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

Congressman Eddy announces that
he is not candidate for denomination.
| Minnesota butter output last yea1
was 100000 pounds, worth $23,0S8,.
600.
| Andrew J. Nicholson, a pioneer set.
tier of Madelia, is dead. He was a
veteran OF the Civil war;
William Henry of Decoria township,
! Blue Earth county, claims share in
the 100000 Cronkhite estate in Hol-
land. .:.. > -
| Jacob S. Thoreson, a 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.
j! 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. ... ~: ~
In a fit of insanity John Hallin of
Maple Grove, Isanti county, killed q
horse that did not belong to him by
beheading it with 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 a man, and will lose his arm.
Edward Copeland, 3-year-old Du-
luth boy, fell four stories from a fire
escape, striking on his head in 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.
Hauert. ,+,s
| J. F. Jacobson of Lac Qui Parle
county has authorized the announce
ment that he will be candidate for
auditor before the Republican state
convention.
John Friedner of Strout, Meeker
county, has been awarded the Van
SAINT gold medal representing the
championship of the state in butter
making for the past year.
|
cided to readvertise for bids on the
proposed addition to the Moorhead
normal school, The legislature made
an appropriation of $4,000.
Engineer Ralph Bruce was killed
and a number of freight cars and To-
connective were damaged in wreck on
the main line of the 500 road, four
miles from Camden Place, Hennepin
county.
=, A. B. Robbins, surveyor general of
logs and lumber for the Minneapolis
district, estimates that the log cut for
the season will be about Is per cent
less than last year. The cut last year
was S00,000,000 feet.
Scarlet fever has broken out in vir-
ulent type at Hinckley and the schools
have been closed for two weeks. A
close quarantine will now be kept on
all cases in the hope that the disease
? will be stamped out.
Sarah G. Barton, aged 70, wife of
, DR.. P. Barton, died at Inver Grove last
week after an illness lasting nearly a
year. Mrs. Barton was among the
earliest settlers in Inver Grove, having
resided there for 48 years.
Teachers in the public schools of
Minnesota are getting better salaries
= than they did last year and better than
they have ever received in this state,
according to the report of the state de-
: partment of public instruction.
: There are four separate strikes on
in Duluth at the present time. They
S include the tug firemen, longshoremen
}, the cooks and walters, and the iron
t molders. The cooks and walters de.
mand an increase Of 81 per week.
+ Gideon S. Ives of St. Peter has Sc
S cured from the supreme court a writ
0 of certiorari in the name Of John Util,
and others Of Polk county, returnable
+ to the court May %, to test the con
q stitutionality of the drainage law OF
y 1901.
s z. D. Nelson, president of the First
National bank Of Ironwood, Mich, to-
gether with several bank presidents
q and cashiers throughout Wisconsin
y and Michigan, Will establish a bank i1
Il Duluth, which will be capitalized al
| 100000.
In the neighborhood Of 600 St. Pau
|laborers are on a strike. The unions
involved are the steauftters, the
= steamftters' helpers, the holders, tne
y machine fOundrymen, the cOopers, the
leather workers, the hosting engineers
u and the carpenters.
=. For the week just ended the clearing:
OF Minneapolis banks were S11,974,
$751; an increase of $3,203, 390.40 ove]
l. the corresponding week last year. Fol
the month Of April clearings show ar
It increase of nearly $10,000,O00 over the
same month last year.
e Henry Schenck, farmer Is years
e old, residing near Willmar, has insti
= tuted a damage suit against Mrs
Amanda Hoglund, widow with fam
l. lily of eight children, who, he says, re
It fused to marry him after all prepare
( tons for the wedding day were made
l. r. H. Sheylin and Hoyey C. Clark
d of the firm of the Shevlin- Carpente
l. company Of Minneapolis, in associa
T. ticn with J. Neils & Co., have pucchas
n ed from the Scanlon-G ipsou Lumbe
If company 10o,0Co,000 feet of standing