Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-11-20
NEWS IN MINNESOTA MN: |,

| NEWS : IN IN MI I'M
Red Wing is to have q pearl but
ton factory,
Christian Dittman;; .'' seventy-eight
years DID,, who has lived in st. Paul
since 1854. is dead.
Two holdups in which the highway
men secured about 500 occurred in
Minneapolis one night hast week.
Fire at Climax, a small town near
! Crookston, destroyed q dozen bust
ness houses, causing q loss Of $45,
600.
Peter Bruemner of Slayton, aged
seventy, because Of a slight family
misunderstanding, walked four miles
to grove and hanged himself.
James Sweeney, who has been a
resident Of Minnesota for the past
fifty years, Is dead at his home on
the Dodd road near st. Paul, aged
eighty-fve.
The plumbers license law has been
declared unconstitutional by SUI
! preme court decision. This is re-
i versal Of the decision of the Ramsey
county district court holding the law
valid.
John Ecklund, farmer living two
miles east Of Rush City, was killed
while hauling load of lumber from
Brahan. The remains were found in
the road and the exact cause of death
:, is not known.
| The number of men sent to the
: pineries from Saltwater this fall is
largely below that of previous years
: and loggers say the log cut on the
! st. Croix and its tributaries will be
/ materially reduced the coming winter.
A Great Northern cattle train struck
defective switch near Elk River
while going forty miles an hour and
the entire train was wrecked, killing
fifty head of cattle and causing a
stampede of those which the accident
| liberated.
Walter j. Stewart, evangelist, mis-
sion singer. alleged bigamist, ex-con-
Wet and thief, has been sentenced in
Hennepin county to state prison for
ten years. He pleaded guilty to steal
ing $3.50 worth Of diamonds from E..
c. Warner.
John Gardner, residing four miles
east Of Chatfeld. was found dead in
his field with his clothes burned off,
He was burning brush and it is sup
posed that he fell in a fit, to which
disease he was subject, and was
burned to death.
Daniel Getty, a resident Of Mime
sofa since 1847, is dead at his home
in White Bear He settled at White
l poor 11 A~e ~ to
and has resided there ever since. He
for half century.
Mrs. Minnie Howard threw carbolic
acid in the face of her husband
George Howard, after family quarrel
at st. Cloud. At an examination into
her sanity in the probate court the
medical commission decided that the
woman was not insane.
Under instructions from the heads
of the United States Steel corporation
the officials of the Duluth and Iron
Range road have commenced to lay
off large per cent of their employees
and have also cut down the hours of
the working day to nine.
A large party of miners, composed
OF 100 Austrians and eighty-one Ital-
1ans and Polanders, have left the iron
ranges for their European homes. The
travellers have all accumulated con-
siderable money, and are going home
to enjoy the fruits Of their labors.
After firing a shot through a window
ut former sweetheart who had re-
jected his proposals of marriage John
Ewald Of St. Paul, the disappointed
lover, ran to the rear Of the house
| and, thinking that he had killed the
young woman fired 4 bullet from his
revolver into his head. He died in
stantly.
Miss Minnie Peel Of Winton, a
mitted suicide by drowning herself in
Fall lake. She was sixteen years of
age and was employed in boarding
house up to the time Of the tragedy.
Dependency over love affairs and
family troubles seem to be the cause
| of her rash act.
One man was murdered and three
seriously injured by highwa: 71en: on
a Great Northern freight tra!-? near
Maple Plain, who. at the point # re-
! volvers, held up Il group Of steel '"crk-
ers headed for Minneapolis and fo""ed
them to jump, enc by one, from he
| train, which was moving at the rate
of twenty-five miles an hour.
Charges of municipal graft and cor
ruption have been filed against Mayor
! John F. Brandt Of East Grand Forks
| by the Municipal Reform league. The
! charges specify bribery, open viola
| ton of city ordinances, the collection
of hush money" from illegal resorts,
! negligence, failure to perform his du-
ties and corrupt personal conduct.
An order has been issued by Gen.
eral Manager S. c. Stickney Of the
! Great Western transferring the motive
| power department from St. Paul to
| Oelwein, la. The department is SEIZED
| uled to move at once, but it is posi-
BILE that the transfer will not be made,
as the employees have refused to re.
| main with the company if obliged to
| live in the Iowa village.
Peter o. Elliott, suspected of hav-
ing designs on the life of President
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