Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-11-28
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Lake City's new pickle factory will
be ready to commence business Jan. 1,
Mgr. Anatole Oster has been named
as vicar general of the diocese of st.
Paul.
Two hundred and ninety-eight deer
left Duluth Saturday for the Twin City
markets..
The Union Veterans union of the
department of Minnesota held it's an
nua encampment ct st. Paul last
wseh. 500
:. I<nmbermen complain that they are
unable to secure suhicient number
(of men TO conduct operations in the
woods.
Fred Graves, working three miles
west of Bertha, was instantly killed
by the explosion of dynamite which
he was warming over an old sheet iron
stove.
" James Lula was shot and fatally
wounded in dance hall row at Bull,
on the Mesaba range. Three men
were responsible for the shooting and
they have escaped. -
Henry Johns, former member of the
Minnesota legislature and prominent
In the state Republican party, died at
st. Paul last week. Brights disease
was the cause of his demise.
President George Cook of the Du-
luth, Virginia and Rainy Lake road
has purchased several tracts of tim
Der land in the. northern part of the
state at a cost of $1,275,000
Olaf Tvete of the town of Carlisle,
Otter Tail county, was drowned in
Lake Oscar. Tvete had been visiting
neighbor and attempted to walk
home on the ice late at night.
Indians of Northern Minnesota are
heing paid their annuities from the
emVceeds of standing pine. Each In
d14n of whatever age gets $5.14 and
this amounts to goodly sum for large
Amtlies.
ut the auction sale of shorthorn cat
tie at the fair grounds last week fifty
one head of cattle we're sold for 49,
$50. Some of the animals brought
over $500 each. The average price paid
was $3.50.
Fred Mesenbrink, a prominent farm
er living nine miles south of Hancock,
fell from his wagon between his horses
and was dragged about mile. He was
dead when found a quarter of an hour
after the accident.
In the judgment of the St. Paul
| council conference committee $685.
| 600 will be ample for the needs of the
city the coming year. The largest
amount: is for the public schools, $780,
600 being set aside.
Railroad traffic officials report a
great scarcity of hard coal in the
Twin Cities for local and Northwest
ern consumption and they say the out
look promises no immediate relief as
far as the supply is concerned.
| Charles E. L. Henderson, who brutal
ly murdered his mistress, Ida McCor-
mick, at Duluth, June 81, has been SEN
fenced by Judge w. A: Cant to expiate
his crime on the gallows. Henderson
is a colored man and his victim was
also colored
w. H. Mckee, an engineer in charge
of steam shovel at work on the Rock
Islands new road bed near Inver
/ Grove, was instantly killed in land
slide. Seven railroad laborers we're
( oA5O Uu11Su, Jul al eSCdpcu "AtAOUl
serious injury.
Charles A. Grant, grocer, jumped
from the Washington avenue bridge at
Minneapolis. Grant, was on his way to
work and his act was due to despond.
ency brought ON by ill health He
struck the ground $50 feet below and
death was; instantaneous.
| Edward Markham of St. Paul, a man
aged forty light years, was slugged on
the street at WinOna and received in.
jufies from which he is dying. He was
robbed of $500 in cash and a valuable
gold watch. Jack Bingham, local
bad character, is under arrest.
DR.. J. G. Armand of the. state health
fboard, who has been Investigating the
outbreak of hog cholera in the south
ern part of the state, reports that the
disease is practically stamped out
along the border, and he is now inves'
tigating an outbreak further north.
A serious condition of affairs pre-.
vail in the Red River valley, according
to reports in possession of the veter-
mary department of the state board
of health. Great number of horses
have been dying of a mysterious dis
ease said to have been imported from
Manitoba.
Mrs. Mary B. James of Minneapolis
has been appointed by the state board
of control to give expert and scientific
Oversight of the dietary and cooking
at the state institutions. She is not
employed for any definite period, her
term depending upon the efficient re-
suit Of her labors.
Fifty-two million pounds of creamery
butter were made in the 665 creamer
les of Minnesota during the year 1901
On the basis of 22A cents a pound, the
Eaverage price in New York during the
Ipast year, the creamery butter output
Of 1905 brought to the creamery men
Eof Minnesota 11,570,QQ0. ...... w.;
T., Mrs. H. N. Davis. mother of the late
Senator CushInan X! Davis, died las:
lweek at the. home of her son-in-law
Judge Bartlett Trip, at Yankton, S
ID. Mrs Davis was nearly ninety years
Iof age and had been very weak TO,
some time. The deceased lived in st
Paul for thirty-five years.
t. John Mckenzie, a well known Min
Inesota and Montana pioneer, is deat