Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-09-29
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
T OUT. THE STATE. * :

r Governor Johnson addressed be-
tween 1000 and 5000 people at the
Freeborns county fair at Albert Lea
last week. -,
The plant of the Anchor Silver Plate
company at st. Paul has been com.
pletely destroyed by fire, causing q
loss Of $4,000.
Louis Gauthier of st. Paul was
found dead in the bathroom Of his
home. 1t is believed that death re.
suited from apoplexy.
John \Butler of Minneapolis, a man
well known in speculative circles in
the Twin Cities and Chicago, died sud-
denly at .Mankato last week.
Individual deposits in the national
banks of Minnesota now aggregate
more than $s3,00o,00O. This is an in.
crease of about 100000 in the last
year.
Street car traffic on Woodland ave-
nue. at Duluth was blocked for q few
minutes one evening last week by six
black bears, three large and three
small ones.
Charles McKisstc, twenty-seven
years old, from Atlantic, Ia, commit.
ted eide at Morgan, this state, by
hanging after having cut himself up
badly with razor.
Roy Richards, eighteen years old, a
carpenter at the Montevideo roller
mill, fell from a. scaffold a distance of
twenty feet. He struck on a stone in
the river and met instant death.
George H. Jackson, aged twenty.
seven, of Wabasha was killed before
a big crowd at the Zumbrota street
carnival while taking the place of the
regular performer in looping the loop
Of DEATH"
Mrs. Nels Jenson, wife of prom
1nent farmer living near Swanville,
Todd county, was knocked down and
trampled by a runaway horse. Despite
oil that medical skill could do she
died after a few hours.
Judge Grier M. Orr of the Ramsey
county district court has sustained the
ruling of Judge Basille of the probate
court that the Inheritance tax law
passed by the last legislature is un-
constitutional and void.
John Olson, aged twenty-six, was
run down and instantly killed by a
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul train
ut Minneapolis. It Is believed he at
tempted to board the train to ride to
his place of employment.
Fourteen lumber camps will be in
operation at Kelliher, Beltrami coun-
ty, this winter. The camps burned
down last spring now are being re-
built and preparations made for the
biggest season that that part of the
pineries ever has seen.
Judge John F. Hoyt, a pioneer of st.
Paul, died last week at the home of
his son in Glasgow, Mont. Mr.. Hoyt
came to Minnesota in 1848 and settled
soon after at St. Paul. He was prom
1nently identified with the early his
tory Of St. Paul and the Northwest.
The state railroad and warehouse
commission has made request of the
attorney general that he commence
action to enforce the order of the
commission that the 500 railroad re.
lay its sidetrack and maintain reason
able service at Otisville, in Washing
ton county.
Clarence Buckle, fifteen years old,
of St. Paul, was struck by a Chicago
Great Western train at the 500 line
junction while returning home from
school. His left leg and thigh were
fractured and it is feared that he sus-
tanned serious internal injuries which
will prove fatal.
The Oliver Iron Mining company is
negotiating for the purchase of
heavy bill of equipment for delivery
in March, 1905. 1t will involve an
expenditure of nearly 100000 and in
cludes sixty-five new locomotives and
twenty-five new steam shovels of the
eighty-hve ton class.
Hog cholera has broken out in the
townships Of Lynd, Island Lake, Grand
View and Nordland, Lyon county.
Hunting dogs, by tracking through
infected pens, are believed to have
assisted in spreading the infection and
the state live stock and sanitary
board has required that dogs be tied
up until the epidemic is checked.
Suit has been commenced in the
Ramsey county district court against
John Fitzgerald of the St. Paul work
house for $4,000 damages because he
ordered one of the prisoners to be
shaved. During the shave the work
house barber robbed the prisoner of a
moustache Of several years standing,
for which the loser asks $4,000 in
damages.
Fred o. Tilton, Minneapolis COM
mission man, convicted under the
state game laws some months ago, is
now in the Hennepin county jail with
the prospect of remaining there for
$50 days. His only other alternative
is to pay fine of $3.50, but he has
failed to raise the money and now
says he has but little hope of being
able to do so.
After fighting it's taxes in the courts
since 1899 the Western Union Tele-
graph company, under decision hand
ed down in the supreme court, must