Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-12-11
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

William Young, colored, was fatal,
burned and his wife seriously injure,
in fire at Minneapolis.
Rasselas o. Strong, the organizer O
st. Pauls first fire department an,
chief of it for many years, is dead O
pneumonia.
The University of Minnesota's Clea
Lake Jute H., an Aberdeen Angu,
steer, was awarded second prize fol
beef steers at the Chicago stock show
Captain Dexter E. Bronson, one O
the old settlers of Breckenridge ant
one Of the best known men in tha
part of the state, is dead, aged sixty
six years.
Letters have been received from A
A. Buck, the absconding cashier q
the Mapleton bank, dated Honolulu
Nov. IL. He stated he was on his way
to Australia.
George W. Confer, commission man
with Offices in the Chamber of Com
merce, Minneapolis, dropped dead OF
heart disease in the Chamber of Com
merce lunchroom.
Last week was a record breaker fo1
the Minneapolis flour mills. The out
put was 454,150 barrels, or 10,320 bar
rels larger than the next heaviest run
made during the week of Oct. II, 1902
Receipts at the United States land
Office in Duluth showed a falling Oft
for November. The total for the
month was $3S,594.52, a decrease OF
about $1,000 as compared with Octo.
Der.
The Minnesota state fair will be
held during the week Of Aug. 20 and
Sept. 3. This was decided at the meet.
Ing Of the American Association OF
Fairs and Expositions, held at Chicago
last week.
Decision to hold the examinations
tor the Rhodes scholarship in Mime.
sofa at the state university in the com
Ing Easter vacation was reached at a
meeting of the state committee on
Rhodes scholarships.
George, the six-year-old son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Cyrus Reed of Wabasha, was
drowned In Wabasha slough in eight
feet OF water. It is thought that the
child went on the ice on his way home
from school and slipped into hole
The Minnesota beet sugar bounty
law is unconstitutional, according to a
decision of the supreme court in the
case instituted by the Minnesota Beet
Sugar company to collect, approx
mately, $4,000 under the bounty law.
Toni Calderone, the self-confessed
slayer Of Salvatore Battalia, who was
stabbed to death on the Franklin ave-
nue. bridge in Minneapolis three weeks
ago, has been indicted by the Henne.
pin county grand jury for murder in
the first degree.
A Minneapolis street car was cut in
two and demolished by an inbound
freight train on the Milwaukee road.
There was only one passenger on the
car and he, with the conductor and
motorman, jumped from the car before
the collision occurred.
The Lincoln mine at Virginia, con-
trolled by the Jones & Laughlin Iron
and Steel company, has been shut
down for an indefinite time. Three
hundred men are thrown out of EN-.
ployment. The mine will probably re-
sumo early in the spring.
The state game and fish commission
Issued during the hunting season just
closed 331 nonresident licenses, from
which the fees amounted to $5,285.
OF this number 131 were for big game
and cost $26 each, and POI we're for
small game at a cost Of $40 each.
Instructions have BEEN forwarded 10
Major Scott, aettns asent ! at leach
Lake, directing him not 70 molest the
settlers on the townsits at Richards.
Some weeks ago the agent notified the
settlers that they would, hava 10 go
by Dee. l or they would be forrcibfy
elected. 81; &c LSHCt
Smallpox Is epidemic in parts Of
Minnesota and is becoming mefe
prevalent throughout the state 6ener-
ally, according to the report Of the
state board o. health fol- the week
ending Nov. 90, Sixty eight cases are
reported from Green Lake. township,
Kandiyohi county. ~ ">f:H ~ {
The twine plant at the state peni-
Tertiary is doing the largest business
this year Of all years in its history.
The collections for the five months
ending Nov. 80, as reported to the
state auditor, were $505;159.07; which
is 155,949.s4 more. than the CORE
spending months Of 1902 :, .'>~
Alonzo Roddy, a middle aged man,
has been arrested at Minneapolis
charged with arson and the charge
may develop into something more seri-
ous The police believe that Roddy
started the fire at 1901 Washington
avenue south in which william Young,
a colored man, lost his life. =
The big Western transit liner Buf-
falo has delivered in, Duluth what was
probably the biggest shipment of
apples ever comprising a.; single cargo
at any American port. It consisted of
80, 400 barrels, or $50 carloads, and was
valued at $128,00Q: One-half Of the
shipment was for the Twin Cities. =
A contract has been signed between
G. A. Tomlinson of Duluth and the
American Shipbuilding company for
thu ct o+i ion of Nno ~ tho hippQSf