Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-10-20
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THRoUoH.
OUT THE STATE,

OUT THE STATE.
The grand lodge of the Sisters Of the
Sons of Herman of Minnesota met in
Mankato Monday.
Mart Whitcomb, well known - a
business man and Democratic poll
dcian, is dead at Minneapolis.
A freight train ON the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad ran over and
killed four horses and q colt near
Dodge Center.
Judge Gebhard Willrlch of Milwau-
kee, former resident of St. Paul, has
been appointed United States consul
at st. John. N. B.
In a fit Of dependency brought on
by illness Ed Jackson, forty years old,
a laborer, committed suicide at Min
aeapolis by hanging.
Henry Murphy, colored, employed al
porter in st. Paul barber shop, CON-
nttted suicide by shooting himself in
the head while in a bathtub.
Requests for information regarding
the lands which the state has for sale
continue to pour into the state audi
tors Office from all parts of the coun-
try.
The body of GottHeb Schaeffler, an
old resident. was found In Jewett lake
near Fergus Falls. He had filed his
pockets with stones and drowned HIM
self
Jimmy 1rsfeld, halfback of the Min
nesota varsity team, has pneumonia
and will not be able to play football
again this season. He is in a critical
condition
Fire Friday night caused an esti-
mated loss of $4,000 to the plant and
stock of the Northern Shade Cloth
company at St. Anthony Park, between
st. Paul and Minneapolis.
Charles Lakeburg, a farmer living
fourteen miles north of Mora, while
returning home from the latter place
was thrown from his rig and met
death, his neck being broken.
Captain R. H. L. Jewett, connected
with the state auditors office for TWEEN
ty years, resigned Saturday. He re-
tires to private life and will spend the
winter with his son in California.
Eddie Hammer, Minneapolis youth,
broke his arm in five places by a fall
In the Y. M. c. A. gymnasium in the
Mill City. Physicians say so many
fractures of one limb is very unusual.
Eight tiremen injured and property
damage to the amount of $4,000 were
the results of fire accompanied by
an explosion of gasoline in the plant of
the Zenith City dye works at Duluth
Friday.
Minnesota's potato crop in the north
western portion of the state will only
be one-quarter the average yield: and
the crop in the northeastern section of
the state will be one-third below the
usual output.
An immense sugar beet factory, to
cost at least $S00,000, is to be erected
near Minneapolis by the Michigan SUI
gar Manufacturers association, which
operates nine Of the largest sugar
plants in the world.
Cleve Van Dyke, executive clerk to
Governor Johnson, has resigned. Mr..
Van Dyke resigns his position. which
is worth about $4,000 a year. to take
one with an Arizona mining syndicate
at double the salary.
The Sank Rapids board of education,
acting on the advice of the village
health officer, has closed all the lower
grades in the public schools. It is
hoped this will prevent the further
spread of diphtheria.
The state board of control held it's
monthly meeting at the state reforma.
tory at St. Cloud last week. Seven in
mates Of the refOrmatory were paroled
by the board and other business per.
tanning to the institution was taken up.
Several petitions are in circulation
at Ada asking pardon for Rev. Mr.
Solem and his early release from the
penitentiary. Solem pleaded guilty
last July to a charge of indecent as
sault and was sentenced to fifteen
months.
One of the most unique weddings
ever celebrated in Minneapolis was
consummated Thursday when Huldel
Brottem and Hilda Rentz were married
in the belfry of the courthouse tower,
267 feet above the noise and hustle of
the street below. Court Commissioner
William E. Bates performed the cere-
mony.
Governor Johnson has been asked to
call meeting of the policyholders OF
the New York Life, Mutual and the
Equitable Insurance companies, who
are residents of Minnesota, to discuss
the present life insurance situation and
decide what action can be taken by
Minnesota policyholders to better pro.
tect their interests.
The campaign of Northern Mime
sofa interests for the construction OF
the cutoff ditch on the Upper Missfs.
sippi to relieve the flood situation at
A1tkin will be pushed into congress
this winter and will have the support
Of the Minnesota delegation and Of the
interests behind the newly organized
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