Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-12-18
NEWS TN MN NESOTA

NEWS TN MINNESOT ia
EVENTS OF THE WEEK T+aRou ali.
OUT THE sTATFE.
s. G. Andrist, president Of the st
Paul Retail Grocers' association, is
dead after an illness Of I'VE days from
appendicitis. $:.5 s a. %,5
Otto Grimm and A. Feltman were
buried by the cavein OF sand bank at
Young America. Grimm was killed
and Feltman slightly hurt. @tt,.s@. .s :
Rev. J. H. futile, for many years
pastor Of the Church Of the Redeemer,
! Minneapolis, is dead In New York
city, aged seventy nine. years.
A donation of $4,000, much in the
nature OF q Christmas gift, has been
made by Andrew Carnegie to Morris
for the purpose Of building a public
library. -
Custom duties aggregsting $906,32o
we're collected in Minnesota during
the fiscal year 1909. OF this amount
! $442,226 were collected in st. Paul.
$428,25 at Minneapolis and $35,242 ct
Duluth.
The St. Anthony FTS:niture compa7
| OF ST. Paul, with a Capital of $150,C:
has decided to discontinue busine"'
This concern was organized July >
1902, but has not enjoyed a profitab->'
| business.
At Duluth : William Rainbow, e
sailor on the big steamer Sonona, fl
!! through an open hatch and was -.
stantly killed, his head being crushed
by coming in contact with the floor
twenty-eight feet below the deck.
Franklin Stimson, for twenty years
q resident of Duluth and for a number
of years engineer of the Mesaba block
committed suicide by taking chloro-
form. It is supposed that he was de-
| spondent as result of i'll health.
A riding hall for the use of the
squadron of cavalry which will come
to Fort Smelling next spring will be
| erected next year. The building W. I'll
cover almost city block. It will be
! of brick and steel and will cost $780,
900.
Henry Mayhem, one Of the pioneer
residents of Minnesota and one of the
| first white settlers in Cook county
where for nearly thirty years he has
been resident Of Grand Marais, is
! critically i'll at st. Luke's hospital,
| Duluth.
! The complete figures for the ore
shipments from Minnesota for 1903
show decrease of 879,397 gross tons
for the season as compared with those
for 1902. The grand total for the sea-
son is 14,547,7o tons; year ago it
was II, 427, 103 tons. =: ~
| The st. Charles relief committee
has completed its work and made it's
| fina! report. The total sum of $1,000
was collected for the relief Of the tor
nado sufferers and distributed where
the members of the committee thought
it would do the most good.
The voting machines used by the
| st. Paul Commercial club at it's annual
election proved eminently satisfactory
and the results were known a few min
utes after the polls closed. Theodore
| F. Smith was reelected president
unanimously, having no opposition.
Besides having expended SAT 900 in
permanent improvements the Mime
| sofa State Agricultural society has a
cash balance of $6O,872.22 profits from
the state fair of this year, according
to the report of the state auditing
board just submitted to Governor Van
SAINT.
- &ha ho,
made public the report on the condi-
ton of the national banks of Mime.
sofa, exclusive of the Twin Cities, at
| the close of business Nov. IA. Com
pared with the corresponding state
| ment of year ago it is noted that the
resources of the Minnesota banks have
been increased about 100000, now
| aggregating $60,027, 900.
It has been learned at Duluth that
| notices are being prepared to en-
| ployes in the employ of the Steel cor
| poration of reduction in salaries.
| Clerks have been busy with the pay
rolls for days classifying the employees
as to income The expected reduc-
tions will range from 8 to 25 per cent.
| It is expected they will be effective
Jan l. Several thousand men will be
| affected.
Ninety or mere of the patients at
the Fergus Falls hospital for the in
| sane have been very seriously i'll from
eating corned beef All of the inmates
of the hospital, including the attend
| ants, ate of the meat, it is said, but
only a portion of them were affected.
This Is explained. on the theory that
! the outer portions of the meat were
poisoned by contact with the vessel
in which it was boiled and the inner
part was not contaminated.
The great wilderness to the north of
Duluth holds another mystery invo]v-
ing the fate of two Duluth men, well
known mineral prospectors and timber
cruisers, Patrick LAWN and Patrick
Mccoy. They left Duluth the, first
week in August, expecting to be gone
fifty or sixty days. Twice that period
has! elapsed and no word has been re-
ceived from them. Their friends say