Little Falls herald., 1900-05-11
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

AD LAWN 1NsE .u11lvANOAV1n
Fire at Ohaska destroyed several store
buildings. N -.
The Blooming Prairie waterwoeh
system is completed.
: Patrick Butler, resident of Dakota
county since 1866, is dead, aged ~. J,
The state conference of;the Evangel-
ical association is in session at Wells.
AT Duluth Mary Mccarthy secured
the second divorce in 10 years from the
same man.
Eight divorces were granted at Duluth
in one day last week-a record breaker
for that city. +. ::
A train Of 20 cars of threshing ma =
chimes were shipped from Minneapolis
to Texas last week. go.
According to Washington special to
The Pioneer Press Ex-Governor McGu
will be the next postmaster of St. Paul
William P. Brown, president Of the
Brown Commission company Of Mime
apolis and well known grain man and
pioneer settler, is dead, aged 10 years.
At the request of Senator Nelson tho
bill reducing the salary of Chippewa
Commissioner Dar Hall and discontinue
ing his Office Oct. next has passed the
senate.
The Walter A. Wood harvester works
at St. Paul, for some years in the hands
Of arreoeiver, have been purchased bys
syndicate and will be operated on .
large scale ~ ::
The: committee on public lands has
ordered = favorable report on Senator
Nelson's bill for the relief Of settlers ON
lands within the grant Of the Northern
Pacific road.
Governor Roosevelt of New York has
accepted an invitation to be- a guest Of
honor ut the national convention of Re-
publican clubs to be held at St. Paul
July II, 18 and 10.
Miss Kate Flannery, a teacher at
Section s school two miles south of
Waverly, was killed in a runaway acci-
dent. She was thrown from the car
riage and her neck broken.
The forest fires raging along Snake
river and other streams tributary to the
St. Croix have done considerable dam
age to Saltwater lumbermen. Consid-
cradle standing pine has been damaged.
There is lively rate war ON between
the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior
Transportation company and the Du
luth, South Shore and Atlantic road for
the eastbound business out Of Duluth
for the copper country.
Superintendent Putnam of the St.
Cloud car shops has received an order
to build over 500 combination stock and
box cars into $4,000. pounds capacity
box cars. 1t is large order and will
give employment to many men all sum-
mer.
Wheat shipments from Duluth are
enormous, mostly to Buffalo, but with
a considerable share. direct to Canadian
outports. Fridays shipments: Of all
grains were nearly 1,400,O0 bushels.
Of which more than 100000 were
wheat.
Fifteen NEIL employed OH the Mary
Jane, which is doing government work
at Winona, struck for All advance III
wages and when this was not granted
they walked off the boat and refused to.
return. The boat later OH got OH q small
crew and pulled out.
The missing treasurer of Carver
county,, Gerhard Bongaard, is under ar
rest at Olds, N. w. T., and will be
brought back to Minnesota Bongaard.
who is defaulter to the extent Of sew
eral Thousand dollars, has heen missing
since early in February.
William Rabloff met horrible death
at the Staples Alice mill at Saltwater.
He was employed ON the edger and
splinter five feet in length was hurled
with such: force that it passed through
his neck: Others went through his
arm and lacerated his face
Lake fishermen say that in spite of
the millions of trout and Whitefsh frv
planted i'll Lake Superior yearly, the
supply seems to be growing less. This
season they are having poorer luck than
ever. The annual catch handled at Du-
luth amounts to not far from $500, 900.
Over 800 men are now emploved in
the quarry at Sandstone and about 100
are at work in Rings quarry at Ban
ming, two miles north. The unusual
demand for building stone and paving
is the cause of the rush of work. The
wages Of the men are the highest paid
for years. y.
Judge Moore Of Duluth has filed =