Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-05-08

john hlSHey, elSnty-IOur years Old,
who has been resident of Minnesota
since 1856, died Thursday at his
home in St. Paul. He served in the
Civil war as a member Of Company
G, Third Minnesota volunteers. 49,
The grand jury has returned eight
cen indictments against Redwood
county liquor dealers for violations of
the excise laws. Sixteen Of the eight
cen were against four liquor men aat
Wabasso, each one of the four being
indicted four times.
Darius F. Morgan, ex-senator, coun-
sellor for the Northwestern Telephone
| company and one Of the most widely
known attorneys in the Northwest, is
dead at Minneapolis. He was forty
nine years Of age and had been a SUI
ferer from heart trouble.
Some young men at Gilmore took
pity on an old tramp, known as "Old
Abbey" and bought him new suit of
clothes. The donors then insisted on
burning the old ones, but the tramp
strongly objected. Investigation show
ed $1,400 sewed up in the lining of
his old coat.
Hubert F. Hoen of st. Paul, dealer
In dairy produce, was robbed and bad
ly beaten while driving on Como ave-
nue. in that city. Two men asked him
for a ride and when he stopped to
grant their request they throttled him.
Hoen lost $500 and sustained severe
injuries in the struggle.
Benjamin J. Campbell, chief clerk
and head bookkeeper of the imperial
council of the Modern Samaritans,
has been arrested at Duluth on a war
rant sworn out by the United States
Fidelity Guarantee company, charg.
ing him with having embezzled S2,795
of the funds of the order.
Samuel V. Gilbert, cashier of the
Redcliff Lumber company and brother
of President Frank L. Gilbert of the
same institution, dropped dead at his
home in Duluth as result, it is said,
of an electric shock sustained while
turning on the light in one of the up
per rooms while after glass of wa
ter.
Iron ore shipments from the Mime
sofa mines during the month of April
aggregated 1920 tons, as compared
with 1,095,189 tons last year. The
falling off is largely caused by the
delay in the opening OF the amount
forwarded last month Two Harbors
shipped 262,091 tons, Duluth 239, 945,
and Superior 235,254:
The exposition building at Mime
apolis, the scene of some of the most
brilliant industrial exhibitions ever
held in the West and the structure in
which Benjamin Harrison was placed
in nomination for the presidency over
James G. Blaine, has passed into other
hands and will soon be remodeled into
a manufacturing plant.
Governor Van SAINT has announced
the names Of the members of the oste-
opathy board created bv the last leg
islature. They are as follows: E. c.
Picker, Minneapolis, five years; J. B.
Bemis, St. Paul, four years; George l..
Huntington, St. Paul, three years !;
Clara T. Garrish, Minneapolis, two
years; A. W. McLaren, Duluth, one
year.
A rear-end collision of Northern
Pacific freight trains at Clear Lake
delayed traffic on that road and the
Great Northern, the lines :paralleling,
between and 10 a. M, Friday. A
freight left Clear Lake six minutes
ahead of second one. Three miles
out the rear train ran into the head
freight, demolishing Z caboose and
two boarding cars. .-,> 4>,., gig. - e. .
Minneapolis will have It's second
June fair and carnival this year, June
| to 10. A..midways entertainment is
| to be presentedin which 200 perform
ers appear, closing with big fire
! works spectacle There will be also
I 800 mercantile and manufacturing .ex
hibits. elaborate Examinations and
decorations. Over $4,000 is being
expended in preparations.
Christian Helmer of New Paynes
vile was burned to death while burn
ing brush and grass upon a tract OF
land owned by him a few miles east
! of that village, under circumstances
which will never be known, as he was
, alone and no one knew of his trou
bic until his dead body was found lste
at night by party of searchers wht
| Governor Van SAINT has appointed
the following members of the live
stock sanitary board provided for by
the recent legislature: John J. Fur
long of Mower. county, five years; Dr.
! HIN Reynolds, st. Anthony PARK
| four years; Dr.. c. E. Cotton, Mime
apolis, three years; S. Henry, Ohm
stead county, two years, and w. W. P
Mcconnell, Mankato, state dairy ant
food commissioner, one year.
The state supreme court has decid
ed that Russell Sage of New Yorl
| must turn over to Uri L. Lamprey o
| st. Paul twenty-six townships of Ian:
In Renville, Stearns, Douglas, Grant
Stevens and Otter Tail counties upo:
the payment of s62.220. These land
are part of the lanl grant Of tn
Hastings and Dakota line and tn
company contracted TO sell to MI
I.amprey 100,OpO acres. Before h
made all hts s.,lecI:ans the land wa
l1ansfe,red- 10 Mr.. Sage.