Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-04-22
NEWS NJ N j s O u
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THRouGH
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Bert Rouse, aged eighteen, was
killed near Long Prairie while hunt.
ing.
Fire at Two Harbors Saturday de.
stroyed number of buildings. causing
q loss of $4,000.
There are thirty-three cases Of
smallpox at the Minneapolis quaran'
tine hospital, the greatest number
since the epidemic of three years ago.
Despondent because he had been
discharged after some ten years serv-
ice in q foundry, without friends and
home, Henry Greener committed sui
eide at Brainerd.
During the past year the state board
Of health condemned and killed 748
head of cattle in it's efforts to stamp
out tuberculosis. Nearly one-half of
this number was from points outside
the Twin Cities.
The price of soft coal at the Head
OF the Lakes has been reduced from Is
to 50 cents ton, according to variety.
Stocks at the Head of the Lakes are
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tirely exhausted.
Senator Clapp has secured the pas
sage in the senate of his bill propos-
ing to pension the surviving defenders
at New Ulm and Fort Ridgley at the
time Of the Indian massacre in that
region forty years ago.
A proposition to issue $4,000 worth
OF bonds for new high school build
ing at Fergus Falls was defeated by a
vote of 213 to SIT after fight that
has lasted for over a year and a half
In one form or another.
The safe in A. M. Bagger's saloon,
Minneapolis, was blown up presumably
BY the same men who have been sue
cessfu1 with quite series of such ex-
ploits in that city recently. They sc.
cured only so in loose change.
The settlement of the unoccupied
land in Minnesota will be the purpose
of the Minnesota state immigration
convention in st. Paul June IA and
Is, under the auspices of the st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Duluth Commercial
clubs.
Duluth railway officials and land
dealers are preparing for a rush OF
settlers into st. Louis and Carlton
counties during the present season
and it is estimated that 1000 new
farmers will be located in that district
before the end of the year.
Martin Hannen, a laborer, was in
etantly killed in street car accident
;! 1T Minneapolis. John Peterson, plas-
terer, was seriously injured and Willie
Spargo, aged twelve, had his shoulder
severely bruised. Three other passen-
gers whose names were not secured
suffered slight injuries.
: After lingering for three days in a
Semi-conscious condition Andrew Jan
owitz died at the Minneapolis city hos.
pital as the result Of injuries received
J in family row at his wife's home.
Thomas Mosswitz and Ludwig Harvey,
the former .Janowitz' brother-in-law
have been held on a. charge Of man
. slaughter.
: Within a few blocks of the Prior
, avenue police station at Merriam Park
and in a neighborhood alleged to be
free from blind pigs" Sheriff Justus
Of Ramsey county and six deputies ar
rested six men and one woman and
i confiscated two wagon loads of liquor
The prisoners we're charged with IL
legal liquor selling.
Charges against William E. Dodge
: and Vernon w. Dodge have been filed
IN the supreme court by Eli South
worth. The disbarment of the two is
sought. Two railroad claim cases
! which the two attorneys are interest
cd in, are made the basis of the pro
ceedings. 1t is alleged they mulcted
= the plaintiffs in each case.
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G. Atwood lived in Minneapolis with
three different wives at the same time
each one being maintained at diff
terent home, was brought cut in the
Hennepin county divorce court when
j. witness stand in support Of her appli
cation for a divorce from her husband
The house committee on Indian at
fairs has ordered favorable report
on the bill introduced by Representa-
tive STEVENSON relating to allotments
on the White Earth reservation in Min
nesota. The measure provides that al
i the Indians on the reservation shall
receive allottments of ITO acres. L
there is not sufficient land to go roun6
y It is to be allotted pro rata.
= Frank H. Hamilton of Minneapolis
6 sentenced in connection with the kill
ing Of Leonard Day, has been denied
q pardon by the state board Of par
dons. The application was denied or
the ground that the prisoner is eligible
for parole and on the theory that the
state board of control had good rea
sons for not paroling him in accord
d ance with the usual custom.
DR.. L. B. Allen, who has for twenty
years been leader of his profession
n In Minneapolis, died suddenly of hear
y disease. He had been attending tt
his practice up to the time of his
j death. DR.. Allen was well known il
: the profession throughout the North
q west, having lectured on medical sub
I jects in several Of the adjoining states
u He was born Nov. 10, 1928, at Platts
burg. N Y.
il Captain Thomas Downs, specia
agent of the Indian department, ha!
concluded the work of securing thu
signatures of Indians for the cessio1
Of the west eleven townships Of tn
n Red Lake reservation and their re
l. moval to land about the Red LAX
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