Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-08-29
NEWS N M1NEEs0T EARLY SCORE DIE DIE

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Minnesota editors returned from
their annual outing Thursday Of las,
week. -.
Albert Zurawski, a mason tender,
was crushed to death in an elevator
accident at st. Paul. MI
= An incendiary fire at Jeffers de.
stroyed a number of business houses,
causing loss of $4,000. a
. c. N. Andrews, a we'll known attor-
Hey of Mankato, has filed as candi-
date for congress on the Democratic
ticket. "
Robert L. De Lambert, superintend-
ent Of motive power of the Northern
Pacific railway, died at St. Paul Fri
day of heart disease.
DR.. George Francis James of the
state normal school of Los Angeles.
CAL, has been elected professor. of
pedagogy in the University of Mime
sofa.
Mankato is to have another national
bank. 40. Oleson Of Wells and c. I.
Oleson Of Howard, S. D.. will own the
controlling interest. and local capital
will be interested.
Joseph Meyer, a Polish laborer on
the Great Northern road, was struck
and instantly killed by an Eastern Min
nesota passenger train in the Western
avenue yards, st. Paul.
Governor Van SAINT has sent letters
to the governors of adjoining states in
viting them and their constituents to
attend the good roads convention to
hn hoI Ut %4%4 E4$ I~
l, 2 and 3.
The Interstate company, of which T.
A. Merritt is president, has sold it's
three-sizteenth interest in the Stevens
mine near Bull to Roswell H. Palmer,
a lumberman and mine owner of Du-
luth, for $4,000.
A party of women at Kingston, a
village nine miles from Dassel, raid.
ed an alleged blind pig, drove the keep
er to the woods and demolished the
place, with it's contents. The alleged
blind pig was a barber shop.
The reduction of grain rates from
Northern Minnesota, North and South
Dakota to Minneapolis, St. Paul, Du-
luth, Milwaukee and Chicago will go
into effect Aug. %. The reductions
average from to II per cent. =.
Freeman Keen, aged seventy-one
years and the oldest settler but one
at the Head of the Lakes, having re-.
sided at Duluth since 1852. met al
most instant death at West Duluth by
being run down by street car.
The Oregon Pacific Colonization
company, Minnesota corporation,
has closed a deal for the purchase Of
$4,000 acres of land in Benton and Lin
coin counties, Oregon. A portion Of
the land is to be stocked at once
Labor Commissioner O'Donnell is
putting the finishing touches to his
biennial report, which will be one of
the most complete and interesting re-
ports ever published either by the de-
partment in this or any other state.
Gorge Johnson. aged twenty-one,
the Son of a farmer residing near
Sleepy Eye, committed suicide by
shooting himself. Tying a shotgun to
the bedpost he fired the charge into
his breast. No motive can be assigned
for the act.
Samuel NORM Of St. Paul fired two
shots at his wife with murderous in
tent. One bullet struck Mrs. NORM in
the left thigh, passing through the
fleshy part Of the leg. The other
missed the woman. NORM was placed
under arrest.
The figures issued by the state board
Of control for the fiscal year 1902 cred
it that body with having effected a
saving CT $4,000 in it's management
of state institutions as compared with
1901, when these same institutions
managed themselves.
The continued light movement of
wheat to Minneapolis, coupled with the
small stocks in store there, is the
source of much concern to Mill City
flour manufacturers. The shortage be-
came so serious last week that several
mills were forced to suspend opera
tions.
George Allen, seventy-flve years old,
of Minneapolis, met death near Farm
HON, Ont. Mr.. Allen was returning
from the Maine coast with his wife on
the Grand Trunk railroad and in at
tempting to pass from day coach to
the Pullman fell from the train and
was fatally injured.
Edward Mcclure, young man
prominent in Duluth business and So
cial circles, is missing. One hundred
and ten thousand pounds OF sugar be-
longing to the sugar trust and stored
at Duluth for distribution to Western
cities is also missing, and a warrant
charging Mcclure with the theft of the
property is in the hands of the police.
One of the biggest lumber deals, in.
volving retail yards in the Northwest,
is reported closed between the st.
Croix Lumber company and the Lamb
Lumber company, by which the latter
becomes the owner of forty-six yards
in the states of Minnesota, Iowa and
South Dakota. The consideration is
somewhere between 100000 and
100000.
Mrs. H. p. Jensen and her little
eighteen-months-old babe were acct
dentally drowned in a we'll on their
farm, about three and half miles
northwest Of Raymond. just how the
accident occurred rs not known, but
it is supposed that the little one was
playing about. the we'll, which was an
open one. and that it fell in. The