Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-07-06
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

The State Medical society met at ,Eu.
10th last week.
The price Of milk at St. Paul has been
raised to & cents quart.
Edith Nj. Rogers, stenographer,
committed suicide at Montevideo by
shooting
A 90-foot tower will be erected in
Itasca State park on the highest spot in
Minnesota.
Light frost on the low lands Friday
night did considerable damage to crops
in Pine county.
Democrats of the Seventh congress
sional district endorsed M. J. Daily, the
Populist nominee.
In wreck at Cloquet Saturday 10 of
the Great Northern's $1,000 steel ore
cars were demolished.
William Mattison, 16-year-old boy,
has been arrested in connection with
the Wise murders at Anoka.
Fire at Cass Lake caused loss of
$4,000. A score Of buildings, includ-
ing the postofhce, were destroyed.
Timber fire losses this year in the
Red lake country are reported as larger
than the aggregate Of the past seven or
eight years.
James Do1an & Co., St. Paul brokers,
have failed for between $500, 1000 and
$500, 900. They were on the wrong side
of the wheat market.
During a severe electrical storm at
Perhsm lightning struck and killed Al
bert Lazoma and a team. Several
buildings were also struck.
movement is under way to increase
the assessment of Duluth about 20 per
cent, SO that additional funds can be
collected for certain departments.
Harry M. Broman, appointed from
Duluth, al apprentice in the naval SER
vice, was among the Americans killed
in the fighting near Tien Tsin.
Frank Miksche, proprietor Of the
Hotel Wilkin at Breckenridge, was
probably fatally shot by John Broderick
during quarrel over money matters.
For the first two-thirds Of June, lum-
Der shipments by water from Duluth
have been about 25,000,00 feet, far less
than during the same period last year.
Miss Helen Gould and party Of
friends spent several days in the Twin
Cities this week. They visited Mime
! haha falls, the soldiers home and Fort
! Smelling.
During an electric storm lightning
struck r. A. Leme's livery stable at
: Clearwater and it burned to the ground,
together with eight horses and all other
{; contents.
One entire block in the center of the
business part of Browns Valley, COM
prising IL buildings, was destroyed by
fire Saturday. The total loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
i William G. Brown, a telegrapher,
committed suicide in lodging house
at Chicago. Dependency is the cause
assigned. Brown was from Brainerd,
, this state, where his wife now resides.
In the municipal court at Duluth
liver Olson was sentenced and paid
fine of $40 and costs of prosecution for
causing a forest fire. He had pre-
viously settled for the damage to others:
by the fire.
A cloudburst at Sugar Loaf, suburb,
of Winona, caused damage amounting|
to nearly $4,000. The flour mill dam of
; Meyer g. Son was washed out and al
number Of acres of garden truck were}
washed away.
Marshall, Wells & Co. Of Duluth are
building the largest and heaviest whole
I sale hardware house in the United
States. The building is to be 20Ox220
feet and eight stories high. 100 feet
square two stories, and 100 feet square
one story, in all nearly 10 acres of floor
space.
The Great Northern road has COM
menced it's new line to the Mesaba
range, running north parallel to the
Duluth, Missabe and Northern from
Stony Brook to Virginia. The two
lines are SO close together for miles that
stone can be thrown from one grade
to the other.
Althoug h the exact receipts of the
Minneapolis postOmce Tor the fiscal
year ending Saturday are not definitely
known, Postmaster Lovejoy says they
will be considerably in excess of $780,
600 and that the Minneapolis Office will
earn profit over and above all expenses
of not less than 1915, 900.
The rains of Sunday and Monday
have put out the last of the running
fires in the pine woods of the northern
part of the state. Lumbermen are ju-
bilant at the change in weather condi-
tions, though they have not yet had,
and cannot hope for some time to have,
water enough to make any great change
in the rivers.
Forty men of Company A, Third reg.
iment, Minnesota national guards, left
Duluth Monday over the Duluth and
Iron Range railroad for the Rainy Lake
country, there to take such part in the
work of protecting the settlers from
possible Indian attacks as the state au-
thorities require. The company is COM
manded by CaDtain f. " Eva