Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-12-28
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.


State buttermakers and dairymen
will meet in Owatonna Jan. %.
Frank Johnson, resident of Still
water for many years, is dead, aged
uxty-three years.
Andrew Magnuson, a resident of
saltwater for thirty.eight years, died
suddenly Of heart disease.
George Burton Young of the Young
Quinlan company, Minneapolis, is dead
after a brief illness, aged thirty-seven
years.
Frank Grandfeld, a section man,
was struck by westbound passenger
rain at Anoka and instantly killed.
He was fifty years of age.
Colonel Frank T. Corriston of the
First regiment, Minnesota national
guard, will be chief of police of Min
leapolis under the new administra-
ton.
H. Alden Smith, head of the firm of
Smith & Wyman, the biggest sash
and door firm in the Northwest,
dropped dead at his home in Minneap-
oils.
The nineteen-months-old daughter
Of Joseph Veigel of Mankato is dead
as a result Of morphine poisoning,
due to having been given too much of
patent soothing syrup.
August Ohlius, an old pioneer of
stearns county, is dead at st. Cloud Of
old age. His aged wife, not able to
stand the separation, died few hours
later. Both bodies were inferred in
the same grave.
Minnesota railroads have announced
their intention to fight the forthcom-
Ing order of the state railroad COM
mission reducing commodity rates on
grain, coal, lumber, live stock and
other bulk freight.
The policemen of the city of Winona
have sent in petition to the city
council asking for an advance in
wages of $40 a month. The reason
assigned is that the cost of living has
increased and their present wages are
inadequate.
AS result Of overturning a lighted
lamp the baby daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Dietz of Owatonna is
terribly burned and the mother Of the
little girl is suffering severe injuries
from the burns received in her at
tempts to rescue the child.
Consolidation Of rural school dis
trfcts Is one Of the plans suggested
by a committee of the Minnesota Edu-
cat1onal association to raise the stand
ard OF the rural schools and at the
same time provide for higher mini
mum salary for the teachers.
Christian Olstead was instantly
killed at Wanamingo, Goodhue coun.
ty, while operating a wood saving
machine with several other men. The
hywheel broke and piece struck
Olstead in the head, killing him almost
instantly. He was forty-seven years
old.
Eighty-f1ve accidents in factories
and workshops of the state are report
ed for November by the state labor
commissioner. w. H. Williams. Three
of the accidents proved fatal. The
largest proportion of the accidents
was In railroad shops, where there
were thirty-six.
A fire originating from a defective
chimney in the Coates hotel at South
st. Paul partially destroyed the hotel,
ruined the stock of the Cooperative
Grocery company and caused the de.
lusing of the Office of the South St.
Paul Reporter, inflicting total dam.
age estimated at $4,000.
Mayor A. J. Halsted of Brainerd
editor OF the Tribune, has rendered
his resignation to the city council and
1t was accepted. The reason for his
resignation was the fact that the city
attorney declared the mayor could not
legally contract for the city printing,
for which he was the lowest bidder.
Thomas J. Coleman, the Minneapolis
private detective convicted in the
Hennepin county district court of ex.
tortion and sentenced to five years at
hard labor at Saltwater, must serve
his sentence. In an opinion handed
down by the supreme court the de.
c1ston of the lower court is sustained
and the sentence approved. Coleman
Is at present out on $4,000 bail and it
Is said that he cannot be located.
One of the biggest verdicts ever