Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-02-03
NE VS. IN MINNFSOT
EVENTS OF "a WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

OUT THE STATE.
Elbridge Gerry Clough, brother Of
David M. Clough, former governor Of
Minnesota, is dead at Minneapolis.
The Duluth and Iron Range road
/ will build four miles Of new sidetracks
In it's yards at Two Harbors In the
coming spring. '..%> -
Fire at st. Paul almost completely
quilted the department store of Bannon
L Co.. entailing property loss of ap-
proximately $176,ooo.
Jewelry valued at $500 was stolen
n broad daylight from the roomss of
Maurice Krakow and wife in Mime
! opolis apartment house.
Eighteen young women were badly
shaken up in an elevator accident at
the Young Women's Christian asso.
citation building in Minneapolis.
While handling a loaded revolver
Benjamin Cyr, saloonkeeper at Day.
ton, Hennepin county, fatally shot him.
self through the abdomen. dying three
hours later.
Legislation providing for a state sys-
tenn of pensions for veterans of the
Indian wars in Minnesota IN being
agitated by Minnesota survivors Of
the Sioux wars.
P. P. Freeman, farmer living in
the town of Roxbury, near Thief River
Falls, was frozen to death while going
from his home to neighbor for aid.
Freeman lived alone.
Joseph Kammermeyer, young st.
Cloud man, was killed at Little Rock,
Ark, last week. He was boarding q
train at that place while It. was In mo-
ton and was crushed to death beneath
the wheels.
Oleo Melland, carpenter, met a
horrible death at the Zenith iron mine
at Ely Melland was working 1t the
top OF the shaft when he slipped and
fell backward into the opening, drop.
ping 1850 feet. -. :,
Captain j. H. Triggs, aged sixty.
three years, died suddenly at Duluth
from liver complaint. Deceased had
been a resident of Duluth for twenty
years and at one time was enc Of her
Wealthiest citizens.
The body Of Emil Johnson, q dairy.
man. was found frozen in the ice of
41nnehaha creek. about 4 mile below
Hopkins, Hennepin county. 1t is
thought he became lost and sue.
cumbed to the cold
John Bruemmer of Albany, this
state, attempted to kill his wife at St.
Louis Park Friday. He is In the Hen.
nepin county Jail and the woman lies
unconscious at her home and may sue.
cunb to her wounds. :"
Edward McGraw, Minneapolis bar.
tender, shot and dangerously wound.
Cd Mrs. Alice Rutty and then turned
the weapon upon himself with fatal
results. Mrs. Rutty, suffering from
three wounds, it is said, will recover.
Senator Nelson has: reported: from
the COMMITTEES on public lands q bill to
open for settlement under the home.
stead laws. the unused lands which
we're set apart for reservoirs at the
headwaters of the Mississippi river in
Minnesota. 49,.
While walking to his home from a
street car s. s.. Eaton, q we'll known
insurance man Of: st. Paul; was
stricken with heart disease and died
Immediately after reaching his home
to which he was carried by neighbors
who saw him fall.
Miss Mary, Grace, aged fQFty-dYe; a
sosident OF Inver Grove, was burned to
death in the destruction Of the family
home by fire: Miss Grace had escaped
from the burning building; but: went
back and persisted in trying to save
some valuable papers. -. >:
Paul Hauser, secretary and treas
'1fer o6f the Hauser Mating company
shot himself through tho heart In the
company's place of business At St
Paul: Business reverses are the causes
given by his friends. Mr. Hauser was
forty-two years of age.
Peter Schoffka was found frozen stin
In lonely hut near Cottonwood river
I south of New Ulm.- He evidently was
stricken with illness which prevented
him summoning help. The larder was
empty and there was no firewood.
6choffka was sixty-hve yeas old.
Seven persons we're injured and q
score more badly shaken up and
bruised as the result OF q collision be-
tween a four-horse bus containing
nearly fifty persons and a Mississippi
street car at st. Paul. The bus was
struck by the car while crossing the
tracks.
Charles A. Bernick. former deputy
treasurer of steaJns county, who re-