Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-05-16
NEWS Nv IN MINNESO

Henry e. Harris, novelist, is dead
Ut Duluth Of ptomaine poisoning.
Redwood Falls is to have q system
Of free baths in connection with the
artificial lake. ........, -. !
81. Wa. Fahey, q switchman, was run
over by q train at Two Harbors and
died within an hour. t..
President M. E. <Neary has issued q
call for the convention of the State
Federation Of Labor to be held at
Rochester June 9 and 10.
John Rapp, farmer living near Ka-
sofa, while hunting crows, pulled his
gun through the fence after him. The
weapon was discharged and he died
few moments later.
Duluth coal dealers are greatly wor-
ried over the light shipments. They
do not receive more than enough to
ship to the interior, and the situa-
ton is looked upon as grave.
Michael Tucharik, a miner, commit
ted suicide at Virginia in sensational
railroad track and as the train came
He was deranged.
Claims amounting to $14,S25 have
teen filed against the city of Moor
head for personal injury and damages
to the thresh1ng machines which fell
through a bridge crossing the Red
river at that point.
Warden Wolfer has announced that
the state will be unable to fill any more
orders for Irvine this season, orders
having been booked for every pound
that can be manufactured up to the
close of the season.
The state board of control has
awarded contracts for supplies of all
kinds for the various state. institutions
during the ensuing three months.
Fifty contracts were awarded and
only nine went to firms outside the
state.
Sixty-nine pupils will be graduated
from the st. Cloud normal school this
year. The graduation exercises will
be held on Thursday, May 20, and the
address will be delivered by Professor
Harvey, superintendent of public In
struction of Wisconsin.
The supreme court in a decision by
Chief Justice Start holds that the law
Of 1901 did not repeal the blind pig
act Of 1894, but simply broadened it's
| scope so as to include "clubs" con-
Quoted for the purpose of evading the
liquor laws in prohibition localities.
! Peter Krogmann, a well-to-do farm
err, died suddenly from heart failure
while walking about the yard at his
home few miles southwest of Lu-
verne. He was 60 years of age and
appeared to be in perfect health and
his sudden death came without warn
Ing.
| Attorney General Douglas has set
tied a trespass case against a Min
neapolfs lumber company by the pay
ment of $3.50. The firm had crew
cutting timber on land adjoining 1tasca
park. The crew got over the line and
cut about $4,000 feet of pine in the
park.
! The st. Paul water department has
lost track of 100000 gallons of drink
ing water and no amount of investiga-
ton can show where it has gone. It
has of late been getting away at the
rate of $4,000 gallons daily. The tax
receipt show no increase over last
year.
A man giving his name as James
Moore, by means of q forged deed, sue.
ceeded In recording the f8fm property
Of w. ]. 9wenson, residing near Red
Wing, as his own. He then borrowed
900 from william Lawther, giving
a mortgage as security, and disap'
peared.
The new ore dock at Duluth is near
" completed and shipping will begin
on the first of next month. It is ex-
pected that this year will be the big
gest ever known in the oreshipping
trade, and it is estimated that at least
1900, 900 tons of ore will go from the
new dock.
The gradual decrease of smallpox in
the state is further shown by the re.
port of the state board of health for
the week ending May s. The report
81 localfttoR Last weeks report
and 20 LOCALITIES.
AL Beard. with many aliases, want.
ed in st. Paul on charge of murder
and for who0e capture the Minnesota
officials oft1td reward Of $500, has
been arresoD4 at Kansas City. Beard
is said to h one of three men who
shot and Killed Policeman Charles
Mayer in st: Paul on Feb. last.
The people of Duluth to large ex
tent will substitute fish for beef in
their diet during the coming season
owing to the action Of the trust in
raising the 1rice Of the latter staple
Fishing on the north shore of the lake
lis far better this year than ever be
fore, and the fish is of better quality
/, Men engaged in the milling business
in Minneapolis declare that present
1conditions make it impossible to con
eede the S-h0ur day for members of the
Flour Mills Employees union unless the
8-hour systaM is put in effect at the
same time at all the milling centers il
the country and the country mills as
WELL
The Minnesota Territorial Pioneers
will continHe> to celebrate the states
admission to the Union on May II
This was decided upon Saturday al