Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-06-22
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Fire at South St. Paul destroyed the
Tracy hotel.
Andrew Popp, aged 100, is dead at
Minneapolis.
N. F. Hillman, pioneer of Kanabec
county, is dead.
The census of St. Paul is expected to
show population of 1000.
James J. Hill, president Of the Great
Northern, has returned from Europe.
Fifty-one young men and women
graduated from the Winona high,
school.
It is estimated that the result Of the1
census now being taken at Duluth will
show population of 10000.
The state grand lodg &c Of Odd Fellows
met at St. Paul last week. Almost 500
delegates were in attendance.
There are 5,627,394 acres Of public
land in Minnesota still open to home
stead and presumption claims.
Samuel Ely, founder or the town of
Ely, this state, and we'll known in early
mining ventures, died in Paris last
week.
Two barns belonging to Theodore
Stage, residing near Redwood Falls,
were struck by lightning and totally
destroyed. Seven horses were killed.
In the readjustment of postmasters'
! salaries St. Paul gets an: increase of
! $1,000. Many Minnesota towns are in.
cluded in the list Of those securing an
advance of 500.
After two hours deliberation the jury
in the j. R. Clements case, on the
charge Of wrecking the Fillmore county
bank in 1898, brought in verdict of
guilty as charged.
The seventh annual convention of the
Uni: led Commercial Travellers grand
! council of Minnesota and the Dakotas
was held at Duluth last week The at
tendance was large.
The main gate Of the Chepgwatona
dam over Snake river, mile above Pine
CITY. was blown out by dynamite Sat
urday. 1t is supposed to be the work Of
upriver farmers whose land had been
F! overfowed.
Anna Brosdal died in the hospital at
Warren from the effects OF injury to
her skull received during cyclonlc
disturbance few miles from that city.
She is young lady Of Fl years and well
known in that community.
A dispatch from Washington says 81
clerks in the St. Paul postoffice have
been allowed all increase Of $500 per
year in salary. Forty or more OF the
graded clerks were recommended for an
increase by Postmaster Smith in April.
Justice Lovely, in decision of the
supreme court, sustains the age OF con-.
sent law Of this state holding that it is
valid penal enactment and not void
for uncertainty. also that the act har-
monies with the marriage laws Of the:
state.
Word has just been received at Red:
wood Falls that M. NJ. Mad gan, for, a
number of years county attorney: Of
Redwood county, and one of the best
known attorneys in that section Of Min
nesota, has passed away at his home i'll
Seattle, Wash.
The Mesaba Iron company, at It's an
nual meeting at Duluth, again gave All
option OH all its lands ON the East
Mesaba range to local and Eastern iron
men for a sum approximating S350,O0O.
/ The company has some 5000 acres in
! 60, 10 and II. '..
Casper Djernes Of Bagley has caused
! ~ or Toll L. of T.
and George Butler Oh charge. of
horse stealing. The men hired team
: from him eight weeks ago and as they
failed to return 1.-THE set out in search
of them, overtaking them at Fergus
Falls.
Archbishop Ireland sailed for Paris
Saturday. He has been commissioned
by President Mckinley to deliver the
formal address on the occasion of the
unwilling of the monument to Lafayette
July 4. The monument was built from
: funds raised by American school chill
dren. :
The Eureka Mining company is the
name of St. Cloud corporation capital
lied at $4,000, which is developing
1900 acres in the towns of Wakefield,
Munson and Farming, Stearns county,
for coal. Several shafts have been
sunk to distance of 80 feet and a vein
of camel coal eight inches in thickness
has been found at different points.
Some time ago the. assessors, of St.
Louis county. put on therolls the 'srents,
annuities and royalties appertaining to
H. NJ. Bradley, the same being the an
nual royalties of about $50, 900 that Mr..
Bradley gets as one Of the owners of the
Chandler mine, at Ely. Mr.. Bradley
appealed and the district court has now
handed down Judgment in his favor.
The insurance section, of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians, in session at
Rochester, elected officers as follows
President, Robert Clark, St. Paul; vice
president, Thomas Murphy, Brainerd;f
+ secretary, John Mahoney, Minneapolis
treasurer, John sheehy, Montgomery
The graded plan of assessment was