Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-09-23
NEWS IN MINNESOTA /
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE

The state board of health is investi-
eating numerous typhoid fever out
breaks in the smaller cities of the
state.
S. V. Harris, for fifteen years head
clerk at the Ryan hotel, St. Paul. is
dead after a brief illness, aged sixty
years.
Three brothers were injured, one Of
them, Charles McArdle, seriously, at
st. Paul Friday by a street a strih-
ing the wagon in which they were rid
ing.
Henry H. Biddell of Minneapolis,
fireman IN the Minneapolis and St.
Louis road, fell from his engine in the
Minnesota transfer yards and was
crushed beneath the wheels of a
freight train.
The establishment of a six-foot chan
mel in the Mississippi river from St.
Pau! to st. Louis will probably be one
of the provisions of the rivers and har.
bOrs bill presented at the next ses-
sion of congress.
One man will lose a leg and Pro-
fessor James an eye as the result Of
ar explosion Of an eight-pound powder
tube in the bicycle factory of Nelson
Bros. at Aitkin. The building was
completely wrecked.
Final figures for the state fair re-
ceipts for 1904 show a decrease of
$4,000 as compared with 1903 re-
ceipts. The receipts were $190,561,
exclusive of railroad ticket sales,
which will amount to over $10,00U.
While shooting at a target with e
rifle Ward Cosgrove, the seventeen
year-old son of President c. n. Co.,
grove of the State Agricultural society,
was accidentally shot in the back by q
companion. His condition is critical,
The Minneapolis police have arrest
ed Ray Sellers, a we'll known loca!
gambler, whom they accused of hold
ing up and robbing the Ashmore gam
bling rooms and shooting and seriously
wounding Patrolman James Nolan
when the latter appeared on the scene.
There has been another advance il
the price of clam shells at Winona
and they now bring SIS a ton as
against $12 a short time ago. The rea-
son for this is that the supply is
diminishing owing to the beds being
so thoroughly worked further down the
river.
The Ancient Order of H%ibernians OF
Minnesota, in session at Saltwater,
elected the following officers: J. J.
Regan, st. Paul, president; Patrick
Kinney, Mankato, vice president;
Thomas Conley, Minneapolis, secre-
tary, John Flood, Duluth, treasurer:
Rev. Michael O'Brien, Graceville, chap
lain.
From the reports which have been
fled with the state railway and ware
house commission both the Minneap-
oils and St. Louis and the Iowa Cen
trail roads have a decrease in business
for the past year, the former showing
q deficit of $103,291 and the Central
$88,219.
DR.. S. H. Ward, secretary of the
state sanitary board, has returned to
st. Paul from a trip to Blue Earth
county from which rumors had been
sent out that mango was prevalent
among some herds Of cattle. DR.. Wa.,l
reports that it was only a scare, as the
disease Is nothing more than ring,
worm.
Archbishop Ireland held a confer
ence Thursday evening with a group
of prominent Catholics of Minneapolis,
selecting the members of an executive
committee which will begin work OF
gathering funds and starting construc-
ton OF the pro-cathedral, which is to
cost $350,00G and will undoubtedly be
one Of the Mill City's handsomest
places of worship.
The factory Of the St. Paul Sash,
Door and Lumber company was de-
strOyed by fire which originated in a
mysterious manner in the basement.
The loss caused by the blaze is esti-
mated at $3.50 only $4,000 of which
Is covered by insurance. Although
several workmen were in danger of
cremation at n time all of them man
aged to escape without serious injury.
Threatening the lives of scores of
persons a huge gray timber wolf was
killed in the Minneapolis Union depot
yards by William Hines, with coupling
pins for weapons. The animal fol
lowed a passenger train into the shed,
but was not noticed until it was scurry-
ing among the m and children.
Hines chased the wolf and finally
struck it on the head with a coupling
pin and killed it.
1AC4C nave DCGI1 uS" OFC1Op1uCA
In the case 0l tie 'Dahls, father and
daughter, who were murdered last
spring al Curing. Beltrami county,
but the authorities will not divulge
the nature OF the new evidence they
have secured. From a nan who is
prominently interested in the sase it
is learned, however, that suspicion is
directed against several Indians who
were working on a log drive at the
mouth of the Cormant river at the
time of the murder.
Bridget Shanahan, a ycung Irish girl
who came all the way Il ON the En-
erald Isle to contest the will Of her
uncle, the late Father SEanahan Of
Caledonia, has been given a favorable
decision in the Ramsey county dis
trict court. T,y the terms cf Father
Shanahan's viii the estate was to be
turned over u Bishop Cottcc to ':e
used in edu> a+ing young mon for tie
priesthood. Tho niece from Ireland
entered a protest and the case has
twice been before the supreme court.
The final decision was that the trust
founded by Father Shanahan was void
under the statutes. About 800, 900 is
involved.