Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-12-29
NEWS In MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE, =

auditor of the Great Western road, is
dead at st. Paul.
Daniel G. Chapman, aged n1nety-two,
. resident of the Northwest since 1855,
is dead at St. Paul.
Minnesota horses won the highest
honofs at the International Live Stock
exposition at Chicago. H. -
Governor Johnson has returned from
his trip to the Pacific coast. He was
absent about two weeks.
Charles Fox, for many years a resi-.
dent of Minneapolis, is dead at Moore,
Mont, at the advanced age of ninety
years.
Captain Harry Thomas, aged fifty
four years, is dead at H1bbing. He
was one, of the best known mining
men on the Mesaba range.
James E. Hubbell, once prominent
in business and politics in this state,
Is dead at St. Paul, aged sixty.nine.
Mr.. Hubbell served in both the Mime
sofa and Montana legislatures.
An explosion of gasoline in the base.
caused a fire that damaged the build
Ing and contents $4,000. The guests
were panic stricken for time.
Louise Margaret Snow, daughter of
Mrs. Thomas G. Plat and stepdaugh-
ter of United States Senator Platt,
was married in New York city to Fran
els J. Carmody of Minneapolis.
Annie Weiss, aged four, daughter of
Peter Weiss Of Minneapolis, ate strych-
nine pills, dying in a few minutes
The child found the pills on a dresser
where her mother had left them.
Llewellyn Lindsay, aged sixty.fve
years, a pioneer resident of Minneap-
oils and veteran of the Civil war, is
dead. Mr.. Lindsay arrived in Mime
sofa in 1854, before the birth of Min
neapolis, settling in the then village
of st. Anthony.
Seven families were made homeless
and narrowly escaped with their lives
and the stock of three business con-
Germs was badly damaged by a fire in
three-story store and tenement build
nue.. Minneapolis.
Street and bridge improvements and
maintenance for the first eleven
months of the current year have cost
the city of Minneapolis $525, 900. These
figures do not include the cost of new
paving, sewers, curbing or the cost of
new water mains or maintenance of
the water system.
A thief threw heavy stone through
one of the windows Of the Palace Jew
elry company at Duluth, seized a dia-
mond case watch and tray of gold
brooches and escaped. The value of
the stolen goods is $3.50. The street
was brilliantly lighted and crowded
with people at the time.
Felix Hackett, 100 years old, died of
Old age at the home of the Little Sis
tiers of the Poor at St. Paul. Mr..
Haclzett was born in Ireland and lived
In ST. Paul during the last twenty
seven years of his life. He is the fifth
person to die in St. Paul at the re-
markable age of 100 years.
It is learned On reliable authority
that the officers of the. Duluth, st.
Cloud, Glencoe and Mankato Railroad
company have concluded negotiations
for the sale Of the road to E. L. Tobie
& Co. of New York, the contractors
who have graded twenty miles of the
line during the past season.
The state railroad and warehouse
commission is negotiating with John P.
Wallace, former chief engineer of the
Panama canal, to make an estimate of
the value of Minnesota railroad invest
ments. This work is a duty placed
upon the commission by the last legis-
lature preliminary to revision of rail-
road rates.
The movement of binder Irvine from
the Saltwater prison for next harvest
has already commenced and is active
for this season of the year. Orders in
considerable numbers for small cash
lots are being received daily and ship
ments are being made. Many club
orders of farmers for carload lots are
also being received at the prison.
So acute has the car shortage be-
come that a meeting was held in Man.
kato last week, attended by lumber
of the leading mlllers and elevator
men of Southern Minnesota, 10 see
whether means could not be devised
for overcoming this difficulty. Many
of the elevators are filed and the
movement of grain to market has been
paralyzed.
The state supreme court has upheld
the state law prohibiting the practice
of medicine without license. The
appellant was o. A. Oredson, who had
been convicted in Duluth on a charge
of violating the state medical law.
The defendant contended that he had
studied medicine and was a graduate
Of an approved college, but he admit
ted that he did not have license.
George West, accused of attempting
to make counterfeit money, was SEN
fenced to five years. Imprisonment and
to pay fine of $1,000 in the United
States court at Fergus Falls. West
endeavored to make counterfeit money
1t a small mint which he established