Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-08-19
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
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minneapolis, Is dead.
The total assessed valuation Of Min.
neapolis is $135,000, 900. e. -
James Macki was run down by q
Northern Pacific train at Minneapolis
and suffered the loss Of both legs.
John knight, seventeen years Of age,
was drowned in Cedar lake at Mime
apolis while swimming with some com.
panions.
J. W. Dreger of Minneapolis was
elected president Of the Interstate
Sheriffs' association at their annual
convention at st. Louis.
John Arneson, five years old, was
run over by a Great Northern switch
engine at Carman and was instntly
killed. His body was cut in two.
George Kimmel, seven years old,
was ground to death under a freight
train at the Toronto Atreet crossing
Of the Milwaukee road at st. Paul.
Pending more certain outlook as
to the -four demand and the price Of
cash wheat all but five of the Minneap-
oils flour mills have shut down indefi-
nitely.
John Pleva, aged fifteen, died at the
Minneapolis city hospital last week,
the victim of a revolver bullet in his
head, accidentally fired by Glynn Phil
ipps. twelve years old.
p. A. Ewart, assistant attorney gen
eral, has made a ruling in reply to
the secretary of state that the So
cialist or Public Ownership" party
will have to get it's nominees on the
ticket by petition.
A fire which Quilted the Printers
Exchange in Minneapolis Friday night
caused a total loss of $4,000 and seri-
GUS injury to six firemen, among whom
was Assistant Chief Kehoe One of
the firemen will probably die.
The Bank of Hazel Run, Yellow
Medicine county, was robbed of $4,000,
the contents of burglar proof" safe,
at midnight Thursday. The robbers
used dynamite and wrecked the bank
building. They made their escape.
The Great Western Cycle company
store, 612 First avenue southeast, Min
neapolis, was entered by burglars
Thursday evening for the twentieth
time In three years. A number of re-
vOlverS and much fishing tackle we're
stolen.
The barn of G. Gesche, in the town
ship Of Cordova, near Waterville, was
struck by lightning and burned with
all it's contents, including four head of
horses. Mr., Gesche was seriously in
jured in trying to save one of the
horses.
James Taylor, sixty.six years old,
was struck by a Milwaukee train at
the junction of Nineteenth avenue
south and Twenty.flfth street, Mime
apolis, sustaining injuries from which
he died at the city hospital short
time later. Z '
At the last meeting Of the board of
the soldiers home the matter Of ex-
Guiding veterans from the home who
were receiving pension of $12 or
more a month was discussed and the
members favored the plan in order to
cut down expenses.
James Konkle, resident of Mime.
sofa in the territorial days, was found
dead in chair at hischome in st. Paul.
Death is thought to have been caused
by heart failure, induced by chill,
which seized the octogenarian after
he had taken an ice cold: drink. \
William Gruble and Albert Helm
were working on the steeple of St.
Paul's Catholic church at. Sank Center,
120 feet from the ground, when the
scaffold suddenly gave away. By the
merest chance they caught on the stag
ing eight feet below and thus saved
themselves.
A single check for $4,000 which
passed through the Minneapolis clear
inghouse Saturday marked the final
transaction in the greatest and most
successful speculative campaign in the
history Of the Northwest, campaign
in which three Minneapolis men took
out of the wheat market profits of not
less than s1,000,O00
William Norton, son of Conrad Nor
ton Of Arlington, committed suicide by
hanging in his fathers barn. He was
twenty-five and left home about year
ago, enlisting in the army. Since then
the parents had nc knowledge of his
whereabouts until his mother discov.
cred his body hanging in the barn. 1t
is believed he was insane.
Miss Mamie Johnson of South St
Paul met with a very peculiar acct
dent, the result of which, it is feared
will be the total loss of the sight OF one
OF her eyes. AS Miss Johnson was
walking along a St. Paul street a mar
passing in buggy threw away cigar
stub, the lighted end of which struck
Miss Johnson in the eye and some OF
the sparks and ashes penetrated be.
You'd the eyelids.
The state board of equalization,
which will convene at the capitol Sept
6, will have to add approximately
$S,000,000 to the personal property as
sessment to bring it up to the same
figure as fixed by the board last year,
If the counties yet to report show the
same percentage of falling off in val.
uation as the thirty-two counties that
have already sent their abstracts to
the state auditor.
Believing that there is very little
demand for farmhands in Minnesota
! and the Northwest Labor Commits
sioner John O'Donnell has abandoned
! the plan proposed some time ago OF
| establishing free employment bureau
in the Twin Cities. Mr.. O'Donnell has
received information from large mum
Der of bankerstMand business men
throughout the state that there is not
the customary dearth, OF sfarmhands
j this year. s:'s,-
In response to a bid which will
amount to $57s,o4s.4o the state board