Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-03-31

DR.. w. P. Spring, q well known
Minneapolis physician, was overcome
by gas while experimenting with X
rays in a closed room and died two
days later.
George f.. Letcher, formerly of Min
neapolis, has been sentenced to five
years in the Ohio penitentiary for
the burning of q house at Montpelier,
O., Jan. 4, 1881.
Brooding over the death of his
younger sister, Maude, Albert Ander-
son, Twenty-Five years old, son of
John Anderson, pioneer resident OF
Wayzata, sent a bullet into his brain,
ending his life.
A large force Of men will be put to
work shortly constructing a dam
across the Mississippi river three
miles above Sank Rapids. Wisconsin
paper mill men have the charter and
will erect mills there.
Anton Pau]son, employed as head
electrician at the Red Wing Gas and
Electric company, was killed by a
current of electricity while cutting
live wires without using rubber
gloves or insulated tongs.
Chris Norbeck, the Minneapolis de-
tective convicted of grating and sen.
fenced to saltwater but recently re-
leased on parole, has been returned
to prison for intoxication, thus violat-
ing the terms of his parole.
The Earl of Rosslyn has been mar.
ried In London to Miss Anna Robin.
son. The bride is a native of Min:
neapolis, but has lived abroad fo1
some years, She once appeared on
the stage, but retired in 1901.
The demands of the Minneapolis
union of plumbers for a new scale to
60 into effect April ! will not be &C.
coded to by the master plumbers and
building operations throughout that
city may be tied up Indefinitely.
Cleve Van Dyke, executive clerk OF
Governor johnson, is at St. Joseph S
hospital, St. Paul, suffering from in
lection which developed in a burn
which he suffered several weeks age
as the result of scald while taking
bath.
While her husband and children
were asleep Mrs. Jennie Drew OF St
Paul, forty years old, crept down the
stairs into the cellar and hanged her.
self from a rafter Mrs. Drew had
been suffering from melancholia fol
some time and had become a nervous
wreck
William Matheson, woodsman
lsaped out of the third story window
Of q hotel at Duluth while in an at
tack OF delirium tremens and died al
the hospital shortly after. The man
arrived from the woods recently an6
had been drinking heavily for a weel
or more.
In broad daylight, while the agen
Of the Milwaukee depot in Winons
was at home for his dinner, the win
dow of the ticket Office was pried
open and an entrance was effected
enabling some person, supposed to be
tramp, t. break into the till an(
secure $40.
Simon Michelet, United States In
dian agent, will commence the allot
ment Of additional land to the mem
bers OF the Minnesota band of Chip
pewas on the White Earth reserva
ton April a. The land will be allot
ted under the STEVENSON additional
allotment bill.
Figures compiled by the state AL
ditor covering wolf bounties since
the bounty law was passed in 1861
show that about 100000 has beer
paid out to secure the determination
of wolves. The figures show an as
founding increase recently over thu
amount paid in the pioneer days.
John Koterba, aged twenty-three, Il
dead at Sank Center of lockjaw. Sew
eral days ago he ran rusty nail int
his foot and, not thinking the wound
serious, he did not have it attended
to by physician When symptoms 0
lockjaw appeared medical aid wa:
summoned, but too late to save him
A dispatch from washington 5tata
that St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth
pOstoftices are to be included in al
investigation which Postmaster Gen
eral Cortelyou will make Of the com
plants received that letter carrier
have been soliciting subscriptions TO
stock in corporations in which the,
are interested.
Minnesota receives from the thirty
three railroads operating in the stat
as gross earnings taxes for the yea
1904 $1,911 ,1S4.43, as against 1871,
629.67. for the previous year, de
| crease of $S0,478.24. The gross earn
ings Of the companies for last yea
amounted to $64,596, eo3.05 and for tn,
preceding year $66,se0,13o.55, a fall
Ing off of $2,2O3,1 1880. .