Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-02-03
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE,

Elbridge Gerry Clough, brother Of
David M. Clough, former governor Of
Minnesota, is dead at Minneapolis.
The Duluth and Iron Range road
will build four miles of new sidetracks
In it's yards at Two Harbors in the
coming spring.
| Fire at st. Paul almost completely
quilted the department store of Bannon
Il Co.. entailing property loss of ap-
proximately $175,o00.
Jewelry valued at $500 was stolen
IN broad daylight from the rooma of
! Maurice Krakow and wife in Mime
! apolis apartment house.
Eighteen young women were badly
shaken up in An elevator accident at
the Young Women's Christian asso.
citation building in Minneapolis.
While handling loaded revolver
Benjamin Cyr, saloonkeeper at Day.
ton, Hennepin county, fatally shot him.
self through the abdomen, dying three
hours later
Legislation providing for state sys-
TEN of pensions for veterans of the
Indian wars in Minnesota is being
agitated by Minnesota survivors of
the Sioux wars.
| P. P. Freeman, farmer living In
the town OF Roxbury, near Thief River
Falls, was frozen to death while going
from his home to a neighbor for aid.
| Eraeman 1ivo1 alma
Joseph Kammermeyer, q young St.
Cloud man, was killed at Little Rock,
Ark, last week. He was boarding q
train at that place while It was in mo-
ton and was crushed to death beneath
the wheels.
Oleo Me1land, carpenter, met a
horrible death at the Zenith iron mine
at Ely. Melland was working at the
top OF the shaft when he slipped and
fell backward into the opening, drop
ping 1850 feet.
Captain J. H. Triggs, aged sixty
three years, died suddenly at Duluth
from liver complaint. Deceased had
been resident Of Duluth for twenty
! years and at enc time was one of her
| Wealthlest citizens.
The body of Emil Johnson, q dairy
man, was found frozen in the Ice of
Ainnehaha creek. about q mile below
Hopkins. Hennepin county. 1t is
thought he became lost and sue
cumbed to the cold
John Bruemmer of Albany, this
, state, attempted to kill his wife at St.
Louis Park Friday. He is in the Hen
; nepin county jail and the woman lies
, unconscious at her home and may sue
, cumb to her wounds.
Edward McGraw, a Minneapolis bar
tender, shot and dangerously wound
cd Mrs. Alice Rutty and then turned
, the weapon upon himself with fatal
; results. Mrs. Rutty, suffering from
three wounds, it is said, will recover.
Senator Nelson has reported: from
! the committee on public lands bill to
open for settlement under the home
stead laws. the unused lands which
we're set apart for reservoirs at the
headwaters of the Mississippi river in
Minnesota.
While walking to his home from a
, street car s. s. Eaton, we'll known
, insurance man of st. Paul, was
! stricken with heart disease and died
! Immediately after reaching his home,
! to which he was carried by neighbors
who saw him fall.
Miss Mary. Grace, aged forty-fiYe, a
resident Of Inver Grove, was burned to
death in the destruction of the family
home by fire. Miss Grace had escaped
from the burning building, but went
back and persisted in trying to save
, some valuable papers.
! Paul Hauser, secretary and treas
!! 1rer of the Hauser Malting company,
shot himself through the heart in the
company's place of business at St.
! Paul. Business reverses are the causes
given by his friends. Mr. Hauser was
forty-two years of age.
! Peter Schoffka was found frozen stiff
! In lonely hut near Cottonwood river,
, south of New Ulm. He evidently was
stricken with illness which prevented
him summoning help. The larder was
empty and there was no firewood
schoffka was sixty-five yeas old.
Seven persons we're injured and q
score more badly shaken up and
bruised as the result OF collision be-
tween a four-horse bus containing
nearly fifty persons and Mississippi
street car at St. Paul. The bus was
struck by the car while crossing the
! tracks.
Charles A. Bernick, former deputy
treasurer Of Stearns county, who re-
Gently confessed to a shortage Of 49,