Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-01-13
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

OUT THE STATE.
| Experienced cracksmen are at work
| In Minneapolis.
Mayor Jones of Minneapolis has or
Qered the closing Of all gambling
houses and winerooms.
Edwin G. Becker, resident of Min
! nesota for half century, is dead at
The Soldiers home at Minnehaha Falls
me board of county commissioners
| OF martin county has decided to appro-
pirate 100000 for building a new
courthouse.
T.. q. Nevius, for thirty-four years a
prominent business man of Winona.
mas accepted the management of the
morse market Of the Sioux City Ia.)
stock yards.
! The trial Of DR.. George R. Koch of
New ulm on the charge of numbering
DIR. Louis A. Gebhardt has begun in
earnest. It required seven days to
secure jury.
| Joseph Guilmette has been SEN
tenced at Crookston to life imprison-
ment In the penitentiary ut hard labor
Tor the murder of Joseph Mongeon
! 1ear Mentor last October.
Miss Bertha Thurman. aged thirty
years, was burned to death in her
mothers house at LIE Sueur while
! alone, her clothing having caught fire
u some unknown manner.
John Skinner Of Casselton. N. D.
YES slugged and robbed Of $3.50 in an
alley In Minneapolis. His wounds
| were so serious that it was necessary
% remove him to the city hospital.
! Advices from Washington announce
the appointment to the position Of
! United States consul at Chungking,
China, of Harold l. Lyon, instructor
| In botany at the University of Mime
sofa.
Present prospects are that every
grain elevator at the Head of the
Lakes will be filled by the opening of
navigation next spring. Less than
| 20,000,O00 bushels more of grain will
DO it.
! W. A. Avery, the Detroit lumberman.
has sold 100000 feet of his pine
tributary to the Duluth and Iron
Range road and has given an option
TO prospective purchaser for 80,000,-
600 feet.
! According to the records of the
health department of Duluth the total
number of births for the year 1904 was
1,445, of which 1913 were male and $50
were female. The total number of
deaths was 773.
Alfred H. Barr has brought the pelt
! OF the biggest wolf ever killed in ST..
4ouis county to the auditor to collect
The bounty. The animal weighed 155
pounds and was powerful brute in
the prime of life.
| Mrs. Eva Wartha, twenty-nine years
old, committed suicide at St. Paul by
hanging herself with clothesline from
; q hinge on the kitchen floor. Tenn
porary insanity is the only known ex-
PLANTATION for the act.
! Accidents to employees in the various
{ industries of the state decreased dur
Ing the last year, according to the
report on accidents in the state in the
second volume of the biennial report
OF the bureau of labor.
An engine on the Duluth, Missabe
and Northern road at Duluth, in charge
OF Swan Anderson, ran down and al
most instantly killed julius Berg, his
nephew, aged twelve years, who was
visiting him from Michigan.
Congressman James A. Tawney has
sent out notice through the First dis
trlct that there is vacancy at West
Point to be filled from that district,
the examination for which will be held
at Fort Smelling in February.
| Richard Cronin, jailer at the Mar.
garet street police station in St. Paul.
died suddenly after bringing a des-
; perate drunken prisoner to the sta
ton, from valvular heart disease COM
bined with an unusual exertioD.
| The railroad and warehouse commits
sion has dismissed seventeen helpers
and Weighers in the state grain de-
partments at Minneapolis and Duluth.
Since the bulk of the grain crop has
been moved there is no work for them.
! With the exception of Captain Henry
, Getchell of the Fifth precinct every
precinct police commander in Mime
apolis has been reduced III rank by
Mayor Jones, who assumed Office Jan.
l. Three of them are made jailers
and one is reduced to lieutenant.
Rev. E. N. Spafford of Champlin.
Hennepin county, has been arrested
for assault and battery. He is en-.
gagged as teacher in the schools there
and, it is alleged, punished A. c. Kim
ball, aged thirteen years, son of Alden
S. Kimball, grocer of that place.
Judge Enright of Duluth has sen.
fenced Edward w. Mcclure of that
city to Saltwater on the reformatory
system. He confessed recently to hav-
ing stolen during period of years
$4,000 worth of sugar from his en-
ployers at the city dock in Duluth.
Pneumonia is spreading in Mime
apolis and it may amount to an cpl
demic before the physicians of the
city and the health department Off
| Gals get it under control. Just now
It is not unusual for two or three
deaths from pneumonia to be report
Cd daily.
| The annual report of State Treas
urer Block for the year ending July
81, 1904, has just been made public
and shows that the total receipts from
all sources were $8,757,325. In the
state vaults there are more than $12,-
100000 in certificates and bonds and
| 81, 462,635 in cash.
The total amount of lumber cut in