Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-04-03
NEWS TN MI | u y

NEWS !. Jun MINNESOTA
Cass Lake is to have bank. u. @s a
About $150,00O will be expended 81
new buildings in Austin this season.
Cattle on some of the farms near
Wadena are affected by strange dis.
ease. E. SS.e S 3$ b: s4...a13%vt A. '27il$
The Winona Railway and, Light
company has voluntarily advanced the
wages OF motormen employed on the
street railway. ~@%
Paul Schmederman, prominent
Mason and well known business man
OF Minneapolis for the past twenty.
five years, is dead sa' s'E az ;!.e ID, ~.
Diamonds to the value of $4,000
were stolen from the jewelry store of
S. Jacobs & Co., Minneapolis, by two
would-be purchasers.
BY the will of the late John Sum-
n:e:s CT st. Paul the Protestant orphan
asylum secures twothirds of his es.
tate, estimated at $4,000.
March % witnessed the opening OF
the ore shipping season on the Mesaba
range and shipping from the Vermil.
lion range began the day following.
Governor Van SAINT has appointed
Andrew Grfndeland of Warren Judge
OF the Fourteenth judicial district and
M A: Spooner of Bemidji judge of
the Fifteenth district.
}. w. Brown, formerly superintend-
ent of the Minnesota state training
school at Red Wing, has accepted the
position OF superintendent of the North
Dakota reform school at Mandan.
Nelson F. Griswold, a pioneer resi-.
dent and well known real estate dealer
OF Minneapolis, is dead. He was
sixty-eight years of age and had sui.
Tered from paralysis for the past six
years.
Patrick O'Keefe, ST., one of the old
est pioneers OF Jordan, is dead. He
was one of the ''forty-niners' of the
California gold rush and came to Min
nesOta after the excitement on the
coast had subsidized.
According to the annual report of
the chamber of commerce tie wheat
receipts at Minneapolis for the last
crop year were 88,462,120 bushels, or
about 100000 bushels less than that
Of the preceding year.
AAO " dSuDuIu r1OuT Mills
company has sold $500 barrels of -four
for direct delivery to Hong Kong,
China This is the first large ship
ment that has been made direct from
Minneapolis to China.
A letter received by Postmaster
Eiken of Crookston from the treasury
department is to the effect that the
site for the new federal building must
be secured at once or the appropria-
ton will be withdrawn.
Over 700 timber and stone claims
are now on file at the Duluth land
office, the most of them being on lands
in Northern Minnesota. 1t is estimated
that it will take until September to
get the books cleared of these claims
Kenneth Clark, president of the
Merchants National bank of St. Paul,
has purchased a tract of 10000 acres
of land, mostly improved, near Crook
ston, from Charles Lockhart of Pitts
burg, the consideration being s208, 500
The knights of Pythias of Mime
sofa will hold twenty-five district con-
ventions throughout the state this
summer. The conventions will be held
for the purpose of creating interest in
the affairs of the order during the
summer season.
Edward Staples, we'll known resi-
dent Of Saltwater, is dead. He was
born in Maine about seventy years
ago and removed to Saltwater more
than thirty years ago. During most
of that time he conducted a black.
smith and supply shop.
Ruth Zeigler, aged twenty-five years,
| 1cto1yy Y11h1io ~
| neapolis, committed suicide near Sara.
toga, CAL, by drowning herself. A
letter from Minneapolis young man
announcing that he desired to break
their engagement was the cause for the
act.
The entire Irvine output at the Still
water prison factory has been already
booked to farmers and the manage
| ment has been compelled to return
club orders for fully 100000 pounds.
This state Of affairs will prevent deal
ers from securing any prison Irvine
| this year.
The Minnesota Publishers Mutual
Fire Insurance company is the name
of new insurance company organized
Friday as the result of a resolution
! adopted at the last meeting of the
Minnesota Editorial association. Only
printing plants and residences of pub
fishers will be insured.
DR.. G. H. Crazy, one of the best
known residents of Red Wing, is dead.
aged sixty-five. He was one of the pro-
motors and officers of the Duluth, Red
Wing and Southern until it was sold
to the Great Western. He belonged
to all the leading secret societies and
was member of the governors staff.
Dr. A. A. ,Ames of Minneapolis has
withdrawn his plea of not guilty to all
the indictments returned against him
and his attorneys, Frank Nye and H.
S. Mead, entered q motion to have all
the indictments quashed on the ground
that the law under which the grand
jury Was drawn is unconstitutional
and that the indictments are therefore
of no effect.
A meeting of leading business and
professional men was held at the Du-
luth Commercial club Saturday night
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