Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-05-12
NEWS IN MINNESOTA i j
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.

apolis.
John Wfetjes, Jr., a farmer residing
near 3lpestone, was struck by light
ming and instantly killed.
Anton Larson, aged fifty-seven, a.
photographer, committed suicide at
Minneapolis by taking poison.
James G. Donnelly, aged sixty years,
one OF the veteran undertakers of the
Northwest, is dead at, St. Paul.
The new binder Irvine machinery is
now in use in the Saltwater prison
factory, increasing the daily output to
10000 pounds.
The Minnesota council of the
Knights of Columbus, in session at St,
Paul, elected DR.. E. w. Buckley of St.
Paul state deputy.
William G. Sherman. traffic man.
ager of the Washburn-Crosby company
Of Minneapolis, is dead of pneumonia,
aged thirty.six years.
Burglars secured SO after blowing
open the money vault in the Office OF
Lakewood cemetery at Minneapolis. A
box containing $4,000 was overlooked.
Louis J. Erickson, sixty-four years
old, committed suicide at Minneapolis
while respondent by cutting his wrist
with a razor and then hanging him
self.
E. Penney, aged thirty-fve years, a
conductor in the ore service of the
Great Northern, was killed near Kelly
Lake as the result of the engine and
oaboose leaving the track.
An effort is being made to secure a
new trial for Charles and Henry Mel
son, who are serving life sentences at
Saltwater for the murder Of Harry H.
Krier at Owatonna on April 10, 1903.
Olaf A. Olson. the Pelican Rapids
mail carrier who was accused of rifling
letters entrusted to him, entered a plea
OF guilty in the United States court at
Fergus Falls and was sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary.
The smallpox epidemic is abating,
according to the weekly report issued
by the state board of health. The
board reported tifty-six cases for the
week ending May /, as compared with
l05 cases and two deaths for the pre-
vious week.
There are now five men in the Ram
sey county Jail charged with murder
In the first degree. Two have double
crimes laid at their doors and the
qulntette is charged with an aggre-
gate Of six murders within the last
three months
John c. Ryan of Minneapolis has
been appointed by Governor Johnson
to the position of hotel inspector,
which was created by the last legisla-
ture The salary of the inspector will
be $1,000 and his allowance for ex-
penses S. a day.
There will be thirty~nine summer
schools in Minnesota this year, ten
more than were held in the summer
Of 1904. Of this number twenty-seven
will begin July 5, continuing four
weeks, and twelve will begin June p,
continuing six weeks.
While watching his mother making
soap tlve-year-old Harry Vogt of Par
kers Prairie fell into a kettle filed
with the boiling material and before
he could be rescued was horribly
burned. He died in twenty-four hours
after terrible suffering.
The jury in the Orlin Kalderwit
murder trial at Anoka returned a YER
dict OF murder in the second degree.
kalderWit is one of three men accused
of the killing of nine-year-old Freddie
King while holding up saloon on the
outskirts of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet Of Minneapolis
was seriously injured and Mrs. Thomas
H. Shev]in was slightly bruised by be.
Ing thrown from Bradstreet's automC-
bile when it became unmanageable
and went down an embankment near
that city, turning completely over.
John Walter, aged fifty-flve years,
wealthy farmer and cattle buyer living
two miles south of Norwood, hung him
self in his barn. Mr. Walter was
pioneer of Carver county, having set
tied there in 1859. His wife died year
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s. ,ndent.
The Stearns county grand jury has
returned eight indictments against
Charles A. Bernick, formerly deputy
county treasurer. Seven of the in
dictments charge him with embezzle-
ment, each on a separate and distinct
offense, and the eighth charges grand
larceny in the sum of $4,000 from the
county.
Miss Helen Schultz, member of the
class of 1905 of the St. Paul central
high school. broke the worlds hign
jump record for girls at an informal
f1elC meet in the school gymnasium.
She cleared the bar at feet inches.
which is two inches higher than the
worlds record. formerly held by
Vassar girl.
4 cyclone passed through the viii
lage Of Round Lake, near WOrthine-
ton, one evening last week. Although
only about ten feet in width it swept
everything in it's path. Four homes
were destroyed, besides a blacksmith
shop and several barns. One woman,
Mrs. Meyers, was blown across the
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