Little Falls herald., 1904-12-02
NEWS z y \ I N N ES OTA
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH
:.5.:... OUT THE STATE. ...

florists Of Minneapolis, is dead. +
Twenty-three feet on Nicollet ave
nue., Minneapolis. has Just been sold
for $55,000. b ~ " (T
An Italian named Tamo,. q resident
of Minneapolis. was run down by q
work train at Cokato and instantly
killed. !. 1...4. s.
The appointment Of Leonard A.
Rosing of Cannon Falls to a position
on the board of control has been an
nounced by Governor-elect Johnson.
DR.. T. J. Brabec, a we'll known ply
sician of Perham, has been indicted
by the grand jury at Fergus Falls on
the charge of desecrating an Indian
grave.
George Elmquist was accidentally
shot by his brother, Reuben, at Marine,
while they, with several other boys,
were at target practice. The wound
n serious.
While the Office Of the Omaha sta
ton at st. James was left. .unguarded
for = moment ct night thief entered,
pr1ed of the money drawer and carried
1t away. It contained about $40.
v Mrs. Anna Johnson OF Duluth leaped
into Lake Superior. Her husband, O.
H. Johnson, rescued her, and she later
was ad1udged insane = and was, cim-
m1tted to the Fergus Falls insane hos
pital,
May Mead, q nineteen.year-old girl
known in st. Paul resorts as Grace
Livingstone, died in the police ambu-
lance on the way to the city hospital
from an overdose of morphine. She
hoH nm rro11oI with ho~. 111ynv
Bemidji was visited by the most dis
astrous fire in it's history last week.
1t broke out in the Swedeback block
and entailed loss of $4,000. The
fire started in the basement from boil
ers and spread rapidly through the
structure.
Miners in the employ of the Kill
1orin-Philbin stripping operations at
Chisholm to the number of 1875 laid
down their shovels and refused to
work longer unless they were granted
increase in pay from SITS to So. The
advance was denied.
Because his sweetheart, Mrs. J. E.
Gordon, was paying more attention
to his friend, William Daley, than he
thought to be absolutely necessary,
Harry w. Kavanaugh, twenty-six years
old, committed suicide By drinking
carbolic acid at Minneapolis.
William ]. Carver, laboring man
forty-nine years of age, was found
dead in the rear of saloon at St.
Paul. Death from apoplexy was the
verdict given by the deputy coroner
The man had been drunk for two days
and when found he had been dead for
hours.
The large barn belonging to P. O..
Haugen, town of Stony Run, was burn
ed to the ground and nineteen head
of horses and eleven head of cattle
perished in the flames. He also lost
1000 bushels of oats and a lot of 9th
er property. He estimates his loss
at $500.
The two men who held up freight
train at Minneopa Falls last July and
robbed a travelling man, named e. P.
Lenz, were convicted of robbery in the
first degree at Mankato. Charles San
ders goes to Saltwater for fourteen
years and eleven months and Thomas
Murray for twelve years and eleven
months.
The Starch Land and Live Stool
company Of Des Moines, Ia, has pur-
chased 5000 acres of land in the north
western part Of Hubbard county. The
company Immediately will fence $500
acres Of the tract, will build large
farm buildings and will stock it with
fancy cattle, blooded sheep and An
CORA goats.
Miss Ella A. F'oote is dead at st.
Barnabas' hospital in Minneapolis aft
er an illness of several weeks. Miss
FOote was one of the leading kinder.
gartners of Minneapolis and opened
the first kindergarten under the al
spices Of the public school in the She2-
man school, where she taught until
her strength failed her.
Lester, the twelve-year-old son c..
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Sheratt of LAX;
1tasca, net with a peculiar acciIen
while driving on the roa! Letween t.,
schoolhouse and his home. He wa,
thrown from the wagon by the dash
boards collapse, and the front whee.
of the vehicle passed over his body
causing almost instant death.
Fire at Minneapolis destroyed the
old Hill building, owned by President
J. J. Hill OF the Great Northern rail
road, and occupied by three firms, in
curing total loss Of $4,000. The
Kellogg, Mckay, Cameron COMPANY
lose $4,000; Wyman-Partridge whole.
sale dry goods, $4,000; National Nov
city company, $4,000; building, $780,
000.
Daniel and Alvin Hall, brothers, OF
Manchester township, near Albert Lea,
became victims OF the deadly shred
der within short space of time Dan
lei got his right hand into the shred
der and lost his index finger. His
brother Alvin then took his place anG
in few minutes his right hand was;
in the cogs and his middle finger ami
part OF another were torn away
Seventy-hve prominent business
men of Minneapolis met with the
members of the Hennepin county
house and senate delegations at din
ner given at the Niccllet hotel Satul-
day night and enthusiastically in
dorsed the candidacy of J. 3. Gilfllan
for the seat in the United States sel,
ate which will be vac ated by Mos les
E. Clapp On March Of next year.
A destructive fire visited South
Saltwater last week. It started in the
kitchen OF the South saltwater hotel,
owned by Henry i,.alnmerstron, con
tanning thirty rooms, destroying yh&t