Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-05-06
NEWS IN MINNESOTA Ca
EvENTs OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
..s OUT THE STATE.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
49," OUT THE STATE.
Tobias 6. Mealey, a pioneer resident
OF Minnesota, is dead at Monticello,
aged eighty years.
About 100000 will be expended in
the Improvement Of Fort Smelling dur.
Ing the coming fiscal year.
In a quarrel over q pool game at
minneapolis Frank Brooks probably ia.
tally stabbed q man named Schentzky.
Brooks escaped.
AS n result of the recent fire at
Brainerd r. r. Wise will soon COM
mence the erection Of a $780, 900 brick
block for hotel purposes.
The st. Paul chamber of commerce
Is advocating the lease by the city
OF st. Paul Of the old capitol for high
school purposes when it is vacated.
Mrs. H. L. Harrington, one of the
best known women Of Minneapolis,
both In philanthropic and church cir
cles, is dead, aged s~eventy-two years.
Enraged at being ordered out of the
Northland saloon at Duluth Frank
White, it is charged, shot and fatally
wounded Jerome E. Manage, the bar
tender.
Senator Nelson's bill providing for
the selection by the state of Mime
sofa of 10000 acres of land in Itasca
county for state forestry purposes has
passed the house.
John N. Bach of st. Paul, one of
the largest trunk manufacturers in the
Northwest, has filed a voluntary petit
ton In bankruptcy in the United
States district court.
After a fight lasting about two hours
Christian Sexton and John Daily suc-
ceeded in killing fifteen wolves in
Hennepin county but a few miles from
the city limits of Minneapolis.
William Chounard, convicted at
Walker of numbering his wife at Cass
Lake, has been sentenced by Judge
Spooner to be hanged at such time
as the governor shall appoint.
Andrew Reitz, a vat skinner at
Swift & Co.'s packing house, South st.
Paul, fell into a vat of scalding lard
and was so badly burned that he died
several hours later in terrible agony.
At a meeting of the $50 striking min:
ers at the Chandler and Pioneer iron
mines at Ely it a. decided to with
draw all objections to Superintendent
Charles TreZona and return to work.
Two Finlanders, Isaak Fraudela and
Frank Hill, have been arrested at
Eveleth and taken to Duluth by Deputy
United States Marshal George J. NAL
lory on a charge of passing counter
felt money.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved the instructions of the commits
sioner of the general land office provid-
Ing for the sale of pine timber on
lands within the ceded Chippewa In
dian reservation in Minnesota, Nov.
IL next.
The grand council of the Royal Ar
canum for the Jurisdiction of Mime
sofa was in session in Minneapolis
last week. The meeting closed with
the election of officers and the selec-
ton of st. Paul as the next place of
meeting.
Crookston's population has increased
80. per cent in the last four years, as
compared with an increase of 81 per
cent in the preceding ten years. The
present population of the city is 1877,
an increase of 2,01S since the census
was taken four years ago.
The state live stock sanitary board
has expended in the last year approx
mately $11,250 for the determination
of tuberculosis in Minnesota. Approx
imately $50 COWS have been con-
demned and killed and of this number
about 500 came from the country dis
tricts.
William Graft of Winona, fourteen
years old, was struck on the head by
a stone thrown by a companion and is
in a serious condition. His skull was
fractured over one eye and it was
necessary to remove a piece Of the
bone. Grave fears are entertained for
his recovery.
The application of Colonel Fred W.
Ames, former police superintendent of
Minneapolis, now serving a six and a
half year sentence in Saltwater, for a
pardon or communication of sentence,
has been denied by the state board of
pardons. The board also denied the
application of Norman King, a former
detective Of Minneapolis.
Charles F. Leland, president Of the
defunct Commercial bank Of Duluth,
has filed an application in the United
States district court asking to be dis
charged from bankruptcy. Claims ag-
gregating S121 900 are proven against
his estate. Patrons of his bank, it is
said, will receive but a little above rs
per cent of their deposits.
A 5000, 900 Catholic cathedral is to
adorn the ground now occupied by the
Commodore Kittson residence at the
head of Selby hill, st. Paul. Arch
bishop Ireland says that work will
commence this year. Cass Gilbert,
the well known architect, will prob
ably draw the plans, and the construc-
ton of the building will take about
five years.
John Smith, aged twenty-five, shot
and killed himself about fifteen miles
north Of Floodwood. He borrowed a
gun from his landlord, walked a quar-
ter of a mile from the house, placed
the muzzle to his forehead, and, with
a short piece Of wood, sprung the trig-
ger. When found, he still held the
stick of wood. Temporary insanity is
ascribed as the cause of the suicide.
Captain Irwin Y. Shelley, a veteran