Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-04-17
NEWS 1N MINEEsD l'!l|lllI.

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Ferdinand Jurgens. a pioneer resi-
dent OF Crow Wing county, is dead.
Employees Of two Of the largest ciks,
factories II Minneapolis are on Strfke
Five thousand homeseekers passed
through the Twin Cities for the West
one day last week.
Governor Van SAINT has issued 8
proclamation designating Friday, NAV
!. as Arbor and Bird day. ,
Id James Huntley has been arrested
Is Great Falls. Mont, charged With
embezzling $500 while toWnsclerk %
sIIibbing. this state. = :
Charles II. Taylor, mayor-elect Of
Mankato. is probably the heaviest
Welght mayor in the United States
He weighs: 403 pounds.
John NJ. sRosenberger, city treasure,
of#St. Cloud and secretary of the
Stearns County Old Settlers. associa.
ton, is dead, aged ssixty-one years. He
1 had been resident Of st. Cloud since
Governor Van SAINT has received
from Karl ,,Bergstrom, governor of the
province Of Northern Sweden, a letter
thanking the people of Minnesota fy.
their contributions to the famine re-
lief fund. '.-~ ~
John w. Stevens, charter member
OF the Minneapolis Produce Exchange
Is dead. Mr.. Stevens had been a resi-.
dent OF Minneapolis for twenty years
and was one Of the best known men in
that city. :
Fifty head of cattle were burned to
death in a fire which DESTROYED the
large barn belonging to P. w. An.
thony. on his farm near Fairmont. The
entire total loss is $4,000, with insur.
ance at $1,000.
The Great Northern has Just &C.
CURED another iron mine on the Me-
saba range. 1t is known as the Mis-.
saba chief and contains a large de.
post OF low grade ore, estimated at
100000 tons.
The jury in the case of Frank Tanke,
on trial at St: James for the murder
OF John Wellner on New Years day,
1893, has returned verdict of murder
In the second degree and the prisoner
was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Walter (Pudge) Heffelfinger of Min.
neapolis is to be a civil service COM
missioner. During the presidents visit
to Minneapolis the chief executive Of
Tered the position to the Minneapolis
man, and it is said that he will accept
It.
Governor Van SAINT has appointed
Ephraim Johnson as boiler inspector
for Freeborn county; o. o. Bergstrom
for Kandiyohi county; A. Bladholm
for Lyon county; d. J. Severance for
Nicollet county; p. M. Hawkinson for
Chisago county.
The floating body of a man, later
identified as that of H. E. Lundine, a
former resident of Little Falls, was
found in the river near that city. Lun-
dine left suddenly late in the fall and
has not been heard of since. The the
ory of suicide is generally accepted.
A real Jack the Hugger" has been
doing his nefariOus stunt in GAINESVILLE
for the past fortnight or more and few
maids or matrons dare venture out on
the streets after dark without an es-
cort. Scarcely a night passes that
some girl or woman is not held up and
Rugged.
It is understood in railroad circles
at Crookston that work will begin on
the new administration building of the
Great Northern this week. The new
plan for divisions makes that city the
headquarters of the Fergus Falls, the
Eastern Minnesota and the Northern
divisions.
A labor difficulty which threatened
to result in a strike has just been SET
tied in Winona by arbitration. BY
the settlement the sheet metal work
ers have been granted an increase Of
20 per cent in wages per hour and the
workday has been reduced from ten
to nine hours.
James A. Tormey, superintendent of
the Winona public schools, has been
elected to the position of superintend-
ent at Spokane, Wash, at salary of
$4,000 per year. He was one of 1925
applicants, but only four others were
seriously considered. He has been
with the Winona public schools for
seven years.
An attempt was made to rob the
bank at Nicollet early Thursday morn
Ing. The robbers blew open the safe
with nitroglycerin, little of which
they left. The outer door was blown
OPeu, UuL lHe money Was all IN the
strong box. The robbers were fright
ened away before they could fire an
other charge.
The famous Mueller case is to be
appealed. The Detroit friends Of
Katheryn Mueller have raised several
thousand dollars for that purpose.
The case involves valuable iron ore
land on the Mesaba and was decided
in the district court at Duluth against
Mrs. Mueller and in favor of Father
Kosmerl, Catholic priest.
The Shenango Furnace company of
Cleveland, O., has secured a lease OF
some very valuable mining land on
the Mesaba iron range, near the
Sharon mine and the now famous
Mueller property. The owners of the
property will receive bonus of $780,
I 600 and royalty of 20 cents on every
ton of ore taken from the mine.
Mrs. Howard w. Taylor, wife of an
employe of the Hennepin county ALL
ditor's Office, committed suicide by
shooting herself four times with q
small caliber revolver, on the outskirts
of the woods at Nicollet avenue and
FOrty-secOnd street, Minneapolis. It is