Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-11-04
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loss is estimated at $4,000. -:
John Noel died ut the Minneapolis
city hospital from the effects, so the
physicians say, Of drinking impure
whisky, purchased at Mill City sa-
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James w. Fisher, aged seventy-eight,
q pioneer of st. Paul, died suddenly at
Breckenridge Oct. %, where he and
his wife had been visiting for short
time.
Peter swenson, a carpenter, fifty
years old, was found dead in bed at
Minneapolis. He had been drinking
heavily and death is believed to have
been due to alcoholism.
While playing with matches at her
home in st. Paul Vera Warner, five
years old, set fire to her dress and she
was so severely burned that she died
at the city hospital in few hours.
There are 8,165 more pupils enrolled
In the public schools Of the state this
year than there were last. The total
enrolment, according to figures COM
piled by ]. w. Olsen, state superin-
tendent, is 423.000.
Rev. J.. B. Gilfillan, formerly of
White Earth Indian mission and who
for years represented the White Earth
Indian in Washington, is dead. He
was an Episcopal clergyman and we'll
known in Northern Minnesota.
\ report received by the state board
of health shows GO cases of smallpox
in the state, 40 of which are at Farm
ing, Stearns county. The disease was
thought to be chickenpox for four
weeks before it's real nature was de-
termined.
Rev. c. o. Wright, pastor of the
Baptist church at St. Cloud, has re-
signed and his resignation has been
accepted by the board of trustees. Mr..
Mr.. Wright has accepted employment
as night Waterman in the boilerroom
at the state reformatory in that city.
In the Ramsey county district court
Miss Anna Mohr recovered $14,322.50
from DR.. Cornelius Williams, one of
the most prominent eye and ear spe-
cialists in the state, because OF an
operation on her left ear when it was
to have been performed on the right
ear.
By a decision of the state supreme
court the Wilder and Appleby charities
are held valid. The decision holds
that a provision for "the worthy poor
of St. Paul. is sufficiently definite to
constitute valid trust. There is
about $3,50O,000 available for the chart
ties.
Eddie Dupont, aged eighteen, living
in Corcoran township, in Hennepin
county, was shot and killed while
hunting rabbits. It is believed he was
mil HI hoy
it was discharged and the shot entered
his head and face, tearing away the
flesh and leaving the brain bare.
John Essenstein, the thirteen-year-
old son of w. F. Essenstein of Badora,
was accidentally shot in the forehead
with 22-caliber rifle and lived only a
few hours. A neighbor picked up the
rife. asked if it was loaded, was told
by the boy that it was not and upon
examining it accidentally shot the boy.
To save himself from being crushed
to death by freight train James l..
Farrell of Austin leaped from the rail
road bridge over the Mississippi at
St. Cloud, falling fifty feet to the bank
of the river below Both of his wrists
were broken, his elbow dislocated, ..
rib fractured and his face and scall
cut and torn.
Harry E. King, the man who was
apprehended at Mankato while at
tempting to impersOnate United
States army officer, pleaded guilty to
the charge and was sentenced to a
term Of eight months in the st. Cloud
refolnatory. King claims to be a
nephew Of General Charles King, the
author, and went about in the uniform
OF first lieutenant.
\ large quantity Of money, com
posed principally of bills, was turned
up by the sons Of q B1ockway (Stearns
county, farmer While blowing. There
was also some silver, but the great
bulk of the find is in bills. 1t is esti
mated that there are at least $1,000,
but it is doubtful if the finder will
realize anything, as the paper money
is badly decOmposed.
Patents have been received by State
Auditor IversOn conveying 65,960.55
acres of swamp land in st. Louis and
Roseau counties to the state Of Mfr
nesota. These lands are located in
the far northern part Of the state and
are some that were but recently sur.
veyed, there still remaining a large
SeCllCu VI lie COuILlSS UOu1iul1iEo VA
Canada from which the state will re.
ceiva more land.
Foreman +. NJ. Joyce of the Henne-
pin county grand jury has submitted
the report OF that body to Judge Har-
! rison. The report deals in the main
| with the laxity of the city administra-
| ton relative to saloons, disreputable
women and houses, gambling and the
like. It says public officials are not
doing their duty" and intimates that
| Mayor J. c. Haynes could be little
more active if he saw fit.
| Al the convention of the State Ii.
| brary association at MankatO last
| week resolutions were adopted recon,
mending the county circulating sys.
TEN; urging that legislation be secured
to enable county boards and town SUI.
pervisors to appropriate money to Sc
cure the circulation of books in the
rural districts; a law to provide for
sending the state public documents to
libraries, and calling upon congress to
pass the Lodge bill in reference to
sending books through the mails. IS
| The Milwaukee fast mail, going
sixty miles an hour, crashed into the
rear of 4 freight train on siding at
i Minnesota Express. MeSsen ger John