Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-11-14
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Deputy Sheriff A1ahoney of Duluth
was found dead in the lake.
An unknown man was shot and
killed at Langdon while robb;ng q
chicken coop.
Proprietors of "private' card rooms
in Minneapolis have been ordered to
cease operations.
A special election will, have to be
held in Norman county as result OF
tie vote for county commissioner.
Hutchinson has over sixty artesian
wells, which flow strong enough to run
lawn sprinklers and pipe water into
residences.
The 1912 St. Paul judges and clerks
of the last election will have to wait
until January before the $4,000 due
them is distributed.
John Hacking, who has lived alone
in Excelsior for ten years, was found
dead in bed one day last week He
was about seventy years of age.
The jury in the criminal libel case
of Ex-Governor John Lind of Minnesota
against the editor of the Minneapolis
Times failed to reach an agreement
Attorney General Douglas has an.
! nounced his intention of reappointing
his present Office force, Assistants A.
| torney General Donahower and Somer-
by and Miss Hatch.
| Mrs. Toilet. Jensen of Rushford put
$500 in the heating stove for safe
keeping and left home on visit. Her
| daughter, returning home unexpected.
| ly, built fire and incinerated the en-.
tire deposit.
| Mrs. Mary Josephine Larpenteur,
wife of A. L. I1arpenteur and one of the
earliest residents of st. Paul, is dead.
Mrs. Larpenteur was seventy-eight
years of age, and had lived in st. Paul
| ffty-seven years.
State Auditor-elect Samuel G. LIVER
son has announced that he will ap-
point A. w. Thompson of Fillmore
county as deputy state auditor, the
place now filled under Auditor R. c.
Dunn by Mr.. Iverson.
John Rapp, a homesteader residing
near Park Rapids, was accidentally
shot and may lose his right leg. In
the dusk Of the evening Joseph Nixon
mistook Rapp for wolf and shot at
him, the ball striking his leg.
May Smith, daughter of parents re-
siding at Winona, attempted to kill
Roy Williams in the shipping room Of
the Palisade mill, Minneapolis. Will
Jams had promised to marry her but
declined to keep his promise. He will
recover.
Captain George Houghton, an old
steamboat captain, is dead at Mime
apolis, aged seventy-four years In
1857 he built the steamers Antelope
and Mollie Mohler, which ran between
Mankato and St. Paul on the Mime
sofa river.
An Assyrian who is confined in jail
at Luverne charged with horse steal
ing, attempted to commit suicide by
choking himself with his bare hands.
When discovered he was unconscious
with blood running from his mouth
nose and ears.
F. N. Davis, resident manager of the
Minneapolis Office of the d. Appleton
Publishing company, has been arrested
on the charge of, embezzling $500 of
the firms money. Davis alleged de-
falcation is said to have been taken
in small sums.
The supreme court has upheld the
constitutionality Of the state drainage
law. The decision means much for
the development of the Northwest, and
, also makes the 100000 which has
/ been spent and contracted for in the
way of bitches legal.
Fred Pennington of Saltwater. this
state, died at North Yakima, WASH,
last week after a weeks illness of IT,
phoid fever. He was a pioneer in the
lumber business in Minnesota, and up
to short time ago had interests in the
industry on Puget sound.
A locomotive was stolen from the
Rock Island yard at Albert Lea Friday
and run north at full speed. The yard
men Immediately gave chase in anoth
er locomotive and overlook the fugi
, tive five miles out. The throttle of the
? stolen engine was closed and no one
in sight.
Captain James L. Fisk, prominent
in the exploration and settlement OF
the Northwest and a Minnesota vet
eran of the Civil war, died at the sol
diers' home last week. Mr. Fisk was
sixty-seven years old. He was native
of New York and came to Minnesota
forty-tive years ago.
= Iron ore shipments from the Mime
sofa ranges during October amounted
to 1,902,201 tons, as compared with
1858, 1853 tons in October of 1901, an in
crease of 269,038 tons. Shipments fol-
the season to Nov. 1 are given as 13,
: 764,530 tons, gain of 1880, 735 tons
! over the same period last year.
It is reported on good authority that
!, extensive additions are to be made tC
the Northwestern shops in Winona
In the neighborhood Of $4,000 will
be expended, provision being made fol
e the rebuilding of locomotives there
The arrangement will give employ
, ment to close to 1925 more men.
The Minnie Harvester company Of
Minnesota has incorporated at ST. Pau
= with a capital stock of 100000. The
incorporators are members of the law
firm of Kellogg & Severance and youns