Little Falls herald., 1900-12-07
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~ III rstnrh. I ron, III / q Il th.otuat..s 81
1 ofi the state. show plura Cts.
for Mckinley. ss;z r. -: 80
The state aglIriicnlt turh school Won
two frsts and q sweepstake Ct the in-s
Zternationsl livestock expositf held at
Chicap,Jo,. ~ 2; 's5iisz,s ~ Es
sFa Complete RETURNS on / governor show
that Van Sans has : majority ovef
Lind of 2,,85Y. Van SAINTS svote:was
l52, ,B47, and Lnd's l50. 81 IS
At Chicago Fred A, Hudson shot hist
sweetheart, Belle "A. Walker, and. them
shot himself, perhaps fatally. BothI
were residents Of Minneapolis. 4: f: :sts 4.'
! ), The Northwestern Minnesota Educa-
.tional association held it's llth annual
meeting in Crookston Friday. Fully
100 teachers were IN attendance.
.=1Mayor-elect. Ames Of Minneapolis
has announced that hie brother, Colonel
Fred Ames Of the Thirteenth Minne-
sofa, will be the new chief Of police.
! +: B. Kellogg Of St. Paul. while re-
turning from the funeral Of his law
partner, Senator Davis, was thrown
from his carriage and badly injnred: I:
Something like IS, ,0oo, 900 feet of logs
are being out this wiater'i in the central
part Of st. Louis county, destined Tor
mills SEQ miles away, in Western On
sario.
rSteamftters ere at work at tAe new
state normal school at Duluth and the
heating plant will be started up soon.
when interior construction will, be car.
ried on during the winter. - -
The state treasurer has 81, 400, 900 in
The vaults at the capitol. and an armed
force of four men is on guard. The
money is the accumulated proceeds of
tax settlements, land and timber sales.
Wolves are reported very numerous
at the present time at La Noble in
Winona county; and across the river at
Trempealean. Wolves have been thick
in that locality for several winters past
There is q better demand in the
Northwest for pig iron than for
months, and the supply that was stored
at the Duluth furnace when it, blew
out last spring is being sold and
shipped. fssss sf ~
The Swan River Logging company,
which is logging into Swan river and
the " Mississippi for Little Falls and
Minneapolis mills, is cutting at the
rate Of 1O0, ,Qo0. 900 feet Of logs FOR the
season, and has more than 1000 men
working. ~u~. :..,! .t...., e.:f. =. 49,,
II In the Russ Whipple murder case at
Bemidji the jury rendered q verdict OF
not guilty after being out two hours.
The first ballot stood = to 4 for acqnit.
tai. The verdict is in harmony with
the instructions Of Judge Holland to
the. jury. s., .*. :, i.
. Henry w. Sherman, a Minneapolis
barber, shot his sweetheart, Miss Belle
Benson, and then shot himself. Both
are at the city hospital and it is ex-
pActed that Miss Benson will die.
Sherman received only flesh wound
and will recover. i; :,
Professor Charles B. Dyke, former
professor in the Mankato state normal
school, has been elected president of
the normal school at Honolulu, Ha-
waiian Islands, at a salary Of 81 900 q
year and residence. He will depart
for there in about month with his
family. <tsss 81:
Captain Thompson has completed his
statement Of river improvement work
done in his district between Winona
and Cassville. This shows q total OUT
lay during the calendar year 1900, in.
GLIDING contract work, regular con.
struotion work, harbor at La Crosse,
the building Of new hydraulic dredge
plant, repairs, ETC., 1852, 471.5s ~,~::
In consequence of the outbreak of
smallpox in Winona the local board Of
health has issued orders to the street
car company to stop its cars at Liberty
street. the western boundary of the
infected district, in order to prevent
the residents of that. district from rid
ing on the cars and thus spreading the
disease The Washington and Kosci-
usko schools were also ordered closed.