Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-11-13
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

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>Nels Olson, a Litchfeld harness
maker, committed suicide by hanging.
Ill health IL the cause.
Ole Lee was instantly killed near
Stewattville by being caught in the
belt OF q threshing machine.
Burglars entered the Office of Wells
Fargo & Co. at Rochester, drilled open
the safe and took 500 in cash, the
express book and other valuables.
NJ. T. Christianson was run over by
q wagon loaded with lumber at st.
Paul and died soon after. One of his
lungs was ruptured by fractured rib.
Within year the Minneapolis Com
merclal club will have a fine new
100000 building of it's own, especially
| designed for it's needs, in down town
location.
August Janeck, a farmer residing
| near Royalton, was killed by falling
from load of wood while his team
was running away. He was seventy
years of age.
Mrs. James Kelly, an early settler
In the state, who for sixteen years
resided at Minneapolis, is dead. Mrs.
Kelly located at Henderson with her
husband in 1861.
The dead body Of David Hanson was
found in the upper part of the county
, Jail at Albert Lea, he having hanged
! himself with the end of rope used to
i, open the ventilator.
. A. Norman, proprietor and man.
ager Of the St. Paul Furniture CON-
pany, closed his factory and laid off
| 125 men because his fireman was ar.
rested on charge of violating the
smoke ordinance.
Henry Schreiner, cashier of the de-
funct Scott County bank at Jordan,
and Altos Schaffer, the assistant cash
! Ter, were brought before Justice Irwin
at Belle Plaine Each waived exam
| fnation and were released on $4,000
ball.
The United States land Office re-
ceipts in Duluth for the month Of o.
tober were $41, 426.20, as compared
with about $4,000 for September. A
large amount of the big increase was
derived from the cash sales of public
lands during the month.
The annual report of the Chicago
Great Western railway, filed with the
state railroad and warehouse commits.
sion, shows that the Minnesota lines
paid total revenue of 81, 339,945 last
year. The total gross earnings of the
entire line were $7,818,918.
Official statements are that it is
reasonably certain that the Great
Northern next year will take up the
construction of it's projected line from
Wenatchee to Republic and will con-
struct during 1904 thirty miles of rail-
way connecting Wenatchee with Che
Ian Falls.
Miss Mary Erickson, fifteen years
old, was accidentally shot and instant
ly killed at the residence of her uncle,
E. Erickson, about four miles north of
Montrose, by shotgun in the hands
of her cousin, Annie, of the same age.
It was another case Of didn't know it
was loaded.
The supreme court holds that the
election of Oct. 20, 1901, at which the
voters of Lincoln county decided to
remove the county seat from Lake
Benton to Ivanhoe, was improperly
called ard Ivanhoe must secure an
other election in order to be the seat
of government.
Rev. Timothy Voeth, pastor of st.
Bonitace German Catholis church Of
Minneapolis, dropped dead in his study
in the rectory. It is supposed that the
priests death was due to some kid
ney affection. Father Voeth was forty
eight years Of age and had been at st.
Boniface. for long while. ! i .. j
The state board Of health Is consid-
ering the advisability of requiring
cases of tuberculosis to be reported to
the board, so that it can assist in pre-
lventing q Spread Of the disease. This
requirement is made by New York and
some other states and, it is said, has
proved eminently satisfactory.
The state superintendent of public
instruction has received complaints
from school districts of the state that
agents, purporting to represent the
state department, are selling special
charts and school aids to rural schools.
The charts are said by this superin-
tendent to be practically worthless.
Fire in the Merchants hotel at St.
Paul damaged the hotel to the extent
of $4,000 and caused great excitement
among the guests. ONLY the effective
work of the fire department and the
fireproof nature of the room in which
the fire started saved the hotel dis
astrous fire and possible holocaust.
During an Indian payment by the
government at Kimberly dispute
arose between two Indians when one
of them drew gun and fired, killing
the other almost instantly. The MUIR
derer is a nephew of the murdered
man and the shooting is thought to be
the result of a family quarrel Of long
standing.
Senator Nelson has raised an impor-
tant question involving title to upward
of 100000 acres of Minnesota lands
which we're originally granted to the
St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba
railroad. The grants were made at Diff
ferent times to apply in consideration
for construction of the various lines
of that road.
| Proceedings to condemn land for a
right of way for a new electric line
through Southern Minnesota have
been brought and about 100 miles of
trackage land has been secured. This
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