Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-03-18
NEWS " IN MfNNE IS O Q, "a
Gt&aa&ss
EVENTS or THE WEEK THROUGH.
. OUT THE STATE.

OUT The STATE.
r. q. eastman, DEM, has been elect
cd mayor of ,Owatonna.
John Nolan, aged eighty years, 9
resident of Minnesota since 1854, II
! dead at Minneapolis.
Ermer Wilson, employed by the G
A. Smith company, was instantly killed
ct Minneapolis while thawing dyna
mite;
Robbers blew open the safe in John
Thurston's general store at Garden
City and obtained $50 and three
checks.
In fit of jealous rage Mrs. w. J
Burns shot and wounded her husband
in his saloon at St. Paul. Burns will
recover.
I The funeral of Rev. Father Danehy
of Minneapolis was largely attended
Archbishop Ireland preached the flu
neral sermon.
Former State Senator Hiram F. Ste
vens is dead at St Paul. Mr.. Stevens
was one Of the most prominent law
yerS III MINNESOTA.
A clubhouse, modern in every par
ticular, to cost 100000, is to be built
in st. Paul this summer by the United
Commercial Travellers Of America.
J? NJ. Burke, young man of about
thirty-two years Of age, committed
suicide at st. Paul by taking strych
nine. No cause. is known for the act
Jessie, the three-year-old daughter
Of Herbert Clark, hotelkeeper at ST.
Paul Park, is dead from the effects Of
burns received by the upsetting of a
lamp.
Officials OF the state dairy and food
department predict that about thirty
five new creameries will be established
In Minnesota this year, making the
total number in the state $50.
ignorance of the result of blowing
out the gas was apparently RESPONSE
BILE for the death Of J. F. Wall Of
Everett, Wash, llmberman, about
fifty years Of age, at the Great North
ern hotel, St. Paul.
Mrs. Staples, wife Of Charles E. Sta
pies of the state railroad and ware
house commission, is dead at their
home on the Dodd road near St. Paul
of heart disease, from which she has
suffered for eighteen years.
A delegation of Minneapolis attor
neys has urged upon the governor the
advisability Of appointing John w
Arctander a member of the commits
sion. appointed to revise the statutes
to succeed. Hiram F. Stevens of St
Paul, who died few days ago.
DR.. Charles P. Artz Of st. Paul il
accused by the Ramsey county grand
jury of causing the death of Esther
Goell by means Of criminal opera
ton. He was arraigned in the dis
trict court late Friday afternoon
pleaded not guilty and was released
on $4,000 bail.
| Charles Johnson, aged sixty-five
years, died in Minneapolis last weel
OF starvation. He had, become inf1rn
through old age and slight attack O.
paralysis and was unable to work ex
cept occasionally and too proud to BET
or let his piteous condition be know
to the authorities.
While eating a plum pudding P
Schom of Ruthton swallowed his false
teeth. He was taken to St. Paul
where he died from blood poisoning
resulting from an operation to remove
the teeth from his stomach. Schom
who was forty-tive years of age, was
! a prosperous farmer.
Imagining himself pursued by a mol
intent on lynching him r. G. DECKER
! son, cOlOred porter, went violently
insane at the Union depot, St. Paul
! Dickerson has been reading the news
paper accounts of the race riots il
Ohio and Southern states and became
so wrought up that he lost his reason
Two masked men entered w. H
Henzel's residence in St. Paul during
his absence and, after beating ane
pounding his wife until she became
unconscious in a vain effort to get he
to tell the combination of the safe
containing valuable silverware ant
money. were forced to content them
selves with little silverware and 81
At a secret meeting of promoters a
Mankato last week it was defnitel;
| decided to begin the construction O.
| the Minnesota Central railway from
| Mankato as a southern terminus OF
April 1. The towns on the line from
Mankato north will include Nicollet
| New Sweden, Gaylord, New Auburn
Hutchinson, Greenleaf, Litchfield, For
! est River, Watkins and St. Cloud.
twenty-five farmers interested il
the Minnesota Farmers Exchange me-
at the state capitol Thursday an6
adopted a constitution and bylaws ant
articles of incorporation, which vii
soon be filed with the secretary O.
state. The capital stock of the ex
change will be divided into $4,000
shares, 800 share. The limit of in
debtedness is fixed at so per cent Of
the stock issued.
Robert. Williams, a farmland neal
Fairmont, attacked with a pocketknife
and fatally wounded. his employer
William Plumhoff, made a desperate
attempt to murder Mrs. Plumhoff and
her infant child and then discharged
a gun against his own" head with in
slant fatal effect. There is little chance
OF Plumhoff's recovery, as he had
| nearly b1e6 tn death hof0ro ho Woo