Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-08-12
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
ltvENTs or THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THEasTATG.

OUT THE STATE.
- J. r. Zweifel Of Duluth was chosen
president of the Northwestern Pho
tographers' association at st. Paul.
Special agents Of the treasury de-
partment at Washington are now in.
vesttgating the report that smuggling
At St. Paul Frank Pennig, fourteen
years old, fell into rain barrel when
overcome by an epileptic flt and was
drowned.
Edward P. Mackey Of Saltwater, q
timber cruiser, has been drowned
while crossing stream near Interna-
tional Falls.
Rev. Patrick v. Hartigan, prior of
the Holy Rosary Dominican convent
Of Minneapolis, is dead Of hemorrhage
Of the brain.
Citizens of Mankato have endorsed
q proposition for street railway and
1t is expected the city council will
grant the required franchise.
Sixth place is held by the Twin
Cities as recruiting station for the
United States army in the record of
enlistments during the past three
months.
The Tri-State Telephone company
announces a rs per cent cut in the
rates charged by the old lines for long
distance service from Winona to the
Twin Cities.
Is being done along the Northern Min
nesota border. The claim is that a
systematic scheme of bringing goods
across the border near Rainy lake has
been unearthed.
The strike of the shippers at the
Fayal mines at Eveleth for a raise
from $3.50 to S1.75 a day has spread
to the surface laborers. Six hundred
men are now out.
While in pursuit Of man who had
1nsulted several small girls Sunday at
Minneapolis, Police Officer Mike Law
renee was shot by the fleeing man and
seriously wounded.
John B. Gillespie, for ten years as
sistant secretary of the State Fair as
ISOLATION and state deputy of the An
Gent Order of United Workmen, is
deao at Hamline of appendicitis.
DR.. A. A. Ames, formerly mayor of
Minneapolis and who has been tried
for completely in the alleged municipal
scandal Of few years ago, has filed
as Republican congressional candi-
date from that district.
John Benolken, the ten-year-old son
of Charles Benolken, lost his hold on
a derrick rope at Cooks quarry in
Minneapolis Friday, fell into a pool of
water in the quarry and was drowned
before assistance could reach him.
A petition has been filed with the
United States district court by the
creditors of the Bohn Manufacturing
company of st. Paul to have the COM
pany declared bankrupt. The petition
states that the firm has debts amount
ing to $4,000.
Counterfeit dollars of excellent
make and such accuracy Of design as
to battle the most expert bank clerks
have been flooding Minneapolis for the
past two weeks and the tellers have
been working overtime picking out the
spurious coin from the genuine.
Private Edward Devices of Company
A, TWenty-first infantry, was instant
ly killed by fall of forty feet from
the approach to the Fort Smelling
bridge to the rocks below. It is thought
that he had gone to sleep on the stone
railing which guards the approach
Bessie Dahl, aged one year, a daugh-
ter of E. ]. Dahl Of Minneapolis, died
late Thursday from the effects of eat
ing four pills containing strychnine.
! The child was left alone at home for
few minutes and found the box of
pills. Death occurred within an hour.
Smallpox has nearly died out in
Minnesota, according to the weekly re.
port Of DR.. H. NJ. Bracken, secretary
Of the state board of health. The mum.
Der of new cases in the state in the
week ending Aug. l was only six, the
smallest number for one week in sew.
eral years.
A triple drowning occurred in the
treacherous Blue Earth river about
! three miles from Good Thunder. Wins
! low Paul, aged fourteen years; Clar.
| ence Paul, aged ten, and Frank Noun
| tain, aged ten, sons Of we'll known
! farmers, while swim ming got beyond
| their depth and all persisted.
Ivanhoe won out in the county seal
election in Lincoln county by Is votes
over the required IS per cent of the
votes cast. Ivanhoe received 1911
votes to 94S votes for Lake Benton
This is the heaviest vote cast in tho
history of Lincoln county, being 36(
! more than was cast in the county seal
election of 1901.
| Robbers entered the residence of NJ
Rasmussen, wealthy farmer living
| in the town of Prior, Big Stone county
/ and, after beating the old man ove]
the head with pump handle until he
was insensible, secured $4,000 in golt
and currency which was in a tin DO,
, secreted under the old mans bed. The
robbers made their escape.
Greater in size and architecture thar
any building at present belonging tt
the university new main buildinE
for the State Agricultural school will
be built at cost of 100000. Plans arc
now being drawn by the architect G.
the state board of control. The COZ
tract will be let in a month or two
and the foundation laid this fall in o.
der that most of the work may be done