Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-08-07
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Paul since 1885, is dead.
Theodore Hamm, a wealthy brewer
of st. Paul, died suddenly of heart
failure Friday.
Joseph Udermann, one of the pio.
neers of Stearns county, is dead. aged
seventy-two years.
William Schultz, an aged farmer
living on the Lakeland road about six
miles from Saltwater, was killed in a
runaway Friday.
Harvey Wellington of St. Anthony
Park was struck by a train on the
Great Northern tracks in Minneapolis
and instantly killed.
Colonel Edward NJ Brown. veteran
editor, pioneer Of North Dakota and
for thirteen years a resident of St.
Paul, died Friday of apoplexy at St.
Paul.
Six-year-old Robert L. Allen of St.
Anthony Park was accidentally shot
and killed by Archie Gray, who was
shooting at sparrows with 3S-calibre
revolver.
Arthur Stenstrom, the fifteen
months-old son of John Stenstrom of
Knife Lake, fell into spout made for
conducting potatoes to pit and was
smothered.
Mrs. Anna Agnew Davis, widow of
the late United States Senator Cush-
man K. Davis and Hunter Doll of Knox
vile, Tenn. we're married at Wash
ington last week.
Oscar Erickson was killed and
Henry Schurmer badly injured by be-
ing caught in the cog wheels of the
heavy machinery at the Crookston Wa
terworks powerhouse.
F. J. Miller, an aged man claiming
near Dresbach, found a remarkably
fine pearl. On taking it to a jeweler
he was offered 5000 for the gem, which
he promptly accepted.
A. J. Richardson of Cass Lake, a
Great Northern brakeman, was fatally
injured at Bemidji by being caught
between car and the station platform
while making a coupling.
Judge Kelly, at St. Paul, has denied
the Injunction against the striking
plumbers prayed for by the employers.
The Judge finds that there has been
no case made out that would warrant
an injunction.
G. A. Bierce, pioneer of Winona
dealer, is dead at Winona. He was a
leading member of the board of trade
and much interested in the advance
ment of the city.
Albert Swanson, the five-year-old son
of Charles Swanson, homesteader
near GoWan, was lost in great swamp
near that place for four days and four
nights. When found the boy was al
most dead from starvation and terror.
Charles A. Kempfer, a pioneer set.
tier of the town of Friberg, Otter Tail
county. was found dead in a boat on a
small lake near his home. He had
been fishing and is supposed to have
been stricken with heart failure. He
came to Minnesota in 1857.
Because of a mysterious malady
caused by his teeth, which made him
al invalid and about which he consult.
ed twenty-six physicians without re.
suits, William Isler Of St. Paul, twenty
three years old, took his own life by
shooting himself in the head
John Guy, aged fifty-eight. living
just west of Austin, is dead from in
juries received from an enraged BULL
Mr.. Guy tried to drive the bull into a
yard, when the bull turned upon him,
throwing him down, tramping on him
and pounding his body with it's head.
The transcontinental roads estimate
that 100000 settlers passed through
the Twin Cities to the Northwest dur
ing the spring of this year. Of these
it is estimated that $4,000 settled in
the northwestern part of the United
States and that $4,000 went to Canada.
The crop year of 1923 ended July
81 at Duluth. The total receipts of all
grain for the year were 66,214,S44 BUSH
els, as compared with 68,457,117 for
the preceding year, and the total ship
ments we're $685. bushels, against
GO ,520,501 bushels for the crop year
of 1912
w. H. Francis, fagman for the Chi
cago Great Western road at South St.
Paul, and A. S. Francis. his son, sta
ton agent for the road at South St.
Paul, were run down by passenger
train at that village. The older man is
dead and the son is in a precarious
condition.
w. F. Street was accidentally shot
and killed by Louis Bland, his brother
in-law, while picking berries in the
woods near Bemidji Mr.. Street was
prominent man of that section of the
state, founder of Bemidji and ex-county
attorney of Beltrami county. He was
f1fty-two years Of age.
A new industry has been established
in the town of Star Lake, in the north
ern part Of Otter Tail county, COM
pany, composed largely of travelling
men, having organized for the cultiva-
tion of ginseng. The company is cap
italized at $4,000, and set out about
Is 900 roots, which will bear their first
seed this fall.
Deputy Game Warden Archie Phil
lips of Duluth has uncovered a big
plant of slaughtered deer in the vicin.
ity of Jesse lake, fifty miles north of
Grand Rapids, and arrested w. H.
Brown, justice of the peace; Samuel
Targenson, constable, and John Nc
Dougall, chairman of the town board,
all Of Bowstring township.
An Indian named Henry Jones has
been arrested at Park Rapids for the
murder of an Indian named Smith two
miles east of Menahga. Several In
dams we're drinking and in an ugly and
Quarrelsome mood. Jones dragged
Smith from the tent by a handkerchief