Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-11-10
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
evENTs OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT The STATE,

Inc between Lawndals and Barnes
lille has been destroyed by fire.
Eleven st. Paul policemen, men,
berA of the handsome squad" have
been fined $35 each for drinking while
pn duty.
Ground will be broken for the st.
Paul auditorium about Dec. Is and
hom that time on work on tho build
Ing will be vigorously pushed.
The new Cottonwood county court
house at Window, costing 100000,
was dedicated Friday, q crowd Of g.
700 or more people being present.
BENJAMIN F. Carson, q pioneer resi-
aent of lie Sueur and at one time
mayor Of the town, is dead. Mr.. Car
ION was member Of the G. A. R.
H. G. Charles, an old man some
eighty-six years Of age, wandered away
from his home in Owatonna one even
ing last week and was frozen to death.
O. p. Dahl, a collector, was held up
between Twin Valley and Gary and
was robbed of $500 by a stranger
whom he had accommodated when
asked for a ride.
State Auditor 1verson held a banner
eAle Of state lands at Breckenridge
Friday, disp0sing of over 5000 acres
nor $68,971. an average of $13.65, clean
Ing up every acre in the county,
Erden Schroeder of st. Paul was
found in his bedroom with his throat
cut and a razor clutched in his right
hand. He ended his life while de-
spondent over the disappearance OF
his wife.
Two children. a boy and q girl, lost
their lives in flames that destroyed
The home of John Harju, near Embar.
bass. on the Duluth and Iron Range
road. The boy was eight and the girl
~ years Of age.
Minneapolis saloonkeepers are up in
pSms as the result of Mayor Jones'
Sunday closing order. They insist
hat they will make things lively for
d mayor. and for every man or wo-
man who IL guilty of law violation in
my fq 81 n,ss -: ss,s.4y .,gst,.s,,.....
Paul. Brown, aged nearly 100 years
pld, WA burned to death ct, his home
h Minneapolis. He was alone in the
bouse at the time and was smoking.
4 10 presumed that he allowed a spark
p drop on a. The bod and thus ignited the
bed clothes: ....
Thomas .. Jones, q well known Man
kato capitalist, is dead of kidney trou-
= le He was eighty years of age. He
lost heavily by the defa]cation OF
Judge John b. Ogle last summer and
worry over this is believed to have
FASTENED his death.
Captain Frank w. Whitmore of St.
Paul lost the middleweight wrestling
championship of the Northwest in his
match at St. Paul with Theodore G.
Peter, champion of South Dakota, Pc
lor winning two straight falls in about
IN hour of actual wrestling.
Theodore Nelson, Minneapolis con.
lectioner who is being sued for divorce
BY his wife, Helen Nelson, has retail.
ated by bringing an action against
John S. johnson, friend of the fam
n.y." for $4,000 damages for alleged
Alienation of his wife's affections.
st. Paul's Y. M. C. A. has launched
10 campaign to secure 100000 for a
new association building. Announce.
ment was made that 100000 of the
100000 desired has already been sub
bcribed on the condition that another
100000 is secured before Nov. Is.
The state revenue fund has been
overdrawn $558,727.16 up to date, &C
eording to the balances made by the
state treasurer's Office at the close of
business on the last day of October
The total overdraft permitted is 5000,
300, 30 there is only little more than
b40, 900 more that can be drawn.
The police and coroner of Winona
are puzzled as to the cause of the
death of John Hamernik, a prominent
butcher of that city, whose lifeless
body was found lying near the street
car tracks on West Howard street
There is slight fracture at the base
Of the skull and it was this which
oaused death.
The average of population to the
square mile in Minnesota is rs. In
1890 the average was 22.1. Compared
with other states Minnesota has room
70 spare. Compared with Rhode Island
The population of Minnesota is only
one-sixteenth as dense. Cass county
has an average of only four persons to
The square mile.
The extension of the Duluth and
Northern Minnesota railroad to the
timber recently purchased by Alger
bmith & Co. from the Schroeder Lum.
Der company is being surveyed. The
survey is being made to a point near
Cross River, on the north shore OF
Lake Superior, where Alger, Smith &
Co. will get out logs this winter.
Governor Johnson has fixed Tues
day, Dec. S, as the date of the execu
ton of c. D. Crawford, the Elk River
boxcar murderer. Crawford is now in
custody at St. Cloud, but will be take1
10 Elk River for the hanging. Thus
Tar no application has been filed with
kho state nardOn hoard asking for .