Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-06-10
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
events OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE

Minneapolis police are investigating
the death of Robert Grady. Murder
Is suspected.
F.. c. Schiller, a Minneapolis cap.
italist, has been victimized to the tune
Of $4,000 on a confidence game.
Mrs. A. NJ. Woodward of Minneap-
oils is dead from injuries sustained
from the closing of folding bed.
The annual session of the Minnesota
State Educational association will be
held in st. Paul during the Christmas
holidays.
Nearly 100000 was paid to bene-
ficiaries. in Minneapolis in 1903 by the
several life insurance companies doing
business there.
For malfeasance in office Governor
Van SAINT has ordered the removal of
Greedy E. Carr, county attorney of
Marshall county. -.
Nicholas Young of Shakopee was
killed by an eastbound passenger train
at Sleepy Eye. He was walking on the
track when struck.
Judge E. T. Wilder, pioneer of Red
Wing and we'll known to the bar mem
bers of Minnesota, died at his home in
Red Wing Friday at the age of ninety
years.
Willie Dees, twelve years old, was
crushed to death at st. Paul under the
wheels of an eastbound Rock Island
passenger engine while alighting from
q freight train.
Five hundred miners employed by
the Drake & Stratton company at
Eveleth went on strike last week be-
cause their wages were cut from S1.75
to $1.60 per day.
Cora M. Jackson, daughter of S.
jackson, one of the old residents of
committed suicide by taking
poison. Disappointment in a love az
fair is believed to be back of the deed.
Eighty-four graduates of the law de-
partment Of the state university, the
largest class in a number Of years, ap-
peared before the supreme court Fri
day and were admitted to practice law
in this state.
Governor Van SAINT has proclaimed
Tuesday, June IA, as Flag day and
recommends that the day be observed
by all citizens of Minnesota. 1t is
suggested that exercises of patriotic
nature be held in all the schools of the
state on that day.
". H. Elsinger Of st. Paul and 9th
ers are to erect a $4,000 rescue home
for women on land to be purchased
for the purpose somewhere between
Minneapolis and st. Paul. The home
will be operated under the auspices of
the Salvation Army.
Two tracts of land selected under
the swamp land grant law, containing
respectively 10,623 acres in the Cass
Lake district and 29,992 acres in the
Duluth district, have been ordered
patented to the state of Minnesota by
the secretary Of the interior.
Mic Reinart, nineteen years old, was
suffocated in a bin of wheat screen
ings at Elevator K, Minneapolis. He
descended into the bin to clear the
spout and a sudden rush of screenings
caused him to lose his hold on the lad
der. He fell into the bin and was
Suffocated.
The state board q control has pur.
chased a large tract of land near
Leech lake on which the sanitorium
for consumptives provided for by the
last legislature will be located. The
board is negotiating for more land and
ultimately plans to have approximately
600 acres.
The safe in the postoffice at Virginia
was blown to pieces one night last
week and robbed of it's contents. Not
only that, but the mail pouches in the
Office were rifled by the thieves, evil
IDENTIFY in cearch of valuables. The
stamps in the drawer and the few pen
MES there were also taken.
Colonel c. A. Smith of Minneapolis
has donated 100,000,000 feet of timber
to Bethany college of, Lindsborg, Kan.
The timber thus donated is not to be
sold until it yields 100000. Colonel
Smith asks that the college authori-
ties, the alumni and students try to
raise an equal sum by Jan. 1, 1906.
Elk River has won the Sherburne
county seat removal proceeding insti-
tuted by citizens at Becke- Enough
voters signed remonstr to de-
feat the holding of a special election.
It was holly contested affair, reQuir.
ing a ;four-day session of the county
commissioners to settle the matter.
Ray w. Harrison of the general mer-
chandising firm of Davis & Harrison
was shot and probably fatally wounded
by Miss Media MAIN in the hotel at
Donnelly. After shooting Harrison
Miss Main turned the revolver on her
self, death resulting instantly. The
girls deed is thought to be due to
insanity.
J The district grand jury at St. James
has returned two indictments against
Banker M. K. Armstrong, charging
that he accepted money when he knew
himself to be insolvent. His trial has
been postponed to the October term
of court on afidavits from his physi-
clan and attorney that he was not in
a physical condition to stand trial at
this time 9:
Imam attempt of two military. pcis-
oners to escape by throwing their
guard from the Fort Smelling bridge
Tony G. Wisch, a convict, was shot
and killed by Private Edward Kennedy
of F company, Twenty-irst infantry.
The assault upon the guard occurred
near the fort end of the bridge while
the prisoners were being brought back
to the fort after break for liberty by
Wisch. D., .:
To enable the millers of; St.. Paul