Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-04-07
NEWS IN MINNESOTA I,
EVENTS. OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

OUT THE STATE.
Engineer Morgan of st. Paul was
killed in wreck on the Omaha road
at Manhs~to.
William Stringer. a pioneer of the
Mexican and Civil wars, is dead at
Minneapolis.
Jerry J. Strapp, formerly first as
Sistant chief, has been elected chief
OF the st. Paul fire department.
An unknown man committed sui
eide at st. Paul by jumping from the
Wabasha street bridge into the Mis-
sissippi river.
Freddie Anderson, aged eight, was
instantly killed at Minneapolis by be-
ing run over by barrel wagon from
which he fell.
Adolph Sprich, aged fourteen, died
at the st. Paul city hospital from
burns received in an attempt to start
q fire with gasoline in the kitchen
stove at his home.
John Thomas, night Waterman at
the National flour mill at Minneapolis,
was sandbagged, bound and gagged
by three holdup men, who robbed the
retail Office of the mill.
Sneak thieves secured diamonds
valued at from $4,000 to $4,000 from
J. S. Aliens jewelry store on the
ground floor of the Guaranty building
Ut Minneapolis in broad daylight.
Navigation at the Head of the
Lakes opened March 30 when the
steamer Ben Ami of the Booth line
cleared from the port of Duluth for
Grand Marais and other north shore
points.
Minneapolis artists captured four
teen of the twenty prizes awarded by
the judges at the annual exhibit of
the State Art society at Winona. St.
Paul received four prizes, Faribault
one and Winona one.
P. J. Kerwin, second assistant at
torney general, has rendered his res
1gnation to Attorney General Young.
Mr.. Young Immediately announced
the appointment of r. A. Stone of
Morris to fill the vacancy.
"Cal'' F. Stone, we'll known through
out the Northwest as assistant gen
eral passenger agent of the Great
Northern, has been promoted to sue
coed F. l. Whitney as general passen-
ger agent of the same road,
While engaged in experimenting
the packing of household goods prep
aratory to moving to his summer res
idence at Arcola William H. Richard
son, we'll known real estate man of
st. Paul, dropped dead of apoplexy.
Governor johnson has discovered
that April Fl, the date set in his proc
lamatiOn for Arbor and Bird day, is
this year Good Friday and he has is
sued a second proclamation changing
the date for tree planting to April %,
one week later.
John Blasier, known to thousands
in st. Paul as Happy Jack" or
Laughing Jack" was asphyxiated by
the fumes of coal gas escaping from
a leaky furnace in the basement of
the home of A. p. Herschler, where
he was employed.
While lifting a tightly covered sy-
rup can filled with boiling coffee from
a stove in wood camp near Bagley
II. A. Shaft of Eldred was terribly
burned by an explosion of the can
He will lose the sight of both eyes
and will be SCARED for life.
Argyle, in Marshall county, is quar-
antinel because of smallpox cpl
demic which seems to have embraced
the entire county. According to the
report made by DR.. H. NJ Bracken,
secretary Ct the state board of health,
there are seventy-fve cases of small
pox in that county.
AS result of an investigation into
the affairs of the Northwestern Ma
t1Onal Lille Insurance company of Min
neapolls by the state insurance de-
partment all the officers of the COM
pany have resigned. The company is
pronounced solvent, but the report
states a change OF officers seems de-
oirable.
The health of the residents near
Lake Winona is threatened by the
large number Of dead fish which have
come to the surface and are rotting
on the banks. The Winona board of
health has been asked to take some
action and that city may be called
upon to provide some means by which
to dispose of this menace to health.
Amos Shepherd of Hibbing, general
manager of the Corrigan and McKin-
ney mines on the Mesaba, fractured
his skull at the Fitchi Gammi club
In Duluth. He was in the lavatory
when he was seized by a sudden
faintness and fell to the floor, strik-
ing his head violently on the thing.
His condition is pronounced serious.
Minneapolis union plumbers and
plasterers went out on a strike Sat-
urday. About 100 members of each
trade quit work. The plumbers struck
because of the refusal of the boss
plumbers to accede to a minimum
wage Of $3.50 day. The plasterers
quit work to enforce a demand for
an eight-hour day and Saturday aft
ernoons off.
The committee appointed by 1nsur-
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