Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-05-01
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Colonel Joseph Bobleter has beef
1 elected brfgadier general Of the state
national guard. 90 IS 800
Mrs. Ziek Of Willow Lake township
i Brown county. killed herself by jump
j ing into well. 81 3.
=. = Scotland, pioneer of Otter
i 'IallH county is dead at the advanced
age OF eighty.three years. #.:=.. # 5s.
John Phillip, sixty-six years Of age.
Il committed suicide by hanging himself
4 in the garret of his home in Minnea D.
Il oils. 8
i Two men were severely injured by
the premature explosion of charge
in the reveille gun at Fort Smelling
i Friday morning. # =
/ The State Federation of Labor will
hold its annual convention in Little
i F'assss -,:o2c'ay, Tuesday and Wednes
! day, June 8, 8 and 10.
Hutchinson is to have a $4,000 Car
! negla library, all the requirements as
| to its maintenance having been com
Piled with by the city council.
"a. Peterson, a farm hand, was
! killed near Albert Lea. by a falling
tree. The tree split when half chopp.d
through and crushed him to death.
Governor Van SAINT has vetoed the
Pea.chey bill which would make it Dos.
sible for .diyoreed persons to marry
aFai., Immediately after the decree of
court.
--.~k Lee, residing near Aspeland,
! Goodhue county, a well known farmer
in good circumstances, committed sui
| eide by hanging. He was sixty.tive
years old.
| Stewart L. Moore, general freight
agent of the Northern Pacific and one
! OF the best known freight men ip +rle
Northwest, died suddenly at his home
in st. Paul. T.
Raymond was visited by destruc.
live FIRE, caused by the explosion in the
:; general merchandise store Of Carl Hen.
ming. Three buildings were destroyed,
entailing q loss of about $4,000.
Citizens of Park Rapids have begun
active Preparations for the ninth an
nual tournament of the Northern Min
nesota. Firemen's association, to be
held there June % to rs, inclusive.
i Mrs. Christine Peterson, widow re.
siding near Milaca, was killed instant.
ly Thursday. Dynamite, which she
4 was warming under a stove, exploded
The house was demolished and her re.
mains mangled.
George w. Benton, who was in
ljured in runaway at Austin on Tues
day, is dead of hemorrhage of the
brain. He was seventy-two years old
one Of the Oldest pioneers and land
owners of that region.
The St. Cloud city council has or.
dered a special election for May to
vote on the question of purchasing
the waterWorks. The ordinance grant
ing franchise for electric lights and
power works was passed.
The secretary of the interior has ap
proved the plans made by the forester
of the agricultural department under
the, Morris act providing for the crea
ton of a forest reservation of 100000
} acres in the Chippewa Indian reserva
! ton in Minnesota, -.
Governor Van SAINT has Appointed
John Frederick boiler inspector fol
Murray county, August w. Law fol
Dakota. county, John Bither for Sher
bNrne county, J. J. Stevens for Chip
pewa county and Wellington Hubbs
for Morrison county. ri
Mary Ann Smith, daughter of Joh1
Smith of Vaudeville town, near But
: falo, eighteen years of age, committed
suicide Sunday afternoon by hanging
herself in a granary with clothes
line. The cause for her deed is sup
posed to be her poor health.
John P. Morrow of Duluth has made
strike of iron ore in one Of thu
eighty-acre tracts in the land con
trolled by 'thev Niagara Iron company
on which he has an option. The ore
runs from 81 to 60 per cent metallic
iron and is low in phosphorus.
The Duluth Match company, merged
into the Union Match company, hal
its large factory about ready for, OPP
GRAFTON. 1t is one of the largest single
factories in the world and will make
between 100000 and 35,000,00t
matches daily, about carload.
G. c. Whitney, F. ]. Meist and H
p. Hall, executive committee Of thu
State Editorial association, have com
pleted the arrangements for the an
nual outing of the association. Tn:
J
D c., the party leaving st. Paul May
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w. M. Gray was caught in the act O.
robbing the saloon of F. G. Cressy a.
Minneapolis by two policemen. Whe1
discovered Gray's pal, who was OF
watch outside, shot at the policemen
|. The shot lodged in Gray's body. HI
is at the city hospital in a dangerous
condition.
Hon. William T. Rigby is dead a
, Clearwater Mr.. Rigby was one Of tn
oldest settlers in that section and wa
a member of the Minnesota Legislature
in 1864 and 1865. He was also mem
Z Der of the first Masonic grand lodge o
: Minnesota and was deputy grand mas
: ter in 1866. .4s--.-
, Chris Johnson, prosperous farme
. residing near Fosston, committed sui
eide by shooting the top of his heas
II off with a shotgun. The only caus'
= assigned is the fact that he had grea
quantities of wheat and. flax storet
and the falling tendency of price
Icsused him to grow Respondent.