Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-07-03
NEWS TN MINNESOTA /. I'M

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Z. N. Case Of Duluth has been elect
ed president Of the American Water
works association ..4 ss53t:5 s 20.
Four hundred marriages occurred
In Minneapolis during the month OF
June. breaking all previous records.
Three persons were injured and two
dwelling houses badly damaged as q
result OF the explosion Of 4 lamp. IN
the rooms occupied by M. e. Munson
OF Minneapolis.
Miss Htlda zSneve and Miss Lizzie
Hanson were drowned in Pelican lake
near Rollag while bathing Miss Sneve
was to have been married the day fol.
lowing her tragic death.
John Darlington, employed 1T the
new state capitol at st. Paul. was al
most instantly killed by falling through
an airshaft opening on the second floor
to the main floor, distance OF seventy
feet.
u: A. Warner, formerly q wealthy
resident OF Minneapolis, died at his
nome at Los Angeles, CAL, Thursday,
aged seventy-slx years. He was at
one time interested in the Mesaba iron
mines.
Over half tho counties in the state
have thus far rendered their tax state.
ments to the state auditor. and the
amounts, in every case, will average
10 per cent increase over the amounts
of last year.
Charles and Henry Nelson of Owa-
tonna, convicted of the murder of
Harry N. Krier, April 10, were sen.
fenced to the death penalty by Judge
Ruckaam in the district court Wednes.
day afternoon.
Nathaniel Case Rail, aged sixty-six,
1or twenty-three years a resident of
Rail Prairie, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart
with Winchester. Dependency over
lingering illness was the cause.
Judge Lochren, in the federal court
at st: Paul, granted a temporary in.
junction restraining the members of
the Longshoremen's union from in any
manner interfering with the nonunion
Workmen employed on the six North
ern Pacific docks in Duluth.
Graham & Horne and Mcclellan Bros.
OF Fort William, Ont, have disposed
OF mining properties on the Atikokan
iron range to the Atikokan Mining
company for 100000. R. M. Hunter
or Duluth, representing the mining
company, closed the deal Thursday
with the owners.
AS a result of a compromise agree
ment between railroad corporations
and the state railroad and warehouse
commission a reduction of 10 per cent
In coal rates and Is per cent in lum-
Der rates between points in Minnesota
will be made Immediately by all the
roads operating in the state.
5. G. 1verson, state auditor, has
leased to the Quodenaw Development
company of Duluth section of state
land In Aitkin county for the purpose
of mining coal. The lease is for fifty
years and is the first executed by the
state for coal mining purposes. The
state will get royalty of 71a cents
ton.
The largest deed ever filed in the
Duluth registers office was filed last
Wednesday, conveying valuable timber
holdings belonging to Justin Went
worth and wife of Bay City, Mich,
and George K Wentworth and wife of
Chicago, to the Johnson Wentworth
Lumber company. The consideration
was $525,000.
The thirty-frst annual session of
the grand lodge of Odd Fellows of Min
nesota was held in St. Paul last week.
An amendment to reduce the admis-
sion and degree fees OF the order was
overwhelmingly defeated, and the same
fate was melted out to an amendment
to change the time of meeting of the
grand lodge.
Theodore S. Borden, a snake charm
er, is in the St. Paul city hospital in a
serious condition and may die as the
result of snake bite He was trying
to extract the fangs from a RATHER
when the reptile bit him on the finger.
He paid little attention to the injury
until it became quite painful. His
body is badly swollen.
Martin Johnson, who appeared at In
yer Grove abaut a week ago with con-
siderable money, was found in barn
there unconscious from injuries, and
he died few hours later while being
taken to South St. Paul. It is thought
that he was robbed and murdered
Several OF his ribs were broken and
1t is believed that he was kicked to
DEATH
Coal receipts for Duluth so far dur
ing the present lake shipping season
aggregate 100000 tons, which is far
in excess of the amount ever before
received at the Head Of the Lakes for
q corresponding period. Another feet
OF coal laden vessels is on the way
and it is expected that there will be
blockade at the docks before they can
unload.
After nursing the belief for many
years that it held undisputed title to
Minnesota mining property worth
many millions the Clark Iron company
has just made a settlement with the
heirs to the estate of a former owner
by paying over 100000. The COM
pany had purchased a quitclaim deed
from John NJ. Rogers, but it turned
out he was not the rightful owner.
Through the close work of State Au-
ditor Iverson Minnesota has been en-
riched to the extent of 100000 by
the granting of a disputed tract OF
forty acres in the Mesaba range to the
state. This tract has long been in
dispute, being claimed by two Wis
consin men named Smith and Brad