Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-10-02
NEWS IN MINNESOTA ]. |, ) : 9 q,

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curly Trust company and web fnoVA
In the bua1oass circles Of st. Rm b
dead. >a
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/ Chiah6lm Of New RayneDNi13e,
was ks11l1ed hy: the acctdental di1chas
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/ Rapqts hom TIE timber :best Of
Northern M1nn Say: the loss from
/ the, recent storm tn2y reach / more
than $1,000, 900. =; ..:~>
The American association baseball
season has ended, St. Paul winning
the pennant. Louisville second and
Milwaukee third
John NJ. Owens, formerly OF Fort
Dodge, la, was killed by train at St.
Paul Friday. It is believed that he
committed suicide.
Charles A. echof1e1d, one of the few
remaining pioneers OF Cannon Falls,
is dead. He had been q resident of
that place since 1855.
St. Cloud will entertain the Mime.
sofa state conference Of the Unltarians
Oct. 20 and ~. The leading Uni
tarians Of the state will be present and
speak
William 2lemer, a contractor, is
dead at ST. Cloud after long illness.
He was f1tty-two years OF age and had
been resident Of that city many
years.
Jasper T. Stegner, Minneapolis
street railway conductor, was Instantly
killed by Chicago, Milwaukee aud St.
from the body.
State timber aggregating $4,000, 900
feet, from which the state may realize
$500. 900, will be offered for sale Oct.
FL in Cook, Lake, St. Louis, Itasca and
Beltram counties.
James ]. Duc3as, aged thirty, shot
himself tn the right temple at the east
end Of the Robert street bridge, St.
Paul, and died an hour later. III
health was the cause.
Many miners from the Mesaba and
Vermi1lion iron ranges are leaving to
go to work In the Ignite coal mines
of North Dakota, where they are prom-
Used work the year round.
The Northern Pacific Railway com.
pany has begun work on its mammoth
frefghthouse in st. Paul. The struc.
ture will be the length of four city
blocks and Will be the largest in the
Northwest.
Diphtheria Is raging at the Catholic
orphan asylum at Minneapolis. OF
the eighty children at the asylum sew.
enty-two have been attacked by the
disease. The building is under strict
quarantine.
A strangely fatal disease has been
| ravag1ng the dairymen's herds in the
| country surrounding St. Cloud. The
disease has In all cases resulted fatally
| and been Of short duration, usually
but few hours.
Henry Jones, sixteen years old, at.
tempted to commit suicide in a cell
| at the St. Paul central police station
by hanging himself with his suspen.
ders. Shame at his arrest was the
cause Of the attempt
Mrs. Perkins and daughter Of Bing-
ham Lake were drowned while trying
to cross the Des Moines river near
Dundee. The team was also drowned,
but boy about twelve years old, who
was with them, was rescued by man
living close by the river.
Burglars forced their way through
the rear door of the Farmers State
bank at Waconia and drilled hole in
| the brickwork surrounding the vault
| but evidently became frightened, fol
they -'decamped without firing q shot
and left their tools behind.
Commissioner Richards Of the gen.
| eral land Office has named Nov. 10
| next at 9 q. m. as the date Of the open.
ing to settlement Of the three quarters
of million acres of coded Chippewa
lands in Minnesota, recently segre.
gated from the timber land of that
| reservation.
Nels Golackson, a North Dakota cat.
tie dealer, who was picked up in a
stupor in St. Paul Thursday, was start
ed for home Friday night, a babbling
idiot from drink, which it is limited
was drugged. He is said to have
| struck the Twin Cities with $4,000
which disappeared in Minneapolis.
Emile Grams, a farmer residing
near Eagle Lake, SHOT and instantly
killed his wife at the home { = her son
He borrowed shotgun from his
nephew and laid in ambush and blew
her head off, Grams wife left him siz
| weeks ago on account of his drinking
| This is the presumed cause of the
murder.
Hereafter the ranks of the knights
| of Pythias in Minnesota will be closed
against saloonkeepers, bartenders and
| professional gamblers. The grand
lodge decided the question at it's re
cent meeting and instructed the grand
chancellor to enforce the provision tt
this effect, passed in the supreme
lodge as far back as 1894.
| The profits of the state fair this veal
were more than $1,000. The total re
ceipts were 100000 more than last
year. The report of the treasurer
made at a meeting of the board Of
, managers, showed that the total re
| ceipts were $211, 436.35 and the dis
bursements $140,000, approximately
leaving a balance on hand of 81,
43635.
| Attorney M. D. Mum has filed al
appeal for the state of Minnesota IL
|