Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-08-22
WELCOME TO Beers NEWS IN aDIINNEsOTl

. f. r. Waite, the new chief Of police
at Minneapolis, has taken charge Of
affairs.
H. p. Hall has sold the St. Paul
Trade Journal and will retire from &C.
tive journalism. II H. ...
Carl Swensen, eleven years old, has
been arrested at Luverne on charge
of horse stealing. :s: :%z...
George and Henry Henry. young
IONS of Mic Henry, were drowned at
Cass Lake while fishing.
Mrs. Schmogel Of Shakopee gave
birth to four boys one day last week.
All the babies died within two hours
after birth. r.
Mrs. Vincent Markell of st. Paul was
burned by an alcohol explosion and
died four hours later, after suffering
the most excruc1ating agony.
The state board of control has de-
cided to slaughter it's own beef, pork
and mutton at the Fergus Falls hos
pital for the insane hereafter.
Heronim Derdowski, editor of the
Wiarus, Winona Polish paper, is
best educated Poles in this country.
The Minnesota railroad commission
has decided to take hand in the mat.
ter of live stock rates to Chicago, and
will petition for a reduction of tariffs
to that city.
Governor Van SAINT, State Auditor
Dunn and his deputy, Mr.. Iverson, last
week inspected the work done by the
state drainage board in the Upper Red
River valley.
T. B. Walker, the big lumberman of
Minneapolis, has just closed deal by
which he secured tract of timber
land in Plumas county, CAL, aggregat-
ing $4,000 acres.
Randolph Mantschikos, young Rus.
sian nobleman, son of the exiled Count
Mantschikos, was arrested at Duluth
last week charged with stealing ice
cream from restaurant.
William Smith, only son of Mayor
Robert Smith of st. Paul, was found
dead in his room in that city Friday
Death was due to chronic gastritis
He was fifty years of age.
Insurance Commissioner Dearth has
asked Attorney General Douglas to le-
gally wind up the affairs of the "Be-
nevolent Commoners," a fraternal in
surance order of St. Paul.
Tom Welch, transient laborer, was
struck by a 500 passenger train at FL
bow Lake and instantly killed. He
was sitting on the track. His home
is thought to be in Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Three-year-old Johnny Krisko, son
of a milkman at Columbia Heights,
near Minneapolis, was killed accident
ally Sunday morning by ball from
rife fired by Captain Percy A. Wal
ton, captain of Company F of the First
regiment, Minnesota state troops.
Julius Johnson, a conscience-striker
Pullman car porter, walked into police
headquarters in St. Paul and confessed
Mrs. nf F. 9 e aons = 3 4if ak 81 s& s
asked to be locked up. He gave up the
money and was placed behind the bars.
John Rice, who at the time of his
death was the oldest settler in Henne-,
pin county, is dead at. the age. OF
eighty-nine years. Mr.. Rice located
in Minneapolis in 1855, tie same 59af
that the late Colonel John H. Stevens
built the first house on the west side
of the river. zs,uu,r1fas.11E=.-~
Rev. Harry w. Knowles, pastor of
Grace Methodist Episcopal church of
Duluth and chaplain of the state legis-
lature, has inaugurated a movement
having for it's purpose the suppression
of crime and enforcement of Sunday
laws throughout the states Of Minneso-
ia and Wisconsin.
A change of venue from 1tasca to
st. Louis county was granted in the
suit of Austin Mckinley and others
versus O. B. Kinney and others. The
plaintiffs claim one-fifth interest in
several mining leases, also the same
proportion of $475,000 which they
charge the defendants have received
for them.
The dead body of an unidentified
man was found lying across the rail-
| road track near the village of Odessa.
He was about forty years OF age, fair
ly we'll dressed, had heavy sandy
| mustache and carried several steel
drills, fuse and dynamite caps, bot
tie of nitroglycerin and quantity of
oodp pup.
Former Chief of Police Ames was ar
raigned last week before Judge Pond
in the Hennepin court under two in
dictments, each of which accuse him
OF entering into a conspiracy. In one
of these indictments Mayor A. A.
t Ames, Christopher G. Norbeck and IT.
win A. Gardner are indicted with the
chief. In the other he is accused Of
having conspired with Joseph Cohen.
The state auditors Office is just now
receiving reports from officials of
county agricultural societies. There is
a fund of about $4,000 set aside by
the legislature and from this $3.50 is
distributed to each county which
holds a fair and complies with other
requirements of the law. The checks
! will be forwarded to the several coun-
ties which have made their reports
within few days.
It has been decided to hold an Off
cial investigation regarding the death
J of w. H. Coy of Elmdale, who died
some time ago. suppos eddy from eating
pancakes in which arsenic had been
used in place of soda. Edwin Gov. a