Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-11-06
NEWS IN MINNESOTA Y

tain, IS dying among his tribesmen on
the cass Lake reservation from pnea'
Minnesota has $50, 000, 900 invested
! in school buildings and equipment, &C:
cording to figures given out by J. W.
Olsen, state superintendent of public
instruction. =
George w. Boss, trainmaster of the
Hastings and Dakota division Of the
Milwaukee railroad, died suddenly in
his office at Minneapolis Of neuralgia
Of the heart. !,
While attempting to cross the Great
Northern tracks in front of a fast ap-
preaching train at Macintosh Oscar
Lillimo of Erskine was struck by the
engine and terribly mangled.
Louis w. Hill has been elected vice
president of the Great Northern to
succeed his brother, James N. Hill.
The election took place at special
meeting Of the board Of directors.
Robert Meyers, a Minneapolis and
St. Louis engineer, was killed by his
head coming in contact with sup
port of the Westminster bridge, st.
Paul, as he looked from his engine
cab.
Hans P. Hanson, a prominent bust
ness man of the village of Cyrus, COM
mitted suicide by hanging. He had
| been worrying of late over the ex-
! pense of q fine new house he had been
building.
The first call to the buttermakers
of Minnesota to send samples of but
ter for the first contest has been is
sued by the state dairy and food COM
mission. The first scoring will be
made Nov. II.
The postoface at Pillager was broken
into by unknown parties, the safe
blown and 500 IN silver taken. In
their haste the robbers overlooked
$500 worth of stamps and number Of
registered packages.
Three men were injured, one per-
haps fatally, in wreck on the Mil.
waukee road at Norwood. The crash
was between two freight trains and
was caused by the unaccountable
throwing of switch.
Charles p. McGinnis, charged with
conspiracy to defraud the government
In connection with timber and stone
entries in St. Louis county, has been
acquitted by jury in the United
States court at Duluth.
John R. Heino, now Duluth attor-
ney but formerly cashier under Unit
ed States Collector of Customs John
Peterson, has been arrested charged
with having embezzled $500 in 1902,
while employed under Mr.. Peterson.
Public Examiner S. T. Johnson has
ordered an assessment of 100 per cent
on stockholders of the Mapleton State
bank. Mr.. Johnson says the capital
stock is impaired at least to the ex-
tent of $4,000, the amount of stock is
sued.
Glen Adams and Charles Gregory,
two men implicated in the theft of
merchandise from a tote wagon which
broke down in the woods near Bemidji,
were drowned while attempting to
| convey the stolen goods across Lake
Bemidji.
Postal station No. Z in Minneapolis
was robbed one night last week. The
burglars blew open the safe and Sc.
cured $58 postal money, $12 in stamps
and 1925 belonging to J. w. Todson,
the druggist in whose store the sta
ton was located.
Samuel G. Iverson, state auditor,
has fled at the United States land
Office in Washington brief support
ing the claim Of the state of Mime
sofa to between $4,000 and $4,000 acres
of swamp land on the Chippewa In
dian reservation. ''''
| The house and buildings of John
Faulhaber, who lives on a farm ten
miles from Wabasha, were destroyed
by fire Wednesday night. His seven
year-old son was burned to death,
two other children badly burned and
his wife driven insane by fright.
| The supreme court has decided that
Julius GRESHAM, an East Grand Forks
saloonkeeper, should pay $500 for the
handful of whiskers which he pulled
out Of the face Of Ole Hedlund. The
court holds that the pain and suffer-
ing entailed was worth the amount.
The Saltwater prison population has
been materially increased by the ar
rival Of ten cOnvicts from the st.
Cloud reformatory, the men having
been transferred to the state peniten-
tiary because their conduct was not
conducive to the best interests of the
! reformatory.
| Casper Ernst, fnancier and real es-
tate dealer, has been arrested at st.
Paul charged with forgery and embez-
element. The warrants were sworn
out by Rev. John B. Metzler, a Cath
olic priest of Chippewa Falls, Wis,
for whom Mr.. Ernst has been transact
ing business.
Rev. William Fenton, for many years
a street preacher in St. Paul, who de-
nounced Masonry and expounded his
religious views in parks and on street
corners, was found dead in his bed
at his home in that city. Death was
probably due to heart trouble, compli:
Gated by old age.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved new regulations Of the forester
of the department Of agriculture for
the cutting and removing Of pine tim
| Der on the coded lands of those parts
! of the Cass Lake and Mississippi Chip
pewa reservations in Minnesota select
ed for the Minnesota national forest
reserve.
| Park Rapids public schools are
closed because Of disturbance be-
tween the superintendent and the