Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-08-11

itA9 jAUHAYHA VI AxA%p> Wo4St III. OpE10-
ton in Minnesota and more than $50
petitions for the service awaited &C.
ton, -. az; ,.,., :
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph ser 1ingschelt 81
Browerville, this state, who went to
Montana on a surprise visit to their
son, on their arrival found him in a
Fdying condition, he having been shot
by a man who was attempting to rob
him. 81
A way freight on the Great North
ern ran over and fatally injured a
laborer at Osakis Friday. The victim
Is supposed to be Don Axelman, said
to have brother in Dayton, o. The
same train cut man in two at Mel
rose.
G. D. Crawford, convicted of MUIR
dering Heine Lundeen at Elk River,
has been granted stay of execution
of twenty days from Aug. Is, the date
of the hanging, so that he may per-
feet an appeal to the supreme court
for q new trial.
Reports received by the state rail-
road and warehouse commission are
that 22 people have been killed and
230 injured in Minnesota in railroad
accidents since the passage of the law
requiring the roads to report wrecks
to the commission.
Practically all traces of the small
pox epidemic in Minnesota have dis.
appeared. The state board Of health
has reported for the week ending July
81 only five cases, the smallest num-
Dor reported in one week since 1898,
when the epidemic started.
J. E. Bergston of Ellis, Wis.,, shot
himself to death at Duluth just after
parting with Ellen Samuelson, who
had refused to we'd him. He sent the
girl money to come to this country
with the understanding that she would
marry him, but she declined.
Four lives were lost by the capsizing
Of small skiff on Swan river five
miles north of Vera, Itasca county.
The names of the unfortunates are
Edith Tichenor, Goldie Tichenor, Ev.
erett Tichenor and Mrs. J. M. Pogue,
settlers of that portion of the country
Charles Jardin, a painter living at
$40 Payne avenue, st. Paul, was found
hanging from clothesline in the
closet of his home by his son. Neigh
bors took the body down and the man
>. was taken to the city hospital uncon
scious. He died forty -eight hours later
| John c. Hanley Of St. Paul, well
known throughout the West as a leader
In the Farmers alliance and other po
litical movements, has been arrested
by United States Marshal William
Grimshaw on 4 charge of using the
mails In connection with a scheme tt
defraud.
The report of the Minneapolis post
Office for July shows the number O.
letters cancelled for the month to be
2,967,100 and the daily average, no.
including Sundays, to be 1904. The
stamp sales were $S5,831.04, as com
pared with sS1,S15.5l for the same
period last year.
Mrs. Nellie Van SAINT Taylor, siste,
OF former Governor Van SAINT, died OF
a Great Northern train between Gran,
Rapids and Duluth. while en- route t.
the Portland exposition. Fatty degen
GRAFTON of the heart is assigned as tn
cause. Mrs. Taylor was resident o
Hampton, la.
Matt Sauter, twenty-eight years Ole
who has been conducting a bakery a
916 Fast Twenty-fourth street, Mime
? apolis, has disappeared from his HON
and so far as his friends can determin
has abandoned his prosperous bushes
, and perhaps committed suicide be
: cause of disappointment in love.
Ole Robertson, a farmer of Hanth
township, is the second person t
drown in the waters of the Minnesot
river south of Appleton this season
1t is thought that his horse, whic
was blind, wandered from the rca
, into the water. The victim was
single man about fifty years old. Lif
y was extinct when the body was fount
;. Official census returns from sixty
q nine Of the eighty-three counties i
the state have been announced b
George f. Wright, supervisor OF tn
census. The counties showing fai
Q Ing off are nearly all in the souther
o part of the state, including Blu
Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore
Houston, lie Sueur, Mcleod, Murray
Olmsted, Scott. Sibley, Wabasha an
Waseca
r Attorney General Young, in an opil
ion to the railroad and warehous
: commission, holds that the law passe
3 by the last legislature relating t
mileage tickets or books issued b
- railroads does not include the tran
lerability of interchangeable milea:y,
1t is the contention of many that I:
legislature in passing the law intent
, ed that all mileage should be tran
ferable, but in some way the claus
"except Interchangeable mileage no
In use" crept into the act after it ha
left the committees hand. This claus
! In the act practically nulliies the 81
tire act, as the railroads now on]
Issue interchangeable mileage.
's.5.-G. "a r. a.: - Fa 4&s44y:f.E