Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-10-23

son OF Paul Naddeo of Minneapolis,
was instantly killed by the fall of a
woodpile around which he was play.
ing.
telegram from Chicago amour ces
ehe death of Henry c. Fogle, who We
for many years manager of the NJ
snesota Thresher company in Still
water.
Albert Belanger of the Twenty-f.r:'
Infantry band at Fort Smelling was
killed on the railroad track near Me-
dota. The body was cut into twenty
seven pieces.
Mrs. Mary Musolf of Guesen town
Ship, st. Louis county, is dead at the
age OF 101 years and leaves three sons,
twenty grandchildren and six great
grandchildren.
Joseph Brown, insane, crawled along
an eight-1nch ledge Of the Minneapolis
courthouse from one window to an
other, $50 feet from the ground, and
escaped unhurt.
Thomas Collins, an engineer on the
Northwestern railroad, living at New
Clm, drank a wine glass of carbolic
acid. mistakipg it for whisky, and died
inside of an hour.
W. H. Eustis of Minneapolis has de-
clined to accept the position of audi
tor for the postof1ce department at
Washington, the place vacated by Cap
tain Castle of St. Paul.
Suicide with carbolic acid was
Charles Backstrum's way of avoiding
arrest on the charge of non-support
of his wife when a Minneapolis police
man went to his home to serve the
warrant.
j., Denniston & Kits of Fergus Falls
have bought the bank accounts of
Slandrfng Bros. at Foxhome and re-
opened the latter's bank. Under the
new arrangement depositors will be
paid in full.
| Luther seminary of Hamline cele-
brated it's twenty-fifth anniversary
Wednesday of last week. Many of the
leading educators in the Norwegian
Lutheran synod's schools and colleges
were present.
| The lumber mills of the state are
| preparing to have record breaking
season this year. In Minneapolis
some of the mills have been reopened
but many of them are still closed by
the high water in the river.
St. Paul grocers charged with VIC
1ating the Sunday closing law have
raised the point that keeping of q
grocery store is servile labor and
! therefore expressly permitted by the
Minnesota statutes on Sunday.
! .:C..B.. Janney of the wholesale hard
ware firm of Janney, Semple &, Co. of
Minneapolis is said to have told the
Hennepin county gEand jury of a deal
involving $1,000 for the vacation Of an
alley adjoining the firms property.
The Nester estate has established
one Of the largest lumber camps in
Lake county at Palisade creek, near
Brown bay, and will bank over 10 ,000.-
600 feet Of pine this winter. It will
require two years to complete their
cut in that locality. ...
Charles F. Leland, president Of the
defunct Commercial Banking company
of Duluth, at meeting of creditors
before Referee in Bankruptcy Pealer,
admitted that he signed the fictitious
name of McIntire to a note for the
purpose of securing money for his own
use from the bank.
| James Hughes, formerly an orderly
at the st. Paul city hospital, drank
carbolic acid in drug store and died
within an hour. The cause of the sui
! eide is said to be financial troubles
and alcoholism. Hughes was twenty
seven years old and came from Dover,
N. H. He was with Dewey at Manila
bay.
Peter o. Elliott the crank who Gre
| ated sensation at the White House
recently by insisting upon seeing the
| president and who engaged in severe
fight with the policemen at the White
House. grounds, will be brought to
Minneapolis, his former home, and
committed to some institution for the
insane.
H. S. Tubbs of Manchester, a., a
deputy game warden of that state, was
fined 500 in the St. Paul police court
for having two carcasses Of deer in his
possession out of season. He explained
that the deer were killed in Wiscon-
sin and were being shipped to Iowa.
which makes no difference under the
game laws.
The controversy between Lake Ben
ton and 1vanhoe as to which is the
county seat of Lincoln county was
argued in the supreme court last week.
Lincoln county voted at the last cleo
. ton on the proposition of changing
the county seat from Lake Benton to
Ivanhoe and Lake Benton is seeking
=, to upset the election on the charges
of irregularity.
There was another remarkable &C.
currence Friday in connection with
the present Hennepin county grand
jury. Judge Pond dismissed from the
jury A. J. BTainard, one of its mem
bers, for divulging it's secrets. He cid
this on information Of Alderman
Mumm. who personally told the Judge
that ne had received from Mr.. Brain
ard tips as to what was going on n
the jury room.
Oficials Of the Duluth land office
are preparing fo- an .unprece1ente ::
rush of settlers to Northern Mir
sofa next month; when over $50 900
acres Of laad will be: thrown. open FOR
homestead entry. Inquiries :at the
rate of fifty or more a day are now
being received by Register Culkin. IN
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