Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-06-01
NEWS IN MIN INESO TAI

Waverly has three cases Of smallpox.
The state fair managers offer 81, 900
in premiums this year. ...r.. 81. ~: =
Shakopee will spend $4,000 for .
municipal electric light plant. ~ e,
Moorhead adopted new charter at a
special election held last week.
Five men, said to be members of q
gang of timber thieves, have been ar
rested at Crookston: =, .r'
The rafting works at West Newton
have closed down on account of the:
continued low water.
Government work on the St. Croix
river above Saltwater has begun and
will continue all season.
John Strapp, a St. Paul fireman, fell
through pole hole at the Central fire
station and sustained fatal injuries.
Judge Harrison of Minneapolis has
decided that outside Of the cities the
state law closing saloons on Sunday is
imperative. -.
The Winona Wagon company Oh
Monday started a special train of 1S
cars containing 1926 wagons, valued at
$50, 600, for Dallas, Tex.
Two hundred and twenty delegates
from all parts of the state met at st.
Paul last week and organized COM
,nandery Of the Imperial Knights.
The safe in the station Of the Duluth
and Iron Range railroad at Virginia
was blown open and between $500 and
$500, mostly III cash, were secured by
the robbers.
Edward Erickson has been arrested
at St. Paul, charged with the murder Of
his brother. Martin - in 1894. Gustav
Wall, claiming to have witnessed the
deed, made the accusation.
The house has passed the bill intro
duced by Representative Heatwole au-
thorizing the Minnesota MedakawAnton
Sioux to dispose of their lands in Red
wood county, near Morton.
It is reported at Duluth that find Of
hard iron ore has been made ten miles
north of the Mesaba range. The peo-
pie interested decline to give any de-
tails, and its Importance is not known
Ed Buck, a, prominent farmer living
two miles Northwest of Glencoe, was
killed by lightning while putting his
team in the barn The team was also
killed and the barn burned to the
ground.
Fierce forest fires have been raging
east of the White Earth reservation for
the past week or 10 days. 1t is approx
mately estimated that fully SO, OdD 600
of standing pine timber has been burned
and killed.
Thomas Withrow, an aged and re-
spected resident of Washington county,
is dead at>his home at Withrow, where
be had resided for nearly 80 years. He
was II years Of age and was born at
Halifax, N. S.
The Great Northern has large crew
Of men at various points on the Browns
Valley branch, grading and putting the
track in first class shape, Guthrie e
Co. of St. Paul have the contract, call
ing for an expenditure of some $50, O0O.-
At Plainview, Yep On, Chinese:
laundry man, committed suicide by cut
ting his throat with razor. He seems
to have been insane, or laboring under
the delusion that some one was going to
try to kill him for the past three or four
days.
The forfeited tax sale in Itasca county
has proved bonanza so far. Upt the
| present time $4,000 has been taken in,
double what had been looked for. One
man took 10 900 acres. The lands are
| bid in for many times the taxes in
many instances. >-
! President Strong Of Carleton college,
! Mortified, has undertaken to set in
motion agencies which will raise $780,
600 for the college prior to Jan. 1, 1901
Should the 100000 be on hand at that
time DR.. Pearson Of Chicago will make
acash gift of $4,000.
The amount Of the Judgment obtained
| by Washington county against the
estate Of S. M. Bristol, deceased, for
taxes levied Oh mortgages and other Sc
curities held in that county, has been
! satisfied, the amount aggregating q
| little more than 5000.
In a circular issued by the adjutant
general the is given a list of the men,
bers of the four volunteer regiments
from Minnesota who lost their lives in
the Spanish american war. In the
krecord of the soldier dead the Thirteenth
lost AZ; the Twelfth, 20; the Fifteenth.
20, and the Fourteenth, 9; or 81 in all.
The main dam on the Crow Wing
river, used for log driving purposes, has
gone out. 1t was at the. mouth of the
Shell river and it's loss at this season of
low water is serious matter for the
logging industry, as 100000 feet Of
logs are now hung up, when with the
water stored up by the dam they could
have" been driven to mill. t..
| The vault, and safe Of the bank at
Dover was blown open Thursday night;
and $1,000 i'll cash secured by burglars
The noise failed to awake the residents
Of the place and the burglary was not
discovered till the cashier went to omen