Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-01-27
M, VS. IN MINNESO I

EVENTS OF a WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE. STATE.
Fire at Mcintosh destroyed Harstad
Z Sons general store and the South.
mayd grocery and meat market.
A. c. Wallin, editor of the Arlington
Enterprise, committed suicide there by
shooting. No cause for the act is
known. f =.
Fire of unknown origin totally de-
stroyed the -four mill of Kueper Bros.
Ut Rice Station and partially burned
the Rice saw mills.
Four-year terms for county officers
we're advocated at the annual meeting
Of the Minnesota State Shsrihfs' asso.
edation in st. Paul last week.
Il. H. Molstad, the Winnipeg juno
Non saloonkeeper, has been acquitted
ut Moorhead of the charge Of murder.
The jury was out less than three hours.
Burglars entered the residence of H.
A. Towne at Minneapolis and made
away with three sacks Allied with
booty estimated to b worth about
$780,.
Theodore Bunker, aged forty-seven.
prominent st. Paul undertaken, com
m1tted suicide by taking poison. FL
nancial trouble is thought to have
prompted the act.
The Bank of Clitheral, Otter Tail
county, has suspended. It Is owned
by Il. P. Walster and his embarrass-
nent is due to having too much money
tied up in real estate.
The Duluth and Iron Range and the
Duluth Missabe and Northern roads
have doubled their orders for steel cars
and locomotives to increase their ore
handling facilities this year.
Mayor Taylor, Mankatos 412-pound
mayor, has filed as candidate for re-
election, and will head the Democratic
ticket. His opponent will be George
Pond, president of the board of trade.
Senator Nelson has secured the pas
sage in the senate of bill granting a
condemned cannon to the Minnesota
state university. The cannon is to be
memorial Of the Spanish war and
will be placed on the campus.
A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of A. P. Loutzenheizer, paying
teller of the First National bank of Du-
luth, charging him with the embezzle-
ment of package containing $4,000.
Loutzenheizer has been missing since
Dec. 20.
The house committee on military af-
fairs has authorized Representative
Stevens to report favorably his bill pro-
viding for granting a condemned
bronze cannon to be used in the man.
ufacture of memorial for the new
st. Paul armory.
Louis Mellberg, a single man, thirty
i've years old, living in Grove City,
was run over and instantly killed by
the westbound Great Northern flyer a
mile east of Atwater. 1t is supposed
that he had started to walk home along
the railroad tracks.
State Auditor Iverson and State
Treasurer Block have returned from
Northern Minnesota, where they have
been conducting stumpage sales. Mr..
Block says the sales we're very sue
cessful and that more than 100000
worth of stumpage was sold.
William Nettleton, one of the found.
ors of Duluth and West Superior and
pioneer resident of Spokane, Wash,
accidentally fell from the Great, North.
ern bridge west of the latter city, a
distance of 100 feet, into the river be-
low and was killed instantly.
The burning out of nine big trans
formers at the water power house of
, the Rapid Transit company at Mime
apolis Thursday completely demon.
: allied the entire East Side and inter-
urban car lines and caused a loss to
; the company of nearly 100000.
Plans are under way for the con-
water. The project will be investi-
gated by special joint legislative
committee, consisting of five represen-
tatives and four senators, including the
chairmen of the prison committees In
the house and the senate.
Warnings have been issued by Dairy
and Food Commissioner Slater to man.
ufacturers and dealers in syrups and
molasses that his department has dis
covered that glucose was being used
in the preparation of the articles and
threatens prosecution if the practice
10 continued after Feb: 1.
Robert Jennings, a lineman in the
employ of the Duluth General Electric
company, broke two ribs in a remark
able manner. He fell distance Of
thirty feet from pole and his left
knee broke two of his ribs. He sus-
tanned terrible shock, but the physi-
clan entertains hope Of his recovery.
James A. Martin will be the next
postmaster at st. Cloud, the recon-
mendation for his appointment having
been filed by Representative Buchanan.
Harvey g. Wire the retiring postmas-
ter, has been removed from ONCE on
f.