Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-05-23
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

No wa AAS M14NxNGOOAd
Mrs. John H. Stevens, widow Of the
first white settler in Minneapolis, is
dead, aged Is years. +: 49,
Superintendent Brown has been sue.
ceeded by Frank Whittier as head of
the Red Wing state training school.
James H. Morrison, a prominent
logging contractor, formerly of Mime
apolis, died at Duluth Friday Of apo
plexy. =
Southern Minnesota was visited with
terrific storms and cloudbursts Satur-
day, causing great damage to rail-
roads. Il -
st. James citizens have raised SUI
dcient funds for the encampment of
the Southern Minnesota G. A. R. asso-
| citation, June II, 10 and 10.
Governor Van SAINT has assigned
Judge MCGEE Of Minneapolis to assist
Judges searle and Baxter at the May
term Of the Moorhead court.
George T. Harper, a railroad fire.
man, who was a disciple of the Dowie
faith, died in st. Paul last week. He
! had been denied the services of a
| physician.
! The special election held in Sibley
| county on the proposition of removing
the county seat from Henderson to
! Gaylord resulted in favor Of Henderson
by majority of 1874.
Eight steers, the property of H.
| Knipple of Gibbons, Mimi, were sold
| at South st. Paul last week, bringing
$3.50 per. 100 pounds, the highest price
ever paid for steers at that point.
The Union Depot and Transfer COM
pany of Saltwater, which has been in
| the hands of a receiver for several
years, has transferred it's entire prop
| erty to the Northern Pacific Railway
! company.
The Western Elevator company has
purchased the interests of the several
grain companies located at Winona,
which will be hereafter operated un-
der the name of the Western Elevator
company.
| The annual session of the grand
chapter, Order of the Eastern Star,
met in St. Paul last week. All of the
| lat lodges in Minnesota were repre-
sented, many by the full quota of three
delegates.
Mayor Ames has announced his de-
| termination to leave Minneapolis and
accept a lucrative position as manager
| of a sanitarium connected with the big
| hotel which is being built at West
Baden, Ind.
Extensive improvements will be
made by the Northern Pacific this sum-
mer on its St. Paul-Duluth short line.
Work is now under way in some
places, and is being arranged for in
other places.
| The West Duluth blast furnace has
been sold to a company composed of
Cleveland, Chicago and Duluth capital
lists, and it is understood it will be put
in operation at once. The plant has a
capacity of 200 gross pig iron daily.
Representative McCleary has intro
61ced bill to appropriate $4,000 for
a fish hatchery and fish culture sta
| ton In Minnesota. He says the
streams in Minnesota should contain
more fish and that hatchery is due
the state.
The st. Paul postoffce has been xad
vanced. TO the first-chass of postoMces
in: the country. I'LL offices whose an
nuaf receipts are HWe than $500, 900
are advanced to the first grade, and
the salaTef. the postmaster is incFeas-
ed t0T$$6 COO per annum.
Julius w Voight, a. travelling man,
whose hone was in Chaska, shot and
killed Miss Ruth Welch off, Verudale
and then blew out his OVID brains at
the Parker hotel, MINNEAPOLIS. Unre-
Quilted affection is believed to have
been the cause of the double tragedy.
Grace, Dickson Of Dreshach, aged
years, as result OF saving her 3-year-
old brother from 6-foot rattlesnake
which had crept into the house, was
fatally bitten by the reptile and died
in great agony. She attempted to kill
the snake with a broom, but it fasten-
ed it's fangs IN her body before she
succeeded.
Articles Of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state by
the Minneapolis, Superior, St. Paul
and Winnipeg Railroad company. The
company will build a road from the
Twin Cities northward, through Gen.
trail and Eastern Minnesota, to the
Canadian boundary in Beltrami coun-
ty, and to Superior, Wis.
uriah Oldham of Glenwood has been
to the insane hospital. Mr.. Oldham
went to the sheriff a. short time ago
and asked to be locked up, stating that
The had an almost uncomfortable desire
to kill his children" The case is ne
cu1iar one, as he appears to fully real
Iize that he is insane, but is unable to
control himself
! Andrew Anderson, released from the
Saltwater prison on Feb. 5, after serv-
in9a.a 5-year term for grand larceny,
has been convicted of burglarizing W.
|B. & w. J. Jordan's shoe warehouse
in the penitentiary yards and sen
|tenced to term of five years. An
derson robbed the prison in a sensa-
tional way about three weeks after he
acquired his freedom.
The dam at the outlet of Otter Tail
lake was blown up by party Of rs
farmers one night last week. The dam
was put in by company Of Fergus
FAILS men several years ago to make
the lake storage reservoir and give