Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-07-29
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

IL MeuIclHe lake near Minneapolis
while in bathing.
From the best figures obtainable the
Northwest will raise only about half a
crop Of flax this fall.
William Drake, aged twelve, injured
by the explosion of a toy pistol in Min.
neapolis July 4, is dead. t.
Condo Hamlin of St. Paul has been
CHOSEN chairman of the Republican
state central committee.
II. P. Bend of the Town and Country
club OF st. Paul won the state golf
championship at Winona last week.
The body of man supposed to be
Z. E. Peters was taken from the Mis-
s1ss1ppi river at st. Paul Thursday.
Belle Gagnon of Duluth committed
suicide in resort at West Superior
Friday. The girl was only seventeen
years of age.
Rev. William Bingham Ayres,s who
mas just assumed the passionate of AS
bury Methodist Episcopal church at
Duluth, is graduate from the stage.
Harry Nelson, seventeen-year-old
lad living on farm near Forest Lake,
has been arrested, charged with
double attempt at wrecking a North
ern Pacific train
John Haley, aged forty-fve, black
smith In the employ OF the Great
Northern shops at st. Paul, was killed
near the Como avenue crossing while
on his way to work.
Ellsworth Johnson, en- employe of
the st. Anthony Furniture company,
was drowned in the Mississippi river
near the government dam on Meeker
island while bathing.
Governor Van SAINT has proclaimed
a reward of $500 for the arrest and
conviction of persons who murdered
N. O. Dahl and his daughter, Agnes.
near Blackjack last spring.
The supreme court of Minnesota, in
a decision written by Justice Lovely,
aftlrms the district court of Ramsey
county UNFOLDING the validity of the
so-called smoke ordinance" of St..
Paul.
The postofhce at Royalton was bur-
glarized Thursday night. The safe
was blown open by dynamite, nearly
wrecking the whole building, and the
thieves secured 5000 worth of stamps
and 500 in currency.
While being taken back to the state
prison J. B. Williams, a parole break
er, escaped from the custody of State
Agent Barncard by jumping through
the window in the lavatory at the Mer-
chants hotel, st. Paul.
The heaviest homeseekers' move
ment OF this summer passed through
st. Paul Wednesday of last week on
its way to various points in Minnesota
and North Dakota. Railroad men es-
timated the number at not less than
5000.
e. W. Crane, county attorney of
Crow Wing county, was examined in
the probate court at Brainerd Thurs
day and ordered by Judge Sanborn
committed to the Fergus Falls hos
pital for the insane.
Judge Quinn at Glencoe has grant
ed a new trial to H. Burton Strait,
who vas found guilty of receiving a
deposit in the Scott county bank at
Jordan, of which he was president,
when the bank was insolvent.
Jessie Sharley, a young woman,
jumped from the Plymouth avenue
bridge at Minneapolis in an effort to
commit suicide. She was picked up
by men working on the boom and TAX
en- to the city hospital. She will re-
cover.
Believing that a bottle which he had
picked up in a vacant shack forty
miles north of Deer River contained
whisky, William Walker, a woodsman,
drained it to the dregs. The contents
of the vial contained carbolic acid and
ho nd o1r y% 4%@1~
John Covell, farmer and an old
resident of White Bear, was killed by
fall Friday afternoon. Covell was
on top of load of hay. The horses
started suddenly and he was thrown
to the ground, striking on his head.
Death resulted from a broken neck.
Minnesota's extensive stock raising
Industries will be exemplified at the
st. Louis exposition by 16 carloads of
live stock, which will include SO cattle,
81 horses, 40 hogs and 40 sheep. This
was settled last week at conference
between members of the Minnesota
Live Stock association and Messrs.
Condo Hamlin and J. NJ. Underwood
of the Minnesota board of managers
of the worlds fair.
The executive committee of the Min
nesota immigration association met iE
st. Paul last week and elected the fol-
lowing officers: John w. Willis, St.
Paul, president; NJ. J. Donnelly, St.
Paul, secretary; C. P. Slime, st. Paul,
treasurer; W. G. Nye, Minneapolis, au-
ditor. The constitution provides for
a vice president in each county, and it
is planned to have local societies
throughout the state
The nineteenth annual banquet Of
the Last Mans club, organized in 1882
by the survivors of Company B, First
volunteers wac hold last