Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-12-27
NEWS r. MINNESOTA

Of Rochester, is dead. D."
The safe in Holland & Koech' S saloon
at Pine City was broken open and $500
taken.
Bernard Brady, aged Is years, who
arrived in Stearns county from Ger
many in 1855, is dead.
The Standard Brewing company Of
Nankaio will make extensive improve
ments next spring, and fully $4,000
will be expended.
A. L. Gillespie, who for more than IS
years had been closely identified with
the business interests of Saltwater,
died suddenly Friday of heart failure.
Fire started from an oil stove in the
cellar of James Murphy's saloon at
PipegGone and did some damage to the
building. A drunken man was suf-
located.
Mgr. Michael Antonini, honorary
chamberlain to the pope and one Of
the % secretaries assisting Cardinal
Rampolla at the Vatican, is the guest
of Archbishop Ireland at St. Paul.
Judge Quinn created a sensation in
the district court at Paramount by order
witness who was testifying, on q
charge OF perjury. Holmes was held
to the grand jury.
John G. Flynn has been elected cap
tain of the state university football
team. Flynn has played guard for
three years on the Minnesota team.
and both last year and this year was
chosen by the critics as guard on thel
AllWestern team.
The Southern Minnesota Poultry as
sociation will hold it's second annual
exhibition in Mankato from Dec. 81 tol
Jan. 4, inclusive. Five hundred dOllarsl
in cash premiums, with over 800 spell
cial premiums, are offered, with COM
petition open to the world.
There are number of cases oil
smallpox in Winnebago City and byl
order Of the board Of health the
schools have been closed. About half
a dozen families are under quarantine.
In every instance the disease mani
tests itself in a very mild type.
The year ending July 81 had the
largest record of mineral leases and
contracts since 1892. State Auditor
Dunn's books show a total of 288
prospectors' leases and 48 contracts
for development of mines on state
lands, with total cash return of $751;
500.
Work was commenced last week by
Frankman Bros. & Morris of st. Paul
on the reconstruction of No. dock at
Two Harbors. 1t will be completed in
May, ready for the opening Of naviga-
1,@.
cOmpany's engineers estimated, about
$3.50 900.
Nec-Se-Ga. the oldest Indian squaw
in the United Slater, died at the Win
nebago Indian mp on Barrons island,
opposite La Crosse on the Minnesota
side of the river, aged 1928. She was
buried with the customary ceremonies
in the presence of large number of
chiefs from all parts of the Northwest.
At a meeting of the Winnebago
board of health all places of amuse-
ment, also churches, Sunday schools,
day schools, lodges and public gath
erings of whatever nature were for
hidden until further notice. because of
prevalence of smallpox in that place.
There are about dozen cases in
town.
Daniel Pineo Of Park Rapids is dead
ct Tacoma. He went there some
months ago in quest of health. He
was Is years old. For many years he
was prominent business man OF
LitchfieJd and was widely known by
the carly settlers Of the state. He re-
moved tc Park Rapids half dozen
years ago.
Reuben C. Pickett of Minneapolis
has been sentenced to serve II years
! at hard labor in the state prison at
| Saltwater. Pickett was tried on the
charge of numbering his first wife,
Sept. 20, 1900. He was convicted OF
the crime of manslaughter in the first
, degree. The maximum penalty for
this crime is 20 years.
Captain Young, one of the early set-
tiers of Minneapolis, is dead. He came
to St. Anthony in 1851 and builtthe first
steamboat that ran on the river above
the falls. He was later identified with
the steamboating business on the low
er river. He was we'll known by the
lumbermen and steamboat men from
Saltwater to ST. Louis.
News has reached Duluth that Bill
Randolph, recently convicted of man
slaughter in the first degree at Rainy
Lake for killing one-armed Frank Sui
livan, has been granted new trial.
| Newly discovered evidence and the
charge that liquor was used in the jury
room during the consideration of the
case, are the grounds given.
The car shortage, which has been a
great drawback to the milling industry
of Minneapolis for many weeks. has be.
come so acute within the past few days
that millers have found it as difficult
! to secure sufficient wheat to keep their
mills in operation as they did to OBJ
tain cars with which to ship their
flour. Several mills have been forced
to close down.
| With the close of this month st.
Paul will have completed building
J record that is without parallel in it's
building history. It will show that ST.
100000 has been appropriated for new
structures. In the percentage of gain
st. Paul is . now credited with first
place. If the plans for the Great
Northern shops are filed this month a
| further squirt will be recorded.