Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-09-06
NEWS In N ESOTA
Mankato is to have an electric
street railway. .s@s 81, Sc rs + . sE

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ter OF q century prominently identified
with the history Of Minneapolis. died
suddenly Saturday. % s ..~. -. ,z-.# g 5.
z Charles G. Anderson and Andrew
Pearson were instantly killed by the
explosion Of dynamite. at the Fayal
Iron mine at Eleleth. - !. >~.,.sz +.
President Mellen has appointed Will
lam l.. Darling chief engineer of the
Northern Pacific, vice e. McHenry,
whose resignation has been accepted.
! At the special election at Winthrop
to vote on the water works and cleo
trio light bond issue Of $4,000, the
proposition carried, 40 against and 6
for. ,~
August shipments of pine lumber
from Duluth were about 60,000,0 900
feet, which is a, trife less than for
July, but is a tremendous amount
nevertheless. sE4E
Minnesota will receive $19,117 ~
It's share of the federal appropriation
for the national guard. The money is
to be used for the purchase of uni
forms and equipments.
Seventy-four cases of smallpox were
reported to the state board of health
for the two weeks ending Aug. 29.
This is decrease of so per cent from
the previous two weeks.
Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles
visited Fort Smelling Sunday for the
purpose Of inspecting the station with
a view of determining the ACCESSIBILITY
of establishing an artillery station
there.
Sheriff Erickson of Crow Wing
county has arrested two boys, Harry
and Frank Avery of Brainerd, on sus-
pfcion of having murdered young John
,McGrath of Little Falls. The oldest
Of the boys is but 20.
For the third time within a year an
attempt was made Friday night to
wreck trains on the Minneapolis and
St. Louis road, south of New Ulm.
Each time ties have been placed along
the track in the night.
The Indians of tue Fond du Lac res
ervation, hear Duluth, are asking that
the reservation be opened to public
settlement. There are about 100000
acres in this reserve and about 700
Chippewa Indians live there.
Peter Haskenson, Finn, was held
up by masked men on the county road,
a mile Or two out from Bull. and
robbed @ all he had in his pockets,
about $50. There were six of the men,
and there is no clue to their identity.
The legislature of 1903 will have to
meet in the cramped quarters Of the
old state capitol. Owing to the steel
strike, the completion Of the building
has been delayed for a year and it
will not be ready for occupation until
late in 1903.
When Carl Kjerner, a clerk in the
grocery of J. J. Kulkerson of Roches-
ter, was picking bananas from bunch
he found a snake coiled around the
stem. It was young boa constructor
three and one-half feet long and i've
inches in circumference. =.
DR.. R. I, Hubert, a we'll known st.
Cloud physician, who is charged with
having wilfully and knowingly failed
to report his contagious cases to the
local board of health, has been bound
over to the grand jury, his bond being
fixed in: the sum of 5000.
The state authorities have allowed a
bill of E. D.. Forbes. who was ap-
pointed by the state to exterminate
the grasshQppers of the Red River val
Icy. The bill, which amounts to ST.
613, was for 10000 gallons of oil used
by farmers in their hopper dosers."
James McGrath, a, prominent Still
water lumberman. has offered a re-
ward of $500. for the arrest and con-
viction of the robbers who murdered
his brother, John McGrath, near Little
Falls last week. A reward of a like
amount has been offered by the state.
Hogs sold at 1928 per 100 pounds
at South st: Paul Friday, passing the
high price record s.of several weeks
ago and going beyond the record Of
seven years ago. They we're what
packers term fair quality heavy hogs.
Prices have been advancing rapidly Of
late. - x n 80 - -:
Superintendent J. J. .Mahoney Of the
Winona and Western railway has &C.
cepted the appointment of general
manager of the Fort Smith and West
ern railway, with headquarters at Fort
Smith, Ark. Mr.. Mahoney> has been
with the Winona and Western road for
Z number of years. y - !. -.s,--s.*.s5 ~;
Professor r. v. Hubbard, superin-
tendent of public school at Red Wing,
was killed Tuesday of last week. He
was filing UP his back yard with a:
wheel scraper. In attempting to work
the lever it sprang up and struck him
: In the neck, causing instant DEATH
He was As years old. aE5-5
Railroad and steamship officials say
that the tourist season, now drawing
to its close, has. been the best ever
experienced by the, Head Of the Lakes,
but that it would have been far better
and that far greater crowds would
have: visited there, and staid longer, if
there had been more suitable accom-;
modations for tourist travel. !
Crazed by drink and hard luck In
cards, Paul Juckel leaped from the
center span, OF the d. Robert street
bridge. st. Paul, into the Mississippi.
The cold water brought him 20 his
senses, and he swan to the foot Of sib-
ley street. There he was arrested by
Officer FORESTER and later paid me:
Of 325 for disorderly conduct. IS .
II. II thu, recent examination for teach
ees' state certificates there were In