Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-08-25
NEWS, V In MINN II Is
EVENTS OF 4 WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE,

'1ve"te " - WEEK. THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.
W. P. Jewett, a prominent Mime.
sofa pioneer. 10 dead at st. Paul.
Carbolic acid taken with suicidal in
tent caused the death Of Gust Swan
son at Minneapolis. -. II; r..
Mrs. Godfrey Zabel, an old resident
Of the town Of Alton, .Washineton
county, IL dead, aged eighty.seven
years.
: w. j., Loeb, private secretary to
President, Roosevelt, spent Saturday
In st. Paul on his return from 4
months sojourn in Yellowstone park.
Oncial figures completed ~ the
state census bureau give Minnesota q
total of 1,9e4,453 inhabitants The
count by the federal bureau in 1900
gave Minnesota 1.751,ss4.
The Home Protective LEAGUE Of Min
neapolis has inaugurated a wholesale
crusade against saloonkeopers who
have been keeping their places of
business open On Sunday.
Lester h. Elwood Of Minneapolis
has been appointed 4 member OF the
state board of equalization by Gov.
ernor johnson to succeed Titus Ma
reck OF the same city, who resigned.
Alfred A. Buck, former cashier of
the Mapleton State bank, who was re-
Gently brought to Mankato from the
Isle OF Pines charged with embezzle-
ment, has been released on $4,000
bail.
Eugene M. Pike of Minneapolis is
dead as the result Of mosquito bite
received at lake resort. He was
well known retail druggist and had
resided in Minneapolis for over twen-
ty years.
By vote of 4 to / the state board
Of investment refused to pass a resolu-
ton providing for the sale of $2,145,-
600 worth Of Virginia state bonds, as
proposed by State Treasurer Julius
H. Block.
Rev. G. Lindell, pastor of the Swed-
ish Lutheran church at Vasa, fell dead
In drug store at Red Wing while on
his way to Chicago to attend the fu-
neral of his daughter, who had died
In New Mexico Of consumption.
At meeting Of the state timber
board it was decided to hold q sale
Of state timber ut the capitol in St..
Paul, Oct. II, at 10 a. m. All such
state timber as seems in danger of
destruction will be offered for sale.
The city council of Fergus Falls has
decided to call q special election to
vote on the question Of issuing bonds
to the extent of $4,000, or 80 much
thereof as may be necessary to buy
the present waterworks plant or con-
struct new city system.
Mrs. Emily Hortenbach, flfty.one
years old, wife of Robert &. Horton.
bach, proprietor of Minneapolis
creamery, while laboring under the
delusion that some one was seeking
her life and was about to kill her,
took fatal potion of carbolic acid.
Edward H. Selle, bookkeeper in the
German bank Of Freeport, Ill, arrived
at the Merchants hotel in st. Paul
last week after a walk of 328 miles.
His walk was taken purely as a vaca-
ton outing. During the tour, which
took him ten days, he made an aver
age Of thirty-two miles a day.
Work on the Red River Lumber
company's logging railroad running
into the dense pines northwest of
Akeley is being rapidly pushed by a
large crew of men. The company is
also building several sets Of camps.
It IL estimated that about 500,000,000
feet of timber will be reached by the
new line.
About 200 veterans from Minnesota
will attend the thirty-ninth national
encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic, which will be held at
Denver the week beginning Sept. 4.
Besides the soldiers there will be
their relatives, which will make nearly
400 people from Minnesota at the
grand reunion.
It is probable that the state board
Of control will soon make general
revision of salaries of employees at the
state institutions. The present pay
roll was arranged two or three years
ago and SO many exceptions have been
made in individual instances since
that time that a general revision is
thought necessary.
Sylvester Milton, son Of Mrs. M.
Milton of Winona, met. a shocking
death at the Biesanz stone quarry at
Minnesota City. He had been set to
work pulling up slack ropes in the
derrick when one of the ropes caught
and he was jerked up into the air
nearly fifty feet, falling on his head
and fracturing his skull.
On the ground that the machinery
Of the state should not be utilized to
collect a debt Governor johnson has
revoked his warrant for the extradi-
ton of Oscar E, Serum from Winona.