Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-14
NEWS in MINNESO N!

The annual convention Of the South
ern Minnesota Medical association
was held in Winona last week.
Five hundred laborers connected
with the building trades are on strike
at Minneapolis for increase of wages.
Raymond Maybury, the ten-year-old
son OF c. ]. Maybury of Winona, was
drowned in the Mississippi, river by
falling from a lumber raft while play.
ing.
}. D. Howard Of Duluth has pur-
chased 1000 acres Of prospective iron
ore land in Ontario, east of the Gun
flint range, from the Canadian govern
ment.
Miss Ada Yerrington of Durand,
Wis.,, who died at the St. Paul deten-
tlon hospital last week, is the ff-
teenth victim of smallpox in that city
since Jan. I.
Fred Peterson of Minneapolis was
Killed by falling from a ladder to the
ground, a distance of only four feet.
ne fell on his head, sustaining frac-
ture of the skull.
Andrew Anell, a farmer seventy
seven years old, was killed by freight
train near St. Paul. He was walking
along the track and failed to hear the
warning whistle.
Mrs. Minnie Swift, wife Of Lucien
Swift. publisher of the Minneapolis
Journal, died suddenly last week at
the summer home of the family at
Lake Minnetonka
The family of Ed Flatgord. living
several noJ1OS 1f II
poisoned by eating summer sausage.
A five-year-old boy is dead and a girl
is in a critical condition.
Jonas Sarf, seventy-nine years of
age, living at Brownsville, dropped
dead while working in a hay field. He
was pioneer settler of Todd county
and is the third brother who has met
such death in the last fifteen years.
The body of an unknown man was
found in the Mississippi river at Min
neapolis last week. The lower part of
the body was encased in gunny sack
and bullet hole in the head leads to
the suspicion that the man was MUIR
dered.
Factory inspection by state officials
at Duluth shows 315 establishments,
with 1884 employees. Of these 1866
are men, 779 women and 81 boys and
13 girls under sixteen years of age.
There were 1875 found working nights
and 760 Sundays.
James E. Gray, resident of Wa
basha county for the past forty-two
years, is dead at his home in West AL
bany. Deceased was born in Scotland
In 1882, emigrated to this country in
1861 and located on the farm he has
recently occupied.
State Auditor Iverson will sell about
100000 feet Of timber from state
lands this fall. The tracts which will
be offered for sale lie scattered all the
way from Cook county to Beltranli
and are most of them in a favorable
situation for logging.
Edward Clarke of Eau Claire, Wis,
ran amuck in Minneapolis one even
ing last week with a revolver, wound
ing three persons. A policeman finally
ended Clarke's desire for blood by
shooting him in the head, causing a
probably fatal wound.
According to decision Of the su.
preme court newspapers of this state
published weekly-or otherwise at
regular periods-may change their
days of publication without thereby af-
fecting their standing in law for the
purpose Of publishing legal notices.
Enraged that his sweetheart should
be escorted by his most bitter rival
John Nicholson of Mabel procured a
revolver and pursued the couple
through the streets. All shots went
wild and the crazed lover was over
powered by the marshal and citizens.
Captain G.. L. Scott of the Leech
Lake Indian reservation has been au-
thorized to cut from the diminished
Red Lake reservation the timber which
was blown down during a storm in
July, 1902. amounting to between s.
100000 and 100000 feet, Sealed bids
will be called for.
Baron R. de Rothschild, a son of
Baron Edward Rothschild Of Paris
and scion of the famous Rothschild-
Fareries family, visited Duluth and
the Mesaba iron range last week in
company with Jean Siegler and Con-
rad Schlumberger, fellow students at
the Paris school of mines.
Congress may be asked to set aside
section of the pine land on the shore
of keech lake as site for the Mime
sofa sanatarium for consumptives, pro-
vided for by the last legislature. The
legislature appropriated SIS, 900, which
is not more than enough to purchase a
suitable site if the state has to buy it..
Hugo & Tins of Duluth have been
awarded the contract by the govern
ment for building new concrete
breakwater at Sand Beach, near Port
Huron, Mich, to replace the present
wooden structure. One million dollars
will be paid for the work and the con-
tract calls for completion within seven
years.
The new extension Of the Minnesota
and International railway between
Blackjack, Northome and Kelliher
will be opened within month. This
line will open up one Of the richest
sections of Northern Minnesota and
one into which thousands of settlers
have moved during the last few
months.
So inadequate are the 'accommoda-
tons at the state prison that it has
become necessary to find temporary
sleeping quarters for number of the