Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-06-23
NEWS IN MIN NESO TA
EVENTS Or a WEEK .THaova+-
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EVENTS or a WEEK :THRouoh-
OUT THE STATE. %
John G. Oswald, one Of the wealthy
men of Minneapolis and pioneer OF
that city, is dead.
Ferdinand Yeska, aged seventy-dve,
committed suicide at the home Of his
daughter near Long Prairie.
T. Fl. Martin of Duluth was elected
chief ranger of the Catholic Order of
Foresters of Minnesota, In session 1T
New Ulm.
The Minnesota grand lodge Of Odd
Fellows, in session at st. Paul, elected
T. w. Hugo of Duluth grand master
and g. w. scherer, Mankato, deputy.
William Templemans Of st. Paul has
been elected president Of the State
Federation of Labor. Saltwater was
selected as the next place Of meeting.
The grand lodge Of Odd Fellows Of
Minnesota held it, aanual meeting ut
the old state capitol at st. Paul last
week. Nearly all the 265 lodges in the
state were represented.
Marshall Robinson, long time resi-
dent of Minneapolis, is dead. In the
|seventy-five years of his life Mr.. Rob
inson had distinguished himself as q
poet and novelist and as q soldier.
George Bosbeck, aged forty-dve, q
prominent resident Of Mankato, was
found dead in the haymow of his barn
by his wife. A note found In the dead
mans pocket stated he was tired Of
living.
County Auditor Weaver of Blue
Earth county has forwarded to Brown
county the expense account Of the
5ec6nd Koch trial. It footed up to
$3,720.65, which is exclusive of attor-
ney fees.
Ohcial notice has been received at
Of the American Federation of Labor
has declared for a continuance of the
boycott against one of the Minneapolis
-four mills.
John Weeg, a laborer, was held up
and robbed as he was crossing the
steel arch bridge In Minneapolis by a
robber whose hands sparkled with
diamonds and whose dress throughout
was that of a man of fashion.
w. l. Milliken. a prominent lumber
merchant of Minneapolis, was struck
by street car midway between the
Twin Cities Thursday afternoon and
died half an hour afterward at the
Cobb hospital at Merriam Park.
Jasper Knutson, twenty-five years
old, fell from a hatcar on the Milwau-
kee and st. Paul spur track at Eau
Claire, Wis, and was run over and
killed. Papers in his pocket indicate
he was from New London, MINI.
Burglars forced an entrance through
the door of the postoffice at Elk River
and shattered the safe with dynamite.
They secured $125 in cash, but made
no effort to take a large package of
postage stamps which was in easy
reach.
Governor Johnson has announced
the appointment of Robert Greig OF
Pine City to succeed George R. HaZ-
gard of St. Paul as commissioner of
the Interstate park at the Dalles of
the St. Croix. Mr.. Hazards term will
expire Aug. 1.
The resources of state banks in
Minnesota increased $4,51s,174.52 be.
tween Nov. 10, 1904, and May %, 1905
when the last call for statement was
dated. The returns from this call have
exceeded the expectations of Public
Examiner Kerst
Edith Baker, the eight-months old
daughter Of H. T. Baker, a Minneapolis
street railway motorman, plunged hel
arm into basin of boiling hot water
at her parents home, scalding it sc
badly that she died from the effects OF
the burn twenty-four hours later.
Lieutenant Thomas Mogan, Com.
! pany X, Fifth Minnesota infantry
dropped dead in his room at the State
| Soldiers home. The cause Of death
was heart trouble and there was nc
warning Of the coming of the end
| Lieutenant Mogan was sixty ight
years old.
| F. M. Barrett and F. W. Bole
wealthy business men Of Wheaton
this state, pleaded guilty in the fed
eral court at Seattle, Wash, to com
plicity in conspiracy to defraud the
government by inducing Italians tt
take out timber claims near Kalispell
! Mont. and were sentenced to one veal
In prison, fined $1,000 and ordered tt
pay the costs of action.
Under an opinion rendered by Attor
ney General Young over $4,000 in
back taxes will be turned into thu
state treasury by the railroads operat
ing in Minnesota. The opinion hold:
that the railroads of the state mus
report for taxation all of their gros:
receipts arising from through ship
ments between two points in Mime
sofa, even though the shipments are
taken into another state in transit.
The annual reunion of the First Min
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