Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-07-22
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

"A four-year-old son of R. H. Russell
OF Stewartville is dead from poisoning
caused by eating the heads of of
matches.
A Carrie Nation raid was made on
q blind pig at Ten Mile Lake, south of
Fergus Falls, about forty women par
ticipating.
A negro accused of attempted as.
eault on an eleven-year-old white girl
narrowly escaped lynching at the
hands Of Minneapolis mob.
With eight companions standing
near him Andrew Larson, young man
Of twenty-five years, drowned in the
Mississippi river at Minneapolis.
Monsignor Satolli of Rome, cardinal
archbishop of the Holy Roman church,
was the guest of Archbishop ireland
OF st. Paul several days last week.
The new city directory of Albert
Lea is out and, using a multiple of
2, the city has population of 6,532,
or using 274 the number is 8,165, there
being 1896 names.
The st. Paul city directory for 1904
has just been issued and shows that
the Capital City has a population of
191,2S7, an increase of 1858 during the
year ending June 30.
The new gas works of the Zenith
Furnace company of Duluth will be.
gin furnishing gas next week. A
price OF IS cents net on all gas used
for heating houses is expected.
The crop report for the territory
west of Winona along the Minnesota
and Dakota divisions of the Northwest
ern railway, just issued, indicates that
there will be a banner crop this year.
Charles E. Fay, eldest son of Mar
Gus l.. Fay, mayor of Virginia and
millionaire mine owner, is dead of spi-
nal meningitis. Young Mr.. Fay was
one OF the best known mining men
on the Minnesota ranges.
Only fourteen new cases of small
pox, three OF which were in AIinneap-
oils, have been reported in Minnesota
for the week ending July II. This
is a light showing, but midsummer
Is the time when the disease spreads
the least.
Violent deaths and accidents appear
to be on the decrease on Minnesota
railroads. In 1903 II railroad en-
ployes were killed and 1,085 injured,
while for the year ending June 80,
1904, there have been only IS killed
and 1853 injured.
The state pardon board has denied
the petition to commute to life i'm
prisonment the death sentence i'm
posed on William Chounard by the
district court of Cass county on April
IA, 1904, for the murder of his COM
mOn-law wife.
Articles of incorporation of a new
railroad, the Minneapolis. and Rainy
River, have been filed with the Sec
rotary of state The road will extend
from Minneapolis through Hennepin,
Ramsey, Anoka, Isanti, Kanabec,
Cass counties.
As a feature of the Minnesota ex-
hibit at the St. Louis exposition W.
P. Mcconnell of the state dairy and
food department has arranged with a
number Of Minneapolis millers for a
supply Of -four, which will be made
into bread and given away with de-
icious Minnesota butter at the fair.
Deliberately throwing himself in
front of train an unknown man
about twenty-five years old was run
over and instantly killed on the North
ern Pacific road near North Town
Junction, just outside of Minneapolis.
The head and left arm were complete
ly severed and the body was ter
ribly mutilated.
Spurred to desperation by the sight
of his wife talking and drinking beer
ri q
variety performer, fired three shots
from a revolver at the woman in the
Empire theater, St. Paul, and severely
wounded her. Herr then turned the
revolver against himself, but his
wound is not fatal.
Lloyd l.. schigley, aged nineteen
years, an employe of the Duluth
Telephone company, was killed by
electricity while at work on pole
repairing the wires. He accidentally
placed his hands en- barred electric
light transformer. Twenty-three hun
dred volts passed through his body and
he was killed instantly.
Thrown out of work by the strike
of the butchers at Swift & Co.'s South
St. Paul plant and still further dis
couraged by the belief that his home
relations would be disturbed by the
marriage of his sister set for the fol-
lowing day, George Godbout, ST. Paul
lad of eighteen years, took his own lite
by drinking carbolic acid.
William I. Slime, who was chief
clerk and private secretary to the late
w. A. Scott in the Office Of the general
manager of the Omaha and remained
in the same position when Mr.. Scott
died about a year ago and was sue
ceeded by A. w. Trenholm, is under
arrest in St. Paul, charged with having
stolen $4,000 of bonds which were tie
private property of Mr.. Scott.
A bold Jail delivery, during which
three masked men liberated a pick
pocket named Kelly, occurred at White
Bear lone night last week. Charles
Sandahl night Waterman at the jail,
was held up at the point of revolve-s
by three men, who took his keys from
him, liberated Kelly and then, wrap
ping a shirt around Sandahl's head,
placed him in the prisoners cell.
The condition Of all crops in Min
nesota, with the exception Of corn
and rye, is better than it was year