Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-01-18
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

St. Paul a-essmakers have formed q
union.
DR.. David Price, a pioneer resident
of St. Paul, is dead.
Captain Pliney H. Harris, editor Of
the Minneapolis Democrat, is dead.
The railway and warehouse commits.
sion has received more than 1850 ap'
plications for positions.
The state fair board is preparing to
ask for Legislative appropriation of
$lOO, 900 for new buildings.
Chief Cook of the St. Paul fire de.
partment has been removed by the
new Democratic fire board.
The Duluth and Iron Range road
will probably accept the lands selected
for it by State Auditor Dunn.
Mrs. Ramm of Halstan, this state,
escaped from the nurses at Bethesda
hospital, St. Paul, and hanged herself.
The state board of health is taking
vigorous action to head off the small
pox epidemic at various places in the
state.
Mrs. Louis Helstrom Of Minneapolis,
while demented, killed her l6.year.old
daughter, crushing her skull with .
bottle.
Mrs. Matilda futile, one of Hastings
early residents, is dead, aged "a years.
She was the widow of the late O. D.
Tuttle.
The Republican electors of the state
met at the capitol Monday and selected
w. E. Lee to represent Minnesota IN
the electoral college.
The East Grand Forks city council
has passed an ordinance for the estab-
ishment Of q waterworks system to
cost not less than $4,000.
Halland & Askegaard, general mer.
chants at Comstock. lost their store
and stock by fire. The loss on the
building and contents was about $780,.
COO; insurance, $4,000.
John Cooper of St: Cloud has been
| reelected president of the State Agri-
cultural society; Thomas H. Shevlin Of
Minneapolis first vice president. and
Chester R. Smith Of St. Paul second
vice president.
Hans Agre and Victor Nelson sought
admittance to the house of Matt Janatt
at Appleton. They were refused, and
thereupon broke in the windows. ia.
matt shot and killed Agre and sur
rendered to the authorities.
! Olmsted county commissioners have
passed a resolution appropriating 500
for each township in the county that
would during the coming year spend
at least $500 in building macadamized
roads. This is the entering wedge of
the good roads movement in Olmsted
county. .-...
The board of prison managers has
fixed the prices for Irvine for the sea-
son Of 1901. Sisal and standard Irvine
will be furnished for cents per pound,
mixed Irvine Sc cents, and pure ma.
Mia Y14 cents This is large reduc..
ton from the prices which prevail, &c
last year.
| Colvin & Robb. the Biwa' dix aan.
tractors, have commenced shinpins
pulp wood to Two Harbc - from, their
camps at Norway an 4 the St, Louis
river. They will store about $1,000
cords until the c.peuiug of navigation,
when it will ee shipped to the Hamer'
mel Paper. Company at Erie, Pa.
President Kleeberger Of the st. CLOUD
normal school has been advised by
- General Atkinson, commissioner O
the United States bureau of education
that he proposes, sending two or thre'
l Filipino young men to the St. CloYs
school to complete their education !;
d the science of iteaching and in English
The Farmers and Investors Lane
:, company of Little Falls has filed ar
. tioles of incorporation. The CAPITA
+ stock is $4,000 and the purpose of tn,
u organization is to buy and sell farm
lands. The company il acquiring It'll,
to large tracts Of land, which it. viii
cell to actual settlers, and has: othe,
;. possessions under advisemenk
One Of the biggest land deals eye,
:, handled in Northern Minnesota in in
. process OF contamination whereby 4
l syndicate of Eastern capitalists. to-
; gether with S. +. Snively of Duluth
will come into possession Of all the old
! st. Paul and Duluth lands in st. Loui,
J and Carlton counties now owned bv
the Northern Pacific. The DIAL in.
wolves about 20O. 1000 acres.
l STATE LEGISLATURE.
Tuesday. Jan. d