Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-01-06
NEWS, Y Y | N us VIA
e EVENTS OF Z " WEEK .THRo UGH.
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| Fralrle mas Deen destroyed by fire. All
the occupants of the building escaped
| The Hallock roller mills, owned by
Joseph Sugden, have been DESTROYED
by fire. The loss is estimated at
$4,000. = :, ~ - ..'
Edward Lanctot, aged seventy-four
years, is dead at Crookston of old age
He was the Oldest resident in the Red
River valley. - 81
BY the narrow margin of one vote
the state supreme court has fled an
opinion holding the so-called anti-fu-
sion law invalid. /:
! William Gould, justice of the peace
at Rose Town, Ramsey county, IS
1 dead. He had been totally paralyzel
1 during the last six weeks. +,
! Dewey Squircs, aged twenty two, a
resident of Minneapolis and a gradu-
ate of the University of Minnesota has
been killed in the Belle mine at Butte,
Mont.
Rev. John H. SEEKER, pastor of St..
Matthews Lutheran church, New York
city, for Twenty-Five years, is dead.
Before removing to that synod he was
president Of the Minnesota synod at
st. Paul.
| The state pardon board has granted
full and complete pardon to Norman
King, former police captain of Min
neapolis, who was sentenced to the
state prison on the charge of being all
accessory to felony.
| The postofice at Beaver Creek was
broken into and robbed. The robbers
took $13303 in stamps. They also
robbed the depot till and slot machine,
! hnt got OnjV few n2nniQS
w. H. Jones, manager of the Chi
cago office of the Washburn- Crosby
company, wholesale flour dealers O.
Minneapolis, died at Chicago Thurs
day from injuries sustained in fail
over a banister in his home
Governor Van SAINT has appointed
Captain Charles G. Whitney OF Mar
shall member of the board of trus-
tees of the Minnesota Soldiers home
in the place Of William P. Huntington,
| who rendered his resignation.
Eugene Bowler, a car inspector at
the Minnesota Transfer company, fell
down flight of stairs into the base
ment OF the Transit House at Midway,
between the Twin Cities, fracturing
his skull. He died Immediately.
The body of an unknown man was
found at Freeman On the Northern
Pacific track. Both arms and legs
were cut off and the face was mutt
lated beyond recognition. It is sup
posed he was hit or fell from a train.
Henry J. CHASER, we'll known in both
St. Paul and Minneapolis, died in the
latter city Friday morning from in
juries received by him in the crowd
at the exposition building in Mime
apolis on the night Of the Lind-Petei-
son debate.
The Minnesota Educational associa-
ton, in session at St. Paul, elected
the following officers: President,
Frank A. Weld, Moorhead normal
school,; recording secretary, Mss Fan
ME Giles, Austin; treasurer. c. E.
Payne, Stewartsville.
| F. G. Winston, late Democratic can
didate for lieutenant governor, has
been appointed surveyor general OF
logs and lumber for the Minneapolis
district w. w. Williams Of Minneap-
oils, union printer, has been ap
pointed labor commissioner.
! Miss Anna Olson, residing near Mon
tevideo, persisted in last weeks biz
card. In attempting to reach the barn
she lost her way and searching
party found her body buried in a
snowdrift over mile from her home.
She lived with her aged parents
| Foley, Larsen G. Stewart, st. Paul
contractors, have received contract
for rock work that is to be done on
the Canadian Pacific railway between
Winnipeg and Fort William in con-
nection with the double tracking OF
the road. The contract involves sew
eral million dollars.
| The Northern Pacific railroad has
won it's suit in the Ramsey county dis
trict court in which the state sued to
collect $28,293 taxes for 1903 and ST.
839 penalty. In handing down his de-
cision Judge Kelly sustains the con-
tention of the counsel for the railroad
| that the tax is offset by credits which
are not taxable.
| The Minneapolis city council, OF
whichDavid P. Jones, the mayor-elect,
has been a member and president for
several years, is held responsible by
the coroners jury for the recent dis
aster when six men were killed in the
collapse of the Croker hotel, which
was crushed by the falling OF the walls
of the Peck building, burned a week
before.
With view to establishing an ideal
Minnesota summer resort United
States Senator Moses E. Clapp, JUS
tice E. A. Jaggard of the state SUI
preme court, William Henry Eustis Of
Minneapolis and a score of others have
just organized the Pokegama Tuxedo
association. The new resort is on the
Duluth Short Line, sixty-miles from
Minneapolis.
Professor H. c. Carel of the state
university created sensation at a.
inquest in Albert Lea over the boo:
of Annund> j. Boon, a farmer wilt;
lived about nine miles from that cit,
when he declared he had found Suit
Gent poison in the remains to kill ha !
q dozen men. Boen died on Dec. 10.
1908, and the analysis was made s.:
days after death. Arrests are e.
pected.
The state Of Minnesota is to be
asked to surrender the property nov
occupied by the old state capitol. Tn:
heirs of Charles Bazllle, who in 49,
gave to the territory of Minnesota j.
trust the ground on which the o.,
capitol is situated, have decided I,
make a claim for the DrOnertv IN r.,