Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-07-31
NEWS in ne NESO TIA

The Hessian hy is doing great dam
age to crops in the vicinity Of Mora. y.
August Logenf1el. aged seventy-two,
IN old resident of Shakopee, is dead.
Thirteen horses were burned to
death in fire In the Regain Bros
stables, Minneapolis. # .~.>#s,,sy E.,
The famous section 80 case is re-
called by the discovery of rich veins
of iron ore on the site which, for seven.
teen years. was in litigation. r."
In attempting to escape from fire in
tne stockhold OF the tug Merrill at
Duluth Patrick Delaney, fireman,
Jumped overheard and was drowned.
The boilermakers of the Omaha
shops at st. Paul, are on strike. Be-
tween seventy and eighty men are cut
The question at issue is one of wages
Grand Rapids secured the next an
nual encampment of the Park Region
Z. A. r. association, s. s. Hudson Of
Grand Rapids being named comman-
der.
Percy Bonebrake, a boy aged eight
years, was thrown under a wagon in a
runaway at Little Falls and instantly
killed, his skull being crushed by a
wheel.
James Ferguson was caught attempt
Ing to burglarize Minneapolis saloon.
He attempted to escape and was shot
by a policeman and, it is thought, NOR
tally wounded.
A hail storm passed over the east
ern position of Rock county, destroying
fully one-third of the entire crop Of
the county and entailing loss of ap-
proximately $1,000,000.
J. H. Brooks, aged forty-fve, resid-
Ing six miles north of Spring Valley.
who for the last three years has been
totally blind and perfectly helpless,
was burned to death last week.
AS result of an explosion of kero-
sene lamp Mrs. J. J. Clancy of St.
Paul is terribly burned. Her husband
received serious burns on his hands in
extinguishing the flames. Both will
recover.
The city council of Winnebago City
has received proposition from George
D. Eygabroad of that city that he viii
build a $1,000 library building, pro-
viding the city furnish site and main
tain same.
Ole Moen of Gould, who was shot by
Martin Enavold, a Cass Lake shoe
maker, in drunken row in a saloon
at Cass Lake last week, is dead. Ena-
void was held to the grand jury on a
charge of manslaughter.
J. w. Olsen, state superintendent Of
public instruction, has notified the
county attorney of Chisago county
that school board is not bound to pay
for the services of a teacher hired
under a verbal contract.
Minneapolis has a population of
262, 440, according to the estimates Of
the publishers of the city directory.
This is gain of 1875 over last year.
The government census of 1900 gave
the city a population of 202,71S.
Fire of mysterious origin started
In the basement of the medical build
ing of the Minnesota state university
and totally destroyed the dental Sec
ton of the school and threatened the
entire building with destruction.
Matthew Craig the oldest member
of the Free and Independent Order Of
Masons in Minnesota and probably in
the United States, is dead at St. Paul,
aged ninety years. Mr.. Craig had
been a member of the Masons since
1874.
DR.. A. A. Ames, formerly mayor Of
Minneapolis and now under sentence
of six years in the penitentiary for
accepting a bride, has applied for a
pension. He was surgeon of the Sew
enth Minnesota regiment during the
Civil war.
The railroads operating in Southern
Minnesota will resist the order of the
Minnesota railroad and warehouse
commission of June 26, ordering a re-
duction of Is per cent in lumber rates
and 10 per cent In coal rates through
out Minnesota.
Judge Holt of the Minneapolis mu-
nicipal court has decided that the law
which provides that plumbers follow
ing their trade in cities of more than
10000 inhabitants must secure q IL
cense is unconstitutional because it is
class legislation.
Mrs. Andrew Feldman, one of the
the state, is dead near Perham at the
age of ninety-six She was able to do
her own homework before her final
years old and quite hearty.
DR.. Lafayette H. Bunnell, one of the
earliest pioneers of Winona county,
who arrived there in 1912 and who had
the distinction of being the first white
man to discover the Yosemite valley
in California, died at the hospital in
Winona last week at the age of almost
eighty years.
The department Of the interior at
Washington has caused CONSERVATION
among Twin City lumbermen by issu-
ing an order that 1,500,000,000 feet Of
standing timber in Northern Minnesota
Is to be at once sold under sale con-
tracts that the entire amount be cut
within one year of SALE
John T. Atkinson, an engineer in the
employ Of the Lake Superior Construc-
ton and Dredging company, was crush
ed to death on dredge No. of the blast
furnace docks at West Duluth. He fell
on the floor where some oil had been
spilled and was caught by cable and
twisted around the drum of the engine.
Thirty laborers, who arrived in Du-
luth Friday from Port Arthur on the
steamer America were turned back by