Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-06-09
NEWS in MIN ". NNESOTA
EVENTS or A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

OUT THE STATE.
Joseph A. Ryan, aged eighteen years,
was drowned in the Minnesota river at
Shakopee.
Mrs. Mary Pulford, resident of st.
Paul for over half century, is dead,
aged eighty years.
DR.. L. c. Edison, a prominent den
list of Fergus Falls, is dead of pneu-
Alonia after brief illness.
The deficit in the state revenue fund
is s163,SS6.65, according to the month
ly statement of State Treasurer Block.
Cracksmen blew the safe in the
grocery store of J. J. Cramer at Min
neapolis and escaped with $500 in
cash.
Hans F. Hanson, aged forty, we'll
known in the east end of Polk county,
was killed as result of his team run
ming away.
The Green Isle Milling company's
large three-story structure was de.
stroyed by fire Saturday, causing a
loss of $4,000.
The Minnesota Old Settlers associa-
ton met at St. Paul last week. But
eighteen of the original band of 100
pioneers were present.
John Murphy, an aged farmer who
resided with his son five miles east of
Albert Lea, committed suicide by cut
ting his throat with razor.
Mrs. Sarah Miner is dead at St.
Paul, aged eighty-three years. She
had lived in the house where she died
ever since her arrival in st. Paul in
1852.
Freddie FHtzsimmons, aged four
years, while playing near bonfire at
Duluth, sustained frightful burns about
the body, expiring four hours later in
awful agony.
A chunk of iron ore weighing be-
tween 300 and 400 pounds struck Frank
Johnson, Finnish miner employed il
the Spruce mine at Eveleth, killing
him instantly.
Fire at Warroad destroyed the main
business block, causing loss Of $780,
900. The burned area is on Lake
street, east of the Canadian Northern
railroad tracks.
Agnes Blatte, the six-year-old daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Blatte of
West Duluth, died in great agony as a
result of burns sustained while play
ing near a bonfire.
Jacob V. Brewer, Minnesota pio
neer and for many years prominent
member of the Minnesota State His.
torical society, is dead at St. Cloud
aged sixty-one years.
An unknown man, well dressed and
thought to be about forty-five years
old, fell into the Mississippi river near
Phalen creek at St. Paul and drowned
before assistance reached him.
Eighty men and two women were
admitted to practice in the courts of
Minnesota by the state supreme court
Friday morning. They are graduates
of the university law department.
While waving goodbye to his father
from second story porch three-year
old Reginald Durfey of St. Paul los
his balance and fell head first to the
ground, thirty feet below, dying in
stantly.
Postmaster Herzberg and R. S
Walker OF Guthrie, thirteen mile!
south of Bemidji, were held up by two
masked men armed with revolvers ant
robbed Of $50 in cash, watches ant
other valuables.
| William G. Hines has reported t.
the Minneapolis police that he wa'
held up by man in the uniform of 6
soldier at Minnehaha park and robbed
of watch and 81. Hines says the
thug beat him into insensibility.
Henry Birnberg, employed in thu
draughting department Of the Ameri
can Hoist and Derrick company, St
Paul, was struck by casting and in
stantly killed. His neck was broker
and both his arms we're fractured.
Herman Nagle of Appleton was &C
quilted at Benson of the charge o
murder in the second degree for tn
killing Of Theodore Lee near Appleton
! last MARCH. JuuSe Nlud46, Ou uto'lO1
Of the attorney for the defendant, in
structed a verdict of not guilty.
Governor Johnson has announced hi
appointees on the state board of grail
appeals as follows: A. E.. Evenson, ST
Peter; Theodore Thorson, Glenwood
w. F. Kelso, Hallock; c. F. McCorge]
Fergus Falls; +. B. McManus, Crook
ston, and F. B. Thorson, Winthrop.
Elizabeth Cam, aged eight, was il
stantly killed during a storm whic
struck Minneapolis Saturday aftel
noon. She and her aunt were stant
ing by a telegraph pole waiting for
} car. A bolt of lightning struck tn
pole and, descending, killed the girl.
! The first step towards securing
new state prison has been taken b
the state board of control in ADVERT!
ing for proposals for from 80 to 16
acres of land to be used as a site for
new prison or an annex which Nigh
he used in connection. with the ol