Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-09-19
NEWS ESQ TA

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The supreme court has upheld the
constitutionality Of the state primary
law. .ss=i.s. !. & - 1.s77z7 m,
Duluth's city council has ordered the
removal Of all slot machines in that
city. I'LL .11.~..-.-,. j
Mrs. Bridget Knight, for forty-eight
years a resident Of Minneapolis, is
dead. *~.<@z ~ '-% @s : @*~.
Fifteen bears have been shot in the
city limits Of Duluth during the past
sixty days. a.,
Otto Pankopf, we'll known Mime,
apolis musician, died suddenly in that
city last week. :.
Peter Ullman, aged seventy, and
Catherine Holstein, aged twenty-five
were married at St. Paul recently.
Minnesota artillerymen defeated the
Wisconsin team in the interstate CON
test at Camp Douglas, Wis, by score
of 1877 to 81.
!! Mrs. Louis Dahlstrom, wife of a
Minneapolis saloonkeeper, committed
suicide because her husband refused
20 give her S25 for new dress.
H. T. Miller, residing in West supe.
rior, Wis, engineer on the Eastern
Minnesota branch of the Great North
ern, was killed in wreck near Hib.
bling.
Erick Erickson, owner Of a sawmjll
at PeQuet, was fatally injured by the
bursting of a pulley on the fly wheel
OF the engine, and a workman had q
leg broken.
Joseph Irvine Of Saltwater has
signed a contract to cut 75,00O,0O0 feet
of logs on the Blackjack and Cormor.
ant rivers for the Thief River Falls
Lumber company. . .:r,,> :-s
The Missabe Electric company has
filed articles Of Incorporation with a
capital of $4,000. The company will
;; build an electric trolley line from
Eveleth to Virginia, e.rs~v >.,--~~x,.~>
Diamonds, rubieS, jeweIry ard vari.
GUS articles of value worth in all up.
wards Of $1,000 have been located by
the st. Paul police at the home Of John
Wilson, recently arrested For highway
robbery.
H. c. Akeley, the Minneapolis lura~
herman, has agreed to furnish the
funds necessary to transform portion
CT the cid city hall into a public bath
house. The amount that will be necas-
sary is about $4,000.
Mrs. Robert Simon, about twenty
eight years Ola. was struck by a
EoCtE5ound Milwaukee train twelve
miles south Of Owatonna Her skull
was crushed and she died several
! hours after the accident.
Congressman McCleary has sent to
President Roosevelt his recommends
ton that State Senator G. L. Benedict
be aprcinted postmaster at Mankato
to succeed [. P. Hunt, who has held
the Office more thap four years.
| Frank j. McCarr6n Of St. Paul err.
p1oyed in the city engineering depart.
! ment, was fatally injured in a bicycle
accident. He was run down by H.
Bartholomew ard sustained a fracture
Ct the skull. He died several hours
later. -.
Philip stackmesser, a Duluth Are.
man, while responding to an alarm of
fire., was thrown from the apparatus
while crossing the street car tracks.
The apparatus, weighing three and a
half tons, passed over him, crushing
his chest.
State Superintendent Olson hes is.
| SGD, following the recent examina,
ton, 700. a1st grade certificates to
| teachers, an increase of 800 over last
year. He says the demand for first
grade teachers in country schools is
increasing.
Attorney Victor J. WEIGH, who rep
resented former Detective N. W. King
OF MINNEAPOLIS in his late trial, has
| filed an affidavit with view to secur
ing a new hearing onAthe ground that
the jury was supplied with whisky
during its deliberations.
! The jury in the case of the United
States against E. e. Empey, the Excel
sior attorney, who was indicted by the
federal grand jury under the charge
of using the United States mails with
! intent to defraud railroad companies
! brought in a verdict of guilty.
Congressman Page Morris has re
! turned to Duluth from the White
Earth reservation. He says that ht
had not found the Indians antagoristit
toward the newly passed law, which
provides for the selling of timber ant
opening Of the reservation for settlers
The largest real estate deal in Min
; neapolis for many months, was consum
mated Wednesday when the Nicolle;
| hotel property was transferred to Min
neapolis men by it's Eastern owners
the consideration being $350,000. It is
understood that the present building
will be torn down.
Charles Ellenburg and two comran
ions, while riding on load Of grair
near Spring Valley, met with serious
accident. A telephone wire hanging
across the road caught them and com
p1ete}y severed Ellen burg's upper jaw
One of the others lost part OF one eal
and was badly cut in the cheek. The
third mans neck was lacecated.
julius Volker, wealthy German
farmer living near Crcokston, attempt
ed to beat mis- own brains out by ham
mering himself on the head with a
heavy sledge. Being unable to &C
complish his purpose, he cut his throat
with pocket knife and then stahheG
himself in the abdomen. It is hardl;