Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-04-11
NEWS in MINES sofa

license to $1,000.
Saltwater carpenters are on strike
for an increase of wages.
Mrs. MART Baarstad, one of the ear
lest settlers Of Becker county, is dead.
John Brady, the commander Of the
Navy Veterans Association of Mime
sofa, is dead at st. Paul.
The sixth annual meeting of the
Northern Minnesota Educational asso
citation met in st. Cloud last week.
Isl Mrs. Ellen Hardy, aged 80 years, a
pioneer resident of st. Paul, is dead as
the result OF falling down fight of
stairs. -.
q Miss Ruth Hill, daughter of James
J. Hill of st. Paul, was married in that
city last week to Arson McCook
Beard Of New. York. 49,
Mrs: @Barthel Miller, aged 60 years.
one of the prominent residents of Ben.
ton county, is dead as result of in.
juries received in a runaway.
The fourth annual debate between
orators of the Universities of Mime.
sofa and Michigan, held at Chicago.
was won by the Minnesota students.
$780, Governor Van SAINT has issued
proclamation fixing April 10 as Arbo1
day in Minnesota and urging the peo
pie of Minnesota to observe the occa.
sion by planting trees.
The Red Wing commercial club has
voted to organize Immediately com.
pany to manufacture mems hats, cap
ital stock 100000. Work on the fac.
tory will begin when $4,000 is sub
scribed.
Rev. G. G. Woodruff, the oldest min.
lister in America, is dead at the home
of his son, l.. E. Woodruff, in Magno
liza. Mr.. Woodruff was IS years of age
and had been active in ministerial
work over 60 years.
Owing to the resignation of a young
man from the First congressional dis.
trict from West Point, a notice has
been received from Congressman Taw-
ney that an examination to fill the va
cancy will be held in Winona on April
rs.
The st. Cloud reformatory water
plant, for which the legislature made
an appropriation of $4,000, has been
completed. Water is forced through
six-inch mains from wells a mile dis
tant to receiving tanks at the build
ings.
Judge John A. Chandler, general
agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul railroad in st. Paul and the
Oldest railroad man in point Of contin-
uous service in the country, died sud.
denly last week, aged II years.
The St. Cloud branch of the Granite
Cutters National union has served no.
tice on all employers that the scale of
wages after June will be 1925 per day
of eight hours, instead of IS. A gener-
al increase of 8 per cent is made on
piece work.
The secretary of state has received
two petitions from Beltrami county for
the division of that county into two
counties, one to be called Roosevelt,
with Shevlin as it's county seat, and
the other Clearwater, with Bagley as
it's county seat.
Steward J. M. Rogers and his book
keeper, G. E. Tegner, of the st. Peter
hospital for the insane, have been dis
missed from the service of the state
by the board of control because of in
explainable irregularities and discrep-
ancies in their accounts.
AT a special meeting of the Luverne
Three persons considered that sum not
in excess of what the breweries for
| which they handle beer would be will.
plication, which was granted.
Fred G. Pratt, until two weeks ago
manager of the J. M. Davis wholesale
liquor house, Minneapolis, has been
| arrested upon the charge of embez.
| element. Pratt's accounts have been
audited by an expert accountant and
shortage of something over $1,000 is
alleged to have been found.
The supreme court has handed down
decision in a case involving title to
10000 acres in Traverse and adjoining
counties, originally taken by Arch.
bishop Ireland from the Manitoba rail.
roads land grant. The settlers lose
and title is confirmed in those who
bought the land from the archbishop
| Charles H. Worthen, a promoter
and his wife, we're found dead in their
room in clearinghouse in New York
city Thursday. Worthen had shot his
wife and cut her throat, and had then
cut his own throat. He was formerly
a prosperous business man of st. Paul
where he was connected with the
| Powers Dry Goods company.
The secretary of the interior has
| transmitted to the senate an agree
ment with the Red Lake and Pembina
bands of Chippewa Indians Of Mime
sofa for the cession to the United
States of the western portion of the
| Red Lake reservation containing 256,
! 1852 acres. Senator Clapp introduced
a bill ratifying the agreement.
! At the preliminary examination OIL
Andrew Jacobson, charged with being
the instigator of the murder of Mag
nus Johnson near Alexandria a weel
ago, Gustav Larson, the young Finland
er who committed the murder, wa:
placed on the stand. Larson said th<
murder was planned by himself ant
Jacobson for the purpose of robbery.
The annual report Of the commits
sioner of the Duluth public land Office
Shows that the receipts for the pas
year amounted to $203,06526, the ex
penses of the Office being $10;65S.90
Lands to the extent of 314,845 acres
have been disposed of. Duluth hold:
the second place this year, Devil