Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-01-16
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

dead 1t st. Paul, aged sixty.fve years
Captain Swan Walton, for thirt,
years . member Of the Minneapoli.
F.. police department, is dead. -.
Alexandria is suffering from q severe
epidemic Of smallpox. It is said tn
disease exists in sixty.fve families.
Philip Scheig, the oldest barber in
Minnesota, for many years proprietor
OF the Ntcollet House shop in Mime
apolfs, 10 dead.
According to q decision of the state
/ supreme" court a beQuest for masses
and education of priests is \ trust NOT
authorized by law.
|; The total number Of deaths in st
!, Paul in 1902. was 1905; making the
death rate S.45, the lowest of 4 city OF
it's size in the world.
The state smallpox report for the
past week shows III cases, against 1852
last week. The heaviest outbreaks
are reported in Otter Tail county.
Duluth is now in the throes of an an.
thracite coal famine. Local dealers
have announced that not a ton OF it
will now be sold for less than $3.50.
Miss Perry Wilson, for many years
secretary and treasurer of the St. Paul
Street Railway company, committed
suicide at Long Beach, CAL, because OF
i'll health.
"A stranger worked forged check
for $4,000 through the First National
bank of Duluth. A Pinkerton detective
is pursuing the man eastward through
the copper country.
William Miessner, young mar
twenty-four years of age. was instantly
killed near Douglass while attemptine
to jump from moving gravel train OF
the Chicago Great Western railway.
Governor Van SAINT has named Theo.
dore L. Hays of Minneapolis, J. M
Underwood of Lake City and Condo
Hamlin of St. Paul as the Louisiana
exposition commissioners for Mime.
sofa.
While two desperaGoes were robbing
Minneapolis saloon detectives ap-
peared on the scene and the robbers
fled. The officers gave chase and one
OF the men was shot in the leg and
captured.
James Laton Robinson, a resident
OF Hennepin county for thirty years,
died last week at Los Angeles He
was seventy-six years old Mr.. Robin
son left Minneapolis three weeks ago
in failing health.
Love crazed and respondent Emil
Johnson of Virginia murdered Miss
Beena Benson because she refused to
marry him.. He then shot himself in
the head three times, and though still
alive he cannot live.
Convicted five times before of coun-
terfeiting Albert l.. Morey is again in
TIE custody of the Minneapolis police
on the same charge. Morey is sixty
five years old and looks nearly ten
years older.
Ole Johnson and two other farmers,
living near Dumont, were found dead
in snowdrift by the railroad track
they were lost in the storm or killed
by freight train.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of the Minneapolis district
court in sentencing Detective N. w.
King to the penitentiary for three
years. King was one of Mayor Ames'
best known appointees.
Representative John Taylor of lie
Sueur answered the initial roll call of
the house of representatives but has
not been there since. and his col
leagues fear he will not be there again.
He is suffering from cancer.
The jury in the case of the state
against Frank W. Bell, on trial at Aus
tin for shooting and killing Nels s.
Green at Elkton, Sept. IA, has returned
verdict Of manslaughter in the first
degree. with recommendation for
mercy.
The -four barrel makers have mott.
fed the five Minneapolis barrel shops
that they are expected to run only
eight hours day hereafter. The coop
ers' union has made this demand. The
owners do not seem to be worried at
the request.
State Treasurer Block has fled a
bond in the sum Of $4,000 with thir.
ty-one sureties. each. qualifying in
amounts from $4,000 to $4,000. He re-
iected the overtures of the surety
bonding companies whose charges he
regarded as unreasonable.
The war department has decided that
Fort Smelling shall have $4,000 of
the 100000 voted by congress for
amusements in the army. This will
be used in the construction of a post
exchange. gymnasium, reading room,
lunch and amusement room.
Cole Younger has made another ap.
plication to the state board of pardons
for full pardon. He has been on pa.
role from the state prison for a year
and a hall. The terms of parole for
bid him to leaverthe* state or: to. .exer.
else many other rights Of citizenship.
Minnesota ranks first among the
states in the production Of spring
wheat during 1902. according to a gov
ernment report For that year Mime
sofa had an acreage of 5,737,58 devot-
ed to spring wheat, and the yield was
1872. 404 bushels, valued at $4s,64S,-'
9G6. i::#3 -
r. B. Wbiteside of Duluth has &C.
cured an option from the Mesaba Iron
company, of which Hon. Alexander
Ramsey of st. Paul is president. to pur
chase the 5000 acres of land which the
company owns in 6O12 and e0-13. On
the Eastern Mesaba range; for con-
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