Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-09-20
NEWS Ii IN MINNESOTA q N jEEIl5l.;'IElI.

NEWS In MINNESOTA
u. James Younger, recently released
from the Saltwater penitentiary, is
seriously Ill at the St. Paul city hos
pital. w., - - >' -. = =. 49,. ~ =.
State Senator C. L. Benedict, who
was tried at st. Peter on the charge
OF having violated the game law by
shooting duck and snipe ON Aug.
81, has been acquitted. -.<
The state board OF health, in it's
regular bi-monthly report on smallpox
In the state, shows that each success.
,sive month has less number of cases
than the preceding one. y
James H. Huganin of Newport,
resident of Minnesota since 1843, is
dead. He was SO years Of age, and for
many years was engaged in the gro
Gerry business in st. Paul.
Miss Catherine Award, Duluth
milliner, has been awarded a verdict
of $4,000 in the district court in her
suit against Isaac Green, a street car
conductor, for breach of promise.
The st. Paul health department es-
Inmates that 225,69O persons paid for
the privilege of taking dip during the
season. This is said to be about 20
per cent of those who patronized the
baths since June last.
. Miles German, former we'll known
Willmar railroad man, shot and killed
his wife, Maud German, and then
committed suicide at Corning, N. Y.
The motive for the awful deed is be-
lieved to have been jealousy.
The firm of Drake, Stratton & Co.,
earth contractors, has done about
100000 cubic yards of excavation on
the Mesaba range this season and will
continue at work to the close OF the
season with as large a force as pos
sible.
Don Benson of Bradford, Pa. was
run over and killed at Moorhead
while trying to ride brakebeam. He
had been put of the Great Northern
.rain and attempted to catch the
brakebeam, but fell and was cut to
pieces.
DR.. e. H. Beckman OF the state
board Of health has just returned to
st. Paul from Dexter, in Mower coun-
IT,, where he found 20 cases of small
pox, and notified the railroad com.
panies not to stop its trains there for
the present.
Fayette Marsh, for many years
practicing attorney in Saltwater, and
well known to members of the profess
sion in all parts Of Minnesota, died
In Saltwater Saturday night. Mr..
Marsh was 81 years old and located
in Saltwater in 1863.
The Chicago Great Western road is
rapidly moving the reserve rolling
stock of the recently acquired Winona
and Western road from Wfnona. It is
understood the train dispatcher's Of
flee will be moved from there to Oel-
vein, a., in a few days. IL,
The Minnesota State Auctioneers'
association has been formed at Man
kato with the following officers: Pres
ident,, F. S. Fish of Fairmont; vice
president, C. M. Simmons Of Spring
field; secretary, J. d. Martin Of Mar
shall; treasurer, F. A. Kneeland Of
Mankato.
The semi-annual apportionment OF
school funds will occur on the first
Monday in October and present indi-
cations are that the schools will fare
well. There is now On hand for distri-
button about $644,000, to which some
heavy receipts from school land sales
will likely be added.
has been indicted for misdemeanor
in putting up the wrong prescription
for Mrs. Kate Jones, who, It is al
legged, died as the result of the dose.
An attempt was made to have him in
dicted for manslaughter, but the grand
jury made it a misdemeanor.
Judge Charles e. Flandreau, for
merly associate justice of the state
supreme court, is lying i'll at his home
in St. Paul, a victim of kidney COM
plant. He went out on Sunday for a
short walk and returned home feeling
well. Later he was found in an I'M
conscious condition in his library. His
physicians say he will recover.
Consul E. H. Hobbe of Sweden and
Norway at St. Paul says that the sea-
son just closed has been one of the
greatest in the record of Scandina-
Wan immigration into the Northwest.
Fully $4,000 Norwegians and probably
greater number Of Swedes have
passed through the. Twin Cities since
spring. He anticipates greater in
dux next year.
The railroad and warehouse COM
mission has decided that Kragnas, in
Clay county, was entitled to station,
and that the Great Northern should
erect and maintain one. The North
ern Pacific will be directed to rebuild
and reopen the station at Blunton, in
Otter Tail county, which It hauled
away one Saturday night without
warning.
An extra freight on the Great North
ern ran into the caboose of way
freight standing on the tracks at Bran
don station. The caboose and three
cars were wrecked and the engine Of
the extra was badly damaged. The
fireman and engineer jumped and
were uninjured. The crew of the way
freight was at the station at the time
of the collision: se,atp>~~>
L John O'Don6ell, state labor commits
sioner, and w. A. Hammond, his as
sistant, left for the East Sunday even
ing. They are going to look into the
| methods of New England labor 1bu-
reaus,s In the hope of getting some new.