Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-08-04
NEWS n e IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

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been destroyed by fire, with a loss of
$4,000.
John R. Hughes, an old resident Of
Winona county. is dead. aged eighty
four years.
Otto, the n1ne-year-old son of John
Cobb, fell from a raft at Pine City and
was drowned.
Mrs. ]. w. Kenaston Of Moorhead is
dead 1T lockjaw, resulting from step.
ping on rusty nail.
The tannery of Otto Taubert at st.
Paul has been destroyed by fire, caus-
Ing a loss of $4,000.
Minneapolis has 279,S21 inhabitants,
according to the compilers of the city
directory for this year.
DR.. Edward Rule, aged sixty.one
years, formerly Of Minneapolis, fell
from a trolley car at Kansas City and
was instantly killed.
Phil Carlin of Minneapolis has been
appointed general organizer of the In
ternational Brotherhood OF Carpenters
and Jofners of America.
DR.. o. W. Archibald Of St. Paul, who
was III At the time, tainted in the bath
tub In his apartments and was
drowned.
The body of Joseph Elder was found
In Como park, st. Paul, with a bullet
near the heart. He had committed
suicide while respondent.
David Tozer, leading lumberman
Of the st. Croix valley, is dead at
Saltwater, aged eighty-four. He leaves
q fortune Of more than $1,000,ooo.
In consequence of a lovers quarrel
and broken engagement Tina LATER,
twenty-one years old, of Minneapolis,
ended her life with a dose Of strych-
nine.
Broken. hearted over the death of
her sweetheart Mathilds Schuster,
thtrty.fve years old, committed suicide
ut st. Paul BY taking q dose Of car
bolic acid
Anna Drabek, . young woman resid-
1AE near Pine City, committed suicide
BY drowning while suffering from men
tai alteration, which has periodically
affected her.
Gong Tee Doc, q Chinese laundry
man. has been arraigned In the st.
Paul police court on grave charge.
The complainant IN Mla johnson, four
tssn years old.
Little Elsie Splokerman, the ten
yoar-old daughter q Mr.. ana Mrs. Bar
hey spiekernan Of Fergus Falls is
dead from loekjaw brought on from
stepping on 4 rusty nail.
Matt Cautwell OF Le Suour, 4 painter
and photographer, died there Of lock-
Jaw resulting from the accidental
breaking of both arms just above the
wrist by falling from q tree while At
tempting to hive q swarm Of bees.
Because John D. Rockefeller has
practically oorncred the flax market
Of the world most Of the Minneapolis
n1lls-and that city Is one Of the
greatest flax crushing points in the
world-are closed and about 800 men
are idle.
Surveying has nearly been CON-
pleted for the Great Northern's big i'm
pTovements in Minneapolis. Two mil
lion dollars will be expended in estab-
fishing extensive freight terminals and
shops In the ne1ghborhood Of Clear
water Junction.
Albert B. Loutzenhiser, wanted in
Duluth on charge of embezzling &c.,
goo from the First National bank, of
which he was cashier, has been arrest
cd at st. Paul. His roll of $4,000 had
dwindled down to 80 cents when he
was taken into custody.
Final figures on the Indian popula-
ton Of the state have been nounced
by the state census bureau. The fig
ures show that the red men have in
creased nearly so per cent during the
past five years. The total Indian pop
ulation In 1900 was 6,492, as against
1925 In 1905.
During thunder storm the barn of
Albert Shields of the town of New
Hartford, Winona county, was struck
by lightning and the place burned to
the ground with all the contents. In
cluded in the loss were four horses, a
hundred bushels of oats and the entire
new hay crop which had been stored
IN the mows.
Fire of unknown origin started in
the laboratory Of the building of anat-
omy on the university campus at Min
neapolis, incinerating four cadavers
of a collection of twelve in the base
ment awaiting dissection by the fall
classes and destroying several cabi-
nets containing anatomical prepare
tons that were stepping In chemicals.
Attorney General Young has begun
. campaign against alleged timber
trespassers. G. s. Jelloy, special coun-
sel Of the department, who has been
investigating claims against several
companies, reports that about $4,000
is due the state from timber trespass.
Should the companies fail to pay this
amount Mr.. Young says he will bring
suit.
Preferring death to public disgrace
Andrew Halvertson of Minneapolis,
twenty-eight years old, sent bullet
! crashing through his brain at his
fathers home in the presence of Off,