Little Falls herald., 1904-03-11
NEWS .ll' MINNESOTA
EVENTS oF.THE WEEK THROUGH
.. Ii r. OUT THE STATE.

~. CudlleS .. -flllSDury, dgeQ nICy-
TWO years, one of the most prominent
practitioners in Duluth, is dead.
t. w. j.: Bishopp, an old resident of
minneapolis and for number Of years
engaged in the real estate business,
is dead
Robert Schulska, arrested at South
st. Pau, cn the charge of stealing
sheep, committed suicide in his cell,
using strap or belt.
The thirty fourth annual meeting of
Minnesota Odd Fellows was held in
Minneapolis last week. Two hundred
delegates were present.
Wisconsin capitalists are interested
In project to build an immense pa
per plant at Fond du Lac, this state,
thirteen miles west of Duluth
Mail Carrier c. A. Harris was found
by trappers in a snowdrift between
Drummond and Two Harbors so badly
frozen that he may lose his hands and
feet.
King Solomon, the colored fortune
teller who has been on trial at Mime
apolis on the charge of shooting his
wife with intent to kill, has been ac-
quilted.
Three men, masked and armed with
revolvers, held up Charles Larson,
night clerk in the Salvation Army
lodgingroom in Minneapolis, securing
$31 from Larson and 81 from the till.
William Smith, who kept a general
| store in South st. Paul, committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the
head when Officer Robertson went to
arrest him on a charge of indecency.
During February there were seven
teen deaths from typhoid fever in Min
neapolis, as against. two for the same
month year ago, according to the
monthly report Of the health depart
| ment.
II. A. Durand, postmaster at New
port, a suburb of St. Paul, was held up
| and robbed last week for the eighth
time in four years. The robbery was
committed by two masked men, who
got away with $101.5Q.
Because the parents Of her affianced
husband would not consent to their
marriage Miss Faith Miller, a pretty
young woman Of twenty-five years liv-
| Ing in Minneapolis, committed suicide
on the street by taking strychnine.
> Receipts at the United States land
Office in Duluth for the month of Feb.
ruary amounted to s47,771.74. The
sale of public lands amounted to over
$4,000 acres. There is much activity
in the taking up Of lands for home
stead and timber and stone entries.
Representative Tawney in all prob
ability will represent Minnesota on the
congressional committee during the
| next two years. The place is now
held by former Representative Heat
wole, who succeeded Representative
Eddy on the committee.
Rev. Tawren Armsby is dead at
Council Grove, Kan, aged eighty.
eight. He was chaplain of the Eighth
Minnesota volunteer regiment that
| saw a greater variety of service and
country than any regiment in the Civil
war, fighting the Sioux in Montana
| and the Northwest before going to the
Gulf and the Atlantic.
Judge Charles A. Willard, associate
| justice of the supreme court of the
Philippine islands, has rendered his
resignation to take effect April 1 and
| will sail for the United States on
April 2. Judge Willard was a promi.
nent Minneapolis lawyer at the time
he was appointed to the supreme
bench Of the Philippines.
Rev. Patrick Danehy, well known
In Catholic circles in this state, is
dead in Minneapolis after a prolonged
illness with typhoid fever. Father
Danehy was young man of high
character at one time connected with
st. Pauls seminary. At the time OF
his death he was rector of St. Ste.
phen's church, Minneapolis.
The LIE Sueur County bank, a pri.
vate institution owned by Livingston
Quackenbush, has closed it's doors.
Want OF confidence on the part of the
depositors, caused by the failure OF
the Farmers and Merchants bank last
fall, caused a gradual withdrawal OF
deposits to such an extent that the pro-
prietor was unable longer to continue
business.
The jury in the case of Edward
Raymond, on trial at Caledonia for
burglary of the Spring Grove bank
Oct. II, 1903, brought in verdict of
guilty. James Murphy and Otto Kel-
Ter, >accomplices of Raymond, with.
| drew their plea of not guilty and~en-
tered plea of guilty. Judge Lingsley
sentenced each to five years at hard
labor in the penitentiary.
Poisonous coloring matter in candy
is believed to have caused the death
| of Merton Ady, two-year-old child,
who died at the home of his parents
in Decoris, Blue Earth county, recent.
ly. The state dairy and food depart
! ment now has samples of the candy
and Of similar goods from the store
I where it was obtained and will sub.
ject them to close analysis.
Seventy squatters from the Twin
Cities and other towns in Minnesota,
who have taken up the greater portion
of an unsurveyed township. in 1tasca
county, have formed the Northern Min.
nesota Log and Timber company for
! the purpose of marketing their pine
direct, without having to contribute
i, to the middleman's profit. They will
put in a saw mill, cut off the timber
and dispose of it in the open market.
Thirty union plumbers in Duluth,
being the employees of all except two
shops, are out on a strike for the rea.
son that the master plumbers have
declined to subscribe to set of rules
which the workmen promulgated. The