Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-12-16
NEWS. IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS AF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

The factory of the Red Wing Furni-
ture company has been destroyed by
fire.
Professor William H. Clark, one of
the best known musicians and church
organists in Minneapolis. is dead.
Walter w. Cowgirl, aged twenty-five,
ended his life at St. Paul by drinking
jaudanum. Ill health is the supposed
cause.
Contracts have been let for an ex-
tension to the ore dock system in Du-
luth, almost doubling it's capacity, for
an aggregate of 100000
of work for weeks John Quinlan, aged
forty-fjve years, ended his life at Min
neapolis by drinking carbolic acid.
The mayor of Duluth has ordered
the theaters of that city Closed on
Sunday. There is decided division
OF opinion among the people on the
subject.
Secretary Hitchcock has approved
contracts for the sale of timber on
Minnesota forest reserves, bids for
which were received at Cass Lake on
Nov. II.
Oscar Gustafson of Cokato was ia
tally stabbed while walking toward
his home with four companions. One
of these, Harry Foster, is sought by
the police.
For befriending a eek and aged
r"an whom he regard. as pauper
JUAN Nelson, proprietor of the Dewey
hotol Minneapolis, has been be-
Queathed the sum of $4,000.
John Crome, patient in the state
hospital for the insane at Rochester,
took his life by tying together two
handkerchiefs which he twisted tight
ly around his neck to strangle him.
Minnesotans who had exhibits at
the worlds fair triumphed over all
other states in the matter of individual
prizes won and took five gold medals,
forty bronze and thirty-siX silver ones.
Judge Grcenleaf Clark, president of
The board OF regents of Minnesota uni
versity, died last week at Lamanda
Park, Cal. Judge Clark was siXty-nine
years old and was born in PlaistoW,
n. II.
The iron ore deposits in St. Louis
county, owned by Minnesota, pro
uuvtu $780, TONS Of ore during the
pas, ll4l. The state gets royalty
q, IS cents per TON go t2e revenue
this year amounted to S49,96e.Sl.
The Cleveland Cliffs Iron company
las brought suit against the East
Ia. a Mining company to recover
s. ,Hl'n Iil2t it claims to have OVerpaid
that corporation in advance royalties
Gu Iron lanus in the Western Alesaba.
y MeslDuull passenger train on the
Great NOilneln was wrecked at How
ST.; Lake. All the cars left the track
except the .-.ail car. Several passen-
eris were injured, but none seriously.
The wreck was caused by an open
switch.
Thomas Blonde, a switchlnan en-
ployed by the Northern Pacific road,
was killed in the Minneapolis yards
He was on top of car which was be-
Ing shUntetl TO a sidetrack. He slipped
from he ii osty root and was caught
By the trucks and badly mangled.
Otto NJ Davies, the Minnesota foot
ball player, will bring $4,000 dam
age suit against the Illinois Central
railroad because, after the Northwest
ern game in Chicago, he was arrested
In the depot and fined IS. The papers
are now being drawn up by his attor-
neys.
One Of the members of the junior
class at the state university has been
suspended from the institution for the
remainder of the year because there
recently appeared in one of the Min
neapolis daily papers for which he Is
correspondent certain statements that
1hi ~ 0rfh mi
ties.
The Ramsey county district court
has decided that the st. Paul City
Railway company must pay the full
tax for 1903, delinquent, with the pen
atty OF 10 per cent. The tax is $751;.
e46 and the penalty S9,104.60. The
city railway company objected to the
increase ordered by the state board OF
equalization.
Five Minneapolis boys who had
pleaded guilty to criminal assault of
a deaf and dumb girl have been SEN
fenced to the refOrmatory and Jacob
kotschi was recently sentenced to fiji
teen years in the penitentiary in con-
nection with the same oifense. He is
twenty six years old, while the rest are
all under age.
The prices Of prison made Irvine for
the year 1895 have been fixed as fol-
lows: SisaI, standard and standard
mixed. running 500 feet to the pound,
at SA cents per pound; standard
manila, $50 feet to the pound, 81
cents; manila, 900 feet to the pound,
1914 cents; pure manila, $50 feet to
the pound. Il cents a pound.
While going to the assistance Of his
brother, wiz, was injured, w. G. Ellis
OF Minneapolis slid down the cable
which Surrnr1s one OF the derricks
on the l>ul''th canal ferry bridge to
his death. lie was injured in exactly
the same n!unnei that caused slight
injuries to his brother, who had gone
down the. cable ahead of him.
GcvernOi-e..vct johnson has an
nouncea the following appointments:
superintendent of public instruction,
John W. Olson, Albert Lea, reappoint-
ed; assistant superintendent Of public
instruction: G. G. Schulz, St. Peter,
reappointed: dairy and food commits
sioner, Edwin X. Slater, st. Paul;
governors executive clerk, Cleve W.
Van Dyke, Alexandria,
Wives and widows Of old soldiers
will be cared for at the Minnesota SOL
Gjars' hO71e if tho naooscar,- oror,,,r;