Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-05-25
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

1ue BCrlK0 Oh DuAuCu cstrpouIo1o Id
still in force.
Burglars broke into 10 houses at Park
Rapids tn other night.
The steamer Flora Clark burned to
the water; edge at Saltwater.
Thirty-tive students graduated at
Gustavus Adolphus college at St. Peter.
Miss Anna Hagglund of Kerkhaven
was accidentally shot by her younger
brother while playing with rifle. The
wound resulted in her death.
The Minneapolis ordinance imposing
license of $l25 for wagon peddlers,
SIS for push cart peddlers and $50 for
foot peddlers has been declared illegal.
Governor Lind has sent letter to
Secretary Of State Berg, calling atten-
ton to the non-enforcemento OF the Som
erville law regarding foreign corpora
tons.
G. B. Kenyon of St. Paul, an express
messenger OIL the Northern Pacific, was
found dead in his car at New York
Mills. MINI. Heart disease was the
cause.
Long distance telephone connection
has been made between Duluth and
lake cities as far as Sault Ste. Marie
and to the Gogebic, Marquette and
Menominee iron ranges.
There was strike at the Steinbauer
stone quarry at Wirona last week, the
men going out on account of failure to
receive back pay. The differences were
adjusted and the men went back to
work.
Forest fires on the line of the Duluth
and Iron Range railroad totally de-
stroyed the camps of the Martin Tie
and Lumber company, near Waldo sta
ton. Nothing but the horses were
saved.
=. The Northern Pacific road will spend
this summer something like 5000, 600 at '
Duluth and in that immediate. vicinity
in permanent terminal and track i'm.
provements. Most of this will be in
Duluth.
The trial of Louis Bebo for the: MUIR
der of George A. Barclay at Pine River
on Oct. 20, 1898, has ended in an ac-
quittal, after occupying the time Of the
court for: over eight days. The jury
was out IS hours.
The jacobson "Y'' case is to be re-
argued before the United States SUI
preme court. The case involves the
powers and authority Of the state rail-
road commission, and was passed by the
legislature Of 1895.
Mrs. Henry Henze, wife Of a wealthy
farmer living six miles north of Rush
ford, committed suicide, taking poison
first and then tying Is feet of rope
around her neck and the foot of a tree
and rolling down bank. Her reasons
are unknown.
! Grandy, station six miles north Of
| Cambridge, has been troubled with
''blind pigs" and the people Of that
vicinity gathered to the number Of 800
! and gave thu offenders just, one hours
time in which to leave. They left be-
fore the appointed hour. -.
Barteau & Thompson's elevator, To-
Gated on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
! St. Paul tracks at Zumbrota, burned to.
the ground Monday night. Loss on
elevator, $4,000, insured for half that
! amount. There were 5000 or 5000
bushels of grain destroyed, partially in
| sured.
There is every reasonable probability
that the sawmills of Minneapolis, with
their 5000 to 5000 hands, will have to
wholly suspend operations in a few
! days. The only thing that would pre-
vent such an undesirable occurrence
would be heavy rain within the next
| day or two.
| G. G. Cokefair, manager of the High
| land Canal and Power company at
! Duluth, says that actual work on the
canal will begin as early next spring as
weather conditions will permit, and
that power will be furnished by the fall
| of 1901. The preliminary work is now
progressing well and bids for construc-
ton are already in.
What is thought to have been an
effort to blow out the Cold Spring dam
at St. Cloud, famous for the litigation
which has concerned it for the past few
years, was discovered Monday morning.
A can containing Is pounds of dyna-
mite and candle soaked with kerosene
oil, cotton batting and a partially
burned fuse were found.
The crop reports from the southern
part of the state for the past week indi-
cate continued favorable weather condi-
tons. The cool weather has been gen.
eral and has resulted in marked
growth Of all crops. There has been
considerable moisture in Eastern Min
nesota, but there is no complaint from
any section Of dry weather.
Fire broke out in the business portion
of Grand Meadow at midnight and the
whole village was threatened. One side
of the main street was entirely con-
sumed and there seemed but little hope
of saving the other. Spring Valley re-
sponded to call for help and special
train with the fire apparatus of that
city arrived shortly. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000, with insurance of