Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-12-25
NEWS VI In MIN NESO {. ia.
EVENTS F'THEsWEEK. THROUGH,
OUT THE STATE.

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OUT THE STATE.
Icy sidewalks caused several serious
accidents in st. Paul. 1s
William H. Grimshaw has been re.
appointed United States marshal for
Minnesota.
Experts are making an examination
Of the extent OF the gold bearing rock
deposits discovered by Olaf Johnson
Near Swanville some time ago.
Another big diamond robbery is re-
ported at Minneapolis. The residence
of George w. Sherer was entered and
jewelry valued at over $4,000 taken.
DIR. M. B. Cullom, chairman Of the
Democratic congressional committee,
! has been nominated for mayor Of Du-
luth to oppose T. w. Hugo, the present
incumbent. IS
The house committee on military af-
fairs has Incorporated an item in the
military appropriation bill making
available $4,000 for the construction
of hospital at Fort Smelling.
c. J. Ertz. st. Paul commission
man, pleaded guilty in. the Ramsey
| county district court to having ten
| saddles of venison in his possession
illegally and paid a fine of $780, -.
Casper Ernst, the St.. Paul banker
convicted of forgery and grand lar
ceny and sentenced to serve ten years
in the penitentiary, has been taken to
saltwater and turned over to Warden
| Wolfer.
r. K. Slater Of Fairmont and Hans
T. Sondergaard Of Litchfield have
been appointed butter experts of the
state dairy and food commission to
| succeed B. D. White of st. Paul and
Samuel Haugdahl of St. Peter, who
have resigned.
Murder in the second degree was the
verdict returned by the jury in the
trial of William Coddington at Grand
Rapids, charged with killing Henry
Kehring. Coddington's plea was self
defense and his counsel will make a.
motion for new trial.
Building operations in St. Paul so
far this year have amounted to 49,
| 1850, an increase of nearly $1,000
600 over 1902. Fully 5000 new homes
have been built, about half of this
number for renting purposes, the 9TH
ers being occupied by owners.
Thomas May, who was recently in
dicted by the Wright county grand
jury on charge of killing his uncle,
Martin May, pleaded guilty to murder
In the second degree at Buffalo and
. was sentenced to life Imprisonment
in the state penitentiary at Saltwater.
Jack Frost got in his work on 100
carloads of apples shipped from West
ern New York to the Twin Cities and
when the shipment reached Minneap-
oils the apples were so badly frozen
that they were unfit for use The en-
tire consignment, valued at $4,000,
will prove loss.
The iron ore shipments during 1908
from the entire Lake Superior region
reached the total that was predicted
by conservative men. Some placed
the figures higher than this, but the
we'll informed looked for the total to
be around 24,000,O00 tons, and it runs
a little more than that.
George Besser and Fred o. !Tilton,
Minneapolis commission men arrested
by Game Warden Fullerton for pur-
chasing contraband game, were indict-
ed by the grand jury and arraigned
In court Friday. Both pleaded not
guilty, with the privilege of changing
their plea later. The total fine in
their case would amount to $4,000.
The government is making a special
analysis of the streams of Northern
Minnesota and particularly of the iron
ranges tc ascertain if they contain
any mineral or other ingredients help
full or prejudicial to health. Bacteri7
ologist Dale is in charge of the work
and it is said to be the first work of
the Kind ever undertaken by the gov
eminent.
Joe Cohen of Minneapolis, the much
indicted Ames lieutenant, who is al
legged to have been the collector of
graft" is to go free. Judge Simpson
has nolled the last of the fourteen in
dictments that have been found
against him, sustaining the demurrer
that evidence he had voluntarily given
before the grand jury was being used
Iagainst him.
Twenty-Five persons narrowly es'
capped with their lives In fire which
attacked the St. Charles hotel, Min
neapolis, early Sunday morning. Al
though there was a panic and half
dressed terrified men ran about the
building seeking a means of exit the
f1remen succeeded in rescufng every
person in the hotel. The property loss
is only $1,000.
nj The members of the South Haven
gang Of bandits, Frank Moran, Ed
Rice, James Desmond, James Martin
and Tom Burns, who were taken to
the Hennepin county jail for safekeep-
ing and made repeated efforts to es-
cape while there, pleaded guilty at
Buffalo to assault in the first degree
and were sentenced to eight years
and half each in the penitentiary.
The state supreme court has denied
q new trial to Charles and Henry Mel
son, two brothers, who, with William
Sutton, murdered H. H.. Krfer, an
Owatonna saloonkeeper, on April -.
Sutton turned states evidence and
was sentenced to prison for life. The
Nelson brothers were convicted and
sentenced to death. They will be ex-
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