Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-11-09
NEWS N MINNESOTA


are to be developed. 4
It is estimated that 800, 900 baskets of
grapes were sold in St. Paul this season. ~
William Rapp, a brakeman, was
killed in a wreck on the Northern Pa.
cifc at Hinclzloy.
Alex Clark, farmer from Slayton,
! reported to the St. Paul police that he
had been robbed of 5000.
G.. Jaynes, farmer six miles north
f; of Spring Valley, was kicked by a
horse and killed instantly.
Bernard O'Ghaughnessy, son of State
Insurance Commissioner O'Shaugh-
!; Messy is dead at Saltwater.
Sister Glare Rogers, mother superior
of the Convent Of the Visitation, st.
. Paul, is dead, aged % years.
len thousand dollars of sewerage
bouds were sold at Luverne for a pre-
! MUM; of Sl,l75. The bonds RUN 20
years at per cent.
The remains of James Hargrave, a
private in the United States army serv-
Ing Ill Guc ulAi PRiueS. LAS e1AAAS0u IA
Anoka. He died Sept. Is.
A deal is now pending whereby the
Erie Button works Of Erie, Pa, will
buy or lease the button factory at VII
mona, and double its capacity.
The receipts of the Winona post
office for October were far and away
above those for any single month in
tho previous history of the Office.
| The Great Northern depot at Rogers
was destroyed by fire Monday. H. w.
! Shaver, the agent, who lives up stairs
in the building with his family, escaped
uninjured.
John Green, a Duluth mining capital
| list interested in the Seine river gold
country, was seriously hurt in Port
| William, Ont, by being run over by q
! passenger train.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius Nj. Drake of
Hastings were found dead in bed, hav-
ing evidently died from asphyxiation,
caused by gas escaping from a coal
stove in the sittingroom.
| The office Of The Reform Advocate
at Clarkfield was entered and the news
paper forms pied and considerable type
mutilated and stock destroyed, while
the editor was out Of town.
Carlton Rabbit of Albert Lea has
Just shipped 1000 head of sheep from
| his ranches south Of Alden. This is,
| perhaps, the largest single shipment
ever made from Southern Minnesota
They go to the Chicago market.
Joseph J. Murphy, an employe Of the
Gillette. Herzog company, fell from
scaffold at the Pioneer elevator in
Northeast Minneapolis and was almost
instantly killed.. He fell about 60 feet
and struck the iron bottom of tank.
| Winona's population has been an
nounced. It is l9,7l4, against 20, $40 in
the state census Of 1895, and 18,208 the
last government census. The falling
off is in the Third and Fourth wards,
| where the foreign population resides.
The De Soto Iron company has COM
, menced sinking one of the deepest
shafts of the lake iron region at the
Mansfield mine, Crystal Falls. 1t will
be by IS feet and 1000 feet deep, and
will be equipped for heavy aud rapid
i, work.
, During the past fiscal year the state
debt was reduced 10000 This was in
state funding bonds that drew 80 per
cent interest. The state treasurer
hopes to have sufficient money on hand
before Jan. TO pay off another $40, 600
at least.
The schools of Duluth are curtailed
by the closing Of the Smithville school
on account Of smaiii,o This is the
second to be closed for the same cause
The teacher and children from the
Adams that have been quarautined are
about to be released.
All the sawmills of Minneapolis are
running full time with all the logs thew
can handle. The daily cut is about
100000 feet. The cut this year, in
spite Of the low water, will lie above
the average for the past 10 years, that
is above $50, 900, 900 feet.
The American Sunday School union.
held its ann ual conference at the Ho. ;
of Hope church, St. Pau Ia: wee =,
over 100 delegates being IL ..ndan. {.
| Minnesota, Wisconsin, NuI. "a, Iowa,
Illinois, North and SOUTH Oak ia and
Montana were represented.
November finds the Head of the
Lakes with al ore shipping record Of
$50. 2o2 gross tons in excess of tie ell
tire season Of $780, and there still re-
mains 20 to 80 days, according to the
weather conditions of the present sea-
son, during which this increase may
grow.
W. P. McNaughton of the saltwater
police force miraculously escaped as
sassination early Sunday morning.
y lie making a tour of an alley he
wE,j struck over the right temple with
sandbag. He was unconscious for
some time and was saved by heavy
felt helmet.
Freeborn county has over $44,O00 in
the treasury and as the poor fund ia
exhausted interest must be paid on
money borrowed, as Public Examiner