Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-06-24
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF THE WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE,


Minnesota Maccabees have again
elected I. N. Chellew of st. Paul state
commander
Frank Eppel Of St. Paul committed
! suicide with carbolic acid because his
sweetheart rejected him.
Charles l.undahl an ironworker,
was killed at St. Paul by falling from
the root OF sfx~story building.
The third annual convention OF the
Minnesota State Music Teachers as
ISOLATION was held in Duluth last week
Fred McKune, a prominent farmer
and county commissioner of Waseca
county, is dead at his home four miles
south Of Morristown.
The state forestry board has set
| aside 10000 acres of government Lam:
near Ely and it will probably be used
as game and fish preserve.
Mrs. Mary Lochowitzer, seventy
years old, drank carbohc acid at ST.
Paul and died in the police ambulance
On route to the city hospital
Half dozen wealthy residents of
! the Twin Cities have subscribed $500
600 toward the proposed $500, 900 en-
| dowment for Manchester college.
At Owatonna Joe Lewis pleaded
| guilty to murder. He killed Louis Mo-
berg in Rock Island box car last
April, A life sentence was givc1
| Lewis
Herman Blenker of Albany, Stearns
county, wealthy farmer. aged sixty,
was killed In runaway caused by al
automobile owned and driven by 4
! Minneapolis man.
John Alank a farmer Of Buffalo,
county, while on his way home from;
! Waumandee On load Of lumber & ':
from his wagon The rear wheel.
which was locked. passed over his
head, killing him instantly.
Andrew Lund. an enploye Of tho
Crookston saw mill, was almost in
stantly killed while working at an
edger. A board which caught in the
machinery few back, striking him in
the chest and crushing in the abdom-
tnal cavity.
| DR.. J. H. Dunn, physician and sur
geon of Minneapolis, was found dead
In his room at the Southern hotel, St.
Louis. Heart disease is supposed to
have caused death. Dr.. Dunn was at
tending the sessions of the American?
Surgical association.
DR.. Bracken, secretary of the state
board of health has received word
from St. Louis that he has been ap-
pointed secretary of the public health
section of the International Congress
OF Arts and Science. The section will
hold congress at the exposition dur.
Ing the summer.
The Washburn-Crosby company Of
Minneapolis has extended it's opera
Eions to include St. Louis by leasing
for five years, with an option to pur-
chase, the Victoria mills In that city,
together with the elevator property
connected. The Victoria mills have a
daily capacity Of 1900 barrels.
Dr. A. A. Ames, former mayor Of
Minneapolis, is growing weaker anc
phystcians feag that unless there ~
sudden change for the better there
will be but little hope for his recovery.
The doctor is unable to take noursh
ment and while he may live for few
days bis friends expect his death a.
The state Prohibition party met at
Minneapolis last week and named the
following ticket: Governor, c. ".
Dorset, Minneapolis; lieutenant gov
ernor, j. F. Heiberg, Twin Valley; at
torney general, L. j. Won Fossen; sec
Rotary Of state, H. A. Rigg; treasurer,
Delbert U. Wells; auditor, F. r. Nc
Manigle.
The State Federation Of Labor, in
session at New Ulm, elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year:
President, H. L. Dix, Minneapolis;
first vice president, GARFIELD E. Nor
rison, Mankato; second, r. C. Kutz
Brainerd; third, Miss Augusta Sey-
fried, st. Paul; secretary, W. E. Nc
Even, Duluth. Bramerd was chosen
rs the next convention city.
Organization of permanent immi-
grafton commission to be made up
from the commercial clubs and com
mercial bodies of the state and legis-
lation to establish as a part of the
state government a bureau of immi-
grafton are two projects which we're
recommended to the state immigra-
ton convention at St. Paul last week
and favorably received by that body.
Russell Sage has been defeated in
his suit in the state supreme court
1Or title TO the property IN SWllt cOun'
ty occupied by Michael Rudnick. This
suit, although in itself involving only
the ownership of one farm, is a cele-
brated and generally Interesting case,
for upon it has depended the title right
to the entire land grant of the or.
Hastings and Dakota railway, to whi( h
Russell Sage succeeded.
A dispatch from Reaburn, Man., con
Arms the reported drowning Of John
G. Knox of Jackson, this state. an
John Crawford of Lakefeld, this state,
at Shoal lake. They started out TO-!
an island and when a mile from shore
heavy sea capsiZed the boat. Owing
to the GOODNESS Of the water the two
victims we're unable to stand the eX-
posure and were swept from the bot
tom of the boat by the waves.
Fire has almost wiped out the little
village CT Altura, near Wlnona, OF
the Chicago Great Western road. The
flames started in the large Implement:
warehouse Of F.. F. Simon and sprea1
rapidly, destroying that building anc
contents the general stores of E. F.