Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-04-29
NEWS IN MINNE b )!
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.


the Church Clubs of the United States
met in st. Paul last week.
John M. Ahern, an ex-policeman at
81. Paul, made vain attempt to res
cue MS horses from his burning barn
end:was seriously burned.
The jury in the Krause murder case,
at%fWorthington brought in a verdict
OF not guilty. Mrs. Krause was charged
with killing her husband.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
bank at Underwood, ten miles east of
Fergus Falls. but were frightened
away before they could secure any
thing.
H. w. Fields, for twenty-five years
q conductor on the Chicago and North
western railroad, died suddenly at
Minneapolis. He suffered an epileptic
stroke.
DR.. c. P. Art of st. Paul, charged
with causing the death of Esther Gill
by an illegal operation, was found not
guilty by jury in the Ramsey county
district court.
There is very little likelihood of the
national guard going to the worlds
falr, as promised by Governor Van
SAINT a year ago. The cost, about $780,
600, is too great.
Otto Miller, a Burlington fireman.
was thrown under his engine in the
yards near the Union depot, st. Paul.
and injured so badly that he died from
the effects about one hour afterward
A railroad car of foreign company
sent into this state with freight to be
delivered here cannot be attached in
Minnesota, according to a decision
handed down by the state supreme
court.
Mrs. Margaret Hanscom died Of Or
ganic heart trouble at Des Moines,
Ia, Friday. She was a pioneer Min
nesota woman, having organized the
hrst district school in Hennepin
county.
A strike occurred at the Pioneer
and Chandler mines at Ely Thursday.
Eight hundred men are affected. They
are dissatisfied with Superintendent
Charles Trezona and demanded that
he leave town on penalty OF death.
After he had been arrested and re-
leased on a charge Of beating his wife
Peter Engh, a prosperous. farmer who
resided near st. Hilare, hung himself
to tree near his house. His body
was found by persons passing on the
highway.
| Arthur L. Dickinson, postmaster at
Lyman, Otter Tail county, was brought
to Fergus Falls Saturday to answer to
the charge of opening and OBTAINING
letter addressed to l.. r. Randolph. He
gave bonds for his appearance in fed
eral court.
Two Easter funerals are held re-
sponsible for seventeen cases of small
pox since developed in South Mime
apolis and three of these have resulted
In death. Gatherings at the funerals
made it easy for the communication
Of the epidemic.
The disease that has been killing
horses northwest of Sank Center shows
40 signs of abatement. J. KOrte lost
four horses and the rest of his ami
mails we're sick. The disease does not
yield to treatment and is evidently of
q contagious character.
Frederick Forster, one Of the Oldest
residents of New Tim, is dead at the
age of eighty-six Mr.. Forster was
born in Germany and educated for the
profession of a teacher. He came to
y
tied in New ulm in 1858.
Davidson & McRea of Duluth have
purchased from the Canadian Northern
road all OF the town sites on that line
| between Port Arthur and Edmonton
The number of town sites involved is
said to be 200. The monetary consid-
sration Is said to approximate $1,000
900.
Samuel H. Folsom, who died in Min
neapolis Friday from congestion of the
lungs at the age of eighty years, was
one of the first principals of the public
pchoo1s Of Minneapolis. He was prin-
eipal from 1857 till 1860 and from 1850
until 1890 he kept private school in
that city.
Chief Bemidji, the oldest and one of
the best known Indian chieftains of
the Northwest, died at Cass Lake, aged
eighty-five years. He participated in
many famous battles and volumes
have been written concerning him.
The town of Bemidji was named after
the chief.
An inquest was held at Fergus Falls
over the remains Of Frank O Smith,
schoolboy7 who took out a $4,000 life
Insurance policy in his mothers favor
and died shortly afterward. The jury
! found that death was due to aconite
POISON administered by some person
unknown.
Lieutenant Peter Hagenson of Com
pany A, Third regiment, Minnesota
national guard, died last week in Du-
luth as a result of illness contracted
during his service at Chickamauga
Park during the Spanish-American
war. He was taken sick there and has
not been in good health since.
W. E. Noxon, the we'll known Min
neapolis lawyer, was drowned in Echo
bay, New Rochelle, N. Y, Saturday.
Mr.. Noxon was being entertained
aboard the yacht Of his brother,
Charles Noxon, and fell overheard and
sank before a boat could be lowered
to rescue him. Mr.. Noxcn was suffer-
ing from partial paralysis and had
been in Porto Rico all winter to re-
gain his health.
Charles Perry, the oldest settler in
Ramsey county and perhaps in the
state. died at Lake Johanna, Mounds
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