Little Falls herald., 1903-07-17
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

pOplllat1On OF 231,277 #5
James T. Castle, youngest son of ex.
Postmaster Henry A. Castle Of St.
Paul, is dead at Tucson, Ariz.
Willie Fullerton, ten years old, lis
dead at st. Paul of lockjaw, the result
OF Fourth of July accident. =. :. -.
Aaron A. Hudson, the first superin-
tcndent of schools in Wabasha county,
Is dead, aged eighty-two years.
Grave robbers entered the tomb o!
T.. Petre in the Catholic cemetery at
Duluth and despoiled the skull of sev.
eral gold teeth.
Burglars entered the postoffice at
SWanyllle Friday night and succeeded
In opening the safe. They secured 45
cents in change.
James jerks, one of the pioneers OF
Minnesota, is dead at his home in St.
Cloud. He was born in Nova Scotia
IN 1881 and came to Minnesota in 1850.
Plats of two new townsites, both in
Reltrami county, have been filed with
the register of deeds at Bemidji. The
new towns will be known as Funkley
and Kelliher.
While returning from visit to some
sick neighbors Mrs. Mary Adams Of
Minneapolis was struck by Northern
Pacific passenger train and almost in
stantly xiii
It is rumored in congressional cir
cles that Representative James A.
TaWney of Winona is to be given q
position on the committee on rules in
the next house.
An elaborate Summer Carnival, to
be held July p to Aug. 8, is in process
| OF preparation in st. Paul. The pro-
ceeds will be used for the benefit of
the public baths. -.
A heavy rain storm caused wash
| out on the Chicago Great Western
road near Winona, derailihg freight
| train. Engineer Helm sustained prob
able fatal injuries.
Superintendent William F. Mcmillan
of the st. Paul Union depot has re-
| signed to take effect July 20. Mr. Nc
| Millan's eyesight has become so i'm
paired that he is forced to take a rest.
Frank Deyo of Spring Valley, aged
twenty-nine years, was killed by light
ming while stacking hay. Scion
| Blanchard, who was assisting in the
work, had an arm badly burned and
lacerated by the same bolt
The postofice at Newport was
robbed Friday night, the thieves en-.
tering the building through the base
ment window. All the stamps, large
number Of stamped envelopes and
, what change there was in the drawer
were taken.
Kearney P. Speedy, who does the
sensational drop from an S5-foot ladder
into tank containing three feet of
water with the Ferari" Carnival COM
pany, now operating at Duluth, at
tempted to loop the loop" and was
probably fatally injured.
The Great Northern coal sheds at
Evansville, Otter Tail county, were
struck by lightning and burned to the
ground during heavy thunder storm
Thursday. A box car in one of the
sheds was consumed and over 100 tons
of coal went up in smoke.
!! The secretary of the interior has
solved the problem arising out of the
controversy between the 500 road and
the Great Northern over the right of
way through the White Earth Indian
reservation in Minnesota by granting
the right to both companies.
In the recent death of Andrew
Walsh of Cedar Lake township, Scott
county, Minnesota loses another of its
veterans Of the war with Mexico. Mr..
Walsh marched with Kearney through
the Southwest in the memorable cam
paign which secured this country SO
much territory. He had lived in Scott
county forty-five years.
The rate war between the Chicago
st. Paul lines is on. A $40 rate from
a Wi tn
was advertised Friday by all the roads,
and this reduction was supplemented
by the Chicago Great Western an
nouncing a list of cheap excursions
from Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota
points. The special rates for these ex-
cursions are less in many cases than
a one-half fare for the round trip.
The wild man who has been causing
the Star Lake (Otter Tail county,
people much uneasiness is still at
large. He has been roaming about in
the woods for several days and was
finally corralled in clump of brush
by farmers, who sent word to the au-
thorities to come and get him. Be.
fore the sheriff could reach the place,
liberty.
WOllOIu duU T CIduhI1u N01SOu, SOuS
Of Alexander Nelson, were drowned in
Lake St. Croix at Saltwater while
bathing. The boys were nine and ten
years of age, and with number of
other boys were swimming around
when the younger boy got into deep
water. The brother, seeing him sink
ling, tried to assist him and also sank.
Other boys tried to lend helping hands,
but being young and weak could do
nothing.
w. J. Power of Duluth has secured
an alternative writ of mandamus
,against Surveyor General G. l.. Match
an of the Fifth district, directing Mr..
Matchan to show cause why he re-
fuses to scale and deliver 294,840 ieet
cf pine logs which the petitioner claims
belong to him. The logs were sold to
Power by the sheriff upon execution
proceedings and, although he has made
written demand upon the surveyor
general to scale and deliver them, Mr.
Matchan refuses to do so.
The unsahitary condition of the