Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-08-08
NEWS IN MN ESQ IA.
Clara Cardeaux committed suicide
Z, Park Rapids BY drinking carbolie

found his clothes were burning.
The report Of the Northern Pacific
land commissioner shows sales Of over
100000 acres during the year. In
Minnesota, 295, 900 acres were sold, as
against only So, 900 the previous year.
The Mississippi river, below Fort
Smelling, has risen nine inches within
the past week, and there is now
enough water in the river for the big:
gest packet" that makes the port of
st. Paul. =" ~~-- s~~--
The Duluth and Iron Range railroad
has ordered 500 more steel ore cars,
to be ready for delivery in time for
next seasons business. The new cars
will have a carrying capacity OF sixty
tons each.
John D. Ludden has placed S., 900 in
the hands of the regents of the school
of agriculture at St. Anthony Park, the
proceeds from which sum are to be ap.
piled to secure the farm school educa-
ton they desire.
Mrs. Mary Barker of Superior was
instantly killed and Miss Blanche Kill.
tin of West Duluth seriously injured
in runaway at Duluth. Five other
occupants Of the carriage escaped
with slight bruises.
V. Fischer, prominent business
man of Moorhead, was held to the
grand jury to answer to a charge OF
selling prison Irvine at higher price
than the schedule rate. The complaint
was sworn to by Warden Wolfer.
Mayor Ames has declared from his
place of sojourn at West Baden, Ind,
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mayor of Minneapolis to take effect
Sept. 6. Superintendent of Police
Fred w. Ames has also resigned.
Ore shipments from Duluth, Supe-
rior and Two Harbors for July were
2,3SS,973 tons, against 2,053,S3S tons
last year, and for the season to date
the figures are 7,222,263, against 4,76S..
735 for the same period last year.
A syndicate of Pittsburg men, head.
ed by E. H. Jennings, has purchased
for $25O,000 cash the fee of the lands
owned by the Messabe Central, Land
and Exploration company, which en-
braces thirty-nine forties in 1918 and
1919.
According to the report of the chief
statistician of manufactures, just is
sued, Minnesota now ranks tenth
among the states of the Union in the
railroad car construction and repair
industry. In 1890 the atate ranged
but sixteenth.
The board Of county commission
ers put the total tax levy on personal
property in st. Louis county at $321,-
900. Sixty thousand dollars of that
amount will be appropriated as a
basis for fund for the erection of
new courthouse.
/ the Milwaukee railroad collided at
cars were demolished and the lQcomo-
e9q now jtes RQttom upward In the
! Mississippi river. 80 z:ss:sii:az.-s
According to the government statis-
tician Of manufactures Minnesota, at
the present time; ranks eleventh
among all the states In the manufac.
lsture of boots and shoes, being ahead
Of such states as Iowa, Michigan, In
diana and California.
= Judges Baxter ana searle Of St.
Cloud, in decision just rendered,
hold the will of Alexander Moore of
Sank Center to be valid. His estate
is valued at 100000. The will disin-
herited Mrs. Carrie Vinje, his daugh-
ter, and his son, Lyndley B. Moore,
the contestants.
Joseph Kovarik, eight years old, was
smothered. to death beneath an ava
lanche Of dirt in a sand pit at ST..
Paul. When the rescuers dug him out
it was found that he was but one foot
beneath the surface of the sand, but
his legs were much deeper and he
could not crawl out.
An old man named Selling, residing
near Winona, went out in field after
4 COWS, and while there the house of his
was struck by lightning. This scared
ure, and he was picked up in dying
condition, soon expiring.
i The Northern Consolidated Granite
company has been organized at St.
Cloud by c. S. Benson and others to
take over several granite Guarries.
The capital stock is about $15O,000
and complete equipment will be put
) in. The capital will be ample, as it is
understood several Chicago men OF
means are interested in the consolida.
ton.
The sunken whaleback steamer
Thomas Wilson will be sold at Duluth
on Aug. Is. The sale of the vessel
brings to close the events in one OF
the worst tragedies on the lake. Eff
forts to recover the bodies of the sail
crs lost in the wreck have been aban
doned When afloat the vessel was
worth 100000 and carried cargo Of
ore worth $4,000.
Howard Ryan, the fve-year-old SOL
of Mrs. Anna L. Ryan of st. Paul, met
instant death in one of the elevators
Of the New York Life building by
having his head and neck crushed be
tween the floor of the elevator and {
/, huge horizontal steel beam, which pro
jected from the second story floor O.
the building. The head was almos
completely severed. -.>... -.~.
Two big timber deeds have beef
fled with the register of deeds at Du
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