Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-12-26
NEWS TN MINES I /

Richard Marvin, a pioneer Of st.
Paul, is dead. w. ~ S=s%@@5 Y 4
Kinks -four mill at Fergus Falls has
been destroyed by fire.
Mrs. D. O'Halloran, one of the old.
est settlers of st. Paul, is dead.
A seven-foot vein. of anthracite coal
has been struck on the farm of Mr.
Storer near GAINESVILLE.
William G. Jones, a resident of Min.
nesota since 1852, died last week at
his home in Golden Valley.
Minnesota's total vote in the late
election was 276,071. Van SAINTS ma
5ority over Rosing was 56,527.
John H. Hullsiek, one of the pio-
neer produce commission merchants Of
st. Paul, is lying at the point of death.
Mrs. Rose Bouland, one of the old
est, If not the very oldest woman in
Minneapolis, is dead, aged ninety
eight.
Mrs. F. w. Hankey, Western writ
er OF some note, whose pen name was
Marie Winslow, died last week at
Hamline.
Charles D. Gilflllan, one of the oldest,
| most prominent and distinguished citi-
zens Of Minnesota, died suddenly at
| st. Paul last week.
Insurance Commissioner Dearth has
asked for a receivership for the Fidel-
| ity Mutual Hail Insurance company
of Winnebago City.
The Minneapolis fire department will
make an effort with the new city coun-
Gil, which takes charge next month, to
get raise of per cent in salaries.
Captain E. Freestone, one of the
most prominent workers in the Society
of Christian Crusaders in this country,
died at Winona after weeks Illness
Secretary of War Root has agreed
to recommend the appropriation Of
$4,000 for the purchase of 844 acres
of land to add to the Fort Smelling res
ervation.
The four-story warehouse occupied
by the w. S. Mott company of Mime
apolis was completely Quilted by fire
Saturday morning. The loss will
amount to $4,000.
Fred Brude. farmer of Lake Hans
ka, while repairing windmill, was
caught in the machinery, by his duck
coat. and died of strangulation before
help could reach him.
Eight miles have this year been add
ed to the Minneapolis sewer system,
at cost of $120.000. The city has now
1872 miles of sewer, for which ST.
100000 has been expended.
Public Examiner S. T. Johnson, in
his biennial report, asks for consider
able increase in the force of assistants
allowed the department, in order that
he may perform adequately the many
duties of the Office.
The state canvassing board has de,
cided that the proposition to create
and organize Clearwater county in
counties in Polk county, has received
a majority of the votes cast.
Alger, Smith & Co. and the Red Cliff
Lumber company have purchased the
north shore pine, hitherto owned by
Thomas Bardon of Ashland and Fred
erick Weyerhaeser of St. Paul
amounting to 100,0O0,000 feet.
Incorporation has been granted a,
Ottawa, Ont, to the German-Ameri
can Land company with a capital
stock Of 100000 to acquire land and
place settlers thereon. The incorpo
rators are all Minnesota men.
Paul LeMay, who is held for the
| murder of Girls Knudsen at Blackjack
!, Ion the night of Nov. rs, has been
bound over to the grand jury, charged
to the county jail at Bemidji to await
his trial in March.
: An elevated electric railway con
Meeting St. Paul and Minneapolis anG
eventually complete elevated rapi(
transit system in both cities is the
+ project of syndicate which will ash
the legislature at the coming session
: for thirty-year: franchise.
The labor organizations of the stat
l have a membership of 28,338, an in
\ crease of 1858 in the past two years
These figures are shown in Labor Com
S missioner O'Donnell's report. He find
E that the new organizations nunbe
r 125, and these brought 5000 members
a Judge Cray, at Mankato, deniet
the motion for a new trial in the cas-
of D. G. Robinson. convicted of for
ger - the second degree, and sen
for four years and ten months. Robin
S son made a sensational talk in court
n not asking for 1eniency, but for jus
tice
5 The total revenue which st. Pau
o will get from saloon licenses this yea
will be $32S,000, which is $37. 1000 NOR
= than the amount estimated at the be
t. ginning of the year. License 1nspecto
e Jessrang believes that at least twent
of the 1928 saloons in St. Paul will s
J. out of business when their licenses e.
j. pire.
q Officers raided the counterfeitin
plant of Andrew Schroeder near Mapl
:. Grove. A complete counterfeiter'
. outfit, including three plaster of pari
molds for dollars, composition for NAL
ing these molds, a bar of lead, glass
a dipper, carpenters square and file