Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-09-08
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
GVENTs OF A WEEK THROUGH
OUT THE STATE.

sx-mayor and ex-alderman Of Sank
Center, 10 dead.
An unknown man persisted In a fire
which destroyed the Olmsted county
poorhouse near Rochester.
Augustus M. Brown fell three stories
through Z shaft in q new building at
st. Paul and died few hours later.
Three railways are now in progress
Of construction In Beltrami county,
while survey for 4 fourth has begun.
Minneapolis messenger boys went
ON strike for an increase Of wages and
gained their point after being out
three days.
Charles Longer, 4 st. Paul switch
man, was run down and killed by a
runaway caboose in the Northern Pa
cific yards in that city.
George w. Hauenstein, an old resi-
dent and prominent jeweler of Red
Wing, was drowned in the Mississippi
river at that place by the capsizing OF
4 rowboat.
Albert Castor, workman on the
Challers farm few miles south O.:
Winona, was instantly killed by light
ming while putting team of horses
in the barn.
An unknown woman about twenty
i've years Of age committed suicide
near the outskirts of Minneapolis t.
hanging herself with a shawl stra !,
from the branches of tree.
The Minneapolis chamber of com
merce received 3,942,570 more bushels
Of wheat and shipped $3.50, 100 bushels
more last year than in the previous
year, according to the figures give:
out by the secretary.
A smooth swindler, masquerade
as c. M. Sprague, president of the
First National bank of Sank Center,
has defrauded Edward Clifton of Sank
Rapids, retired farmer, out of $4,000
through the old tin box scheme.
The Minneapolis Retail Liquor Deal
ors' association, having tired of the
persistent prosecution of their men,
bers by the reform bodies Of that city,
AG&o uO\AoA GU " o4 upOu CVC1J UuSlucSS
man who keeps open on Sunday.
One feature Of the Koch case was
concluded at Mankato last week when
Philip Liesch, editor of the Brown
County Journal, paid a fine of $3.50 for
contempt of court in publishing an
Objectionable article in reference to
the case.
On account Of representations from
Minnesota the secretary of the interior
has again postponed the time for re-
ceiving proposals for the sale of the
timber on the White Earth Indian
reservation, finally fixing Nov. Is as
the time.
Blanche Clementson, eight years OF
age, was struck by lightning while at
play near her home in Minneapolis
The flesh on one of her legs is LAGER
ated and burned and she is Frustrated
by the nervous shock, but it is be.
lieved that she will recover.
Discouraged because of poverty and
Respondent at not hearing from her
son Albert, who escaped from the ST.
, Cloud reformatory some time ago, Mrs.
Peter Roth, forty-two years old, of
Minneapolis, committed suicide by
drinking the contents of a small vial
of carbolic acid.
&. d. Eygabrood of Winnebago City,
brother-in-law of Judge J. B. Ogle,
who defrauded number of MankatO
people before he fed the country and
went to the Isle of Pines, is settling
Judge Oge will return when the mat.
ter has been squared
Albert Keil, proprietor of lunch
wagon in Minneapolis, is in a danger.
Gus condition as the result of knife
wounds alleged to have been inflicted!
i by James Dunn. Dunn is under az.
rest. Keil says Dunn obstructed the
entrance to the wagon and stabbed
him when asked to move.
According to figures compiled by
the state census bureau there arr
fifty-nine cities in Minnesota which
have a population of over 1000. Ter
years ago there were only forty Of
such cities in the state and five years
ago, when the federal census was
taken, there were fifty-one.
| There is not a county in Minnesota
in which the female population ex
| ceeds the male population. In some
counties there are almost twice a:
many men as women and the number
of males throughout thc .tate exceed:
! the number of females by 150,9l9
The figures are: Males, 1,060,115
females, 9o9,1o6.
There is every prospect that Tod;
county is to have an iron ore boom
!. The heirs of the Mcclure estate
! which owns several hundred acres :
land in Bruce and Turtle Creek town
ships, believe they have found ore ii
paving quantities and have taken th<
land from the market. ProspectcT
report most promising conditions.
Rev. E. S. Peake, for over ten year
cha, lain of the Episcopal church ;lcn7
at st. Paul and we'll known in EI;:@: :
pal church circles throughout Mimi
sofa, is dead at the home of his daugh
ter at Valley City, n. D., aged seventy
five years. lie was a member g 80.