Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-04-28
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS, OF AWEEk THROUGH.
s=,<*;> OUT THE STATE

! Jacob Dinsmore. an old settler Of
Clay county and veteran Of the Civil
war, is dead at his home at Hawley.
N. II. Miner, prominent attorney
md twice mayor Of Sank Center, died
suddenly Friday night of heart dis
ease.
Mrs. John Keller Of St. Paul, wound.
ed by William Williams at the time
her slxteen-year-old son was slain, is
dead.
oscar Newberg, a law student at
the state university, lies at the point
OF death as the result of a friendly
encounter in the gymnasium recently.
DR.. c. w. Van Damn, charged with
performing criminal operation on
Daisy Scadden, was found guilty. bv A.
jury in the district court at Minneau-
oils.
Mike Anderson and Erick Perkio,
settlers, are holding up log drive on
FloodWood river, St. Louis county,
for compensation fC< privileges from
the lumber company.
Breckenridge high school, represent.
ed by team of three girl debaters,
won the final contest in the State
School Debating league, defeating the
Albert Lea high school.
c. H. Warner of Aitkin has been
appointed by State Auditor lverson to
have charge of the state immigration
bureau established under the bill
passed by the legislature.
George II. Wright. editor of the
Princeton Union, will have charge of
taking the Minnesota state census of
1905. Mr.. Wright was superintendent
OF the state census of 1895.
s. F. Barney, an attorney and enc
OF the prominent and wealthy resi-
dents of Mankato, is dead following
an operation for cancer. He was one
OF the earliest residents OF Mankato.
Burglars entered the department
store Of B. L. Weinberg at Mimi J.
oils and carried away goods. valued at
$3.50. The scene of the robbery is
two blocks from the North Minneay.
oils police station.
John M. Sheardown, deputy clerk of
the United States court, an early set
tier Of Winona and for seventeen
years clerk OF the district court, is
dead in that city Of pneumonia, at
the age of seventy~tour years.
N. Shannon of St. Hilaire, watch.
man for the Crookston Lumber com.
pany, became respondent through loss
of his position and committed suicide
by hanging. He leaves wife and
thirteen children in poor circum
stances.
While running down one of his pigs
Edward Welk, a thirty
farmer living about eighteen miles
from st. Cloud, accidentally fell on a
knife which he was carrying in his
coat pocket and b4ed to death before
assistance reached him.
Minneapolis losses by fire during
the past year, according to a report
on fire losses issued by Insurance
Commissioner O'Brien, was 69.6 PEI
cent. or an aggregate loss of 1885,,
819.07 The losses in St. Paul were
$277,853.76, or 46.3 per cent.
Dave Bovene, wealthy farmer
sixty years old, was held up in the
railroad yards at Montevideo while re-
turning home and was robbed of a
deposit certificate of $1,000 and sew.
eral notes. In their haste the foot
pads. overlooked a purse containing
more than $50.
A sensation has been created at
Fergus Falls by the confession OF
Peter Ziolkowski, who now admits
that he murdered his father, as
charged by the state. He gives nc
reason for the crime further than that
the murdered man was just as well
out of the way.
The report of smallpox cases of the
state board OF health for the week
ending April II shows considerable
increase in the ravages of the dread
disease. A total of 100 new cases
were reported during the week, Mar
shall county leading with 81 new
cases, II of them in Argyle township
The seven-year-old daughter of John
Hendrickson, farmer living near
Mehahga, Wadena county, was burned
to death in meadow The little girl
in company with some other children
was engaged in burning off the dead
grass when her clothing caught fire
and her flesh was literally cooked and
dropped from the bones. She suffered
intense agony, and died within two
hours.
There is a strike brewing among
the painters of st. Paul. 1t is ex'
pected that unless the master paint.
ers come to terms with them within
the next few days that the entire local
union will walk out. The painters a
few weeks ago Issued an ultimatsm
to the masters asking for 371% cents
an hour for an eight-hour dey. Some
of the master painters have con-
sented to the scale, but number are
holding out.
Governor Johnson has succeeded in
preventing the appointment of Ed
ward Claggett Of Primo eton as Gus.
todian CT the new state capitol. Mr.
Claggett was the unanimous choice OF
the committee delegated to select en-