Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-04-01
NEWS IN Win NESOTA
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
1 OUT THE STATE.

OUT THE STATE.
One hundred bindery girls in st.
Paul have struck because their en-
ployers refuse to recognize the union.
The evicted squatters on Cass Lake
Indian reservation lands will at once
appeal to President Roosevelt to Sc
cure what they term their rights.
The state board of control has abol-
fshed the Office of supervisor of cook
Ing in state institutions. Mrs. Mary
B. James of Minneapolis has held this
position.
Having failed to reach a rate agree
ment with the Minneapolis General
Electric company the Minneapolis Re-
tailers' association intends to establish
it's own electric light plant
Perry Boggs, a lineman employed
by the Twin City Rapid Transit COM
pany in st. Paul, has fallen heir to
$4,000 in cash and a valuable orange
grove near Los Angeles, Cal.
Bemidji, chief of the Cass Lake
Chippewas and friend Of the whites,
is dying at his cabin near Rice Lake,
4Ou1C0t1l Ill1cS uOlLu u OdSS Lake.
He is over eighty years of age.
At least dozen st. Paul students
who attend the state university are
suffering from typhoid fever and the
st. Paul health department lays the
blame to impure Minneapolis water.
Frank Brown, formerly a scenic art
list of Minneapolis, shot and killed his
wife at their home in ROslindale,
Mass. He then shot himself behind
the right ear and is in critical condi-
ton.
Charles A. Harris, the Drummond
mail carrier who was so badly frozen
during the blizzard of March 2, will
lose both his feet and his hands. His
feet were amputated last week and his
hands will soon follow.
Milton R. Tyler, since its creation
secretary of the Minnesota statute re-
vision commission, has been elected
by the supreme court bench to succeed
the late Hiram F. Stevens as mem
Der Of the commission.
The largest class in the history of
the Minnesota state agricultural col
lege graduated last week. Ninety-one
students, many of them young women,
received diplomas certifying that they
had completed their three years
course.
After having been married since be-
fore the Civil war and then divorced
for the past seven years Otto Peter
son, an aged veteran Of ninety-four
years, and PHILIPPINE Peterson, aged
sixty four, we're married at Minneap-
oils last week.
Charles S. Fee, who has been general
passenger agent of the Northern Pa
cific during the past twenty-one years,
has left st. Paul for San Francisco,
where he will assume his new duties
as passenger traffic manager of the
Southern Pacific.
Stephen Lamm, Mankato's wealth.
lest citizen, president of the First Ma
tional bank and connected with other
institutions, is dead after a long ill.,
ness. Mr.. Lamm was born in Ger
many in 1927 and has been resident
Of Mankato since 1856.
Herbert Wink, a nineyear-old Min
neapolis boy. dropped dead while play
ing in the yard with some young
friends. He had just recovered from
severe attack of typhoid pneumonia
and the coroner believes death due to
a heart affection caused by the recent
illness.
A jury at Worthington, after being
out for nearly forty-eight hours, re-
turned a verdict of disagreement in
the case of Mrs. Tomke Krause, who
was indicted the latter part Of Febru-
airy for the alleged murder of her hus-
band, Anthony Krause, Jan. Z, In the
village of Adrian.
Billy Edwards, who took prominent
part in the Minneapolis police scandal,
has been sentenced at Duluth to an
indeterminate term in the state re-
formatory, being convicted on an in
dictment charging him with working
confidence game upon a. farmer In
that city over year ago.
The jury in the Snow murder case
at Little Falls returned verdict of
murder in the second degree. The
crime for which Charles Snow was
convicted was committed in Parker,
Morrison county, on Dec. %, when
Snow killed his cousin, William j.
Snow. with Winchester rifle.
There are 500 rural mail delivery
routes in operation throughout Mime
sofa at present, which is exactely 200
more than there we're year ago. All
the payments to the carriers are made
from the St. Paul postoffice and the
monthly payroll now amounts to more
than $4,000, as compared with 100000
in March. 1903.
While an auctioneer was bidding up
prices at public sale at New Auburn
and in the midst of the many persons
congregated there Mitch Dibb, a pio-
neer settler of that place, suddenly
drew a revolver and shot himself
through the head. Several persons
saw his action, but none was close
, enough to prevent It.
The claimants to the thirty-six-acre
tract of valuable mineral land on the
Mesaba range. near Virginia, which
was recently awarded to the state of
Minnesota by w. A. Richards, COM
missioner of the general land Office,
have appealed from the commissions
er's decision to Mr.. Hitchcock, secre-
tary of the interior, and Minnesota is
given thirty days to file an answer.
Secretary Hitchcock has decided