Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-12-20

jects are to bring in improvements and
attract trade to the village.
The financial report of the State
Fair association has been fled with
the governor. It shows that there is
now a balance Of $~37,e04.32 in the
treasury, which is a. record-breaker.
The factory OF the Duluth Match
company has stayed after having been
under construction for. about a year.
It is capable OF making 5000 cases
of matches daily and can employ,
when running full, 800 people.
John N. Gross and John Lang, who
have been doing business under the
firm name Of Gross 4 Lang at Rich
mond, Stearns county, filed a petition
in banruptey, placing their liabilities
at $1S,5e2.e4 and giving no assets.
Ferdinand Sul1maehsr, an old bach
elor, about 50 years Of ase,; committed
suicide by hanging himself with a
~clothesline in q barn at the home OF
Herman Kreuger, six miles northeast
Of Wells. Mr.. StilfmacAer owned Land
In that locality valued at SO,
For the murder OF Tom Hogan. a
Fellow 1ongshoreman, by stabbing him
to the heart Oct. 10, Patrick Rivers
was sentenced at Duluth to 20 years
In state prison This Is a maximum
sentence for manslaughter in the first
degree, OF which he was convicted.
Joseph Zulager, living near Rice,
Benton county, went to Rice Friday
with his son. On returning the buggy
was overturned and the two became
separated. The father was found
froze to death 40 rods from the road
the next morning. He was 65 years of
age.
The. Stevenson iron mine, with a
shipment Of 666,036 tons during the
year, has beaten all records for a first
full year. The management intends
to ship next year /, 10000 0 tons and it
is asserted that 1000, 600 could have
been shipped this year had there been
cars.
The granite producers of st. Cloud
have organized a local association, en-
bracing six firms which annually cut
stone to the value of more than $780,
600. The association will have for
its object the development of the in
IN bankruptcy, placing their liabilities
bitration of wage matters.
According to the report of the state
game and fish commission the number
OF moose and deer in Minnesota is in
creasing, and the quantity of quail and
chickens Is larger than for many years.
It is estimated that there are about
Is or 20 bears in the state. There is a
scarcity of mink and otter.
Professor Thomas Shaw, head of the
department of animal husbandry of the
state agricultural school for eight and
g haf years, has rendered his resigna-
ton to the regents of the university.
He will leave the institution in April
and will devote his attention to edi-
torial work or a st. Paul agricultural
paper.
The trades assembly OF Duluth has
had it's attention called to the fact that
some women employed in fat buildings
are taking care of steam furnaces and
taking h places of stationary engi-
neers as far as duties are concerned.
n women will be requested to take
out licenses as stationary engineers
and join the union.
Reuben c.. Pickett has been found
guilty at Minneapolis of manslaughter
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all night. Pickett was on trial for the
murder of his wife, whose death oc-
Cured more than a year ago. At the
time it was given out that she was
accidentally burned to death by the
explosion Of a lamp in her bathroom.
William Randolph, who on Feb. 7
last killed Frank Sullivan at Rainy
Lake City, has been found guilty Of
manslaughter in the first degree by the
jury at Grand Rapids, Itasca county.
The jury was out 20 hours and the YER
dict was a compromise, as the men,
beers were equally divided between
murder in the first degree and acquit-
tai.
st. Paul has now within it's limits
300 saloons, more than it has enter
tanned in any year since 1896. In 1896
5000 900 was paid into the city treas
ury by vendors of intoxicating liquors,
but a year later this dropped to $685.
600. Since that time about one saloon
a year has been added, until now the
number is almost even with the old
figure.
Governor Van SAINT has tentatively
fixed the date for calling the extra SEES
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week in February. The report Of the
tax commission would not be ready to
submit to the public until after Jan. l
and the governor thought the legisla-
ture should have at least three weeks
to study the report before they s~=em-
BILE to act upon it.
An important iron ore deal is in
progress, involving 120 acres near
Hibbing. A lease of the property has
been sold to a Pittsburg concern, said
to be the Crucible Steel company, for
$50, 900. Among those interested in
the lease r NJ. H. Alworth and w. H.
Cole of Duluth. The royalty is Is
cents a ton and the minimum output
utter 1902 is 100, 900 tons.
The Minnesota experiment. station
has won first prize at the Chicago live
stock exposition for the best, general
exhibit of cattle, sheep and swine, in
the dead meat class, competing against
the world. The total prizes won by
the Minnesota station is 60. OF which
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