Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-02-17
NEWS TN MIN NESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH
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OUT THE STATE.


Rufus l.. Pratt, pioneer lumberman
is dead at Minneapolis.
Francis Norton Phelan, one of the
pioneer physicians of Duluth, is dead
Hon. John F. McGovern, mayor OF
Wabasha, is dead, aged forty-fou1
years.
John Goodnow of Minneapolis, con.
sui general at Shanghai, has rendered
his resignation to take effect March 81.
Wolves are becoming very numerous
in the vicinity Of Frazee and they are
coming to the farmyards near the
town.
The farmers in the vicinity of Mont
rose contemplate erecting a large de.
partment store at that place in the
spring. .~--
Miss Anna Dunlavey, twenty-five
years old, daughter of Andrew Dun
lavey Of West Duluth, was killed in a
coasting accident.
Mrs. Olive M. Barton, widow Of the
late A. B. Barton, one of the early set
tiers OF Minneapolis. is dead in the
eighty-sixth year Of her age.
Harry Cannon, on trial at st. Paul
for the killing of Percy Young Oh
Christmas day, 1904, has been convict
cd of manslaughter in the first degree.
Mrs. John Fitzloff, aged seventy
five, for over fifty-two years q resi-.
dent of Blue Earth county, is dead at
her home in st. Clair after an illness
Of two days.
Nathan Brown, the oldest settler in
Winona county and father of Mayor
L. L. Brown of Winona, is dead at his
home in Dakota, about twenty miles
south of Winona, aged eighty-four
years.
August J. Rustad, wholesale and re-
tail liquor dealer of Moorhead, filed a
petition in bankruptcy in the United
States court at Fergus Falls, placing
his assets at $25,300.S5 and his liabili-
ties at 6.495.66.
The Interstate National Guard as.
sociation will hold it's fourth annual
meeting in st. Paul on Monday, June
IL. A large number of national guard
men from all over the United States
will be in attendance.
John La Salla, an unmarried Finn
twenty-one years old, was killed in the
Petit mine at Eveleth. He was pick
Ing inside a chute when the timbers
crashed about him and he was buried
In the iron ore for six hours.
AS the result of spending the great
Or part of night in q tree with a
pack of yelping wolves at the foot OF
It Hans Peterson, living near Coon
Valley, was taken to Mankato to have
his fingers and toes amputated.
The Minnesota state convention OF
the Y. M. C. A. 1t Duluth was attend
cd by $50 delegates from all points in
the state and North Dakota. Watson
s. Moore of Duluth was elected presi-
dent, succeeding G. L. Hunt of St.
Paul.
The Great Western limited, running
between Chicago and the Twin Cities,
was wrecked at point half way be-
tween Kenyon and Nerstrand. The en-
tire train left the track, but the pas
sengers escaped with a severe shak-
ing up.
Jesse Eastman, aged tventy-six
years, was accidentally shot while
hunting rabbits at Long lake, ten
miles southeast of Brainerd He was
standing on log when his gun slipped
and both charges entered his body
He died in about nine hours
Heroic work by Minneapolis firemen
and policemen saved from suffocation
Mrs. Nina Wilson, a paralytic, and
three children of John Malcolm, a
Great Northern dining car porter, who
we're unconscious from smoke. All
recovered after hard work by physi-
clans.
The Duluth real estate men have
organized a real estate board. The
board has adopted constitution and
bylaws and the members say that the
object Of the organization is to correct
certain evils that exist in the real
estate business and to foster the city's
interests.
Rosenberger & Currier, Wholesale
cOnfectiOners of Mankato, are in re-
ceipt Of a letter from one of their
patrons, who is behind in his pay
ments, stating that he will commit sui
eide 80 that the firm can collect its
money If the members so desire, as he
carries $4,000 life insurance.
Edward Carlson, farmer and stone
cutter living near the St. Cloud re-
formatory in Sherburne county, found
his sixteen-year-old son, Henry, dead
In swamp with a charge OF shot
from shotgun in his head. The boy
had gone out after quail and was &C.
cidentally shot in some unknown man
neT
The number. Of people killed by acct
dents resulting from the movement OF
trains in Minnesota during 1904 was
169, compared with 211 in 1903. The
number Of people injured was lip,
compared with 951 in 1903. In addi-
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