Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-05-06
Friday, Sept, 20.


A fight between Greeks and Bull
Garians occurred April Is. Twenty
men were killed or wounded.
Officials of the New York city health
department report An alarming spread
Of measles. Many cases have proved
fatal, being followed by pneumonia.
The members of the Isthmian canal
commission have returned to Washing
ton from a tour Of the Panama canal
property on the Isthmus and will meet
next week.
Edward Williams, a colored man,
died Thursday at the st. Paul city
hospital from the effects of an over
dose of laudanum, taken to relieve
throat trouble.
Senator Nelson's bill providing for
the selection by the state of Mime
sofa Of 10000 acres of land in Itasca
county, Mimi, for state forestry pur.
poses has passed the house.
The police Thursday stopped the
fight between Jack O'Brien of Phila-
delphia and Kid Carter of Brooklyn
in the third round of a scheduled ff-
%teen-round bout at St.. Louis.
Saturday, April 80.
President Loubet of France is back
in Paris from his visit to Italy.
Charles A. dig, artist and historian,
is dead at Chicago. MI. Dig was in
the Civil war as a member of the
famous Iron brigade.
Homer Mcconnell burned to death
in a cabin at Sullivan, Ind, under cir
cumstances that Indicate he was MUIR
dered. He was worth $4,000.
H. E. Osgood of Hiram, Me-, shot
and mortally wounded his wife on a
Maine Central railroad train and then
shot himself, dying shortly after.
The Nebraska supreme court has de-
cfded that breweries cannot take out
saloon licenses except in their own
name. The ruling is likely to have
farreaching effect.
Tom Searcy, a negro, twenty years
old, was lynched early Friday in a re-
mote part of Haywood county, Tenn.
Searcy attempted an assault on tn
nine-year-old daughter of James Lee,
q farmer.
Monday, May 2.
The regular quarterly dividend of
TX per cent on Great Northern pre-
ferred stock was announced Saturday.
The report that Emperor William is
negotiating for the purchase of a pal
ace at Venice Is semi-oficially denied.
Peter Undorf, an inmate of the La
Crosse wis., county poor farm for
thirty-four years, is dead, aged 104.
Daniel S. Howard, a retired shoe
manufacturer and considered one of
the wealthiest men in New England,
is dead at Brockton, Mass, aged
eighty-fve years.
For the loss of his right foot while
he was helping a train crew at a turn
table William Charters, eleven years
old, has been awarded $14,0 900 damages
by a Chicago jury.
c. 0. Webster, travelling agent for
Bassett & McNabb of Philadelphia,
died at Grand Rapids, Mich, under
mysterious circumstances and it is be-
lieved by the police that he was MUIR
dered.
Tuesday, May 3.
DIR. John A. Gibbons, one of the most
prominent Democrats in Iowa, is dead
at Keokuk.
Henry Ehrman, founder of the bank
ing firm bearing his name, died Mon
day of pneumonia at Panama.
Western and Northwestern lines
have granted the request for return
transportation to live stock shippers.
King Victor Emmanuel entertained
Rear Admiral Evans at dinner at the
royal palace in Naples Monday night.
George Starr, commissioner of i'm
migration at New York for twenty
five years, is dead at the age of eighty
nine.
St. Paul is to have a new Catholic
cathedral to cost S. 5000, 900. The work
of construction will occupy several
years.
James H. Strouble, forty-fve years
old, a wealthy New York brewer, COM
mitted suicide by inhaling illuminat-'
ing gas.
Secretary Moody, accompanied by
Senators Hale, Penrose and Bacon
and Representatives Hemenway, Dali
Ze1l and Myer, left Washington Mon
day on the Dolphin for q trip to South
0rn waters.
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