Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-05-09
NEWS IN llINNESO TA

Congressman Eddy announces that
he is not candidate for denomination.
4 Minnesota butter output last year
. was 105, 600 900 pounds, worth $23,Q88,.
900.
i Andrew J. Nicholson, pioneer set.
1 tier Of Madelia, is dead. He was a
veteran Of the Civil war.
! William Henry of Decoria township.
4 Blue Earth county, claims a share in
the sS,Ooo,ooo Cronkhite estate in Hol-
land. .@' 49,, > q -.
Jacob S. Thoreson, grain buyer of
Dawson, accidentally fell from spout
ing, attached to the elevator, and died
an hour later.
! The Mankato and st. Peter trolley
line has been abandoned. Business
men of the latter place were opposed
to it's construction.
Kirk mill dam, which supplies the
power for. the Fergus Falls waterworks
system, went cut and the city is with
out a water supply
! w. F. .Delaittre, one of Atkins ear
Hest settlers, is dead. He was a mem
Der of the Seventh Maine regiment
during the Civil war. -. 80.
In a fit of insanity John Ha1lin of
Maple Grove, Isanti county, killed a
horse that old not belong to him by
beheading it with a borrowed axe.
: H. M. Wilson, a saloonkeeper of Fo-
ley, is at the hospital suffering from
blood poisoning. He was bitten on the
: thumb by man, and will lose his arm.
Edward Copeland, a 3-year-old Du
luth boy, fell four stories from a fire
escape, striking on his head in a pile
of brick and escaped without serious
, injury.
In the district court at Redwood
Falls Fred Hauert secured a verdict
of $4,000 against John G. Smith for
, alternating the affections of Mrs.
, dauert. a~ts 49,. ~. IL.
} j. F. jacobson of Lac Qui Parle
county has authorized the announce
ment that he will be a candidate for
. auditor before the Republican state
convention.
, John Friedner of Strout, Meeker
r county, has been awarded the Van
SAINT gold medal representing the
championship of the state in butter
making for the past year.
The state board of control has de.
cided to readvertise for bids on the
t proposed addition to the MOOrhead
normal school. The legislature made
y an appropriation of $4,000.
r Engineer Ralph Bruce was killed
and number of freight cars and To-
connective were damaged in wreck on
n the main line of the 500 road, four
miles from Camden Place, Hennepin
county.
9 A. B. Robbins, surveyor general OF
- logs and lumber for the Minneapolis
district, estimates that the log cut fol
e the season will be about Is per cent
S less than last year. The cut last veal
was S00,000,000 feet.
= Scarlet fever has broken out in a vir
It ulent type at Hinckley and the schools
e have been closed for two weeks.
e close quarantine will now be kept or
all cases in the hope that the disease
e will be stamped out.
e Sarah G. Barton, aged 70, wife Of
:, Dr. P. Barton, died at Inver Grove last
W week after an illness lasting nearly q
|year. Mrs. Barton was among the
earliest settlers in Inver Grove, having
resided there for 48 years.
e Teachers in the public schools O.
M1uACoOId OH SOIC1A5 OCtICl 0o1dl 4OS
e. than they did last year and better thar
is they have ever received in this state
according to the report of the state de
D. partment of public instruction.
n There are four separate strikes or
in Duluth at the present time. They
IS include the tug iremen, longshoremen
e, the cooks and walters, and the iro1
IF molders.~ The cooks and walters de
0f Q1
e. Gideon S. Ives Of St. Peter has sc
IS cured from the supreme court a wri
20 of certiorari in the name Of John Uti]
and others of Polk county, returnabl,
At to the court May %, to test the con
10 stitutionality of the drainage law o
ic 1901.
is E. D. Nelson, president of the Firs
National bank Of Ironwood, Mich, tc
~ and cashiers throughout Wisconsin
~ and Michigan, Will establish a bank il
- Duluth; which will be capitalized a
Il 100000.
In the neighborhood of 600 St. Pau
laborers are on a strike. The union
w., involved are the steamftters, tn
~ steamftters' helpers, the molders, tn
% machine foundrymen, the coopers, tn
leather workers, the hOisting engineer
Oh and the carpenters.
a. For the week just ended the clearing
~ OF Minneapolis banks were $11 ,974,
1851, an increase of $3,2O3, 390.4O owe
a. the corresponding week last year. Fo
~ the month of April clearings show a,
1T increase of nearly $10,000,000 over tn
same month last year.
1e Henry Schenck, farmer Is year
re old, residing near Willmar, has inst:
e. tuted damage suit against Mrs
Amanda Hoglund, widow with fan
a. lily of eight children, who, he says, re
Mt fused to marry him after all prepare
k lions for the wedding day were made
II. T. H. Shevlin and Hovey G. Clark
I'd of the firm of the Shevlin-C arpente
n company of Minneapolis, in associs
" ton with J. Neils & Co., have purcha:
IN ed from the Scanlon-Gipson Lumbe
IF connanv 100000 600 feet of stsndin