She
was temporarily deranged. ;:
The state Democratic convention %
select delegatess to- Kansas City, via
meet June 20 in Minneapolis.
<: ~.tEhr,'':A,al,i hez besn
arrested in 81 hui IN the charge, %
Msamy and takpn to Mankato.
j. A. Humbird and F. Weyerhaeuser
have big suit at Duluth for the recov-
cry of title to Northern Pacific lands.='
There is I. scarcity of water in North
ern Minnesota rivers. Lumbermen Will
have to depend on rain for their floods.
Governor Lind, Former Governor
Ramsey ond others planted trees at the
Manchester college celebration of Arbor
day.
The St. Paul assembly has passed al
ordinance revOking the Edison Light
and Power comlany's franchise Jan. l.,
1907. -,
Ten tubs of renovated butter, i'm
ported into Minnesota from Wisconsin,
and analysed by the state chemist, have
been confiscated.
Colonel Cooper, who has just re-
sarned to Chicago from Washington,
talks hopefully of his plan for q ma
tional park in Northern Minnesota.
-Four thousand dollars was paid into.
the state treasury Wednesday for tan
Der trespasses. Nearly every day the
receipts from this source are above.
$1,000.
The state insurance commissioner has
closed up the Western Knights Protec-~
tive Association of St. Charles. 1t is
fraternal life association, incorporated
May s, 1893. - : "a, 49,. =. i. -
: Suit is to be brought AGAINST the
Western Union Telegraph company, a.
foreign corporation doing bun. Ness in
this state, to compel compliance With
the SomerviAe law.
All of the vessels that wintered at
Duluth and Superior, with the possible
exception of'two are said to have been
chartered to load grain. The freight
rates on wheat for vessels is now cents
to Buffalo, and vesselmen think a s.
cent rate is not far off. >
Another member of Company K,
Thirteenth Minnesota volunteers, who
contracted dysentery while in the Phil
ippines, Gilbert Kelley,-a son of Mr..
and Mrs. Kelley, of Amery, Wis, is
dead. He was in the hospital at Still
water at the time of his death.
A dispatch from Stephen says reports
have been received there of terrible
prairie fire raging in :Kittson' county
near Seaton .postoffice Some six or
seven farm dwellings have been burned
and some families are left destitute. A
wind was blowing and the fire jumped
mile. :;
The Minneapolis board of education
has decided to insert in the contracts of
the teachers for next year a paragraph
providing for the deduction Of 1: per
cent Of the monthly salary for the per-,
manent fund of the teachers retiring
fund, subject to provisions hereafter to
be made for tho regulation and manage.
ment of the fund. .
Cablegrams have been received at
Morris stating that Rev. Thomas E.
Archer, Mrs. Archer and Mrs. III. II.
Wells, who were passengers on the New
England, and were quarantined At
Rome with smallpox, have been Re. :
leased from quarantine. Mids A1elia
Wells Of Herman, another member Of
the party, IL still in quarantine, but 10
oonvalesoent. s... s.5 8. ~ u. Fl -.
State Insurance Commissioners ]. A.