Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-03-17
NEWS IN NESO u,
EVENTS o. a { WEEK TARoUoti.
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81 William r. Burkhard, a pioneer St:
Paul business man, is dead. ss 81. ~: =. =:
William G. Smith, brother of Mayor
Smith of st. Paul, has been elected
assessor Of Ramsey county. 81, u
There were 181 deaths in st. Paul
In February, the largest number in any
one month in recent years. "
John Milligan, seventeen years old,
fell into freight elevator shaft at
Duluth and died an hour later.
Mrs. Charles Trampe, a widow
about forty years of age, was killed
at SwanvilRe by being thrown from a
wagon.
+. G. Porter died of burns received
in an explosion while starting fire
in the kitchen stove in his home at
Owatonna.
George H. Love, one Of the pro-
prietors of the Ryan hotel, st. Paul,
Is dead following an operation for ap-
pendicitis.
Laurie p. Ojala, the seven-year-old
son of James Ojala, tailor of Mime
apolis, was drowned In Bassetts creek
in that city.
Benton H. Langley. the first agent
Of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul railroad in Minnesota, is dead at
San Francisco.
The Red Wing city council has
passed q resolution to build q city hall.
dre station and city Jail at price not
to exceed $4,000.
John w. Riddle Of st. Paul has been
promoted from the consul generalship
Ut Cairo, Egypt, to be minister at the
new post of Roumania and Servia.
The retail implement dealers of the
state met In Minneapolis and formed
. permanent organization. G. D. Grin
OILS OF st. Cloud was elected president
r. Hattori and A. Hattori of Yoke
hama, Japan, are in Winona purchas.
Ing choice young cattle to be shipped
to Japan to improve dairy interests
there.
Germans of the Twin Cities propose
to commemorate the one hundredth
anniversary of the death of Frederick
Schiller. the great German poet, on
MAY q.
DR.. Hugh Russell, aged seventy-nine
years, a veteran of the Civil war and
one Of the leading physicians at the
Head Of the Lakes, died suddenly from
heart diseaso at D,1uth
Fire partially destroyed the Sumner
school at Minneapolis one afternoon
last week. The 900 children marched
out safely, believing they were being
put through the fire drill.
William r. Horsnell. St. Paul real
estate dealer, has been held to the
federal grand jury on a charge of hav-
ing conspired to defraud the United
States out of public lands.
The village Of Campbell, twenty
miles southwest Of Fergus Falls, has
been almost annihilated by fire. Three
saloons, one restaurant. a grocery and
three toehousss were burned.
John Pehle, thirty-five years old, a
st. Paul saloonkeeper. cut his throat
In an attack of delirium tremens and
died half an hour later. Pehle had
been drinking heavily for several days.
Sixteen thousand four hundred and
twenty-five immigrants came to Min
nesota during the fiscal year of the
United States immigration service
which ended June 30. 1904. This is z
per cent of the total immigration tc
the United States.
The dead body of Roy Christman
twenty years old. was discovered i1
the Great Northern elevator No. al
Minneapolis. It was found at the bot
tom Of the stairs which he was sweep
ing at the time and death Is believed
TO have resulted from suffocation.
The thirty-ninth annual encampmen1
Of the state G. A. r. was held at st
Paul last week. G. r. Macdonald o.
st. Cloud was elected state depart
ment commander; J. O. Pierce, Mime
apolts, senior vice commander, and e
=. Barrett, L. Sueur. junior vice com
nander.
An eastbound train on the Grea
Northern railroad killed three persons
ct q crossing ct Foley. The dead ar'
Mr.. and Mrs. Perish and Thomas d
nick, all of the town Of Duelum. Tn
heads Of both men were severed iron
their bodies and the body Of Mr.
Psnish was cut In two by the wheel
q the engine.
4 Wholesale robbery scheme, it i
alleged, has been unoarthed among tn
employees Of the T. N. Robert Suppl
company of Minneapolis. Samuel Il
Ingram. manager Of tho concern, sal
that the value Of tho goods that hav
been purloined by the employees durin
tho last few months win amount t
thousands of dollars.
While 4 number Of children wer
going home from school at Lon
Prairie q huge eagle swooped dow
upon them in the street, seized a Ii
tie girl i've years old and attempted t
carry her away. When several fee
from the ground q number of boy