Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-10-24
NEWS IN MINNKSO TA

The Minnesota Christian Endeavor
union held its sixteenth annual conyen-
ton in St. Paul last week
John Hechtman, one of the pioneers
of Osseo and prominent in business
there, is dead, aged seventy-four years.
The Southeastern Minnesota Educa-
tional association will meet at Red |
Wing, Friday and Saturday, Nov. Fl |
and %. 49,
The Duluth fax receipts for the past |
week broke all previous records, com
ing into market at the rate of a mil
lion dollars worth day.
The Great Northern spur to the Haw-
kins mine at Nashwauk will be fin
ished in few days and shipments OF
ore will be made Immediately.
Captain E. G. Bill, aged eighty, is
dead at Winona. He was the oldest
river captain on the Mississippi river
and was an old settler of Winona.
The ninth annual convention of the
National Association of Agricultural
Implement and Vehicle Manufacturers
was held in Minneapolis last week.
Daniel Hayes, whose residence in
Minneapolis runs back nearly half a
century, is dead. He was member of
the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers.
The new city directory of Winona
contains over 5000 names, showing a
population of over $4,000. This is a
decided increase over the census fig
ures of two years ago.
John S. Bouch, for many years en-
gagged in the ministry in connection
with the Methodist church, died at his
home in Princeton Wednesday night at
the age of seventy-nine years.
The state auditor has issued his war
rant for the purchase of the 100000
new capitol bonds sold to the perma-
nent school fund of the state at the
last meeting of the commission.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Michael Haley of Redwood Falls ate
several headache powders that were
lying on the floor, and died in half an
hour. The powders contained strych-
nine.
State Auditor Dunn conducted the
sale of state lands in Cass county at
Walker Thursday. Ten thousand acres
were sold at prices averaging SO an
acre. Actual settlers were the pur-
chasers.
The westbound Sioux City passenger
train on the Omaha road collided with
the Des Moines passenger at Lake
Crystal injuring several passengers
and wrecking the rear sleeper on the
Des Moines train.
The state board of health has in
dorsed the proposition to secure from
the legislature an appropriation Of
$125,0O0 with which to erect build
ing for pathology and archaeological
work at the state university.
The Redwood County Rural Tele-
phone company, organized last spring
and which already has sixteen miles
of line in successful operation, will
soon extend it's lines from Wabasso to
Morgan, distance of twenty miles.
A new record was made by thc - =" NJ :, =,
! neapOlis n,in~ '-~4 V e0n' .Aceeu1ns any
=. .ner output for a similar length Of
time by 10000 barrels. The quantity
of flour ground was 443,830 barrels, as
against 353,65O in 1901, and 220,870 in
1900.
Mrs. Samantha W. Galpin, widow of
Rev. Charles Galpin, died at Excelsior
last week, aged eighty-seven years.
She had lived in Excelsior since 1853
and had been member of the Congre-
gational church there for forty-nine
I years.
The assembly of the st. Paul council
has passed an ordinance which pro-
hibits the erection of any sort of an
| apartment house or hotel on Summit
| avenue between Selby and Cleveland
avenues. The aldermen are doubtful
| about the validity of such an ordi'
nance.
sources that Pickands, Mather & Co.
| of Cleveland, who have had an option
| on the Elizabeth mine at Hibbing for
several weeks, have practically closed
| for the property and that the bonus of
$350,000 for the lease will be paid in a
day or two.
State Superintendent Olson has com
pleted a synopsis of the returns of the
school attendance in the state for the
year ending July 81. The number of
! pupils was 416,251, an increase of 49,
251; number of teachers, 1894. To.
tai school expenditure, $7,081, 618.10.
| Balance at the end of year, $685.
1886.
While the Great Northern train from
Sandstone was running at the rate OF
fifty miles an hour Andrew Machlin
jumped through a coach window, TAX
ing the frame with him, and escaped
from the custody of City Marshal
Sandy Gund of Sandstone. Machlin
is colored man, and was being taken
to Saltwater by the marshal.
| The Duluth, Mesaba and Northern
railway, which has iron ore as the
bulk of It's tonnage, has just filed it's
annual report. Gross earnings from
operation last year were $685. 16 and
| operating expenses were only $685.,
525. The net income amounted to ST.
499,283. The surplus on June 80, 1902
was 1851 ,591. All the earnings, with
the exception of $100,815 from passen'
ger business, came from the freight
traffic.
Mrs. T. D. Merrill, a prominent so.
ciety woman of Duluth, drew $1,000
| worth IF diamonds and other Jewels