Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-10-16
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

county, is dead. He came to Mime
sofa in 1855.
Ernest Loft OF Two Harbors, a boy
seven years old, while crossing the
Little Fork river on log, fell in and
was drowned.
The appeal of former Mayor A. A.
Ames of Minneapolis will be taken up
for consideration by the state supreme
court on Dec. a.
Wenzel Heubel, a butcher, commit
ted suicide by drinking carbo1ic acid
at St. Paul Friday. Dependency is
given as the cause of the deed.
Two children Of Philip La Motto of
ST. Paul are dead as the result of
gasoline explosion. The mother is SO
badly burned that she may not re-
cover.
Hog cholera in its worst form has
made its appearance in the vicinity
OF Candy. Hogs are dying by the
hundreds and the disease seems to be
spreading.
Twenty-Five new elevators have gone
into commission in Minnesota since
Sept. i. \ line Of thirty elevators
will be erected on the 500 extension
from Glenwood
The Duluth and Iron Range, which
!ast year paid a dividend Of 50 per
,, cont, aggregatins $500. 600. will pay
| no dividend this year. out will allow
: L., surplus to accumulate.
The total enrolment at the univer-
sity, including the agricultural college,
Numbers 1913 up to date and Regis
trar Johnson predicts that it will
reach 5000 before the end Of the term.
United States Senator Moses e.
Clapp stopped runaway horse at ST..
Paul Friday and narrowly escaped Sc
riOus injury He was dragged some
distance and received badly bruised
knee
While riding on top Of Northern
Pacific box car Leonard c. Dale Of
Walkerton, Ind. vas shot and fatally
injured by holdup men near North
town Junction, just outside OF Mime
apolis
\ meeting of farmers from all parts
of the state was held In St. Paul last
week and a branch Of the Farmers
Cooperative Exchange organized c.
c. Jackson of Buchanan was elected
president
?. H. BrOckWav, manager of the ST..
Charles Furniture company. who was
injured in the recent tornado at that
place. is dead, making the ninth vic
tim. All the others injured, it is as
sured. will now recover.
Mrs. NJ. E. Jewett drove a thief
from her home in Minneapolis Friday
evening by sending bullet flying
past his head as he was attempting
to raise a window to get into tho
house. The woul<!-be burglar 3ed.
Jackson E. Bushnell. a rural mail
carrier Of Jackson. was arrested by
Colonel T. D. Sheehan, Unite:} States
marshal. on the charge OF embezz:ing
money which people intrusted to him
to send by means of money orders.
\ company has been incorporated
at Crookston to be known as the
Northern Tovnsite company. It was
capitalized at $4,000 and will exploit
the new towns along the Thief River
Fails extension Of the Great Northern
to RCseau.
John Swanson, residing near Alex
andria, tried to shoot his wife during
a fit of insanity He grabbed a shot.
gun. but the hired man stepped in and
shot him to save the woman. Swan
son was temporarily insane some time
ago, but recovered.
DR.. A. A. Ames' appeal from the
Hennepin county district court, in
which he was sentenced to the state
penitentiary for six years on the
charge of receiving a bride from wo-
men. will be argvcl before the SUI
preme court Dec. "a.
If the Minneapolis school board re-
fuses to pay the $1,000 water rental
which has been delinquent for three
years the waterworks department will
turn off the water on Oct. IS and all
buildings which do not possess wells
will be Inconvenience thereby
Ernest 2. johnson. hookseeper for
thu Commercial Banking company of
Duluth, who was indicted O.: he
charge Of e:lh azz!:2g S4s.:::"' CT tho
banks funds. pleaded guilty Of forgery
in TIE lAi.:' degree ANA was sentenced
to Ia St. Cloud :efornatory on the
inoete:m!E;.te plan.
JCSaiib = i3EiGn. the man who lid
some n"n::liscUo'ls shooting On the
streets CT NlnneapOEs about two
| months ago. has been declared not
guilty ny the jury in the case because
at the time of the commission OF the
! crime charged in the indictment the
defendant was crazy
State agricultural lands, approxi-
! mately 10000 acres from which the
state Will realize more than $500. GOO.
will be offered for sale By State ALL
ditor S. G. Iverson the latter half of
November in Otter Tail. Becker. Wa
dena. Grow Wing. Morrison. Stearns
and Mile Laos counties.
Five hundred men. employees of the
Minnesota Iron company, are out Of
work through the closing down inGefi-
nitely of the SOudan mine near Tower.
This is the first Of the Steel corpora
ticu's mines in Minnesota to cease
operations and may be followed by a
| shortening CT the forces in some of the
other mines.
j. ]. LOmen. assistant secretary of
! state, says that the total land area
north Of line drawn across The state
| by Hinckley and Little Falls is 24.nnl, :
| tini acres Of which 10 01D GAO ac..aS