Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-07-24
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Twenty horses persisted ii q livery
stable fire at Minneapolis. s. sias
The postofice at Elkton was looted
last week and 1860 ia cash and stamps
taken. s st #5S Us
Alfred VILLAIN, aged eighty.nve years,
and Molvena Lata, aged eighteen. were
married at St Paul last week. II
Henry s. Haas, one Of the Oldest fire
insurance underwriters m the North.
West, IS dead at his home in ST. Paul.
4 George fischer, Duluth alderman,
has been charged in an open meeting OF
the city council with accepting q bribe
of SIS. % IL
7 B. II. Dingman, one OF the pioneers
OF Stearns couaty, is dead at his home
IN Farming. He was seventy-eight,
years of age. IS l..= s.s@ .s,5.s,c 81
Postmaster Axel ,Hammersten OF Co
kato is dead CT typhoid pneumonia, at
the age of forty years, after an illness
of few weeks. St. 5:@.,t ss = :.
Jake Walters, while digging a we'll
on the Buffalo Bill ranch ten miles
northwest of Argyle. struck gas at a
depth Of 120 feet. rs :s1-l& ~
While assisting. in the raising of a
building at Frank Woester's farm near
Dennison Erick. F1oren was instantly
killed by a falling timber. $
Western Union messenger boys Of
the night shift at st. Paul are on
strike for the reinstatement of two Of
their number who were discharged.
Han Hong, the only Chinese pris-
oner at the state penitentiary, has
been pardoned and will leave imme-
diately for his former home in China.
There have been four and there may,
be another death from lockjaW ;caused
by injuries received. by Minneapolis
parties during the Fourth of July cele-
brations. !.
Willie Nitz, a nine-year-old son of
Gustave Nitz of + Belle PLANE, was
drowned in the Minnesota river there.
He was standing on the bank, which
caved in.
The congressional committee on
military affairs, accompanied by, many
prominent Minnesotans, visited Fort
Smelling Friday and inspected the post
and troops. y
Governor Van SAINT last week tele-
phoned the sheriff of Blue Earth coun-
take place at Mapleton for $500 side
did not occur. .
Sam Svensk of Duluth returned
home in drunken condition and shot
his wife, fatally wounding her. He
then turned the revolver upon him
self and died instantly. -
Joseph Nieman, a farmer living four
miles north Of Saltwater on the shores
OF Carnelian lake, was mysteriously
shot while working in a field on his
land. He will probably recover.
Postohice inspectors offer a reward
OF $500 for Ed J. Dezell, halfbreed
Indian who was formerly employed at
Newport and who is suspected of be-
ing the Newport postoffice robber
John Anderson, a farmer south of
Dassel, had his leg nearly severed from
his body by mower. He stepped in
front of the machine to make some re.
pairs and the horses suddenly started.
AS the result of catching on a NOV
ing train in the Milwaukee yards at
Winona Willie Sanders was run over
and instantly killed. Several cars
passed over his body, cutting it in
two. -.
w. w. Pendergast, for many years
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton and recently president of the
state horticultural society, died at
Hutchinson Friday at the age of sew
enty.
Judge J. L. Macdonald, q former
prominent st. Paul attorney and ex-
congressman from the Third district
of this state, is dead in Kansas City,
Mo-, where he has resided for the past
six years.,
In order to become better acquainted
with conditions in Alaska Congress-
man James A. Tawney of Winona will
leave for there at the end of this month
to spend some weeks in travel, visiting
among other places Skagway, Juneau
and Sitka.
The United States Steel corporation
has acquired the state lease to the new
iron mine on the state land in the Hib
bing district. The option for the lease,
which was held by D. M. Philbin, has
been transferred to the Oliver Iron
Mining company.
The steamer William Edenborn has
again broken her hitherto unbroken
cargo record by loading at the Duluth,
Missabe and Northern docks at Duluth
1880 gross tons of iron ore, equal to
8,714 net tons: This is the largest car
60 ever floated in lake hull IT. ~
Frank Hill Of Elk River lost his life
In trying to rescue one of his children
from drowning. Hill was watching
the children battle when one of them
got beyond it's depth and the father
rushed to the rescue and, being unable
to swim, soon went down and did not
reappear.
Wolves are becoming so numerous
In 4Stearns county as to become. seri
Gus menace to the farmers focks
Since spring the Waite farm, just at
the city limits of St. Cloud, has lost
forty sheep and daily raids have made
the constant watching of the flock a
necessity. .-.-s@
John Nichols of Saratoga, Winona
county, who has been working on
farm near Pilot Mound, fell from a
load of hay and was impaled on a
pitchfork, the tines passing entirely
through his abdomen. He is now in
the hospital at Rochester and it is
doubtful if he: can live. X
The state pardon board still has