Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-10-13

dng loss OF 5000.
Frank Weber, farmer living near
Centerville, fell from a load of hay,
breaking his neck. He was dead when
picked up after the accident.
Florence, the eight-year-old daugh.
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Miles of st.
Paul, was accidentally drowned in a
cistern at the home Of John Ahern in
that city.
George w. Gum, yardmaster for the
Northern Pacific road at Saltwater,
died suddenly from apoplexy on one OF
the company's trains while on a trip
to St. Paul.
According to the report of the state
census bureau more than 100 resi-
dents Of Minnesota were born at sea-
About a score Of these reside in the
Twin Cities.
George r. Putnam, treasurer of Sher-
burne county, who admitted that he
used several hundreds of dollars of
county funds in his private enterprise,
has resigned.
Charles Wolford, Minneapolis tele-
phone Nnenan, is dead as the result
Of 4 fall Of fifty feet while repairing a
line. His skull and one of his arms
was fractured.
Colonel Arthur ]. Stabbort of St..
Paul has been appointed major gen.
eral Of the uniform rank, Knights OF
Pythias, by Charles e. Shiveley, ST.
preme chancellor of the world.
Miss Myrtle Sterling, a well known
young lady OF Red Wing, has con-
fessed to the police that she caused
several recent fires in that city. Her
mind Is said to be unbalanced.
Reports from all the public schools
In st. Paul for September show that
instead OF there being an increased
attendance, AZ compared with last
year, there is a falling OF Of forty-one.
Daniel Mccormick, a switchman en-
ployed in the Milwaukee yards at Min
neapolis, was caught between two cars
while helping to make up train and
30 badly injured that he died two
hours later.
Mrs. Rose Hammond, twenty-five
years old, committed suicide at Min
neapolis by drinking and inhaling the
contents of twoounce bottle OF
chloroform. The act was probably due
to domestic infelicity.
Because of the prevalence of CLAN
ders in Minneapolis the city health
department is planning to shut off all
Of the public drinking fountains pro-
vided in number of different parts
Of the city for watering horses.
While pulling stumps at his farm
four miles from Bemidji Eric Bos was
struck by the sweep of the stump
puller and so badly injured that he
died in the wagon that was bringing
him to the hospital in Bemidji.
John Faughty, lineman for the Red
Wing Gas and Electric company, was
electrocuted while on top of a pole
fixing wires. The dead man was
thirty-fve years old and served with
the Thirteenth Minnesota in the Phil.
lpp1nes.
The October apportionment of the
public school fund, announced by State
Superintendent Olson, amounts to
$S62,8S1.S0, divided on the basis of
875,136 pupils, or $3.50 per capita.
This is 10 cents more for each pupil
than the apportionment of last Octo-
Der.
Prompt arrival Of fire fighting ap-
paratus from Clequet and scanloh
saved the village of Carlton, on the
Northern Pacific road, from complete
destruction by fire that began at
aoon Friday. Ten buildings were de-
btroyed and many others were badly
damaged, so that the loss, roughly
estimated, probably will exceed $780,
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The, slipping of new wagon tongue
from the neckyoke resulted in the in
slant death of Peter Tollefson, a
farmer residing near La Crescent, and
perhaps fatal injury of his wife. In
The runaway which followed the acct
dent Tollefson was hurled to the
ground and his neck was broken by
the fall. Mrs. Tollefson was injured
Internally.
The unusual shortage of cars for the
Movement of the grain crop in the
Northwest is likely to- result In an
official investigation on the part of the
state railroad aud warehouse commits
ZION to determine whether the CON-
panies are giving Minnesota a fair
share of their freight cars and whether
or not these cars are being distributed
properly to the different shippers:
The state board of equalization has
completed it's work, having added
ii1bout $11,000,0O0 to the personal prop
erty valuations. The return for per-
sonal property was $158,397,416 and
I The raise will make it about $17O,00O;,-
600. The valuation as left by the
board last year was 49,684.181, so
there is an increase Of about $780,
100000. About $25, o00, 900 is exempt,
no there will be $145, 100000 to- be
taxed. The board had nothing to do
with the valuations of real estate this
year. The valuation Of real estate
last year was 100000, 900 and the i'm
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