Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-12-28
NEWS. IN MINNESOTA

St. Paul pressfeeders are on strike.
A match factory is to be established
at Duluth. 3. -,
St. Paul Republicans have endorsed
the candidacy of Moses E. Clapp for
United States senator.
The state commission named to in.
vestigate the treatment of insane has
made report Recommending small hos
pitfalls.
State Auditor Dunn, in his annual
report. scores the present tax laws. he
recommends that tax commission be
appointed and the laws revised.
Hans Oleson was found near his :
home Monday morning frozen to death.
He left Dassel in the blizzard Sunday
afternoon and probably lost his way.
G. H. Miller, assistant engineer on
the Montana division of the Great
Northern road. was run down and al"
most instantly killed by an electric car
at ST. Paul.
An express car on the Minneapolis
and St. Louis burned near New Ulm.
Sunday night Most of the contents OF
the car, which was heavily loaded
with Christmas goods, wer destroyed.
The Mankato Electric Street Rail"
way, Light and Power company Will
;; transfer its franchise to Eastern cap1.
i talists, who will construct five miles OF
street railway in the city and do COM
mercial lighting.
A. r. Anderson, one Of the proprie.
! 1f ~ lo1s
stantly killed Wednesday Of last week.
He was examining some machinery
and his clothing was caught by a rap
idly revolving shaft.
Seventy Minnesota funding bonds OF
the 1891 issue at 81, 900 each have been
called in by State Treasurer August L.
Koerner. His action reduces the state
debt to 81 ,209,0 900 and saves the state
So, $50 year in interest.
Burglars broke into George W.
Kings Exchange bank at Dexter with
skeleton keys, and the outer door OF
the safe was blown open with dyna'
mite. Two hundred dollars in silver
was all the booty carried off.
Arthur G. Lewis, formerly mayor OF
Moorhead, is dead Of cirrhosis of the
| liver after lingering illness. For
many years Mr.. Lewis was one OF the
prominent citizens Of Moorhead and
was mayor of the city four terms.
| Secretary Hitchcock has settled the
controversy over timber contracts I'M
der the proposed dead.and.down oper.
atoms on the Chippewa reservations in
Minnesota by approving the contracts
made by Captain Mercer, agent at
Leech Lake. - - e.. T.. 4
The secretary of the interior has rec
commended to congress that Sc, 750 be
appropriated as an emergency fund to
extinguish forest fires on coded Indian
reservations in Minnesota, which
threaten to destroy the timber on the
land wanted for a national park.
> The only child of Mr.. and Mrs. An
drew Carter of Watab, 2years old. was
: burned to death. The child had been
!. left alone in the house with book to
play with. It is presumed the little
one went to the stove and the book
took fire, spreading to the lads cloth
f ing.
An attempt was made Friday night
to blow up the safe of the First Ma
tioral bank at Ellsworth. The robbers
: entered the grain Office at the rear Of
the bank and started to drill with bars
through the rear end Of the vault,
They succeeded in getting part way
through, but were evidently scared
away. =. ,~s = -
A majority of the state supreme
court has filed decision reversing the
l Ramsey county district court, which
denied General John B. Sanborn an in.
; junction restraining the Peoples Ice
company from cutting ice in White
Bear lake, on the ground that the re-
moval of the ice reduced the water
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