Little Falls herald., 1900-09-21
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

IN VAyVO LIN. &M1NV IOOlA =
The state board Of equalization has
raised the assessments on Duluth ele-
vatorA
sdie Martin, 20 years of age, COM
mitted suicide at Dassel by taking
strychnine.
Mrs. Susan Razor, aged 1Os. full
blooded Ojibwa Indian, died at Pine.
City last week.
The returns made to the state board
Of equalization shows the assessed value
Of Minnesota real estate to be $502, ,27S,-
043.
The statue of Ex-Governor Pillsbury.
on the grounds Of the state university,
was dedicated on Wednesday of last
week.
Mrs. August Peters, a leper for the
past IL years. is dead at her home two
miles north of Henning. This case was
one Of three in the state.
Ed Kneif, a farmer living near
Tracy, lost 1900 bushels of oats, eight
head of horses, large number of
chickens, wagons, harnesses, ETC., by
fire.
Colonel Robert S. Donaldson, who
came to Minnesota in 1856, is dead at
Stewart. He was an officer in the
Fourth Minnesota during the Civil
war.
Seventy-fve million feet of standing
pine, spruce, tamarack and cedar be.
longing to the state will be sold to the
highest bidder at the state capitol, St.
Paul, Nov. IA.
While engaged in poker game at
Eldred Joe Weigle was shot, the ball
penetrating the stomach. Andrew
Vixen was arrested and taken to Crook
ston. Physicians say Weigle cannot
! recover.
Thomas O'Neill, convicted at Roches-
ter on the charge of robbing the Dover
bank in May, has been sentenced by
Judge Snow to four and half years in
/ Saltwater O'Neill took his sentence
! with the utmost GOODNESS.
Benjamin F. Dayton of Winona, who
was looking over a quantity of CLANS,
discovered large pearl of exceptional
beauty and luster. The gem is esti-
| mated by various authorities to be
worth from 81 800 to $4,000.
The -four and grist mill at Fridley,
operated by G. J. Houston and owned
by the Mississippi and Rum River
Boom company, was destroyed by fire
started by spontaneous combustion.
The loss is estimated at $1,000.
John s. Pillsbury has presented to
the Minneapolis Woman's Christian
association home for girls to be used
to assist young women out of work or
who through sickness or otherwise are
unable to earn their: own living.
The unfavorable weather and the
crop conditions are beginning to be felt
in the wheat receipts at Duluth. Last
week, for instance, the increase in
wheat stocks was only Isl, ,6s7 bushels,
against 978, 1888 bushels last year.
! The population of Duluth, a. an
nounced, is 81, ,969, as against 50, l15 in
189O-an increase Of 19, ,854, or 1896 per
cent. The population in 1880 was 838,
showing an increase of 32,277, or
/ 3,851.67 per cont from 1880 to 1890. .
! Recent heavy rains have put the
Mississippi and Turtle rivers on q ram
page at Cass Lake, raising the water in
Cass lake and Pike bay above high
water mark. The buildings of the
Cass Lake Boating company are flooded.
The Rochester school board has or
dered all the city schools, including the
high school, closed for the present on
account of the existence in the city of
several cases of diphtheria. One death
has already occurred and there are few
cases in quarantine.
Mrs. Mary Hanson, wife of Rev:
Elwood Hanson of Minneapolis, min
lister in the Friends church, was run
down by an interurban car at WASH
ington avenue and Walnut street, that
city. and instantly killed. The body
was terribly mangled.
Clerk Of the Courts George F. Ches-
ter Of Duluth was found dead in bed
in the West Superior hotel. In one
pocket was pistol and in another q
bottle Of chloroform, but neither ap-
peared to have been used. The caus;
OF 0eaC0 Is not known.
The safe of the Iowa and Minnesota
division of the Chicago apu =, orthwest-
ern was broken open at Blue Earth and
$40 and about all the tickets in the Of
fee were stolen. The thieves entered
through she freight. door transom and
raised the ticket Office window.
The Swan River Logging company,
one of the largest numbering corpora
tions in Northern Minnesota, starts in
for the winter in very short time and
will cut 100, ,0o0, 600 feet of logs before
next spring. These logs go to tho
Weyerhauser mills at Little Falls and
Minneapolis-
The town supervisors of St. Cloud.
Lesauak. st. Augusta and Haven met
at St. Cloud and considered the epi-
demio Of hog cholera. DR.. Ward, pres
ident of the state veterinary society, is
acting with them, and his diagnosis of