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

NEWS IN MINNESOTA
Joseph l. Cater, one Of the early
settlers and organizers Of Mile Lacs
county, is dead. He came to Mime
sofa in 1855. =
Ernest Lofr OF Two Harbors, a boy
seven years old, while crossing the
Little Fork river on log, fell TN and
was drowned.
The appeal of former Mayor A. A.
Ames of Minneapolis win be taken up
for consideration by the state supreme
court on Dec. "a. T."
Wenzel Heubel, butcher, commit
ted suicide by drinking carbotfe acid
at St. Paul Friday. Despondeney is
given as the cause of the deed.
Two children of Philip La Motto of
ST. Paul are dead as the result of a
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. Is. A line Of thirty elevators
will be erected on the 500 extension
from Glenwood.
The Duluth and Iron Range, which
last year paid a dividend Of go per
cent aggregattng $1,800,000, will pay
n ic HS,t NIL oil
., its surplus to accumulate
! The total enrolment at the univer-
'sity, including the agricultural college,
numbers 1878 up to date and Regis
trar johnson predicts that it will
reach $500 before the end of the term.
United States Senator Moses E..
Clapp stopped a runaway horse at St..
Paul Friday and narrowly escaped Sc
rious injury. He was dragged some
distance and received a 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.
"A UOCIAA6 VI Ad4 u61S l1O4u t11A lS1 Is
OF the state was held In st. Paul last
week and branch of the Farmers
Cooperative Exchange organized c..
c. Jackson Of Buchanan was elected
president.
P. H. Brockway, 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. M. E. Jewett drove a thief
from her: home in Minneapolis Friday
evening by sending a. bullet flying
past his head as he was attempting
to raise a window to get into the
house. The would-be burglar fed.
Jackson E. Bushnell, rural mail
carrier of Jackson, was arrested by
Colonel T. D. Sheehan, United States
marshal, on the charge of embezzling
money which people intrusted to him
to send by means Of money orders.
A company has been Incorporated
at Crookston to be known as the
Northern Townsite company. 1t was
capitalized at $4,000 and will exploit
the new towns along the Thief River
Falls extension OF the Great Northern
to Roseau.
John Swanson, residing near Alex
andria, tried to shoot his wife during
1T 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. Amas' appeal from the
Hennepin county district court, in
which he was sentenced to the state
penitentiary for six years on the
charge Of receiving bride from wo-
men, will be argucl before the su-
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 E. Johnson. bookkeeper for
the Commercial Banking company of
Duluth, who was indicted OF the
charge of embezzling $48,5o of the
banks funds, pleaded guilty of forgery
in the third degree and was sentenced
to the St. Cloud reformatory on the
indeterminate plan.
Joseph O'Brien, the man who did
some promiscuous shooting on the
streets of Minneapolis about two
months ago, has been declared not
guilty by 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, approx
! mately 10000 acres, from which the
state will realize more than 100000,
will be offered for sale by State Au-
ditor S. G.. Iverson the latter half of
November in Otter Tail, Becker, Wa
dena Crow Wing Morrison Gtearns