Little Falls herald., 1900-08-03
NEWS in yESOTA

iOeOT&0F. wagner, 0t.. 1du4 pIA0teIs
was drowned at Lindstrom Sunday.
J. N. Cummings, aged SO years, a
resident of Spring Valley since 1854, is
dead.
Fifteen city and county jails are now
N process of construction throughout
the state.
Ker+nck~ editor to the number of
100 visited tie Twin Cities and Duluth
last week.
Colonel j. NJ. Howard, leading cit
izen CT Litchfeld, died suddenly in ST.
Paul last week.
The Merchants bank of Duluth has
gone out of existence. The depositors,
were paid in full.
Fire insurance Losses in Minnesota
last year aggregate ;soout one-half the
premiums received.
Eight companies of the Eighth United
States infantry have arrived at Fort
Smelling from Cuba.
Large quantities of army supplies are
being purchased in st. Paul and the
contiguous territory.
The St. Paul city directory for 1900
shows an increase Of 4,027 names over
the total for last year.
State Treasurer Koerner's report
shows Sl5, 10000 in cash assets at the
close Of the fiscal year, June 80.
Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore spent
day in St. Paul last week inspecting
St. Thomas and Hill universities.
William Montague Farrar, 80 years
old. principal Of the Quincy school, St.
Paul, was drowned in Lake Elmo while
bathing.
Hon. Albert Berg, present secretary
Of state, has been nominated by Repub-
icans for member Of the lower house
from the Sixty-third legislative district
Two robbers entered the store Of
Peter Jefferson at Welch, village near
Red Wing, and covered the proprietor
with revolvers. All they got was $50.
The Hotel Gibbs at St. James was
badly scorched by fire last week. The
fire was started by the explosion OF Is
damage was about $4,000.
The Republican state campaign was
opened by a ratification meeting at
Frazee Saturday. Captain S. R. Van
SAINT, Ray w. Jones, G. NJ. Johnston
and J. Adam Bede were present.
Ex-Mayor Truelson of Duluth states
that be does not want the nomination
of treasurer on the state Democratic
ticket, but does want the nomination
for congress from the Sixth district I.
Several hundred immigrants from
Russian Poland, driven out by the
czar's edicts, have arrived in Duluth
the past few days. They will settle on
farms near there or go into the mines.
Northwestern officials have been on al
prospecting tour with a view of ex-i
tending the Sleepy Eye-Redwood Falls}|
branch to Seaforth, new town on thef
Sanborn branch Is miles west of Red
wood Falls.
Joseph Ceret of Winona has COM
menced suit for 81 900 damages against
John Paskiewicz. Ceret claims that
the dog of Paskiew;cz attacked his son,
throwing him down, fracturing his leg
and bruising his head.
In a fight at Minneapolis over the ad-
ministration s policy in the Philippines
/ Morris Hayes, an ex-soldier, killed Jo-
seph La Porte. Hayes struck La Porte
a severe blow, breaking his jaw and
causing instant death. -~s.,x=ss*z7.,s.
A movement is on foot at Sleepy Eye
to secure enough stock subscriptions to
induce the removal Of the Ameson
Manufacturing company from Hutch.
inson to Sleepy Eye. All kinds of wood
| work is manufactured.
The Peavey elevator at Stewart was
destroyed by fire last week. The loss.
of about 5000 bushels of wheat and the,
structure is about IS, 600, probably COW
cred by blanket insurance. Donaldson's
| warehouse was also burned.
The announcement that the Northern
Pacific, in connection with the former
St. Paul and Duluth and Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul, has made traffic.
arrangements for business to the. head
of the lakes has been officially con-
hrmed.
There has been a 10 per cent reduc-
ton in the wages Of men in the mines
around Duluth. Several mining COM
panies have cut the, price. from 81 to-
$3.50, and it is likely that the price will
be $1.75 before long. The shutting
down of some mines and the abundance:
of labor has led to the cut. : ,,,.j .
The steamship Douglass Houghton Of:
the Bessemer feet has just taken out
of Duluth cargo of 368, 800 bushels of
oats and corn. The notable feature Of
this cargo is! its vast bulk, not it's
weight, though it weighed 1888 tons: Z,
1t is the largest cargo, in point of bulk
ever carried on the lakes. 49,:
David McCauley, the oldest RESIDENT
Of Wilkin county, is dead at his home1
at McCauleyville of heart failure. He
came to this country in 1861, but
stopped at Fort Abercrombie JUST
across the river until 1864 lust after the