Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-03-13
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The United States steel: corporation
Is negotiating for more Northern Min
nesota iron properties.
Three hundred persons attended thu
South Central Minnesota Teachers
convention at Albert Lea last week.
Arrangements are in progress. at
Winona for the establishment of
building trades union to take in ali
the unions.
The United States Steel CORPORATION
WILL spend $543,961 in extending its
ore docks at Duluth and for shop i'm
provements there.
The annual meeting of the Mime.
sofa State Bar association will he
held on Friday afternoon. Anril at
the capitol, st. Paul.
Authority has been granted for the
conversion of the State bank Of Bloom
ing Prlarie into the First National
BANK with a capital of $4,000.
The Mankato city council has en-
ployed w: J. Crap of MINNEAPOLIS to
prepare plans and specifications for a
municipal lighting plant to cost $40
900. Wv
Ihe rush for mineral leases on the
Highland range, which is expected to
turn out TO be second Mesaba. con.
tlnues. The number issued since Jan.
20 is 1926.
According to the report of the state
board OF health there were 1918 deaths
in Minnesota during January, an in
crease of 268 deaths over the CORE.
spending month of 1902.
The Minneapolis and St. Louis Rail-
way company is preparing to build
seventeen-stall roundhouse at Albert
Lea TO accommodate it's own locomo-
tlves' as well as those of the Illinois
Central and the Iowa Central.
A mineral explorer who returned to
Duluth from the Highland range saws
one Grill has arrived to operate on the
Mcleod homestead, and that five are
expected. He says the range is being
covered by explorers on snowshoes.
The main part of the pavilioan At
Lake Harriet, Minneapolis, was totally
destroyed by fire Friday evening. The
north wing and the float are still stand
Ing, but the other portions of the pa
vlllon are burned to the waters edge.
Walter A. Scott, general manager of
the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis
and Omaha railroad and president of
the St. Paul Union Depot company, is
dead at St. Paul. Intestinal trouble
OF a cancerous nature caused his
death.
There came near being a lynching
at Hibbing one day last week. John
Hotf was arrested charged with an at
tempted criminal assault upon a four
year-old girl Three hundred men as
sunled a threatening attitude outside
the jail, but were induced to disperse.
William Mundt, a farmer from
Mlckoer, Ia, was robbed CT $3.50 in
currency on the Great Northern flyer
just outside of Minneapolis. The rob-
bers also secured draft of $50 on 8
Sumner, Ia., bank, and a certificate of
deposit of $1,000 issued by the same
bank
". r. Merriam, director of the CEN
sus, has accepted the first vice presi-
dency Of the International Mercantile
agency, the newest rival of Duns and
Rradstreet's. His home has been in
St. Paul, but he will soon remove his
family to New York and remain there
permanently.
The Quodenaw Development COM
pany Of Duluth claims to have discov-
cred beds of bituminous coal in Ait
kin county and the first coal mineral
contract ever issued by the state of
Minnesota was secured from the state
auditor Friday by representatives of
the Duluth corporation.
The St. Paul city legal department
settled claims amounting to $23O0OO
for $6,490 during 1902 OF this amount
$3.50 was paid in compromise with
out litigation and $3.50 was paid on
judgments in the courts. The amount
paid was but per cent OF the amount
asked for in complaints.
Representative NIcCleary has for
warded to andrew Carnegie the &C.
ceptance Of the city Off cials of Fair
mont Of the latter's offer to build q
library at that place. Carnegie offered
$4,000 to FairTnOnt, the city to pro-
vide a Site and appropriate $1,000 q
year for the maintenance.
Under the apportionment of cash for
the Steel cOlopration Duluth is to get
about 81 100000 il ore docks and rail
way enlargement. The immense bet
terments continually being made in
mines, etc, are net Included, as IL ay
are charged direct to operating ex-
penses.
Ole G. Olson of Aitlzin, convicted CT
the murder Of his daughter, who was
to be hanged Friday morning. was
granted reprieve of two weeks by
Governor Van SAINT and the probabil;-
ties are now that he will escape hang
ing, either by having his sentence
committed to Imprisonment for life
or being consigned to a state insane
asylum.
The state drainage board has file I
a statement generating George Ralph
of CrocAsston, engineer Of the board,
of charges preferred against him By
the public examiner. The discrepan-
cies in his accounts are charged u2 to
| careless bookkeeping. Several inlict-
ments had been returned against Mr.
Ralph in Polk county, but they have
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