Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-06-17
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH
OUT THE STATE.

Carl Lindberg, aged nine, was rur
over and killed at st. Paul by a Wagon
heavily loaded with lumber.
A woman pickpocket secured $500
from the coat of l.. F~Will of Mime
apolis in that city and escaped after a
lively chase.
William ]. Geer, who left St. Paul
twenty-eight months ago to- walk
around the world to decide wager,
has reached Winona on his return trip
William H. Allen, a mail carrier,
pleaded guilty at st. Paul to the
charge OF robbing the mails and was
sentenced to one year In the penften
tiary.
lover 500 delegates and 400 ministers
attended the fifteenth annual conven-
ton of the United Norwegian Lutheran
church of America at Albert Lea last
week.
". w. P. Mcconnell. state dairy and
food commissioner, believes that dairy
cows, In order to give good supply
of milk, should be curried and combed
ut least once a day.
John Wall, well known deputy
sheriff Of Hennepin county, was run
down by an unknown automobilist at
Minneapolis and received injuries
which may prove fatal.
Edward Hawkins, aged eighteen, a
prisoner in the Minneapolis work
house, met death in the Mississippi
river by drowning while making a
desperate attempt to escape.
Herbert l.. Williams of Minneapolis,
formerly a postal clerk, has received
news that a verdict of $4,000 against
the Great Northern has been awarded
him for injuries received in a wreck
near Spokane, Wash.
The three Minnesota students who
took the examination for the Cecil
Rhodes scholarship, held at the state
university April 10, passed. President
Northrop will select the one student
entitled to the scholarship.
Despondent because he was unable
to obtain work in Minneapolis Walter
Ealtdal of Dalton, this state, drank
several ounces Of carbolic acid in
front OF the Minneapolis postoffice and
died a few minutes later at the city
hospital.
John Clark, for q dozen years promi-
nent in Southern Minnesota political
and business circles while a resident
OF Window, died suddenly in Mime
apolis while taking spin In his auto
mobile. He had been resident Of the
Mill City since 1890.
John F. Murphy, St. Paul carpen-
ter, committed suicide in decidedly
spectacular manner last week by put
ting bullet through his heart in the
presence of a number Of relatives and
only child is the supposed cause.
George Bishop, a railway brakeman
of Duluth, shot and killed Miss Laura
Lee of Superior at the home of the lat
ter and then turned the weapon on
himself, expiring instantly. Bishop
and Miss Lee had been lovers for
years, but had become separated.
DR.. A. A. Holcomb, an attache Of the
bureau Of animal industry, United
States department q agriculture. is
now in Minnesota for the purpose of
an extensive investigation of contag-
ious diseases of horses and cattle
which prevail in this part of the coun-
try.
n. 0. Dahl of Crookston and his
daughter Aagot, eighteen years old,
are believed to have been murdered
the last part of April on their claim
near Quiring postoflce, which is not
far from Bemidji. A searching party
is looking for the bodies. Robbery is
the alleged motive.
The new rule regarding the pensions
of the inmates of the soldiers home
will make it necessary for the home
authorities to drop about fifty of the
veterans. It is asserted that the in
come of the home will be reduced to
the extent of 81 900 and upon this basis
only about $40 men can be cared for
There are at present 800 men at the
home.
Many new firms engaged in indus
tries of all kinds are being formed in
all sections If the state. The incorEo-
ration fees collected by the secretary
OF state amount to nearly $4,000 a
month and if new corporations con-
tinue to be formed in as large numbers
in the next seven months as they have
In the last five 1904 will be a record
breaker.
A Minneapolis and st. Louis excur-
sion train, returning from Carver with
TOO St. Paul people on board, was
wrecked in the Union depot yards in
Minneapolis Sunday night and num-
Der of people injured, though none ia
tally. The wreck occurred on a sharp
curve and the fact that the train was
moving slowly undoubtedly saved
many lives.
Rev. J. H. Dobbyn, an Episcopal
minister of St. Pauls church, Dickin-
son, N. D., arrested in St. Paul for
unnatural conduct toward Charles Bon
nello, aged fourteen, has been sent to
the workhouse for three months. The
felonious charge against Rev. Dobbyn
was changed to disorderly conduct to
avoid a public trial of the case. He
entered plea Of guilty.
Governor Van SAINT, his staff and
more than; 300 members of the Mime
sofa Editorial association assembled
at the Minnesota building. at the St..
Louis exposition and formally dedi-
Gated that structure to the world fair.
The ceremonies we're conducted under
the auspices of the Editorial association
and were very simple in character, at
the close of which Miss Mime Sofa
Whitney Of Marshall unfurled the state