Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-02-27
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Chancey, the nine-year-old son of N
u. Miller Of Royalton, was kicked by q
horse and fatally injured. = ....l~ =.
The thirty-seventh annual conven.
ton of the State Editorial association
met at St. Paul last week. Many sub.
Jects OF Importance were discussed.
August Kreutzer, a cattle buyer OF
Winona, lies at the point of death, the
result of injuries received by being
struck by train on the Milwaukee
road.
Senator Andrew Grindeland has
been appointed member of the nor
NAL school board to fill the position
made vacant by the death of J. c.
Norby.
Profits of 20 per cent for the year
just closed were made by the fire in
surance companies doing business in
Minnesota, according to Insurance
Commissioner Dearth.
Michael Knot, car inspector en-
ployed by the Omaha Railway. COM
pany, was instantly killed while en-
gagged at his work in the Minneapolis
yards Of that company.
Leon, three-year-old son of Mrs
Ella Wilson, St. Paul, died Friday
night, unattended by a physician, and
the fact brought to light case of ex-
IRENE deststIticl and suffering.
Mrs. Nina Clark of Cass Lake has
been robbed of a diamond ring valued
at $3.50, a gold watch and $50 in cash.
The thief forced open the side door
OF her residence while she was out.
Walter Lee, bookkeeper for the
Moorhead branch of the Heilman
Brewing company, is wanted on a
charge Of embezzlement. It is alleged
that he is $4,000 short in his accounts.
The stage Of water in the Mississippi
river is at the lowest point on record
! and IT present conditions continue the
-four mills in Minneapolis will be
obliged to do all their grinding with
steam.
P. H. Kelly, a Burlington freight
conductor, was instantly killed in a
rear-end collision between a Great
Northern switch engine from Mime
apo!is and a freight train near the
Westminster street bridge in St. Paul.
The Northwestern boiler works at
Duluth were destroyed by fire Friday
The plant was Quilted and nothing was
saved except the books Of the firm
which were in a separate Office build
ing. The loss is estimated at $125000.
The Duluth Clothing merchants
| have agreed to keep open every even
ing from March Is to April Is to
catch the lu11beIjack trade, much of
which they will miss otherwise to the
advantage of the Twin City mer.
chants.
The railways of the state are about
to establish an important precedent,
and will shortly pay into the state
treasury some 100000 in back taxes
on rebates and commissions. The
matter has been in dispute for some
months.
George E. Chapman, prominent
live stock shipper of Westbrook, this
state, died suddenly in the Office of
Wood Bros, commission merchants,
at the Chicago stock yards. Heart
failure is supposed to have been the
cause of death.
"A company has been organized at
Crookston to build a -four mill in lieu
of the one owned by the Dwight Mill
ing company. which burned on Christ
| mas eve. The mill will have capac-
ity of 800 barrels with a possible ca
pacity of 1000.
The fishermen of the north shore of
Lake Superior have petitioned Con-
gresham Morris to use his influence
to secure the establishment of a fish
hatchery at Cross River, in Cook coun-
ty. They set forth that unless more
hatcheries are provided the fish in
dustry of this lake will be ruined.
Four young women from St. Paul
stood at the outer door of the federal
building in Duluth from to o'clock
Thursday morning with the thermom-
eter registered 20 dogs. below zero and
the wind blowing fifty miles an hour
in order to be the first to file on lands
in township on the north shore of
Lake Superior.
Edward Wood of Galesburg, ILL.,,
had strip of skin ten inches long
removed from his body at St. Joseph
hospital, St. Paul, and the cuticle was
afterwards grated on the injured leg
! of his brother, c. J. Wood. an engineer
of the Burlington railroad. The oper-
alton was successful and both brothers
are progressing satisfactorily.
A large order of flour has been en-.
tered by one of the Minneapolis mills
to be shipped to Adelaide, Australia.
1t is not unusual for -four to be
shipped from the Mill City to Austria
liza, but heretofore the shipments have
been confined to ports in the northern
| part of that continent. Adelaide is
one of the extreme southern ports.
Edward McCue, aged sixty-seven
years, an old resident of Duluth, died
| Saturday of heart trouble as he had
| predicted. He was a prominent con-
| tractor CT Duluth. When Charles G.
Franklin, an old resident, died some
! time ago McCue predicted that he
would be the next old settler to &C,
and named Feb. 81 as his last day on
earth.
Embedded in the ice of small
spring, with only his face and one
hand visible, the body of Frederick
Brandhorst OF St. Paul was found by
! three small boys who were crossing a
hollow on Woodward avenue, that city.
The man had been dead for two days
and the ice formed by the overflow OF