Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-05-20
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH,
OUT THE STATE.

st. Paul's semi-centennial celebra.
ion may be postponed until after Oct. l.
Alfred Tandy, an Englishman nine.
teen years old, suicided by shooting
himself in the head at Spring Park.
Christ Nelson, Minneapolis saloon.
keeper, was held up by three masked
men at his place of business. The
hlghwaymen secured $50.
Members of the Loyal Legion to the
number Of more than 100 banqueted
et Minneapolis and elected r. M. New
port Of st. Paul commander.
q. J. Lien, resident of st. Vincent,
K1ttson county, has been appointed
assistant state librarian to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of w. S.
Allen.
Henry M. Knox, for many years a
resident of st. Paul, is dead at Wash
ington, aged seventy-four years. At
one time he was public examiner of
Minnesota.
An Omaha dispatch announces the
death in that city, at the age of sew
enty-four years, of Andrew D. Bal
combe, who was conspicuous figure
mona county and Minnesota.
c. L. Carlson, well-to-do business
man Of Minneapolis, killed himself in
a fit of dependency caused by the re-
cent death Of his wife, He leaves
seven orphans, ranging from year
and half to fifteen years of age.
William Lockwood, the sixth mem
Der of his family to succumb and the
ninth victim of the contagion traced to
the Lockwood funeral at Minneapolis
Easter Sunday, is dead of smallpox at
the quarantine hospital in that city.
The strike of saloonkeepers at Chat
field for reduction of license from
1000 to $3.50 is settled. The city
council failing to reduce the license
three of the keepers could stand the
pressure no longer and have opened
their places.
The restaurant belonging to John
Ziegle at Rochester was destroyed by
fire Thursday and the head waitress,
Emma Domdyi, lost her life by being
burned. She made her escape once.
but went back into the building to get
some clothing.
Salaries of postmasters in Minnesota
have been ordered increased as fol-
lows, to take effect July /: Farming
ton, $1,000 to $780,; Hopkins, $1,000
to $1,000; Lamberton, 1900 to $1,000;
Grand Rapids, $1,700 to $1,000; Ken
yon, $1,000 to $1,400.
Thomas Harrison Green, a former
resident of Minneapolis, died Thurs
day in Los Angeles, CAL, at the age of
sixty-four. He was born in Bellville,
ILL.,, coming to Minneapolis in 1850 and
serving in the Third Minnesota regi-
ment during the Civil war.
All the sawmills at the head of Lake
Superior, ten at Duluth, one at Su-
perior and fifteen at various interior
points tributary to this city, are in
full operation and giving direct en-
ployment to 5000 men. Their cut of
lumber for the season will be less than
In any year for six or seven.
Minneapolis may be on the eve of
another big strike Of the building
| trades. Friday the union men en-
ployed by c. F. Haglin walked out and
it is said that unless the employers
take the matter up with the trades and
! labor assembly a general tieup Of all
the work in the city may result.
Work has been commenced on the
new pumpkin syrup plant to be built
| at Clearwater. The plant will cost
$4,000 and will COVE employment to
forty men. Its daily capacity will be
twenty-five tons of pumpkins, from
which 800 gallons of syrup will be
made, and the pumpkin pulp is con-
! tracted for by a Wisconsin paper mill
John G. Smith, an old resident of
Kanabec county, was found dead upon
the banks Of Knife river near Mora
Mr.. Smith went fishing and, not return
ing, a searching party was sent to
look for him. He was victim OF
heart disease and it is supposed the :.
during seizure he fell from the dar?
| into the rapid water and was drowned
The annual meeting Of the Mime
sofa Territorial Pioneers association
at the state fair grounds last week
elected the following officers for the
year: President, E. w. Durant, Still
water; vice presidents, John B. Cooper
of St. Cloud, J. E. Bell of Minneapolis;
secretary, George H. Hazard, St.
Paul: treasurer, E. E. Hughson, Mime
apolis.
| Moorhead, Fergus Falls, Crookston,
st. Cloud and Brainerd are to enjoy
the same distributing rates Oh mer-
chandise as apply out of the Twin Cit
les. The Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific roads have withdrawn
their appeal from the order of the state
| railroad and warehouse commission of
Oct. II, 1900, and will put the rates
Into effect in few days.
Owing to a conflict of date with the
| sale q the Chippewa Indian lands at
Crookston, Mimi, on June Is, Commits
sioner Richards of the general land
| Office has directed that the sale of the
! Red Lake reservation lands at Thief
;; River Falls begin June 20 instead of
the date originally fixed. The register
| and receiver Of the Crookston land
! Office will be at both openings to ex-
| pedite the work.
Bishop Edsall of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of Minnesota has
sent out an order to all the clergymen
In his diocese which is intended to pre-
vent any evasion of the canon of the
! church, which recognizes adultery
only as a proper ground for divorce.
| Each minister is Instructed by the
| bishop not to perform a ceremony