Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-02-06
NEWS In MINI ESOTA

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| Congress has passed bill providing
for an additional federal Judge for
Minnesota. 1t takes effect July l. T.
John B. Hoxsie, an old and prom
| inent commission merchant of St. Paul,
is dead of internal cancer. Mr.. Hoxsie
was sixty-three years of age.
The United Norwegian Lutheran
league, in session at Winona, strongly
favored the use of English in the
schools, churches, academies and col
leges.
J. Peter Hoffman, First Minnesota
veteran and for many years a resident
OF st. Paul, died last week at Villars,
this state, where he was postmaster
| for five years.
Governor Van SAINT has issued a
proclamation calling upon the people
OF Minnesota to contribute towards the
| relief Of the famine sufferers in Swe-
den. Norway and Finland.
county have appointed George A.
bitches now under construction. The
total mileage of these bitches is sixty.
The Minneapolis city council has de-
ciaed to invcctigote the fuel sitna-
ton. The suggestion came in the
shape of a message from Mayor
Haynes and the aldermen gave the
proposition their unanimous approval.
The coroner's jury in the case Of
Helen Poucher, a 10-year-old child,
who died from diphtheria at St. Paul,
returned verdict holding C. w.
Young, an osteopath, with being Grim
inally responsible for the child's death.
II. l.. Falk of Crookston, who was
appointed by Governor Van SAINT as
| surveyor of logs and lumber for the
Seventh district, having declined to
serve, the governor has named James
H. Maybury of Crookston for the place
A decrease of twenty three cases
was noted in the state health board
smallpox report for the past~Aeek, 1876
| cases being reported. For the CORE
spending week last year there were
SS9 cases, almost three times as many.
David Smith, farmer of Sterling
township, Blue Earth county, was
found dead in bed. A large wound was
found on his head, but as he lived alone
no one knows the circumstances Of
his death. He had considerable prop
erty.
Andrew Bergstrom. chief engineer
of the water department and one of
the veteran employees of Minneapolis,
morning in his Office at the Camden
Place station and died ten minutes
later.
Mrs Lea Stafford, who since 1866
has lived in small house mile and a
quarter from Long lake, near St. Paul,
persisted Friday night in a fire which
destroyed her home and all it's con-
tents. Mrs. Stafford was seventy-five
years old.
County Attorney F. H. Boardman of
Minneapolis has sued the publishers of
McClure's magazine for $4,000 dam
ages. The suit is the outcome of the
publication of an article in the JAN
uary number of the magazine entitled
"The Shame of Minneapolis
Hannah Schulstad, a. young woman,
employed by Robitshek, Frank &
Heller as a cutter, was killed at Min
neapolis Thursday by a Milwaukee
train. The unfortunate girls head
was severed from her body and carried
a long distance down the track.
H. C. Akeley, the millionaire Mime
Apolfs lumberman, has decide to retire
from business and the interests of the
Fl. G.. Akeley Lumber company, of
which he was the head, have been
transferred to the Itasca Lumber CON-
pany for a consideration of 81 200, 900.
Inspector Harry c. Sinks of the state
health board has returned to st. Paul
from a trip through Otter Tail and
Douglass counties, where there has
been so much smallpox, and reports
that in Millerville there were ninety
unreported cases and in Dresser forty
An increase of over so per cent is
shown in the return of gross earnings
for last year made to the state railroad
! and warehouse commission by the Du-
luth, Missabe and Northern railroad.
The earnings for 1902 were $4.9l9.-
1860, as against only $3,126, 567.71 for
1901.
Former Attorney General H. w.
Childs is seriously i'll at his home.
Merriam Park. suffering from la grippe
in an aggravated form, which threat
ems pneumonia. He has been confined
to his bed for two weeks. His condi
ton. while not critical, is regarded as
serious.
Two freight trains, No. 274 and No.
g. on the Great Western, collided
headon at Empire Friday night. Both
engines were badly damaged and con-
| siderable property loss resulted. The
| crews OF both engines saw their inn
| pending danger in time to Jump and
| save their lives.
Professor Hayes of the experiment
station has received more requests for
seed corn already this year than have
been received before at the institu-
ton in all the years of Its existence.
The cause is the cold and wet sum-
mer Just paet, which was exceedingly
unfavorable to the corn crop.
J. J. Hill has acquired three-ffths
interest in the Laura, and Winnifred
mines heretofore controlled by Cap
tain NJ. L: Fay. The consideration, is
said to have been $1,000 His son, L.
W. Hill, assistant to the president of
the Great Northern is president OF
new company to own the properties.
The mines are in the Hibbing district.
Judge Harrison of the district court
of Hennepin county created sensa-