Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-07-20
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a pearl button factory has been
started at W abasha

John H. Schurmeior, for many years
a leading resident CT St. Paul, is dead.
AT Renvilla George Kottke, aged Is,
accideI tally shot AID killed Eddie =
Smith, aged K.
Frank A. Hunt Of Minneapolis,
charged with wife murder, was released
after preliminary hearing at Chaska.
Duluth saloons were closed Sunday
for the first :Ine in months. The street
railway to West Superior did a rushing
business.
Senator j. 4. Jones, chairman of the
national Democratic committee, is the
guest of his daughter at Lake Mime.
tonka.
State Urea Koerner has received
$25, 900 from the federal government as
the annual appropriation for the state
agricultural school.
The State League of Republican
Clubs met in St. Paul Monday evening.
Officers were elected and delegates to
the national convention chosen.
Blanket Indians at Red Lake are still
very ugly. Captain Mercer has sue
ceeded in partially pacifying them, but
war dances and singing still continue.
The enumerators of Ely have Just
completed their reports, which show a
population of 1880 people. Of this
number about SIS per cent are foreign
born.
Louis Skogman, 81 years of age, liv-
ing with his son, Ole Skog1nan, on a
farm within the limits of Mora, was
gored by a vicious bull and died within
few hours.
Walter Stewart, wanted in Mime.
apolis and Wisconsin for grand larceny,
was arrested at Duluth, but on his way
to the police station he broke away
from the officer. He is said to be a
notorious criminal from Wausa1, Wis.
The old shops Of the Chicago Great
Western railway at South Park, re-
Gently used as storehouses for lumber
and shingles belonging to coast ship
pers, were destroyed by fire Friday
afternoon, causing loss of nearly
100000.
The Hessian fly is doing considerable
damage to grain around Warren. It is
a remarkable fact that it is working
about one month earlier than it did last
year. Every farmer in that vicinity
brings in unfavorable reports of this
little insect.
At the sale of state lands at Grand
Rapids by the land commissioner Tams
Bixby of Red Wing bought a large
tract Of land adjacent to Sturgeon Falls
on the Big Fork river. He will plat the
property at once and organize town.
site company.
The largest load of iron ore ever car
ried from the head of Lake Superior has
been taken from the Messabe dock by
the steamer John w. Gates. owned by
the American Steamship company
The load consisted of 1857 gross tons,>
mine weight.
A public meeting was held at Man.
kato last week and decision reached
to ask Census Director Merriam for y
: recount Of that city. 1t is charged that
= hundreds Of people were missed by the
enumerators, the returns giving the.
; city a smaller population than five
years ago. ~
Andrew Carnegie recently offered
Duluth $4,000 for library building
providing the city would purchase a
site. The site has been secured and
plans for building agreed on and now
the board has written Mr.. Carnegie
suggesting that 100000 would be more
suitable for a library than $4,000.
All Minneapolis sawmills are now
running to their full capacity with
three weeks supply of logs on hand
and more coming down the river. AL
though the water in the river has fallen
a trif1e in tt past two days, if it re-
mains at its nresent stage the mills pro-
| pose running until Nov TO-
The iron mines at Ely report the
largest shipment Of ore i'll the history
OF the mines, since the opening up of
navigation in the spring up to July 1.
During that time the amount shipped
reached grand total of 544, 1877 tons.
During the same months in 1899 the
number If tons shipped were 457, 078.
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
way company has just filed for record
in the Office of the register of deeds the
biggest mortgage ever put upon the
books of Redwood county: It is gen.
eral gold mortgage bond for $l65, OOO.-
600, given by the company to the
United States Trust company of New
York.
Governor Lind has instructed Adm
tant General Lambert to order the re.
call of Captain Eva and the detachment
under his command stationed at Kooch.
iching, unless engaged in actual hos
tilities. The order was based on infor-
nation received from Captain Eva.
The return will be made by way of
Tower.
The Winona street fair premium list
has been com pleted and is now in the
hands of the printer. There are B52 sets
OF prizes, against 46l last year and 2SS
the year before. This fall the classif-
cations of cattle are more punched, thus
requiring fewer prizes. Prizes are de-