Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-01-20
NEWS in MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

resident of Shakopee for fifty-two
years, is dead.
Ben J. F. Baker, aged seventy-three
years, a veteran of the Civil war. is
dead at Spring Valley.
L. A. Rosing OF Cannon Falls has
been reelected president ofsthe Minne-
sofa Municipal and Commercial league.
The St. Louis county grand Jury re.
port contains strong censure of the
board of commissioners of that county.
! Mayor Robert \. Smith of St. Paul
received the Democratic vote in the
joint session of the legislature for
United States senator.
William Goodman, living nine miles
southeast of Winthrop, was killed by
q Minneapolis and St. Louis passenger
train. His horses were also killed.
DIR. William A. Norred Of Minneap-
oils, aged thirty-four, committed sui
eide by shooting. Dependency over
financial affairs seems to have prompt
ed the act.
At meeting of the members of the
state railroad and warehouse commits
sion at the new capitol Ira B. Mills
was elected chairman of the board for
! the year Of 1906.
Fire at St. Cloud completely de-
stroyed Lawrence hall, the girls dor
mitory at the normal school, and rem
dered $50 young women students OF
the school homeless. The total loss is
estimated at 100000.
The st. Louis county grand jury has
found an indictment against Frank
Vandyke, who killed his cellmate, Eric
Linderberg, in the Duluth Jail recently,
Of murder in the first degree.
The most destructive fire in the his
tory of Bemidji destroyed six of the
business buildings on the south side of
Third street and two others were badly
damaged. The loss will reach $4,000.
W. J. Longford and wife, living on
q farm ten miles from Fairmont, were
overcome by gas from a heating stove.
Mr.. Longford is in dying condition
and there is little hope for the wo-
mans recovery.
AS result Of q fire in Minneapolis
that did about $4,000 damage to the
store and stock of Alexander Solder.
| berg fifteen or twenty persons mar.
rowly escaped suffocation in the rooms
above the store.
The Minnesota Association If Farm
| ers' Mutual Insurance Companies, III
meeting at st. Paul last week, de-
cided to restrict risks to $4,000 and
! appointed committee to prepare a
! schedule of uniform fees.
William Hahn, barber working al
Long Prairie but living in St. Cloud,
died suddenly at the former town.
Just before he died he told the doctor
| in attendance that he had drunk a
| large quantity of bay rum.
In about week the Indian office will
be ready to begin paying Red Lake
| Indians for the lands sold last sum-
mer. Commissioner Leupp told Rep
| resentative Stevenson that the first
amount disbursed will be about $115,-
600.
Joseph Doerner of St. Cloud ap.
peared before County Auditor Crever
with the carcass of a full grown tim
Der wolf which he had killed within
the city limits of St. Cloud. The beast
| was shot by Doerner not half mile
from the business center of the city.
Charles Stiff and Clovis Merou
were badly injured and score of per-
sons were badly bruised by collision
! between two Selby avenue cars at St.
| Paul. The accident was due TO the
failure of the airbrakes on a large car
to hold going down the incline and it
| crashed into car ahead.
The Minneapolis Business Mems as
sociation gave complimentary dinner
to Governor John A. Johnson at the
| Minneapolis club. Besides the gov
ernor there were present Speaker
Frank Clague, Secretary Frank A. Day,
| Mayor Jones and large number of
business men of the Mill City.
Steacns and adjoining counties, if
| present plans mature, are to be net
| worked with rural telephone lines the
| coming summer. So far four CO.
operative telephone companies, which
expect to build lines connecting with
the St. Cloud exchange, have elected
| officers and placed stock on SALE
Mrs. Ole Johnson, fifty-three years
old, residing at 3018 Thirty-fourth ave-
nue. south, Minneapolis, was found
frozen to death in her little cottage
Saturday morning. When a neighbor
raped for admission at the door of
the widows home it was locked and
there was no fire in the stove and no
sign of life within.
The three days meeting of the state
agricultural society closed with bust
ness session during which the election
of officers took place. President C. n.
Cosprove of LIE Sueur and First Vice
President 3. F. Nelson of Minneap.
oils were reelected by reclamation
and G. M. Griggs of St. Paul was elect
cd second vice president
Charged with selling liquor to In
dams and introducing intoxicants into
the Minnesota reservation indictments
were returned in the United States
court at Duluth against Agent Thomas
H91VOrSen Daniel C,o;+b L1rooCic