Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-02-05
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Fire has destroyed the principal:
building of the group that forms the
state public school for INDECENT . chill
dren ct owatonpa and caused a loss
Of SCI, 900. 'f',@> l.. IF. n RI s s.zz
Antonio Calderone, the contested
slayer OF Salvatore Battalia at Min
neapolis three months ago, has been
found guilty Of manslaughter. In the
first degree.
Elmer Lund, twenty years old, was
struck by a Great Northern train at
Atwater and was instantly killed. His
team was also killed and the sleigh
was smashed to fragments. -
The residence of Frank Huffman at
Cass Lake was destroyed by fire and
two OF his children, one three-year-
old boy and the other a girl six
months old, persisted in the flames.
L. W. Powell, who has been assist
ant to the president of the Oliver Min
ing company, has been appointed vice
president of the Pittsburg Steamship
company, with headquarters in Du-
luth. .,.:&
Charles and. Henry Nelson, under
sentence Of death for the murder of
Henry Krier of Owatonna, will not go
to the gallows. The board of pardons
has committed their sentence to i'm
prisonment for life.
William McMann, brakeman for
the Great Northern road, was killed
near Hibbing He fell off the foot
board Of the engine while the crew
was making flying switches and was
torn to pieces by the wheels.
E. G. M. Rand has recovered a YER
dict of $500 in the Ramsey county
district court against Russell Sage in
suit for $4,000 alleged due for
services in connection with the dis
posal of Minnesota land held by Sage
After once making her escape from
her house, which was on fire, Mrs.
Jacob Gardner of Victoria, seven miles
west of Excelsior, rushed back into
the building to save $3.50 that had
been left behind and persisted in the
flames.
Chester D. Shattuck, an old time en-.
gtneer on the Milwaukee road, was
run down and killed in the Milwaukee
yards at Minneapolis. He had been
In the employ Of the Milwaukee road
over thirty years and was sixty years
Of age.
After crawling half a mile on his
I hands and knees to reach his home,
where his half starved family awaited
his return, John Arendt. an aged
woodcutter of Riverside Park, neal
Duluth, died as result Of cold and
exposure.
Mrs. Dora Schunard of Cass Lake
was shot and probably fatally wound:
ed by her husband. Schunard became
jealous and fired three shots at his
wife, all Of which took effect in the
stomach. It is thought that she can.
not survive,
Joe Prout, William Welton> and
Fritz Hankersin were hauled with a
rope up through smoke and flames
from the second level of the Elizabeth
mine at Hibbing, barely escaping
death by fire which had burned away
the shaft ladder.
Six Minneapolis -four mills closed
down Saturday night, making total
of ten of the larger mills which are
out of commission. Millers say the
closing is due to the fact that buyer;
are little slow to adjust their views
to the changed conditions in the mar.
ket.
E. F.. Secog of Buffalo Center, Ia,
and A. E! Mundson of FELTON,, this
state, have been held to, the Clay
county grand jury in $4,000 bonds on
the charge OF receiving deposits in an
Inc
spectively, president and cashier Of
closed recently.
According to the informal opinion
Of the corporation attorney of st.
Paul there is no voting machine in
existence which can be used at tho
spring election in that city. The law
provides that all votes shall be regis.
tered numerically and there is no ma.
chine invented which comes within
the regulations.
A heavy mixed freight train, NOV.
ing south toward Two Harbors on the
old line over Waldo hill, on the Du'
luth and Iron Range road, ran away
and was reduced to kindling wood.
The train crew escaped injury but had
an exciting experience. The engine
and twenty-five cars are mass OF
broken and twisted wood and iron.
Through a decision Of the commits
sioner Of the general land Office, sus'
tanning a former enc. BY the register
and RECEIVER Of the Duluth land ONCE,
Daniel Campbell;s AFTER several years
litigation, is given full title to home.
stead I'M Northern Itasc& ssSeunty, <ifsaid
to be lvalued atl approx laate t10o;'
900. and the contest of the claim insti-
tuted by GhaTles Keith issdismissed.
w. e. ssssier ofsBsmid3i, state tim.
Der and land inspector, is at Itasca
park investigating the reported steal
ing OF state timber from lands there.
Mr.. Sassler was notified that every:
stick OF pine on a. government forty
at the park had been cleaned up by q.
contractor for one Of the large lum-
Der companies. In the event that the
charges are, found to! be- true >prosecu-
tion will follow and the timber cut
will be seized at the landing. ~ =,
, Boys skating on the river at Fertile
found the dead body Of Ole Peterson;
| under the trestle work on the ice: