Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-03-10
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

dead.
Chief of Police John McIlree of
Saltwater Is dead. He was forty-nine
years old.
Henry Terence, aged thirty-seven,
accidentally killed himself while hand
ling shotgun at his home near Ayoca.
Reuben Warner, for forty-eight years
a resident of St. Paul and we'll known
in public life, is dead, aged seventy
three.
B. +. Boyd of Brainerd was CON
victed at Northome on a charge of
killing two female moose and was
fined $50 and costs.
Mrs. Lena Hanson, eighteen years
OF age, committed suicide at New Ulm
Dependency over the illness of her
mother is the supposed cause
The state auditor has received a
report of the sross earnings of the
Great Northern Railway company.
which amount to $17,323:144S The
taxes for 1904 are $519,694.35.
DR.. J. A. Quinn, a prominent St.
Paul physician, had the first finger Of
his left hand amputated as a result
OF wound received through the acct
dental discharge Of a revolver
The trial of John Cunningham at e
Sueur Center on the charge of murder
In the first degree resulted in acquit.
tai. Cunningham was accused of the
murder of John O'Day on Oct Is, 1894.
Thousands of men will be sent out
by the Twin City employment agents
this season to work on railroad exsen-
sions that are to be constructed. The
demand for labor will be unusually
urgent.
DR.. George R. Metcalf, well known
st. Paul physician, died suddenly last
week at Orvieto, Italy. DR.. Metra]f
was travelling with his wife, having
left st. Paul last summer for two
years tour of Europe
Milk and cream tests in the Twin
Cities during the past week by the
dairy and food department showed
that out Of total of f1fty-one sam pies
examined seventeen were illegal and
thirty-four were legal.
John Cavanaugh: stockman li7ing
at Adams, this state, was struck by
an automobile while crossing Canal
street in Chicago. He was taken to
the county hospital, where it was said
that ne would probably die.
Small branches of the Minneapolis
public library are to be installed in
several of the largest factories in that
city. The plan is to furnish tired
working girls with reading matter at
their places of employment.
The little town of Henning, a few
miles from St. Cloud, is in the grasp
of serious epidemic of diphtheria.
Several deaths have resulted ard a
number of people of the little hamlet
are i'll with the dread disease.
According to estimates of the state
auditor the gross earnings taxes on
railroads for 1904, payable this year,
will be $1,000 less than the taxes OF
1909. The estimated receipts from
that source this year are $1,e00,00c
A man believed to be a Jack the
Hugger who has been terrorizing the
women of Crookston for some time
past and whose final deed was the
hugging of woman into hysterics in
the heart OF the city has been arrested
James Healy, ninety years of age,
died at St. Paul Friday night of pld
age. His wife, aged lightweight, vas
50 terribly afflicted by the loss of her
lifelong partner that she succumbed
to her affection twenty-four hours
later
The prison Irvine plant will, within
sixty days, be increased to such an
extent that the annual output Wilt be
II, 200 900 pounds instead Of 10000 ,j0O
Warden Wolfer is now In the East OUR
chasing the additional machin ery
needed.
William Jennings Bryan will be en-
tertained by the Minneapolis De1oc-
racy on the evening of March II. He
will lecture at one of the chure hes
early In the evening and after thel lec-
ture he will be banquetted at one of
the down town hotels.
Her mind unbalanced as the result
Of shock received some time ago
when she was chased several blocks
by rowdy Mrs. Hulda Meyers, TWEEN
ty-e1ght years DID, living with her3hus-
band on ROndo street, St. Paul. has
become subject for treatment al the
Rochester hospital.
The hiding place of A. A. Buck. the
alleged defaulting cashier of the} Ma
Pleton State bank, who, over year
ago, departed for parts unknownJ has
been made known to friends in Man.
kato through letter announcing the
death of his wife, Feb. 20, on the Isle
of Pines, in the West Indies.
On a bid of 100000 Winston Bros,
company of Minneapolis has been
awarded the contract for the grading
and timber work on the new Thief
River Falls extension of the 500 road
The new stretch of road will extend
In generally westward direction from
Thief River Falls to Kenmare, a dis.
lance of 300 miles.
Fat policemen will not be tolerated
in Minneapolis under the present ad.
ministration. Big men whose bigi1e,ss
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