Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-12-16
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EVENTS DE- a. WEEK THRoUGH
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The factory Of the Red Wing Furni-
ture company has been destroyed by
fire. r. Elk. y. .$tt..'
Professor William H. Clark, one of
the best known musicians and church
organists in Minneapolis. is dead.
Walter w. Cowgirl, aged twenty-five,
ended his life at st. Paul by drinking
jaudanum. III health is the supposed
cause. - -'
Contracts have been let for an OK.
tension to the ore dock system in Du-
luth, almost doubling it's capacity. for
an aggregate of 100000. :
Despondent because he had been out
of work for weeks John Quinlan, aged
forty-five years, ended his life at Min
neapolis by drinking carbolic acid.
The mayor of Duluth has ordered
the theaters of that city Closed on
Sunday. There is decided division
OF opinion among the people on the
subject.
Secretary Hitchcock has approved
contracts for the sale of timber on
Minnesota forest reserves, bids for
which were received at Cass Lake on
Nov. II.
Oscar Gustafson of Cokato was f.
tally stabbed while walking toward
his home with four companions. One
OF these, Harry Foster, is sought by
the police.
For befriending a c;ck and aged
ran whom he regarG~-. as pauper
john Nelson, proprietor of the Dewey
hotel, Minneapolis, has been be-
Queathed the sum of $4,000.
John Crome, a patient in the state
hospital for the insane at Rochester,
took his life by tying together two
handkerchiefs which he twisted tight
ly around his neck to strangle him.
Minnesotans who had exhibits at
the worlds fair triumphed over all
other states in the matter of individual
prizes won and took five gold medals,
forty bronze and thirty-six silver ones.
Judge Greenleaf Clark, president of
the board of regents of Minnesota uni
versity, died last week at Lamanda
Park, Cal. Judge Clark was sixtynine
years old and was born in Plaistow,
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The iron ore deposits in st. Louis
county, owned by Minnesota, pro
duced l90,324 tons of ore during the
past year. The state gets a royalty
81 IS cents per ton a2d the revenue
this year amounted to $4S,96e.Si.
The Cleveland Cliffs Iron company
has brought suit against the East
Itasca Mining company to recover
So: 900 that it claims to have overpaid
that corporation in advance royalties
| on iron lands in the Western Mesaba
| Great Northern was wrecked at How
! ard Lake. All the cars left the track
except the mail car Several passen
gers were injured, but none seriously
The wreck was caused by an opeI
switch.
Thomas Blonde, a switchman EN-
| ployed by the Northern Pacific road
| was killed in the Minneapolis yards
He was on top of a car which was be
ing shunted to sidetrack. He slipped
from the, frosty roof and was caught
by the trucks and badly mangled.
Otto M. Davies, the Minnesota foot
ball player, will bring a $4,000 dam
age suit against the Illinois Contra
railroad because, after the Northwest
ern game in Chicago, he was arrested
in the depot and fined IS. The papers
are now being drawn up by his attor
neys.
One of the members OF the junior
class at the state university has beer
suspended from the institution for the
remainder of the year because there
recently appeared in one of the Min
neapolis daily papers for which he Is
correspondent certain statements thai
proved objectionable to the authorl
| ties.
The Ramsey county district cour
has decided that the st. Paul City
Railway company must pay the full
tax for 1903, delinquent, with the pen
atty of 10 per cent. The tax Ia $91,
G46 and the penalty $9,104.60. The
city railway company objected to thu
increase ordered by the state board O
equalization.
Five Minneapolis boys who hat
pleaded guilty to criminal assault O.
a deaf and dumb girl have been sen
fenced to the refornatory and Jaco}
kotschi was recently sentenced to fiji
teen years in the penitentiary in con
nection with the same offense. He i!
twenty-six years old, while the rest ar
all under age.
The prices of prison made Irvine fo
the year 1905 have been fixed as fol
lows: SisaI, standard and STANDARD
mixed, running 500 feet to the pound
at 81 cents per pound; STANDARD
manila, $50 feet to the pound, 80.
cents; manila, 900 feet to the pound
10A cents; pure manila, $50 feet t.
the pound, II cents a pound.
While going to the assistance of hi
brother, who was injured, w. G. Elli
OF Minneapolis slid down the cabl,
which supports one Of the derrick
on the Duluth canal ferry bridge t,
his death. He was injured in exactl,
1.-The same manner that caused Sigh
injuries to his brother, who had son,
down the. cable ahead of him.
| Governor-eiect Johnson has an
nounced the following appointments
Superintendent of public instruction
John w. Olson, Albert Lea, reappoint
ed; assistant superintendent of publ,
4! instruction, c.. G. Schulz, St. Peter
reappointed; dairy and food commits
sioner, Edwin K. Slater, st. Paul
governors executive clerk, Cleve w
Van Dyke, Alexandria.
Wives and widows Of old soldiers
will be cared for at the Minnesota sol
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