Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-01-27
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.
Fire at Mcintosh destroyed Harstad
+ 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.
Fire OF unknown origin totally de-
stroyed the flour mill of Kueper Bros.
ut Rice Station and partially burned
the Rice saw. mills.
Four-year terms for county officers
were advocated at the annual meeting
Of the Minnesota State Sheriffs' asso-
sdation in St. Paul last week.
Il. H. Molstad, the Winnipeg juno
ton 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 bo worth about
!! 1880.
Theodore Bunker, aged forty.seven,
q prominent st. Paul undertaken, CON-
mitted 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 e. P. Walster and his embarrass-
ment 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, Mankato's 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 a bill granting a
condemned cannon to the Minnesota
; state university The cannon is to be
a 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 a package containing 100000
LoutzenheiZer has been missing since
Dec. 20.
The house committee on military af-
i fairs has authorized Representative
Stevens to report favorably his bill pro-
v1ding for granting condemned
bronze cannon to be used in the man.
ufacture of a memorial for the new
st. Paul armory.
Louis Mellberg, single man, thirty
Ave 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 were 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-
struction of new state prison at Still
; water. The project will be investi.
gated by a special joint Legislative
F.; committee, consisting of five represen.
f, 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
IL continued after Feb. 1.
| Robert Jennings, a lineman in tho
employ of the Duluth General Electric
| company, broke two ribs in remark
able manner. He fell a distance Of
thirty feet from a 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 Office on
charges made by patrons of the Office