Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-09-05
NEWS Tn MINI Els VIA

i j. ]. Regan Of st. Paul has been
elected president Of the state A. o. H.
Il Tho American District Telegraph
company Of st. Paul is now employing
! girls as day messengers.
The assessed valuation of real es-
tate In Minnesota for 1902 is $3.50 ,OOO,-
900. This Is an increase of about S14O..
100000 during the past two years.
The contract for building the new
Norman county courthouse has been
let to Olof Swenson of st. Paul. The
total cost of the building will be $780,.
900.
Restaurant men of St. Paul have
agreed to organize and petition the
next state legislature to pass law for
bidding saloonmen to furnish free
lunch.
Insurance Commissioner Dearth has
advised Attorney General Douglas that
the Order of the North Star is insol-
vent, and that it's affairs should be
wound up.
Mrs: c. r. Marsh of Holland, VT,
was fatally. injured by falling from the
second-stOry window of the Kendall
hotel at St. Paul. She was taken to
st. Joseph's hospital and died several
hours later.
The handsome bronze life-size statue
of We-nO-nah, the Indian maiden, pre-
sented to the city of Winona by w. J.
Landon, has been placed in position liz
Central park.
H. G. Sweet of White Earth, this
state, was fatally injured at Fargo, N.
D., while resisting three masked men
who attempted to hold up Sweet and
two younger brothers.
The Duluth Commercial club has ar-
pointed a committee to formulate
plans for better mail service between
that city and points in Western Min
nesota and the Dakotas.
Melvin Lufkin, son of Webb Lufkin
OF Dover, is dead and Glen Woodruff,
son OF George Woodruff, Minneapolis,
is not expected to live as result of
eating poisonous mushrooms.
The Packard-Mather company of
Cleveland, O., has secured an option
for the lease of lands near Hibbing
owned by the Elizabeth Iron company
The option carries the privilege of
buying the lease for $350,000.
Chris Sandveld, farmer of FREEMAN
township, Freedom county, and his
son, were going home from Albert Lea
and when on a crossing three miles
south they were struck by Rock ISL
and train and instantly killed.
An electric storm Friday night gave
the Minneapolis fire department one
of the busiest nights In it's history.
Ten boxes were pulled and one spe-
cial call was sounded at the depart
ment headquarters inside of six hours.
! Lyman P. White, known as the faith
er of Brainerd, is dead. His health had
been failing for long time and the
end was not unexpected. The Indians
called him the big White Father"
as he was man of powerful frame and
was six feet in height.
The monthly statement Of State
Treasurer Block shows $2,039, 1886
in the state treasury at the close of
business Saturday. There is $682,62
lS9 in the general school fund, and
$406, 105.29 in the permanent school
fund. The revenue funds show bal.
ance of $3.50, 286.05.
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Murphy, two
old people, aged seventy-five and sew
lenty-four years, respectively, were
found dead in their room 1t Minneapo-
lis. The gas was turned on full, and
death resulted from asphyxiation.
Coroner Williams decided that death
was purely accidental.
Joseph w. Jacques died at St. Paul
as the result of injuries received in a
flight with Patrick O'Keefe near the
Jackson street bridge. jacques was a
machinist at the Great Northern shops
and O'Keefe was employed as watch
man there. The trouble between the
men dates back to the shopmen's
strike early in the summer.
Gertrude Sullivan, ten years old,
died at St. Paul last week after a lin
gering illness due, her parents think,
to vaccine poisoning, though the at
tending physician says general tuber
culosis. So confident are friends of
the Sullivan family that death was due
to vaccine that an action against the
lefty by the family is talked of.
Marie E. Cusick, administrative of
the estate Of James j. Cusick, who was
killed at Duluth March while tele-
phoning, has begun suit against the
Zenith Telephone company for $4,000
damages. Cusick was said to have
been standing on radiator during an
electrical storm and received shock
from the telephone which killed him.
} E. D. Nelson, president of the First
National bank of 1ronwood, Mich, is
in Duluth organizing the Federal Ma.
il tional bank, which is to have cap.
ital of 100000. F. G. Bigelow of Mil
waukee, Peter White of Marquette and
other Michigan and Wisconsin bankers
are in the enterprise. Captain Alex
McDougall is talked of for president.
At meeting of the defenders of
New Ulm, Luther Ives of Brown coun-
ty, G. M. Penney of LIE Sueur county,
and Jacob Steizer of Nicollet county
we're named as committee to wait on
Senator Clapp and Congressman Me-
Cleary for the purpose of having bill
brought before congress placing the
defenders on the same pension basis
as the volunteer soldiers. -.