Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-09-09
NEWS IN MINNESOTA IA
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

Frank Warner of Cannon Falls was
seriously, If not fatally, hurt by being
run down by an interuroan car in Min.
neapolis.
The saltwater prison is running all
its binder Irvine spindles at full ca
pacity in order to increase the output
next year.
Oscar Colrud of Rosholt, Wis, was
run down by street car at st. Paul
and instantly killed. He was cut in
two by the wheels.
The total receipts of grain at Min
neapolis for the crop year ending Aug.
81 were 135,903,100 bushels, against
131,084,630 bushels in 1903.
Public Examiner Sam T. Johnson
has filed on the Republican ticket as
q candidate for the nomination for
city treasurer of Minneapolis.
M. c. Madsen has been appointed
assignee of Ansgar college at Hutch
inson and will have charge OF the
closing up the affairs of that institu-
ton.
Rain greatly interfered with the at
tendance at the state fair last week.
The total number of visitors reached
171,53S, as compared with 236,243 last
year.
OF the 26,500 men enrolled In the
Minnesota regiments for the Civil war
only 200 in all assembled in St. Paul
last week for the annual regimental
reunions.
Twelve thousand dollars has been
raised for the relief of the storm sui.
ferers at Waconia and St. Louis Park
and of this amount Minneapolis has
raised $4,000.
Joseph Shapiro, aged three and a
half years, who was kicked in the
head b. a horse at st. Paul Aug. IS,
ts dead from conclusion of the brain
caused by that injury.
Jumbo, who was as far as known
the largest dog in the world, is dead at
Park Rapids. He was Of the st. Ber-
nard breed, seven years old and
weighed at his best 305 pounds.
Lulu Anderson, the two-year-old
daughter Of G. w. Anderson Of Min
neapolis, died of strangulation as the
result Of swallowing small screw
with which she had been playing.
James T. Phelps, the Oldest passen-
ger conductor. on the Milwaukee road,
who for many years has run into the
Twin Cities, has been appointed su-
perintendent of the Minneapolis IN
ion Railway company.
The tenth anniversary of the Hinck-
ley fire was observed at Hinckley
| Thursday with memorial exercises.
| Many outsiders were present. Ad-
/ dresses were made by Senator Knute
! Nelson, R. c. Saunders of Pine City
and others.
I Andrew Carlson, stranger In St.
Paul, was found dead in bis room He
had committed suicide by turning on
the gas. He had been in the city: but
J four days, coming from Dallas, Tex,
in search of work, which he seemed
! unable ia, ind.
A. G. Dohm, young married man
j., and a, brother of DR.. Charles Dohm
deliberately committed suicide at St
! Paul by throwing himself IN front OF
I IN fnterurban car. The body was ter
ribly mangled. Dohm was an epileptic
and was gradually losing his mind.
! Minneapolis has become naval re
cruittng headquarters for the sub
stations In Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ne
braska and the nakotas- All recruits
enlisted in these five states will be
taken to Minneapolis and made VI
into parties for distribution to nava
receiving ships.
Returns on the examinations helG
by the county superintendent o.
schools for Hennepin county, at which
prospective teachers qualified, show
that only about half of the 225 who
took the examination succeeded. Only
rs per cent of the applicants secured
first grade certificates.
An eastbound freight train on the
Great Northern ran into the rear enc
Of another freight train near Clea
Lake, resulting in demolishing the way
car and several cars ON No. $50 ant
derailing the engine of No. 555 ant
nine cars, consisting of wheat an;
merchandise, which caught on fir
and burned.
Grant Riggle, editor of the Madelis
Tribune, was found dead in his room
! at the Golden West hotel, Minneap
oils, under circumstances that indicat,
that the man committed suicide will
an overdose of morphine. Riggle wa
in poor health and his visit to Mime
apo]is was to secure treatment TO
tuberculosis.
Plans for the new carshops of tn,
Twin City Rapid Transit company a
University and Smelling avenues, ST
Paul, have been completed. Eigh
acres will be covered by the buildings
The largest single building will be tn
new carhouse, which will cost $3.50
or 100000 and cover three and two
tenths acres.
Olmsted county took high honors il
the award of the judges of the stat
fair in the contest of counties for tn
best exhibits. Not only did it vii
first place in the contest on the high
est score ever made in a Minnesot
fair, 1,1S7 out OF possible 1900, bu
it also took first place for taste, desigl
and arrangement.
Two hundred and eighty person
have filed for Office in Hennepin cour
ty. Every Office to be filled has on
or more Republican candidates and il
some instances more than a dozen Re
publicans have filed for the sa1n
place. The Democrats have also file
for all Offices except in one ward an
the Prohibitionists will have a faj
showing on the ticket.