Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-12-22
NE VS. In MINI ESO VIA
EVENTS OF "a WEEK THRou0H
OUT THE STATE. S.


tographer, had his right hand blown
OF at the wrist while taking q fash
light picture. .1s \.
Itch has become epidemic in the,
Minneapolis public schools. and the
officers Of the health department say
that hundreds Of children are afflicted
with it. + .2=sS.ss:::> !. =. ~ =
ztE Alanson Pollard, an old resident Of
Minneapolis and veteran of both the
Mexican and Civil wars, is dead at the
Soldiers home at Minnehaha after Z
brief illness. Il: 4 : < i II. V
= The legality of an ordinance passed
several years ago by the Minneapolis
city. council requiring that all city.
printing bear the union label is to be
tested in the courts. u, ,>.S :''17<, <a-.$.@~
A stable belonging to the Portland
Stone company at St. Paul was de-.
stroyed by fire one night last week.
There were twenty-five horses in the
barn and only six were rescued
A. H. Lindeke of the wholesale dry
goods house Of Lindeke. Warner &
Sons of st. Paul, has announced him
self as receptive candidate for the
Republican nomination for governor.
Mrs. H. L. ,Woltman, wife of the
assistant pastor of Trinity Lutheran
church, Minneapolis, was struck by a
runaway in that city, thrown under
southbound street car and instantly
killed.
Rev. Father John Preis, rector of St.
Johns Bohemian Catholic church at
WinOna, is dead. Father Preis, who
was we'll known in the Northwest,
came to Minnesota from Texas about
she years ago.
Miss Mayme Quill of Chicago has
recovered judgment for $500 in the
Ramsey county district court against
Thomas F. Tierney, st. Paul COM
mission dealer, for an alleged breach
C promise to marry.
Louis Schultz of Winona, a work
man forty-two years old, fell from a
gas tank on which he was hammering
rivets to instant death. He fell dis
tance OF over twenty feet. striking or
lis head. His neck was broken.
On the recommendation of Represen-
tative Steenerson orders will soon be
issued at the interior department open
ing to settlement the township in the
northwest corner of Kittson county,
this state, abutting on the Canadian
line.
\ A Wisconsin Central passenger train
crashed into the rear end of a Great
western CATTLE train in the Union de-
pot yards at st. Paul. Thirteen head
of cattle were killed and several more
were so badly injured that they had to
be shot.
St. Paul is threatened with soft
coal famine as result of lack of
cars during the past few months for
coal shipments: The Northwest is
said to be 100000 tons short. Dealers
fear that the visible supply will prac-
tically disappear in short time.
J. II. Hawley of Sandstone, aged six
ty five years, was run over by cars
while. walking on the company's tracks
in the yards at that place and his left
arm and leg entirely severed from the
body. He died several hours later
without regaining consciousness.
Wolves to the number of forty-one
were killed in Hennepin county in the
year 1904-5, from Dec. IA to Dec. IA,
according to the figures on record in
the Office of County Auditor Hugh R.
Scott. OF these twenty-five were
adult wolves and sixteen we're cubs.
Three were killed inside the city linn.
its of Minneapolis.
Three Winona men and much Wi
mona capital is interested in, a new
launched in the Pacific Northwest.
The company is known as the Old Ore
gon Lumber company and the officers
are: J. w. Lucas, president; R. H.
Jackson, treasurer; F.. s. Bell, secre-
tary. all OF Winona and II. A. Muffley
,; Minnea lo,i>; Es-i.lyer The capital
is $500 ,000 -
Notice has been received from the
United States government that the
state is entitled to 1888 from the
proceeds of government sales of fed
eral land in Minnesota. Under the act
Of congress the state receives 5 per
cent of the proceeds Of all. govern
rnent land sales in this. state. The
amount certified to by the government
represents per cent of the sales for
the past year. -
Mayor Benson of St. Cloud has is
sued a statement declaring that all
saloons would be closed at II p. m
and all day Sundays beginning Jan.
/, 1906. For the past sixty years not a
Sunday has passed that liquor has not
been sold in st. Cloud. The mayors
action is the result of recent saloon
and other scandals which have al
ready caused the revocation Of one
liquor license and the raiding of one
disorderly. house. ,,@' s.:.'.~ -
= Charles A. sBernick, for seven years 1
deputy treasurer of Stearns county,
WHO last spring was indicted by the
grand jurySon seven counts for falsi-|
flying accounts and embezzling county
funds to the extent of $4,000, pleaded !
guilty and received a sentence of q .
line Of $500 from Judge Baxter Ber-s
nick paid the fine at, once. The out