Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-11-25
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
tvENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH
OUT THE STATE.

Two men near Murdoch and robbed of
$40.
Nels Peterson, a harvest hand, was
Shot and severely injured by highway
men in Minneapolis.
Detective Thomas e. Haggerty of
the St. Paul police force was drowned
ut Heron lake while hunting ducks.
The greater part of $4,000 acres of
school lands and other state lands
were sold at auction at Aitkin last
week.
FremQn Orcott, who served in Com
pany I. First Minnesota volunteers,
through the Civil war, is dead at Min.
neapolis.
Walter J. Burton, prominent bank
Or of Wheaton, this state, was acct
dentally shot and probably fatally
wounded at Lakota, N. D.
]. ]. McGregor, former member of
the legislature and one Of the promi-
nent men in Benton county, is dead of
apoplexy. He was sixty years Of age.
Henry Doerr. a young farmer resid-
Ing near Arlington, while engaged in
shredding corn caught his arm in the
machine and it was torn of at the
elbow.
The quarterly report Of the adjutant
general Of the war department., just
issued, shows that Minnesota contrib
uted $50 recruits of the 1904 enlisted
throughout the country.
Herman w. Gehrmann, a woodsawer,
was found dead in shed at ST.. Paul
Coroner Miller decided that death was
due to exposure. Gehrmann was pen
niless and in poor health
The secretary of the interior has
rendered decision affecting the rights
of a considerable number OF Minnesota
people who made timber and stone en-
tries two years ago in Oregon.
The w. H. Walker Milling COM
pany's mill, elevator and flour ware
house at Alden have been destroyed
by fire. Loss is estimated at $4,000,
partially covered by insurance.
Fifteen cars were wrecked in a COL
lision on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul road under the high bridge,
St. Paul, three of the cars being hurled
over a seventy-foot embankment.
George T. Simpson, at present coun-
ty attorney for Winona county, has
been rendered the position of first as
sistant attorney general under E. T..
Young and has accepted the position.
Ira B. Mills of Minnesota was chos-
en- president of the National Associa-
ton of Railroad Commissioners at the
final session of the sixteenth conven-
ton of that body at Birmingham, Ala.
Governor Van SAINT has appointed
E. F. Waite and E. L. Smith judges
of the municipal court of Hennepin
county to succeed Judges Holt and
dickinson, elected to the district
bench.
In district court at Fergus Falls
Olaf Holstrom, wheat buyer of Par
ker Prairie, was indicted on a charge
OF embezzling $500. He pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to three years at
Saltwater.
Timothy E. Byrnes of Minneapolis,
president of the League of Republican
Clubs, has been appointed assistant to
Charles S. Mellen, president of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad company.
Chicago police have arrested T. c.
J. Winters, who is wanted in New
Richland, this state, for the alleged
embezzlement Of $4,000 from the Lam
bert Lumber company of that place,
OF which he was an employee.
II. A. Carlson, a young man who has
been employed at the insane hospital
at Fergus Falls for several years past
and has more recently been engaged
in the grocery business at Battle Lake,
was accidentally killed while hunting
ducks.
Sanford O. Brooks, aged ffty-fve,
for many years general freight agent
of the Chicago Great Western railroad
at St. Paul and until recently general
freight agent of the Pere Marquette,
is dead at Chicago after a protlacted
illness.
Ernest Kent, a telegraph operator
luth, was shot in the woods near AlboIn
evidently by a hunter who mistook
him for a deer and died four hours
later OF a Misabe train while being
taken to Duluth.
A perfect epidemic of school teach
ers' designations has seized Minneap-
oils. According to report ninety-fve
school ma ans have rendered their
designations, to take effect at the
Christmas holidays. Too hard work
Is the cause of the dissatisfaction.
Appropriations for the state normal
schools aggregating $453,4S5 are rec
commended by the biennial report sub
mitted to Governor Van SAINT by Alvah
Eastman, president of the normal
school board The board asks for
$25S,235 for the fiscal year of 1905-6
and $195,25O for 1867.
r. Sing, one of the four Minneapolis
Cinnamon accused of mistreating
young girls, was convicted Iii the Hen
nepin county district court. The jury
recommended clemency after having
deliberated over tho case for five hours.
The maximum penalty is seven years
in the state penitentiary.
The Barnett & Record company OF
Minneapolis and Duluth has been
awarded contract TO build an extern
sion of No. 2 ore dock Of the Duluth,
Misabe and Northern system in Du-
luth. The work calls for the expendi-
ture of about 100000 and is to be COM
pleted by the opening Of navigation
next spring.
John Powell, foreman Of a. Wiscon-
sin Central switching crew, was killed
in the Minneapolis yards. Jacob Bar
~o,, . rnorohor IF tho curitohin0 orow