Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-02
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The new Metropolitan Opera House
1t Duluth has been opened to the pub.
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Two persons were killed in wreck
on the Northern Pacific near St.
Cloud. ~: - - go .5.a,.
William H. Garlock, for many years
3 prominent figure in Winona banking
and financial circles. is dead. ~
The next annual meeting of the Min.
nesota Editorial association will be
held in st. Paul, probably in February.
Thieves broke into the, residence, of
Mrs. Mary Lewis Of Minneapolis and
stole $21 IN cash and $3.50 worth OF
jewelry. .>~s'~ .'
During the present year over 1,Q0o
homes have gone up in Minneapolis,
the largest record since 1890. The
number that year was 1898.
Frederick Weyerhaeuser, the MO
neer lumber king of the Northwest and
one OF the richest men in the Twin
Cities, is reported to be critically i'll
at his home in St. Paul.
Every semploye of the First Ma.
tional bank of St. Paul received as a
Christmas gift 5 per cent of his years
salary. The offering came as a sur.
prise to the men who work in the bank.
st. Paul attorneys will introduce a
bill into the next legislature making
1t unlawful for anyone to make an as
signment OF future wages. The meas
ure will be aimed at the salary. loan
companies.
A treat Northern passenger train
heavily loaded with passengers, col
ided with the rear end of a freight
train at Litchfield, completely demol
lshlng the cabOOse and one car filled
with flour.
Former Superintendent of Police
Fred w. Ames of Minneapolis has ap
pealed for new trial. Ames is now
under a penitentiary sentence of six
years and six months for having &C.
copied bribe.
One day last week the Pillsbury
Washburn Flour Mills company OF
Minneapolis shipped to New York city
via the Chicago and Northwestern rail
way train of thirty:seVen cars, carry.
ing II 900 barrels of -four.
According to State Superintendent
Olsen the per capita cost for pupil:
in the common schools of Minnesota
for 1902 was only $17O2. There are
only four states with the high educa
tiOnal standard of Minnesota that have
lower rate.
The Denver police have arrested one
Carl Hicks On suspicion of being the
murderer of Policeman Mayer at St.
Paul on the morning of Feb. /, last.
The murderer was one of the three
burglars who had been interrupted in
their work by Mayer.
Louis Corriveau, who slew James
Alain in saloon brawl at Knife River
Oct. II, last, and who was recently con.
victed of murder in the first degree,
has been sentenced to be hanged: The
men had been drinking and QuarreIled
over a mere trifle.
The Dwight -four mills at Crookston
owned by the Dwight M. Baldwin Mill
ing company, burned last week. The
elevator adjoining, with q capacity OF
30,OO0 bushels, was also burned. The
loss is $4,000, including $50 barrels OF
-four and 1900 bushels Of wheat.
The Twin Cities hold the American
record as a snuff consuming center &C
cording to the trade journals. 1t is
said that of the total production of T..
OOo. eco pounds; a year for home USE
Minnesota consumes more than 1900,
600 pounds, with the Twin Cities as a
distributing center.
Duluth is to have one OF the largest
match manufactures in the country.
It will be known as the Union Match
company and will be outside the match
trust. The new company 10 capitalized
at 81 900, 600, and the money invested
will come from Duluth, Chippewa
Falls, Wis.,, and Chicago men.
George Plydell. aged fifty-five years.
with his arms full of Christmas pres.
ents for friends and relatives, fell from
exhaustion within five feet of his
home at Duluth and froze to death.
Plydell lived all alone in a shack near
the harbor front. where he conducted
confectionery and cigar store.
Warden Wolfer of the state peni-
Tertiary is having considerable trouble
to find room for the number of new
arrivals that have been swelling the
list of inmates lately. He has been
compelled to use the hospital as far
as possible for dormitory and several
trusty prisoners have been quartered
on cots.
At Crookston George Bundahl Ia
borer. thirty-eight yeaTs Of age, shot
and instantly killed Caroline A. Meen.
aged nineteen, and, tuning the gun on
himself, sent tive bd13sts int his
brain. The circumstaAess surrounding
the tragedy point ta>fe theory that
the shooting was the result Of a sweet
hearts quarrel.
Stealing his methars rings and
pawning them in order to raise suffi-
cient money to 10y A. Marriage H.
cense, Patrick Faltice, sixteen years
oh, of Minneapolis, ran away from his
home on Wednesday of last week and
on Christmas eve was married in st.
Paul to Mary Casey. His bride is
younger than he.
The state railroad commission has
announced that in the near future
reduction would be made in grain in
spection fees of at least 20 per cent.
This will amount to cents on the car,
and will average about $4,000 year;