Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-12-08
NEWS TN MIN q. N]ESOT /
EVENTS or a WEEK rHRoU03t
oUT:THE STATE. s s5Ss

Michael Judd, a pioneer farmer Of
Rosemount, was killed at the Rock
Island railway crossing at that place:
while driving home in a wagon. =. {: Z
State timber sales, conducted in the
counties of st. Louis, Aitkin and
Dtasca during the past week by Stats
auditor Iverson. hays netted $50. 1850
br' the state treasury. @@:
State Senator Samuel Lord has for
nally announced his candidacy for the;
Republican nomination for governor
lext year and has outlined the plat
lorm on which he would run. -
George w. Anderson, a resident Of
Minnesota since 1856, Ia dead at Mn
leapolis. He served in the Civil war
md was member of the Territorial
Pioneers, the G. A. r. and tho A. o. H.
William Berg Of LIE sueur, nineteen
FEARS of age, accidentally shot him
belf Just above the ankle with a shot
Eun while out hunting and died q fow
hours later from loss of blood and *
laustion.
l.. w. Collins, . popular conductor
q the Omaha road and resident o.
tillwater for nineteen years, is dead,
aged stxty-fOur years. He was an en-
ploye of the Omaha railroad for two
Icore of years.
During the year the resources Of
the Minnesota state banks have in
creased over $13,000,O00 and flfty.nine
hew banks have been added. Last
fear the number Of banks in opera
lion was s4s; this year it is 407.
Felix A. Newman, a clerk In the
mailing division of the Minneapolis
postoftice, died at his home Thanks
giving evening while seated at the
supper table, surrounded by his fam
lily, as the result Of stroke of
hpoplexy.
Herbert H. Heath of Minneapolis,
bookkeeper employed by the Mime
bota Transfer company, was run over
BY switch engine in the transfer
Yards and instantly killed. A string
f cars attached to the engine passed
over the body, grinding it almost to
pieces.
Seven hundred and seventeen ar
rests were made in Minneapolis dur
Ing the month of November. OF this
humber ATT were for drunkenness and
40 for other offenses. For the same
month last year At arrests were
made, of which 266 were for drunk
Dnness.
Emma Anderson and Mary Yates
Ire under arrest in Minneapolis Oh
charges of arson preferred against
them by Charles W. Ringer: city fire
marshal, who accuses them of having
let fire to the small grocery and con-
lectionery store kept by them at 70S
Third avenue northeast.
An opinion given by John w. Olson,
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton, to county superintendent Of
Minnesota makes the ruling that the
public school laws of the state are not
compiled with through attendance of
/ pupil at parochial school where no
branches are taught in English.
For the last thirty years Hannah
Abrecht, seventy-two years old, has
hardly ever missed a. Thanksgiving
dinner in the St. Paul workhouse.
When she started for the workhouse
last Thanksgiving morning after be-
Ing sentenced in police court it was
her fifty first trip to that institution.
The contractors on the grading and
bridge building for the Duluth, St.
Cloud, Glencoe and Mankato railroad
have laid off their crews for the sea-
son. The grading and bridge work
has boon completed across Freeborn
county and partly across Waseoa
county and also near Cream, in Blue
Earth county.
November has been a particularly
unhealthful month for Minneapolitans,
according to the records of the city
heath department. There has been
In epidemic of pneumonia and typhoid
fever during the past month that has
caused the death of more than thirty
persons. The total deaths for the
month were 225.
What is strongly indicated by tho
character of the work now being done
1T q mine which lies under the pres
entstownsite of the village of Sparta,
On tie Mesaba range, it now is prac-
tically certain a large body of ore is
there and that the business part Of
the town at least will have to be
moved before many months.
Regardless of protests and threats
lrom dairymen Of Goodhue, Rice and
other counties Of the state the Mime
hpolis health department is proceed
Ing to rigidly enforce the new milk
ordinance excluding from the city Ill
milk or cream not labeled to show
that the COWS from which it came
have been tested for tuberculosis.
J. w. Dreger has withdrawn his
resignation and will continue to act
Is sheriff of Hennepin county. Hp
nrst rendered his resignation to thu
governor, who accepted it. It was
found that the governor had no juris-
fiction in the matter and the sheriff
then handed his resignation to the
board of county commissioners of
Hennepin county. Before this body
acted on the communication the res