Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-11-03
NEWS IN MINNESOTA u.
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH
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H. p. Kalritzen, Tyler's Oldest citi,
Zen, Is dead, aged eighty-two.
The nineteenth annual meeting OF
the Southern Minnesota Teachers as.
~sociatton was held at Mankato last
week. Fully 800 teachers were pres
ont.
Ten heavily loaded cars we're ditched
and demolished in a freight wreck on
the Northern Pacific near Fergus Falls.
No one was hurt but traffic was sus-
pended.
The announcement is made that Sen.
ator E. B. Hawkins of Biwabik, St.
Louis county, will be in the race for
the Republican nomination for lieuten-
ant governor:
A pair Of strong arm robbers held
up John Watson at 8 o'clock in the
evening within half a block of the
West hotel, Minneapolis, and took all
of his money.
John Holberg, a tailor, was run down
by a switch engine in the Omaha
yards at st. Paul. His head was
crushed out of resemblance and his
ueck was broken.
A lone highwayman attempted to
hold up the saloon of John Westerdahl
at Minneapolis last week, but was
frightened away by the bartender,
John Alsta, with a hammer.
Minneapolis millers have shipped
2,011,523 barrels of flour since Sept.
rs, which is an average of 77,3C6 for
each business day and the high. record
for any equally long period.
A score of hogs and steers were
killed in a wreck in the Great North
ern yards at St. Paul and seven stock
cars were piled in a heap. The wreck
was due to the breaking of a coupling.
John Ho]ien of Dennison, Goodhue
county. thirty-seven years old, was
run down and killed by a Great West
ern train neal Randolph. The mans
mangled body was found by a section
hand.
A movement is on foot to array the
powerful interests of the MINNEAPOLIS
chamber of commerce in opposition to
the Esch-Townsend bill for the regula-
ton OF freight rates by the federal
government.
Edward Bennett, a clerk in the EN-.
plOy Of the Northern Pacific Express
company at St. Paul, has been arrested
for attempting to influence a Juror in a
suit for damages against the st. Paul
City Railway company.
4 Broken in health and mind through
grief at the death Of his only daughter
Robert &. Agnew, a long time resident
OF Minneapolis, committed suicide
some time Thursday evening or night
by hanging himself from a rafter in a
vacant barn.
A man named Amundson was run
while working with a threshing crew
on a farm near Gary. He was stretch
ing the belt, when it broke and the
engine ran Backward, the driyewheels
passing ver his body.
The state board of control has
awarded contracts for 8,725 barrels of
-four, the total supply for state institu-
lions for the nine months which will
end July /, 1906. The exact contract
price is not made public, but 1t is ap.
proximately 81 per barrel.
Governor Johnson will probably re.
move from Office Sheriff Charles NJ.
Erickson of Roseau county as the re.
suit of charges preferred by the sher.
If S father, Eric Erickson. Erickson
charges his son, the sheriff, with being
an habitual drunkard and is frequently
1ncapacitated for work for several days
at a time.
The state fair management has set.
tied with Frank Sebenthal of Eau
Claire, Wis, who was badly hurt by
falling from a Ferris wheel, by paying
him $4,000 in full settlement of all
claims both for his own injuries and
for the death of Mrs. Sebenthal, who
was killed. Sebenthal has recovered
from his injuries.
According to figures compiled by the
state census bureau half the people
living in St. Paul are natives of the
state. Twenty-eight and four-ifths per
cent are foreign born. The remainder,
II is per cent, we're born in some
other state of the Union. The figures
for Minneapolis are % 1-3 per cent for
eign. III 1-3 per cent are natives of the
state and rs is of some other state.
Peter August Eklund, who was re.
Gently arrested in London on his con-
fessiOn that he had embezzled $11 ,O0O
from the Clay County Land company,
will not be allowed to go unpublished
Governor: Johnson has notified Elihu
Root, secretary of state, that the Clay
county officials are ready to proceed
against Eklund and wished him held.
County Auditor Ed, who claims he is
out $500 through Eklund's misdeeds,
has sworn to the complaint.
E. S. Cary, attorney for c. D. Craw-
ford, the Elk River boxcar murderer
condemned to death and refused a new
trial by the state supreme court, has
announced that he will ask the pardon
board for a communication of sentence
for the condemned man. The pardon
board does not meet regularly, how.
ever, until Jan. 10 and the hanging
may be fixed for an earlier date by
Governor Johnson. It would be neces-
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