Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-04-15
NEWS in MI NESOTA
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE,

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April 20, as Arbor day.
William T. Donaldson, aged seventy
,, nine, pioneer resident of st. Paul, is
dead.
Twenty-Five deaths from typhoid
fever occurred in Minneapolis during
! March.
James B. Gilman, resident OF Min.
neapolis since 1854, is dead, aged sew.
: enty-three years.
Colonel Monfort, president of the
Windsor Hotel company, st. Paul, is
dead after ten days. illness.
Charles Fancher, the zone man
band" blew out his brains with shot
gun at Lake City while Respondent
from Illness
According to the census bureau the
population of Minneapolis at the end
Of 1903 was 214,112, of st. Paul 49,
O3s and of Duluth 57,397.
The four-year-old daughter Of John
Hardwood, farmer residing near
Spring Valley, was burned to death
while playing with companions at a
| bonfire.
The safe in the meat market of
Ernest Young at Minneapolis was
blown open by burglars, who entered
the building by cutting out window
They secured $3.50.
More than 200 lawyers from all parts
Of the state were present at the open
Ing session of the supreme court. The
calendar was called and the 2O7 cases
were set for argument.
Professor Frederick e. Beckman,
nh
charge Of the Spanish department at
! the state university, has handed in his
resignation to the faculty.
Members of the bench and bar of
| Minnesota held banquet in Minneap-
oils last week. F.. G. Springer of St.
Paul was elected president of the state
association for the ensuing year.
Water in the Crow Wing river along
| the northern boundary of Morrison
county is ten feet above low water
| stage. Seven bridges at Pillager, Syl-
van, Motley and Staples have gone
out.
Active work has been started on
the improvements being made at Fort
Smelling. Nearly $50 men are now en-
ployed and the contractors will in
crease the number as the weather i'm
proves.
Governor Van SAINT has been petit
! toned by the old settlers of the state
| to use his influence in having certain
sentiments applicable to the old SET
! tiers and their deeds engraved on some
conspicuous part Of the new state cap
itol.
AS result of a fight over woman
Ia tn - ~ w
sons saloon, st. Paul, three men were
cut, one probably fatally, by John
Strong, colored porter, who is &C.
cused OF starting the trouble by in
sulting the woman.
J. G. Jorgenson of Forest City, Ia,
who passed through Minneapolis last
week on his way to buy farm near
Lisbon, N. D., reported to the police
that he had been robbed of 81 100 by
pickpockets while in the act of STEP
ping aboard train at the Union depot.
William G.. Masters of Mankato, who
was appointed to a position in the pos
tai service in the Philippines on the
recommendation of Representative Nc
! Cleary, has been promoted to be as.
sistant director of posts for the entire
archipelago at salary of $500 a
year.
In a fight ON the University campus
ut Minneapolis between the members
OF the Shakopean Literary society and
four rival organizations D. G. Dow, a
leader Of the Shakopeans, was stabbed
by one Of the members of the other
associations. The knife wound is not
dangerous
! A big opening of agricultural lands
on Minnesota Indian reservations will
occur within sixty days. All lands
| classed as agricultural on the Leech
Lake, White Oak Point and Winni-
bigoshish reservations will be thrown
| open to settlement in one p:oclama-
ton, which ls now being prepared.
The state normal board, by unani-
nous vote. elected Professor Guy E.
| Maxwell, who for the past four years
has been superintendent of the train
| ing department of the Winona normal
| school, to be president of that institu-
| ton to succeed DR.. J. F. Millspaugh,
| who has resigned to become the presi-
dent Of the Los Angeles (cal.) normal
State Auditor S. G. Iverson, through
the state legal department, plans to
| bring prosecutions against some of the
! lumbermen in the northern part of the
! state for trespassing on state lands
! Attorney General W. J. Donahower is
Investigating several cases in Itasca
county, and if there is sufficient evil
dence criminal actions will be COM
menced.
Miss Alix Mueller, formerly a st.
Paul newspaper woman, fluent
writer and the author Of a book in
W11ah was embodied the histories of
the police departments of Minneapolis
| and st. Paul, died in Oklahoma Fri
| day. Miss Mueller was largely instru-
mental in securing the pardon of the
Younger brothers and would have, it
il said, married Jim had the law not
interfered.
The state supreme court has hand
! cd down it's decision in the SO called
| Russell Sage land cases, involving
title to some $4,000 acres of valuable
agricultural lands in Southern Mime
! sofa. The test case is decided in ia.
vor of the settler and against Sage,
the trustee of the Hastings and Dakota
Railway company. 1t is said the de-
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