Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-01-15
NE M n NES ia
EVENTS Or II EssW WEEK THRo 9Th
OUT THE STATE.

/ I $S M. I.aner, one Of the Oldest millera
In the state, is dead at Elk River. :
Is j. ]. McCardy Of st. Paul has beer
appointed auditor Of the postoffice de
partment. ..- 80 ~-s -.
Mrs. D. H. Fridley, who arrived in
Minnesota in 1S4S from Galena, ILL.,, is
dead at st. Paul.
The receipts of the Duluth postofRce
for 1903 were SIG, 398.87, as compared
with $154,544.79 in 1902, an increase OF
$21 ,854.OS.
|~~ Charles Rupp, wanted by Duluth off
Gals on the charge of forgery, com.
mitted suicide in that city by taking
strychnine.
Hartley Moran, aged fourteen, es.
capped from rapidly moving train
while being taken from Minneapolis to
the Red Wing state training school.
Edward Mann's horse and cart were
struck by train nine miles from Man
kato and the horse killed and rig de-
molished. Mann was only slightly
bruised
Fifteen hundred St. Pkhl business
men attended reception at the Com.
mercial club in honor of Howard FL
lott, the recently elected president of
the Northern Pacific.
DIR. Chauncey Hobart, for nearly sew.
enty years an ordained minister in the
Methodist church, is dead at Red Wing
after a weeks illness OF pneumonia.
Robert c. Dunn has made an an
nouncement of his candidacy for the
Office Of governor at public reception
rendered him at Princeton, his home
town.
The entire force Of the accounting
department of the Pittsburg Steam
ship company at Duluth has been mott
fed that it's services will not be need
Cd after Feb. /.
st. Paul's death rate during 1903
was 8.91 for each 1000 inhabitants.
This is reduction Of "a under the
record for 1902 and is less than the
record of 1901 by go and of 1900 by
~.
Patrick Kelly of Mankato, who at
the time he was taken sick three
weeks ago was undoubtedly the oldest
active policeman in the world, is dead
of pneumonia at the age Of ninety
seven.
Burglars blew the safe in the depot
ern Pacific and Great Northern rail-
, roads. Two charges of nitroglycerin
were used. The robbers secured $3.50
in cash.
State Oil Inspector F. G. Warner has
| fled his annual report for the year,
showing receipts of $31,104 and dis
bursements of s29, 560.16, making the
receipts $2,149.S4 in excess of the cost
of inspection.
According to statistics compiled by
the state labor bureau the average
drug clerk of the state works eleven
and one-half hours day for seven
days in the week and is paid the sum
OF $67.67 month.
! David F. LEWIS, who came to Mime
| sofa over forty years ago, died at his
home on farm near South Bend,
| Blue Earth county, of complication
of ailments brought on by the grip and
old age. He was eighty-four years old.
DR.. A. B. Ancker, for twenty-one
years general superintendent Of the
city and county hospital at St. Paul,
has rendered his resignation to the
board of control. He has accepted
the position of superintendent of the
Presbyterian hospital in Chicago.
Rev. J. Pacholski, pastor Of St. Stan
islaus church OF Winona, is being IS.
vorably mentioned to succeed Bishop
Messmer of Green Bay, Wis. The
Poles of the Green Bay and Milwaukee
diocese are unanimous in their choice
of Father Pacholski for the bishopric.
The schedules Of Casper J. Ernst,
the st. Paul capitalist sent to the peni-
Tertiary for forgery, will be filed by
Receiver Ware within few days. The
scheduled liabilities will aggregate
about $150,000, although doubtless
many claims will never be heard from.
C. G. King, pioneer merchant of
St. Paul, who had lived in that city
since 1854, is dead after lingering
! illness. He was member of the Pho
neer Guards and participated in the
war against the Sioux Indians in 1862,
acting as colonel of one of the regi-
ments.
| Henry Harms, Henry hatfield and
E. C.. Hartley of Carver county have
purchased from the Boston and Duluth
Farm Land company 4,800 acres OF
land in Carlton county, fifty miles west
of Duluth, for $4,000. They will es'
tablish colony of Germans from Car
yer county on the lands next spring.
Two children of Rohrus Symanietz,
living at St. Anna, twenty miles west
OF st. Cloud, have been burned to
death. They were left alone in the
house while the mother was at church
The father, working at the barn, res
cued them, but they died in short
time. They were playing with the
fire in the stove.
! After being out three and one-half
hours the jury in the case of the state
of Minnesota against Edwards, Wood
& Co., on trial at Duluth, returned a
verdict of guilty. The firm was charged
with failing to- make true return with
in twenty-four hours on the sale OF
the consignment of fax shipped tt
them Jan. II, 1908, by Victor Carlson
of Hallock, MINI.
James Van Vert, postmaster al
,, White Earth, was bound over to the
United States district court by Com
missioner Rasmussen at Moorhead
Van Vert is alleged to be short in his
faccounts with the government $421.7s
:. and he claims he has been robbed
Incnootor Morris discovered the short