Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-11-25

uted $50 recruits OF the 1904 enlisted
throughout the country.
Herman w. Gehrmann, a woodsawer,
was found dead in shed at st. Paul.
Coroner Miller decided that death was
due to exposure. Gehrmann was pen
niless and in poor health.
The secretary of the interior has
rendered a decision affecting the rights
of considerable number OF Minnesota
people who made timber and stone en-
tries two years ago in Oregon.
The w. H. Walker Milling COM
pany's mill, elevator and flour ware
house at Alden have been destroyed
by fire. Loss is estimated at $4,000,
partially covered by insurance.
Fifteen cars were wrecked in a col
lision on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul road under the high bridge,
st. Paul, three of the cars being hurled
over seventy-foot embankment.
George T. Simpson, at present coun-
ty attorney for Winona county, has
been rendered the position of first as
sistant attorney general under E. T.
Young and has accepted the position.
Ira B. Mills of Minnesota was chos-
en- president of the National Associa-
ton of Railroad Commissioners at the
final session of the sixteenth conven-
ton of that body at Birmingham, Ala.
Governor Van SAINT has appointed
E. F. Waite and E. l.. Smith judges
of the municipal court of Hennepin
county to succeed Judges Holt and
Dickinson, elected to the district
bench.
In district court at Fergus Falls
Olaf Holstrom, wheat buyer of Par
ker Prairie, was indicted on a charge
of embezzling $500. He pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to three years at
Saltwater.
Timothy E. Byrnes of Minneapolis,
president of the League of Republican
Clubs, has been appointed assistant to
Charles S. Mellen, president of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad company.
Chicago police have arrested T. c.
J. Winthers, who is wanted in New
Richland, this state, for the alleged
embezzlement of $4,000 from the Lam
bert Lumber company of that place,
OF which he was an emplOye.
H. A. Carlson, young man who has
been employed at the insane hospital
at Fergus Falls for several years past
and has more recently been engaged
in the grocery business at Battle Lake,
was accidentally killed while hunting
ducks.
Sanford O. Brooks, aged fifty-fve,
for many years general freight agent
of the Chicago Great Western railroad
at st. Paul and until recently general
freight agent of the Pere Marquette,
is dead at Chicago after a protracted
illness.
Ernest Kent, a telegraph operator
employed by the Western Union at Du-
luth was shot in the woods near Alborn
evidently by a hunter who mistook
him for a deer and died four hours
later or a Misabe train while being
taken to Duluth.
A perfect epidemic of school teach
0rs' designations has seized Minneap-
oils. According to report ninety-fve
school ma'ams have rendered their
designations, to take effect at the
Christmas holidays. Too hard work
IL the cause of the dissatisfaction.
Appropriations for the state normal
schools aggregating $453,4S5 are rec
commended by the biennial report sub
mitted to Governor Van SAINT by Alvah
Eastman, president of the normal
school board. The board asks for
$25S,235 for the fiscal year of 1866
and $195, ESQ for 1867.
r. Sing, one of the four Minneapolis
Cinnamon accused of mistreating
young girls, was convicted III the Hen
nepin county district court. The jury
recommended clemency after having.
deliberated over tho case for five hours.
The maximum penalty is seven years
In the state penitentiary.
The Barnett & Record company of
awarded a contract to build an extern
Misabe and Northern system in Du-
ture of about 100000 and is to be CON-
pleted by the opening of navigation
next spring. :
John Powell, foreman of a. Wiscon.
sin Central switching crew, was killed
in the Minneapolis yards. Jacob Bar
ron, a member of the switching crew,
who assisted Morgue Keeper Morton
to carry the body CT Powell to the
morgue wagon, was run down and
killed in the st. Louis railroad yards
3 few hours later. -
Ofacial returns received by the sec.
a1etary of state on the result. of the
election show that IN aA probability
amendments NambeEs / ana 2 to the:
sta1esc0nstj HUT lon, lnCvn assthe = gross
iaarnings'' and the .'sehool loan's..
amendtnepts, paased b. . good margin.
and that amendment No. 3. which con,
templates the abolition Of the gray