Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-12-01
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH,
OUT THE STATE.

dead.
Frank johnson, engineer on tho Soc
railroad, was, instantly killed ct Min
peapolis by being run over by his own
engine.
Miss Mamie Jordan of Mahnomen,
hear Ada, while out hunting squirrels,
shot herself in the right lsg. She Will
recover.
Robert Brown, a fireman in the en-.
ploy OF the Omaha railway, was I'm
stantly killed by = switch engine at
st. Paul.
The Red Wing Gas and Electric com.
pany has sold its entire plant and sys-
tenn to a syndicate Of capitalists from
Detroit, Mich.
The bodies Of Allen Faxley and
Philip Dodson, st. Paul young men
drowned in Lake Elmo Oct. %. have
been recovered:
Governor johnson has refused to
grant the use of the old capitol for q
PUBLIC dance. The request was made
by st. Paul @. A. r. post.
Figures given out by the state cen
sus bureau show that the swsdes pre-
dominate in Minneapolis by over TO-
600, while In st. Paul the Germans lead
by over 10000.
Lectures by distinguished educators
Will be features at the forty.third an
nual convention of the MINNESOTA Edu-
cational association, to be held In st.
Paul Dec. 81 to 20.
The grand lodge officers of the
Knights Of Pythias of Minnesota are
making q determined effort to in
crease the membership to 10000 in
this state by Dec. /.
Women living at Riverside Park,
Minneapolis, have reported to the po
lice that they had seen a large log
floating down the river with the body
of man dashed to it.
Joseph Gardner, sentenced to life
imprisonment for the killing of Will.
lam Garrison, homesteader in Itasca
county, has been granted a new trial
by the supreme court.
Colonel F. R. Well, formerly pro
prietor of the Merchants and Ryan
hotels at St. Paul, was seriously in
jured In runaway. Unless compli.
cations set in his recovery is expected.
David Ball Parsons, Jr., of Mime
apolis was brutally murdered by In
dams at his ranch cabin at Metlate-
yucca, Mex, Nov. II. Parsons was
thirty-two years of age and a graduate
of Yale.
c. F.. Fallstrom was literally torn to
pieces in the counterweight conduit of
the St. Paul city railway on Selby hill.
His body was found wedged in between
the tracks of the counterweight and
the cable.
The Security National bank of AL
bert Lea, capitalized at $4,000, has
decided to 60 into liquidation after be-
ing in business three years. There
are still three banks doing business
In that city.
Florence Beach, three years old, was
burned to death in her home at Min
neapolis while playing with the kitchen
fire. Her mother was absent at q
neighbor's, leaving Florence and her
&ive-year-old sister alone.
The Barnet & Record company of
Minneapolis is the successful bidder
for the construction of the new No. 4
ore dock for the Duluth, Missabe and
Northern at Duluth. The dock and ap-
proaches will cost about $1,000,000.
Attorney General Young has applied
tor receiver for the State Mutual
Fire Insurance company of St. Paul.
The application for a receiver is made
~. the result Of Insurance Commits
eioner O'Brien's investigation of the
resources and liabilities OF the con-
Germ
John Vogeland entered q plea of
guilty In the federal court. at, Winonae
70 the charge Of having taken a letter
from the rural free delivery box of
Otto selks near La Crescent. His plea
tor clemency was that he wanted to
geo what his sweetheart had written
to Selke, who was his rival. Judge
Morris sentenced him to pay a fine of
$50.
One out of every seven cases han
died by the Minneapolis Associated
Charities during the month of October
was that of a woman deserted by her
husband. The average number Of such
cases usually runs about one in every
sixteen, so it Is readily apparent that
for some unaccountable reason Mime.
apolts women are being deserted by
the wholesale.
A report Of DR.. Bracken, secretary
Of the state board of health, shows that
last year 2,127 deaths of the 1854 In
the state were caused by consumption
In 1903 there were 1866 out of 1903.
In other words IL per cent of the
deaths last year were from consump-
ton and 1912 per cent in 1903. In
1905 1858 out of 15,41S died Of con.
sumption, or II per cent.
Stockholders in the Minnesota and
Montana Cattle company. organized by
prominent Northern Minnesota bust
ness men several years ago for the de-
velopment of the cattle raising indus.
try at Culbertson, Mont, will be called
On to pay an assessment of double the
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