Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-04-24
NEWS IN MIN ID S a

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ST. Bonifacius will have a cannir,
factory to cost $4,000. It will can corr
and berries. n. 4.
Work on the new Great Northerl
shops at Breckenridge will be begun
In q few weeks.
Dexter D. King, a pioneer residen,
OF Goodhue county, is dead, agec
e1ghty.one years. ..@s.:,. q. =
It is said on good authority that the
steel trust will erect iron and stee..
manufacturing plants at Duluth.
Charles Stevens, secretary Of thu
Minneapolis Anti-Vaccination league
died from smallpox at his home il
that city.
After a hot contest $4,000 bonds Of
the town OF Ortonville were voted for
the purpose of building a town hall
and cnera house.
Inc 500 and Northern Pacific com:
panles have reached an agreement
relative to terminals in St. Paul. All
court proceedings will be stopped.
Inc state supreme court has decided
that there has been no partition &
POLK county and declares that the new
county OF Columbia has no legal exist.
ence.
The forty-fifth annual convention G!
the. Minnesota Sunday School asso.
cation was held at Mankato . las.
week. About $50 delegates were III
attendance.
The Weyerhaeuser interests are 20.
Ing to extend the Duluth and North.
eastern road from Island Lake, on tho
Little Cloquet river, to the village OF
Cloquet, on the St. Louis river.
The citizens of Pipestone in mass
meeting voted to accept the offer Of
Andrew Carnegie of $4,000 for a pub.
lie library, the city to furnish a site
and provide an income Of $1,000 a
year.
Michael Doran, Jr., referee in bank
ruptcy Tor st Paul, in his report for
the SIX months ending March 81, dis.
posed OF hfty-seven cases of voluntary
bankruptcy and one Of involuntary
bankruptcy.
Mrs. Rose Pcissart, a widow who
had resided near Little Falls about
twenty-five years, was burned to
death at the home of her daughter
while attempting to check the ap-
proach Of prairie fire.
Henry Budde, a brakeman on the
Illinois Central, was killed at Albert
Lea by being caught under gravel
chute that was crushed by a box car.
He was twenty-three years of age and
his home was in Charles City, Ia
| Mrs. Mary Roll died at the age Of
102 years at the home of her son-in.
law, Dr:~S. G. Hays, Minneapolis She
enjoyed the peculiar distinction of hav.
ing been the first white woman born
in what is now the city of Dayton, O.
The Duluth city council has ordered
contract to be signed with the Zenith
Furnace company whereby Duluth will
be enabled to secure gas for illuminat.
ing and cooking purposes at not to
exceed 80 cents per thousand cubic
feet.
One hundred union wagon makers
in Minneapolis have gone on strike be.
cause manufacturers will not concede
their demand for recognition. The
agreement made. last year expired
Wednesday and all the employers re-
fused to renew it. -. % .se.-$ss::,s
Seven of the ten saw mills III. Min
neapolis have commenced operations
for the summer season and many thou
sands OF feet are being sawed daily.
The logs are coming down the river
at satisfactory rate and so far there
has been no tieup this spring.
The buttermakers of Southern Min
nesota are making great preparations
for the annual picnic of the State But
termakers' association, which has been
| set for June at Lake Crystal Promi-
nent creamery men from all over the
United States will be present.
The Wright Blodgett company Of St.
Paul has purchased $4,000 acres: of
yellow pine land seventeen miles
from Oakdale, Calcasieu parish, La,
for $365,000, or $27.5O per acre. The
St.. Paul company has invested $4,000.
600 in pine lands in Calcasieu parish
in five years.
Eighteen new mines will be added
to the shipping list of the Mesaba
range this year, to say nothing of the
seventeen new ones that shipped only
| during the latter part of last year. 1t
is estimated that the Mesaba range
alone will send forward 100000
tons of ore this year.
Mrs. Sara Magnusen, sister of John
! w. Peterson of Vasa, Goodhue county
was drowned by falling into a large
watering trough at Peterson's home,
! She was sixty-nine years DID, It is
thought she was pushed into the
trough by horses, in which she took
much interest.
The southwest bin of the Peavey
concrete 11reproof elevators at Duluth
collapsed from an unknown cause and
looseneds 10000 bushels of flaxseed
John Nyberg, laborer, was on the
seed carrier bridge, fifty feet above
the ground, when the crash came and
was thrown with the bridge, but sus.
tanned only slight injuries.
! Harry Krier was murdered while on
{ his way to j. Glaeser's, north of Owa.
tonna, to pay his rent: He had been
shot through the head. His watch
was taken and about SIS in cash.
Charles Nelson, aged tWenty-one,
Harry Nelson, aged twenty, and Will
lam Sutton. aged seventeen, have been
arrested charged with the crime.
Alleging infringement of their copy.
right the West Publishing company Of
| st. Paul has filed bill of complaint
in the United States circuit court OF
| PrO0klvn cpajpct tho Edward Tho.0n.