Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-08-21
FATAL ACCIDENT.
A Child of Henry Gedney In
stantly Killed in a Runaway
Monday.


the fOur-year-Old son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Gedney, was thrown from Il
wagon. run over and instantly
killed.
Mrs. Gidney had II team hitched to
Il lumber wagon, and was preparing
to start for Randall to do some
marketing. The team was standing
in front Of the house with the little
boy and u girl few years older In
the wagon. Mrs. Gedney went to
the house to get younger child, and
while she WAS gone the little bow
picked up the lines aud told the
horses to get up" The team was
very high lived and started Mt the
word, running at full speed.
The boy was thrown out when
but Il short distance from the house
and the wheels Of the heavy wagon
passed over his chest. Mrs. Gedney
ran after them ~ quickly as she
could, but when she arrived at the
spot where the eboy lay she found
the child was dead, having been IN.
stantly killed by the heavy wagon.
The little girl. who was also In the
wagon, was thrown out, but not
seriously injured.
1t is a very sad blow to the papn is
of the child. and they have the
sy mpathv of the entire community
in their great bereavement.
The statement made in last week y
Transcript that the cOntrac t
for the reconstruction of the Missis-
sippi bridge at Bellevue had been let
to the Chicago Bridge 4 Iron com
pany, for $4,000, was Il mistake. A
proposition was made by the com
mittee to that company to give that
amount. which was accepted. but
before the contract was made the
company is said to have backed out.
The committee are Of the opinion
that it. can be built for that figure or
less, and have decided to go on with
the work without making any cen
tract, building the bridge by day
work. A building committee, con-
sisting of Messrs. c. W. Bouck. b.
Feitsam and n. =. Fiddler, Of Roy
alton, has been appointed to take
charge, and Ed. Mahan, of this city,
has been employed to superintend
the construction. Mahan has had a
great amount Of experience III
bridge building, and under his Dr.
rectiOn the work can he done as
thoroughly ami as cheaply as by
anyone else.
The Illinois Trust company has
begun foreclosure proceedings
against the st. Cloud Water Power
company. which deiaultcd in pay.
ment of interest on 100000 in Jan
uary. The water power, electric,
water works and gus companies OF
that city are badly tangled up, and
all are in the hands Of a receiver.
They are joined now in one cor
poration. The journal Press says:
1.-The bond holders will undoubtedly
bid in the property. which i'm time
will he valuable, and this sale will
have no effect upon the city or any Of
the parties mentioned in the suit.
The income from the rental for power
ut present is not sufficient to pay the
expenses of keeping the plant in re-
pair, ETC., to say nothing OF paying
interest on 100000 bonds. 1t was
this burden, thrown on the Gas &,
Electric Light and Water Works
companies. by the consolidation Of
the three companies, that threw
them all into the hands Of a receiver.
If this action results in n divorce OF
these companies, it will be good
thing for the other two. which are
good paying properties
When county politics are talked at
all low days most any one will urge
that some of the candidates shull be
from outside OF Little Falls. Most
any good outside man could get Il
place on either county ticket, i he
would do constant canvassing for 1T
the way the city fellow is apt to
do. The fact is, that the Little
Falls man who is not very busy can
put in lots IF time, and can con-
stantly meet men from the country,
and urge his personal wishes, while
the resident of an outside town is
not apt to see ominent people from
many other towns. The outside
towns and villages should have men
on each ticket, and some of them
should be elected. But Little Falls
is hardly apt to force the offices on
residents OF the country.
st. Cloud Times, Monday: Bishop
Marty and Fathers Jones and
Gregorys left to-day for st.
Johns Abbey to attend Il conference
Of all the clergy of the diocese of st.