Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-09-02
NEWS IN MINNESOI
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

The Minnesota state fair was opened
ct Hanline Monday.
Minneapolis dairymen have fixed
the price of milk at 6 cents quart.
Sheriff William w. Buchart of st.
Louis county died Sunday at Duluth.
Governor Van SAINT and State Audi
Dor Iverson last week inspected state
mining properties on the Mesaba
range.
DR.. F. E. Moody Of Minneapolis was
elected vice president of the National
Association of Dental Examiners at
St. Louis.
Carl Knuth, a German farmer, aged
seventy-six, committed suicide at his
home near Fairmont by hanging. Poor
health is given as the cause.
Two men were burned alive and
three others seriously injured by the
explosion Of the acetylene gas plant
in the Bank saloon at Cass Lake.
The body of Albert Jack, eight years
of age, who disappeared from his
home in st. Paul more than a week
ago, has been found floating in the
river near the high bridge.
While shoveling dirt between tracks
in the st. Paul railroad yards John
Nelson, section hand employed by
the Milwaukee road, was killed by the
engine of an incoming Burlington pas
senger train.
George E. Favor, member Of the
Cooperative Barrel Manufacturing
company of Minneapolis, committed
suicide at his home in that city Friday
by shooting himself in the mouth with
revolver while respondent.
The death list at Waconia as the re-
reached five and four of the twenty
ton. Many families are destitute and
Captain Frank A. Peterson Of the
Minneapolis fire department commit
ted suicide by drinking carbolic acid.
His mind was deranged by continued
brooding over losses in the recent
spectacular rise of wheat and on horse
racing.
At coroner's inquest held over the
body of Carl Pavelka, the Austrian
camp foreman who was murdered on
Aug. near Woodland, q suburb of
Duluth, Frank Skerlec, a companion
with whom he was last seen, was held
to be the man responsible for the
crime.
Thomas Gates McAllister, long
time resident of st. Paul and well
known throughout the Northwest as a
railroad man, is dead, aged sixty
years. He had been in the employ ,4of
the St. Paul and Duluth and Northern
Pacific railroads zfor twenty>three
years. r - :
Plans to establish q hospital in the
state for demented persons who are
not so seriously afflicted as Ito be
proper subjects for commitment to an
insane hospital will be. discussed at a
meeting of the pfobdto 34dges of the
state to be held in st. Paul Sept. i
and 2.
Major Joshua H. Marshall, capital
list, who has lived in Minneapolis for
the past twelve years. was. stricken by
an attack sof heart trouble as he was
eating supper and died a minute after
he had reached the city hospital. Ma
jor Marshall was seventy.four years
Of age.
Owen B. Vail. said to be at one time
one Of, the most notorious counterfeit
ers in the country, who recently ap-
peared in Minneapolis at the head Of a
religious organization known as the
Christian Volunteer Warriors, has
been ordered out of the Mill City by
the police.
The sale of the lands of the ceded
portion of the Red Lake Indian reser.
walton will be resumed in Crookston
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held at Thief River Falls in June, but
not more than one-third Of the land
was disposed of.
Harold Kincaid of Oshkosh, Wis,
and Guy Cotton, supposed to be from
Madison, Wis, were run down by a
Great Northern lake train near Cedar
Lake, suburb of Minneapolis. Cot
ton was instantly killed and Kincaid
died at the city hospital shortly after
being brought to Minneapolis.
The state banking business of Min
nesota is in aourishing condition,
! according to report issued by Public
Examiner S. T. Johnson. The number
of state banks has increased from 205
| on April 80, 1901, to 326 on July 16,
1904, and during the last year the re-
sources of these banks have increased
| $2,123, 705.90.
A tragedy marked the festivities of
the Minneapolis Greeks who held q
picnic at Excelsior, Lake Minnetonka,
Sunday. P. G. Boosalis, Greek boy
OF nineteen, threw: "a ten-pOund rock
In test of strength. It went wide of
the mark, struck Anargiras Moureres,
aged seventeen, fractured his skull and
he died about two hours later.
Despite the fact that the season is
regarded as dull in the iron trade the
| state will realize more than formerly
from it's six working iron mines on the
iron range. About 100000 tons will be
! taken out in excess of last years