Little Falls herald., 1905-02-24
NEWS IN MINNESOTA y,
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE,


William Smith, pioneer of Olmsted
county, is dead at Stewartville.
Fire at the plant of the Zenith Pa.
per company, Duluth, caused damage
estimated at $25,000.x
Judge J. D. Springer, for twelve
years counsel of the 500 road in Min
peapolis, is dead in Chicago.
A polecat has taken up it's abode
under a Stearns county schoolhouse
and the pupils are enjoying a vaca-
ton.
Thomas Reilly, Civil war veteran,
eighty-two years old, formerly of St..
Paul, dropped dead in a restaurant at
Anoka.
DR.. Alfred Hadley Lindley, one of
the best known physicians in Mime
apolis, is dead. He was eighty-three
years of age.
Governor John A. Johnson will de-
liver the principal address at the
commencement exercises of the St..
Cloud normal school June IA.
A prisoner and his guard have es-
capped from Fort Smelling after making
a deliberate attempt to wreck the ad-
ministration building and burn the
post hall.
Claude S. Snively, young attorney,
fell from the fifth story of the Ions
dale building, on the principal busi-
ness corner of Duluth, and was in
stantly killed.
John Taylor, master mechanic of the
Milwaukee road since the close of the
Civil war, through which he served as
colonel in the railroad service, is dead
at Minneapolis.
Judge Austin H. Young, one of the
pioneer judges of Hennepin county,
is dead. He was seventy-four years of
age and had been a. resident of Min
neapolis since 1866.
y. A. Duncan of Duluth, a veteran
lumbernan, is dead at Santa Barbara,
Cal. Mr.. Duncan was seventy-one
years of age and had been a resident
of Duluth since 1880.
c. H. Bennett, Sauk Center bust.
ness man, and his son Charles nearly
lost their lives by asphyxiation from
coal gas. The son has partially recov-
cred, but the father may die.
Ernst Sorenson, retired Minneap-
oils druggist, committed suicide by
hanging himself by means of a hand
kerchief tied to bedpost He had
been subject to fits of insanity.
st. Paul's ancient "black maria,"
which has conveyed prisoners from
the courthouse to the workhouse dur
Ing the past twenty-five years, has
been sold under the hammer to the
highest bidder. 1t brought $25.
Albert Hegberg, a laborer in the en-
ploy OF August Benson, logger oper-
atfng near Alborn on the Mesaba road,
committed suicide by hanging. He
lately had been drinking, had spent
most of his winter wages and was de-
spondent.
William V. kaufman, who is alleged
to have sold several carloads of ap-
pies for the D. E. Ryan company, Min
neapolis commission merchants. and
then decamped from that city with the
proceeds, about S700, has been arrest.
ed at sault Ste. Marie.
Because he failed to attend drills of
his branch of the service Thomas Cav
anaugh, an engineer in the national
guard, served five-day sentence in
the county Jail at St. Paul. Cavanaugn
was courtmartialed and on failing to
pay $40 fine was committed to Jail.
Edwards, Wood & Co., grain COM
mission merchants, convicted in the
municipal court Of Duluth of a viola
tlon OF the commission merchants law
In failin& to report sales as required,
have met defeat in the supreme court,
to which they carried the case on ap-
peal.
Emil Cussler, aged twenty-eight,
committed suicide at Minneap polls by
shooting himself in the head in the
yards of the Northwestern Fuel COM
pany. Cussler was afflicted with ear
trouble and the pain and fear of deaf
ness are thought to have driven him
insane.
Charged with making a fraudulent
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stamped envelopes and postal cards
actually mailed Soren H. Smith, post
master at MinneConka, waived exami-
nation and was bound over to the fed
eral grand jury at the next term of
court on April a.
Aaron Berman has brought a $50, 900
damage suit against G. N Cosgrove
and other members of the state fair
board, alleging that on Tuesday, Sept.
/, 1903, he was arrested as a pick
pocket, together with his brother, at
the fair grounds. Aaron says that both
he and his brother are respectable cit
liens.
The annual convention of the State
jewelers. association was held in Min
neapolis last week, the following Off
GERS being elected: A. E. Paegel, Min
neapolis, president; George H. Lang,
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