Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-10-30

A fire which broke out in l.. S
Press general store at Glencoe d.
stroyed the building and stock and ~
one time threatened the entire bust
ness section of the city.
The Farmers and Merchants rav :,
of lie Sueur, private institution,
owned by W. H. and w. A. Pate,
has closed it's doors. It is alleged
that Overspeculation was the cause oil
the failure.
State Auditor Iverson has received
since last April applications for boun
ties on 695 wolves. This is So more
than the number of animals on which
bounty was paid in the entire year
ending July 81, 1902.
A ban has been put upon the output
OF the Washburn-Crosby mills by the
Minneapolis trades and labor council
The boycott was placed on the flour
out Of sympathy to the strikers who
have not returned to work.
The residence of Frank Mccormick
OF Henderson was destroyed by fire
and an infant child, which was left
In the care Of her little sister while
the mother left the house for few
minutes, persisted in the flames.
Jailer Quinn of the Hennepin county
Jail is at St. Mary's hospital, Minneap.
oils, suffering from a severe wound
which will cost the sight of one eye
as the result of an attack by an insane
man brought from Cokato for safe
keeping.
The Minneapolis Cold Storage com.
pany, with branches at Aberdeen and
Watertown, S. D., and Fargo, N. D.,
has filed petition in bankruptcy and
a receiver has been appointed. The
total liabilities may total 100000 and
the assets are in the neighborhood OF
$260,000.
The st. Paul school board has adopt.
ed a resolution providing that all
pupils afflicted with sore eyes of any
description should be excluded from
the schools until they should recover
or until they should bring physi.
clans certificate that the illness is not
infectious.
The common council of Duluth has
taken action to assist man to break
the retail meat trust in that city. The
license ordinance has been amended
for the purpose of granting a license
to H. c. Fink to peddle beef in Du.
luth. Fink promises to undersell local
butchers cents pound on meats.
Leonard J. Hart, fifty.two years old,
secretary of the St. Paul board OF
trade, shot himself in the head in his
Office in the Germania Life building
and died two hours later. Consider.
able mystery surrounds the shooting
and, although the circumstances seem
to point to suicide, mis- relatives are
firm in the belief that the act was
accidental.
J. S. Coughlin, the veteran passen'
ger conductor, is dead at his residence
in Minneapolis His death removes
one of the most unique and pictur.
esque figures of Western railroading
Us we'll as a man who numbered his
friends by the thousands. For thirty
seven years he had been conductor
on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul and during that time met every
person of note who travelled over his
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t Fire which started in the Hotel
Francois at Redwood Falls entirely
consumed the hotel and it's contents,
the Houghmaster block adjoining and
its contents and damaged several
nearby buildings. The total loss is in
the neighborhood of $4,000, with not
over $4,000 insurance. The guests
in the hotel had narrow escapes and
all lost their personal effects, barely
escaping from the burning building
with their lives.
II Minnesota COWS continue to have
tuberculosis as they have in the last
three months the appropriation of the
live stock sanitary board to reimburse
the owners will be spent long before
the year closes. The board has a to.
tai appropriation of $4,000, of which
about $4,000 is set apart to pay for
tuberculosis cows. In just two months,
August and September, the board con-
denned and killed PAP animals, which
were appraised at s7,636.03.
Mrs. Dalcour, wife of W. N. Dalcour,
an employee of the Duluth Telephone
company, met terrible death at her
home on Park Point. She was boil
ing some tar when the mass took fire
and in attempting to get the kettle
out of doors to save the house from
taking fire her clothing became ig.
nited. She was burned to death be-
fore. assistance arrived. Her screams
quickly attracted people, but they
came too late to save her life.
The members of the game and fish
commission assert thatatheg supreme
court. through decision ~ :Justic7
Lewis, has put them ont.=pf business:
Dell Lindens shanty il 1tasca coHnty
was raided last year by thes5game war
| dens and a number of moose hides
were seized on the ground that the
Flaw provided that hides could be
Eseized if the owner could not PROVE
that the animals from which they
were taken were lawfully killed. Lin.
den maintained that he had purchased
the hides from Indians and did not
know whether the animals were law
fully killed in season or not and sued
the game wardens for $685. He was
victorious III the lower court and the
supreme cSurt sustains the: judgment,
holding that, Il 80 incumbent upon the
statsuto prove that the Gnne ~
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